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DF Spoilers / Re: This weekend's panel
« on: October 15, 2025, 02:57:58 PM »
There was a comic.con in New York over the weekend.  Jim was there. Signing and had a panel,  was hoping to hear if anything new came out...
Ahh, TYVM!

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DF Spoilers / Re: This weekend's panel
« on: October 14, 2025, 02:52:19 AM »
Has anyone seen or heard anything from the panel this week? 

This is the first I've even heard *of* the panel.
Where/what?  Context?

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DF Spoilers / Re: Conversation between Lara and Harry
« on: October 12, 2025, 04:51:26 PM »
I'd looked there, it's not spelled out.  Maybe I'm mis-remembering? 

I don't recall Lara ever spelling that out in a plain-talk manner, something that was unambiguously a suggestion/offer.

She has spent her whole life (a couple of centuries at minimum) working the flirt-and-tempt angle.  Even if she meant it seriously, I think she'd couch it in flirt-and-tempt ways (and, consequently, Harry would always see it as a predator's lure).

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DF Spoilers / Re: Murphy
« on: October 11, 2025, 11:27:51 PM »
That maybe true, but what if Harry gets there in time to prevent Drakul from getting Chandler? 

I think that ship has sailed, at least from the Prime!verse.

The battle is over, Drakul&co departed with Chandler (and any other wizards they captured), Harry did other stuff than rescue him.

Chandler may still be alive in the Alt!verse, of course...  Likely enough, the big assault by Ethniu never happened.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Conversation between Lara and Harry
« on: October 08, 2025, 03:19:03 PM »

  I think it was in White Night, towards the end.

I think Lara may have been hinting that way, but IIRC never stated it outright.

I thought Harry took it as merely Lara trying to lure him into her clutches; not a genuine suggestion/offer. 
Before he left Raith Manor, Harry made sure to reject the offer (in as insulting a fashion as he could manage).
 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Murphy
« on: October 03, 2025, 08:32:35 PM »
... However I don't think you can say that Murphy was misled, she was well acquainted with the Einherjar a long time before she died.
You seem to have misunderstood me.
I'm not saying Murphy was misled.

I am suggesting -- as a WAG -- that in the future we will see Murphy get back onscreen via a "convenient" combination of loopholes in the "rules," and conflicts over which "rules" apply in her specific case, and some degree of being "misled" (which gives Uriel just a touch more leeway to act) and her own rebelliousness over "following the rules" vs. "doing the right thing."

All of it, largely, orchestrated by Uriel (who exceeds even Mab for subtlety).

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DF Spoilers / Re: Water Beetle
« on: October 03, 2025, 03:53:53 PM »
In Cold Days, Mab had also created a direct portal from Harry's rooms in Arctis Tor to Chicago.  I think this would be coolest, but maybe too convenient for Jim.
I don't think even Mab has the juice to open a portal straight through the island's defenses.
The Warden could almost certainly do it; but I suspect Harry Dresden is simply to untrained/unsophisticated.

If he got Bob & Alfred to work together on assembling a "Portal to the Island for Dummies" tutorial, that might work...?

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DF Spoilers / Re: Murphy
« on: October 02, 2025, 08:23:38 PM »
Uriel is limited, he might be an archangel but his power is limited by very serious rules. 

He is limited by the rules; but perhaps not so much as you think.

Remember that in Ghost Story, Uriel intentionally misleads Harry, enabled because one of the Fallen had previously misled him (in Changes).

If my WAG is correct, Gard/Vadderung is similarly "misleading" Murphy into joining as an Einherjar, in part by implying a more-passive / less-engaged role with the "White God."  The "rules" that Murphy is led to break are Odin's rules.  Obviously, my WAG may be wildly off-base!

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DF Spoilers / Re: Harry Dresden's New Apprentice!!?!
« on: September 30, 2025, 05:58:43 PM »
... and the therapy book is supposed to be about recovering, not making more issues, right?
Well, that would be the normal therapeutic presumption, yes.

OTOH, this is Harry Dresden we're talking about; remind me again:  when has Harry done the sensible and appropriate thing, particularly in regards self-care?



... and, of course, this is Jim Butcher we're talking about:  the man has based his entire career on tormenting Harry and making his life harder & more complicated.

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DF Spoilers / Re: The Mothers
« on: September 30, 2025, 04:31:44 PM »
In Summer Knight when Harry meets the mothers the opening passage describes the sets of teeth. I didn’t notice it right away. Do you think these are connected to the Names/Mantles of the Mothers.

On the hearth above the fireplace sat several sets of teeth, more or less human-sized. One looked simple enough, all white and even. The next was rotted-looking, with chipped incisors and a broken molar. The next set had all pointed teeth, stained with bits of rusty brown and what looked like rotten bits of flesh stuck between them. The last was made out of some kind of silvery metal, shining like a sword. 

I would have to re-read that scene.
I think all of the teeth were Mother Winter's teeth (for different situations/uses), but I'm not sure.

I suspect there was some folkloric / faerie-tale antecedents, and there might be clues there.
 

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DF Spoilers / Re: Murphy
« on: September 30, 2025, 04:25:53 PM »
Sounds like Murphy rejected Heaven, so it's out of Uriel's hands now. 
We'll have to see how Jim writes it, of course.

But no:  just because someone "rejects" Heaven, it doesn't at all take things "out of Uriel's hands."  Maybe other angels don't engage, but... Uriel??!?

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DF Spoilers / Re: Harry Dresden's New Apprentice!!?!
« on: September 30, 2025, 04:22:55 PM »
Apprentice by definition;
...

I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Harry said she was ("was" in the past tense, had been) his apprentice.
You don't believe that, thinking it a "mere figure of speech."

I don't see either of us convincing the other one.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Murphy
« on: September 30, 2025, 07:10:05 AM »
...
Does he?

Yes.

well...



So I WAG.

So mote it be.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Harry Dresden's New Apprentice!!?!
« on: September 30, 2025, 07:05:55 AM »
Harry's words were, "sometimes apprentice"
No, he said "a sometime apprentice" (with no "s" on the end of "sometime").
That specific usage is usually taken to mean "prior" -- she was a prior apprentice (there are other definitions, but that is #1 at the OED).

... If Kim was apprenticed to Harry, he was thus teaching her to be a wizard someday.  You said yourself and Harry also said it I believe that she didn't have the talent to become a wizard.  I doubt that Harry would have consented to teach her to be a sorcerer.  So what was he teaching her to be? ...
Someone who pilots a fighter-jet can train a student to fly a commercial airliner (for many years, retired fighter pilots were the single largest source of commercial pilots for US airlines) -- they don't have to train them to be a fighter-jock.

A "practitioner" would be the term, I believe.  He was teaching her to be a better (safer, more in-control) practitioner.  She clearly had enough power to get herself in trouble; I really can't see Harry refusing to train someone like that (particularly an attractive young woman).

The odds are very good that -- though Dresden was undoubtedly overqualified to teach her -- he was still the only teacher who was qualified and willing.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Harry Dresden's New Apprentice!!?!
« on: September 29, 2025, 04:23:42 PM »
She never really was Harry's apprentice ...
Better tell Harry that... HE thinks she was!

... she had no interest in becoming a wizard.
She had no ability to become a WC-caliber wizard, she just didn't have enough mojo.

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