I dont remember much from the earlier books, so I'll most likely read them again once I finish A Song of Ice and Fire. Still, I'll be happy to see Dresden's pet dinosaur come back. Been a while since I've seen such an awesome scene in a book.

 

Sue's probably a one-time thing.

And she'll probably be under heavier security now, since they think her bones were stolen from the museum for some prank.

 

Or she can return as a mount for Harry in the post-Apocalypse world. How cool would be that?

 

Well, I wouldn't discount the possibility...

 

Yeah, you honestly never know with Jim Butcher. I mean, who the hell would of thought he'd of animated a in the first place.

Honestly though, he'd need some way to make it more epic, or its just kinda reusing the same idea.

 

I'm not sure it's actually possible for anything to be more epic than a zombie dinosaur.

That said, I look forward to the possibility of someone trying to top it.

 

Well, It's always possible that Mab will order him to kill the new summer lady, use his knowledge to reanimate the one he killed and enslave her mind and powers to his will, to tip the scale into Winter's favour...

 

Seems to me that the most logical 'apocalypse' is the outsiders, primarily because everyone is scared of them. None of the major powers of the Dresden Universe seem too cozy with the beings that lurk beyond the outer gates. In fact, that's one of Harry's selling points as a powerful wizard: he can kick the crap out of these things.

I also think it's fairly well displayed that Harry's mom had him for a purpose. This is probably the strongest implication for a future Outsider incursion, at least in my eyes. Butcher has spent a fair amount of time building up how dangerous Outsiders are, he's set up Harry to have magic that's 'super-effective' against them, it seems like poor writing not to use this in the culmination of all of his plots.

As we learn more about the circumstances behind Harry's conception and birth, we're going to figure out what's really been happening. I think it's heavily implied that his mother had some awareness of what is to come, so why she set up Harry the way she did will play a key role in interpreting what kind of apocalypse we'll be dealing with.

Pure shot in the dark here, but is anyone sure of the Gatekeeper's loyalties? A lot of his choices seem to undermine the Merlin's (which coincidentally often helps Dresden). He's also in the opportune place to do the most damage as the ring leader of the Black Council. Jim did say that he's 'the most dangerous senior council member', but to whom? It would make an interesting twist to build the Black Council conspiracy around the Gatekeeper, and then when it all falls to pieces, with his death curse he forces the Gates open, and the hordes creatures with more mouths than limbs pour in from beyond the walls of reality...

 

Oh yeah, I meant to post this a couple of weeks back but forgot to do it so... The Harry Dresden Warden Casefile. It's a fan made compilation of all of Harry's recorded deeds written from the perspective of an outside agency (in this case the Wardens), and it really hits home why the team of Wardens during Turn Coat were so wary of taking him on head to head. Needless to say there are spoilers for the whole series in there.

 

Suprised they didnt mention his meeting Odin in the report. I wouldnt be suprised if the Council knew he met with Odin, not Odin participating in the fight against the Red court.

 

I don't see why. The entirety of that meeting was basically between one member of the Grey Council to another, so the chances of it being public knowledge are slim.

 

This is perhaps one of the best things I've read all week, and IIRC reaffirms Harry's belief that he's in the time 35(20?) most powerful Wizards alive.

 

I lol'd.

Wait, is that really true? Did I miss something somewhere that said that, or is that just something the author of this made up?

 

I'm thinking he made that part up, though I can't be 100% certain. The rest I can guarantee to be true, at least from the perspective of the Wardens.

 

In Summer Knight, Harry said he and Elaine got adopted by Justin when they were ten, and he said the long jump incident happened two weeks before Justin adopted him.

Sounds about right. He left Eb's place at nineteen or so, went to Chicago and joined up with Nick Angel's practice, apprenticing to become a PI (Which would take a few years in itself). I would've said closer to 23 or 24 in Storm Front, but 25 works just as well.

 

Cheatsheet. Word of God pegs him at ~25 in Stormfront, and he did indeed start training with DuMorne at 10.

 

I'm leaning toward the latter, since the events of White Night don't happen for a good 10 years after its stated the smear campaign started. Besides, the Council wouldn't need to; because who believes in magic of all things?

All of it is technically true though, which is the important part to consider when dealing with the Fae. It's not as though they think like us, so we have to work out their intentions and plans and goals from their past actions, and as far as the record shows, Lea has gained a tremendous amount of power since being named Harry's Godmother.

Anastacia was there and I'd bet anything that she had to spill pretty much everything to Injun Joe in order to get her mind back in working order.

I honestly have no idea on this one.

Remember that this is written after Changes too, so chances are they at least suspect something. The Gatekeeper would likely know as well, since he knows Dresden well enough to expect he wouldn't try a Sanctum Invocation without a majorly powerful trump card on hand.

Yep, 10 years old is when he started with Justin, 16 when he killed him and went to Ebenezar. 19-ish when he left to go do his own thing.

Yep.

You're welcome.

 

On the question of whether the White Council knows Harry had access to soul fire -- yes, they did. We have WoJ saying that individuals in the WC know ALL of Harry's secrets. Meaning different members know individual secrets, not that any one member knows them all.

I'm too lazy to go back and look for it right now, but it should be in our own WoG thread if someone wants to see it for themselves.