Line #5 Awesome/GravePeril


1	* Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment\|s}}:
2	-->'''Michael''': I still can't believe that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.\
3	'''Harry''': Not just a vampire, a ''cheesy'' vampire. Do you think they got the point?
4	* Harry, outnumbered by the vampires, manages to win by putting enough magic into the area to awaken the ghosts of all the people that the vampires have killed over the years. The ghosts not only completely annihilate the vamps, but cause the entire mansion to ''implode on itself in a fireball''.
5	* Harry lets the villain kill him in his dreams, but uses the villain's weakening of the border between worlds to make his ghost appear to assist in killing the villain, double teaming the villain with himself. Harry then literally rips apart and eats the villain's spirit, gaining not only the power the villain had stolen from him earlier but the villain's power as well. And has someone (who could quite possibly kill him by mistake) perform CPR on him the next minute. The entire thing possibly counts as {{Foreshadowing}} to later events.
6	* To get to the SupervillainLair Harry and company have to cross into the Nevernever where his [[TheFairFolk fairy godmother]] waits to bind him into lifelong servitude. But Harry has a plan. As soon as she appears, Thomas and Michael throw two boxes of nails around Harry. As Lea shrieks about them defiling the soil, Harry uses his contingency plan. Thomas reveals that the nails were an aluminum distraction. Harry had used the time to eat Destroying Angel, a poisonous toadstool that will destroy his organs in a few hours and kill him within days. However, Michael has St. Mary's thistle, a temporary antidote for mushroom poisoning, which he's willing to trade in exchange for Lea leaving Harry alone for a year and a day. Made even better by the fact that other than the nail distraction, Harry was completely honest about the whole thing.
7	-->'''Harry''': I don't bluff if I can help it. I'm not too good at it.
8	** Bonus, the same mushroom poisoning kept the vampires from draining him dry later. They got badly poisoned.
9	** The CMOA for the vampires come in when they reveal that they had been watching the spirit world entrance and capture Harry.
10	* Nightmare is threatening to eat Harry's heart. [[GrammarCorrectionGag Harry then corrects his enemy's grammar.]]
11	-->'''Nightmare''': I shall rip out thy heart!\
12	'''Harry''': It's THINE heart.
13	* Michael turning up at the graveyard where the Nightmare had taken Charity:
14	-->"Dost thou not realise, fool? This is thy death come upon thee."\
15	A boot planted itself heavily on the marble beside me. Then another. ''Amoracchius'' cast a glowing white light upon my shoulder, and Michael said, "I think not."
16	* Charity is at first your regular anime wife (despite not being anime character!). A [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocritical]] {{Jerkass}} with lot of children and terrorises her family into obedience. Then we get into the graveyard fight and we see despite everything, she ''is'' Michael Carpenter's better half
17	** The Nightmare, having taken Charity hostage after assuming Harry's form (as in his full 6'9 form along with SuperStrength and SuperToughness) taunts Harry they can't save her. Cue Charity, who has a [[PregnantBadass full term pregnancy]], while on her back, spins around and kicks Nightmare-Harry in the chest hard enough ''to send him flying''. And then later she pulls out her crucifix, and drives Nightmare away from Harry, seconds before her water breaks. And to think this was just a taste for those coming.
18	** Also, Harry physically throwing himself between Charity and Nightmare's counter attack before she uses the crucifix.
19	* Michael comforting Harry after everything's over. Harry's in the hospital. Harry's worried about the karmic comeuppance he may be in for due to him unleashing the magical forces mentioned above.
20	--> '''Michael:''' I'm not a philosopher, Harry. But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around...and sometimes you ''are'' what's coming around. You see what I mean?
21	* Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment\|s}} Harry rejects Bianca's offer and starts the war with the Red Court because of Susan.
22	-->'''Harry:''' I love her.\
23	'''Bianca:''' What? What did you say?\
24	'''Harry:''' I said, I love her.\
25	'''Bianca:''' She is already half mine.\
26	'''Harry:''' So? I still love her.\
27	'''Bianca:''' She isn't even fully human any longer, Dresden. It won't be long before she is a sister to me.\
28	'''Harry:''' Maybe. Maybe not. Get your hands off my girlfriend.\
29	'''Bianca:''' You are ''mad''. You would flirt with chaos, destruction-with war. For the sake of ''this'' one wounded soul?\
30	'''Harry:''' For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life. The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting a war for.
31	* At the vampire ball, Kelly Hamilton, a Red Court Vampire, places a hand on Michael Carpenter's shoulder. Her hand immediately bursts into white hot flame, leaving her screaming in agony. Michael's mere ''touch'' made a vampire spontaneously combust. Even better was his nonchalant response.
32	-->'''Michael''': Sorry, that happens sometimes.
33	** And we can't forget Harry gloating to Kelly after he warned her not to "bite off more than she could chew":
34	-->'''Harry''': Let that be a lesson to you. Hands off the Fist of God.
35	* "I reached for fire - and fire answered me." 'Nuff said.
36	-->'''Harry''': [[PlayingWithFire Fuego! Pyrofuego!]] [[UnstoppableRage Burn, you greasy-faced bastards!]] ''[[UnstoppableRage Burn!]]''
37	** This is often overshadowed by his PersonOfMassDestruction tendencies in later books, and is worth dwelling on. At this point, Harry has had a chunk taken out of his magic and is additionally weakened by having four times broken his bargain with Lea, plus being poisoned so that he struggles even with making some light. And then he burns down the topiary with flames that shoot fifty feet into the air. Picture fifty feet. Are you picturing them? ''That is a lot of feet.''
38	*** (For those Tropers in metric, that's over ''15 meters'').
39	** There is another thing about that line that can be easily missed; the reason wizards [[CallingYourAttacks use]] [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign ancient language or nonsense words]] to cast spells is that using words from languages they actually speak risk damaging their brains and causing the power to surge out when they don't want it to. For Harry to summon fire using regular language, he was so far past caring that wasn't on the same continent anymore.
40	* The introduction of Ferrovax. Ferrovax is literally a force of nature, maybe two tiers down from out-and-out godhood.
41	** Also, the reveal that Michael was the one who slew Siriothrax.
42	* Lea having stolen ''Amoracchius'', offers the sword back in exchange for Michael's eldest daughter Molly. Michael's response is to go into PapaWolf mode and ''NeckLift the PhysicalGod fairy queen'' and threaten her
43	--> Stay away from my family, faerie. Or I will set such things in motion against you as will destroy you for all time.
44	* Mavra attempts to SpeedBlitz Harry. Susan and Michael simultaneously pull out crosses and repel her.
45	* Lea's nasty but effective XanatosGambit that allows her to take ''Amoracchius'' with her.
46	* Thomas managing to steal Amoracchius from Bianca's goons and disabling [[DemonicPossession Kravos-possessed]] Lydia with his incubus powers.
47	** Also, the fact that he's been the BlackSheep of the family and they have been sending him to problematic places like Bianca's party hoping to get him killed, but he's come out unscathed.
48	* Bob's BatmanGambit against vampires, bluffing that if they touch Harry's magical tools they would explode. This allows Harry to get them the moment he breaks out.
49	* After playing rough at Mortimer's place for answers since he refused to give information on Nightmare Harry gives him a YouUsedToBeBetterSpeech. And by some of the sequels, it worked to an extraordinary degree.
50	* Harry tries to swipe ''Amoracchius'' from Mavra's hands with magnetism spell. She tries to hold on, so he puts in more juice and smashes her into the ground.

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