I was wondering, could Luccio be the traitor? If the end of Small Favor is any indication she just ended his protection from the Raith vampires. I'm curious as to other's theories about the series, so if you feel like it post away.

I was just reading through SmallFavor again, and came past this passage: It wasn’t enough for the Denarians to simply acquire the Sword. They couldn’t break or smash or melt Fidelacchius, any more than the Church could smash or melt the thirty silver coins. Now obviously this has been said in most of the Dresden books at one time or another, but it got me thinking. We know that the swords can be destroyed by committing an act of evil with them (or at least changing them from a sword of...

The Nightside series by Simon R. Green Something from the Nightside [IMG] Taylor is the name, John Taylor. My card says I'm a detective, but what I really am is an expert on finding lost things. It's part of the gift I was born with as a child of the Nightside. I left there a long time ago, with my skin and sanity barely intact. Now I make my living in the sunlit streets of London. But business has been slow lately, so when Joanna Barrett showed up at my door, reeking of wealth,...

What are some of the best ways to stay within the realm of obeying the White Council's Laws of Magic, not alert the mortals to the presence of a wizard, and still make money hand over fist like some wizards are reputed to do? The "Morningway" (DuMorne in novels) family of the TVverse was loaded for generations, and had an enormous estate. Where did it all come from? Here's a few I thought of: - Farming: Probably not the most glamorous of jobs listed here, but I figure Ol' Eb uses a bit...

In Grave Peril we see Harry's magic turn against him for (thrice?) breaking his promise to Lea. We also see him perform a truly incredible feat of magic after Susan bargains for temporary relief from his condition. My thought is that Harry breaking his promise to Lea not only caused his magic to turn against and harm him but also stunted his magical ability (power/skill/etc.). This would explain how, debatably, Harry grows stronger throughout the series. Susan's deal still lingers in...

Do we actually know any of the ages of the people in the books? I somehow get the feeling that Dresden is around 40, but then again, I sometimes get the feeling that he isn't. The fact that wizards live for so much longer really throws my assumptions off.

Hey. When I was rereading Small Favor today, a question crossed my mind. If Mab took Harry's Fire Magic knowledge away in Chapter Six, then how can Harry do his little ball of sunshine against both Torelli's Goons and again in the Metro Station? Anyone know?

I did wonder how an apprentice becomes a full member of the White Council, (and not in times of war where everyone with half a talent is accepted) Elaine took a test under Ramirez, which she willingly failed, but what kind of test is this? If every wizard has his/her own speciality, what kind of guidelines are there? Harry never took such a test, but he beat Justin (and killed him) and was just accepted (well, with the the DOD, but he is a full member of the Council). Are there some...

'Nuff said.

Alright, I was looking for something like this online, but didn't find it, so I decided to make it myself: A catalogue of magic in the Dresden Files universe as we have been presented with. Unfortunately, this mostly means evocations, as we aren't told the words to many summoning spells or thaumaturgy. I'll go through as best I can, but feel free to add to it. I'm including the passages that lead me to the interpretation of the spell's effects, in case anyone disputes them. Vento...

Okay, heres my thing. Are the Queens, aka Mab and Titania, immortal or are they replaced over time. Were the Mothers always the mothers or were they once Ladys and then Queens and finally Mothers? If so how long do they live?

I understand that I'm likely going to get my ass flamed off here, but let us try it anyway. Dresden Files and Fate/Stay Night crossover. Yes, I have the idea to crossover our favorite book series with an anime. Hear me out first, though, before calling me a weeaboo faggot and catapulting me off to mugglenet. What originally spurred this idea was not, in fact, hoping for some hawt Dresden/Archer action. Instead, while going through F/Stay Night, it struck me quite oddly at how similar the...

I had this idea today when I was waiting for my train to arrive... SPOILER Lea's was obviously not normal when we saw her last time at in Proven Guilty, the most common explanation is possession, but how did she get possessed? Was it a punishment from Mab, but what could she possibly gain from this as it makes Lea far more unstable and prone to break Mab's rules... And then I remembered in Grave Peril, Lea became a very powerful item from Bianca (partly in exchange for the sword) and it...

During an IRC convo with kmfrank yesterday, this idea popped up and it's been on my mind since. We know that, by canon, Harry Dresden calls himself a "magical thug," more suited to the entropic characteristics of magic, such as battle use, powerful elemental spells, and using "globs of magic" rather than delicate touch. Conversely, Elaine and Molly are said to have better touch in magic, being able to successfully create veils with speed, access the tempermental mind magics, but lack raw...

Alright. I had an idea late last night that's been repeatedly biting me everytime I sit down to laze about. Daniel Carpenter - Order of the Blackened Denarii... Before you guys flip here's the run down on it. Daniel touches the coin by mistake, then accepts the temptation after being convinced by the Fallen that he deserves some recognition, power and glory. He's been the average child in the Carpenter family. Watching Molly get everything she wants, Matthew being the sportsman, Alicia...

I was going to start a "Avoiding Dresden Cliches" thread for the purpose of helping myself mostly as I'm fairly new to the universe having just recently finished the latest book. But then the more I thought about it the more I was equating the thread to the "Potter Law's." http://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=8086&highlight=Potter+Law So, can we help the writers out there that want to populate the Dresden threads and avoid cliches, bad plots, crappy characterizations,...

Ok, what do we really know about this BBEG (Big Bad Evil Guy)? 1. Cowl was Special K's first apprentice. 2. Monstrously powerful. 3. No compunction about breaking the Laws. 4. Knew Bob well enough to go out of his way to steal him. 5. Knew Dresden better than simple gossip about the new upstart. 6. Never allows his face to be seen. Why? Is he old even by wizard standards? Disfigured? Butt Ugly? Maybe, just maybe, burned? 7. Has raised an apprentice to be his enforcer/servant/toy. Now I'm...

Does anyone know where some good Harry/Lash stories are? I've tried looking everywhere I could think of, but I found about... one. And it was really good, but it was just a oneshot, and so it only lasted about ten, fifteen minutes and... Why is it so impossible to find this pairing? And how is it that something like Harry Potter can be so badly written but get so many fics, but Dresden gets nada? ~ Smb

A Dresden Files/Legend of Zelda crossover. Specifically, LoZ: Twilight Princess. The idea came to me when I was playing it the other day, and had just finished Summer Knight. The premise is, post-Twilight Princess, Link finds an artifact that allows you to cross dimensional barriers. Hoping to use it to travel to the Twilight Realm, he instead is transported to the Dresdenverse Chicago. It's...vague, but I haven't worked out any of the details yet. And it's not a whole lot different than...

An idea for a HP/Dresden crossover that I can't decide if it's fail or win. Anyway... The Dresden world is the real world. In the Dresden world, the Harry Potter books have been published, as in reality. In the Dresden world, an HP geek with some small amount of talent casts a spell. This could happen in two ways: 1. Person is evil, and the spell is is to bring Voldemort out of the book into reality, but the spell goes wrong and HP arrives. 2. The person is a fangirl and the spell is to...

Title: The Denarian Lord Author: Shezza88 Rating: M Pairing: Harry/Amanda DLP-Category: The Alternates Chapters: 36 Words: 245,544 Updated: December 28, 2009 Published: June 30, 2008 Status: Complete Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4359957/1/The-Denarian-Lord Link: http://patronuscharm.net/s/209/1/ Summary: Lord Voldemort readies for war while Albus Dumbledore seeks peace- through any means necessary. At the same time, Harry Potter moves to eradicate the Order of Blackened...

Just a thought: as far as I know, there is no "HP Lexicon" of the Dresden world. DLP could start one. It would be fairly simple at first: character profiles, organisations, places, history/timeline of the Dresden universe, spells, rules of magic. We could do it in threads on the forum, or we could set up a Wiki/website for it, if we have people who know how that works. It'd be a lot of work, but there's no obligation: anyone could contribute at any time, and little by little it could...

Congratulations, you've successfully corrupted me. I went ahead and grabbed the first book in the Dresden Files series last night. Good read, pretty fast, pretty obviously a 'book 1 of x.' Mind you, I've only read the first book, but I was wondering if anybody else thought Dresden was a... well, nicer/cleaner/more family friendly version of John Constantine? And I'm talking the Brit, not the freaking Hollywood version.

We all know that the Knights of the Cross are basicly God's warriors on earth. One book said that Sanya was saved by Micheal the archangel. Then in Small Favor Uriel shows up and helps Dresden out with Soulfire and then talks to Dresden near the end. You have to wonder how much impact God and the archangels are gonna have from here on out in terms on Dresden and his battle against the Black Council or if they are only gonna help out when he fights Denarians.

Title: Harry Dresden: The First Chronicles Author: Durza II Rating: M Genre: Mystery/Adventure Pairing: None, as of yet at least Chapters: 3 Words: 19,923 Updated: Mar 1, 2009 Published: Jun 23, 2008 Status: Abandoned Summary: I'm Harry Dresden. I live in Chicago. And, oh, i'm a Wizard. My life isn't great. In fact, it sucks. But i try to get by. Not easy when someone's always trying to kill me. But that's life for you, i guess. My life, at least. Read on at your own peril......

I just posted it in the WBA section, and any comments would be greatly appreciated.

No one has done anything like this so far so here it is, a thread for everything Black Council. Theories on members, motivations, how powerful they are, etc. To start us off, here's something from the end of Chapter Eight and the beginning of Chapter Nine of Summer Knight ( pg 107-109 paperback edition). This is from the scene where, after Dresden first makes contact with Elaine, Morgan knocks on the door. "Dresden," Morgan growled form the other side of the door. "Open up traitor....

Ok, I had a look at the HD timeline yesterday and something stroke me as quite odd. From how I understand it, wizards can get very old because of this 'better copies thing'. They age slower. Let's set the max age at the 400 years Ancient Mai is at. Luccio is about 200 and stated in White Night (I think) that she 'outgrew' her sexual desires and fertility 140 years ago. Isn't it odd that wizards can get so old, but are only sexually active (or capable) for barely a sixth of their...

I was wondering if the books had to be read in series to understand, I have found Death Masks but the others I had to get shipped to me and god only knows how long thats going to take :( I really want to start reading the book I have but I don't want to start it if im going to have no idea whats going on. So do you have to read all the books in order to understand the story? Luke ** sorry about any spelling mistake/grammar buts its midnight and i have to get up early for work and require...

Besides the title of the 11th book (Turn Coat), a guy has taken notes of questions asked to Butcher in an interview: UNSEELIE ACCORDS: This was my question and I didn't manage to get the answer I wanted but I did get that the Unseelies were signed a long time ago and that there are about 25 baronies in addition to the main signers and that most people who signed did not do so with good faith. MAC: Second part of my question was how did Mac fit in? He had a sponsor who put him up with...

I'm curious, we hear about a wizards "death curse" alot in the series, to the point that Dresden thought he could use it as an insurance policy against kinkaid, but we've never once heard it brought up when the white council does their little execution act. Whats to stop these black magic infested little devils from calling up a curse on the guy holding the sword so that they die with them?

We´ve got a thread for our favorite Dresden Files characters, but what would they be without interaction and action? What are your favorite scenes in the books? You can quote them, tell us when/where/who or just give us the page and book and comment why this scene etc. Please mark spoilers. I´ve too many scenes in mind to write them all down at once, but some special scenes for me are -The "introduction" of Bob in Storm Front (p.90-99) The way he and Harry interact is just funny and as...

So has anyone been reading the comic iteration of everyone's favourite Wizarding detective? 2 issues are out so far and their both rather good. A compelling plot (so far) and some excellent action meant that as a prequel to Storm Front it’s everything I've wanted out of a visual version of DF. Murphy is pre-Hawaii and the 10 foot wide pool doesn’t' seem to have become lodged up her arse yet, which is win. Thoughts anyone?

A completely random thought struck me earlier as I was making something to eat; what did Mac do to get his pub listed as an accorded neutral ground? We know they're not that common, given that it was a big thing for Marcone to be listed in the same accords, and there's no mention of ones in other places. So what did he do? I would expect that he's a wizard, probably a powerful one as well, but if that were the only criteria then there would be tons of neutral parties all over the place. He...

Temporarily stealing space in Aekiel's post to say this: This is the official review thread for Forced Flight. When I figure out how to make a post and stick to the head of a thread I will do that, so I am no longer stealing Aekiel's space. Title: Forced_Flight Author: vlad_the_inhaler Rating: R/NC17 maybe later, but probably not Genre: Dresden, and all that that implies DLP category: Dredsden Pairing: Harry/Molly mentorship now, more much later Chapters: 4 Words: 18,103...

To those that havn't read Small Favor, you may wish to avoid this thread. So in the end of small favor we learn some pretty interesting things about Dresden, including the fact that he's been gifted with the ability to use soulfire by a freaking archangel. Now we've seen portions of both Hellfire, and it's counterpart Soulfire, which do you prefer and why?

For some reason every time I hear Iron Man I think of Harry Dresden....does that make any sense at all? What about you? Do you have a song or songs that you think go good with the Dresden Files?

I'm curious, out of everyone in the Dresden-Verse canon, who is your favorite character? For me I'd have to say it would be Marcone, I love his attitude. Followed a close second by Lash. Just finished White Night and I'm sad to see her go (more sad to see Hellfire go though, looks like Dresden's huge spell flinging days are over =/.). Anyway, who do you like the most?

I just found this. Its not out yet, but they have a beta sign-up form. Rehio: Sorry if this is old-hat, I searched but didn't find. Post edited.

Dresden TGYH thread, Yay! Thank God You’re Here is based on a simple premise: get a group of well known performers and make each walk through a door into a scene without any idea of who they are or what they’re walking into. It might be an operating theatre and a simple greeting, “Thank God you’re here, Doctor. The patient’s ready.” It may be a Roman dungeon, a boardroom, a starship or a talk show. The only things they can depend on are their abilities to make everything up for the next...

Hello. First of all, I would like to say, that I translate books for a publisher. I thought about asking my editor if they would be interested in publishing Dresden Files series in Lithuanian (to the best of my knowledge it is not published in Lithuanian yet). The questions: 1. How successful is it commercially? Let's be real, it is a business, so the editor will be interested in that. 2. The company publishes books that were made into movies. The Other Boleyn Girl, Brokeback Mountain...

I'm working on a fic atm but I'm having a terrible time getting Dresden done right. In the books he's witty and quirky but manages to be aware and intelligent at the same time. He's not an easy character to write at all. Anyone have any tips on keeping him in character? Writing DF with an OOC Harry seems kind of pointless.

So I was rereading Summer Knight the other day and I was wondering why why we haven't seen the Summer Queen yet. In SK we saw every Queen of Faerie but her. Dresden saw her briefly when she took away Aurora, but only as a glowing being I think. Do you guys think Butcher is going to do some type of big reveal with her identity? Maybe she's spent some time in the mortal world and Dresden knows her, and that's why we never saw her face? What do you guys think?

I totally and completely think that if the Dresden files fanfic verse takes off this is what the pairing will come to. I couldn't help but make comparisons to the two while reading the books. Both 'feisty' Both get involved where they shouldn't Both are stubborn to the point of getting in the way. There are of course differences as well but in the hands of a shitty author I can see the similarities shining through. Murphy is better then Ginny imo but still the worst...

I think the TV series Burn Notice main character got the same attitude as Harry Dresden...well that and the rest of the series is realy good so check it out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_Notice_%28TV_series%29

Now, I know that fangirls will do anything to be able to write slash...but really! Not only is there good evidence in the books that Dresden is NOT gay, Bob is an incorporeal magical spirit. Would someone care explain how they have hawt buttsecks when one of them can't actually touch solid matter? The mind just boggles...

I'm currently watching it and I have to say: Take Law and Order. Lower the budget. Add a little sex. And a tiny bit of magic and you have the show. I know some people like it (Nuhuh) but it doesn't really do it for me. They casted Susan terribly, Murphy terribly, Dresden isn't too bad albeit nothing like how I pictured him. I like Morgan, probably all it's really got going for it besides the numerous hot girls that show up in Dresden's life. Chances on it being brought back to...

Dresden Oneshot Challenges' Alright, some of you have seen these before, being members of BD too, but since this place is more active (understatement), I am posting it here as well. Because the goal is more fanfiction. Challenge! Accept! Write! --------- By the powers vested in me I challenge Vash the Unholy to a one shot of doom! Borne of our brainstorming on something else entirely (as far as I can remember, it was late and I was tired) What if in Small Favor Dresden's rage got...

This has been long over due. DLP has a chance to MAKE Dresden fanon from essentially ground zero, since the current fanfics suck so bad save for the ones from our current DLP members. Lets share ideas, discussion, anything, and lets see what we can come up with. I've wanted to do this for a year or so, I just haven't gotten around to it for one reason or another. I now bring you, yet another forum to lurk in.

I purchased the first issue of the Dresden Files comic book today. It is a four issue mini-series called "Welcome to the Jungle." I believe that it is supposed to take place just before the events in Storm Front. That being said after reading the issue I still have my reservations about the artwork. I think that Harry looks pretty damn good, but that the women, Murphy especially, still look a bit "mannish." That aside, the writing is pretty damn good, considering that Butcher is doing...