To ONLINE ClintACK, I really like your bit of wild speculation at the end.

I made the same observation regarding Nicodemus's potential elsewhere.

We know that whatever Susan saw when she shared a soulgaze with Harry made her faint.  Harry mentions the soulgaze with Susan, but doesn't go into detail about it.  He does say something about Susan not realizing how good looking she was.  That would be a very intimate thing to learn about someone. 

Of course, this was said near the beginning of Storm Front and we don't know if Jim had a really solid grasp on what Harry experienced when he was  in a soulgaze when he writing his first Dresden novel.  It's possible he hadn't worked out the details yet.

That reminds me of an exchange between Terry Pratchett and one of his fans wherein the character of the Patrician was so different in an early book versus the same character several books later. Terry explained that away as the result of the first iteration being written by an inferior author (who had since been replaced.)

Thanks for the responses. My memory isn't anything to be trusted these days.

OK, I have read and/or listened to all the books and attendant short stories and novellas and I feel that I may have missed a particular plot point OR has our author still been holding out on us?

We 'know' because Harry has told us that Justin DuMorne was rendered into a crispy critter at the hands of Harry Dresden because he has informed us of the fact many times. We 'know' that Elaine was also presumed dead in the same conflagration. WHERE in all the books have we been presented with a detailed retelling of these events (a la the detailed remembrances of "Ghost Story") of Harry's fatal confrontation with his mentor?

Did I read it and just shunt the details aside in order to get on with the immediate peril in whatever story these details were presented in? If JB is still withholding relevant details from us, fine. We'll get the straight poop from him when he deigns to release the info and not before, but if I have truly missed the detailed retelling, please direct me to the appropriate tome.

In the first person storytelling mode we're experiencing, it makes sense that Harry is reluctant to divulge every detail of his last confrontation with his ward and mentor but when can we expect to see it? Is this the big choice that Harry makes in the "Mirror, Mirror" book? To follow Justin down the left hand path? Or later to succumb to the wolf belt in "Fool Moon?"

Now I'm branching off into other secenarios and I'm losing my original point. Harry vs. Justin, the final battle. Have we seen any detailed recounting of the events or are we all taking Harry's second hand word for the account of the events?

Your input would be appreciated.

Well, I'm 17 chapters in and I'm quite pleased.  I'm getting a feeling much like I had about 50 years ago reading "Glory Road." Treat that not as a comparison between Heinlein and Butcher, but rather as my joy at experiencing a sense of adolescent pleasure at reading a ripping good yarn.

I've a good ways to go yet but I suspect that I'll be enjoying this immensely.

Here's one from left field: Margo Martindale as Mother Winter.

Can I nominate Jeffrey Tambor for Goodman Grey?