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** With Marcone, the man is criminal scum but protects children from his crimes and retribution. Harry appeals to hm for help by telling him the Reds have kidnapped a child and plan to do horrible things to her.

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** With Marcone, the man is criminal scum but protects children from his crimes and retribution. Harry appeals to hm him for help by telling him the Reds have kidnapped a child and plan to do horrible things to her.
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* FairyGodmother: Lea is back and free. [[spoiler:She also gets a chance to act like a typical Fairy Godmother by dressing Harry up in appropriate clothing for [[StormingTheCastle his type of party.]] But as she is of Winter, they will vanish at Noon.]]

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* FairyGodmother: Lea Lea, Harry's sidhe patron, is back and free. [[spoiler:She also gets a chance to act like a typical Fairy Godmother by dressing Harry up in appropriate clothing for [[StormingTheCastle his type of party.]] But as she is of Winter, they will vanish at Noon.]]
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* DramaticSpineInjury: Red Court vampires set fire to the building Harry lives in, and Harry falls from a ladder while rescuing his elderly landlady and fractures his spine, paralyzing him from the waist down. [[spoiler:This becomes one of the factors in Harry accepting Queen Mab's longstanding offer to become the Winter Knight, since it means curing the injury.]]
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* DeusSexMachina: Harry Dresden makes a desperate bargain [[spoiler:with the [[FaerieCourt Fae Queen Mab]] to [[PositionOfLiteralPower become her Knight]]]], only to find out that that particular magic contract needs to be sealed with much more than [[AMagicContractComesWithAKiss a kiss]].
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** Harry warns his friends to be very careful in the final battle as becoming a hindrance would quite likely mean [[spoiler:Lea will either not move to help them or will even hasten their defeat. Her primary goal is Harry's success. Nothing else matters.]] He then [[InvokedTrope makes the trope work ''for'' them]] by [[spoiler:making it clear to Lea that he will not leave any of his friends behind, dead or alive, and it will be a lot easier and less likely to impede the mission if they can go under their own power than if Harry has to carry their dead bodies.]]

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** Harry warns his friends to be very careful in the final battle as becoming a hindrance would quite likely mean [[spoiler:Lea will either not move to help them or will even hasten their defeat. Her primary goal is Harry's success. Nothing else matters.]] He then [[InvokedTrope makes the trope work ''for'' work]] ''[[InvokedTrope for]]'' [[InvokedTrope them]] by [[spoiler:making it clear to Lea that he will not leave any of his friends behind, dead or alive, and it will be a lot easier and less likely to impede the mission if they can go under their own power than if Harry has to carry their dead bodies.]]
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** Martin downplays this-Harry already knows that he's clever, but never realized just how much.

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** Martin downplays this-Harry this- Harry already knows that he's clever, but never realized just how much.
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* HollywoodSilencer: Averted. A crowd fails to realize someone just tried to kill Dresden, but then the characters discuss just ''why'' it worked (subsonic ammo, the shooter fired from inside a vehicle to hide the barrel and muffle the sound, etc.)

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* HollywoodSilencer: Averted. A crowd fails to realize someone just tried to kill Dresden, but then the characters discuss just ''why'' it worked (subsonic worked- subsonic ammo, the shooter fired from inside a vehicle to hide the barrel and muffle the sound, etc.)



* LivingLieDetector: [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Agent Tilly]] claims to be one, and seems to be right about it; he is fully aware that Rudolph lied his ass off to bring down Murphy, is perfectly reasonable to Harry when he claims he had nothing to do with [[spoiler: his office exploding]], instantly picks up on the one lie Harry does tell, and when the situation is explained to him he knows that Murphy, Harry and Susan are telling the truth (though convincing him that they aren't simply insane is another issue.)

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* LivingLieDetector: [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Agent Tilly]] claims to be one, and seems to be right about it; he is fully aware that Rudolph lied his ass off to bring down Murphy, is perfectly reasonable to Harry when he claims he had nothing to do with [[spoiler: his office exploding]], instantly picks up on the one lie Harry does tell, and when the situation is explained to him he knows that Murphy, Harry and Susan are telling the truth (though convincing him that they aren't simply insane is another issue.)issue).

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* FamilyExtermination: The Red Court kidnaps Harry's daughter in order to sacrifice her in a SympatheticMagic ritual to wipe out their entire family [[spoiler:in particular Harry's grandfather Ebenezer [=McCoy=], the Blackstaff. Instead Harry substitutes a newly-turned Red Court vampire in order to render the Red Court extinct.]]
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* AwfulTruth: When Harry is [[spoiler:hesitating about killing Winter Knight Lloyd Slate to become the new Winter Knight, Mab shows Harry a live image of his daughter's plight and the horror she was seeing around her. She gives her word this is true and accurate and it is a reminder for whom Harry is going to kill Slate]]. Harry briefly wonders if this is still fairy manipulation, but then realizes that since it's nothing but the truth then it's enlightenment.

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* AwfulTruth: When Harry is [[spoiler:hesitating about killing Winter Knight Lloyd Slate to become the new Winter Knight, Mab shows Harry a live image of his daughter's plight and the horror she was seeing around her. She gives her word this is true and accurate and it is it’s a reminder for whom Harry is going to kill Slate]]. Harry briefly wonders if this is still fairy manipulation, but then realizes that since it's nothing but the truth then it's enlightenment.
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* {{Irony}}: Susan is unapolegetic about keeping Maggie existence a secret from Harry to keep her safe from Dresden's enemies. Harry is righteously pissed at her about it but ultimately see the logic.[[spoiler: Neither of them considred the possibility that Martin, Susan friend, ally, the only person she trusted with the secret of Maggie's lineage and her location, was a traitor. In the end the measures that Susan was so sure would protect her daughter are the ones that put her in danger.]]
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** Harry is smart enough to realize when he was sitting [[spoiler:before Father Odin]] refusing his hospitality and not accept the food and drink kindly offered would be a heinous insult to his host.

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** Harry is smart enough to realize when he was sitting [[spoiler:before Father Odin]] that refusing his hospitality and not accept the food and drink kindly offered would be a heinous insult to his host.
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--->[[spoiler:'''Mouse:''']] That bitch.

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--->[[spoiler:'''Mouse:''']] -->[[spoiler:'''Mouse:''']] That bitch.



--->'''Sanya:''' So. Queen Mab. You hit that. You tapped that ass. Presumably, it was phat?

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--->'''Sanya:''' -->'''Sanya:''' So. Queen Mab. You hit that. You tapped that ass. Presumably, it was phat?

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