r/dresdenfiles

I know he says he does it because he thinks his power will interfere with the technology in a boiler, but it just makes no sense.

He lives in the basement of a building with several tenants. That's where a boiler is likely to be in an older house. The other tenants need heat and hot water. Several of them are elderly and I don't think they're going to be using a wood-burning stove and a fireplace for warmth. And the landlady has to provide heat and hot water by law.

He has a kerosene heater for the sub-basement. A really old school boiler isn't going to be that much more complicated (mine has electronic parts but my grandmother's didn't).

I never understood how this would actually work.

Yes, the boiler could be upstairs, but that doesn't make sense. Most likely there would be a small boiler room in Harry's apartment. Where the magic is.

Also, I don't get why wizards don't have enchanted items that mimic tech to a certain extent. Not cell phones, but lights?

Anyone not care for how Thomas treated Harry at the end of 12 Months?
Harry figured out how to bring Thomas, Justine, and the child out alive from Thomas being kidnapped for killing the Svartalf Head of Security, from Justine being possessed by an Outsider and the baby from being killed or raised by dark forces. He seems really mad at Harry.

It seems pretty centered around Earth and adjacent dimensions. Lots of very powerful beings throughout history. But do “Little Green Men” exist? Any hints of them? Do other planets with weather have their own Winter and Summer Court?

Just a weird little thing that kept bugging me in 12 Months.

Previously, when Harry was working heavy magic, he would do things like lighting candles by using a match, saying he didn't want stray or residual magic mucking things up.

In 12 Months, every time he powers up his greater circles for, arguably, the most dangerous and difficult workings of his life, he just uses magic to light the candles. Is this representing his increased power? A secret death wish? Or just Butcher forgetting a minor detail, and I'm just being a turbo-nerd?

Having the character who can survive being fed on by a white court sex vampire being named Erwin pounder is funny to me.

I remember years ago Jim said that there were long term things planted in Storm Front that still hadn’t been picked up on by the audience.

Is that still the case, and if it is what could some of those be?

So near the end of Outlaw, Dresden talks to his apprentice about magical drugs. The thought ocured to me that if 3rd eye existed, it stands to reason that there are other magical steroids out there operating in towns beyond Chicago that Dresden hasn't shut down yet. This stands to reason that the Black Council is running this magical steroid ring, and by consequence that The man running it may be the magical equivalent to Bane.

It was said in Dresden files that book written by Bram Stoker is instruction to how kill Black Court vampires, but there are some differences.

Powers like control over weather or night animals like rats or bats, shapeshifting could be explained by how old is blampire. Dracula getting younger by drinking blood could be explained as literary form of saying that blampires get stronger by drinking blood.

However weakness being different in instruction how to kill blampires is weird. Vampires in Dracula are not vulnerable to sun, but are weaker in day and fall in sleep that is like death, but in Dresden files was couple time said that are. Other example is that vampires need earth from they country to have full power and rest. Vampires in Dracula were vulnerable to garlic flowers, not heads. Besides this weakness in Bram Stoker's book was wild roses and mountain ash, it was never mentioned in Dresden files, hope that will with Harry admiting that he only look throught book.

Why are this differences between blampires and Dracula vampires?

In the scene where Murphy’s shade asks Harry what he thinks about giving up drinking, Harry responds:

“If I was insane, would I know it?”

What caught me off guard is that Cowl says almost the exact same thing back in Dead Beat during one of his early confrontations with Dresden.

I don’t think this is accidental.

Jim usually repeats phrases intentionally, especially when two characters mirror each other philosophically or psychologically.

Harry saying one of Cowl’s lines during a moment tied to self-destruction and identity feels… weirdly deliberate.

Makes me wonder if this is subtle foreshadowing for the whole “Harry could become Cowl” theory.
Did anyone else catch this?

Everyone tells me that the portrayal of women in the Dresden Files is bad. I heard the same thing with Red Rising and Berserk, and they were dead wrong about Red Rising and half right about Berserk; I loved all the women in both series.

If so, is it a Jim Butcher problem or a Harry Dresden problem

Harry is 6.9 , and now brimming with muscle. The idea that he can just find salvation army clothes that can fit him is probably the most unrealistic thing in these books.

I see 2 possible explanations off the top of my head for how he's able to find these clothes

1. He has a resizing spell that we just haven't seen.

2. His fairy godmother is shopping for clothes that will fit him and strategic places tailored clothes where Harry can find them.

So, the other day someone made the point that Harry at 6 foot 9 inches tall would look ridiculous in a VW Beetle.

The upper limit on height for a VW driver is apparently between 6'6" and 7'1" according to this commercial

Nicodemous and Nemesis both say of Apocalypse, it's not an event, it's a state of mind.. that plus the name Big Apocalyptic Trilogyis pretty much the solid basis for these theories. The rest is fragments and wild guesswork.. The quotes are from memory, so probably not precisely right, though should be close enough

Stars and Stones : Dresden in a free for all for the Starborn of the era.. Id guess Drakul is the big bad here, though I'd expect them to face off at least once before.. So all Starborn have power over outsiders but the Starborn of the Era inherits the powers of Merlin.. Not sure what the stones are exactly here, but we know that Merlin made Demonreach multiple times at multiple different times. I'd also imagine such a being would become an Immortal, due to Mab's line to him, "Immortality is no substitute for intelligent.. Remember that, if at all it becomes necessary". And Ebenezer scowls at it. Finale has the Grey Wizard, Dresden + Grey Council vs Black Council + Black Court.. Both work for life beyond Death, in pretty twisty ways (except Kumori, who is guess changes sides last min). What's the best way to beat a an army that will kill everything and everyone for a taste of their life force? Have no one living, and face the outsiders with an army of the dead.. Listens to Wind says of Starborn, that some truths can do a damn sight worse than killing you. I'd guess Drakul was a Golden Child of a previous era.

Hells Bells: Well assume that Nicodemous wants to stop Empty Night too, from all his and Deirdre's talk of Saving the World.. Well heaven can't or won't stop it, but Hell can.. Powered by a massive human sacrifice of all or most people to the Prince of Darkness.Probably Involving some creepy reversal of the Christ dying for all human sins, like making a Knight murder and Innocent with the Sword and catching the blood that flows. Doesnt bode well for Butters, whose having life be a bit too good for a major Dresden character. Or *shudder* Micheal.. He's teetered over the brink when his kids are harmed.. Imagine little Harry killed by some other confused child. He probably has some vestiges of Uriels grace still, so even without Excalibur, well...

In the end of it, as Nicodemous dies, strangled by his Noose, he spits out, "You fool, better Hell than that.. Empty Night...

And Empty Night is all of Creation, united by Harry against all the Outsiders.. Nemesis still has some forms left.. Or its either pass the buck another 666 years, or face the music..And well Harry, he'll bear the fate of all Creation than pass the buck. You see, the Outsiders don't just kill humans, they take their souls for an eternity of gnawing Emptiness in the Void Beyond... The Outsiders were originallys made by mortal choice, so Heaven cannot act to unmake them, not directly anyway.. (Otherwise, you know, wed have Uriel as a Deus ex Machina, from his off hand mention about his power to unmake Galaxies.. ) Theory here is that amab wants the White Court cause Outsiders like individuality (except Walkers I guess, though with He Who Walk Before In Between and Beyond, and non linear time constantly referenced, they're all just one Being) , a) she wants spies of her own b) some kind of sympathetic link to target all Outsiders with..

Chars by this time:

Harry and Lara are now properly in love, though if Harry is Merlin, and the White Court attitude to monogamy, he's probably getting with more..

Marcone is fully and Ally now, after Harry or likely Molly is able to wake the girl who took his bullet in exchange for his fealty

Maggie: Fully magical, some kinda prodigy, you know with Bonea + Molly + Harry to teach her. She's probably gonna be awesome at Animal Magi. And funny headcannon, when Listens to Wind and River Shoulders train Harry and despair at his skill at form changing, Maggie goes it's easy dad and ''Comes out" as a Wizard by shifting into an Elephant.

Molly: Becomes Mab after now Mab ascends to Mother post current mother's mergina dn sacrificing themselves to give our peeps a chance. but I fully admit, primarily cause I'm shipping her and Ramirez hard, and Mab casually mentions having score of lovers over the years, so the mantle is cool with Mab getting (or I suppose, giving) nookie

Eb: Is able to sacrifice himself to save Maggie, and does with a smile on his face

Thomas: Idk White Court King, cause Laras busy now (pregnant??) the strongest of his kind, who eats multiple outsiders/to be forgotten entities and powers up the fuckton needed to stand and fight with his brother

Arthur Langtry: mFinally not Merlin anymore and gets to cut loose.. Telepathy so strong he uses psychic attacks to break Outsiders, and Harry shudders when he thinks about how much he fucked with that absolute Chad

River shoulders + Kid Shoulders: Beat Genoskwa harder than Beowulf beat Grendel.. He recovered from being a blood splatter but not from this