History Heartwarming / ColdDays

** Just the fact that Thomas, the White Court vampire who's known real love from, at most, ''three'' other people in his life (Inari, Margaret Dresden and Justine), so readily says he loves his brother.

* While the winter mantle's sexually violent urges are extremely disturbing, especially when they end up directed towards Molly, it's noticeable that [[CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest they never show up at all around Murphy]]. Murphy makes him angry enough to think about physical violence, but it never even occurs to Harry to assert his greater power through rape, the way it did with various other women, who had been much less confrontational than Murphy. Seems like ThePowerOfLove is strong enough to completely overpower the primal force of the winter mantle.

* At the end, Mab asking Harry [[spoiler: DueToTheDead for permission to bury Maeve AND Lily on the island after their deaths. Despite Maeve turning against her and Lily being from the opposing Fae side, the Queen of Air and Darkness still took it in her to put them to rest properly.]]

* At one point in the book, Molly pulls out a paper bound package and gives it to Harry as "welcome back" present: [[IconicOutfit a black leather duster]].

* It happens a few times during ''Cold Days'' but the best is the first: Harry's reunion with Thomas. Thomas gets the drop on Harry when Harry tries to break into the Water Beetle to sail to Demonreach Island early on. Thomas delivers a [[NotSoDifferent heartfelt]] yet [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech scathing]] speech regarding Harry's decision to have [[spoiler: Kincaid take Harry out at the end of ''Changes'']]. Once that's done, the very next thing he does is to hug his brother and hold on tight... while calling him every insult he can come up with. Thomas is every bit as bad ass as his brother.

-->"What did I have? I had ''friends.''"

* At the end, Mab asking Harry [[spoiler: DueToTheDead for permission to bury Maeve AND Lily on the island after their deaths. Despite Meave turning against her and Lily being from the opposing Fae side, the Queen of Air and Darkness still took it in her to put them to rest properly.]]

* At the end, Mab asking Harry [[spoiler: DueToTheDead for permission to bury Meave AND Lily on the island after their deaths. Despite Meave turning against her and Lily being from the opposing Fae side, the Queen of Air and Darkness still took it in her to put them to rest properly.]]

* At the end, Mab asking Harry [[spoiler: DueToTheDead for permission to bury Meave AND Lily on the island after their deaths. Despite Meave turning against her and Lily being from the opposing Fae side, the Queen of Air and Darkness still took it in her to put them to rest properly.]]

** Which is also kinda funny, if one imagines the Queen of Air and Darkness taking time off from defending the world to go to Disney World.

* It's small, but Harry consistently refers to Ebenezar as "my grandfather." Considering the rocky patch they had for a few years when Harry found out about him being the Blackstaff and the fact that Harry spent most of his life without family, it's really sweet that he's got a grandfather to love.

* After the book's climax, Harry angrily asks Mab if [[spoiler: Molly]] is just another pawn to her. Mab's response? "No. Not anymore." It gives just a little bit of hope that Mab will treat her like a [[spoiler: daughter]], and help keep her life together.

* It happens a few times during ''Cold Days'' but the best is the first: Harry's reunion with Thomas. Thomas gets the drop on Harry when Harry tries to break into the Water Beetle to sail to Demonreach Island early on. Thomas delivers a [[NotSoDifferent heartfelt]] yet [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech scathing]] speech regarding Harry's decision to have [[spoiler: Kincaid take Harry out at the end of ''Changes'']]. Once that's done, the very next thing he does is to hug his brother and hold on tight...while calling him every insult he can come up with. Thomas is every bit as bad ass as his brother.

-->'''Molly''':“Of course not, but...you know. I guess I think that maybe you shouldn’t have to? You were there when I needed you. I figured it was my turn now.”

* Probably one of the most bizarre examples to date: Fix and Harry [[spoiler: reaffirming their friendship after their fight. The fight was preceded by Harry's realization that combat was a foregone conclusion: Fix had spent years watching Lily, who he cared for deeply, be victimized in the worst ways possible by Lloyd Slate, and without any power of his own to stop him. Now, he had the mantle of the Summer Knight, and he was standing between Lily and the Winter Knight. He isn't seeing Harry: he's seeing Slate, only worse by exponential factors. As far as Fix knows (and Harry encourages this during the fight), Harry has become exactly the sort of monster that Slate was, but with the terrifying power that Harry has. The mere fact that Harry was deliberately defying what the Summer Knight's mantle told Fix he would do while ''still'' seeming to have succumbed to the Winter Knight's mantle wasn't a reassurance: it was a testament to the fact that Harry Dresden was everything Fix was so terrified that he would become if he ever signed on with Winter.]] All that said...when they talk afterwards, and Fix knows immediately how significant Harry [[spoiler: shielding him from Lily's blast was]], it's genuinely touching. Even in print, the naked relief that Fix gives off is palpable. Sure, he's scared of what's to come, but that's nothing next to what he'd feared mere minutes beforehand.

** Possibly FridgeBrilliance. The mantle urges him to rape the women he's around when they're tired, hurt, exhausted...in other words, it sees them as weaker, prey. But the thinking of Murphy as an equal is so ingrained into Harry's mind that it penetrates into the mantle.

* It happens a few times during ''Cold Days'' but the best is the first: Harry's reunion with Thomas. Thomas gets the drop on Harry when Harry tries to break into the Water Beetle to sail to Demonreach Island early on. Thomas delivers a [[NotSoDifferent heartfelt]] yet [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech scathing]] speech regarding Harry's decision to have [[spoiler: Kincaid take Harry out at the end of ''Changes'']]. Once that's done, the very next thing he does is to hug his brother and hold on tight...while calling him every insult he can come up with. Thomas is every bit as [[BadAss bad ass]] as his brother.

** Note how they're calling each other by first name, too. It really hits home that they're friends, despite the difference in ages and stations. It also shows that Harry has ''serious'' HeroSyndrome

** Note how they're calling each other by first name, too. It really hits home that they're friends, despite the difference in ages and stations.

* Harry's conversation with the Gatekeeper has a minor moment where despite everything that's happening to him, he still offer his help: