History Characters / TheDresdenFilesTheWhiteCouncil

** In ''Literature/DeadBeat'', when Harry had executed [[GrandTheftMe Corpsetaker in Luccio's body]], Morgan, thinking he just murdered his commander and the woman he was in love with, was going to come after Harry despite the fact that Harry is a powerful wizard in his own right ''and'' had a [[StrongerWithAge multi-million year dead]] zombie T-Rex on his side. Harry wasn't sure he could win in such a confrontation, and realized that even if he ''did'' kill Morgan through some miracle, then Morgan's death curse would've '''obliterated''' him regardless.

** His baiting of Molly in ''Turn Coat'' also seems needless, but as he points out entirely accurately, neither the Council nor the rest of the world will treat her with kid gloves, and neither of them would help her by treating her gently. Given that Molly has a horrified realisation about wanting to use mental magic on him, a milestone in her development, he's proven right.

* InsufferableGenius: By all accounts, she was ''almost'' as brilliant a wizard as she was a ''chore'' to hang out with. Goodman Grey, in ''Skin Game'', ruefully calls her a "piece of work", and directly compares her to his father, [[spoiler: a ''skinwalker'']].

* TakingYouWithMe: Downplayed. She knew Lord Raith was the one responsible for killing her, but his magical defenses were too good for her to kill him outright with her death curse... so instead she somehow used it to remove his ability to feed. This would not only kill him in a very slow way, but it also crippled the White Court for a generation. Rather than letting his weakness be known by his treacherous subordinates, Lord Raith withdrew, changing the White Court agenda from outward-looking and expansionist to conservative and preserving their holdings.

** Harry finds it despicable that Ebenezar recommends keeping one's child safe and far away from their parent. This despite the fact that the entire TraumaCongaLine of ''Changes'' occurred due to Maggie being kidnapped from her home in the middle of Red Court territory. Then, less than two months ago in-universe, Nicodemus targeted the Carpenter household and nearly killed Charity in a deliberate attempt to murder Maggie, which only barely failed. And as he soon finds out in ''Peace Talks'', leaving her with the Svartalves isn't the best idea ever either. Granted, Harry's own abandonment issues are a clear factor here too.

** Margaret was not the only person close to him that Ebenezar lost to the White Court. Who, and how, we may never know.

** In general, most of his actions as the Blackstaff. In particular, we learn in ''Peace Talks'' TheTunguskaEvent involved him killing a '''dragon.'''

** When Lara stated she planned to keep with Harry when pursuing her traitorous cousin Madeline and the wizard Binder against Eb's desires, Eb just [[PsychicStrangle squeezed his hand and nearly choked her to death]]. While Harry calls him off, Eb made the point.

* RedBaron: To those in the know, he is called simply "the Blackstaff". When Jared "Hellhound" Kincaid outright states that a) he's been avoiding Ebenezar for the last century due to a promise from the latter to kill him if he ever saw him again, b) he'd be in another state and still running if he knew Ebenezar was anyway nearby, it says something about the man.

* NoodleIncident: She asks Harry he remembers her, though also notes that they have never met in person before.

* SassyBlackWoman: Always makes her displeasure known in a precise manner to everybody.

* CoolOldGuy: Of all of the Senior Council, save Ebenezar and Listens-to-Wind, Rashid is most often a friend and ally to Harry, if distantly. Being on the Senior Council alone makes him pretty powerful, but Rashid is still extremely powerful even by their standards.

* OutOfFocus: He often doesn't appear for a few books at a time; a JustifiedTrope since he's often busy protecting all of reality from Outsiders.

* {{Ambadassador}}: He spends most of his appearance in ''Peace Talks'' engaging in diplomacy with the svartalves and White Court. While his magical chops aren't seen, nobody makes it onto the Senior Council without some impressive skills.
** They show up in the next book, and he certainly shows that while he may not be anywhere near the most powerful of the Senior Council, he's no pushover either.

* CorruptPolitician: Mole or not, the man used his position as [=LaFortier=]'s apprentice to usurp the dead man's spot. He even threatened to split the Council by leaving the Council with those who interests [=LaFortier=] represented and fought for if he wasn't given [=LaFortier's=] seat on the Senior Council. [[WordOfGod Word of Jim]] has confirmed that his greatest talent isn't magic; it's [[https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/25q3em/i_am_jim_butcher_author_of_the_dresden_files_the/chjqznr networking with other wizards]] and using the connections he makes.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: He doesn't make any appearances onstage until ''Peace Talks'' [[spoiler: as one of the main proponents of the peace talks with the Fomor.]] Even then [[OutOfFocus much of this takes place off-screen or gets interrupted before he can achieve much.]] In the following battle, he's only mentioned in group scenes and has no dialogue.

* BadassArmy: It was mentioned that he had a "brute squad" that had died with him in Archangel. They could have been Wardens or Pietrovich's personal followers from the Council rank and file, but they were powerful combat mages who specialized in earth magic.

* MasterApprenticeChain: He was the mentor of [=Justin DuMorne=], who was the mentor to Harry Dresden (who eventually trained Molly Carpenter) and Elaine Mallory. Dresden's tutelage went to Ebenezer [=McCoy=], while Elaine took refuge with the Summer Court where she presumably continued her training.

* TheSmartGuy: The Council's top expert on the Vampire Courts and how to fight them. For this reason, he is killed in a brutal attack on his base.
* TakingYouWithMe: Implied to have killed ''all'' the remaining vampires attacking his base via his death curse.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Her original body was never described as ugly, far from it - she's implied to have been quite a beauty as a young woman. However, after a couple of centuries, she's described as more tough and matronly. The comics, however, portray her in her original body as being a feminine SilverFox.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Mind-controlled by Peabody into killing [=LaFortier=], and also was mind-controlled into being attracted to Harry in order for the traitor to keep tabs on him. The latter is a downplayed trope, as it's speculated by Harry and Rashid that she probably did feel at least ''some'' attraction to him.

* FormerTeenRebel: While probably not as a teenager, its implied she was quite TheHedonist. Everything suggests that she used to ReallyGetsAround. She apparently used to moonlight ''as an exotic dancer'', in which she was TheRival to '''Lara Raith'''. When she walks in on what looks like Harry, who she was then having a relationship with, having a DestructoNookie orgy, he panicks and tells her that it's NotWhatItLooksLike (which is true). She just rolls her eyes and says she's seen and ''done'' worse, and that she's not judgmental.

* HiddenDepths: Despite wizards' [[WalkingTechbane anti-technological aura]], she studies computer science as a hobby. Incidentally, this will probably put her in a position of considerable authority over the Council, since she will be well ahead of the curb if the rules of magic change again in her lifetime.

* LadyOfWar: A very refined fighter. Where as most Wardens throw huge fire balls at their enemy, she uses fire like a laser cutter. She's also shown herself to be an incredibly effective and firm commander who knows how to effectively lead her Wardens into battle.

* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Averted in ''Dead Beat'', she and her patrol of Wardens are working to stop the Darkhollow from being complete when they discover a group of children trick-or-treating and about to be attacked by zombies. They can either let the kids die and work on saving everyone by stopping the ritual, or potentially let the ritual go off and protect the children. Luccio chooses the latter and is angered Harry would think she would do otherwise.

* ProjectileSpell: Her choice of offensive spell is usually fire concentrated into a needle-thin beam of pure intense heat, which Harry eventually learns how to use in ''Changes''. Luccio's is still superior, though, as Harry mentions that he can probably only use it in the Nevernever (where magic is easier). He also gushes a bit every time he sees her use it.
* QuicklyDemotedWoman: Subverted. Although getting switched to a younger body leaves her ''much'' less effective in combat (and incapable of enchanting Warden swords), and Morgan becomes the Wardens' combat commander, Luccio retains her rank as overall commander of the Wardens, and uses her knowledge to good effect in a less-physical position. Plus "much less effective in combat" still leaves her capable of kicking a lot of ass.

* WeakButSkilled: By necessity. Ever since being transferred to her younger body, Luccio's talents have suffered as her new body doesn't have the potential for magic that her older one possessed. That being said, she is still ''incredibly'' powerful and a masterfully-skilled fighter, and makes use of her reduced talents to impressive effect. Even with a modest magical talent now, Luccio can produce deadly beams of precise energy or wide area-effect illusions. Harry states in ''Changes'' even with the obvious decrease in power he still wouldn't want to fight her.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Harry sarcastically implies that he's getting into pedophilia, Morgan takes him seriously.

** Killed an EldritchAbomination by luring it into a [[NukeEm nuclear testing site.]]

** The microfiction "Journal" set between [=LaFortier=]'s death and Morgan's escape, shows that the main reason why he’s been a dick to Harry for so many years is because he was actively trying to make sure that Harry had not been co-opted or turned by the bad guys, and that apparently Morgan seems to know the importance of Harry being a star born and how important that is regarding the outsiders. [[spoiler:He was also aware of Nemesis itself, and how to spot an infection by Nemesis in other people]].

-->'''Harry:''' "See, here's the thing. Morgan was right: You can't win them all. But that doesn't mean you give up. Not ever. Morgan never said that part- he was too busy living it."

** He's a surprisingly good teacher, as shown when he teaches Molly how to open ways into the Nevernever.
** The microfiction ''Journal'' is a journal entry told from his perspective. While Harry sees a hardnosed, overeager [[GoodCopBadCop bad cop]] who is all too eager to carry out death sentences, the short story shows a jaded OldSoldier who was looking out for a young Harry due to a promise to Margaret. Looking ''over'' him and his every movement, due to his past as a warlock shaped by Justin [=DuMorne=], was out of fear that Harry might just shift back to his old ways and become a "Destroyer" and a creature of Nemesis. He had regrets about how overzealous he was in pursuing Harry, but the possibility that Harry was a tool of the archenemy weighed even heavier on him.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: With a little [[EveryoneHasStandards Even]] ''{{Inspector Javert}}s'' [[EveryoneHasStandards Have Standards]]. After Molly's trial in ''Proven Guilty'', where ''Morgan'' would have been Molly's executioner, he went back to the White Council headquarters and got himself massively drunk.
* InspectorJavert: To the core. Though, to be fair, it turns out that he had a depth of character that was initially opaque to the audience. He stalked and tried to bait Harry into aggressive actions because he was convinced that Harry really was rotten. He even played the same role with Molly, though she had earned it, and having her death sentence suspended by debt to a Knight of the Cross, nearly carrying out the sentence caused him enough grief to go get drunk when he got back to HQ. In ''Turn Coat'', '''he''' ironically ends up as the one on the run because he was covering for a mind-controlled Luccio for Lafortier's murder; and he does finally come as close as somebody as stiff-necked as him came to admitting that his pursuit of Harry was unjustified.

** Luccio abstained from a relationship with Morgan in their youth as explained above. Decades later, when she tried to pursue a relationship with him, HeroWorshipper Morgan, having modelled himself after her, refuses despite still loving her. When she started a relationship with Harry, who was in a HeadbuttingHeroes attitude with Morgan, things got awkward.
** In ''Turn Coat,'' he ends up as a fugitive from the Wardens, ironic given how he was usual the one pursuing fugitives.
* {{Jerkass}}: He seems to enjoy stalking Harry just a little too much, and typically comes up with particularly barbed comments to throw at Harry. To put it into perspective, even ten books after Morgan has stopped officially hounding Harry, the latter ''still'' has nightmares of "a grey-cloaked wraith drawing his blade and cutting me to ribbons."
* JerkassHasAPoint: While it was completely wrong of him to phrase it in such a harsh way, he's not entirely wrong in ''Turn Coat'' when he points out that Harry is still partly responsible for the Alphas getting involved with the supernatural world.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: However, in the end Morgan is still one of the good guys, fully willing to give his life for the sake of the Council, and his attitude is revealed to be driven not by any particular belief that Harry was special (as in, specially bad), but that he ''wasn't'' - i.e. that he'd revert like the vast majority of other Warlocks Morgan had dealt with, and take a lot of people down with him. And though he never says it outright, his last words to Harry are "the closest he'd ever come to admitting he was wrong about me."

** There is a very clear one in the first book; Morgan could have easily stood by and let Harry die in the burning house, but he came in, rescued Harry, and then admitted to the White Council that he was wrong in that specific case. He may not like Harry, but he's not without honor.

** He calls Molly "[[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious Miss Carpenter]]" when working with her to stop Binder from killing Harry and Karrin.

** In ''Proven Guilty'', Morgan is among those convinced by Harry's argument that Molly Carpenter doesn't deserve to be executed for her use of black magic. However, he still intends to personally carry out her execution if the Senior Council rules it, because it is his duty.

The regional commander of the Wardens on the West Coast, barely out of his apprenticeship. He loves to make jokes about his own awesomeness and popularity with the ladies.

* BrokenPedestal: By the end of ''Battle Ground,'' his respect for Harry is pretty much completely shattered due to the latter's epic lack of communication skills.

* DisintegratorRay: One of his spell is a narrow beam fired from his finger that turns people to dust and water.
* EntropyAndChaosMagic: Of the entropy and decay form. Carlos has a lot of spells that specialize in disintegrating matter or causing it to decay. His shield for example breaks bullets apart into powder. In ''Cold Case'' he enters a church by neatly turning a part of wooden wall into powder.

* IGotYouCovered: Carlos says he's with Harry 100%.

* RememberThatYouTrustMe: At one point, Ramirez reminds Harry that they're Fire-Forged Friends and tells him that he knows he's keeping secrets from him.

* WhatTheHellHero: Calls out Harry for his incredibly poor communication skills and general jerkishness in ''Battle Ground.''

* LastStand: When Dresden found Terry's corpse he saw that Terry's knuckles were bloodied, showing that even when up against nearly unbeatable ghouls, he still fought with the only weapon he had left -- his fists.

* AbusiveParents: To Harry and Elaine, if Harry's testimony is anything to go by. Really, Lord Raith is the ''only'' parent in the series (adopted or otherwise) who is worse than [=DuMorne=].

* DeathByChildbirth: Though it was actually due to by an entropy curse caused by Lord Raith.

* FatalFlaw: Her [[InsufferableGenius brilliance isolating her from reality]]. [=LeFay=] was insanely clever, but often wasn't that good at logically thinking through the consequences of her actions. For instance, she advocated for the White Council to become more active in the non-magical world because their immense power [[ComesGreatResponsibility could be used for so much better causes]], but Luccio later points out to Harry how she was incredibly shortsighted in this viewpoint and didn't realize that the Council primarily exists just to keep warlocks in check, ''not'' police the world (which would be a completely impossible and self-destructive endeavor).

* MayflyDecemberRomance: As a [[WizardsLiveLonger magical practitioner]], her relationship with Harry's father Malcolm had shades of this. Somewhat ironically, he ended up outliving her.

* MementoMacguffin: Is the source of one to her son Harry. At first, he wears a pentacle-shaped pendant on a necklace that he'd had since birth that he uses sometimes as a ritual focus but otherwise has no magical properties. That changes when Harry also receives a gem meant to fit inside the pendant that is Margaret's self-made map of [[PortalNetwork the Ways]].

* PosthumousCharacter: She died before the series began, but her choices and actions still affect both her children.

* BadassBaritone: He's described as having a deep bass voice and is an extremely powerful wizard in charge of the White Council.

Characters from ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the White Council.

* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarryDresden Harry Dresden]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesHarrysHousehold Harry's Household]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheChurch The Church]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheVampires The Vampire Courts]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheDenarians The Denarians]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFae The Fae]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheFomor The Fomor]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheKemmlerites The Kemmlerites]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoMafia Chicago Mafia]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesChicagoPDAndFBI Chicago Police and FBI]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOtherPowerfulPeopleAndEntities Other Powerful Entities]]
* [[Characters/TheDresdenFilesOrdinaryPeopleAndBadassNormals Ordinary People and Badass Normals]]

* SecretKeeper: Wizards hoard knowledge and secrets, both to guard the information from misuse and to make sure they could use it exclusively if the need arises. Word of Jim is if Senior Council Listens-to-Winds learned anything specific about Pietrovich's death, he would keep the fact to himself.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: While of [[LooseCanon dubious canon]], in the [[TabletopGame/TheDresdenFiles tabletop RPG]] Billy found notes that indicated that Pietrovich was a friend of Czar Nicholas around the Russian Revolution, and he even introduced him to Rasputin. When Pietrovich's apprentice murdered Rasputin, the Blackstaff shows up to apprehend him, and Pietrovich handed his apprentice over without a second thought because of how bloody the situation got(although there are doubts mentioned in the same material, over whether he actually handed over ''the right one'').

* MagicKnight: The Wardens and some of their other members are this. Justified as they need to kill humans using a means ''besides'' magic to prevent themselves from being corrupted into warlocks.

** In ''Changes'', Harry could barely crack the pillars of Red King's palatial pyramid despite tapping into the Ley Line beneath it and the power of Winter Knight. When Ebenezar arrives, he casually blows up entire sections of the structure housing the resident {{Physical God}}s.

* TheDreaded: [[invoked]] WordOfGod has remarked that the Gatekeeper is ''the'' most dangerous member of the Senior Council, and Harry has a healthy amount of respect bordering on fear for him.

* IdiotBall: If he isn't TheMole, then he holds this for believing the Red Court would agree to a good peace treaty and all would end well.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: He stalls Molly's trial, and execution, by not casting a vote under the pretense he needs time to consider Harry's argument against the Merlin's. While his singular vote will not tip the scales one way or another, as the Merlin is the proxy vote for the other five absent Senior Council members making the vote at least 6-to-1 in favor of guilty, he claims it is a heavy choice to make and is carefully thinking on it. This allows him to stall until other Senior Council members can arrive and they will vote to put Molly on parole.

* RedBaron: While his name is not unknown, very few people refer to him as anything other than "Gatekeeper".

** If he is actually taking some time like ordinary wizards, the attack will be '''massive'''. In [[spoiler: ''Battle Ground'', he has Harry HoldTheLine, before generating a ''colossal'' quicksand which entraps an ''entire army of '''building sized Jotnars''''']].

** Ebenezar is in general a caring (if not exactly doting) grandfather and a genuinely good man, who taught Harry much of his own morals. But he's also been the Council's assassin for ''at least'' a hundred-plus years, and it is a very, very bad idea to mess with him or those he loves.

* LukeIAmYourFather: In ''Changes'', it is revealed that he's actually Harry's maternal grandfather.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Ebenezar didn't get to be Captain of the Wardens by collecting bottlecaps, and even though he's since handed over the title to Luccio, he is definitely not someone to mess with.

** Since he is a Senior Council member in an organization ran by AsskickingEqualsAuthority, his death shows that:

* PoisonousFriend: To the White Council and especially Harry, since if you threaten either one, he'll blow you up. Literally.

* MagicKnight: As are most Wardens, with his massive broadsword being his WeaponOfChoice.

* WeaponOfChoice: Morgan carries a ''massive'' broadsword forged by Luccio to [[AntiMagic break enchantments]].

* WeaponOfChoice: Ramirez carries a [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]] and a willow sword, with the latter being an AntiMagic Warden blade.

* WeaponOfChoice: Ebenezar normally uses a staff carved from an oak tree struck by lightning on his farm. But when shit really hits the fan, he pulls out the Blackstaff, which allows him to work BlackMagic without going insane by turning the mental corruption into painful-but-workable ''physical'' corruption of his flesh.

* KnifeNut: Doesn't carry a gun in ''War Cry'', and, unlike other Wardens, doesn't have a sword either. What he does have is a large Bowie knife he uses to disembowel several vampires, and it's unclear if this is of the same make as the Wardens' swords. Confirmed not to be the case in ''Battle Ground'', as Dresden says he has been working on his knife "for a number of years." What magics he has enchanted it with are currently unknown.

* LongRunners: They're a remarkably old organization, dating all the way back to before the Fall of Rome and into the mythical days of the [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian mythos]] if ''Cold Days'' is to be believed.

* BerserkButton: Though it showed very little up until ''Peace Talks'', he hates White Court Vampires more than nearly anything. They killed somebody very important to him, implicitly through treachery, and when asked if it was his daughter, he just bitterly answers [[CrypticBackgroundReference "Her, too."]] He comes to blows with Harry for supporting the White Court, and it only ends with Ebenezar trying desperately to reach out to Harry to understand why he's doing it voluntarily and not just as a repayed favor. When Ebenezar's told that Thomas is his grandson and Harry's half-brother, his immediate reaction is to try to kill Thomas without a thought about the lives of everybody else aboard the Water Beetle (admittedly, he's amped up on adrenaline at the moment and not thinking clearly). Harry tries to intervene and takes the bullet instead. As Harry exchanges dying words with him, Ebenezar realizes that the Harry he just accidentally killed [[ActuallyADoombot was a doppleganger]].

* PopCulturedBadass: Somewhat downplayed, but he calls Harry "[[Series/{{Bonanza}} Hoss]]," and in ''Turn Coat,'' he seems to recognize Harry's "[[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Wile E. Coyote]]" reference. In the same novel, it's mentioned that one of the authors on his bookshelves is Heinlein, presumably the science fiction writer.

* CommunicationsOfficer: Seems to have a know in this.

* DishingOutDirt: In ''Battle Ground,'' he shows mastery of Earth magic, slaughtering Fomor minions by droves.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Harry suspects if Cristos is the mole to the Black Council, then the primary reason to knock [=LaFortier=] off is to allow their own agent a chance to move up onto the Senior Council.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Averted; he was a good friend of [=McCoy's=], and Archangel was a sore point for quite a while. In fact, [=McCoy=] later using "Asteroid Dresden" to ''obliterate'' Ortega's stronghold after he failed to kill Harry was both him [[PapaWolf defending his grandson]] and getting revenge on behalf of his dead friend.

* SternTeacher: Justin got his teaching methods from somewhere.

* SimpleStaff: He carries one, and is an expert in using it to hit people when necessary.

* NiceHat: His bowler.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: While of [[LooseCanon dubious canon]], in the [[TabletopGame/TheDresdenFiles tabletop RPG]] Billy found notes that indicated that Pietrovich was a friend of Czar Nicholas around the Russian Revolution, and he even introduced him to Rasputin. When Pietrovich's apprentice murdered Rasputin, the Blackstaff shows up to apprehend him, and Pietrovich handed his apprentice over without a second thought because of how bloody the situation got(although there are doubts mentioned in the same material, over whether he actually handed over ''the right one''). * CharacterDeath: He and his "brute squad" were killed to a man in a huge attack organized by Duke Ortega of the Red Court.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: While of [[LooseCanon dubious canon]], in the [[TabletopGame/TheDresdenFiles tabletop RPG]] Billy found notes that indicated that Pietrovich was a friend of Czar Nicholas around the Russian Revolution, and he even introduced him to Rasputin. When Pietrovich's apprentice murdered Rasputin, the Blackstaff shows up to apprehend him, and Pietrovich handed his apprentice over without a second thought because of how bloody the situation got (although there are doubts mentioned in the same material, over whether he actually handed over ''the right one'').

* KilledOffForReal: He and his "brute squad" were killed to a man in a huge attack organized by Duke Ortega of the Red Court.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Killed by Drakul's followers offscreen in ''Battle Ground''. Even worse, it's implied that he and Yoshimo will be turned into Black Court vampires by Mavra]].

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Killed by off screen by Black Court vampires in ''Battle Ground''. Even worse, it's implied that she and Wild Bill will be turned by Mavra]].

* KilledOffForReal: Killed by the shades resurrected by the Corpsetaker.

* ShootTheDog: While he WouldHurtAChild because the White Council's policy on BlackMagic use is rather severe, he's dealt with enough errant warlocks to know that rehabilitation is only asking for trouble nine times out of ten.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Him nearly executing Molly Carpenter in ''Proven Guilty'' has him getting utterly ''sloshed'' at the bar afterwards out of guilt. He's also horrified when he realizes that he actually ''was'' in the wrong during ''Dead Beat'' and Harry didn't kill Luccio.

* JerkassHasAPoint: He's horrified when he learns Thomas Raith not only knows about Maggie, but is allowed in the same building with her. He gets into a heated argument about it with Harry, who in turn calls him out on his own poor parenting choices... but Ebenezar still has a point that Thomas is a White Court vampire, as well as being from a family he has plenty of good reasons to despise. And while Thomas is currently the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, Ebenezar [[LockedOutOfTheLoop doesn't know that]], and the first time the two crossed paths Thomas had only ''barely'' been thwarted from raping Molly Carpenter to death by her quick response (Thomas had been injured and forced into a feral state for this purpose by Shagnasty, but again, Ebenezar didn't know that) and the older wizard had also gotten a good look at the aftermath of Lara Raith actually ''succeeding'' in raping and devouring her own cousin. It's rather understandable that Ebenezar wouldn't want Thomas anywhere ''near'' his (known) family.

* WhoWatchesTheWatchmen: As Luccio lays out to Harry in ''Turn Coat'', the Council is ultimately not about enforcing justice, but restraining power, serving in this role by making sure that the Seven Laws of Magic are being followed and that the propagation of BlackMagic is stopped.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Subtly implied; As Harry learns in ''Turn Coat'', there's a huge rising power block in the Council made up of the majority of new wizards, and is primarily consisting of those from developing countries in Latin and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. The fact that their views are frequently being ignored and discriminated against on the Council is implied to be the result of many older wizards unfortunately harboring some pretty nasty prejudices.

* PhysicalGod: If not one, at least capable of creating beings with the ability to defeat opponents in this category.

* OhCrap: Jim Butcher confirms this mentality among many members of the Senior Council and other council members in general regarding Harry Dresden. After the events of ''Cold Days'', the Council knows that Harry has killed with magic, works closely with vampires when the need arises, raised that ''T. rex'' from the dead, bound himself to Demonreach (even if not everyone knows the island's true purpose, they know it has a powerful Genus Loci), is an apprentice to and defended by Ebenezar (and so under the protection of the Blackstaff for those aware of Eb's other job in the Council and for the fewer still who know Harry is his grandson), is Mab's personal hitman and is there to stay (so attacking him means dealing with Mab), personally trained the newest Winter Lady (so attacking Harry earns her ire as well), has some relationship with the newest Summer Lady (again, making some fearful about attacking him as it might draw her ire), was directly involved with the three times in ten years the Mantles of the Ladies changed hands, has a group of non-wizard allies who can communicate over vast distances on this "internet", is sharing information with said group, and he came back from the dead, not to mention his close friendship with both active Knights of the Cross. Then there's his close relationship with the White Court and John Marcone. He also controls four of the most holy relics in existence, is regularly entrusted with loose Swords of Faith, and as of ''Battle Grounds'' is in possession of [[spoiler: [[ArtifactOfDoom The Eye of Balor]]]]. Some, even those who are close and consider themselves his friends on the Council, think, "Maybe we should have killed him before when we had the chance." To many who are old enough to remember, they believe him to be the Kemmler 2.0.