Yet Another Moar Dresden Files Thoughts Post

I finished Changes. The question of who was shouting fuego is not answered. I maintain the possibility that it was future!Harry.

This bit kills me, every time:

"I put my left hand over her eyes.


I pressed my mouth to hers, swiftly, gently, tasting the blood, and her tears, and mine.


I saw her lips form the word, 'Maggie...'


And I...


I used the knife.


I saved a child.

I won a war.


God forgive me."

Dear lord, Butcher.

Thinkies:

Allusion to What's Coming Next: "Finally, it made the books in the supernatural community as the night of bad dreams. Before the next sunset, the Paranet was buzzing with activity, with men and women scattered over half the world communicating about the vivid and troubling dreams they'd had. Pregnant women and mothers who had recently delivered had been hardest hit. Several had to be hospitalized and sedated. But everyone with a smidge of talent who was sleeping at the time was troubled by dreams. The general theme was always the same: dead children. The world in flames. Terror and death spreading across the globe in an unstoppable wave, destroying anything resembling order or civilization."

The Fomor. Which we didn't know about until Even Hand came out and then Aftermath. BUTCHER! *shakes hand in the air in frustration* Anyone else think this whole thing is just a part of their evol plans? Yeah. I know. Not a stretch. But how awesome is it that they've been manipulating things since the beginning?

Aftermath - I hadn't read it until now. I'm only about halfway through, so we'll leave analysis until later. But I have two things.

A) Marcone is fucking awesome. All the time. And he takes shit from no magical being who is not Harry Dresden. You sir, are not Harry Dresden. Attend.

B) This description of Harry from Murphy's point of view: "Watching Dresden operate was usually one of two things: mildly amusing or positively terrifying. One a scene, his whole personal manner always made me think of autistic kids. He never met anyone's eyes for more than a flickering second. He moved with the sort of exaggerated caution of someone who was several sizes larger than normal, keeping his hands and arms in close to his body. He spoke a little bit softly, as if apologizing for the resonant baritone of his voice.


"But when something caught his attention, he changed. His dark, intelligent eyes would glitter, and his gaze became something so intense that it could start a fire. During the situations that changed from investigation to desperate struggle, his whole being shifted in the same way. His stance widened, become more aggressive and confident, and his voice rose up to become a ringing trumpet that could have been clearly heard from opposite ends of a football stadium.


"Quirky nerd, gone. Terrifying icon, present."

Yet Moar Dresden Files Thoughts

Really only the one. Not so convoluted as the previous linking. And not quite as wacky as my theory that Martha Liberty is Harry's grandmother. (Also, pretty sure Jim has said something that makes me just flat out wrong on that one, but I live in the tiny sliver of possibility here!)

I'm right in the middle of the battle at the end of Changes. The Grey Council has shown up and is kicking ass. And in the middle of it all, Harry hears someone further up on the pyramid using 'fuego' and feels sort of upset that 'someone was fuego-ing and it wasn't me'. Now, I haven't finished the reread, so maybe this is all nothing. But who was using Harry's spell?

IIRC, each wizard chooses their own 'made up' or ancient language to cast the spells in. Something that they don't actually understand so that they can assign value to the terms and add an extra layer of insulation between their minds and the stress of the spellcasting. So far, I believe that each wizard we've seen has their own spell language. Yes, they can cast other peoples' spells, but they tend not to. And if they do they tend to cast the spell using their own spell language. So who the hell was using Harry's fire spell?

Wacky theory of the day: It was Harry from the future.

We know that, at some point, Harry will break each Law of Magic. No time travel is on there. Don't ask me how or why, but I think future!Harry Showed Up too.

Of course, if I keep reading and it gets explained, then that's all out the window. We'll fuego that bridge when I get there.

Ghost Story Theory - SPOILERS FOR SO MANY THINGS

I know the whole blog is tagged as non-spoiler safe space, and sanil is busy with school so the chances of her seeing this and reading it are slim, but I can't remember how far into the series she's read, so I WARN.

DON'T READ BEYOND THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T READ EVERYTHING CURRENTLY PUBLISHED AND/OR DON'T WANT TO KNOW SOME OF THE TIDBITS WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT GHOST STORY!

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I MEAN IT!

I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING BEYOND THIS POINT!





Right then. So, in WoJ notes, we learn that the runes/sigils/markings on the lighthouse/keepers house on Demonreach that we see in Turn Coat are related to/the same as some from the Welcome to the Jungle comic. The only ones I can think of that Harry doesn't use himself are the ones that the Hecatean was using on her file cabinet. Those, which Harry knows enough about to understand what they're fore are described as being preservative. Making the cabinet a magical fridge, sort of kind of.

Harry spends most of a year dead, and then comes back at the end of Ghost Story. Demonreach is at the end of Ghost Story. Somehow, Harry's body is preserved well enough that his soul/spirit can be put back in it and not be all icky and zombie-esque.

So. Harry's body is being stored in the keeper's house on Demonreach. Mab is also keeping all of Chicago really freaking cold, to help things along, but the magic on the house is doing most of the job.