Chicago, Sanctuary City?

[Conspiracy Theorist]

It may have been the profile of the public vote, Harry would have got the votes of most of the young Wardens, awkward for most of your police force to vote for the gangster number one.

[Snark Knight]

Well Harry is going to have to shave his head following all those scalp wounds in BG, and he is technically a paraplegic.....

I still don't think so. The deal with Mab was to fix it, not mask the damage.

He lost feeling in his legs once for considering defying winter law, and none of the times the mantle was blocked by being pierced by iron. That says the once was punishment, maybe meant to make him draw wrong conclusions about how much he needs to stay with Winter.

[Mira]

I still don't think so. The deal with Mab was to fix it, not mask the damage.

He lost feeling in his legs once for considering defying winter law, and none of the times the mantle was blocked by being pierced by iron. That says the once was punishment, maybe meant to make him draw wrong conclusions about how much he needs to stay with Winter.

Yeah, it was when Harry said in effect, "screw Winter."  Suddenly his legs didn't work anymore, Mab was making a point.

[Bad Alias]

[1]Harry is clearly on a collision course with the White Council with open defiance of them.

Is this going to attract other Wizard level talents such as under the radar sorcerers, warlocks capable of redemption (and some not) and runaway apprentices abused by their Masters?

[2]If so what would Harry do?

1. That's my theory. 2. Start a Grey Council in earnest.

You mean rush to ...

Nah. It will take a while.

He can not just gather them, invade somewhere and get loot which is the traditional way of handling this.

While I agree, I sure hope we're wrong. I mean, he has done that sort of thing before. He could ask Mab for a rich enemies list.

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Employ paranoid Gary and the Paranet to hack the White Council’s finances, and distribute it to the relief effort in Chicago, as I don’t see the White Council putting their hands in their pockets, the tight beardy gits.

Use the rest to pay the Wardens involved in the Battle of Chicago a one off gratuity, let’s see the White Council try and get that back without alienating every Warden. At the same time publish the White Councils financial records to make it clear they have been stiffing the Wardens for decades.

Thus the Paranet earn their bones in economic warfare against the White Council. In this day and age property registers are all electronic, bank accounts, and share holdings and registrations, the Paranet have a huge advantage in that respect over the White Council who must be using mortal middlemen.

[Basil]

Employ paranoid Gary and the Paranet to hack the White Council’s finances, and distribute it to the relief effort in Chicago, as I don’t see the White Council putting their hands in their pockets, the tight beardy gits.

Use the rest to pay the Wardens involved in the Battle of Chicago a one off gratuity, let’s see the White Council try and get that back without alienating every Warden. At the same time publish the White Councils financial records to make it clear they have been stiffing the Wardens for decades.

Thus the Paranet earn their bones in economic warfare against the White Council. In this day and age property registers are all electronic, bank accounts, and share holdings and registrations, the Paranet have a huge advantage in that respect over the White Council who must be using mortal middlemen.

I don't see Harry embezzling, but the meta point is a good one.  The White Council was so hidebound that it had to rely on the Fellowship of St. Giles and other mortal organizations to run legal and financial interference for them against the Red Court.

The fundamental problem with the White Council as an organization is that they only care about magic talent.  The Paranet could be, in the end, much more useful and powerful as an organization and for humanity because they are more open to broader human talent.  I don't think Paranoid Gary is a practitioner of any power at all, is he?   Yet, he's a pretty useful person to have around.  The Paranet is even in a better position to identify Wizard level talents than is the White Council. 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Not embezzling, Robin Hooding it. Harry wouldn’t need to touch the money, just deny it to the White Council, but not the Wardens.

WOJ has it that Paranoid Gary is an Oracle, a very low powered practitioner but whose minor gift greatly enhances his first rate hacking skills, he can “see” things like in Psych, and put apparently scant random data together to create a coherent model. So if you want someone to run a hacking organisation, ferret out passwords etc Gary would be your man.

Langtrey’s Password for everything is probably “Bottlecap123”

[Arjan]

That would not be wise. there are probably still people in the council who do not want to act against Harry and it is better just to try find out what is going on in stead of giving his enemies more ammunition.

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Really? They would peg Harry for this? The notorious computer expert Harry Dresden? Marcone, White Court, Swartalves are all far more likely, especially Marcone, they don’t bank with him and word will get round to them that Marcone has the Eye, they might think he is warning them to keep out of his Town.

Setting up a showdown between Marcone and the White Council is a win win situation for Harry.

[Arjan]

Really? They would peg Harry for this? The notorious computer expert Harry Dresden? Marcone, White Court, Swartalves are all far more likely, especially Marcone, they don’t bank with him and word will get round to them that Marcone has the Eye, they might think he is warning them to keep out of his Town.

Setting up a showdown between Marcone and the White Council is a win win situation for Harry.

From white Night:

The
Council’s investigators worked more slowly than Lara’s had, but they got to the
same information by following the money, eventually. The Council confronted the
White Court with the information.

 Lara
sent them the heads of the persons responsible. Literally. Leave it to Lara to
find a way to get one last bit of mileage out of Madeline and the business
manager’s corpses. She told the Council to keep the money, too, by way of
apology. The next best thing to six million in cash buys a lot of oil to pour
on troubled waters

They have investigators that can find things out.

[Conspiracy Theorist]

They were supposed to find the link to the White Court.

[Arjan]

They were supposed to find the link to the White Court.

Sure but you can not assume they won’t find you.

[Bad Alias]

Not embezzling, Robin Hooding it.

It ain't embezzling if you don't have any authority over or lawful access to it. Probably wire fraud.