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Dresden realizes that he is the chief suspect for these magical murders. Eventually, despite encounters with vampires, the unknown warlock, and the ever-suspicious Warden Morgan, Dresden learns that the affair centers around the drug "ThreeEye", which allows normal humans to temporarily acquire Wizards Sight, which eventually drives them insane.
Using the energy of thunder storms and the orgies held at his home, he powered the spells to remove his enemies, namely Marcone's men and anyone else threatening his operation, in order to gradually bring down Marcone and corner the drug trade. Dresden interrupts Victor's spellcasting and attacks him, "brains versus muscle", eventually burning down Victor's house while Victor is still inside grappling with monster scorpions and a demon he had summoned to kill Dresden. Dresden survives, but is himself trapped on the balcony of the burning house until Morgan steps in to rescue him.
Morgan had witnessed the fight with Victor and, knowing now that Dresden is innocent, reluctantly testifies on Dresden's behalf to the White Council. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Dresden Files characters. However, his duel against Thorned Namshiel in Small Favor revealed that there were still some holes in his defense. The silver pentacle amulet he wears about his neck serves as an impromptu magical focus and often a divination aid to find his brother Thomas, his dog Mouse, or whoever else he might be looking for.
The leather duster he wears has been charged and strengthened by Harry to be able to ward off even military grade gunfire; it also stops combat energy-based magic fairly effectively, while being waterproof and stain-proof. He originally wore a canvas duster, but discarded it after Susan Rodriguez gave him the leather one as a present in Fool Moon. In Changes , his faerie godmother temporarily transforms it into an ornate suit of armor prior to his battle against the Red Court.
Once it reverts to its original form at noon the next day, it falls apart from all the damage it has taken, and Harry throws the scraps into Lake Michigan while on his brother's houseboat. It is finally replaced near the end of Cold Days with a black leather Inverness coat , and by the time of Skin Game it has been magically enhanced like its predecessor.
He also keeps a sawed-off pump shotgun in the trunk of his car. In Blood Rites , Harry uses a magical belt buckle in the shape of a standing bear that temporarily restores energy and magical strength to him while exhausted. The buckle does not appear to be mentioned in any of the other books. Harry has also set up a laboratory in the sub-basement beneath his own living room. Here he keeps his own collection of magical tomes and lore, along with an extensive and eclectic collection of bric-a-brac useful in making potions. This laboratory has a strong summoning circle in the corner, under which the Blackened Denarius of Lasciel was buried for a time.
Starting with Proven Guilty , he sets up a detailed scale model of Chicago in the lab to use in focusing spells and rituals, while at the same time protecting him from counterattacks through the spells. Harry can make various alchemical potions to imbue himself with various powers or one-shot effects, though he heavily relies on Bob's knowledge to make them. He uses them often in the first novels, but less and less frequently as time goes on.
He likes to put them in plastic sports bottles to better disguise their nature. Although he has misused one before, Harry nevertheless ends up as the guardian of two of the holy Swords of the Cross , waiting for their new bearers. He offers Karrin Murphy the chance to take up one of them at the end of Small Favor , but she turns him down.
As of Cold Days , she has taken custody of the two Swords and refused to tell Harry where they are, no longer trusting him to be able to properly look after them. As Harry's house is attacked several times during the series, he steadily fortifies its defenses, which come to include a reinforced steel door, wards designed to obliterate would-be intruders, and a set of magic candles that indicate when an unwelcome guest is getting close to his door.
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He lives in the basement of a three-level boarding house until it is burned down during Changes , and rescues his landlady when this happens. Harry prefers to drive his Volkswagen Beetle because the simple technology powering it makes it less likely to abruptly die on him, and it can be fixed easily. He refers to it as the "Blue Beetle" due to its original color, though damage by supernatural creatures has forced him to replace several pieces of the bodywork in different colors.
During Changes , it is crushed beyond repair when a demon slams his brother Thomas' car down on top of it. Harry supports himself with the fees he earns from small jobs for private clients and his consulting work for the Chicago police. When he becomes a Warden, the White Council begins to pay him wages that provide a needed boost to his finances. It is intimated that the Council has enormous financial power due to the longevity of its members.
Harry never has much money to spare, spending most of what he earns on magical upgrades, car repairs, and everyday expenses and trying not to fall too far behind on his rent. He rents out an office for his detective business, storing his files and some non-magical equipment here; the location serves as a place for him to meet clients and pick up his mail. At the start of Changes , he learns that the Red Court secretly bought the building nearly eight years earlier and suddenly increased his rent just to toy with him. They have also planted enough explosives around his office to destroy the whole building, and they set these off in an unsuccessful attempt to kill Harry after a botched burglary.
Many of these items and locations are destroyed in Changes. However, the fire did not occur until after he had moved several important items, including the Swords and Bob's skull, out to keep the Chicago police and FBI from finding them. Some of the items he was unable to move out include the summoning circle, the Chicago model, documents on the occult, and Bob's romance novels. Also the Blue Beetle has been crushed, his staff is broken, his blasting rod has disintegrated, his office has been blown up, his duster has fallen apart, and in general the majority of his material goods are gone.
In Cold Days , Harry's revival via Mab has left him with none of his previous equipment, except for his pentacle amulet. Harry is forced to learn to fight without them for the entire book, having to rely on his wits and the power boost from being the Winter Knight instead.
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Thomas lends him a lever-action Winchester rifle, and he receives a new, unmodified duster from Molly Carpenter as a present. As of Skin Game , Harry has carved a new staff and enchanted his new duster with the same protective spells as his previous one.
Additionally, the new staff has the same spell as his lost silver rings to store and release kinetic energy, but carved seventy-seven times into the wood. This gives only one charge of force energy to release, but it is far more substantial than the force from the rings. By the end of the novel, he comes into possession of a substantial quantity of diamonds, as well as four items from Hades' underworld vault that have not yet been specifically identified: Harry realizes that these items, which were stored alongside the Holy Grail , may hold a formidable power.
As of Small Favor , Harry has only had three romantic relationships. His first girlfriend and first love Elaine, who was also a fellow apprentice, lived with him and Justin DuMorne for several years, and as Harry puts it, they drove each other nuts and went through puberty together. She was enthralled a magical mind control technique, deemed black magic by the Council by DuMorne and attempted to kill Harry, and Harry believed she had betrayed him.
When he killed DuMorne, he also thought incorrectly that Elaine was dead. Years later, he formed a relationship with Susan Rodriguez, whom Harry dated steadily for a few years but found himself unable to say "I love you" to. He finally said it when she was turned half-vampire, and proposed marriage soon afterwards, but Susan declined due to the dangers from her recent vampire nature and left the U. She later returned, and they resumed their sexual relationship briefly.
Harry hasn't gotten over her loss yet, and as of White Night he reveals that he's been celibate ever since their last encounter. This has afforded him protection from the vampires of the White Court. In Changes , she reveals to Harry that she gave birth to their daughter, Margaret "Maggie" Angelica, sometime after. Despite continued mutual attraction, this rift in their relationship causes Harry to comment that their relationship is through. Susan agrees that, due to her keeping their daughter's existence from him, she knew this would be his reaction as soon as he found out.
Despite increased sexual tension throughout the novel, her death at the end of Changes ends any hope that they could work through their issues. The relationship forms part of the backdrop for the short story " Day Off ". It is revealed in Turn Coat that Luccio was being manipulated using mind magic to keep tabs on Harry, which she did by dating him. Harry has also flirted with the idea of becoming involved with Karrin Murphy, but this has so far not gone anywhere.
In addition, wizards tend to live much longer than non-wizards; Karrin would die of old age centuries before Harry. Despite this, their platonic friendship is often closer than that of lovers. In Changes , it seems Harry is well on his way to finally hooking up with Karrin, except, as his standard luck, he is shot and killed at the end of the book. At the end of the novel Skin Game , Harry and Karrin decide to rekindle their romantic relationship.
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This caused Harry great concern throughout the novels up through Changes. He speculates that it is possible that it means that he will not only have an unsuccessful love life, but that all of his friends will either be dead or absent when his time to die arrives. At the end of Changes , following being shot, he hears the curse repeated when he is alone on a boat.
However, upon hearing this Harry then hears a female voice telling someone to hush. After it is revealed that Dresden ordered his own death and then asked her to remove the memory of his doing so, Harry learns what broke her heart. She had been forced to carry the memory since then. Despite Dresden's discomfort, Molly bluntly points out she's now in her twenties, and similar to Dresden, she can't have a "normal" relationship with anyone else, as she will watch her entire family, and any love interest except Harry die of old age. In Cold Days , Harry's relationship statuses are put on hold due to the hectic nature of the days of his return; however, at the end of the book, Harry and Karrin make an agreement to get together when this is all over.
In Skin Game , Harry has to deal with the return of a virtual lover in the Denarian Lasciel and their offspring , and is indeed finally planning on getting serious with Karrin. Most of his co-conspirators in the heist refer to Murphy as "his girlfriend. While it isn't stated among his magical powers, perhaps Harry's greatest asset compared to many of his peers are his non-wizardly friends and allies that he can call upon.
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From giving the Archive a name Ivy , to working with the crime lord of Chicago, adopting a Foo Dog, forming rescued pixies into a support team, having a friendly White Court vampire half-brother Thomas Raith , having a strong link with Chicago's Police Department via Karrin Murphy , a personal connection with a pack of good werewolves, the Alphas , and all of the Knights of the Cross and particularly Michael Carpenter and his family , Harry's allies and alliances have in many ways proven more powerful than his magical talents.
His knack for making friends out of enemies even managed to convert the shadow of the Denarian Lasciel to his side, as awarding her a name Lash showed her that she was every bit as entitled to her freedom of will, as the fallen angel that had spawned her was entitled to be independent of God. Harry's first and primary magical associate is Bob , a spirit of knowledge, the equivalent of a magical encyclopedia.
Bob supplies Harry magical knowledge, analysis, experience, and note-taking. Bob resides in a centuries-old skull enchanted to protect the fragile spirit from the debilitating effects of sunlight, and has been passed from wizard to wizard. He was most recently owned by the necromancer Kemmler, and then by Justin DuMorne.
He was thought to be destroyed at the time of Kemmler's death, but DuMorne stole him away against Council orders. Bob is also capable of possessing non-sentients, up to and including animated tyrannosaurs. As of Ghost Story , it is revealed that Bob has graduated from reading novels to having open access to the Internet which he can access from inside his skull. He is living with Butters, who loves having a nerdy roommate around, taking on some of Butters' personality traits, and Butters is plumbing the depths of Bob's knowledge for remarkably innovative advances in magical tech and gear.
Bob also does not lose information, unless he chooses to forget. Having had access to the internet, he may be far more advanced with non-magical knowledge than previously, although he was shown using it to watch porn. He has also completely severed the part of himself that used to serve Heinrich Kemmler, and it has gained a life of its own. Harry's Foo Dog, Mouse , is a character of his own, possessed of roughly human intelligence, able to detect supernatural evil, battle straight up with supernaturally tough and strong opponents, and voice a bark that can be heard for miles or throughout a burning hotel.
His collar has one of the miniature shields from Harry's bracelet attached to it as a way for Harry to find him. Complementing Mouse is Harry's crew of loyal, pizza-bribed pixies, serving as scouts and spies and informers and keeping the mice out of his home, under the leadership of the empowered pixie Major General Toot-toot. As of Changes , Mouse is tasked by Harry with guarding his apprentice after she is injured in the battle at Chichen Itza , and afterward serves as the guardian of his daughter, Maggie. Mouse is called a 'little brother' by Uriel himself, a clear indication of his celestial background.
In addition, Harry keeps a large gray cat named Mister as a pet. He found Mister in a garbage can three years prior to the events of Storm Front , with his tail torn off - either by a dog or a car, Harry assumed. Mister hates both and will either attack or flee from them on sight. He weighs over 30 pounds, due to sheer size rather than fat Harry notes that he is larger than some dogs , and has a fondness for Coca-Cola and food from McAnally's, Harry's favorite pub.
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