Dresden Files: Series Timeline

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Found this in the transcript from Jim's Booknation Talk interview last month:

How did Michael know about Elaine in Grave Peril?
At that point Michael and Harry had had enough bonding time for Harry to share some things with Michael that he hadn’t shared with anybody else.  He’d actually known Michael for about a year by the time Grave Peril got started. 

That would put it right around Fool Moon, since both it and GP were October stories, but no idea where it falls between them.  Any hint of Harry knowing Michael in Ghoul, Goblin?

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Found this in the transcript from Jim's Booknation Talk interview last month:
That would put it right around Fool Moon, since both it and GP were October stories, but no idea where it falls between them.  Any hint of Harry knowing Michael in Ghoul, Goblin?

Nothing in Ghoul Goblin either proves or disproves that Harry knew Michael. So, it's possible they did but that their paths didn't cross all the time.

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Found this in the transcript from Jim's Booknation Talk interview last month:
That would put it right around Fool Moon, since both it and GP were October stories, but no idea where it falls between them.  Any hint of Harry knowing Michael in Ghoul, Goblin?

Jim misremembered.  Harry and Michael knew each other at least 5 years before "Grave Peril." As he moved to Chicago 6 years before Grave Peril, they'd known each other 5-6 years.

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Jim misremembered.  Harry and Michael knew each other at least 5 years before "Grave Peril." As he moved to Chicago 6 years before Grave Peril, they'd known each other 5-6 years.

Ah, kk, That makes more sense actually, 1 year seemed a little short a time-span for Harry to open up that much, given his reticence with other friendships. 

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This one's extremely trivial, but considering how little we know about Harry's parents, it might rate a mention for completeness's sake:

25 BSF, some time between August and October - Malcolm Dresden and his heavily-pregnant wife Margaret visit the Lincoln Memorial. 

This comes from the photograph Harry mentions in Death Masks, as his only remaining tangible image of his mother.

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This one's extremely trivial, but considering how little we know about Harry's parents, it might rate a mention for completeness's sake:

25 BSF, some time between August and October - Malcolm Dresden and his heavily-pregnant wife Margaret visit the Lincoln Memorial. 

This comes from the photograph Harry mentions in Death Masks, as his only remaining tangible image of his mother.

I like the way you think. Great addition!

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Okay, then here's another petty little event you might add:

6 months before Death Masks - Harry acquires a unicorn-hair rope from Fix and enchants it to be strong enough to restrain an angry ogre.  Or a thirsty half-Red Susan.


Oh, and the Alphas are all still in college in Death Masks, because Ortega threatens "the wolf-children at the university".  More evidence that they're freshmen in Fool Moon.

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Yet another trivia tidbit, to add if you like:

Karrin Murphy first took up aikido at the age of eleven.  (From Blood Rites)

Note that this is very close to the time of both her father's death and her sister Lisa's birth, which suggests that taking up martial arts may have offered a respite from emotional trauma for little Karrie.

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4 BSF, summer - Murphy and SI eliminate two trolls, and do it without help from Harry who is off chasing tornadoes.

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4 BSF, summer - Murphy and SI eliminate two trolls, and do it without help from Harry who is off chasing tornadoes.

BSF is Before Storm Front, that happened after.

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1945, after the World Series (Oct. 6-10) - The Wardens' inquiry into the "Billy Goat Curse" on Wrigley Field concludes when they confirm that the tavern keeper, Sianis, and his family are not practitioners.  The curse itself isn't deemed important enough to probe further, as no lives are endangered by it.

Also in 1945, the White Council is kept very busy mitigating the bad mojo from artifacts stockpiled by the Nazis.

(Both from "Curses")

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As part of the Restoration of Faith entry, you might mention that Murphy gets her first undeniable exposure to the supernatural in the form of a troll.
Also, doesn`t Harry describe Molly as being built like a brick supermodel (or is that Charity)?  If Molly, you might include that along with her height, as it is used at least once as an interrogation tool later in the books.

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Some events preceeding Proven Guilty:

- Harry begins tinkering with and empowering Little Chicago some time in January, six months before PG.  (Bob complains that Harry's done nothing-but every night for six months straight.)

- Rosie gets pregnant in May of the same year.  (When the ambulance collects her, Molly says her friend is three months along.)

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29 BSF - Collin Murphy starts work with the Black Cats.

(Mrs. Murphy claims he'd worked with them for 12 years, and he died in 17 BSF.  Given that vanilla cops who investigate the supernatural tend to be treated like kooks or troublemakers by the brass, it's unlikely he'd have had the opportunity to return to conventional duties once he got shuffled into the 13th Precinct's spook squad.)

~14-15 BSF - Arturo Genosa and Joan Dallas first meet.  (from Blood Rites)

4 ASF, early October - The Wardens and Red Court fight it out in Mexico City.   (Harry'd said the Wardens had bloodied the Reds' nose three weeks ago in Dead Beat)

2 ASF - Mort encounters the ghost of a ten-year-old boy killed by the Red Court.


Both the master timeline and Harry's personal one ought to mention his first use of Flickum Bicus at age 12, from the first Ghost Story flashback, as his first conscious evocation.

Malcolm Dresden's death happened shortly before Christmas, as Harry mentions watching holiday-season ads for Rock'em Sock'em Robots soon after his father'd died in "It's My Birthday, Too".