The "heavy hitters" were the Brute Squad -- the ones that were killed at Archangelsk offscreen before Summer Knight.
Isn't a brute squad mentioned in TC? Obviously not the ones that got blown up with Simon.
Molly, his half-baked Apprentice, notes that he's not as good as she is at Tracking Spells, one of the things that Harry considers himself good at.
Molly was wrong. Harry did something similar to what she's doing in SF. He just never showed her how or mentioned that it could be done to her, so she assumed he didn't know.
And then there's Butters, who's doesn't even have the ability to use magic- and somehow, is still better at being a Wizard then Harry.
Bob says Butters has a better understanding of magical theory than Harry. The thing about Butters is that he's literally a genius, so that's understandable. Bob also says that Harry's pulled things off that most of his previous masters couldn't.
Sure Harry is a walking artillery cannon, but most decent Wizards would wreck him.
He killed a veteran warden when he was 16. Harry would mop the floor with almost any wizard he faced.
Hide behind Morgan, and look busy.
Lol.
Yes. If we learned anything from Cold Case it's that Molly's own wants come second to Winter Law. (See: inability to tell Carlos what she was up to) I flinched when I saw Harry make an open-ended "I'll owe you one" deal with the Winter Lady. That was a spectacularly stupid unforced error, which will almost certainly come back to bite him in the rear.
And he had the opportunity to have her redeem the favor in return for his help with coming clean to her parents. It's easy to get around any simple requirement for gifts and balance when you're friends who constantly do things for one another.
The "great health package" at Monoc has been foreshadowed enough that turning to Vadderung once she sees the trouble they're in seems like the most likely explanation for going from premature removal of a cast to fighting shape in a day.
And Odin's not a fairy.
Maybe, or she could ask Harry to tell the truth about her to her father and mother.
Except he already agreed to help her do that.
