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* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Peabody]] shows his saviness savvy when [[spoiler:Harry rose rises to give testimony at Morgan's trial, Peabody pulled trial]] by pulling out his trump card card, to play at a moment's notice.]]
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** Later this becomes central to the plot, as [[spoiler:Anastasia's much younger physical body (courtesy of [[GrandTheftMe the Corpsetaker]]) allowed Peabody to make her kill [=LaFortier=], and he was able to shut down most of the Wardens (younger wizards recruited after the events of ''Literature/DeadBeat'') with a code phrase]].
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* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: [[spoiler: In previous books, Peabody had two, maybe three lines of dialogue, tops, and little to no description of what he looked like, or what his job was. So, particularly GenreSavvy readers would point to him ''immediately'' for the culprit.]]
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* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: [[spoiler: In previous books, Peabody [[spoiler: Peabody]] had two, maybe three lines of dialogue, tops, and little to no description of what he looked like, regarding appearance or what his job was. occupation. So, particularly GenreSavvy readers would point to him ''immediately'' for the culprit.]]fingers ''immediately''.
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* {{Brainwashed}}:
** Discussed as a possible reason why Morgan would have killed [[spoiler:Senior Council member [=LaFortier=]]] Harry notes this. McCoy claims it wouldn't be possible as Morgan's brain being over a hundred years old means direct brainwashing is impossible as bending an ancient willow tree.
** [[spoiler:Later revealed ancient minds can be brainwashed as Peabody used special inks to make the Senior Council members a bit angrier and more inclined to do things they wouldn't normally do.]]
** Discussed as a possible reason why Morgan would have killed [[spoiler:Senior Council member [=LaFortier=]]] Harry notes this. McCoy claims it wouldn't be possible as Morgan's brain being over a hundred years old means direct brainwashing is impossible as bending an ancient willow tree.
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** Discussed{{Brainwashed}}: Harry notes this as a possible reason why Morgan would have killed [[spoiler:Senior Council member [=LaFortier=]]] Harry notes this. McCoy [=LaFortier=]]], but [=McCoy=] claims it wouldn't be possible as Morgan's brain possible; Morgan being over a hundred years old means direct brainwashing is as impossible as bending an ancient willow tree.
** [[spoiler:Later revealed ancient minds can be brainwashed as Peabody used special inks to make the Senior Counciltree. Of course, this didn't stop [[spoiler:Peabody from subtly influencing members a bit angrier and more inclined to of the senior council]] by highlighting certain aspects of their personalities so they might do things they wouldn't normally do.wouldn't...
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* BattleCouple: [[spoiler:Will and Georgia double-team Madeline and do her some serious harm before accidentally drinking her blood takes them out of the fight.]]
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* BattleCouple: [[spoiler:Will Will and Georgia double-team Madeline [[spoiler:Madeline]] and do her some serious harm before [[spoiler:before accidentally drinking her blood takes them out of the fight.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Thomas.]] He gets tortured physically, [[spoiler: fed a bunch of women]] and tortured again. By the time Harry sees him again, he is in rotten shape and [[spoiler:nearly rapes Molly to death]].
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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Thomas.]] Thomas]]. He gets tortured physically, [[spoiler: fed a bunch of women]] and tortured again. By the time Harry sees him again, he is in rotten shape and [[spoiler:nearly rapes Molly to death]].
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* ThatCameOutWrong: When Harry approaches the Merlin to help save Morgan by proving his innocence, as anything Merlin could discover would be viewed with distrust but as Harry was Morgan's enemy exonerating evidence would be believed, Merlin asked Harry why he should accept Harry's offer. Harry's response:
--->'''Harry:''' Because your balls are in a vise and I'm the only one who can pull them out.\\
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'''Harry:''' Okay. That came out a little more homoerotic than I intended.\\
'''Merlin:''' Indeed.
--->'''Harry:''' Because your balls are in a vise and I'm the only one who can pull them out.\\
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'''Harry:''' Okay. That came out a little more homoerotic than I intended.\\
'''Merlin:''' Indeed.
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* {{Deprogram}}: Though the ways done aren't seen, [[spoiler:those who became {{Manchurian Agent}}s go though this at the end of the book with the help of the Merlin, Rashid, and Listens-to-Wind.]]
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* {{Brainwashed}}:
** Discussed as a possible reason why Morgan would have killed [[spoiler:Senior Council member [=LaFortier=]]] Harry notes this. McCoy claims it wouldn't be possible as Morgan's brain being over a hundred years old means direct brainwashing is impossible as bending an ancient willow tree.
** [[spoiler:Later revealed ancient minds can be brainwashed as Peabody used special inks to make the Senior Council members a bit angrier and more inclined to do things they wouldn't normally do.]]
** Discussed as a possible reason why Morgan would have killed [[spoiler:Senior Council member [=LaFortier=]]] Harry notes this. McCoy claims it wouldn't be possible as Morgan's brain being over a hundred years old means direct brainwashing is impossible as bending an ancient willow tree.
** [[spoiler:Later revealed ancient minds can be brainwashed as Peabody used special inks to make the Senior Council members a bit angrier and more inclined to do things they wouldn't normally do.]]
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* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Most of the younger wardens]] were programmed to fall asleep on a given command because of [[spoiler:Peabody's]] influence. A few more, [[spoiler:Luccio included,]] were referred to as "suicide bombers" as they would do the task and then get caught on purpose.
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* NotBrainwashed: At the end [[spoiler:after Thomas' BreakTheCutie, Lara permits Harry to meet Thomas to assure the mortal wizard Thomas is not brainwashed. Broken? yes. A good White Court vampire? Yes again. But not technically brainwashed.]]
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* GenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Peabody]] shows his saviness when [[spoiler:Harry rose to give testimony at Morgan's trial, Peabody pulled out his trump card to play at a moment's notice.]]
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* GreenEyedMonsterGreenEyedMonster: Madeline, of the White Court hated Harry's rebuke of her.
* HopeSpot:
** At [[spoiler:Morgan's trial, it looks like just for one moment Peabody will be caught. Then he reveals his trump card and is killed while trying to escape, making it impossible for him to testify and exonerate Morgan's name.]]
** When Harry and Thomas meet [[spoiler:after ColdBloodedTorture mentioned above, Thomas claims to see every normal human as "food." And while he won't be a sloppy eater and kill everyone he eats from, he won't be a fool like he was. This depresses Harry and as Thomas and Lara's guards walk away, Harry hexes the earbud in the guards ear, making it explode. Thomas gives Harry a genuine smile, though briefly, before continuing back with Lara's men.]]
** At [[spoiler:Morgan's trial, it looks like just for one moment Peabody will be caught. Then he reveals his trump card and is killed while trying to escape, making it impossible for him to testify and exonerate Morgan's name.]]
** When Harry and Thomas meet [[spoiler:after ColdBloodedTorture mentioned above, Thomas claims to see every normal human as "food." And while he won't be a sloppy eater and kill everyone he eats from, he won't be a fool like he was. This depresses Harry and as Thomas and Lara's guards walk away, Harry hexes the earbud in the guards ear, making it explode. Thomas gives Harry a genuine smile, though briefly, before continuing back with Lara's men.]]
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** After [[spoiler:the Skinwalker attacked her home]] Lara cites this trope to explain that she is a vampire at heart, and that includes [[spoiler:killing three men, one who had his eyes removed and the other two with broken backs to insure she and her sisters are healed.]]
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** After [[spoiler:the Skinwalker attacked her home]] Lara cites this trope to explain that she is a vampire at heart, and that includes [[spoiler:killing three men, one who had his eyes removed and the other two with broken backs backs, to insure she and her sisters are healed.]]
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* RainDance: Injun Joe does this as a weapon against [[spoiler: the skinwalker.]]
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* RainDance: Injun Joe Joseph Listens-to-Wind does this as a weapon against [[spoiler: the skinwalker.]]]]
* TheRedMage: Joseph Listens-to-Wind is both a trained fighter against a variety of forces and the Council's best healer.
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* {{Skinwalker}}: One of the major enemies of the book. An incredibly powerful demigod that can shift into any form it chooses, enjoys tormenting its victims, smart enough to know when it should run and wait for a better time to attack, and damn near impossible to kill. Furthering this trouble it can absorb magic, adding to its own strength, and feeds on the fear of people when people speak its name. More problems lie in that trying to ward it off is incredibly difficult. Morgan notes only a shaman from the Native American tribes of the Southwest United States, such as the Navajo and Ute tribes, would even know rituals to banish them back to where they belong. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for this skinwalker, Senior Council Joesph Listens-to-Wind is such a shaman.]]
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* ToAbsentFriends: The end, since they are not allowed a MeaningfulFuneral.
* IAmWhatIAm:
** After [[spoiler:the Skinwalker attacked her home]] Lara cites this trope to explain that she is a vampire at heart, and that includes [[spoiler:killing three men, one who had his eyes removed and the other two with broken backs to insure she and her sisters are healed.]]
** Upon seeing what Lara plans to do, Harry cites this trope as well and states one day he will take Lara down as well. Not a threat but a fact.
** After [[spoiler:the Skinwalker attacked her home]] Lara cites this trope to explain that she is a vampire at heart, and that includes [[spoiler:killing three men, one who had his eyes removed and the other two with broken backs to insure she and her sisters are healed.]]
** Upon seeing what Lara plans to do, Harry cites this trope as well and states one day he will take Lara down as well. Not a threat but a fact.
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* ManipulativeBitch: Lara Raith. Harry even invokes this when she briefly considers [[spoiler:either giving into the Skinwalker's demands, after it beat her in her own home, or letting Thomas die, who was now a hero for his help against the coup in ''White Night''. Harry points out either way, in the eyes of her kind, she is weak.]] Harry thinks she should string [[spoiler:the Skinwalker]] along and then stab him in the back to get everything for herself, in true White Court fashion.
* {{Pun}}: Lara ''Raith'' invoked this by owning a Rolls-Royce Silver ''Wraith''.
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* ToAbsentFriends: The end, since they are not allowed a MeaningfulFuneral.
* WeHelpTheHelpless: Lara Raith knows this of Harry. She knows the truly helpless go to him and if he must walk against demigods to help them, he will. [[spoiler:By this understanding of Harry, she guesses Morgan went to Harry for help.]]
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When Lara [[spoiler:looks over the dead and injured in her estate after Shagnasty leaves, she has those guards who could live if given medical treatment taken to her and her sisters' rooms to feed and help heal the injured Raith sisters. Lara justifies this as they know too much to be allowed a normal retirement package and they will be doing one final help to House Raith.]]
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: When Lara [[spoiler:looks over the dead and injured in her estate after Shagnasty leaves, she has those guards three guards, who could live if given medical treatment treatment, taken to her and her sisters' rooms to feed and help heal the injured Raith sisters. Lara justifies this as they know too much to be allowed a normal retirement package and they will be doing one final help to House Raith.]]
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Older Than They Think. Much, much older.
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* TakeThat: Binder has one against [[Literature/{{Twilight}} poor, tortured, sentimental vampires]].
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* TakeThat: Binder has one against [[Literature/{{Twilight}} [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire poor, tortured, sentimental vampires]].
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** Vince Graver, PI, is a normal human hired to watch Harry. [[spoiler:Once Harry gets his job ended, Harry hires him to help him.
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* FailedASpotCheck: When interrogating Binder, a decent-level practitioner, Harry pulls a few of his hairs. [[spoiler:Binder knows this can be used to track him, so he goes through several rituals to keep Harry from using magic. Confident on blocking this, he didn't think Harry had outsourced to have the normal human PI Vince Graver track him via non-magical means.]]
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** Harry notes that the practitioner Binder knows the Seven Laws of Magic very well and while he is known for dancing very close to violating one of the Laws, it hasn't been proven he really violated them.
** [[spoiler:Margaret La Fey Dresden, Harry's mother,]] was also a bane to the Wardens for rebelling against the ancient ways of the White Council by arguing for a "gray" area to the BlackAndWhiteMorality the Council had for enforcing the laws. The rebelling was done by going extremely close to violating the Laws but never fully cross it.
** Harry notes that the practitioner Binder knows the Seven Laws of Magic very well and while he is known for dancing very close to violating one of the Laws, it hasn't been proven he really violated them.
** [[spoiler:Margaret La Fey Dresden, Harry's mother,]] was also a bane to the Wardens for rebelling against the ancient ways of the White Council by arguing for a "gray" area to the BlackAndWhiteMorality the Council had for enforcing the laws. The rebelling was done by going extremely close to violating the Laws but never fully cross it.
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** Binder [[spoiler:willingly leaves once Harry beats him but doesn't kill him.]]
** Vince Graver, PI, is a normal human hired to watch Harry. [[spoiler:Once Harry gets his job ended, Harry hires him to help him.
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* WhiteMagic: This is really the only thing which can phase a skinwalker, whether it comes from [[spoiler:a Native American RainDance or [[HolyHandGrenade Soulfire]].]]
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Harry realizes [[spoiler:the group from the Senior Council thinks he is this with all the big name forces he has taken down or survived fighting against. Hence the multiple Wardens as back up to the Senior Council.]]
* DavidVersusGoliath: [[spoiler:Toot-Toot. As a tiny fairy, he doesn't have anywhere near the level of power as the skinwalker, but with his trusty box cutter, he successfully makes the ancient evil knows pain until help can arrive to save him and Harry.]]
* DavidVersusGoliath: [[spoiler:Toot-Toot. As a tiny fairy, he doesn't have anywhere near the level of power as the skinwalker, but with his trusty box cutter, he successfully makes the ancient evil knows pain until help can arrive to save him and Harry.]]
* EnemyMine:
** While at Lara's house, [[spoiler:Lara teams up with Harry and Luccio to fight the attacking Shagnasty.]]
**[[spoiler:While it started off as a MexicanStandoff, Harry planned for this to be the result between himself and friends, Lara Raith's forces, and the arriving Senior Council and the Wardens to fight against Shagnasty and its allies.]] It works.
** While at Lara's house, [[spoiler:Lara teams up with Harry and Luccio to fight the attacking Shagnasty.]]
**[[spoiler:While it started off as a MexicanStandoff, Harry planned for this to be the result between himself and friends, Lara Raith's forces, and the arriving Senior Council and the Wardens to fight against Shagnasty and its allies.]] It works.
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* MeaningfulFuneral: Specifically denied.[[spoiler:Specifically denied. To keep up the ruse the they believed Morgan was working up with Peabody, the Senior Council cannot have anything significant in Morgan's name. There is instead a small, private remembrance for the man.]]
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* SacredHospitality: [[spoiler:When Morgan thrice caused Harry trouble in his home, Harry shames him by calling his behavior deplorable as Harry was not only risking his own neck for Morgan but his apprentice. Not one should give their host.]]
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* SacredHospitality: SacredHospitality:
** [[spoiler:When Morgan thrice caused Harry trouble in his home, Harry shames him by calling his behavior deplorable as Harry was not only risking his own neck for Morgan but his apprentice. Not one should give their host.]]
** When Harry arrives at [[spoiler:Lara's house with Luccio, he is asked to abide by this before entering. Harry refuses as he doesn't know what Lara has planned and doesn't want his hands tied up.]]
** [[spoiler:When Morgan thrice caused Harry trouble in his home, Harry shames him by calling his behavior deplorable as Harry was not only risking his own neck for Morgan but his apprentice. Not one should give their host.]]
** When Harry arrives at [[spoiler:Lara's house with Luccio, he is asked to abide by this before entering. Harry refuses as he doesn't know what Lara has planned and doesn't want his hands tied up.]]
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** [[spoiler: Really, ''really'' alert readers might even pick up on all the references to ink-stained fingers, and guess how he's operating.]]
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* TheNondescript: Vince Graver, a P.I. hired by someone to watch Harry [[spoiler: and then by Harry to photograph anyone using the Chicago/Edinburgh Way]].
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* ExactWords: [[spoiler:Titania agreed to cloak Morgan himself from being tracked by magical means. The Silver Oak leaf from the Summer Court he wears was not covered.]]
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* WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve: To evade capture Morgan [[spoiler:calls in his favor from Titania. She agrees to cloak him from magical tracking for three days.]]
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Off With His Head applies in more than one way, and doesn\'t need to be quite so whited out. Plus sundry fixes.
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* MexicanStandoff: [[spoiler:The Senior Council, Lara Raith and her sisters, and Harry are in one until two bigger fish arrive to make them join forces.]] As Harry was hopping for.
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* MexicanStandoff: [[spoiler:The Senior Council, Lara Raith and her sisters, and Harry are in one until two bigger fish arrive to make them join forces.]] As Harry was hopping for.hoping.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Wizard Listen-to-the-Winds looks at his ink-stained hands upon learning his mind was being altered by Peabody's magical ink. He and the rest of the Senior Council later go over all of their choices the past few years, wondering what choices this influence could have pushed them towards they wouldn't have done otherwise.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Wizard Listen-to-the-Winds Listens-to-Wind looks at his ink-stained hands upon learning his mind was being altered by Peabody's magical ink. He and the rest of the Senior Council later go over all of their choices the past few years, wondering what choices this influence could have pushed them towards they wouldn't have done otherwise.]]
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* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Lara sends the heads of the traitors to her court to the White Council as a peace offering.]]
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** As the standard punishment for crimes against the White Council and its Laws, Morgan is facing this, as is Harry for harbouring him.
**[[spoiler:Lara]] sends the heads ofthe traitors to her [[spoiler:her court to the White Council Council]] as a peace offering.]]
** As the standard punishment for crimes against the White Council and its Laws, Morgan is facing this, as is Harry for harbouring him.
**[[spoiler:Lara]] sends the heads of
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* DefeatMeansFriendship: "I [[spoiler:To gain an edge in his final battle plan, Harry plans on making a contract with an EldritchLocation. The challenge presented to Harry once he got the island's attention was a blow-for-blow elemental "punching match", so fire against fire with a little dash of Soulfire boosting Harry's attacks.]]
---> '''Harry:''' I punched it in the nose. Now we're friends."
---> '''Harry:''' I punched it in the nose. Now we're friends.
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* AnyoneCanDie [=/=] KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Senior Council member LaFortier died in the events just before the book started. Kirby the werewolf and Morgan both die in this book. Peabody too, but he's a bad guy so not so sad for him.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie [=/=] KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Senior Council member LaFortier [=LaFortier=] died in the events just before the book started. Kirby the werewolf and Morgan both die in this book. Peabody too, but he's a bad guy so not so sad for him.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The mole is dead and his brainwashed victims are found and on the long road to recovery, but the White Council lost not only Morgan but Senior Council member LaFortier by the mole's machinations. His replacement is suspected by Harry to be a new mole working for the Black Council. And Thomas was broken by some extreme torture methods and is leaning towards evil now.]]
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'''''Turn Coat''''' is book #11 in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''.
When it comes to the magical ruling body known as the White Council, Harry keeps his nose clean and his head down. For years, the Council has held a death mark over Harry's head. He's still thought of as a black sheep by some; and as a sacrificial lamb by others. But none regard him with more suspicion and disdain than Morgan, a veteran Warden with a grudge against anyone who bends the rules.
Like Harry.
So when Morgan turns up asking for help, Harry isn't exactly eager to leap into action. Morgan has been accused of treason against the White Council, and there's only [[OffWithHisHead one final punishment]] for that crime. He's on the run, he wants his name cleared, and he needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog.
Like Harry.
Now Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a less than agreeable Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake may cost someone his head.
[[RuleOfThree Like Harry...]]
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!!''Turn Coat'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AffablyEvil: Lara Raith describes herself as an "affable monster." Then she [[spoiler: eats her cousin alive. Literally.]]
* AndThisIsFor: During the final confrontation with [[spoiler: the skinwalker]], Harry punctuates each spell by yelling the name of a friend or family member that it has hurt, and uses the emotion from that name to fuel his spells.
* AnyoneCanDie [=/=] KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Senior Council member LaFortier died in the events just before the book started. Kirby the werewolf and Morgan both die in this book. Peabody too, but he's a bad guy so not so sad for him.]]
* ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster: [[spoiler:The Council's secretary with his mind-controlling inks]].
* BattleCouple: [[spoiler:Will and Georgia double-team Madeline and do her some serious harm before accidentally drinking her blood takes them out of the fight.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The mole is dead and his brainwashed victims are found and on the long road to recovery, but the White Council lost not only Morgan but Senior Council member LaFortier by the mole's machinations. His replacement is suspected by Harry to be a new mole working for the Black Council. And Thomas was broken by some extreme torture methods and is leaning towards evil now.]]
* BookEnds: A subtle one, but the book begins with Harry saying, "I know what it feels like to have the Wardens on your ass for something you haven't done." The book ends [[spoiler: with Morgan's dying words being, "I knew that you knew how it felt to be an innocent man hounded by the Wardens."]]
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Thomas.]] He gets tortured physically, [[spoiler: fed a bunch of women]] and tortured again. By the time Harry sees him again, he is in rotten shape and [[spoiler:nearly rapes Molly to death]].
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Literally for the first part of it. [[spoiler:Listens-to-Wind drives off the Skinwalker, but comes away from the fight with a broken arm.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler:The traitor in the White Council was not the Merlin, Ancient Mai, Listens-To-Wind or even Ebenezer. It was the ''secretary'', clerk and all-around paper-pusher -- in other words, the perfect guy to subvert, because he has access to all the information and can just fade into the background]].
* CallBack: Harry learned in ''Literature/WhiteNight'' that it's a bad idea to call forth a light when a supernatural creature plunges an area in darkness.
* ClarkesThirdLaw: Harry is caught in the rain and is glad that the armor spells he put onto his [[BadassLongcoat leather duster]] also made it stain- and waterproof. He also notes that, despite being so tough and powerful, it still breathes and allows a good flow of oxygen, something not even the best coats manufactured by the best technology can accomplish. Afterwards, he smugly thinks about how magic has accomplished something that technology will probably never be able to equal.
-->''Sufficiently advanced, my ass.''
* ColdBloodedTorture: The [[BreakTheCutie Thomas abuse]]. [[spoiler:Shagnasty kidnapped him, then proceeded to tear off strips of skin over and over, straining his vampire HealingFactor to its limit. Then he fed him someone and started the whole thing over again. The point was to get him to give up on his attempts at being a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire.]]
* CoolCar: Lara Raith's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Silver_Wraith Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith]] leads to a few expressions of pure awe. The power of this car is such that it alone gives Harry hope. As he finds out that [[spoiler:his harboring of Morgan has been tipped off to the Wardens]], another character points out that this car is ''far too cool'' for Harry to die in. Harry agrees.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: "I punched it in the nose. Now we're friends."
* DownerEnding: While a downer overall, Harry is determined not to let it stay that way.
* EtTuBrute
* FamedInStory: Harry, especially apparent here.
* {{Fingore}}: Shagnasty bites off a few fingers of one of Lara Raith's sisters.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Molly's concerns about Luccio being tainted and the fact she didn't truly love Harry are small hints to her not being what she seems.]]
* GambitPileup: ''Engineered'' by Harry, in order to give the bad guy no room at all to think, or come up with a backup plan.
-->'''Harry''': [[LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote.]] Suuuuuper genius.
* GeniusLoci: Demonreach.
* GetItOverWith: Harry pulls this on the skin-walker, shocking it.
* GreenEyedMonster
* HeroicBSOD: After seeing an EldritchAbomination Harry crashed his car and was a gibbering wreck for a good hour or so.
* HorrorHunger: Happens to Thomas, which leads to him nearly killing his girlfriend and almost [[spoiler:raping Molly to death. Only quick thinking and Harry's protection spell kept her safe.]]
* IdiotBall: Morgan holds it and lampshades it by asking if he's gone senile as [[spoiler:it didn't occur to him the Silver Oak leaf of the Summer Court he used to be protected from tracking could itself be used to track him, and Titania not having broken her word to keep him shielded from other tracking methods.]]
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Molly uses this to great effect to get information out of the PI shadowing Harry. Morgan jumps to the conclusion that she's going to use mind-control magic. All Molly has to do is take off her bra and go talk to the guy in his very air-conditioned car. As Harry observes, "He didn't stand a chance."
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler: Morgan]], although in this case the Masquerade was that the White Council is strong and united rather than the supernatural does not exist.
* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: [[spoiler: In previous books, Peabody had two, maybe three lines of dialogue, tops, and little to no description of what he looked like, or what his job was. So, particularly GenreSavvy readers would point to him ''immediately'' for the culprit.]]
* LonelyFuneral: [[spoiler:Morgan's, because even though he had been a hero to the White Council almost all his life, he died framed for political reasons. ]]
* MakeTheDogTestify: Helps that Mouse is a sentient magic dog.
* MaliciousSlander: What happened to Morgan. Also, what some human accomplices of the Red Court do to Harry approach this, but it's more a matter of half-truths than complete slander.
* MeaningfulFuneral: Specifically denied.
* MexicanStandoff: [[spoiler:The Senior Council, Lara Raith and her sisters, and Harry are in one until two bigger fish arrive to make them join forces.]] As Harry was hopping for.
* MindControl: [[spoiler:Peabody]] is revealed to have made extensive use of this.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Wizard Listen-to-the-Winds looks at his ink-stained hands upon learning his mind was being altered by Peabody's magical ink. He and the rest of the Senior Council later go over all of their choices the past few years, wondering what choices this influence could have pushed them towards they wouldn't have done otherwise.]]
* NeverFoundABody: [[spoiler:The Black Council's plan for Morgan. Once they found and killed him, they would stash the body and so all crimes they commit with magic can be blamed on him, ensuring they stay in the shadows.]]
* NuclearOption: Wizard Morgan is known to have once killed a skinwalker (a powerful Native American EldritchAbomination) by luring it to a location that would shortly be used as A-bomb testing site. Can we say CrowningMomentOfAwesome?
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Wizard Peabody insists on Harry signing out some papers, as with anyone who takes some of his files. [[spoiler:It turns out he was trying to be.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Lara sends the heads of the traitors to her court to the White Council as a peace offering.]]
* OhCrap: Multiple times.
** Harry, as a OncePerBook gag, gets one when he hears [[spoiler: Madeline]] say that she was going to inform the White Council as to Morgan's whereabouts.
** A more subtle one is when [[spoiler:Lara realizes Harry is no longer protected by Susan's Love and it was likely because of Luccio.]] Harry is very worried by her smile.
* PoisonousPerson: While not as bad as Red Court blood, consuming White Court blood is an unwise thing as it apparently acts as a ''very'' potent aphrodisiac.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: [[MagicalNativeAmerican Joseph "Injun Joe" Listens-To-Wind]] gets one on the [[EldritchAbomination skinwalker]]: "Don't plan to bind or banish ya, old ghost. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears."
* PronounTrouble: This was the phrase Harry was looking for when he was complaining about what to call Shagnasty. Turned into a BrickJoke: during their final battle, Harry yells at it, "Bring it on, you dickless freak!"
* PsychicNosebleed: Harry after Seeing the skinwalker.
* RainDance: Injun Joe does this as a weapon against [[spoiler: the skinwalker.]]
* SandInMyEyes
* ShapeShifterShowdown: ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Epically]]''.
* ShipSinking: [[spoiler:Harry and Anastasia Luccio because she was under heavy mind control sent to get close to Harry. She cannot trust her own feelings now.]]
* ShipTease: A Harry/Murphy one.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Do not mention the skinwalker. It will just make it more powerful. Harry compensates by [[TheNicknamer renaming it]] "Shagnasty."
* StaringDownCthulhu: Harry not only stared down a skinwalker several times over, he even saw [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm with his Sight]] and still went on to fight him. [[spoiler:Injun Joe also stares down the evil entity.]]
* TakeThat: Binder has one against [[Literature/{{Twilight}} poor, tortured, sentimental vampires]].
* TenLittleMurderVictims: The traitor(s) in the White Council has been a problem for a long time; in this novel, Harry has to find them on a very strict time limit indeed.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Ebenezar's subdued reaction when he figures out that the White Council, the White Court, Shagnasty, ''and'' the traitor and his own personal army are all going to be on Demonreach Island ''[[GambitPileup at the same time]]''.
* ToAbsentFriends: The end, since they are not allowed a MeaningfulFuneral.
* TrainingFromHell: Harry learns that Morgan's teacher (Luccio) used rocks in an exercise where Justin had used baseballs and Harry had used snowballs.
* WhiteMagic: This is really the only thing which can phase a skinwalker, whether it comes from [[spoiler:a Native American RainDance or [[HolyHandGrenade Soulfire]].]]
* XanatosSpeedChess: It's the only reason Harry survived the showdown on the island, and identified the traitor. [[spoiler: Also, he got really, ''really'' lucky.]]
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Harry calls Captain Luccio "Stacy", a diminutive of "Anastasia" he knows she ''hates,'' just to make sure she is not an impostor.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The [[EldritchAbomination Naagloshii]] is a shape shifter, so its mundane form is never fixed. However, when Harry looks at it using his wizard Sight the overwhelming wrongness effectively [[BrownNote blasts his mind]] and renders him senseless, unable to function, and ''bleeding from the nose and ears''. He only recovered partially by calculating the primes before reaching a safe haven. How did he recover the rest of the way? [[spoiler:He subjected himself to it's form multiple times over and remembering the other horrific things he had seen.]]
* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: In the opening page of the book, Morgan collapses on Dresden's front door.
-->"Oh. Super."
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When it comes to the magical ruling body known as the White Council, Harry keeps his nose clean and his head down. For years, the Council has held a death mark over Harry's head. He's still thought of as a black sheep by some; and as a sacrificial lamb by others. But none regard him with more suspicion and disdain than Morgan, a veteran Warden with a grudge against anyone who bends the rules.
Like Harry.
So when Morgan turns up asking for help, Harry isn't exactly eager to leap into action. Morgan has been accused of treason against the White Council, and there's only [[OffWithHisHead one final punishment]] for that crime. He's on the run, he wants his name cleared, and he needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog.
Like Harry.
Now Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a less than agreeable Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake may cost someone his head.
[[RuleOfThree Like Harry...]]
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!!''Turn Coat'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AffablyEvil: Lara Raith describes herself as an "affable monster." Then she [[spoiler: eats her cousin alive. Literally.]]
* AndThisIsFor: During the final confrontation with [[spoiler: the skinwalker]], Harry punctuates each spell by yelling the name of a friend or family member that it has hurt, and uses the emotion from that name to fuel his spells.
* AnyoneCanDie [=/=] KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Senior Council member LaFortier died in the events just before the book started. Kirby the werewolf and Morgan both die in this book. Peabody too, but he's a bad guy so not so sad for him.]]
* ApparentlyPowerlessPuppetmaster: [[spoiler:The Council's secretary with his mind-controlling inks]].
* BattleCouple: [[spoiler:Will and Georgia double-team Madeline and do her some serious harm before accidentally drinking her blood takes them out of the fight.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The mole is dead and his brainwashed victims are found and on the long road to recovery, but the White Council lost not only Morgan but Senior Council member LaFortier by the mole's machinations. His replacement is suspected by Harry to be a new mole working for the Black Council. And Thomas was broken by some extreme torture methods and is leaning towards evil now.]]
* BookEnds: A subtle one, but the book begins with Harry saying, "I know what it feels like to have the Wardens on your ass for something you haven't done." The book ends [[spoiler: with Morgan's dying words being, "I knew that you knew how it felt to be an innocent man hounded by the Wardens."]]
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Thomas.]] He gets tortured physically, [[spoiler: fed a bunch of women]] and tortured again. By the time Harry sees him again, he is in rotten shape and [[spoiler:nearly rapes Molly to death]].
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Literally for the first part of it. [[spoiler:Listens-to-Wind drives off the Skinwalker, but comes away from the fight with a broken arm.]]
* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler:The traitor in the White Council was not the Merlin, Ancient Mai, Listens-To-Wind or even Ebenezer. It was the ''secretary'', clerk and all-around paper-pusher -- in other words, the perfect guy to subvert, because he has access to all the information and can just fade into the background]].
* CallBack: Harry learned in ''Literature/WhiteNight'' that it's a bad idea to call forth a light when a supernatural creature plunges an area in darkness.
* ClarkesThirdLaw: Harry is caught in the rain and is glad that the armor spells he put onto his [[BadassLongcoat leather duster]] also made it stain- and waterproof. He also notes that, despite being so tough and powerful, it still breathes and allows a good flow of oxygen, something not even the best coats manufactured by the best technology can accomplish. Afterwards, he smugly thinks about how magic has accomplished something that technology will probably never be able to equal.
-->''Sufficiently advanced, my ass.''
* ColdBloodedTorture: The [[BreakTheCutie Thomas abuse]]. [[spoiler:Shagnasty kidnapped him, then proceeded to tear off strips of skin over and over, straining his vampire HealingFactor to its limit. Then he fed him someone and started the whole thing over again. The point was to get him to give up on his attempts at being a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire.]]
* CoolCar: Lara Raith's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Silver_Wraith Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith]] leads to a few expressions of pure awe. The power of this car is such that it alone gives Harry hope. As he finds out that [[spoiler:his harboring of Morgan has been tipped off to the Wardens]], another character points out that this car is ''far too cool'' for Harry to die in. Harry agrees.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: "I punched it in the nose. Now we're friends."
* DownerEnding: While a downer overall, Harry is determined not to let it stay that way.
* EtTuBrute
* FamedInStory: Harry, especially apparent here.
* {{Fingore}}: Shagnasty bites off a few fingers of one of Lara Raith's sisters.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Molly's concerns about Luccio being tainted and the fact she didn't truly love Harry are small hints to her not being what she seems.]]
* GambitPileup: ''Engineered'' by Harry, in order to give the bad guy no room at all to think, or come up with a backup plan.
-->'''Harry''': [[LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote.]] Suuuuuper genius.
* GeniusLoci: Demonreach.
* GetItOverWith: Harry pulls this on the skin-walker, shocking it.
* GreenEyedMonster
* HeroicBSOD: After seeing an EldritchAbomination Harry crashed his car and was a gibbering wreck for a good hour or so.
* HorrorHunger: Happens to Thomas, which leads to him nearly killing his girlfriend and almost [[spoiler:raping Molly to death. Only quick thinking and Harry's protection spell kept her safe.]]
* IdiotBall: Morgan holds it and lampshades it by asking if he's gone senile as [[spoiler:it didn't occur to him the Silver Oak leaf of the Summer Court he used to be protected from tracking could itself be used to track him, and Titania not having broken her word to keep him shielded from other tracking methods.]]
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Molly uses this to great effect to get information out of the PI shadowing Harry. Morgan jumps to the conclusion that she's going to use mind-control magic. All Molly has to do is take off her bra and go talk to the guy in his very air-conditioned car. As Harry observes, "He didn't stand a chance."
* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler: Morgan]], although in this case the Masquerade was that the White Council is strong and united rather than the supernatural does not exist.
* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: [[spoiler: In previous books, Peabody had two, maybe three lines of dialogue, tops, and little to no description of what he looked like, or what his job was. So, particularly GenreSavvy readers would point to him ''immediately'' for the culprit.]]
* LonelyFuneral: [[spoiler:Morgan's, because even though he had been a hero to the White Council almost all his life, he died framed for political reasons. ]]
* MakeTheDogTestify: Helps that Mouse is a sentient magic dog.
* MaliciousSlander: What happened to Morgan. Also, what some human accomplices of the Red Court do to Harry approach this, but it's more a matter of half-truths than complete slander.
* MeaningfulFuneral: Specifically denied.
* MexicanStandoff: [[spoiler:The Senior Council, Lara Raith and her sisters, and Harry are in one until two bigger fish arrive to make them join forces.]] As Harry was hopping for.
* MindControl: [[spoiler:Peabody]] is revealed to have made extensive use of this.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Wizard Listen-to-the-Winds looks at his ink-stained hands upon learning his mind was being altered by Peabody's magical ink. He and the rest of the Senior Council later go over all of their choices the past few years, wondering what choices this influence could have pushed them towards they wouldn't have done otherwise.]]
* NeverFoundABody: [[spoiler:The Black Council's plan for Morgan. Once they found and killed him, they would stash the body and so all crimes they commit with magic can be blamed on him, ensuring they stay in the shadows.]]
* NuclearOption: Wizard Morgan is known to have once killed a skinwalker (a powerful Native American EldritchAbomination) by luring it to a location that would shortly be used as A-bomb testing site. Can we say CrowningMomentOfAwesome?
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Wizard Peabody insists on Harry signing out some papers, as with anyone who takes some of his files. [[spoiler:It turns out he was trying to be.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Lara sends the heads of the traitors to her court to the White Council as a peace offering.]]
* OhCrap: Multiple times.
** Harry, as a OncePerBook gag, gets one when he hears [[spoiler: Madeline]] say that she was going to inform the White Council as to Morgan's whereabouts.
** A more subtle one is when [[spoiler:Lara realizes Harry is no longer protected by Susan's Love and it was likely because of Luccio.]] Harry is very worried by her smile.
* PoisonousPerson: While not as bad as Red Court blood, consuming White Court blood is an unwise thing as it apparently acts as a ''very'' potent aphrodisiac.
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: [[MagicalNativeAmerican Joseph "Injun Joe" Listens-To-Wind]] gets one on the [[EldritchAbomination skinwalker]]: "Don't plan to bind or banish ya, old ghost. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears."
* PronounTrouble: This was the phrase Harry was looking for when he was complaining about what to call Shagnasty. Turned into a BrickJoke: during their final battle, Harry yells at it, "Bring it on, you dickless freak!"
* PsychicNosebleed: Harry after Seeing the skinwalker.
* RainDance: Injun Joe does this as a weapon against [[spoiler: the skinwalker.]]
* SandInMyEyes
* ShapeShifterShowdown: ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Epically]]''.
* ShipSinking: [[spoiler:Harry and Anastasia Luccio because she was under heavy mind control sent to get close to Harry. She cannot trust her own feelings now.]]
* ShipTease: A Harry/Murphy one.
* SpeakOfTheDevil: Do not mention the skinwalker. It will just make it more powerful. Harry compensates by [[TheNicknamer renaming it]] "Shagnasty."
* StaringDownCthulhu: Harry not only stared down a skinwalker several times over, he even saw [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm with his Sight]] and still went on to fight him. [[spoiler:Injun Joe also stares down the evil entity.]]
* TakeThat: Binder has one against [[Literature/{{Twilight}} poor, tortured, sentimental vampires]].
* TenLittleMurderVictims: The traitor(s) in the White Council has been a problem for a long time; in this novel, Harry has to find them on a very strict time limit indeed.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Ebenezar's subdued reaction when he figures out that the White Council, the White Court, Shagnasty, ''and'' the traitor and his own personal army are all going to be on Demonreach Island ''[[GambitPileup at the same time]]''.
* ToAbsentFriends: The end, since they are not allowed a MeaningfulFuneral.
* TrainingFromHell: Harry learns that Morgan's teacher (Luccio) used rocks in an exercise where Justin had used baseballs and Harry had used snowballs.
* WhiteMagic: This is really the only thing which can phase a skinwalker, whether it comes from [[spoiler:a Native American RainDance or [[HolyHandGrenade Soulfire]].]]
* XanatosSpeedChess: It's the only reason Harry survived the showdown on the island, and identified the traitor. [[spoiler: Also, he got really, ''really'' lucky.]]
* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Harry calls Captain Luccio "Stacy", a diminutive of "Anastasia" he knows she ''hates,'' just to make sure she is not an impostor.
* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: The [[EldritchAbomination Naagloshii]] is a shape shifter, so its mundane form is never fixed. However, when Harry looks at it using his wizard Sight the overwhelming wrongness effectively [[BrownNote blasts his mind]] and renders him senseless, unable to function, and ''bleeding from the nose and ears''. He only recovered partially by calculating the primes before reaching a safe haven. How did he recover the rest of the way? [[spoiler:He subjected himself to it's form multiple times over and remembering the other horrific things he had seen.]]
* YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe: In the opening page of the book, Morgan collapses on Dresden's front door.
-->"Oh. Super."
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