Awesome / Fool Moon

• Murphy casually owning Agent Benn with one move when she tries to sucker punch Murphy.
• Harry pushing Murphy out of the way of a gunshot
• Murphy shoots a loup-garou [read: giant psychotic werewolf] with silver bullets she made from her deceased aunt's earrings.(only inherited silver can harm it)
  • Right after, Carmichael, who has been the complete skeptic who has never believed Harry to be anything other than a con man, tells another officer about Harry:
    "He's the guy who knows. If he comes to and says anything, you listen to him."
  • Shortly after the above, Harry manages to drive the loup-garou off with a phenomenally powerful fire blast that hurls it through two buildings. As one of the witnesses so eloquently puts it:
    "Damn."
    • Arguably made even funnier by the fact that the guy was basically a token black guy; the kind who stands around and says that things are 'whack'.
    • Maybe he was an Expy of Ron Simmons.
  • The loup-garou is just annoyed by that attack.
  Harry: (realising its unharmed) Oh you've gotta be kidding me!
• Crime lord John Marcone, when trussed up and hanging over a pit as bait for said loup-garou, uses a knife his captors didn't find, and instead of cutting all the ropes and freeing himself, cuts one rope so that Harry and Murphy can climb out of the pit and away from the werewolf—though this leaves him in considerable danger. And he banters with Harry while he does it. Oh and does it in the dark.
  • He's also hanging upside down while he does this. He doesn't just cut the rope, either- he throws the knife, despite all of the mentioned circumstances, and manages to hit the rope accurately and hard enough for it to work. Harry remarks on this achievement of Marcone's in his narratives a few times in later books, because it was damn impressive.
    • Speaking of Marcone, Harry's conversation with him in his awesome definitely qualifies.
  • Marcone distracts the creature at a critical time with high-pitched whistling as well, risking gaining its attention so others could move into a safe position.
• Harry, after donning one of the cursed wolfskin belts of the Hexenwulf and becoming (temporarily) a werewolf himself, realizes that the Black Magic of the artifact is seducing him into doing and becoming something that appalls him, and rips it off and flings it away. Given the overwhelming and addictive appeal of Black Magic in this series, given the fact that it was stated earlier that it was practically impossible for someone who'd tasted the power of such an artifact to turn their back on it, and given that Harry—weak, wounded, unarmed and stripped of magic—was ready to die as a human rather than live as a monster...this was a Moment of Awesome from every possible angle.
  • Given what happens in Changes and Cold Days, this could easily become Fridge Horror later in the series.
  • There is also Harry curbstomping one of the villains who was using the same Transformation Trinket. Beat Them at Their Own Game is his middle name.
    • Plus Harry tricks the rest into killing each other when they attempt to kill him. Invoking Ironic Death at its finest.
• Harry pitches himself out of a moving vehicle, downs a hella-powerful pick-me-up potion, stands up, and then explodes a pursuing pickup truck's tires, sending it careening off the road.
  • While humming Carmen as an incantation.
    • And a while later he disperses a lycanthrope's (read: Berserker's) bloodlust with the magical equivalent of a slap.
• Carmichael's Dying Moment of Awesome, going out saving Murphy from a loup-garou.
• Harry is rescued by a group of werewolves from a Hexenwulf attack, and when one of them catches up, they offer to Hold the Line so that he can escape despite being throughly outclassed.
  • Harry's response? He tackles the massive wolf, Palate Propping it's mouth with a wrech, rips off his Transformation Trinket, before beating him into unconscioussness by slamming his face into the ground repeatedly. That's right, Harry Dresden destroyed a werewolf in physical combat.
• The villains get one for being Crazy-Prepared enough to already having a hostage in case Harry got an advantage over them.
• Harry and his ally are being chased by officers and Harry gets shot in the shoulder. And they nearly get cornered. Harry, handcuffed and close to unconsciousnes from blood loss, gets the idea to perform some blood magic on the blood he just lost on the way due to the gunshot wound. This covers a considerable area near them in thick mist and allows his ally to spirit him away.
• Harry generating electricity from him body to escape a chokehold.
• How Harry finally defeats the loup-garou. He realises his mother's silver pendant counts as inherited silver, so he charges it up with magical energy and uses it as an improvised shuriken to kill it. Simultaneously, Murphy guns down the Big Bad trying to attack Harry from behind before jumping out of the way of the incoming loup-garou's corpse and emptying her gun onto it on pure reflex. And Susan records all this from far away, getting a massive career boost from the footage.
• Marcone and Hendricks performing a Villainous Rescue of Harry from Parker, the leader of Streetwolves at their hideout just as he was about to beat Harry to death, toting a massive shotgun, revealing that he had all of Parker's associates waylaid and their vehicles tampered with, leaving Parker alone, and that he had got his hands on Harry's report to Murphy and knows all about werewolves and repeats his job offer to Harry. And shooting their way out and driving away when Hexenwolves attack.
• Parker, the leader of Streetwolves, despite getting on in years, owning uppity subordinates who were trying to undermine his authority.
  • He also Out-Gambitted Harry as well. He let Harry focus on him, taunting him, allowing his men to sneak up behind Harry and beat him down. Simple street technique, and it worked like a charm.
  • And despite being beat to hell by them, Harry had enough wits to notice the Big Bad's man who sped past the Streetwolves vehicle to survey them, finally allowing him to put the pieces together.
• Subconscious-Harry. Full stop.

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