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[[WMG: Maeve's Father is]]
Literature/TamLin. [[spoiler:Oh, and Sarissa's too.]] It is revealed in ''Cold Days'' Maeve [[spoiler:was born a changeling like Sarissa.]] And TamLin is said to have been loved by the Queen of the Fairies. [[spoiler:Mab even said TamLin was once her Knight.]] So one time, maybe because [[spoiler:when he became her Knight,]] she gave him a celebration nookie, and ended up with twins,
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While many fans have speculated that "the parasite" is Lash, or a recent infection of Harry by [[spoiler: Nemesis]], it's also conceivable that the presence to which Mab referred has been in Harry much, much longer. Suppose it was something that Aurora put into him in ''Summer Knight'', when she soothed his pain, or even something left over from his earlier exposures to dark magic (donning the Hexenwulf belt, absorbing Kravos's power)? Mab said that the parasite would take years to kill him, so maybe its action is even slower than Harry suspects ... or maybe it'd ''already'' started killing him much earlier in the series, but Lash smacked it into remission when ''she'' took up residence in Harry's mind, and it's finally resumed afflicting him in her absence.
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While many fans have speculated that "the parasite" is Lash, or a recent infection of Harry by [[spoiler: Nemesis]], it's also conceivable that the presence to which Mab referred has been in Harry much, much longer. Suppose it was something that Aurora put into him in ''Summer Knight'', when she soothed his pain, or even something left over from his earlier exposures to dark magic (donning the Hexenwulf belt, absorbing Kravos's power)? Mab said that the parasite would take years to kill him, so maybe its action is even slower than Harry suspects ... or maybe it'd ''already'' started killing him much earlier in the series, but Lash smacked it into remission when ''she'' took up residence in Harry's mind, and it's finally resumed afflicting him in her absence.absence.
[[WMG: Titania fixed Little Chicago]]
So, what do we know about the fixing of Little Chicago? It had to be someone who knew that Harry's lab was in the basement. Someone who know there was a Little Chicago at all. Someone who has had the opportunity to spy on Harry enough to discover there was a flaw with it and intimate knowledge of the design. It had to be done by someone very familiar with Harry's wards. Someone would have to pass through them, disarm them and leave them untouched. It had to be done by someone with a LOT of metaphysical oomph, in order to cross over Harry's threshold/wards and still retain enough power to fix a delicate and complex construct like that.\\
So, who fits the bill? Titania. Summer has been giving Harry cleaning service in the form of brownies for years. They're perfectly positioned to spy on him and on whatever he is doing in his basement. Anyone who could order them around - like, oh, a Faerie Queen - would have all the information she'd ever need on Harry, his projects and everything else he's doing. Titania is also one of the few people who just might have the metaphysical oomph to cross over a threshold(even though it's a weak one, it's still a threshold) and perform magic. Extremely complex magic is likely not a big deal for her - it would not be a problem for her to perform within minutes or hours something that took Harry months to do.\\
Because, really, what do we know about Titania's opinion on Harry? We only have guesses and enigmatic statements at best. For all we know, she could be an ally.
* I had always assumed it was Uriel that did it.
** Huh, I had always assumed it was Lashiel, or at least that she had somehow sheilded Harry from it going kablooie.
*** Uriel? Maybe. However, remember that at the time, Harry was still Denarian-infected. For all Uriel knew, Harry could turn into a monster that time next month. After all, this is not Michael we're talking about, it's Harry. Lasciel seems unlikely as well. Wouldn't she basically go - "You know, I saved your life, see how helpful I am? Now be a nice guy and take the coin"? Why would she hide the fact that she saved his life when she was trying to tempt him?\\
If you mean that the real Lasciel did it, not the shadow-Lasciel then wouldn't Lash at least offer a suggestion "You know, it might've been my greater self that saved you"?
*** On further thought, a good candidate might just be good ol' Leanansidhe. She *is* the only one with access to the NeverNever side of his apartment, after all. However, if it is her, she missed a good moment to crow about it when she was talking to him about the defenses she had put in place.
*** That's practically impossible. Lea was imprisoned in Arctis Tor when Little Chicago was fixed. There's a possibility that it was Mab who fixed it, because Mab had taken on Lea's duties due to imprisoning her.
* Sidhe influence is doubtful. I'd always thought Thomas, but Lash is a (remote) possibility.
** Thomas is a self-proclaimed hack when it comes to magic. He probably ''couldn't'' do something as complex as fixing Little Chicago.
* My guess is either Ebenezer or a time traveling Harry.
* May be Uriel, may be not, but the fact is an Angel of some kind is most likely if only because Harry was using Little Chicago at the time to help the Carpenters, putting him in to Deus' personal ex Machina that he keeps on hand for Michael.
* [[spoiler: ''Cold Days'' makes it plain Titania isn't about to do Harry any favors, even though she no longer seems to actively want him dead (she pretty much proved she could kill him with minimal effort, but didn't go through with it)]].
[[WMG: Titania fixed Little Chicago]]
So, what do we know about the fixing of Little Chicago? It had to be someone who knew that Harry's lab was in the basement. Someone who know there was a Little Chicago at all. Someone who has had the opportunity to spy on Harry enough to discover there was a flaw with it and intimate knowledge of the design. It had to be done by someone very familiar with Harry's wards. Someone would have to pass through them, disarm them and leave them untouched. It had to be done by someone with a LOT of metaphysical oomph, in order to cross over Harry's threshold/wards and still retain enough power to fix a delicate and complex construct like that.\\
So, who fits the bill? Titania. Summer has been giving Harry cleaning service in the form of brownies for years. They're perfectly positioned to spy on him and on whatever he is doing in his basement. Anyone who could order them around - like, oh, a Faerie Queen - would have all the information she'd ever need on Harry, his projects and everything else he's doing. Titania is also one of the few people who just might have the metaphysical oomph to cross over a threshold(even though it's a weak one, it's still a threshold) and perform magic. Extremely complex magic is likely not a big deal for her - it would not be a problem for her to perform within minutes or hours something that took Harry months to do.\\
Because, really, what do we know about Titania's opinion on Harry? We only have guesses and enigmatic statements at best. For all we know, she could be an ally.
* I had always assumed it was Uriel that did it.
** Huh, I had always assumed it was Lashiel, or at least that she had somehow sheilded Harry from it going kablooie.
*** Uriel? Maybe. However, remember that at the time, Harry was still Denarian-infected. For all Uriel knew, Harry could turn into a monster that time next month. After all, this is not Michael we're talking about, it's Harry. Lasciel seems unlikely as well. Wouldn't she basically go - "You know, I saved your life, see how helpful I am? Now be a nice guy and take the coin"? Why would she hide the fact that she saved his life when she was trying to tempt him?\\
If you mean that the real Lasciel did it, not the shadow-Lasciel then wouldn't Lash at least offer a suggestion "You know, it might've been my greater self that saved you"?
*** On further thought, a good candidate might just be good ol' Leanansidhe. She *is* the only one with access to the NeverNever side of his apartment, after all. However, if it is her, she missed a good moment to crow about it when she was talking to him about the defenses she had put in place.
*** That's practically impossible. Lea was imprisoned in Arctis Tor when Little Chicago was fixed. There's a possibility that it was Mab who fixed it, because Mab had taken on Lea's duties due to imprisoning her.
* Sidhe influence is doubtful. I'd always thought Thomas, but Lash is a (remote) possibility.
** Thomas is a self-proclaimed hack when it comes to magic. He probably ''couldn't'' do something as complex as fixing Little Chicago.
* My guess is either Ebenezer or a time traveling Harry.
* May be Uriel, may be not, but the fact is an Angel of some kind is most likely if only because Harry was using Little Chicago at the time to help the Carpenters, putting him in to Deus' personal ex Machina that he keeps on hand for Michael.
* [[spoiler: ''Cold Days'' makes it plain Titania isn't about to do Harry any favors, even though she no longer seems to actively want him dead (she pretty much proved she could kill him with minimal effort, but didn't go through with it)]].
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* If Harry was born on Demonreach, how did he get to the hospital where Malcolm came to claim him a few days later? If anything, he might have been ''conceived'' on the island if the Dresdens had gone camping there.
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* If Harry was born on Demonreach, how did he get to the hospital where Malcolm came to claim him a few days later? If anything, he might possibly have been ''conceived'' on the island if the Dresdens had gone been camping there.there, although it would've been pretty chilly in late January/early February.
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* If you're assuming Demonreach's manifestation from ''Small Favor'' was all in Harry's head, it's been Jossed by ''Cold Days''. Demonreach manifests and interacts with [[spoiler: Lily, Fix and Maeve]], even in Harry's absence.
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*** We ''see'' what she's able to put together so far. She's still weak, and Harry's still brain damaged. Harry's Wizardly healing is going to be slow and Lash very well could be trying to ''force'' his body to heal his brain faster, so she can fully manifest again. that speeding up could very well be the cause of his headaches.
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- As of \'\'Cold Days\'\' we learn that Changlings can barter a refusal to Choose. Perhaps Maggie did the same thing with Lea, offering her a godparent slot. Giving your child to one of the highest of the Winter Sidhe to protect him makes sense too, especially after seeing what poppa Raith did to Thomas.
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* As of ''Cold Days'' we learn that [[spoiler: Changlings can barter a refusal to Choose. Perhaps Maggie did the same thing with Lea, offering her a godparent slot. Giving your child to one of the highest of the Winter Sidhe to protect him makes sense too, especially after seeing what poppa Raith did to Thomas.]]
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While many fans have speculated that "the parasite" is Lash, or a recent infection of Harry by [[spoiler: Nemesis]], it's also conceivable that the presence to which Mab referred has been in Harry much, much longer. Suppose it was something that Aurora put into him in ''Summer Knight'', when she soothed his pain, or even something left over from his earlier exposures to dark magic (donning the Hexenwulf belt, absorbing Kravos's power)? Mab said that the parasite would take years to kill him, so maybe its action is even slower than Harry suspects ... or maybe it'd ''already'' started killing him much earlier in the series, but Lash smacked it into remission when ''she'' took up residence in Harry's mind, and it's finally resumed affecting him in her absence.
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While many fans have speculated that "the parasite" is Lash, or a recent infection of Harry by [[spoiler: Nemesis]], it's also conceivable that the presence to which Mab referred has been in Harry much, much longer. Suppose it was something that Aurora put into him in ''Summer Knight'', when she soothed his pain, or even something left over from his earlier exposures to dark magic (donning the Hexenwulf belt, absorbing Kravos's power)? Mab said that the parasite would take years to kill him, so maybe its action is even slower than Harry suspects ... or maybe it'd ''already'' started killing him much earlier in the series, but Lash smacked it into remission when ''she'' took up residence in Harry's mind, and it's finally resumed affecting afflicting him in her absence.
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While many fans have speculated that "the parasite" is Lash, or a recent infection of Harry by [[spoiler: Nemesis]], it's also conceivable that the presence to which Mab referred has been in Harry much, much longer. Suppose it was something that Aurora put into him in ''Summer Knight'', when she soothed his pain, or even something left over from his earlier exposures to dark magic (donning the Hexenwulf belt, absorbing Kravos's power)? Mab said that the parasite would take years to kill him, so maybe its action is even slower than Harry suspects ... or maybe it'd already started killing him much earlier in the series, but Lash smacked it into remission when ''she'' took up residence in Harry's mind, and it's begun rearing its ugly head again in her absence.
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While many fans have speculated that "the parasite" is Lash, or a recent infection of Harry by [[spoiler: Nemesis]], it's also conceivable that the presence to which Mab referred has been in Harry much, much longer. Suppose it was something that Aurora put into him in ''Summer Knight'', when she soothed his pain, or even something left over from his earlier exposures to dark magic (donning the Hexenwulf belt, absorbing Kravos's power)? Mab said that the parasite would take years to kill him, so maybe its action is even slower than Harry suspects ... or maybe it'd already ''already'' started killing him much earlier in the series, but Lash smacked it into remission when ''she'' took up residence in Harry's mind, and it's begun rearing its ugly head again finally resumed affecting him in her absence.
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While many fans have speculated that "the parasite" is Lash, or a recent infection of Harry by [[spoiler: Nemesis]], it's also conceivable that the presence to which Mab referred has been in Harry much, much longer. Suppose it was something that Aurora put into him in ''Summer Knight'', when she soothed his pain, or even something left over from his earlier exposures to dark magic (donning the Hexenwulf belt, absorbing Kravos's power)? Mab said that the parasite would take years to kill him, so maybe its action is even slower than Harry suspects ... or maybe it'd already started killing him much earlier in the series, but Lash smacked it down into remission when ''she'' took up residence in Harry's mind, and it's begun rearing its ugly head again in her absence.
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After all this, this Troper is now convinced that Toot Toot has some form of intellectus. Which may explain his pull over the other Little Folk, up to being defacto leader of all in the Chicago area.
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After all this, this Troper is now convinced that Toot Toot has some form of intellectus. Which may explain his pull over the other Little Folk, up to being defacto leader of all in the Chicago area.area.
[[WMG: "The parasite" has been in Harry's head a lot longer than anyone realizes.]]
While many fans have speculated that "the parasite" is Lash, or a recent infection of Harry by [[spoiler: Nemesis]], it's also conceivable that the presence to which Mab referred has been in Harry much, much longer. Suppose it was something that Aurora put into him in ''Summer Knight'', when she soothed his pain, or even something left over from his earlier exposures to dark magic (donning the Hexenwulf belt, absorbing Kravos's power)? Mab said that the parasite would take years to kill him, so maybe its action is even slower than Harry suspects ... or maybe it'd already started killing him much earlier in the series, but Lash smacked it down when ''she'' took up residence in Harry's mind, and it's begun rearing its ugly head again in her absence.
[[WMG: "The parasite" has been in Harry's head a lot longer than anyone realizes.]]
While many fans have speculated that "the parasite" is Lash, or a recent infection of Harry by [[spoiler: Nemesis]], it's also conceivable that the presence to which Mab referred has been in Harry much, much longer. Suppose it was something that Aurora put into him in ''Summer Knight'', when she soothed his pain, or even something left over from his earlier exposures to dark magic (donning the Hexenwulf belt, absorbing Kravos's power)? Mab said that the parasite would take years to kill him, so maybe its action is even slower than Harry suspects ... or maybe it'd already started killing him much earlier in the series, but Lash smacked it down when ''she'' took up residence in Harry's mind, and it's begun rearing its ugly head again in her absence.
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** "That Which Stalks Us All", to me it seems a very pretty way to refer to Death, or an Outsider claiming a similiar title? "He Who Walks Behind" also carries similiar connotations, maybe Lea all this time was trying to kill yet another thing gunning for Harry's head?
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** "That Which Stalks Us All", to me it seems a very pretty way to refer to Death, or an Outsider claiming a similiar similar title? "He Who Walks Behind" also carries similiar similar connotations, maybe Lea all this time was trying to kill yet another thing gunning for Harry's head?head?
** For the record, nobody said "That Which Stalks Us All", it was simply "that which stalks us all". The phrase wasn't capitalized, so was not a title.
** For the record, nobody said "That Which Stalks Us All", it was simply "that which stalks us all". The phrase wasn't capitalized, so was not a title.
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Bob is strong - scary strong. And as of ''Ghost Story'', we know that Bob [[Spoiler: can stay perfectly behind Harry, just like He Who Walks Behind]]. The skull could very well be somewhere between a RestrainingBolt or a [[KidWithTheRemoteControl leash]], and Evil Bob was damn eager to kill Harry when we first meet him in ''Dead Beat''.
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Bob is strong - scary strong. And as of ''Ghost Story'', we know that Bob [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: can stay perfectly behind Harry, just like He Who Walks Behind]]. The skull could very well be somewhere between a RestrainingBolt or a [[KidWithTheRemoteControl leash]], and Evil Bob was damn eager to kill Harry when we first meet him in ''Dead Beat''.
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--> ''Harry:'' "It’s a mode of existence for a very few rare and powerful supernatural beings—angels have it. I’m willing to bet old Mother Winter and Mother Summer have it. For beings with intellectus, all reality exists in one piece, one place, one moment, and they can look at the whole thing. They don’t seek or acquire knowledge. They just know things."
--> ''Morgan:'' "A being with intellectus does not understand, for example, how to derive a complex calculus equation—because it doesn’t need the process. If you showed him a problem and an equation, he would simply understand it and skip straight to the answer without need to think through the logical stages of solving the problem."
--> ''Morgan:'' "A being with intellectus does not understand, for example, how to derive a complex calculus equation—because it doesn’t need the process. If you showed him a problem and an equation, he would simply understand it and skip straight to the answer without need to think through the logical stages of solving the problem."
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--> ''Harry:'' '''Harry:''' "It’s a mode of existence for a very few rare and powerful supernatural beings—angels have it. I’m willing to bet old Mother Winter and Mother Summer have it. For beings with intellectus, all reality exists in one piece, one place, one moment, and they can look at the whole thing. They don’t seek or acquire knowledge. They just know things."
-->''Morgan:'' '''Morgan:''' "A being with intellectus does not understand, for example, how to derive a complex calculus equation—because it doesn’t need the process. If you showed him a problem and an equation, he would simply understand it and skip straight to the answer without need to think through the logical stages of solving the problem."
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** Except that Sanya had taken up the coin fully, so Magog's shadow would have gone back to being part of the original. Now, it's possible Magog left a second shadow when he realized Sanya was about to give up the coin, but that would require quick, creative thinking- which doesn't really seem to fit Magog that much, does it?
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** Except that Sanya had taken up the coin fully, so Magog's shadow would have gone back to being part of the original. Now, it's possible Magog left a second shadow when he realized Sanya was about to give up the coin, but that would require quick, creative thinking- which doesn't really seem to fit Magog that much, does it?it?
[[WMG: Luccio is/was pregnant]]
Luccio and Harry were sexually active for more than a year between Small Favor and Turn Coat, and she seemed seriously distraught when she realized that it was all because of Peabody's meddling with her mind. It is possible (unlikely, but possible) that she discovered she was pregnant with Harry's child, but the realization that she was {{Mind Rape}}d, coupled with her Old World mentality, made her ashamed or hesitant to confess to Harry that she was with his child, and some time in the year between Turn Coat and Changes she had the child in secret. WodOfGod is that he will [[TheWoobie always take the path that results in the most pain for Harry.]] The only way to hurt Harry more than having one child he'll never be able to know is to have ''two'' children he'll never be able to know.
* Result in the most pain, you say... Howsabout Mab being pregnant? Harry would have to watch his child grow up in the Winter Court, being twisted and warped every which way by dear mom, knowing he can't do diddly squat about it because it's the Queen's right. Wouldn't that rub the wrong way.
** Considering Harry's ''modus operandi'' boils down to "You're the one hurting people, I'm going to punch you in the face now even though you're a million times more powerful than me", I think he'd do more than diddly squat. Still - it'd be one way for him to escape the Winter Queen. "Let me take my kid with me and I don't drag Winter Wonderland down around your ears!"
* I have always thought that Luccio likes and cares about Harry more than she let on, so it's entirely plausible that she had his child, but did not tell him because it would be too painful for the both of them ([[spoiler: and we all saw how she was even more determined to help him after Harry subtly told her that Maggie is his daughter in ''Changes''.]]). One thing that I do not agree with you however is Luccio's supposed Old World mentality, for Lara casually mentioned in ''Turn Coat'' that Luccio played for both teams, suggesting a woman in touch with her sexuality centuries beforehand, and the fact that the Wardens are the most technologically advanced faction within the White Council.
[[WMG: Titania is Margaret LeFay's mother]]
* 1. Harry has never met Titania, nor seen her, nor has any character described her to him
* 2. Margaret has serious connections with the Fae; being a high-ranking changeling could explain her connections to them
* 3. Margaret is stated to have a different morality system than most human wizard; the Sidhe are Blue and Orange Morality
* 4. Ebenezar never mentions Margaret's mother, ever
** Yeah, but WordOfGod is she's a vanilla mortal.
* 5. Maeve, Mab, and the Fae in general seem to take an unusual amount of interest in Harry; if Mab (and possibly Maeve) knows, they could want him as a chesspiece, and the other Fae could be interested by his odd aura
* 6. Harry has an unusual affinity for force, fire, and finding things--all stated to be Summer's things
* 7. Harry is passionate about, basically, eveything--a 'Summer' trait
* 8. Harry found himself empathizing with and completely understanding Aurora, to the point where he could predict how she'd react to his attacks; if they were more alike, then they could be related
* 9. Kincaid's 'human as you are' line, which leads to the next WMG.
** [[spoiler: As of ''Cold Days'', Titania has met Harry and given no indication they're related, though theoretically she might just not want to acknowledge her daughter's killer as kin]].
[[WMG: Kincaid is Drakul's grandson]]
Because.
* "Because"? That's a pretty poor argument. The Margeret=daughter of Titania makes sense, Troper, especially with our LyingCreator, but that doesn't mean that Kincaid is Drakul's grandson as well. Would you please give us your theory, OP?
* This Troper has a theory. He's not Drakul's grandson... he's Drakul's SON. Does it ever say Dracula was Drakul's only son? However, Kincaid is relatively recent (by supernatural standards) and is Dracula's younger brother. He hit the low point in the genetic lottery though... he only got some of his dad's badassness.
[[WMG: Mister has PlotArmor, to the degree of JokerImmunity.]]
WordOfGod when asked if Mister survives Book 13 is that "Mister is far too cool. We haven't really run into anything that could kill Mister at this point." Considering the powerful things we ''have'' seen, Mister is either absurdly powerful (far from unlikely), a LightningBruiser who wouldn't necessarily win but could certainly survive/escape an attack by any of the above, or is too cool for anything we've seen to kill him even though they theoretically could. We haven't yet seen anything that can kill him because we haven't yet seen anything cool enough to be worthy of killing him from a [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] perspective.
* No, Mister will never die because he is a cat. Cats, however warm and fluffy, are the ultimate [[HarryPotter Slytherin]]:they will not stick around to fight, they will never make a HeroicSacrifice, they will run to save their own skins, then come back when the battle's over to comfort the wounded by distracting them from their pain with cries for food.
* Mister doesn't need to be powerful to have PlotArmor, he just needs to be the living embodiment of RuleOfCool. Which Butcher says he is, so he's not going to die.
[[WMG: Nobody will ever find out exactly what Mister is.]]
By the same principles as NothingIsScarier, Nothing Is Cooler.
[[WMG: Mister is an unbound avatar of an upper-level god.]]
You can't see his aura because A: if you're alive in this world, you're probably ''in'' his aura, or B: Why bother letting enough power seep out to make an aura if you don't need to do so? He doesn't need {{restraining bolt}}s to keep from displaying PowerIncontinence because someone that full of ability ''is'' their own restraining bolt.
[[WMG: John Marcone's True Name is...]]
John Marcone. Yes, in ''Even Hand'' he says that it isn't really his birth name, but a birth name and a True Name aren't necessarily one in the same--remember that a mortal's True Name changes over time. The True Name isn't what's written on your birth certificate, it's how you ''self identify'', and in ''Even Hand'', Marcone says he can barely be troubled to remember his birth name most of the time. He's probably been going by John Marcone in public and private for so long that it now "counts" as his True Name.
So somewhere down the line, he's going to have one hell of an OhCrap moment when he realizes this precaution he's taken has backfired.
** Contrariwise, there is also the possibility of someone going to all the trouble of tracking down Marcone's birth name, using that and having an OhCrap moment because it didn't work.
[[WMG: Ebenezar [[MindRape messed with Harry's mind to make him more obedient to him]] ]]
* [=McCoy=]'s been the Blackstaff for centuries; he's got plenty of practice at fucking with people's heads
* [=McCoy=] is the only authority figure Harry seems even mildly obedient to
* I somehow doubt it's normal for wizards to have conversations with their subconscious
* It could partially explain why Harry is so angry at Luccio when she stops contacting him; she got cured, he didn't
* Harry is never comfortable around magic-users unless he's more powerful or dominant.
[[WMG: Harry's real father is...]]
* ... one of the as-yet unmet Denarians. It could have been a ploy to create another powerful Denarian like Dierdre, only as an ally for the father, or an act of rebellion against Nicodemus, or even kept a secret from him by Harry's mother, as part of setting up the 'special circumstances' of his birth. My guess as to why this father hasn't shown up yet in Harry's life is because the body was killed some time before his actual birth, and has been stuck in coin form ever since. Bonus points if Harry's mother arranged that too.
[[WMG: Lash was feeding Harry information without him knowing.]]
That was why harry knew so much about zombies in Dead Beat and why after gaining lash his magic took a major jump up in power even without hellfire.
[[WMG: Toot-Toot has intelectus, like Demonreach and the Mothers.]]
* From ''Turn Coat'':
--> ''Harry:'' "It’s a mode of existence for a very few rare and powerful supernatural beings—angels have it. I’m willing to bet old Mother Winter and Mother Summer have it. For beings with intellectus, all reality exists in one piece, one place, one moment, and they can look at the whole thing. They don’t seek or acquire knowledge. They just know things."
--> ''Morgan:'' "A being with intellectus does not understand, for example, how to derive a complex calculus equation—because it doesn’t need the process. If you showed him a problem and an equation, he would simply understand it and skip straight to the answer without need to think through the logical stages of solving the problem."
*And then in Changes:
--> “Toot,” I said. “How is it that you speak Russian?”
--> He blinked at me. “Harry,” he said, as if the question made no sense at all, “you just speak it, don’t you. I mean, come on.”
Also, ''Cold Days'' has Toot say something very similar to that effect concerning Winter Law.
After all this, this Troper is now convinced that Toot Toot has some form of intellectus. Which may explain his pull over the other Little Folk, up to being defacto leader of all in the Chicago area.
[[WMG: Luccio is/was pregnant]]
Luccio and Harry were sexually active for more than a year between Small Favor and Turn Coat, and she seemed seriously distraught when she realized that it was all because of Peabody's meddling with her mind. It is possible (unlikely, but possible) that she discovered she was pregnant with Harry's child, but the realization that she was {{Mind Rape}}d, coupled with her Old World mentality, made her ashamed or hesitant to confess to Harry that she was with his child, and some time in the year between Turn Coat and Changes she had the child in secret. WodOfGod is that he will [[TheWoobie always take the path that results in the most pain for Harry.]] The only way to hurt Harry more than having one child he'll never be able to know is to have ''two'' children he'll never be able to know.
* Result in the most pain, you say... Howsabout Mab being pregnant? Harry would have to watch his child grow up in the Winter Court, being twisted and warped every which way by dear mom, knowing he can't do diddly squat about it because it's the Queen's right. Wouldn't that rub the wrong way.
** Considering Harry's ''modus operandi'' boils down to "You're the one hurting people, I'm going to punch you in the face now even though you're a million times more powerful than me", I think he'd do more than diddly squat. Still - it'd be one way for him to escape the Winter Queen. "Let me take my kid with me and I don't drag Winter Wonderland down around your ears!"
* I have always thought that Luccio likes and cares about Harry more than she let on, so it's entirely plausible that she had his child, but did not tell him because it would be too painful for the both of them ([[spoiler: and we all saw how she was even more determined to help him after Harry subtly told her that Maggie is his daughter in ''Changes''.]]). One thing that I do not agree with you however is Luccio's supposed Old World mentality, for Lara casually mentioned in ''Turn Coat'' that Luccio played for both teams, suggesting a woman in touch with her sexuality centuries beforehand, and the fact that the Wardens are the most technologically advanced faction within the White Council.
[[WMG: Titania is Margaret LeFay's mother]]
* 1. Harry has never met Titania, nor seen her, nor has any character described her to him
* 2. Margaret has serious connections with the Fae; being a high-ranking changeling could explain her connections to them
* 3. Margaret is stated to have a different morality system than most human wizard; the Sidhe are Blue and Orange Morality
* 4. Ebenezar never mentions Margaret's mother, ever
** Yeah, but WordOfGod is she's a vanilla mortal.
* 5. Maeve, Mab, and the Fae in general seem to take an unusual amount of interest in Harry; if Mab (and possibly Maeve) knows, they could want him as a chesspiece, and the other Fae could be interested by his odd aura
* 6. Harry has an unusual affinity for force, fire, and finding things--all stated to be Summer's things
* 7. Harry is passionate about, basically, eveything--a 'Summer' trait
* 8. Harry found himself empathizing with and completely understanding Aurora, to the point where he could predict how she'd react to his attacks; if they were more alike, then they could be related
* 9. Kincaid's 'human as you are' line, which leads to the next WMG.
** [[spoiler: As of ''Cold Days'', Titania has met Harry and given no indication they're related, though theoretically she might just not want to acknowledge her daughter's killer as kin]].
[[WMG: Kincaid is Drakul's grandson]]
Because.
* "Because"? That's a pretty poor argument. The Margeret=daughter of Titania makes sense, Troper, especially with our LyingCreator, but that doesn't mean that Kincaid is Drakul's grandson as well. Would you please give us your theory, OP?
* This Troper has a theory. He's not Drakul's grandson... he's Drakul's SON. Does it ever say Dracula was Drakul's only son? However, Kincaid is relatively recent (by supernatural standards) and is Dracula's younger brother. He hit the low point in the genetic lottery though... he only got some of his dad's badassness.
[[WMG: Mister has PlotArmor, to the degree of JokerImmunity.]]
WordOfGod when asked if Mister survives Book 13 is that "Mister is far too cool. We haven't really run into anything that could kill Mister at this point." Considering the powerful things we ''have'' seen, Mister is either absurdly powerful (far from unlikely), a LightningBruiser who wouldn't necessarily win but could certainly survive/escape an attack by any of the above, or is too cool for anything we've seen to kill him even though they theoretically could. We haven't yet seen anything that can kill him because we haven't yet seen anything cool enough to be worthy of killing him from a [[WatsonianVersusDoylist Doylist]] perspective.
* No, Mister will never die because he is a cat. Cats, however warm and fluffy, are the ultimate [[HarryPotter Slytherin]]:they will not stick around to fight, they will never make a HeroicSacrifice, they will run to save their own skins, then come back when the battle's over to comfort the wounded by distracting them from their pain with cries for food.
* Mister doesn't need to be powerful to have PlotArmor, he just needs to be the living embodiment of RuleOfCool. Which Butcher says he is, so he's not going to die.
[[WMG: Nobody will ever find out exactly what Mister is.]]
By the same principles as NothingIsScarier, Nothing Is Cooler.
[[WMG: Mister is an unbound avatar of an upper-level god.]]
You can't see his aura because A: if you're alive in this world, you're probably ''in'' his aura, or B: Why bother letting enough power seep out to make an aura if you don't need to do so? He doesn't need {{restraining bolt}}s to keep from displaying PowerIncontinence because someone that full of ability ''is'' their own restraining bolt.
[[WMG: John Marcone's True Name is...]]
John Marcone. Yes, in ''Even Hand'' he says that it isn't really his birth name, but a birth name and a True Name aren't necessarily one in the same--remember that a mortal's True Name changes over time. The True Name isn't what's written on your birth certificate, it's how you ''self identify'', and in ''Even Hand'', Marcone says he can barely be troubled to remember his birth name most of the time. He's probably been going by John Marcone in public and private for so long that it now "counts" as his True Name.
So somewhere down the line, he's going to have one hell of an OhCrap moment when he realizes this precaution he's taken has backfired.
** Contrariwise, there is also the possibility of someone going to all the trouble of tracking down Marcone's birth name, using that and having an OhCrap moment because it didn't work.
[[WMG: Ebenezar [[MindRape messed with Harry's mind to make him more obedient to him]] ]]
* [=McCoy=]'s been the Blackstaff for centuries; he's got plenty of practice at fucking with people's heads
* [=McCoy=] is the only authority figure Harry seems even mildly obedient to
* I somehow doubt it's normal for wizards to have conversations with their subconscious
* It could partially explain why Harry is so angry at Luccio when she stops contacting him; she got cured, he didn't
* Harry is never comfortable around magic-users unless he's more powerful or dominant.
[[WMG: Harry's real father is...]]
* ... one of the as-yet unmet Denarians. It could have been a ploy to create another powerful Denarian like Dierdre, only as an ally for the father, or an act of rebellion against Nicodemus, or even kept a secret from him by Harry's mother, as part of setting up the 'special circumstances' of his birth. My guess as to why this father hasn't shown up yet in Harry's life is because the body was killed some time before his actual birth, and has been stuck in coin form ever since. Bonus points if Harry's mother arranged that too.
[[WMG: Lash was feeding Harry information without him knowing.]]
That was why harry knew so much about zombies in Dead Beat and why after gaining lash his magic took a major jump up in power even without hellfire.
[[WMG: Toot-Toot has intelectus, like Demonreach and the Mothers.]]
* From ''Turn Coat'':
--> ''Harry:'' "It’s a mode of existence for a very few rare and powerful supernatural beings—angels have it. I’m willing to bet old Mother Winter and Mother Summer have it. For beings with intellectus, all reality exists in one piece, one place, one moment, and they can look at the whole thing. They don’t seek or acquire knowledge. They just know things."
--> ''Morgan:'' "A being with intellectus does not understand, for example, how to derive a complex calculus equation—because it doesn’t need the process. If you showed him a problem and an equation, he would simply understand it and skip straight to the answer without need to think through the logical stages of solving the problem."
*And then in Changes:
--> “Toot,” I said. “How is it that you speak Russian?”
--> He blinked at me. “Harry,” he said, as if the question made no sense at all, “you just speak it, don’t you. I mean, come on.”
Also, ''Cold Days'' has Toot say something very similar to that effect concerning Winter Law.
After all this, this Troper is now convinced that Toot Toot has some form of intellectus. Which may explain his pull over the other Little Folk, up to being defacto leader of all in the Chicago area.
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Harry was the anchor for his mother's death curse against Lord Raith, which is why killing him was so important in Blood Rites. Since Harry's dead now, he's able to feed once again. Sure, Lara is still calling the shots for the time being, but he does now have the ability to start regaining his power and take control back from his daughter. Harry returning to life will not fix this.
* Nope. Thomas is also an anchor. Both of them have to die for the White King to regain the ability to properly feed.
** Ghost Story spoiler: [[spoiler:Harry was never quite "dead" in the sense required by magical law and rules. Removed from his body, yes. Sent to the in between place, yes. However, Demonreach and Mab were keeping him very much alive physically and helping his body heal. All so he was still bound by his oath.]]
[[WMG: Magog's shadow is still in Sanya's head]]
Touching the coin leaves an imprint of the Fallen inside the coin in the person's mind. Harry couldn't get rid of Lash until her sacrifice. Had it been as digging up the coin, touching it to merge the shadow with the real Lasciel, and handing it off to the church, he'd have done so. So why, then, would surrendering Magog's coin to the Knights keep some trace of the Fallen out of Sanya's head? Esperacchius might shut the voice up and let him ignore it far better than Harry managed to ignore Lash, but it's there, and there's still about ten books left for something to go wrong for Sanya.
** Except that Sanya had taken up the coin fully, so Magog's shadow would have gone back to being part of the original. Now, it's possible Magog left a second shadow when he realized Sanya was about to give up the coin, but that would require quick, creative thinking- which doesn't really seem to fit Magog that much, does it?
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[[WMG: Lash is currently in the service of the "Za Lord's Guard".]]
When Lash 'died' some of Harry's soul went with her, and there were soon fairies everywhere. It's not really inconceivable that she made herself a fairy body and disappeared in the crowd.
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[[WMG: Lash is currently in Harry has the service of power to destroy Angels by Naming them]]
* Uriel was angered and frightened by Harry omitting the"Za Lord's Guard".]]
When Lash 'died' some"-el" at the end of his name (Uriel means "Light of God", the -el being the "of God" part). Anger, sure, but ''fear''? The only way I could see Uriel frightened of ''anything'' is if it were a massively damaging thing. Harry's soul went habit of nicknaming threatened to damage either Uriel, or something important in the universe. The important thing is, Harry has ''already'' nicknamed an angel of sorts: Lash (Lasc) is certainly missing the "-el". Could it be that Harry Naming the Shadow of Lasciel was the very thing that made her independent of Lasciel? Could it be that Harry will be doing that very thing to the Fallen herself?
** Expanding on this, it's quite possible that the vague power he has over Outsiders can be applied to angels as well. This would go a great way to explain why Nicodemus wants Harry to join him, and why he fears him so much. Nothing would make a war on heaven easier than someone who can shoot angels out of the sky, and if Harry knew precisely what he could do, he could probably tear through the Denarians withher, and there were soon fairies everywhere. It's ease.
** The problem with this is Uriel had a good reason to be mad, not only did he drop the part that means Of God, the rest of his name means light. So normally he's the Light of God, but with Harry's nickname it becomes Light, which happens to be a bit too close to Lucifer, the Light Bringer.
*** Moreover, it's only true Names that have that kind of power, not nicknames or aliases. Is it reallyinconceivable likely that she made herself a fairy body "Uriel" is the archangel's ''real'' Name? Would the Bible's authors have been permitted to spread the true Name of God's black-ops agent all over the planet?
** In addition to the above, perhaps the angels themselves can be tempted to fall? The fallen angels of the Denarians certainly have, anddisappeared I believe Lucifer was mentioned in the crowd.
first novel Uriel appeared in. Both are associated with light, and Uriel has done some less than pleasant things, like killing the firstborn of Egypt, as Heaven's "black ops" guy. Perhaps he fears not any power of Dresden's, but rather the implication that he is not "of God's".
* Uriel was angered and frightened by Harry omitting the
When Lash 'died' some
** Expanding on this, it's quite possible that the vague power he has over Outsiders can be applied to angels as well. This would go a great way to explain why Nicodemus wants Harry to join him, and why he fears him so much. Nothing would make a war on heaven easier than someone who can shoot angels out of the sky, and if Harry knew precisely what he could do, he could probably tear through the Denarians with
** The problem with this is Uriel had a good reason to be mad, not only did he drop the part that means Of God, the rest of his name means light. So normally he's the Light of God, but with Harry's nickname it becomes Light, which happens to be a bit too close to Lucifer, the Light Bringer.
*** Moreover, it's only true Names that have that kind of power, not nicknames or aliases. Is it really
** In addition to the above, perhaps the angels themselves can be tempted to fall? The fallen angels of the Denarians certainly have, and
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[[WMG: The Oblivion War was started by Rashid, or an earlier Gatekeeper, and uses non-Wizards because Wizards would break the Seventh Law of Magic simply by getting involved]]
* Jossed by ''Cold Days'', unless it was started for this purpose but was suborned later on. [[spoiler: It's the forces of Winter that have been defending the Outer Gates for thousands of years, and Thomas tells Bob that the Venatori had tried to ditch the faeries in "Backup".]]
* Alternately, there ''is'' no real "Oblivion War". Rather, the Venatori are being used by one faction or another to attack rival supernatural 'players', and that faction is using the notion of Oblivion to ensure that their cats-paws keep their activities completely secret.
* Jossed by ''Cold Days'', unless it was started for this purpose but was suborned later on. [[spoiler: It's the forces of Winter that have been defending the Outer Gates for thousands of years, and Thomas tells Bob that the Venatori had tried to ditch the faeries in "Backup".]]
* Alternately, there ''is'' no real "Oblivion War". Rather, the Venatori are being used by one faction or another to attack rival supernatural 'players', and that faction is using the notion of Oblivion to ensure that their cats-paws keep their activities completely secret.
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[[WMG: Mac is God.]]
It's established that [=McAnally=]'s Pub is 'neutral ground' under the accords. Harry internally quips in ''Small Favor'' that Mac's special occasion brew is "God's beer." Unbeknownst to Harry, he's being ''literal.''
* [[RuleOfCool That would be so very awesome. WANT.]]
** That... actually seems likely. Or at least that Mac is a lot more powerful and BadAss than the books have let on so far.
** More support: Harry talks about the way beings that see into the future, or have other forms of supernatural knowledge must be very careful about what they say - and Mac barely speaks complete sentences.
* Alternatively, Mac is short for Michael....Michael Callahan
** ... I don't get it.
*** [[Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon Series of short stories, and a few novels, by Spider Robinson]] concerning a rather strange bar, run by Michael Callahan. Good series.
* It does seem like he knows everyone and everyone knows him.
* WordOfGod is that we probably won't learn on Mac's nature and origins until the apocalyptic trilogy that takes place after 20 books in the series are written.
* Possible spin-off theory: Mac is God... but not Jehovah God. Neither is he Jesus. Mac is quiet and barely speaks, but when he does it's always straight to the point, meaningful, and you better listen up. He's the Holy Spirit.
** Dear lord, it's so ''obvious'' now! He runs a bar. Alcohol = spirits. And his beer is just about godly. StealthPun!
** [[SoCoolItsAwesome * Head explodes* ]]
*** The most likely serious candidacy on these lines is the Celtic deity Accasbel, a god of wine, beer, and mead who opened the first pub in Ireland. Evidently, he emigrated to the new world at some point.
* Or, given what we know about the angels, Mac is Uriel. Mab does say Uriel is the only one capable of subtlety.
* ''Cold Days'' makes it plain Mac is ''something'', and may have once been something called a Watcher or gone by that name.
** There's a group of supposedly fallen angels that goes by 'The Watchers' or Grigori.
*** The Grigori were the angels who fell into lust with human women and fathered the Nephilim, becoming Earth-bound as punishment and triggering the Great Deluge (Noah's flood). Now recall Mac's speech on the power of parenthood in ''Changes.''
[[WMG:Harry's father was actually Uriel.]]
This is mostly based on a certain incident in ''Dead Beat'', when he and Harry have a nice little dream conversation. Among other things, he says (and Harry believes him) that he isn't a ghost, and that he couldn't talk to him until that point because he had to wait until "others had crossed that line"- and this was the night after Lash first showed herself to him as Sheila. This might also explain his ability to hurt Outsiders.
* I thought his ability to hurt Outsiders was explicitly defined as being from the arrangement of his time of birth (Halloween for starters)?
** No, it's been strongly implied that it's his mothers bloodline that lets him hurt outsiders. It's why she was so powerful.
** I think it was a whole bunch of things. From Lash: "There was a complex confluence of events, of energies, of circumstances that would have given a child born under them the potential to wield power over Outsiders." Someone clearly went to a lot of trouble to arrange things so that Harry could beat up Outsiders, and having an angel as a father could have been a part of it.
** The fact that Outsiders and their agents call him "child of the stars" or "starborn" suggests astrological symbolism has a lot to do with it.
* Also, I forget which book, Kincaid states that he is as human as Dresden. Shortly afterwards it is revealed that Kincaid is the Hellhound and decidedly NOT human.
* It's in ''Blood Rites'', IIRC, and yes, he did say that he was as human as Dresden. He was also claiming that he was a vanilla mortal, which is a big fat lie. He's not someone who's words we can trust, since he's a merc and capable of telling lies, unlike the [[FairFolk fae]].
** If Harry's father was an angel, he wouldn't exactly be human. He would be one of the Nephilim.
*** And what are Nephilim known for? Being giants. And depending on the Bible verse in question also being 'the heroes of old'
[[WMG: Lash is currently in the service of the "Za Lord's Guard".]]
When Lash 'died' some of Harry's soul went with her, and there were soon fairies everywhere. It's not really inconceivable that she made herself a fairy body and disappeared in the crowd.
It's established that [=McAnally=]'s Pub is 'neutral ground' under the accords. Harry internally quips in ''Small Favor'' that Mac's special occasion brew is "God's beer." Unbeknownst to Harry, he's being ''literal.''
* [[RuleOfCool That would be so very awesome. WANT.]]
** That... actually seems likely. Or at least that Mac is a lot more powerful and BadAss than the books have let on so far.
** More support: Harry talks about the way beings that see into the future, or have other forms of supernatural knowledge must be very careful about what they say - and Mac barely speaks complete sentences.
* Alternatively, Mac is short for Michael....Michael Callahan
** ... I don't get it.
*** [[Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon Series of short stories, and a few novels, by Spider Robinson]] concerning a rather strange bar, run by Michael Callahan. Good series.
* It does seem like he knows everyone and everyone knows him.
* WordOfGod is that we probably won't learn on Mac's nature and origins until the apocalyptic trilogy that takes place after 20 books in the series are written.
* Possible spin-off theory: Mac is God... but not Jehovah God. Neither is he Jesus. Mac is quiet and barely speaks, but when he does it's always straight to the point, meaningful, and you better listen up. He's the Holy Spirit.
** Dear lord, it's so ''obvious'' now! He runs a bar. Alcohol = spirits. And his beer is just about godly. StealthPun!
** [[SoCoolItsAwesome * Head explodes* ]]
*** The most likely serious candidacy on these lines is the Celtic deity Accasbel, a god of wine, beer, and mead who opened the first pub in Ireland. Evidently, he emigrated to the new world at some point.
* Or, given what we know about the angels, Mac is Uriel. Mab does say Uriel is the only one capable of subtlety.
* ''Cold Days'' makes it plain Mac is ''something'', and may have once been something called a Watcher or gone by that name.
** There's a group of supposedly fallen angels that goes by 'The Watchers' or Grigori.
*** The Grigori were the angels who fell into lust with human women and fathered the Nephilim, becoming Earth-bound as punishment and triggering the Great Deluge (Noah's flood). Now recall Mac's speech on the power of parenthood in ''Changes.''
[[WMG:Harry's father was actually Uriel.]]
This is mostly based on a certain incident in ''Dead Beat'', when he and Harry have a nice little dream conversation. Among other things, he says (and Harry believes him) that he isn't a ghost, and that he couldn't talk to him until that point because he had to wait until "others had crossed that line"- and this was the night after Lash first showed herself to him as Sheila. This might also explain his ability to hurt Outsiders.
* I thought his ability to hurt Outsiders was explicitly defined as being from the arrangement of his time of birth (Halloween for starters)?
** No, it's been strongly implied that it's his mothers bloodline that lets him hurt outsiders. It's why she was so powerful.
** I think it was a whole bunch of things. From Lash: "There was a complex confluence of events, of energies, of circumstances that would have given a child born under them the potential to wield power over Outsiders." Someone clearly went to a lot of trouble to arrange things so that Harry could beat up Outsiders, and having an angel as a father could have been a part of it.
** The fact that Outsiders and their agents call him "child of the stars" or "starborn" suggests astrological symbolism has a lot to do with it.
* Also, I forget which book, Kincaid states that he is as human as Dresden. Shortly afterwards it is revealed that Kincaid is the Hellhound and decidedly NOT human.
* It's in ''Blood Rites'', IIRC, and yes, he did say that he was as human as Dresden. He was also claiming that he was a vanilla mortal, which is a big fat lie. He's not someone who's words we can trust, since he's a merc and capable of telling lies, unlike the [[FairFolk fae]].
** If Harry's father was an angel, he wouldn't exactly be human. He would be one of the Nephilim.
*** And what are Nephilim known for? Being giants. And depending on the Bible verse in question also being 'the heroes of old'
[[WMG: Lash is currently in the service of the "Za Lord's Guard".]]
When Lash 'died' some of Harry's soul went with her, and there were soon fairies everywhere. It's not really inconceivable that she made herself a fairy body and disappeared in the crowd.
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[[WMG: Harry and Murphy are the new Merlin and Arthur.]]
* Except that they have sex as well.
** [[HoYay Who says Merlin and Arthur didn't?]]
** [[WillTheyOrWOntThey Who says Harry and Murphy will?]]
* Good lord, people, the Arthurian imagery and associations in this series are burning holes in my retinas. Let me explain:
** Harry is Merlin. He's the strongest wizard of his generation. He's implied to be not entirely human (in the Arthurian mythos, Merlin's daddy was a demon). It is strongly implied Harry is decended from the first Merlin ([=McCoy=]'s journals and their trend of training their descendants).
*** Therefore, Demonreach is Harry's Avalon. A somewhat scary prospect.
**** Per Cold Days [[spoiler: Deamonreach may be Avlon.]]
** As above, Murphy is Arthur.
** Molly is Nimue. Merlin was her teacher, she had a epic thing for him - in some tellings it's mutual. Given that Molly has been slowly sliding down the slippery slope, this could be a very Bad Thing.
** Ramirez is Galahad. Virgin. Need I say more?
** You forgot Margaret LeFay. Also, more obscurely, Arthur has siblings. One of them is his half-sister Elaine. These two reasons are part of why I think that Harry is more of an Arthur than a Merlin.
*** Le Fay was probably a name she just took up. Her real full name is [[spoiler: Margaret McCoy]].
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[[WMG: Hendricks has Viking heritage.]]
1. Hendricks is huge to the point of being almost unbelievably muscled - Harry describes him as being built 'like a bull.'
2. Hendricks hangs out with Gard, who is a Valkyrie.
3. Hendricks has red hair, which is a common trait in those with Norse heritage.
[[WMG: Harry is/is related to Kemmler.]]
Why? Because this would make absolutely no sense. Everyone expects someone to turn around and pull off a mask and say "Hey, I'm Kemmler." NOBODY would expect Harry to have something to do with him.
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* When Sharkface barged into Mac's pub, he talked to Mac like he KNEW him, called him a Watcher, and accused him of taking the wrong path. My theory is that Mac was once an outsider, and abandoned his wierdness to become human, at the cost of being able to involve himself with anything supernatural, especially when it comes to sharing the knowledge he gained as one of the monsters. Thus the little-to-no-talking, and why he managed to get Accorded Neutral Territory status. This ties into my other WMG...
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* When Sharkface barged into Mac's pub, he talked to Mac like he KNEW him, called him a Watcher, and accused him of taking the wrong path. My theory is that Mac was once an outsider, and abandoned his wierdness to become human, at the cost of being able to involve himself with anything supernatural, especially when it comes to sharing the knowledge he gained as one of the monsters. Thus the little-to-no-talking, and why he managed to get Accorded Neutral Territory status. This ties into my other WMG...
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[[WMG: Mac was once an Outsider]]
* When Sharkface barged into Mac's pub, he talked to Mac like he KNEW him, called him a Watcher, and accused him of taking the wrong path. My theory is that Mac was once an outsider, and abandoned his wierdness to become human, at the cost of being able to involve himself with anything supernatural, especially when it comes to sharing the knowledge he gained as one of the monsters. Thus the little-to-no-talking, and why he managed to get Accorded Neutral Territory status. This ties into my other WMG...
* When Sharkface barged into Mac's pub, he talked to Mac like he KNEW him, called him a Watcher, and accused him of taking the wrong path. My theory is that Mac was once an outsider, and abandoned his wierdness to become human, at the cost of being able to involve himself with anything supernatural, especially when it comes to sharing the knowledge he gained as one of the monsters. Thus the little-to-no-talking, and why he managed to get Accorded Neutral Territory status. This ties into my other WMG...
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[[WMG:Harry knows about the Oblivion War]]
In "Cold Days", Dresden mentions that the Faerie Courts cooperated with the Brothers Grimm to get stories of them widely distributed, and may have done the same with Walt Disney. This goes along with the statement that Thomas made in "Backup" about how the Venatori tried to get the courts forgotten, but failed because of Gutenberg and the Brothers Grimm. That means that Harry knows that there is some advantage to magical creatures in having the general population knowing about them, and from there infer that there are some individuals who might want to take said advantage away.
* Harry doesn't know - He thinks. In ''Cold Days'', he mentions this as a theory, and the only reason he believes it is because he's just found Mab's original copy of the Grimm fairy tales, with the personalized text 'For Mab.' He further elaborates that Mab would never do anything without a reason, and so he has to assume the reason is she want's the fairies to be remembered forever. Its a long way from an old book to the Oblivion War.
In "Cold Days", Dresden mentions that the Faerie Courts cooperated with the Brothers Grimm to get stories of them widely distributed, and may have done the same with Walt Disney. This goes along with the statement that Thomas made in "Backup" about how the Venatori tried to get the courts forgotten, but failed because of Gutenberg and the Brothers Grimm. That means that Harry knows that there is some advantage to magical creatures in having the general population knowing about them, and from there infer that there are some individuals who might want to take said advantage away.
* Harry doesn't know - He thinks. In ''Cold Days'', he mentions this as a theory, and the only reason he believes it is because he's just found Mab's original copy of the Grimm fairy tales, with the personalized text 'For Mab.' He further elaborates that Mab would never do anything without a reason, and so he has to assume the reason is she want's the fairies to be remembered forever. Its a long way from an old book to the Oblivion War.
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[[WMG: [[spoiler:Maggie Dresden]] will marry Harry Carpenter.]]
Sometime after living with the them, she will fall for Harry Carpenter. And [[spoiler:they will name their first daughters after Harry's big sister Molly and Maggie's mother Susan.]]
* Or maybe she or Harry Carpenter will grow up to marry Will and Georgia's kid, whose gender is unstated as of ''Cold Days''.
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[[WMG: Mab captured [[PunnyName Cat NemeSith]] when Harry blew him into Lake Michigan.]]
Cat Sith is an important enforcer, and if there was any chance of saving him instead of giving Nemesis another buddy, Mab would probably take it. She needs every advantage she can get, after all, and she managed it with Harry. Some time in the next book, when Harry is at Arctis Tor, he will discover Cat Sith frozen in the Fountain again, being 'cured' of his Nemesis infection.
Cat Sith is an important enforcer, and if there was any chance of saving him instead of giving Nemesis another buddy, Mab would probably take it. She needs every advantage she can get, after all, and she managed it with Harry. Some time in the next book, when Harry is at Arctis Tor, he will discover Cat Sith frozen in the Fountain again, being 'cured' of his Nemesis infection.
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[[WMG: Mab captured [[PunnyName Cat NemeSith]] when Rudolph's motivations are more complex than we realize.]]
* Harryblew him into Lake Michigan.]]
Cat Sith is an important enforcer,has a history of allowing his disdain for some people to cloud his judgment of their motivations (Turtleneck and if there was any chance of saving him instead of giving Nemesis another buddy, Mab would probably take it. She needs every advantage she can get, after all, Martin stick out as examples). He attributes Rudolph's vendetta against himself and she managed it with Harry. Some time Murphy to his {{Jerkass}} personality and fear of the unknown. However, compare Rudolph's behavior in ''Grave Peril'' to ''Changes'': in the next book, when Harry is at Arctis Tor, former, he will discover Cat Sith frozen threatens to ''kill Harry'' if he lets anything happen to Murphy, while in the Fountain again, being 'cured' of latter he allies himself with the Red Court just to make trouble for our heroes. Sure, it happened over eight books, but it's not a minor transition. Maybe he's just a cowardly JerkWithAHeartOfJerk, but what if someone is manipulating his Nemesis infection.mind, spotlighting his grudge like in Molly's example?
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[[WMG: Thomas is now possessed by an outsider parasite]]
In cold days at the moment where the posessed cat sith was in his apartment, Thomas said he would due cat sith a favor due to his rudeness. This seems innocent enough but if you reflect back on it after the discovery of Cat Sith being possessed himself, it means its very possible that the favor was called off screen before Cat Sith was killed and that Thomas is now an outsider puppet that will lie low and pop back up again in a few books.
* Cat Sith got possessed during the book, though, and there wasn't much time between when he was incommunicado due to being in the process of conversion and when he died.
* Moreover, we don't yet know ''how'' Nemesis gets into its victims. Not saying it's not possible it might be transmitted via indebtedness, just that it's a bit premature to make assumptions about when, how, or who it can get ahold of.
[[WMG: Rashid is really Merlin]]
In Cold Days, Bob shows a movie to make Harry understand Demonreach's problem. The depiction given of the Merlin fits the same description given about Rashid when you find out about the attacks on the outergates. Also we know that Rashid has a history on Demonreach and how he opens the portal there fits Bob's description on how Merlin opened a portal there.
* Bob explicitly says he doesn't know what Merlin looked like, and used [[StarWars Alec Guinness]] as a model.
* That aside, though, there's no reason this shouldn't be true. Rashid clearly knew [[spoiler:Demonreach's purpose, despite being the Gatekeeper rather than the warden, and presumably the Gatekeeper is granted immortality(age-wise) so he doesn't die of old age and leave the defenders up shit creek without a paddle.]] It does bring up the question of how he went from being [[spoiler:Warden]] to Gatekeeper, though.
[[WMG: Mavra has been after the collected works of Kemmler]]
And after ''Dead Beat'', with the acquisition of the ''Word'', she has them. Since the Black Court are very explicitly undead, and Kemmler was history's greatest necromancer, Mavra as a wizard-level magical talent can make use of his knowledge to, ah, ''improve'' her own kind- including perhaps getting around all the traditional vampire weaknesses the Black Court have. We haven't seen her since because she's been lying low and experimenting, but before everything is said and done she'll be back at the head of a small army of Uber-blamps. Whether she'll be allied with [[spoiler: Nemesis]] or on her own team remains to be seen.
[[WMG: Harry and [[spoiler:Rashid]] are now coworkers.]]
[[spoiler:Rashid's job:]] to keep the [[spoiler:Outsiders' foot soldiers from invading Reality]] and bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt[[TradeSnark (tm)]].
[[spoiler:Harry's job:]] to keep the Bad Things under [[spoiler:Demonreach.]] Presumably, at least one of said Bad Things is [[spoiler:a big badass of an Outsider.]] In fact, [[spoiler:Demonreach]] as much as says there are [[spoiler:outsiders in the prison.]]
[[spoiler:Harry and Rashid]] are going to team up in the future to help eachother out - this fits with [[spoiler:Rashid's]] "You ARE the help" line. [[spoiler:Harry]] is meant to help [[spoiler:Rashid]], and vice versa.
[[WMG: Mab captured [[PunnyName Cat NemeSith]] when Harry blew him into Lake Michigan.]]
Cat Sith is an important enforcer, and if there was any chance of saving him instead of giving Nemesis another buddy, Mab would probably take it. She needs every advantage she can get, after all, and she managed it with Harry. Some time in the next book, when Harry is at Arctis Tor, he will discover Cat Sith frozen in the Fountain again, being 'cured' of his Nemesis infection.
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[[WMG: The White Council traitor created the Hexenwulfen belts.]]
We know that [[spoiler: Peabody]] was something of an expert on the Wild Hunt and Erlking, because [[spoiler: he compiled a book about it]]. Making [[spoiler: mind-control inks and a living-mordite inkwell]] implies some skill at magic-item fabrication also. The Hexenwulf belts worked by transfiguring their wearers into canid forms and imbuing them with an overwhelming, malignant joy in hunting, fighting and killing. In ''Cold Days'', we learn that those who join the Wild Hunt are likewise transformed into hounds, and [[spoiler: Thomas's]] experience of having joined the Hunt in ''Dead Beat'' suggests they're permeated with a similar feeling of elated bloodlust. It was probably a simple matter for [[spoiler: Peabody]] to duplicate the Wild Hunt's recruitment-effect via the Hexenwulf belts, instilling the same predatory desire upon their wearers, while using wolf fur in their construction to ensure the resulting transformations would look lupine rather than canine.
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[[WMG: The Oblivion War was started by Rashid, or an earlier Gatekeeper, and uses non-Wizards because Wizards would break the Seventh Law of Magic simply by getting involved]]
* Jossed by ''Cold Days'', unless it was started for this purpose but was suborned later on. [[spoiler: It's the forces of Winter that have been defending the Outer Gates for thousands of years, and Thomas tells Bob that the Venatori had tried to ditch the faeries in "Backup".]]
* Alternately, there ''is'' no real "Oblivion War". Rather, the Venatori are being used by one faction or another to attack rival supernatural 'players', and that faction is using the notion of Oblivion to ensure that their cats-paws keep their activities completely secret.
[[WMG: Bob is He Who Walks Behind - or a piece of him]]
Bob is strong - scary strong. And as of ''Ghost Story'', we know that Bob [[Spoiler: can stay perfectly behind Harry, just like He Who Walks Behind]]. The skull could very well be somewhere between a RestrainingBolt or a [[KidWithTheRemoteControl leash]], and Evil Bob was damn eager to kill Harry when we first meet him in ''Dead Beat''.
* Harry has HWWB's shadow on him, which is how HWWB tracks and marks his prey - we learn this back in ''Storm Front''... don't you think its a bit serendipitous that Butters and Bob manage to find Harry in ''Ghost Story''?
[[WMG: Cowl is [[SamusIsAGirl Martha Liberty]]]]
Before you go wondering what the hell I've been smoking, bear with me. Cowl is obviously really powerful; Martha is on the Senior Council. Cowl was able to hit Harry through Little Chicago; Martha specializes in thaumaturgy, particularly for the use of information gathering (per [[WordOfGod Word of Jim]]), and is probably the only person who would be capable of pulling that off. Plus Jim has mentioned the fact that we've heard very little about Wizard Liberty is indicative of SOMETHING...
[[WMG: Who cares who wins in the Fomor infighting in Chicago?]]
* Because they're all ''fucked'' when Harry gets back.
[[WMG: Malcolm Dresden was murdered, and when Harry finds out and confronts who/what did it...]]
...He will say. [[ThePrincessBride "My name is Harry Dresden. You killed my father. Prepare to die."]]
Because it would be [[RuleOfCool that awesome]], and Harry is an incredibly pop cultured badass.
* And he'll say it in a poor imitation of Carlos' accent
[[WMG: The Black Council has been a Stealth Mentor for Harry this entire time]]
Possibly even being directed by Leanansidhe. Remember her methods of training Molly? Subject her to potentially lethal test after brutal potentially lethal test! Well, what has been happening to Harry for almost his entire life? Antagonists come out of seemingly nowhere, all of them seemingly insurmountable for Harry, but just barely defeatable when he stretches himself to the limit. They're setups, they're tests, they're intentionally lethal training sessions for the express purpose of forcing Harry to grow more powerful.
Victor Sells and the Hexenwulfen were deliberately chosen and trained for this purpose. After this, Harry had gotten too powerful to deal with minor talents created for the purpose of training Harry, so they began to manipulate events from behind the scenes to force Harry into conflicts that they knew he'd just barely be capable of surviving. This would necessitate Mab herself either being in league with the Black Council, or manipulated by it. I'm not sure which option is better.
* I opt for the notion that the Black Council is out to get Harry, there might be an infiltrator that is on Harry's side that's manipulating the Council into giving Harry just enough that he can handle.
[[WMG: If the woman in a coma Marcone is taking care of is really dead (ie: her soul has moved on) even if her body still works, then Lash will wind up with it.]]
It seems like an empty body would be a perfect host for a spirit, and if she's dead for all spiritual purposes then it's even morally acceptable. Plus it would make an enemy of Marcone for a time, and we've never seen him really go after Dresden.
[[WMG: Odin is Santa Claus, aka the Winter King.]]
WordOfGod already says that Santa Claus is stupidly powerful and the counterpart to the Erlking, and that Harry wouldn't even think of summoning him. The All-Seeing Eye, he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. This also explains how he's still able to operate when many gods are hibernating; while there's enough pagan faith to keep his serious demeanor; he's able to multi-task the Santa Claus legend to bolster his power.
* Not so wild as you might think, since this is pretty much built into Santa Claus by default. Santa Claus is derived from an amalgamation of folkloric figures, many of which come more or less directly from Odin. Still, Odin played it a little straightforward with Harry during their meeting, so its hard to imagine him as a Sidhe. (Compare Odin's demeanor with, say, the Erlking)
** Multi-Tasking. He's a NinjaPirateRobotZombie; doing a balancing act between his deity status, his Fey-lord status, and being Santa Claus.
* If he is Santa he is not the Winter King. The RPG rule book holds Santa as the leader of a Wild Court on par with the Erlking.
** See the Headscratchers page for the series. Santa is the Winter King, ''and'' leader of a Wild Court on par with the Erlking (who is the Summer King). It's complicated.
** Actually, in one of the books, the one where Harry is almost sold on Ebay, states that the Erlking is a Winter Fae. He is leading the other Winter Fae to attack Harry when Harry melts the fountain thing with Summer's Butterfly.
*** That'd be ''Proven Guilty''. And I always saw that as the Erlking either tagging along with the Winter Fae or trying to keep them from stealing his kills. Wasn't his only appearance his horn blowing, anyway?
* The Erkling and Santa Claus are the leaders of the Wyldfae, each analogous to Titania and Mab. Erkling is the Wyld Summer King and Santa is the Wyld Winter King. This information is the [[WordOfGod Word Of Jim]]. He explained it at either a book signing or a convention that someone recorded and I watched online.
** This has FridgeBrilliance implications, if you consider the types of minions the Erlking and Santa respectively have. The Erlking leads the goblins and packs of predatory creatures, which are rather nasty beings by Summer standards ... hence, a perfect choice to be Wyldfae, left outside Summer's formal hierarchy. With Santa, it's just the opposite: the ''nicer'' creatures of Winter hang around at the North Pole (or its Nevernever reflection) with him, staying Wyld and avoiding the political snake-pit that is Mab's Winter Court.
* [[IKnewIt Pretty much confirmed as of ''Cold Days''.]]
[[WMG: Harry and Thomas have more siblings out there.]]
Way back in ''Fool Moon'', Harry's Demon Informant all but directly states that Harry has family out there. Later, ''in Death Masks'', Nicodemus states that Harry is his mother's "youngest" child. In the next book, we find out that Thomas is his older brother. However, you don't use youngest and oldest in a set of two, implying that Harry and Thomas have at least one older sibling.
* Can we really trust a Fallen, though? Furthermore, it's not always incorrect to use "oldest" and "youngest" in a set of two, especially "oldest", and especially when the actual set size is left vague. This editor is his mother's parents' oldest male grandchild, and there are only two male grandchildren.
* Considering the fact that we aren't entirely sure how old Margaret Le Fay really is (only that she's young enough to have been tutored in magic by a guy who fought in the French and Indian war and fathered by him, but that doesn't really add any significant minimum considering how old [=McCoy=] is), or if she's had any less emotionally-invested relationships than with Malcolm Dresden apart from Lord Raith, Harry could easily be a seventh. A whole mess of volatile power combined with living for probably at least a while before decent non-magical medicine and having something to do with [[TheFairFolk the Fae]] could account for five children (death by being born, bartered/stolen [possibly as part of a deal to ''prevent'' any death occurring during the birth], living in the Nevernever with the other parent, etc.).
** Not to be crude, but we know from Luccio's remarks that female wizards' extended lifespan does not entail much extension of their child-bearing years. Margaret [=LeFay=] couldn't have been born back in the 18th or 19th centuries, because her ovaries would've shut down long before Thomas or Harry were conceived.
* I'm betting on at least one changeling sibling; she's called "Le Fay" for a reason, after all. I'm also betting on a brother named Richard.
*** Tom, Dick...and Harry. Oh God. If Margaret was anything like her sons it's possible.
* Combining this with the "Johnny Marcone isn't his real name" theory elsewhere on this page, I'm going to have to suggest that Marcone is yet another lost brother. Margaret just didn't leave a message in his head for Harry...though there's no saying she didn't leave one in Harry's head for Marcone. Maybe why he hasn't had our beloved wizard killed yet?
** Jossed, Jim has adamantly stated that Harry has NO OTHER [[ExactWords SIBLINGS]] ([[JediTruth emphasis his]]).
[[WMG: Why the Leanansidhe is on the outs with Mab]]
Mab purchased Harry's debt from the Leanansidhe. When Lea's year and a day was up, she intended to enslave Harry anyways, debt or no debt (after all, she does care deeply for Harry, even if in an insane psycho Sidhe way). Her increased status given by the (thus unnamed) athame gave her a minor chance of coming out victorious in the matter, thus Mab pre-emptively froze her in a block of ice until Harry's debt to Mab was paid in full.
* Also, that athame drove the Leanansidhe insane, and is doing the same to Mab who thought (wrongly) that she could control it.
** Maybe it's like the 30 Denarii, the question is what/who is inside it? While the nickleheads can dominate a mortal, the Leanansidhe and Mab are among the strongest willed beings in the books to date. Maybe it's Satan inside a reworked spear, maybe once held by a soldier by the name of Longinus.
*** A spearhead could be reworked into a dagger pretty easily. Furthermore it would tie into the whole [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Apocalyptic Trilogy Ending]] Butcher has planned. Ol' Scratch was bound to show up sooner or later.
* Alternatively, Lea's on the outs because she thought the Antheme would give her enough power to usurp Mab, and she was crazy for the same reason that every other winterfae went crazy, Harry used Summer Fire in the heart of winter, which being the inherent opposite power drove the winterfae into a frenzy, Lea included. Given that this all unfolded in the wake of Tessa and the Black Council attacking Arcis Tor, it's highly possible that Lea is/was either a member or agent of the Black Council and the whole thing was one large coup attempt.
* As of ''Changes'', Lea is back in favor. She is out from under the mountain of ice and Mab refers to Lea as her handmaiden.
* Or as the books say, Lea is on the outs because she thought the Antheme gave her enough power to face That Which Stalks Us All. Which given it's name is probably an Outsider sealed away in the Never Never. Needless to say it didn't work and Mab had to smack Lea down hard. Hence why Mab was ''curing'' Lea as opposed to punishing her.
** "That Which Stalks Us All", to me it seems a very pretty way to refer to Death, or an Outsider claiming a similiar title? "He Who Walks Behind" also carries similiar connotations, maybe Lea all this time was trying to kill yet another thing gunning for Harry's head?
* In ''Cold Days'', it's revealed that [[spoiler: Lea had been infected by [[TheCorruption Nemesis]], which turned her against Mab. Mab figured it out, and on some level Lea was resisting, which made her curable, so Mab froze her up as a means to drain Nemesis out of her. In ''Proven Guilty'' she was only halfway cured, hence her being rather bipolar when Harry talks to her. By the later books, she's back to normal, and thus is back to being Mab's handmaiden and second-in-command]].
[[WMG: Harry's headaches are residue from Lash's death]]
Murphy says that even if a real friend took a bullet for him, he would probably go loopy for a while, let alone an imaginary one in his head, but he experiences none of these side effects. It makes me think she hid the effects, but she couldn't have hid them for forever. She probably hid some knowledge too. It makes me think these things will come back to haunt him. I like the idea of lash growing back too.
* This Troper personally took them to be from the brain damage caused by Lash's death in the first place. If not that, then perhaps residual damage from Mab's messing with it in ''Small Favor.''
** Probably a mixture of these, especially since Butters confirmed that, when Lash kicked it, she took a major part of Harry's brain with her. Either Butters or Bob did this.
** The sheer number of supernatural entities who have gone prowling through Harry's psyche, starting with Molly and working up to Mab and Uriel, I think the man is entitled to have the occasional migraine.
** This Troper seems to recall reading a statement by Butcher that we haven't seen the last of Lasciel. Take as you will.
*** He has said this about ''both'' Lasciel the Fallen and Lash the shadow on different occasions. Remember what they say about a woman scorned.
** Remember, wizards cells make perfect copies. Presumably, this happens even with brain cells, which just die in normal humans. The Headaches are from his body making perfect copies of something that just isn't supposed to do that, even more so than everything else.
* The first time Harry complained of an ache in his head was after receiving his mother's "insight," which looked suspiciously like the gem of knowledge she left with Lea we saw in ''Changes''. He always says that acquiring knowledge has a price. Could be a contributing factor.
** This Troper remembers at least two mentions of them in ''Turn Coat'', before Harry was given his inheritance.
* ''Cold Days'' confirms that the headaches are being caused by [[spoiler: a "parasite" that will kill Harry unless it's removed. No word on if it's Lash or not, though.]]
[[WMG: The headaches are an early sign of Harry's precognition.]]
And also an indicator of how powerful it'll be.
* Jossed. See above.
[[WMG:Mac is Merlin]]
THE Merlin. Original. And we will find out when Harry asks him to store Amoracchius for a while, and he makes some cryptic comment about deja vu.
* ...no. Checking Celtic Mythology strongly suggests Mac is the minor Celtic god Accasbel, founder of the first pub in Ireland and a deity of wine, beer and mead. Which explains why his brews taste divine.
** Mac is Uriel.
** Jossed in ''Cold Days'' because Mac continually said he was "out". Uriel is still very active.
[[WMG: Ancient Mai is going to be revealed as a dragon]]
* Hey, it's Wild, right? But why introduce this only in the TV show? Even moreso than Bob, there's no reason for it! Plus, they set up for Bianca's hatred for Dresden...So they were TRYING!
** But why introduce this only in the TV show? Does it really need to be asked?
** Okay, yeah. Just about Jossed: http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,11473.msg494075.html#msg494075
** New assumption? Allows her to be 'ancient' while having a young actor.
*** Okay, my idiocy has been uber-jossed: http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,2033.msg41636.html#msg41636
[[WMG:Margaret Le Fay was a changeling]]
Possibly planted specifically with Ebenezer as part of a plot by Mab or Titania or even the older Queens. Treating being a changeling as ending up some sort of strange blend of faerie and human, because she's born a faery and raised to be human, it would explain
* her name - she changed it from [=McCoy=] to Le Fay when she found out.
* how she was a "wizard" in the first place - it's explicitly stated that magic is passed down from the mother, but WordOfGod said Margaret's mother was a plain vanilla mortal. "Mother" could mean "biological mother"...or it could mean "woman who raised her".
** Actually, I believe it was said that magic "usually" passes down through the maternal bloodline, but didn't have to be. I could be incorrect and I can't find the passage in ''Proven Guilty'' regarding it, aside from his comment to Michael, where he's likely covering for Charity. But I recall there being another, more specific conversation about it.
** If magic were ''only'' inherited from the mother, Uriel wouldn't have made that "even a wizard's lifetime" comment about Maggie in ''Ghost Story''.
* her proclivity for working with fairies - that deal with Lea.
* her status as a sort of outcast, exploring the Nevernever alone - changelings are often not really accepted by either humans nor faeries.
* her questionable morals - have you met any faeries recently?
* the "special circumstances" surrounding Harry's birth that give him whatever Outsider-related power he is revealed to have. The son of a changeling and a human? That's gotta be rare.
* Kincaid's "human as you are" comment.
Really, the question is not so much whether or not she was a changeling, but how many people knew.
** No, the question is "Do we know of any cases where Harry's mother told an outright lie?". Because if she did, she can't be fay.
*** No, the question is still "How many people knew?" because nobody ever said CHANGELINGS can't tell lies. Fey can't, but Changelings can - at least, they can until they Choose. Assuming Margaret never chose, or chose Human, she still could have lied. In fact, she all but had to have never Chosen or stayed human, because if she'd Chosen and become a Fey, Harry would be a changeling. Based off our experience with Changelings so far, Harry's as much a changeling as Murphy.
[[WMG: Luccio likes, perhaps even prefers, the girls.]]
* Which would deepen her confusion and frustration after that whole brainwashing with the killing and the hot monkey sexing thing. And it'd make "I saw you dance in Naples" a ''lot'' more interesting...
** I took the "I saw you dance in Naples," thing that way, as in yes, Luccio has played for both teams, all across the field, down the court and possibly some street hockey. "Your tastes used to run differently," indeed.
*** Ditto. I was stunned that this was actually in here: it's not ambiguous, it's nearly out-and-out stated.
**** Welcome to WMG: Where most people have only skimmed the books before coming up with stupid theories.
[[WMG: Harry's father was someone special]]
Maggy thought that he was some nice normal guy, a really dumb move in this world. Also, they've played out Harry's moms side of the family, and if they want to get another child, why not throw in someone from the other side of the park? Also, it would be awesome.
* Why does it HAVE to be someone special? It's been intimated she ran away from the Dark Powers and met one of the truly nice people in the world and fell in love. Ever thought of that?
** All things considered, that alone is enough to render Dresden, Sr. someone special.
* Don't forget that Kincaid, who is probably half-something-else, once says that Harry is "as human as he is."
*** There is very little that we know about Malcolm Dresden. What we do know comes from Ebenezar (who has hidden the truth from Harry on multiple occasions) and from Harry's memories and dreams. He died when Harry was very young. (Six years old, IIRC) Not to say that Harry's an UnreliableNarrator, but memories are sketchy stuff, especially a six year old's. There's no proof that Malcolm Dresden had any magic abilities, (if Ebenezar is to be trusted, but then again he's already lied multiple times to Harry) but there's also no proof for the opposite. He could have had magic, but it simply withered away like Charity's did. Hell, for all we know he could be a changeling who chose to be mortal (which might account for the 'as human as Kincaid' bit).
*** Just how trustworthy is Kincaid, anyway? In one scene in Blood Rites, he says "I'm as human as you are", but in that very same scene, he also claims to be a vanilla mortal. Which is a lie. Who's to say he didn't lie about the "as human as Harry" part?
[[WMG: Harry is more attractive then he lets on.]]
Harry is the only person to ever consider himself unattractive, and its not out of character to practice SelfDeprecation, and it'd be weird for him to gaze into his reflection and stare, spellbound. Also Harry has an enormous amount of women falling for him, yes they admire him because he's a good man, or he's devious, or they want to manipulate him, but some of that must be do to good old fashioned sex appeal, and he managed to wrangle a date out of a preinformed Susan. And you'd think if he was a fugly as he let on, somebody would call him on it. Oh, and who's ever heard of an ugly hero?
* He doesn't say he's ugly. He says he's less pretty than Thomas. ''Everyone'' is less pretty than Thomas. Jokes about his appearance are nearly always in a Thomas-related context. And I think it's more that Susan wrangled a date out of ''him''...
* If the cover of the books are any indication, then Harry is obviously quite attractive. Also, the way he describes himself probably stems from lack of self confidence due to his lack of social skills. AccentuateTheNegative
** He's not bad-looking in the comics, which WordOfGod says capture him spot on.
* In the novelette 'Aftermath,' Murphy describes Dresden as other vanilla mortals see him, and as he appears while . Typically, he holds his limbs in close, moving with 'the exaggerated caution of someone who was several sizes larger than normal' and speaks softly, 'as if apologizing for the resonant baritone of his voice.' This, combined with his avoidance of eye contact because he doesn't want to soulgaze dudes causes him to come off as quiet and somewhat autistic. Contrast that with his full wizard mode where he just sort of ''unfolds'' and starts shouting Latin and throwing fireballs everywhere. Murphy herself feels completely threatened by how dangerous he is- to the point where she describes her gut reaction to that level of threat as 'kill it, immediately.' Of course, in the next paragraph she woefully laments not getting to hit that before the end of Changes.
* Being in the business of a wizard hero saving the world on a semi-regular basis, Harry has acquired many allies and some [[FriendlyEnemy friendly enemies]] over the years, many of them female. Being the chivalrous if old-fashioned powerhouse who won't hesitate to put his life on the line for doing the right thing that he is, not to mention having good-standing relations with most if not all of the said female colleagues, it isn't hard to imagine a lot of them liking him for more than professional reasons.
** Case in point, when Lara thought that she and Harry would surely parish when the explosives were about to go off near the end of "White Night", she kissed him with a burning passion unseen before, even before Harry finished telling her why the kissing would be relevant in securing their bodies coming out whole. Another example would be the subtle (the fireplace at his apartment) and not-so-subtle (the laundry room scene) moves Anastasia put on Harry throughout "Small Favour", and even though we later (regrettably) find out that the attraction was supposed to be purely based on mind control, it is absurd to think that she would do so without at least thinking of him as more than a capable and heroic warden after the many grim situations they had faced together.
[[WMG: Harry using CanisLatinicus for his spells was [[ThePlanned planned]] by Justin.]]
[=DuMorne=] figured that if Harry managed to become strong enough (both will and magic) to defeat him without using any BlackMagic himself (maybe [[ContinuityNod get Bob]] [[TelevisionSeries on his side]]), he would pretty much be up for a spot on the White Council. Having to converse in Latin within official White Council meetings, and without the constraint and finesse that Elaine had, Harry would stand a decent chance of accidentally frying the entire council the first time he had to report on a Pyromancer while stressed (and who wouldn't be stressed when in front of 200-some-odd enforcers of the Doom of Damocles and their guards?).
* Potentially jossed: ''Changes'' seems to indicate that he picked up his tendency to use Dog Latin for incantations from Ebenezar [=McCoy=], since he's shown using such incantations himself (even using Harry's signature "Fuego").
** Farther jossed by a flashback in ''Ghost Story''; Harry only manages to light a candle when he comes up with his own incantation "Flickum bicus" as opposed to him trying to use Justin's "Sedjet".
*** Not only that, but it reveals that Harry adopted "Fuego!" because he was taking Spanish class at the time he first used that effect. If anything, Ebenezer probably picked up "Fuego" ''from Harry'', perhaps because it's quicker to say than whatever he'd used prior to that.
** Except that wasn't [=McCoy=], but a random voice from the Gray Council.
*** Mix this with the Gatekeeper = Future Harry WMG from above, and assume he is one of the Gray Council and was at the battle at Chichen Itza in Changes - and that was Harry himself using his own signature spell in the background.
*** More likely one of the BigBads of a future book time travels to this fight to try and change the outcome, and Future!Harry comes back too to oppose them.
*** Or one of the younger wizards who [[strike: thinks]] realizes Harry's badass incarnate is using Harry's incantation as a sign of respect.
*** Or, you know, one of the mooks ordering the other mooks to fire. Harry does say that immediately after hearing somebody scream "fuego", people started firing weapons. They are in Latin America, after all.
*** The quote isn't someone in robes, it was someone "on the wall." And, as per several people on the Dresden forums, "Fuego" is, in fact, the Spanish word for "fire" as in "Ready, aim..." So that seems to be it.
[[WMG: Cowl is actually Harry from the future.]]
They are the only two characters to use the phrase "Thrice will I ask and done," unusual given that both tend to speak more casually otherwise. They both have huge amounts of power, are willing to dip into dark magic for the greater good, tend not to bother explaining themselves in a crisis, favor escapes and entrances via the Nevernever, [[MurderArsonAndJaywalking and like long black garments]]. And why would Butcher have mentioned Thou Shalt Not Walk Through Time if it were never coming up?
* And The Gatekeeper is both of them in the future. He's only allowed to time travel in order to help his past self stop his less-past self, and keep things happening in order. Kumori is a post-HeroicBSOD Molly, who provides disguise for all three-ish of them and is trying to keep Cowl from going full darkside. The time travel is how and why she revived that exact person.
** Why do people think the Gatekeeper is Harry from the future? That makes no sense. One, the Gatekeeper is a little Indian guy, not a tall white guy. Two, Harry has never shown any ability with time magic. Three, I don't think he could have lasted on the White Council. Harry himself stated that he was not so subtle and quick to anger, the gatekeeper is the exact opposite.
*** "Little Indian Guy"? You're probably thinking of Listens To Winds. Rashid is middle eastern and is the only guy taller than Harry. Still no obvious connection.
**** He's taller? My bad, well, even though it is possible, i don't quite see how. Fer instance, he's taller, and he is Indian, and I mean Asian indian, not native Indian, major physical differences. But, because i'm such a good sport, here is my argument from the other side: Maybe that salve that lets people see through veils is some kind of time paradox. The reason the gatekeeper has it is because he gave it to harry and Harry eventually got better at making it.
***** The Dresden Files wiki describes Rashid as being Middle Eastern with an English accent.
***** He occasionally uses expressions consistent with a Muslim upbringing, too.
** Molly or Thomas will end up raising this point in a future book as a joke, and while this wont be true, Cowl will hear about it and attempt to convince Harry of it as a way to give him a headache.
** Why would Cowl (future Harry) need the instructions to summon the Erlking? Harry had already committed the ritual to memory and had performed it once. Unlikely he would forget something as important as this and need to go attack his past self to get the book.
*** Cowl and Kumori were the only necromancers who ''weren't'' looking to claim the book, only to prevent their rivals from finding it. At least, that's what Cowl claimed, and Kumori's suggesting that Harry simply destroy it rather than hand it over suggests it's true. (Of course, if Cowl's in the Black Council, he wouldn't need the book because [[spoiler: the author, Peabody, is also a Black Council member and could just ''tell'' him the instructions if necessary]]. So this doesn't ''prove'' whether or not he's Harry.)
* A little more evidence: at the end of ''White Night'', Harry calls Cowl "Darth Bathrobe". Remind me, what did Harry wear to the Council meeting in ''Summer Knight''...?
** And yet he never comments on Cowl or Kumori being very tall, even though he routinely mentions if a person is of above- or below-average height when he describes them. Both he and Molly are very tall, enough-so that you'd think he'd have said something about if Cowl and Kumori were, too.
*** Well, Kumori is at least tall enough to comfortably hold Dresden with a knife to his throat, and Harry's gigantic.
* I don't actually think this is true, but to entertain the notion... Harry is above all famous for giving a tremendous amount of snark to anything and everything he encounters. After being called 'Dark Master of Evil Bathrobes' and asked for a name, doesn't responding 'Call me Cowl' seem like the trademark Dresden snark rendered dryer by age and necromancy?
* Or Molly is in fact Kumori. Following Dresden as Cowl isn't too far out of the picture for Molly, given her crush for Dresden and Molly's habit of breaking the laws of magic. Also Kumori is a Japanese sounding name, and what language does Molly use for her spells again?
** further supported (in this troper's opinion) by Kumori's name: Molly Carpenter said with a Japanese accent=Mori Carpenter. Switch the names around to proper Japanese order and it's Carpenter Mori. Take the first name to just an initial and it's C.Mori. Said phonetically...
** According to the RPG, Kumori is Japanese for "cloudy." Hmm, cloudy as in concealment, as in veils, as in Molly's specialty...
*** Doesn't Molly cast in Japanese?
*** On the other hand, "cloudy" also implies "gloomy", which isn't a bad choice of alias for a not-so-psycho necromancer in any case.
* Borrowing the Alpha Timeline concept from Homestuck, the Gatekeeper and Cowl could both be Harry. From different timelines. Cowl is from a timeline where things went wrong, very wrong. Cowl may even be a Harry that accepted every dark deal, bargain owed, etc. Kumori is much kinder as she is Cowl's Molly who followed into the past. When they encounter Harry, she is reminded of her old Harry before whatever went wrong happened.
** Expanding upon this. Cowl is Harry gone down a dark path in one timeline, come back deciding he needs to go even darker to make it work this time. Gatekeeper is from a timeline where he was less of a wild card? He fought Demonreach in that timeline, in this one Harry made it his sanctuary. So that is why Rashid was surprised.
[[WMG: Harry was born on Demonreach.]]
That would explain the familiarity he feels the first time he goes there, and maybe account for the "circumstances" Lash mentions surrounding his birth.
* I agree that Demonreach had at least something to do with Harry's birth. Though what he knows about the island (the bad step, the back door getting stuck in the rain...) the first time he arrives is to much for just some old vague memories. The only explanation for that is that the genius loci was letting him access it's intelectuce before he made a pact with it, which makes this theory even more likely.
** This was explained in the book, as Harry's precognitive abilities (which all wizards develop to some degree) beginning to awaken.
* I reckon Demonreach has something to do with Maggie Sr.
[[WMG: Harry ''is'' Demonreach.]]
Metaphorically, he's somewhere between the [=Lash/Lasciel=] situation, and the vaguely symbiotic thing that I assume happens when a person below a certain mental age becomes a Denarian and grows past that age.[[hottip:* : To clarify, that is the human developing a dependency on having another being inside its head since the human had a fully functional mentality with eidetic memory uploaded to its head before it was itself very developed, and the Fallen's shadow getting used to having another pert of "itself" that would disappear if the human part died. Sort of like having a computer with an extremely simple OS for its computing power, loading a much more complex program, and then adjusting the code as you use it to eventually reach a point where the complex program effectively works as an operating system for the computer, and you could install it in a new computer or remove the original OS, but the complex program would become extremely erratic. This is also known as The GNU Emacs Effect.]]
[[WMG: Thomas wasn't nearly as shaken by the events of ''Turn Coat'' as was suggested and was faking his FaceHeelTurn to become a spy in the White Court ]]
Spoilers for ''Turn Coat'' & ''Changes''. At the end of ''Turn Coat'', it was suggested that the tortures Thomas suffered at the hands of the Skin-Walker had caused him to completely give into his Demon, turning completely amoral save where Justine was concerned. But in ''Changes'', Thomas is willing to help Harry out even BEFORE he finds out that his own life may be at risk. And he tries (and succeeds for a time) in resisting the obvious charms of a more than willing Molly Carpenter as he's bleeding to death. He even tries to warn her away from him. This suggests that Thomas wasn't as badly warped as he said in ''Turn Coat'' and that he may be playing up his dark side taking over in order to get back into the good graces of Lara and The White Court.
* I thought the same thing! During ''Changes'', while he does act more savage at times, he does resemble the old Thomas. So that's interesting. Grey Council spy, perhaps?
** Possibly. But for that to be true... hmmm... that gives me an idea! (See Below)
* In ''Changes'', Thomas's eyes were completely blue. The sign of a well-fed white vampire. (It greys out as they get hungry)
* Well duh. Seriously, readers have to be as dense as Harry to miss this. Thomas practically spells it out multiple times. That said, he's still being much more White-Court-y than he used to be, and is feeding again. He may not have lost his moral compass, but he's certainly buried it under a heavy layer of rationalization.
* My theory, from below: Read what he says carefully. All he decided to do was go back to playing ball with the other Raiths. He said that he was tired of playing mortal. He specifically stated he wasn't going to kill anyone, and clearly kept his scorn of vampires. Yes, he attacked Molly, but he'd just been brutally tortured. He was in a Hunger-Frenzy. During ''Changes'', he's had the time to cool down. Thus, he's back to normal, if still hanging with the family.
[[WMG: Ebenezar [=McCoy=] is aware of Thomas and that he is Harry's brother.]]
* We find out near the end of ''Changes'' that Harry's mother - Margaret [=Lefay=] - was [=McCoy=]'s daughter and, therefore, Harry is [=McCoy=]'s grandson. When [=McCoy=] confirms this, he tells Harry about how at some point in the past Margaret came to him along with Lord Raith of the White Court, so he obviously knew about their relationship. Odds are that if he knows THAT much and knew that Harry was his grandson this whole time, he probably kept tabs on any other children that were born of his line.
* [=McCoy=] is also clever enough to have put two and two together as to what it would take for someone as naturally distrustful as Harry to partner up with a White Court vampire on a regular basis.
* He definitely acts like he doesn't know in ''Turn Coat'', but then again it's not like he hasn't lied to Harry before. [[WordOfGod Word of Jim]] says that Harry doesn't know either way, and if [=McCoy=] did know, it would be "very bad" for Thomas. On a related note, who else knows about Harry and Thomas? Remember that Luccio found out while she was under the influence of the Black Council. It might have gotten back to anyone without her even knowing.
[[WMG:Mab has ulterior motives for trying to get Harry to become Winter Knight.]]
She doesn't really seem to like him much, but has been obsessive in her pursuit of him and only him as Knight, even though it upsets the power balance of faerie, and not in her favor. This started even before he'd really started [[TookALevelInBadass getting more powerful]], when there were presumably more dangerous people who would be easier to tempt, so she probably wants Harry for some special reason, possibly a unique ability he doesn't know about/think matters.
* Probably for his child. After all, sleeping with him is the first thing she did, and Maeve has been getting a bit uppity. Hello New Winter Lady.
** [[spoiler: Jossed by ''Cold Days''. Mab already ''had'' a candidate for new Winter Lady available in Sarissa, Maeve's still-mortal twin sister. And later, a backup candidate trained by Lea: Molly.]]
* If by "before he'd really started [[TookALevelInBadass getting more powerful]]", you mean that he had managed to sneak through an army, disable several of Summer's strongest warriors and then ''kill a fairy Lady'', the first time anyone had managed that in centuries, then yeah. He was weak enough to single-handedly devastate Mab's archrivals at that point. It's not like that's one of the main skills she'd want in her Knight. There must be another reason for her to chase him.
** It's been stated that the Knights tend to not last that long. Consider what Harry's ''been through.'' Victor Sells, werewolves, the Nightmare, the Summer Lady, Nicodemus (TWICE), do you really need me to re-list the {{big bad}}s? Harry can beat opponents way out of his weight class. And that's when Harry was running off good old Human-level magic. Add to the damn near [[DragonBall super Saiyan]] strength of the Winter Knight? You've got yourself a OneManArmy, right under Mab's personal control. As of ''Changes'', she's holding the reigns on one of the most potent destructive weapons in the Dresdenverse, and what she has said (via Lea) flat out states that she's going to flick those reigns, point her finger, and yell "giddy up."
*** That, and Harry seemingly has an endless supply of sheer dumb luck, and Mab wants to capitalize.
*** Except that Harry isn't the type to respect authority and the chain of command. [[spoiler: Especially given Uriel's Seven Words.]]
** We know that Harry has power over Outsiders which, while unspecified, required a large number of factors to coincide (requiring a presumably equivalent number of GambitRoulettes by his mother) to acquire. Margaret 'Le Fey' Dresden hung out with the fairy courts, Maab learned what she was up to, and wanted to capitalize on someone else's hard work.
* ''Cold Days'' shows that [[spoiler: Winter provides the bulk of the troops that man the Outer Gates and protect reality from Outsiders. Though it's not outright stated, Harry's ability to have power over and against Outsiders therefore looks like the primary reason Mab would want him on her side]].
*** Add to that, [[spoiler:Harry refuses to bow to Mab, giving her two threats to her life in a matter of minutes. Mab's response? Happy with Harry's actions. She wants a Knight who thinks for himself and would not follow one side blindly. and, if need be, kill her if she became infected with Nemesis.]]
[[WMG: Nicodemus is Judas Iscariot.]]
He's treacherous, understands the Denarii better than anyone, and has Judas' noose. Clearly, after hanging himself, Judas gave up his last shreds of virtue by cutting the noose (and act of turning from grace so potent it allowed Satan to interact with the world for a moment, enchanting the Noose), then chose one of his demon-infested coins to bond with and spread the rest around the world.
* Seems unlikely, the 30 pieces of silver are supposed to either be, or represent, the 30 pieces Judas got. There's no way the Denarians were bound in their coins at that point in time. If Nicodemus ''is'' Judas, the coins predate the whole 30 pieces of silver thing. And in that case, there could be ''far'' more than just 30 Denarians.
** Why would that be the case. Judas is given the coins, then sells out Christ, which grants the opening for 30 Fallen to enter said coins, then goes to hang himself... the timeline works out.
*** Because simply betraying Christ wasn't enough? The Blackened Denarius's were created through powerful magic, they didn't just spontaneously become fallen-angel-filled-coins. A lot of the ritual probably relied on the betrayal, but it wasn't enough to have happened ''just'' from that.
**** No, but that doesn't rule anything out. Think of it this way; the Devil is looking to capitalize on Jesus' sacrifice, and finds that the way it is to play out works well in his favor. Judas is given the coins, which are then used for the ritual on the basis of him being given potentially the most powerful of all the Fallen. He'll have little need for thirty silver pieces with that kind of power, which accounts for them all being taken from him. So, ritual goes through, which involves said cutting and turning from grace, which has the added benefit of laying the power over the noose. In this case, things click rather well.
[[WMG: Nicodemus' "companions" are mostly failures among the Order Of Denarians.]]
The most dangerous Fallen we've seen him give to another was Lasciel, who was not among his usual escort. Those who were consist of Deirdre (actually competent, probably kept around as security/Nick's squeeze), Ursiel (mocked by the other Denarians), and Siluriel (by all accounts the weakest Denarian we've seen in single combat).Nick's movements seem like a sure lodestone of the Knights Of The Cross - Nicodemus' greatest allies stay distant from him, to be less observed.
* Not necessarily. It's been confirmed repeatedly that most of the Denarians do not get along very well. Nicodemus has his group of 4-8 or so, Tessa has her group of 6-10. That leaves almost a third of the order unaccounted for. We know they don't work together well, if at all, as pointed out by Forthill when Harry brings up Lasciel. Lasciel and Nicodemus work at cross purposes much of the time. It's entirely possible that the 'missing' Denarians have their own plots going on, or that they're just not very evil at all.
[[WMG: Ivy's father has already appeared or been mentioned.]]
I'd like him to be a plain vanilla mortal, maybe even Butters because that would amuse the hell out of me, but he could be almost anyone in the whole huge male cast. Except Harry, because that would just be silly at this point.
[[WMG: Harry's grandmother was one of the Summer Court, maybe even one of the Queens.]]
No reference has been made to Margaret's mother, and that can't just be omission. Margaret was familiar with the Fae and even went by the name "[=LeFay=]". Harry's favorite element is fire, and it would give Mab a hell of a reason to want him, specifically, as Winter Knight...
* Might explain why Harry's met every queen besides Titania...
* Nope. Jim said that Harry's maternal Grandmother was a plain old vanilla mortal.
** Where did his nonhuman heritage came from, then? Kincaid says that he's as human as Harry, and Kincaid is definitely part nonhuman.
** Yeah, either Jim's got his facts mixed up, or he's [[LyingCreator lying.]] That would explain why Mab wants him so badly. What better way to stick it to your mortal nemesis than getting one of her descendants to be your right hand man? Totally something Mab would do.
*** Or Kincaid was lying. Why would Kincaid tell Dresden the truth? The truth of Kincaid's lineage could easily lead to finding a ''weakness'' of Kincaid's, so if anything Kincaid's going to take every opportunity to insist he's just a plain old human.
* In ''Cold Days'' [[spoiler: Harry meets Titania, and if he has any Summer heritage whatsoever, she doesn't acknowledge it]].
[[WMG: Harry is descended from Merlin.]]
Those journals that Ebenezar had during ''Turn Coat''? They weren't just passed down from master to apprentice. As Ebenezar was Harry's grandfather, and also taught Harry's mother, it's possible that his family has a tradition of master and apprentice being parent and child. Since the earliest journals in Ebenezar's collection belong to Merlin, that would mean that Ebenezar (and by extension, Harry) are descended from him. Plus, all those links made between Harry and Merlin have to mean ''something''.
[[WMG: Odin and Rashid are the same person]]
I don't know the trope name for it, but it seems like sloppy narrative to have two characters in the same story who both call out to the Odin myth by being one-eyed humorous precog badasses who help out the protagonist when necessary. Either Odin is pretending to be Rashid, or vice versa.
* Or Rashid employed the same ritual Odin himself had used to ''acquire'' those precognitive powers, which required each of them to forfeit an eye at Mimir's Well as per Norse myth.
** Made ''exceedingly unlikely'', though not completely impossible, by Cold Days. [[spoiler: Odin, as Kringle, is involved in the battle at Demonreach, while Rashid was at the Outer Gates. The only way he could really have done both is if the Mothers inverted the time ratio between the mortal world and the Outer Gates, so Rashid could participate in the Demonreach battle and only miss a couple seconds of the Outer Gates battle. While ''Proven Guilty'' demonstrated it is under the control of the Queens, if they could do it with regularity you'd expect them to abuse it to no end, compressing the battle when there's trouble elsewhere limiting reinforcements and expanding it when everything is going smoothly. They're having far too much trouble there for that to be likely.]]
[[WMG: Demonreach is (or used to be) an Outsider.]]
This would explain why he would have crossed paths with the Gatekeeper (taking on Outsiders is basically his ''job description''), and why everyone is all WTF about Harry taking the island as a Sanctum. It would also explain why Harry was even ''capable'' of taking it as a Sanctum: its GeniusLoci is an Outsider, and Harry has some undefined power for the express purpose of whooping Outsider ass.
* Demonreach is a [[spoiler: prison of wizard making.]]
* No reason why both can't be true. [[spoiler: The prison was made by Merlin]] but who better to [[spoiler: guard Outsiders and other nastiness than one of their own? Clearly, Merlin created the prison, and summoned Demonreach to guard it, since only Outsiders would be immune to Nemesis.]]
[[WMG: Justin [=DuMorne=] is Cowl]]
Yeah, yeah, Jim says he's D-E-D dead, but as of ''Changes'', he's saying the same thing about Harry. Despite the fact that ''Ghost Story'' is told from Harry's POV.
That aside, think about it. The first time Harry meets him, he mentions that Cowl was distorting his voice somehow, and chalks it up to him being an insider in the White Council and not wanting to give himself away. But it could have just as easily been because he didn't want Harry to recognize the voice of his old mentor.
On top of that, he knew about Bob, or the-air-and-knowledge-spirit-currently-known-as-Bob, at any rate. Not even Grevane, favored Disciple of Kemmler, knew about Bob, or at the very least never thought to use him. What's more, Cowl knew exactly how to get the spirit to teach him the Darkhallow ritual, previously thought only to be contained in the Word of Kemmler. And besides Harry and Kemmler, only one other person has ever owned Bob and known how to make use of him: Justin [=DuMorne=], the Warden that pulled the skull from the wreckage of Kemmler's most recent lair.
[[WMG: Harry's career will parallel Merlin's.]]
Not Arthur Langtry, of course, but ''the'' Merlin. We already know that he's a wizard with an [[MerlinAndNimue apprentice of the opposite sex]], and he's currently looking for the rightful owner/user of Excalibur. However, it occurred to me that Harry's apprentice has dabbled in BlackMagic, so it would be entirely plausible for her to betray him for power or just for [[WellIntentionedExtremist some greater good]]. Given the general style of the story, this makes me think that we can expect more Arthurian elements as the story goes on.
* Like Merlin, he will take on [[TheObiWan an Obi-Wan]] role for a group of {{Badass Normal}}s, maybe Knights of the Cross, maybe Einharjar, or maybe [[PostModernMagic ex-police security consultants]].
* Like Merlin, he will be [[SealedGoodInACan betrayed and imprisoned by someone close to him]] [[DownerEnding at the end of the story]].
* Like Merlin, his powers of foresight will become far more developed than they are now.
* As mentioned in ''Changes'', Merlin: Wrote the laws of magic; Founded the White Council; Was custodian for one of the swords, and Established a stronghold for the White Council. Harry: Will break all the laws of magic; Founded the Gray Council; Is custodian for two of the swords; will do something equivalent to finding a stronghold, for either the White or Gray Council. Maybe both.
* As of ''Cold Days'', we can add [[spoiler: Harry acting as ''the'' Warden for and preserving the integrity of Demonreach, which was built as a prison for malignant supernatural entities by Merlin, its ''first'' Warden.]]
* Yet another parallel: a ''lot'' of Harry's fellow wizards keep assuming he's some sort of latter-day Antichrist. Merlin was allegedly the son of a demon, and has been depicted as an AntiAntichrist in numerous works of fiction.
[[WMG: Dark Harry is what happened when Adolescent Harry grew up, and what's left of He Who Walks Behind is Harry Harry.]]
Adolescent Harry would have been executed for throwing a fit about Elaine dying and having to kill his mentor, then being put under the Doom of Damocles for trying to protect himself, had [[DarkIsNotEvil HWWB]] not copied his personality, moved in as was its usual MO, then turned [[AntiHero relatively]] good compared to [[LiteralGenie what it originally was]] when it saw [[ThePowerOfLove Harry's connection with Elaine]] from the inside.
[[WMG: Cowl is not human.]]
In ''Dead Beat'', during his fight with Cowl, Harry briefly mentions that Cowl has about the same amount of power as the Faerie Queens. Given that fact, there is almost ''no possible way'' for Cowl to be human, or at least ''fully'' human. He could be a {{Shapeshifter Mode Lock}}ed Outsider, or an Outsider possessing a human and unable to leave. Plus, who names their kid "Cowl", or changes their name to that? His cowl is one the most notable things about him, so it's an Outsider's version of HughMann.
* Wasn't that [[TheNicknamer Harry's]] name for him, and Cowl just went "SureWhyNot"? We also have [[TheyCallHimSword that]] as a trope. Anyway, I, for one, would gladly use "Cowl" as a pseudonym.
** I don't think Cowl even went 'Sure why not' so much as 'Not dignifying that with a response.'
** Having just read the part of the book where Harry meets him, he actually introduces himself ''as'' Cowl. So it's definitely the name he uses, but it's almost certainly a false name.
** Humans are more creative than ''that''. The average human would probably choose a common name, like "John" or "Daniel".
** And for a guy who goes around draped head-to-foot in identity-concealing robes, a normal-sounding name would be a little bit... odd. If he's concealing his identity, might as well go whole-hog with an obviously fake, and yet descriptive, pseudonym. It's not like he's renting an apartment using the "Cowl" identity or anything (at least, that we're aware of).
*** Kumori's name sounds "namey" but not "normal".
* Disregarding all name discussion for now, Harry explicitly calls Cowl's voice "not human".
** Yeah, but he says that Cowl's magic is definitely human. The voice is just some sort of distortion effect to conceal his identity.
*** Which could mean that he's someone another character (or Harry) could recognize.
* Some connection to Faerie actually is implied in the way Cowl asks Harry to hand over the book three times, in a sequence that closely parallels Harry's binding of Grimalkin in ''Summer Knight''. Unless Cowl thought Harry, himself, was a sidhe or changeling, that's not something you'd normally expect a human to do.
[[WMG: Books-Bob is a ghost.]]
He's just been dead for long enough that he ''may as well be'' a spirit. This explains why he's bound to a human skull: it's ''his own'' skull, which makes the binding more effective. It makes more sense for Kemmler to have owned him, since it fits better with his necromantic theme. And, last but not least, the next book is '''''Ghost''''' ''Story'', and Bob is the main sidekick. With the scores of hints dropped in the RPG rulebooks, it's obvious that Bob has ''some'' kind of story that needs to be cleared up.
* Jossed repeatedly by WordOfGod.
[[WMG: Identity of Rashid.]]
He's also been the Grand Vizier Jafar. He tricked everyone into thinking he was beheaded, then joined the White Council.
* He took the name "Rashid" as a way of saying "Screw you, I lived." to the guy who tried to kill him.
[[WMG: Kincaid's inhuman heritage.]]
He's a Nephilim, the son of a mortal and a fallen Angel.
* Alternatively Lea is his mother. He is implied to be half something and that nickname would imply its half dog. Lea turns mortals into hounds to protect them and how many others are gona birth a half dog?
[[WMG: Building on the above, Kincaid is the son of Nicodemus.]]
They've got personal history, and Kincaid '''hates''' Nicodemus with a furious passion. It would make a terrifying amount of sense if they were related....
** And Laschiel's his mother? Or did Nicodemus' Fallen father Kincaid with a mortal woman?
** Perhaps being possessed by one of the most powerful Fallen for so long actually altered Nick on a genetic level, enough that any children he might have wouldn't be fully human. Interestingly, this might also include Deirdre, though what precisely that would mean for someone who's already a Denarian I'm not sure...
* Nicodemus is human. Deirdre and any other children he has are (mostly) human. Anduriel is his fallen. Anduriel would have to be the one to father Kincaid for this scenario.
[[WMG: Harry has some extra power related to names.]]
It was established that names have power to them particularly when it comes to powerful magical beings. Harry has given names to at least four powerful magical beings (Bob, Ivy, Mouse and Lash) which they all accepted full heartedly. Bob and Ivy may be overlooked and Mouse despite his power is a dog and not likely to object to any name he was given but it is suspect that the Shadow of a Fallen would so readily accept a name granted to her by a mortal, even Harry pointed out it was odd. Not only that but in Dead Beat using the name he gave Bob he was able to reassert the Bob personality that had cast out the dark parts of himself, something unlikely unless the name Bob had become a true name.
* You missed out Demonreach.
* Mouse is significantly more than a dog.
** The name Mouse fits. Mice are tiny animals that can scare the crap out of giant elephants. I remember some magical entity reacting to Mouse's presence with great fear.
* Who says this is a power only Harry has? It's possible that any mortal has it...and Harry's been the only one who has delved so deeply into irreverence to nickname God's creatures.
* Ghost Story spoiler: [[spoiler:Maybe? He calls Uriel by a nickname, which terribly angers - and ''terrifies'' - the archangel. The "-iel" on the end of an angel's name is ''important''. My guess, a nickname leaving out that bit ''lessens'' and angel in some terrible way. Only time will tell if Harry did permanent damage. (Harry is forgiven, of course, and the two come to an agreement on the name of "Mister Sunshine.)]]
** [[spoiler: I kinda figured it had something to do with the "-el" meaning "of God" or "God is". Saying an angel is the "Light" or "The Light" could be blasphemous on an extreme level, because the last set of angels who dropped the pretense of being "of God" are the Fallen. Just food for thought]]
** [[spoiler: Calling an angel "The Light" could also be a reference to calling them "the morning star" or similar...a euphemism for Lucifer, if this Troper recalls correctly.]]
*** [[spoiler: It goes a bit beyond the "Morning Star" name being used for Lucifer - "Lucifer" itself comes from Latin - and means "light bearer". Dropping the "of God" part of Uriel's name, given that and what we've seen with how much of an effect nicknames can have on supernatural beings, could be downright disastrous.]]
* It doesn't have to be that Harry has extra Naming powers, it could just be, and based on Uriel's reaction most likely is, that Names have a lot of power, and nicknames are names just as much as the ones on birth certificates. More so, in fact, because it's repeatedly mentioned that humans especially change their Names a lot.
** Moreover, "Uriel" is probably ''not'' the archangel's true Name, but more of a title that he went by among the Hebrews. Supernatural beings don't hand out their true Names to mortals lightly, and God's black-ops guy ''definitely'' wouldn't have let his real Name be passed around all over the planet by the Bible.
* You are forgetting one more incredibly powerful magical being who Harry has nicknamed: Lea. And we haven't seen any distinct personality changes in her yet. But if the pattern sticks, she should be watched closely..
** We didn't meet the Leanansidhe until long, long AFTER Harry met her and began calling her Lea. Any changes there are long done.
** Moreover, "Leanansidhe" is already a ''title'', not her real name. Harry admits he doesn't know her real name in ''Grave Peril'', the book where she's introduced.
[[WMG: Nicodemus and the Denarians are responsible for every major terrorist attack in the last century.]]
This is already strongly implied, as the Nickelheads were apparently behind a number of horrible disasters in human history, and Tessa was apparently complicit in a number of massive acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide, purely for her own enjoyment. Nicodemus also mentions in ''Death Masks'' that he has a terrorist group ready to take responsibility for the plague he's going to unleash. One can safely assume that if he's done it once, he's done it many times. In fact, it is likely that one could tie many terror attacks (including possibly the Dresdenverse's version of 9/11) directly to the Denarians, as they would have created exactly the kind of environment that the Nickelheads would love and feed power off of.
[[WMG: Hendricks is actually deep, deep undercover for CPD's Mafia Squad.]]
* In ''Storm Front'', he puts a tight three shot into someone who betrayed Marcone. The only other people who do those that we've met are cops or other law enforcement. Also, someone's been keeping the CPD informed about Marcone's movements and plans.
** Note that this doesn't mean that Marcone doesn't know.
** Or maybe Hendricks just trains a lot and is a naturally good shot. Being a good shooter != being police.
** This is incredibly flimsy reasoning. By the same logic, Kincaid is an undercover cop too.
*** Why couldn't Kincaid have been a cop at some point? Doesn't mean Hendricks isn't. Also, this is Wild Mass Guessing, it doesn't NEED substantiation.
*** No, but it really oughta have something a ''little'' less tangential and flimsy. It's only slightly more evidence than saying, "Hendricks has red hair, so he might be Irish. Murphy is Irish, and she's a cop. Therefore, Hendricks is a cop."
*** If the path of logic you used to arrive at your destination is faulty, we are perfectly within our rights to call you on said faulty logic.
*** I fail to see how it's any flimsier than some of the other {{WMG}}s on this, or any other, page.
** Except a cop would hardly be authorized to ''commit first-degree murder'' as part of his deep cover, would he? Because that's what that "perfect three-shot" you're citing would rate as, under the law. Undercover cops are given ''some'' slack for crimes committed to maintain their pretense, but not for homicide.
[[WMG: Harry Dresden's final powers'']]
* Harry will be a Knight of the Cross, the Winter Knight, the Summer Knight, wielding Soulfire, with the power of a redeemed Denarian in him, probably still holding the coin...and he will STILL start the book by getting his ass kicked!
** The Summer Knight thing is {{Jossed}} JB said that one person holding both mantles would cause something like a matter-antimatter explosion.
[[WMG: Harry really did change Lash for the better and she is still in his mind.]]
* Near the end of ''Ghost Story'', Uriel shows to Harry that it was a fallen angel who had influenced Harry's decision to call upon Mab for power, but I doubt Uriel would know the difference between Lasciel's shadow (Lash) and Lasciel herself, when they were(are?) two different entities, the former because Harry gave Lash free will and a portion of his soul. I think it was Lash who whispered in Harry's ears, and even though the action might had seemed cruel at the time, a lot of things turned out for the best.
* I agree. By whispering those seven words into his ears, Lash pretty much ensured Harry's survival and enabled him to annihilate the Red Court as a whole. I don't think she had fully thought out the consequences of the power void left behind though, so it's reasonable to conclude that her motive was to simply ensure her host's standing among the magical world. All of this makes her similar to Lea in the sense that both of them want to protect Harry, but the actions they take to produce that outcome might come across as BlueAndOrangeMorality to mortals.
** Except we ''see'' the entity that whispered the seven words to Harry, and it looked like a shadow. Now, which Fallen do we know of that manifests as a creepy moving shadow, and has ample reason to want to get back at Harry for beating the living tar out of its host in ''Small Favor''?
[[WMG: Martha Liberty was born a slave.]]
She must be an American, as the Merlin is said to believe there were already too many Americans on the Senior Council before [=McCoy=] joined it, and just one (Listens-to-Wind) wouldn't be "too many". She's elderly enough to have pre-dated Luccio's original body, meaning that slavery was still the norm for most black people in the United States when she was young. And her surname of "Liberty" is exactly the sort of name a former slave would have chosen for herself upon escaping from, or being released from bondage.
[[WMG: The Merlin routinely assumes false identities to disguise his long lifespan.]]
[=McCoy=] calls him "Alfred" in a private exchange in ''Summer Knight'', but he's called "Arthur" everywhere else. [=McCoy=] and Langtry obviously have a long history of disliking one another, probably with a basis in Scottish-vs-English resentment, so they most likely met centuries ago when Langtry was going by "Alfred" as a false identity.
[[WMG: Lucius Glau was half Fomor, not half djinn.]]
We only have Madrigal Raith's word that his lawyer (from ''Proven Guilty'') was a jann. He's hardly a trustworthy source, and we know from later events that Madrigal is quite content to do business with other evil power-blocs. Glau's description -- specifically, his "frog-like" mouth -- makes him sound like he's got the "Innsmouth look", which links him to the Lovecraftian-Deep-One motif which the Fomor seem to have. And it's the kind of unobtrusive sneak peek that Butcher might slip into one of his books, to coyly foreshadow the rise of the Fomor as a menace post-''Changes''.
[[WMG: Anduriel does not inhabit a Denarius.]]
Rather, he inhabits the noose around Nicodemus's neck.
* Alternately, Nick stores his coin inside the noose.
[[WMG: Molly will compensate for lacking Harry's strength with lasers.]]
She can bend light and create incredibly convicing illusions while utterly exhausted, a comparatively simple beam of coherent light might be useful. Also, Harry's improved sheild bracelet can proctect him from light for a reason.
To Clarify: I think her holomancy will someday grow to encompass the Light 'em Up and Hard Light tropes.
[[WMG: Margaret [=LeFay=] engineered Harry's birth with special powers to atone for some mistake she made during her bad-girl days.]]
It's been said that the conditions of Harry's birth give him special power/authority over Outsiders. It seems almost certain that Harry's destiny will ultimately involve him driving back some sort of Outsider threat. It's possible that Margaret was involved with setting that threat into motion during her darker days and arranged the circumstances of Harry's birth as a means of setting right what she helped put wrong.
[[WMG: Mac is "He Who Walks Beside"]]
When Harry asks Mac if there's anything he needs to know, Mac basically replies with "Three." We later find out that Sharkface is He Who Walks Before, and Harry's already run into He Who Walks Behind. Sharkface and Mac have a history.
* Ironicly or maybe not there is a reason GodWasMyCopilot exists.
* Mac's response seems to be a warning to ''watch out for'' three Walkers. If Mac himself is a retired Walker, he'd have to be a fourth one, since he's no threat to Harry.
[[WMG: Mother Summer and Mother Winter are the same entity.]]
..Or at least aspects of the same entity.
In ''Cold Days'', [[spoiler: when Harry talks to Titania she explicitly calls Mab her 'sister'.]] Not only that, but Maeve refers to Aurora as her cousin. This cannot this be possible if Mother Winter is mother to Mab, but not Titania. (And vise versa) And they can't both be the biological mothers to both Queens, if they are separate.
The Mothers could be sister, then the Queens would be cousins, and the Ladies second cousins at best. But it would work if the Mothers were somehow the same being.
When Mother Summer talks about [[spoiler: the names Harry used to summon Mother Winter]] she says "But you've only guessed one of her masks - not '''''our''''' most powerful name." Like many Tropers have guessed, the most likely name for both of them at this point seems to be [[spoiler: Fate.]]
* At the end of ''Cold Days'', Mab admits that [[spoiler: she herself was mortal once]]. This suggests that Mab ascended to her position from that of Winter Lady, rather than being born to it as Mother Winter's child, and that the family structure of the Queens in general is more metaphorical than literal.
[[WMG: [=McCoy's=] black staff is alive, sentient, and evil.]]
The reason black magic is forbidden is that casting it requires you to ''believe'' you should do so, which means devising increasingly-flimsy justifications for it, leading you down a path of inexorable corruption. As [=McCoy=] himself doesn't seem to have been corrupted by his use of black magic on either Council's behalf, it's likely that ''he's'' not providing the belief that makes such spells possible: his ''black staff'' is! We see how the staff sends creepy tendrils of dark energy crawling up his arm, when he uses it to insta-kill hundreds of mercenaries in ''Changes'', and how he appears to be resisting or suppressing these tendrils' spread. Why? Because it's an extremely-evil sentient artifact which the White Council captured and bound to their own service, and it loathes human life, free will, and the universe in general so intensely that its wielder can channel energy through it and use ''its'' hatred as a surrogate for personal belief, leaving their own psyche intact. The office of Blackstaff was ''created'' to take advantage of this artifact's power.
[[WMG: Lea is genuinely in love, as much as a Winterfae can be.]]
She kissed Thomas on the neck at Bianca's party, and it burned him. This seemed like (nasty) faerie magic at the time, because the White Court's vulnerability to love hadn't yet been revealed to Harry in that novel; now that we know love burns Raiths, however, it seems plausible that his own "allergy" might have been to blame. Now that Harry is one of Queen Mab's courtiers, we may soon find out who Lea's beloved is.
[[WMG: Rashid can't really predict the future.]]
Rather, his position as Gatekeeper confers the ability to detect whenever a Way in or out of the Nevernever is in use, and something about the purpose of those who travel through it. He ''seems'' to predict the future in ''Summer Knight'' and ''Proven Guilty'', but in reality he'd simply detected that Mai's messenger was en route from Arctis Tor in the former, and that Ebenezar's and Michael's group were on their way to Chicago in the latter. Likewise, he could detect Aurora's party arriving near the Mothers' cottage or the phobophages' arrival at Splattercon!!!, and deduce what was ''really'' going on from their movements, in time to assist or alert Harry.
[[WMG: The Merlin knows far more than anyone suspects]]
There's a number of hints that he's a good bit more cunning than Dresden assumes, especially politically, and he really knows his magic. He's also got a lot of experience sitting on the Council and has been involved in at least the battles with Kemmler. Also, the Gatekeeper technically reports to him, and he can make his spells stick against outsiders: he repels an army of Outsiders and Vampires in the [=NeverNever=] with a single ward. That's a pretty tough thing to manage, since there would be no threshold to anchor it on and I doubt circles are impenetrable there. It's thus likely he's fought them before and possible he knows about Nemesis. If he does, that casts his actions in a different light on a number of occasions: 1. His defensive approach to the Red Court war. Acting aggressively would increase the risk of high-ranking members being captured and infected by Nemesis, and he may have anticipated fighting Outsiders all along, which ended very poorly for the Council when they were forced into doing it. 2. His insistence that no Black Council existed. Telling people about Nemesis would induce crippling paranoia because anyone could ''become'' a traitor at basically any time, while telling people a shadowy organization existed would induce people to believe that it acts like a mundane organization. 3. Putting Morgan on trial. In addition to the political worries, he could have believed that Morgan had been infected. 4. His vendetta against Harry. Harry was in actual combat with a Walker and miraculously survived, which seems highly suspicious. Even if his status as a Starborn were known, he has a lot of trouble fighting He-Who-Walks-Before even after becoming the Winter Knight.
* We can assume that if some of his decisions were sub-optimal for how he proceeded, he was genuinely blindsided by Peabody.
[[WMG: The Oblivion War was started by Rashid, or an earlier Gatekeeper, and uses non-Wizards because Wizards would break the Seventh Law of Magic simply by getting involved]]
* Jossed by ''Cold Days'', unless it was started for this purpose but was suborned later on. [[spoiler: It's the forces of Winter that have been defending the Outer Gates for thousands of years, and Thomas tells Bob that the Venatori had tried to ditch the faeries in "Backup".]]
* Alternately, there ''is'' no real "Oblivion War". Rather, the Venatori are being used by one faction or another to attack rival supernatural 'players', and that faction is using the notion of Oblivion to ensure that their cats-paws keep their activities completely secret.
[[WMG: Bob is He Who Walks Behind - or a piece of him]]
Bob is strong - scary strong. And as of ''Ghost Story'', we know that Bob [[Spoiler: can stay perfectly behind Harry, just like He Who Walks Behind]]. The skull could very well be somewhere between a RestrainingBolt or a [[KidWithTheRemoteControl leash]], and Evil Bob was damn eager to kill Harry when we first meet him in ''Dead Beat''.
* Harry has HWWB's shadow on him, which is how HWWB tracks and marks his prey - we learn this back in ''Storm Front''... don't you think its a bit serendipitous that Butters and Bob manage to find Harry in ''Ghost Story''?
[[WMG: Cowl is [[SamusIsAGirl Martha Liberty]]]]
Before you go wondering what the hell I've been smoking, bear with me. Cowl is obviously really powerful; Martha is on the Senior Council. Cowl was able to hit Harry through Little Chicago; Martha specializes in thaumaturgy, particularly for the use of information gathering (per [[WordOfGod Word of Jim]]), and is probably the only person who would be capable of pulling that off. Plus Jim has mentioned the fact that we've heard very little about Wizard Liberty is indicative of SOMETHING...
[[WMG: Who cares who wins in the Fomor infighting in Chicago?]]
* Because they're all ''fucked'' when Harry gets back.
[[WMG: Malcolm Dresden was murdered, and when Harry finds out and confronts who/what did it...]]
...He will say. [[ThePrincessBride "My name is Harry Dresden. You killed my father. Prepare to die."]]
Because it would be [[RuleOfCool that awesome]], and Harry is an incredibly pop cultured badass.
* And he'll say it in a poor imitation of Carlos' accent
[[WMG: The Black Council has been a Stealth Mentor for Harry this entire time]]
Possibly even being directed by Leanansidhe. Remember her methods of training Molly? Subject her to potentially lethal test after brutal potentially lethal test! Well, what has been happening to Harry for almost his entire life? Antagonists come out of seemingly nowhere, all of them seemingly insurmountable for Harry, but just barely defeatable when he stretches himself to the limit. They're setups, they're tests, they're intentionally lethal training sessions for the express purpose of forcing Harry to grow more powerful.
Victor Sells and the Hexenwulfen were deliberately chosen and trained for this purpose. After this, Harry had gotten too powerful to deal with minor talents created for the purpose of training Harry, so they began to manipulate events from behind the scenes to force Harry into conflicts that they knew he'd just barely be capable of surviving. This would necessitate Mab herself either being in league with the Black Council, or manipulated by it. I'm not sure which option is better.
* I opt for the notion that the Black Council is out to get Harry, there might be an infiltrator that is on Harry's side that's manipulating the Council into giving Harry just enough that he can handle.
[[WMG: If the woman in a coma Marcone is taking care of is really dead (ie: her soul has moved on) even if her body still works, then Lash will wind up with it.]]
It seems like an empty body would be a perfect host for a spirit, and if she's dead for all spiritual purposes then it's even morally acceptable. Plus it would make an enemy of Marcone for a time, and we've never seen him really go after Dresden.
[[WMG: Odin is Santa Claus, aka the Winter King.]]
WordOfGod already says that Santa Claus is stupidly powerful and the counterpart to the Erlking, and that Harry wouldn't even think of summoning him. The All-Seeing Eye, he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. This also explains how he's still able to operate when many gods are hibernating; while there's enough pagan faith to keep his serious demeanor; he's able to multi-task the Santa Claus legend to bolster his power.
* Not so wild as you might think, since this is pretty much built into Santa Claus by default. Santa Claus is derived from an amalgamation of folkloric figures, many of which come more or less directly from Odin. Still, Odin played it a little straightforward with Harry during their meeting, so its hard to imagine him as a Sidhe. (Compare Odin's demeanor with, say, the Erlking)
** Multi-Tasking. He's a NinjaPirateRobotZombie; doing a balancing act between his deity status, his Fey-lord status, and being Santa Claus.
* If he is Santa he is not the Winter King. The RPG rule book holds Santa as the leader of a Wild Court on par with the Erlking.
** See the Headscratchers page for the series. Santa is the Winter King, ''and'' leader of a Wild Court on par with the Erlking (who is the Summer King). It's complicated.
** Actually, in one of the books, the one where Harry is almost sold on Ebay, states that the Erlking is a Winter Fae. He is leading the other Winter Fae to attack Harry when Harry melts the fountain thing with Summer's Butterfly.
*** That'd be ''Proven Guilty''. And I always saw that as the Erlking either tagging along with the Winter Fae or trying to keep them from stealing his kills. Wasn't his only appearance his horn blowing, anyway?
* The Erkling and Santa Claus are the leaders of the Wyldfae, each analogous to Titania and Mab. Erkling is the Wyld Summer King and Santa is the Wyld Winter King. This information is the [[WordOfGod Word Of Jim]]. He explained it at either a book signing or a convention that someone recorded and I watched online.
** This has FridgeBrilliance implications, if you consider the types of minions the Erlking and Santa respectively have. The Erlking leads the goblins and packs of predatory creatures, which are rather nasty beings by Summer standards ... hence, a perfect choice to be Wyldfae, left outside Summer's formal hierarchy. With Santa, it's just the opposite: the ''nicer'' creatures of Winter hang around at the North Pole (or its Nevernever reflection) with him, staying Wyld and avoiding the political snake-pit that is Mab's Winter Court.
* [[IKnewIt Pretty much confirmed as of ''Cold Days''.]]
[[WMG: Harry and Thomas have more siblings out there.]]
Way back in ''Fool Moon'', Harry's Demon Informant all but directly states that Harry has family out there. Later, ''in Death Masks'', Nicodemus states that Harry is his mother's "youngest" child. In the next book, we find out that Thomas is his older brother. However, you don't use youngest and oldest in a set of two, implying that Harry and Thomas have at least one older sibling.
* Can we really trust a Fallen, though? Furthermore, it's not always incorrect to use "oldest" and "youngest" in a set of two, especially "oldest", and especially when the actual set size is left vague. This editor is his mother's parents' oldest male grandchild, and there are only two male grandchildren.
* Considering the fact that we aren't entirely sure how old Margaret Le Fay really is (only that she's young enough to have been tutored in magic by a guy who fought in the French and Indian war and fathered by him, but that doesn't really add any significant minimum considering how old [=McCoy=] is), or if she's had any less emotionally-invested relationships than with Malcolm Dresden apart from Lord Raith, Harry could easily be a seventh. A whole mess of volatile power combined with living for probably at least a while before decent non-magical medicine and having something to do with [[TheFairFolk the Fae]] could account for five children (death by being born, bartered/stolen [possibly as part of a deal to ''prevent'' any death occurring during the birth], living in the Nevernever with the other parent, etc.).
** Not to be crude, but we know from Luccio's remarks that female wizards' extended lifespan does not entail much extension of their child-bearing years. Margaret [=LeFay=] couldn't have been born back in the 18th or 19th centuries, because her ovaries would've shut down long before Thomas or Harry were conceived.
* I'm betting on at least one changeling sibling; she's called "Le Fay" for a reason, after all. I'm also betting on a brother named Richard.
*** Tom, Dick...and Harry. Oh God. If Margaret was anything like her sons it's possible.
* Combining this with the "Johnny Marcone isn't his real name" theory elsewhere on this page, I'm going to have to suggest that Marcone is yet another lost brother. Margaret just didn't leave a message in his head for Harry...though there's no saying she didn't leave one in Harry's head for Marcone. Maybe why he hasn't had our beloved wizard killed yet?
** Jossed, Jim has adamantly stated that Harry has NO OTHER [[ExactWords SIBLINGS]] ([[JediTruth emphasis his]]).
[[WMG: Why the Leanansidhe is on the outs with Mab]]
Mab purchased Harry's debt from the Leanansidhe. When Lea's year and a day was up, she intended to enslave Harry anyways, debt or no debt (after all, she does care deeply for Harry, even if in an insane psycho Sidhe way). Her increased status given by the (thus unnamed) athame gave her a minor chance of coming out victorious in the matter, thus Mab pre-emptively froze her in a block of ice until Harry's debt to Mab was paid in full.
* Also, that athame drove the Leanansidhe insane, and is doing the same to Mab who thought (wrongly) that she could control it.
** Maybe it's like the 30 Denarii, the question is what/who is inside it? While the nickleheads can dominate a mortal, the Leanansidhe and Mab are among the strongest willed beings in the books to date. Maybe it's Satan inside a reworked spear, maybe once held by a soldier by the name of Longinus.
*** A spearhead could be reworked into a dagger pretty easily. Furthermore it would tie into the whole [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Apocalyptic Trilogy Ending]] Butcher has planned. Ol' Scratch was bound to show up sooner or later.
* Alternatively, Lea's on the outs because she thought the Antheme would give her enough power to usurp Mab, and she was crazy for the same reason that every other winterfae went crazy, Harry used Summer Fire in the heart of winter, which being the inherent opposite power drove the winterfae into a frenzy, Lea included. Given that this all unfolded in the wake of Tessa and the Black Council attacking Arcis Tor, it's highly possible that Lea is/was either a member or agent of the Black Council and the whole thing was one large coup attempt.
* As of ''Changes'', Lea is back in favor. She is out from under the mountain of ice and Mab refers to Lea as her handmaiden.
* Or as the books say, Lea is on the outs because she thought the Antheme gave her enough power to face That Which Stalks Us All. Which given it's name is probably an Outsider sealed away in the Never Never. Needless to say it didn't work and Mab had to smack Lea down hard. Hence why Mab was ''curing'' Lea as opposed to punishing her.
** "That Which Stalks Us All", to me it seems a very pretty way to refer to Death, or an Outsider claiming a similiar title? "He Who Walks Behind" also carries similiar connotations, maybe Lea all this time was trying to kill yet another thing gunning for Harry's head?
* In ''Cold Days'', it's revealed that [[spoiler: Lea had been infected by [[TheCorruption Nemesis]], which turned her against Mab. Mab figured it out, and on some level Lea was resisting, which made her curable, so Mab froze her up as a means to drain Nemesis out of her. In ''Proven Guilty'' she was only halfway cured, hence her being rather bipolar when Harry talks to her. By the later books, she's back to normal, and thus is back to being Mab's handmaiden and second-in-command]].
[[WMG: Harry's headaches are residue from Lash's death]]
Murphy says that even if a real friend took a bullet for him, he would probably go loopy for a while, let alone an imaginary one in his head, but he experiences none of these side effects. It makes me think she hid the effects, but she couldn't have hid them for forever. She probably hid some knowledge too. It makes me think these things will come back to haunt him. I like the idea of lash growing back too.
* This Troper personally took them to be from the brain damage caused by Lash's death in the first place. If not that, then perhaps residual damage from Mab's messing with it in ''Small Favor.''
** Probably a mixture of these, especially since Butters confirmed that, when Lash kicked it, she took a major part of Harry's brain with her. Either Butters or Bob did this.
** The sheer number of supernatural entities who have gone prowling through Harry's psyche, starting with Molly and working up to Mab and Uriel, I think the man is entitled to have the occasional migraine.
** This Troper seems to recall reading a statement by Butcher that we haven't seen the last of Lasciel. Take as you will.
*** He has said this about ''both'' Lasciel the Fallen and Lash the shadow on different occasions. Remember what they say about a woman scorned.
** Remember, wizards cells make perfect copies. Presumably, this happens even with brain cells, which just die in normal humans. The Headaches are from his body making perfect copies of something that just isn't supposed to do that, even more so than everything else.
* The first time Harry complained of an ache in his head was after receiving his mother's "insight," which looked suspiciously like the gem of knowledge she left with Lea we saw in ''Changes''. He always says that acquiring knowledge has a price. Could be a contributing factor.
** This Troper remembers at least two mentions of them in ''Turn Coat'', before Harry was given his inheritance.
* ''Cold Days'' confirms that the headaches are being caused by [[spoiler: a "parasite" that will kill Harry unless it's removed. No word on if it's Lash or not, though.]]
[[WMG: The headaches are an early sign of Harry's precognition.]]
And also an indicator of how powerful it'll be.
* Jossed. See above.
[[WMG:Mac is Merlin]]
THE Merlin. Original. And we will find out when Harry asks him to store Amoracchius for a while, and he makes some cryptic comment about deja vu.
* ...no. Checking Celtic Mythology strongly suggests Mac is the minor Celtic god Accasbel, founder of the first pub in Ireland and a deity of wine, beer and mead. Which explains why his brews taste divine.
** Mac is Uriel.
** Jossed in ''Cold Days'' because Mac continually said he was "out". Uriel is still very active.
[[WMG: Ancient Mai is going to be revealed as a dragon]]
* Hey, it's Wild, right? But why introduce this only in the TV show? Even moreso than Bob, there's no reason for it! Plus, they set up for Bianca's hatred for Dresden...So they were TRYING!
** But why introduce this only in the TV show? Does it really need to be asked?
** Okay, yeah. Just about Jossed: http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,11473.msg494075.html#msg494075
** New assumption? Allows her to be 'ancient' while having a young actor.
*** Okay, my idiocy has been uber-jossed: http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,2033.msg41636.html#msg41636
[[WMG:Margaret Le Fay was a changeling]]
Possibly planted specifically with Ebenezer as part of a plot by Mab or Titania or even the older Queens. Treating being a changeling as ending up some sort of strange blend of faerie and human, because she's born a faery and raised to be human, it would explain
* her name - she changed it from [=McCoy=] to Le Fay when she found out.
* how she was a "wizard" in the first place - it's explicitly stated that magic is passed down from the mother, but WordOfGod said Margaret's mother was a plain vanilla mortal. "Mother" could mean "biological mother"...or it could mean "woman who raised her".
** Actually, I believe it was said that magic "usually" passes down through the maternal bloodline, but didn't have to be. I could be incorrect and I can't find the passage in ''Proven Guilty'' regarding it, aside from his comment to Michael, where he's likely covering for Charity. But I recall there being another, more specific conversation about it.
** If magic were ''only'' inherited from the mother, Uriel wouldn't have made that "even a wizard's lifetime" comment about Maggie in ''Ghost Story''.
* her proclivity for working with fairies - that deal with Lea.
* her status as a sort of outcast, exploring the Nevernever alone - changelings are often not really accepted by either humans nor faeries.
* her questionable morals - have you met any faeries recently?
* the "special circumstances" surrounding Harry's birth that give him whatever Outsider-related power he is revealed to have. The son of a changeling and a human? That's gotta be rare.
* Kincaid's "human as you are" comment.
Really, the question is not so much whether or not she was a changeling, but how many people knew.
** No, the question is "Do we know of any cases where Harry's mother told an outright lie?". Because if she did, she can't be fay.
*** No, the question is still "How many people knew?" because nobody ever said CHANGELINGS can't tell lies. Fey can't, but Changelings can - at least, they can until they Choose. Assuming Margaret never chose, or chose Human, she still could have lied. In fact, she all but had to have never Chosen or stayed human, because if she'd Chosen and become a Fey, Harry would be a changeling. Based off our experience with Changelings so far, Harry's as much a changeling as Murphy.
[[WMG: Luccio likes, perhaps even prefers, the girls.]]
* Which would deepen her confusion and frustration after that whole brainwashing with the killing and the hot monkey sexing thing. And it'd make "I saw you dance in Naples" a ''lot'' more interesting...
** I took the "I saw you dance in Naples," thing that way, as in yes, Luccio has played for both teams, all across the field, down the court and possibly some street hockey. "Your tastes used to run differently," indeed.
*** Ditto. I was stunned that this was actually in here: it's not ambiguous, it's nearly out-and-out stated.
**** Welcome to WMG: Where most people have only skimmed the books before coming up with stupid theories.
[[WMG: Harry's father was someone special]]
Maggy thought that he was some nice normal guy, a really dumb move in this world. Also, they've played out Harry's moms side of the family, and if they want to get another child, why not throw in someone from the other side of the park? Also, it would be awesome.
* Why does it HAVE to be someone special? It's been intimated she ran away from the Dark Powers and met one of the truly nice people in the world and fell in love. Ever thought of that?
** All things considered, that alone is enough to render Dresden, Sr. someone special.
* Don't forget that Kincaid, who is probably half-something-else, once says that Harry is "as human as he is."
*** There is very little that we know about Malcolm Dresden. What we do know comes from Ebenezar (who has hidden the truth from Harry on multiple occasions) and from Harry's memories and dreams. He died when Harry was very young. (Six years old, IIRC) Not to say that Harry's an UnreliableNarrator, but memories are sketchy stuff, especially a six year old's. There's no proof that Malcolm Dresden had any magic abilities, (if Ebenezar is to be trusted, but then again he's already lied multiple times to Harry) but there's also no proof for the opposite. He could have had magic, but it simply withered away like Charity's did. Hell, for all we know he could be a changeling who chose to be mortal (which might account for the 'as human as Kincaid' bit).
*** Just how trustworthy is Kincaid, anyway? In one scene in Blood Rites, he says "I'm as human as you are", but in that very same scene, he also claims to be a vanilla mortal. Which is a lie. Who's to say he didn't lie about the "as human as Harry" part?
[[WMG: Harry is more attractive then he lets on.]]
Harry is the only person to ever consider himself unattractive, and its not out of character to practice SelfDeprecation, and it'd be weird for him to gaze into his reflection and stare, spellbound. Also Harry has an enormous amount of women falling for him, yes they admire him because he's a good man, or he's devious, or they want to manipulate him, but some of that must be do to good old fashioned sex appeal, and he managed to wrangle a date out of a preinformed Susan. And you'd think if he was a fugly as he let on, somebody would call him on it. Oh, and who's ever heard of an ugly hero?
* He doesn't say he's ugly. He says he's less pretty than Thomas. ''Everyone'' is less pretty than Thomas. Jokes about his appearance are nearly always in a Thomas-related context. And I think it's more that Susan wrangled a date out of ''him''...
* If the cover of the books are any indication, then Harry is obviously quite attractive. Also, the way he describes himself probably stems from lack of self confidence due to his lack of social skills. AccentuateTheNegative
** He's not bad-looking in the comics, which WordOfGod says capture him spot on.
* In the novelette 'Aftermath,' Murphy describes Dresden as other vanilla mortals see him, and as he appears while . Typically, he holds his limbs in close, moving with 'the exaggerated caution of someone who was several sizes larger than normal' and speaks softly, 'as if apologizing for the resonant baritone of his voice.' This, combined with his avoidance of eye contact because he doesn't want to soulgaze dudes causes him to come off as quiet and somewhat autistic. Contrast that with his full wizard mode where he just sort of ''unfolds'' and starts shouting Latin and throwing fireballs everywhere. Murphy herself feels completely threatened by how dangerous he is- to the point where she describes her gut reaction to that level of threat as 'kill it, immediately.' Of course, in the next paragraph she woefully laments not getting to hit that before the end of Changes.
* Being in the business of a wizard hero saving the world on a semi-regular basis, Harry has acquired many allies and some [[FriendlyEnemy friendly enemies]] over the years, many of them female. Being the chivalrous if old-fashioned powerhouse who won't hesitate to put his life on the line for doing the right thing that he is, not to mention having good-standing relations with most if not all of the said female colleagues, it isn't hard to imagine a lot of them liking him for more than professional reasons.
** Case in point, when Lara thought that she and Harry would surely parish when the explosives were about to go off near the end of "White Night", she kissed him with a burning passion unseen before, even before Harry finished telling her why the kissing would be relevant in securing their bodies coming out whole. Another example would be the subtle (the fireplace at his apartment) and not-so-subtle (the laundry room scene) moves Anastasia put on Harry throughout "Small Favour", and even though we later (regrettably) find out that the attraction was supposed to be purely based on mind control, it is absurd to think that she would do so without at least thinking of him as more than a capable and heroic warden after the many grim situations they had faced together.
[[WMG: Harry using CanisLatinicus for his spells was [[ThePlanned planned]] by Justin.]]
[=DuMorne=] figured that if Harry managed to become strong enough (both will and magic) to defeat him without using any BlackMagic himself (maybe [[ContinuityNod get Bob]] [[TelevisionSeries on his side]]), he would pretty much be up for a spot on the White Council. Having to converse in Latin within official White Council meetings, and without the constraint and finesse that Elaine had, Harry would stand a decent chance of accidentally frying the entire council the first time he had to report on a Pyromancer while stressed (and who wouldn't be stressed when in front of 200-some-odd enforcers of the Doom of Damocles and their guards?).
* Potentially jossed: ''Changes'' seems to indicate that he picked up his tendency to use Dog Latin for incantations from Ebenezar [=McCoy=], since he's shown using such incantations himself (even using Harry's signature "Fuego").
** Farther jossed by a flashback in ''Ghost Story''; Harry only manages to light a candle when he comes up with his own incantation "Flickum bicus" as opposed to him trying to use Justin's "Sedjet".
*** Not only that, but it reveals that Harry adopted "Fuego!" because he was taking Spanish class at the time he first used that effect. If anything, Ebenezer probably picked up "Fuego" ''from Harry'', perhaps because it's quicker to say than whatever he'd used prior to that.
** Except that wasn't [=McCoy=], but a random voice from the Gray Council.
*** Mix this with the Gatekeeper = Future Harry WMG from above, and assume he is one of the Gray Council and was at the battle at Chichen Itza in Changes - and that was Harry himself using his own signature spell in the background.
*** More likely one of the BigBads of a future book time travels to this fight to try and change the outcome, and Future!Harry comes back too to oppose them.
*** Or one of the younger wizards who [[strike: thinks]] realizes Harry's badass incarnate is using Harry's incantation as a sign of respect.
*** Or, you know, one of the mooks ordering the other mooks to fire. Harry does say that immediately after hearing somebody scream "fuego", people started firing weapons. They are in Latin America, after all.
*** The quote isn't someone in robes, it was someone "on the wall." And, as per several people on the Dresden forums, "Fuego" is, in fact, the Spanish word for "fire" as in "Ready, aim..." So that seems to be it.
[[WMG: Cowl is actually Harry from the future.]]
They are the only two characters to use the phrase "Thrice will I ask and done," unusual given that both tend to speak more casually otherwise. They both have huge amounts of power, are willing to dip into dark magic for the greater good, tend not to bother explaining themselves in a crisis, favor escapes and entrances via the Nevernever, [[MurderArsonAndJaywalking and like long black garments]]. And why would Butcher have mentioned Thou Shalt Not Walk Through Time if it were never coming up?
* And The Gatekeeper is both of them in the future. He's only allowed to time travel in order to help his past self stop his less-past self, and keep things happening in order. Kumori is a post-HeroicBSOD Molly, who provides disguise for all three-ish of them and is trying to keep Cowl from going full darkside. The time travel is how and why she revived that exact person.
** Why do people think the Gatekeeper is Harry from the future? That makes no sense. One, the Gatekeeper is a little Indian guy, not a tall white guy. Two, Harry has never shown any ability with time magic. Three, I don't think he could have lasted on the White Council. Harry himself stated that he was not so subtle and quick to anger, the gatekeeper is the exact opposite.
*** "Little Indian Guy"? You're probably thinking of Listens To Winds. Rashid is middle eastern and is the only guy taller than Harry. Still no obvious connection.
**** He's taller? My bad, well, even though it is possible, i don't quite see how. Fer instance, he's taller, and he is Indian, and I mean Asian indian, not native Indian, major physical differences. But, because i'm such a good sport, here is my argument from the other side: Maybe that salve that lets people see through veils is some kind of time paradox. The reason the gatekeeper has it is because he gave it to harry and Harry eventually got better at making it.
***** The Dresden Files wiki describes Rashid as being Middle Eastern with an English accent.
***** He occasionally uses expressions consistent with a Muslim upbringing, too.
** Molly or Thomas will end up raising this point in a future book as a joke, and while this wont be true, Cowl will hear about it and attempt to convince Harry of it as a way to give him a headache.
** Why would Cowl (future Harry) need the instructions to summon the Erlking? Harry had already committed the ritual to memory and had performed it once. Unlikely he would forget something as important as this and need to go attack his past self to get the book.
*** Cowl and Kumori were the only necromancers who ''weren't'' looking to claim the book, only to prevent their rivals from finding it. At least, that's what Cowl claimed, and Kumori's suggesting that Harry simply destroy it rather than hand it over suggests it's true. (Of course, if Cowl's in the Black Council, he wouldn't need the book because [[spoiler: the author, Peabody, is also a Black Council member and could just ''tell'' him the instructions if necessary]]. So this doesn't ''prove'' whether or not he's Harry.)
* A little more evidence: at the end of ''White Night'', Harry calls Cowl "Darth Bathrobe". Remind me, what did Harry wear to the Council meeting in ''Summer Knight''...?
** And yet he never comments on Cowl or Kumori being very tall, even though he routinely mentions if a person is of above- or below-average height when he describes them. Both he and Molly are very tall, enough-so that you'd think he'd have said something about if Cowl and Kumori were, too.
*** Well, Kumori is at least tall enough to comfortably hold Dresden with a knife to his throat, and Harry's gigantic.
* I don't actually think this is true, but to entertain the notion... Harry is above all famous for giving a tremendous amount of snark to anything and everything he encounters. After being called 'Dark Master of Evil Bathrobes' and asked for a name, doesn't responding 'Call me Cowl' seem like the trademark Dresden snark rendered dryer by age and necromancy?
* Or Molly is in fact Kumori. Following Dresden as Cowl isn't too far out of the picture for Molly, given her crush for Dresden and Molly's habit of breaking the laws of magic. Also Kumori is a Japanese sounding name, and what language does Molly use for her spells again?
** further supported (in this troper's opinion) by Kumori's name: Molly Carpenter said with a Japanese accent=Mori Carpenter. Switch the names around to proper Japanese order and it's Carpenter Mori. Take the first name to just an initial and it's C.Mori. Said phonetically...
** According to the RPG, Kumori is Japanese for "cloudy." Hmm, cloudy as in concealment, as in veils, as in Molly's specialty...
*** Doesn't Molly cast in Japanese?
*** On the other hand, "cloudy" also implies "gloomy", which isn't a bad choice of alias for a not-so-psycho necromancer in any case.
* Borrowing the Alpha Timeline concept from Homestuck, the Gatekeeper and Cowl could both be Harry. From different timelines. Cowl is from a timeline where things went wrong, very wrong. Cowl may even be a Harry that accepted every dark deal, bargain owed, etc. Kumori is much kinder as she is Cowl's Molly who followed into the past. When they encounter Harry, she is reminded of her old Harry before whatever went wrong happened.
** Expanding upon this. Cowl is Harry gone down a dark path in one timeline, come back deciding he needs to go even darker to make it work this time. Gatekeeper is from a timeline where he was less of a wild card? He fought Demonreach in that timeline, in this one Harry made it his sanctuary. So that is why Rashid was surprised.
[[WMG: Harry was born on Demonreach.]]
That would explain the familiarity he feels the first time he goes there, and maybe account for the "circumstances" Lash mentions surrounding his birth.
* I agree that Demonreach had at least something to do with Harry's birth. Though what he knows about the island (the bad step, the back door getting stuck in the rain...) the first time he arrives is to much for just some old vague memories. The only explanation for that is that the genius loci was letting him access it's intelectuce before he made a pact with it, which makes this theory even more likely.
** This was explained in the book, as Harry's precognitive abilities (which all wizards develop to some degree) beginning to awaken.
* I reckon Demonreach has something to do with Maggie Sr.
[[WMG: Harry ''is'' Demonreach.]]
Metaphorically, he's somewhere between the [=Lash/Lasciel=] situation, and the vaguely symbiotic thing that I assume happens when a person below a certain mental age becomes a Denarian and grows past that age.[[hottip:* : To clarify, that is the human developing a dependency on having another being inside its head since the human had a fully functional mentality with eidetic memory uploaded to its head before it was itself very developed, and the Fallen's shadow getting used to having another pert of "itself" that would disappear if the human part died. Sort of like having a computer with an extremely simple OS for its computing power, loading a much more complex program, and then adjusting the code as you use it to eventually reach a point where the complex program effectively works as an operating system for the computer, and you could install it in a new computer or remove the original OS, but the complex program would become extremely erratic. This is also known as The GNU Emacs Effect.]]
[[WMG: Thomas wasn't nearly as shaken by the events of ''Turn Coat'' as was suggested and was faking his FaceHeelTurn to become a spy in the White Court ]]
Spoilers for ''Turn Coat'' & ''Changes''. At the end of ''Turn Coat'', it was suggested that the tortures Thomas suffered at the hands of the Skin-Walker had caused him to completely give into his Demon, turning completely amoral save where Justine was concerned. But in ''Changes'', Thomas is willing to help Harry out even BEFORE he finds out that his own life may be at risk. And he tries (and succeeds for a time) in resisting the obvious charms of a more than willing Molly Carpenter as he's bleeding to death. He even tries to warn her away from him. This suggests that Thomas wasn't as badly warped as he said in ''Turn Coat'' and that he may be playing up his dark side taking over in order to get back into the good graces of Lara and The White Court.
* I thought the same thing! During ''Changes'', while he does act more savage at times, he does resemble the old Thomas. So that's interesting. Grey Council spy, perhaps?
** Possibly. But for that to be true... hmmm... that gives me an idea! (See Below)
* In ''Changes'', Thomas's eyes were completely blue. The sign of a well-fed white vampire. (It greys out as they get hungry)
* Well duh. Seriously, readers have to be as dense as Harry to miss this. Thomas practically spells it out multiple times. That said, he's still being much more White-Court-y than he used to be, and is feeding again. He may not have lost his moral compass, but he's certainly buried it under a heavy layer of rationalization.
* My theory, from below: Read what he says carefully. All he decided to do was go back to playing ball with the other Raiths. He said that he was tired of playing mortal. He specifically stated he wasn't going to kill anyone, and clearly kept his scorn of vampires. Yes, he attacked Molly, but he'd just been brutally tortured. He was in a Hunger-Frenzy. During ''Changes'', he's had the time to cool down. Thus, he's back to normal, if still hanging with the family.
[[WMG: Ebenezar [=McCoy=] is aware of Thomas and that he is Harry's brother.]]
* We find out near the end of ''Changes'' that Harry's mother - Margaret [=Lefay=] - was [=McCoy=]'s daughter and, therefore, Harry is [=McCoy=]'s grandson. When [=McCoy=] confirms this, he tells Harry about how at some point in the past Margaret came to him along with Lord Raith of the White Court, so he obviously knew about their relationship. Odds are that if he knows THAT much and knew that Harry was his grandson this whole time, he probably kept tabs on any other children that were born of his line.
* [=McCoy=] is also clever enough to have put two and two together as to what it would take for someone as naturally distrustful as Harry to partner up with a White Court vampire on a regular basis.
* He definitely acts like he doesn't know in ''Turn Coat'', but then again it's not like he hasn't lied to Harry before. [[WordOfGod Word of Jim]] says that Harry doesn't know either way, and if [=McCoy=] did know, it would be "very bad" for Thomas. On a related note, who else knows about Harry and Thomas? Remember that Luccio found out while she was under the influence of the Black Council. It might have gotten back to anyone without her even knowing.
[[WMG:Mab has ulterior motives for trying to get Harry to become Winter Knight.]]
She doesn't really seem to like him much, but has been obsessive in her pursuit of him and only him as Knight, even though it upsets the power balance of faerie, and not in her favor. This started even before he'd really started [[TookALevelInBadass getting more powerful]], when there were presumably more dangerous people who would be easier to tempt, so she probably wants Harry for some special reason, possibly a unique ability he doesn't know about/think matters.
* Probably for his child. After all, sleeping with him is the first thing she did, and Maeve has been getting a bit uppity. Hello New Winter Lady.
** [[spoiler: Jossed by ''Cold Days''. Mab already ''had'' a candidate for new Winter Lady available in Sarissa, Maeve's still-mortal twin sister. And later, a backup candidate trained by Lea: Molly.]]
* If by "before he'd really started [[TookALevelInBadass getting more powerful]]", you mean that he had managed to sneak through an army, disable several of Summer's strongest warriors and then ''kill a fairy Lady'', the first time anyone had managed that in centuries, then yeah. He was weak enough to single-handedly devastate Mab's archrivals at that point. It's not like that's one of the main skills she'd want in her Knight. There must be another reason for her to chase him.
** It's been stated that the Knights tend to not last that long. Consider what Harry's ''been through.'' Victor Sells, werewolves, the Nightmare, the Summer Lady, Nicodemus (TWICE), do you really need me to re-list the {{big bad}}s? Harry can beat opponents way out of his weight class. And that's when Harry was running off good old Human-level magic. Add to the damn near [[DragonBall super Saiyan]] strength of the Winter Knight? You've got yourself a OneManArmy, right under Mab's personal control. As of ''Changes'', she's holding the reigns on one of the most potent destructive weapons in the Dresdenverse, and what she has said (via Lea) flat out states that she's going to flick those reigns, point her finger, and yell "giddy up."
*** That, and Harry seemingly has an endless supply of sheer dumb luck, and Mab wants to capitalize.
*** Except that Harry isn't the type to respect authority and the chain of command. [[spoiler: Especially given Uriel's Seven Words.]]
** We know that Harry has power over Outsiders which, while unspecified, required a large number of factors to coincide (requiring a presumably equivalent number of GambitRoulettes by his mother) to acquire. Margaret 'Le Fey' Dresden hung out with the fairy courts, Maab learned what she was up to, and wanted to capitalize on someone else's hard work.
* ''Cold Days'' shows that [[spoiler: Winter provides the bulk of the troops that man the Outer Gates and protect reality from Outsiders. Though it's not outright stated, Harry's ability to have power over and against Outsiders therefore looks like the primary reason Mab would want him on her side]].
*** Add to that, [[spoiler:Harry refuses to bow to Mab, giving her two threats to her life in a matter of minutes. Mab's response? Happy with Harry's actions. She wants a Knight who thinks for himself and would not follow one side blindly. and, if need be, kill her if she became infected with Nemesis.]]
[[WMG: Nicodemus is Judas Iscariot.]]
He's treacherous, understands the Denarii better than anyone, and has Judas' noose. Clearly, after hanging himself, Judas gave up his last shreds of virtue by cutting the noose (and act of turning from grace so potent it allowed Satan to interact with the world for a moment, enchanting the Noose), then chose one of his demon-infested coins to bond with and spread the rest around the world.
* Seems unlikely, the 30 pieces of silver are supposed to either be, or represent, the 30 pieces Judas got. There's no way the Denarians were bound in their coins at that point in time. If Nicodemus ''is'' Judas, the coins predate the whole 30 pieces of silver thing. And in that case, there could be ''far'' more than just 30 Denarians.
** Why would that be the case. Judas is given the coins, then sells out Christ, which grants the opening for 30 Fallen to enter said coins, then goes to hang himself... the timeline works out.
*** Because simply betraying Christ wasn't enough? The Blackened Denarius's were created through powerful magic, they didn't just spontaneously become fallen-angel-filled-coins. A lot of the ritual probably relied on the betrayal, but it wasn't enough to have happened ''just'' from that.
**** No, but that doesn't rule anything out. Think of it this way; the Devil is looking to capitalize on Jesus' sacrifice, and finds that the way it is to play out works well in his favor. Judas is given the coins, which are then used for the ritual on the basis of him being given potentially the most powerful of all the Fallen. He'll have little need for thirty silver pieces with that kind of power, which accounts for them all being taken from him. So, ritual goes through, which involves said cutting and turning from grace, which has the added benefit of laying the power over the noose. In this case, things click rather well.
[[WMG: Nicodemus' "companions" are mostly failures among the Order Of Denarians.]]
The most dangerous Fallen we've seen him give to another was Lasciel, who was not among his usual escort. Those who were consist of Deirdre (actually competent, probably kept around as security/Nick's squeeze), Ursiel (mocked by the other Denarians), and Siluriel (by all accounts the weakest Denarian we've seen in single combat).Nick's movements seem like a sure lodestone of the Knights Of The Cross - Nicodemus' greatest allies stay distant from him, to be less observed.
* Not necessarily. It's been confirmed repeatedly that most of the Denarians do not get along very well. Nicodemus has his group of 4-8 or so, Tessa has her group of 6-10. That leaves almost a third of the order unaccounted for. We know they don't work together well, if at all, as pointed out by Forthill when Harry brings up Lasciel. Lasciel and Nicodemus work at cross purposes much of the time. It's entirely possible that the 'missing' Denarians have their own plots going on, or that they're just not very evil at all.
[[WMG: Ivy's father has already appeared or been mentioned.]]
I'd like him to be a plain vanilla mortal, maybe even Butters because that would amuse the hell out of me, but he could be almost anyone in the whole huge male cast. Except Harry, because that would just be silly at this point.
[[WMG: Harry's grandmother was one of the Summer Court, maybe even one of the Queens.]]
No reference has been made to Margaret's mother, and that can't just be omission. Margaret was familiar with the Fae and even went by the name "[=LeFay=]". Harry's favorite element is fire, and it would give Mab a hell of a reason to want him, specifically, as Winter Knight...
* Might explain why Harry's met every queen besides Titania...
* Nope. Jim said that Harry's maternal Grandmother was a plain old vanilla mortal.
** Where did his nonhuman heritage came from, then? Kincaid says that he's as human as Harry, and Kincaid is definitely part nonhuman.
** Yeah, either Jim's got his facts mixed up, or he's [[LyingCreator lying.]] That would explain why Mab wants him so badly. What better way to stick it to your mortal nemesis than getting one of her descendants to be your right hand man? Totally something Mab would do.
*** Or Kincaid was lying. Why would Kincaid tell Dresden the truth? The truth of Kincaid's lineage could easily lead to finding a ''weakness'' of Kincaid's, so if anything Kincaid's going to take every opportunity to insist he's just a plain old human.
* In ''Cold Days'' [[spoiler: Harry meets Titania, and if he has any Summer heritage whatsoever, she doesn't acknowledge it]].
[[WMG: Harry is descended from Merlin.]]
Those journals that Ebenezar had during ''Turn Coat''? They weren't just passed down from master to apprentice. As Ebenezar was Harry's grandfather, and also taught Harry's mother, it's possible that his family has a tradition of master and apprentice being parent and child. Since the earliest journals in Ebenezar's collection belong to Merlin, that would mean that Ebenezar (and by extension, Harry) are descended from him. Plus, all those links made between Harry and Merlin have to mean ''something''.
[[WMG: Odin and Rashid are the same person]]
I don't know the trope name for it, but it seems like sloppy narrative to have two characters in the same story who both call out to the Odin myth by being one-eyed humorous precog badasses who help out the protagonist when necessary. Either Odin is pretending to be Rashid, or vice versa.
* Or Rashid employed the same ritual Odin himself had used to ''acquire'' those precognitive powers, which required each of them to forfeit an eye at Mimir's Well as per Norse myth.
** Made ''exceedingly unlikely'', though not completely impossible, by Cold Days. [[spoiler: Odin, as Kringle, is involved in the battle at Demonreach, while Rashid was at the Outer Gates. The only way he could really have done both is if the Mothers inverted the time ratio between the mortal world and the Outer Gates, so Rashid could participate in the Demonreach battle and only miss a couple seconds of the Outer Gates battle. While ''Proven Guilty'' demonstrated it is under the control of the Queens, if they could do it with regularity you'd expect them to abuse it to no end, compressing the battle when there's trouble elsewhere limiting reinforcements and expanding it when everything is going smoothly. They're having far too much trouble there for that to be likely.]]
[[WMG: Demonreach is (or used to be) an Outsider.]]
This would explain why he would have crossed paths with the Gatekeeper (taking on Outsiders is basically his ''job description''), and why everyone is all WTF about Harry taking the island as a Sanctum. It would also explain why Harry was even ''capable'' of taking it as a Sanctum: its GeniusLoci is an Outsider, and Harry has some undefined power for the express purpose of whooping Outsider ass.
* Demonreach is a [[spoiler: prison of wizard making.]]
* No reason why both can't be true. [[spoiler: The prison was made by Merlin]] but who better to [[spoiler: guard Outsiders and other nastiness than one of their own? Clearly, Merlin created the prison, and summoned Demonreach to guard it, since only Outsiders would be immune to Nemesis.]]
[[WMG: Justin [=DuMorne=] is Cowl]]
Yeah, yeah, Jim says he's D-E-D dead, but as of ''Changes'', he's saying the same thing about Harry. Despite the fact that ''Ghost Story'' is told from Harry's POV.
That aside, think about it. The first time Harry meets him, he mentions that Cowl was distorting his voice somehow, and chalks it up to him being an insider in the White Council and not wanting to give himself away. But it could have just as easily been because he didn't want Harry to recognize the voice of his old mentor.
On top of that, he knew about Bob, or the-air-and-knowledge-spirit-currently-known-as-Bob, at any rate. Not even Grevane, favored Disciple of Kemmler, knew about Bob, or at the very least never thought to use him. What's more, Cowl knew exactly how to get the spirit to teach him the Darkhallow ritual, previously thought only to be contained in the Word of Kemmler. And besides Harry and Kemmler, only one other person has ever owned Bob and known how to make use of him: Justin [=DuMorne=], the Warden that pulled the skull from the wreckage of Kemmler's most recent lair.
[[WMG: Harry's career will parallel Merlin's.]]
Not Arthur Langtry, of course, but ''the'' Merlin. We already know that he's a wizard with an [[MerlinAndNimue apprentice of the opposite sex]], and he's currently looking for the rightful owner/user of Excalibur. However, it occurred to me that Harry's apprentice has dabbled in BlackMagic, so it would be entirely plausible for her to betray him for power or just for [[WellIntentionedExtremist some greater good]]. Given the general style of the story, this makes me think that we can expect more Arthurian elements as the story goes on.
* Like Merlin, he will take on [[TheObiWan an Obi-Wan]] role for a group of {{Badass Normal}}s, maybe Knights of the Cross, maybe Einharjar, or maybe [[PostModernMagic ex-police security consultants]].
* Like Merlin, he will be [[SealedGoodInACan betrayed and imprisoned by someone close to him]] [[DownerEnding at the end of the story]].
* Like Merlin, his powers of foresight will become far more developed than they are now.
* As mentioned in ''Changes'', Merlin: Wrote the laws of magic; Founded the White Council; Was custodian for one of the swords, and Established a stronghold for the White Council. Harry: Will break all the laws of magic; Founded the Gray Council; Is custodian for two of the swords; will do something equivalent to finding a stronghold, for either the White or Gray Council. Maybe both.
* As of ''Cold Days'', we can add [[spoiler: Harry acting as ''the'' Warden for and preserving the integrity of Demonreach, which was built as a prison for malignant supernatural entities by Merlin, its ''first'' Warden.]]
* Yet another parallel: a ''lot'' of Harry's fellow wizards keep assuming he's some sort of latter-day Antichrist. Merlin was allegedly the son of a demon, and has been depicted as an AntiAntichrist in numerous works of fiction.
[[WMG: Dark Harry is what happened when Adolescent Harry grew up, and what's left of He Who Walks Behind is Harry Harry.]]
Adolescent Harry would have been executed for throwing a fit about Elaine dying and having to kill his mentor, then being put under the Doom of Damocles for trying to protect himself, had [[DarkIsNotEvil HWWB]] not copied his personality, moved in as was its usual MO, then turned [[AntiHero relatively]] good compared to [[LiteralGenie what it originally was]] when it saw [[ThePowerOfLove Harry's connection with Elaine]] from the inside.
[[WMG: Cowl is not human.]]
In ''Dead Beat'', during his fight with Cowl, Harry briefly mentions that Cowl has about the same amount of power as the Faerie Queens. Given that fact, there is almost ''no possible way'' for Cowl to be human, or at least ''fully'' human. He could be a {{Shapeshifter Mode Lock}}ed Outsider, or an Outsider possessing a human and unable to leave. Plus, who names their kid "Cowl", or changes their name to that? His cowl is one the most notable things about him, so it's an Outsider's version of HughMann.
* Wasn't that [[TheNicknamer Harry's]] name for him, and Cowl just went "SureWhyNot"? We also have [[TheyCallHimSword that]] as a trope. Anyway, I, for one, would gladly use "Cowl" as a pseudonym.
** I don't think Cowl even went 'Sure why not' so much as 'Not dignifying that with a response.'
** Having just read the part of the book where Harry meets him, he actually introduces himself ''as'' Cowl. So it's definitely the name he uses, but it's almost certainly a false name.
** Humans are more creative than ''that''. The average human would probably choose a common name, like "John" or "Daniel".
** And for a guy who goes around draped head-to-foot in identity-concealing robes, a normal-sounding name would be a little bit... odd. If he's concealing his identity, might as well go whole-hog with an obviously fake, and yet descriptive, pseudonym. It's not like he's renting an apartment using the "Cowl" identity or anything (at least, that we're aware of).
*** Kumori's name sounds "namey" but not "normal".
* Disregarding all name discussion for now, Harry explicitly calls Cowl's voice "not human".
** Yeah, but he says that Cowl's magic is definitely human. The voice is just some sort of distortion effect to conceal his identity.
*** Which could mean that he's someone another character (or Harry) could recognize.
* Some connection to Faerie actually is implied in the way Cowl asks Harry to hand over the book three times, in a sequence that closely parallels Harry's binding of Grimalkin in ''Summer Knight''. Unless Cowl thought Harry, himself, was a sidhe or changeling, that's not something you'd normally expect a human to do.
[[WMG: Books-Bob is a ghost.]]
He's just been dead for long enough that he ''may as well be'' a spirit. This explains why he's bound to a human skull: it's ''his own'' skull, which makes the binding more effective. It makes more sense for Kemmler to have owned him, since it fits better with his necromantic theme. And, last but not least, the next book is '''''Ghost''''' ''Story'', and Bob is the main sidekick. With the scores of hints dropped in the RPG rulebooks, it's obvious that Bob has ''some'' kind of story that needs to be cleared up.
* Jossed repeatedly by WordOfGod.
[[WMG: Identity of Rashid.]]
He's also been the Grand Vizier Jafar. He tricked everyone into thinking he was beheaded, then joined the White Council.
* He took the name "Rashid" as a way of saying "Screw you, I lived." to the guy who tried to kill him.
[[WMG: Kincaid's inhuman heritage.]]
He's a Nephilim, the son of a mortal and a fallen Angel.
* Alternatively Lea is his mother. He is implied to be half something and that nickname would imply its half dog. Lea turns mortals into hounds to protect them and how many others are gona birth a half dog?
[[WMG: Building on the above, Kincaid is the son of Nicodemus.]]
They've got personal history, and Kincaid '''hates''' Nicodemus with a furious passion. It would make a terrifying amount of sense if they were related....
** And Laschiel's his mother? Or did Nicodemus' Fallen father Kincaid with a mortal woman?
** Perhaps being possessed by one of the most powerful Fallen for so long actually altered Nick on a genetic level, enough that any children he might have wouldn't be fully human. Interestingly, this might also include Deirdre, though what precisely that would mean for someone who's already a Denarian I'm not sure...
* Nicodemus is human. Deirdre and any other children he has are (mostly) human. Anduriel is his fallen. Anduriel would have to be the one to father Kincaid for this scenario.
[[WMG: Harry has some extra power related to names.]]
It was established that names have power to them particularly when it comes to powerful magical beings. Harry has given names to at least four powerful magical beings (Bob, Ivy, Mouse and Lash) which they all accepted full heartedly. Bob and Ivy may be overlooked and Mouse despite his power is a dog and not likely to object to any name he was given but it is suspect that the Shadow of a Fallen would so readily accept a name granted to her by a mortal, even Harry pointed out it was odd. Not only that but in Dead Beat using the name he gave Bob he was able to reassert the Bob personality that had cast out the dark parts of himself, something unlikely unless the name Bob had become a true name.
* You missed out Demonreach.
* Mouse is significantly more than a dog.
** The name Mouse fits. Mice are tiny animals that can scare the crap out of giant elephants. I remember some magical entity reacting to Mouse's presence with great fear.
* Who says this is a power only Harry has? It's possible that any mortal has it...and Harry's been the only one who has delved so deeply into irreverence to nickname God's creatures.
* Ghost Story spoiler: [[spoiler:Maybe? He calls Uriel by a nickname, which terribly angers - and ''terrifies'' - the archangel. The "-iel" on the end of an angel's name is ''important''. My guess, a nickname leaving out that bit ''lessens'' and angel in some terrible way. Only time will tell if Harry did permanent damage. (Harry is forgiven, of course, and the two come to an agreement on the name of "Mister Sunshine.)]]
** [[spoiler: I kinda figured it had something to do with the "-el" meaning "of God" or "God is". Saying an angel is the "Light" or "The Light" could be blasphemous on an extreme level, because the last set of angels who dropped the pretense of being "of God" are the Fallen. Just food for thought]]
** [[spoiler: Calling an angel "The Light" could also be a reference to calling them "the morning star" or similar...a euphemism for Lucifer, if this Troper recalls correctly.]]
*** [[spoiler: It goes a bit beyond the "Morning Star" name being used for Lucifer - "Lucifer" itself comes from Latin - and means "light bearer". Dropping the "of God" part of Uriel's name, given that and what we've seen with how much of an effect nicknames can have on supernatural beings, could be downright disastrous.]]
* It doesn't have to be that Harry has extra Naming powers, it could just be, and based on Uriel's reaction most likely is, that Names have a lot of power, and nicknames are names just as much as the ones on birth certificates. More so, in fact, because it's repeatedly mentioned that humans especially change their Names a lot.
** Moreover, "Uriel" is probably ''not'' the archangel's true Name, but more of a title that he went by among the Hebrews. Supernatural beings don't hand out their true Names to mortals lightly, and God's black-ops guy ''definitely'' wouldn't have let his real Name be passed around all over the planet by the Bible.
* You are forgetting one more incredibly powerful magical being who Harry has nicknamed: Lea. And we haven't seen any distinct personality changes in her yet. But if the pattern sticks, she should be watched closely..
** We didn't meet the Leanansidhe until long, long AFTER Harry met her and began calling her Lea. Any changes there are long done.
** Moreover, "Leanansidhe" is already a ''title'', not her real name. Harry admits he doesn't know her real name in ''Grave Peril'', the book where she's introduced.
[[WMG: Nicodemus and the Denarians are responsible for every major terrorist attack in the last century.]]
This is already strongly implied, as the Nickelheads were apparently behind a number of horrible disasters in human history, and Tessa was apparently complicit in a number of massive acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide, purely for her own enjoyment. Nicodemus also mentions in ''Death Masks'' that he has a terrorist group ready to take responsibility for the plague he's going to unleash. One can safely assume that if he's done it once, he's done it many times. In fact, it is likely that one could tie many terror attacks (including possibly the Dresdenverse's version of 9/11) directly to the Denarians, as they would have created exactly the kind of environment that the Nickelheads would love and feed power off of.
[[WMG: Hendricks is actually deep, deep undercover for CPD's Mafia Squad.]]
* In ''Storm Front'', he puts a tight three shot into someone who betrayed Marcone. The only other people who do those that we've met are cops or other law enforcement. Also, someone's been keeping the CPD informed about Marcone's movements and plans.
** Note that this doesn't mean that Marcone doesn't know.
** Or maybe Hendricks just trains a lot and is a naturally good shot. Being a good shooter != being police.
** This is incredibly flimsy reasoning. By the same logic, Kincaid is an undercover cop too.
*** Why couldn't Kincaid have been a cop at some point? Doesn't mean Hendricks isn't. Also, this is Wild Mass Guessing, it doesn't NEED substantiation.
*** No, but it really oughta have something a ''little'' less tangential and flimsy. It's only slightly more evidence than saying, "Hendricks has red hair, so he might be Irish. Murphy is Irish, and she's a cop. Therefore, Hendricks is a cop."
*** If the path of logic you used to arrive at your destination is faulty, we are perfectly within our rights to call you on said faulty logic.
*** I fail to see how it's any flimsier than some of the other {{WMG}}s on this, or any other, page.
** Except a cop would hardly be authorized to ''commit first-degree murder'' as part of his deep cover, would he? Because that's what that "perfect three-shot" you're citing would rate as, under the law. Undercover cops are given ''some'' slack for crimes committed to maintain their pretense, but not for homicide.
[[WMG: Harry Dresden's final powers'']]
* Harry will be a Knight of the Cross, the Winter Knight, the Summer Knight, wielding Soulfire, with the power of a redeemed Denarian in him, probably still holding the coin...and he will STILL start the book by getting his ass kicked!
** The Summer Knight thing is {{Jossed}} JB said that one person holding both mantles would cause something like a matter-antimatter explosion.
[[WMG: Harry really did change Lash for the better and she is still in his mind.]]
* Near the end of ''Ghost Story'', Uriel shows to Harry that it was a fallen angel who had influenced Harry's decision to call upon Mab for power, but I doubt Uriel would know the difference between Lasciel's shadow (Lash) and Lasciel herself, when they were(are?) two different entities, the former because Harry gave Lash free will and a portion of his soul. I think it was Lash who whispered in Harry's ears, and even though the action might had seemed cruel at the time, a lot of things turned out for the best.
* I agree. By whispering those seven words into his ears, Lash pretty much ensured Harry's survival and enabled him to annihilate the Red Court as a whole. I don't think she had fully thought out the consequences of the power void left behind though, so it's reasonable to conclude that her motive was to simply ensure her host's standing among the magical world. All of this makes her similar to Lea in the sense that both of them want to protect Harry, but the actions they take to produce that outcome might come across as BlueAndOrangeMorality to mortals.
** Except we ''see'' the entity that whispered the seven words to Harry, and it looked like a shadow. Now, which Fallen do we know of that manifests as a creepy moving shadow, and has ample reason to want to get back at Harry for beating the living tar out of its host in ''Small Favor''?
[[WMG: Martha Liberty was born a slave.]]
She must be an American, as the Merlin is said to believe there were already too many Americans on the Senior Council before [=McCoy=] joined it, and just one (Listens-to-Wind) wouldn't be "too many". She's elderly enough to have pre-dated Luccio's original body, meaning that slavery was still the norm for most black people in the United States when she was young. And her surname of "Liberty" is exactly the sort of name a former slave would have chosen for herself upon escaping from, or being released from bondage.
[[WMG: The Merlin routinely assumes false identities to disguise his long lifespan.]]
[=McCoy=] calls him "Alfred" in a private exchange in ''Summer Knight'', but he's called "Arthur" everywhere else. [=McCoy=] and Langtry obviously have a long history of disliking one another, probably with a basis in Scottish-vs-English resentment, so they most likely met centuries ago when Langtry was going by "Alfred" as a false identity.
[[WMG: Lucius Glau was half Fomor, not half djinn.]]
We only have Madrigal Raith's word that his lawyer (from ''Proven Guilty'') was a jann. He's hardly a trustworthy source, and we know from later events that Madrigal is quite content to do business with other evil power-blocs. Glau's description -- specifically, his "frog-like" mouth -- makes him sound like he's got the "Innsmouth look", which links him to the Lovecraftian-Deep-One motif which the Fomor seem to have. And it's the kind of unobtrusive sneak peek that Butcher might slip into one of his books, to coyly foreshadow the rise of the Fomor as a menace post-''Changes''.
[[WMG: Anduriel does not inhabit a Denarius.]]
Rather, he inhabits the noose around Nicodemus's neck.
* Alternately, Nick stores his coin inside the noose.
[[WMG: Molly will compensate for lacking Harry's strength with lasers.]]
She can bend light and create incredibly convicing illusions while utterly exhausted, a comparatively simple beam of coherent light might be useful. Also, Harry's improved sheild bracelet can proctect him from light for a reason.
To Clarify: I think her holomancy will someday grow to encompass the Light 'em Up and Hard Light tropes.
[[WMG: Margaret [=LeFay=] engineered Harry's birth with special powers to atone for some mistake she made during her bad-girl days.]]
It's been said that the conditions of Harry's birth give him special power/authority over Outsiders. It seems almost certain that Harry's destiny will ultimately involve him driving back some sort of Outsider threat. It's possible that Margaret was involved with setting that threat into motion during her darker days and arranged the circumstances of Harry's birth as a means of setting right what she helped put wrong.
[[WMG: Mac is "He Who Walks Beside"]]
When Harry asks Mac if there's anything he needs to know, Mac basically replies with "Three." We later find out that Sharkface is He Who Walks Before, and Harry's already run into He Who Walks Behind. Sharkface and Mac have a history.
* Ironicly or maybe not there is a reason GodWasMyCopilot exists.
* Mac's response seems to be a warning to ''watch out for'' three Walkers. If Mac himself is a retired Walker, he'd have to be a fourth one, since he's no threat to Harry.
[[WMG: Mother Summer and Mother Winter are the same entity.]]
..Or at least aspects of the same entity.
In ''Cold Days'', [[spoiler: when Harry talks to Titania she explicitly calls Mab her 'sister'.]] Not only that, but Maeve refers to Aurora as her cousin. This cannot this be possible if Mother Winter is mother to Mab, but not Titania. (And vise versa) And they can't both be the biological mothers to both Queens, if they are separate.
The Mothers could be sister, then the Queens would be cousins, and the Ladies second cousins at best. But it would work if the Mothers were somehow the same being.
When Mother Summer talks about [[spoiler: the names Harry used to summon Mother Winter]] she says "But you've only guessed one of her masks - not '''''our''''' most powerful name." Like many Tropers have guessed, the most likely name for both of them at this point seems to be [[spoiler: Fate.]]
* At the end of ''Cold Days'', Mab admits that [[spoiler: she herself was mortal once]]. This suggests that Mab ascended to her position from that of Winter Lady, rather than being born to it as Mother Winter's child, and that the family structure of the Queens in general is more metaphorical than literal.
[[WMG: [=McCoy's=] black staff is alive, sentient, and evil.]]
The reason black magic is forbidden is that casting it requires you to ''believe'' you should do so, which means devising increasingly-flimsy justifications for it, leading you down a path of inexorable corruption. As [=McCoy=] himself doesn't seem to have been corrupted by his use of black magic on either Council's behalf, it's likely that ''he's'' not providing the belief that makes such spells possible: his ''black staff'' is! We see how the staff sends creepy tendrils of dark energy crawling up his arm, when he uses it to insta-kill hundreds of mercenaries in ''Changes'', and how he appears to be resisting or suppressing these tendrils' spread. Why? Because it's an extremely-evil sentient artifact which the White Council captured and bound to their own service, and it loathes human life, free will, and the universe in general so intensely that its wielder can channel energy through it and use ''its'' hatred as a surrogate for personal belief, leaving their own psyche intact. The office of Blackstaff was ''created'' to take advantage of this artifact's power.
[[WMG: Lea is genuinely in love, as much as a Winterfae can be.]]
She kissed Thomas on the neck at Bianca's party, and it burned him. This seemed like (nasty) faerie magic at the time, because the White Court's vulnerability to love hadn't yet been revealed to Harry in that novel; now that we know love burns Raiths, however, it seems plausible that his own "allergy" might have been to blame. Now that Harry is one of Queen Mab's courtiers, we may soon find out who Lea's beloved is.
[[WMG: Rashid can't really predict the future.]]
Rather, his position as Gatekeeper confers the ability to detect whenever a Way in or out of the Nevernever is in use, and something about the purpose of those who travel through it. He ''seems'' to predict the future in ''Summer Knight'' and ''Proven Guilty'', but in reality he'd simply detected that Mai's messenger was en route from Arctis Tor in the former, and that Ebenezar's and Michael's group were on their way to Chicago in the latter. Likewise, he could detect Aurora's party arriving near the Mothers' cottage or the phobophages' arrival at Splattercon!!!, and deduce what was ''really'' going on from their movements, in time to assist or alert Harry.
[[WMG: The Merlin knows far more than anyone suspects]]
There's a number of hints that he's a good bit more cunning than Dresden assumes, especially politically, and he really knows his magic. He's also got a lot of experience sitting on the Council and has been involved in at least the battles with Kemmler. Also, the Gatekeeper technically reports to him, and he can make his spells stick against outsiders: he repels an army of Outsiders and Vampires in the [=NeverNever=] with a single ward. That's a pretty tough thing to manage, since there would be no threshold to anchor it on and I doubt circles are impenetrable there. It's thus likely he's fought them before and possible he knows about Nemesis. If he does, that casts his actions in a different light on a number of occasions: 1. His defensive approach to the Red Court war. Acting aggressively would increase the risk of high-ranking members being captured and infected by Nemesis, and he may have anticipated fighting Outsiders all along, which ended very poorly for the Council when they were forced into doing it. 2. His insistence that no Black Council existed. Telling people about Nemesis would induce crippling paranoia because anyone could ''become'' a traitor at basically any time, while telling people a shadowy organization existed would induce people to believe that it acts like a mundane organization. 3. Putting Morgan on trial. In addition to the political worries, he could have believed that Morgan had been infected. 4. His vendetta against Harry. Harry was in actual combat with a Walker and miraculously survived, which seems highly suspicious. Even if his status as a Starborn were known, he has a lot of trouble fighting He-Who-Walks-Before even after becoming the Winter Knight.
* We can assume that if some of his decisions were sub-optimal for how he proceeded, he was genuinely blindsided by Peabody.
