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* There's also a part of Harry's conversation with Ebenezar in the last chapter of ''Changes''.
--> "Hell of a hard thing to do."
--> "It wasn't hard," I said quietly. "Just cold."
--> "Oh, Hoss," he said. There was more compassion in the words than you'd think would fit there.
* Whenever the mask that Susan has been trying to hold together slips and her fear and pain (just as much as Dresden’s) shows for her daughter. Martin’s account of how she is doing and what she witnessed with the disappearance, especially hammering down the tragedy for her.
* Harry has been paralyzed from the waist down, and is succumbing to despair, and prays to the archangel Uriel to help him. Uriel arrives and says he can't, but then reminds him that he does have a couple of other avenues open to him to save his daughter. Finally, he makes the choice he's been avoiding for years.
-->"For you, little girl. Dad's coming. [[GodzillaThreshold Mab! Mab, Queen of Air and Darkness, Queen of the Winter Court! Mab, I bid you come]] ''[[GodzillaThreshold forth]]''!"
** An extra Tearjerker comes in the fact that it's very obvious Uriel isn't being a jerk, here - he genuinely ''wants'' to help Harry, but GodsHandsAreTied. All he can do is to remind Harry about the other option, and watch, and hope Harry will continue to choose well.
* While he was undoubtedly a five star bastard it's hard not to feel nothing for Slate after seeing what being [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured for the better part of a decade has reduced him too.]] Even Lilly and Fix, who have more reason then anyone to want to see Slate get his comeuppance, don't think even he deserved ''that.'' Hell, if anything, he seems thankful when Harry slits his throat and finally ends it all.
* When Harry realizes that he has to kill Susan to win the day at the end of ''Changes'', directly and deliberately provoking her to do what would doom her to transform into a vampire, to use as a sacrifice for the bloodline curse. Lying as well to do so. Butcher makes clear how horrible it is for him.
-->I used the knife\\
I saved a child.\\
I won a war.\\
God forgive me.
** What makes it extra powerful is that for the majority James Marsters' reading of the audiobook, he's fairly calm. Sure, there are scenes where he tinges his reading with the anger, disbelief, weariness, pain, and fear that Harry has to be feeling, but when he gets to "God forgive me," the line is delivered with a heartbreaking half-sob. It almost sounds like Marsters ''himself'' was breaking down crying while reading that chapter.
** Even before that, Marsters' performance had a heartwrenching moment where Harry starts rambling wildly about all the things his paternal instincts are telling him to do when he finally sees his daughter in person. When he gets to how badly he wants to give her a teddy bear he sounds like he's about to break down.
** What also makes it even more poignant is that Harry has always kept his distance from religion of any sort and has expressed his rage against God on numerous occasions. So to see him breaking down and ''begging'' God for forgiveness is very painful.
** For that matter Susan’s perspective as well, separate from Harry’s anguish. Betrayed and utterly terrified, as she is agonisingly twisting into a monster…and even still holding onto her mind enough, so that her beloved daughter can be saved. Tears falling, her last word Maggie’s name. On a fridge level as well, since she died as a vampire who knows if this will mean something horrible for her afterlife or not too.
* Hell, Marsters' reading the entire last chapter. Especially when Harry asks Murphy to take Maggie to Father Forthill and put her someplace safe, and that he doesn't need to know.
** A small but powerful moment afterward: the Leanansidhe says that she will bury Susan with all the respect and honor that Harry would wish to do himself, and even ''gives her word'' that she will do so without expecting anything from Harry in return - something incredibly rare among TheFairFolk. But the hammer comes from Harry's thoughts immediately afterward.
-->''But maybe I shouldn't have been surprised: [[DarkIsNotEvil Even in Winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.]]''
* When Harry is cradling Maggie:
-->''I looked down at the child, a sleepy, warm little presence who had simply accepted what meager shelter and comfort I had been able to offer. And I thought my heart would break. Break more. Because I knew that I couldn't be what she needed. That I could never give what she had to have to stand a chance of growing up strong and sane and happy.\\
Because I had made a deal. If I hadn't done it, she'd be dead--but because I had, I couldn't be what she deserved to have.
* The last few minutes of the book manages to pull one of the cruelest [[DownerEnding downer endings]] in recent literature. Just when you thought it was all over, after all the terrible odds and hardships he'd faced, and without even the chance to see it coming, Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden [[TheHeroDies dies like a chump]] via InstantDeathBullet.

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