Dresden files suggested age

I haven't read Skin Game yet rereading series first , but I think Harry would have mentioned 40 as a milestone birthday. But wizards live for hundreds of years mostly Simply because it would suit Harry to have something to be gloomy about LOL!

You know - reaching 40 and looking back at his life so far and thinking negatively. To all prior postings: I to have been curious about the age of Harry. But rather than pose my own thoughts on the matter and be wrong or stomp on any other suggestions, which would likely be right; I posed that very question to Jim Butcher himself.

I do not know that I would ever be able to figure it out, so I have requested if he would be so kind as to answer this topic for us. So in Skin Game he's That sets Ghost Story in May after his 39th, so Changes is around his 39th birthday. In Cold Days it's his birthday party hosted by Mab so I guess that was his big Jun 29, PM.

Good call about his birthday party. Oh, yeah. How could I forget about that birthday party? I cried tears laughing at the term used to describe Maeve's outfit. Jul 02, PM. Natasha wrote: "Oh, yeah. So far, the series consists of fifteen novels, along with several novelettes and short stories.

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Connie Murphy as Lt. Connie Murphy. Terrence Mann Bob as Bob …. Conrad Coates Morgan as Morgan. Joanne Kelly Bianca as Bianca. Natalie Lisinska Laura as Laura. James Binkley Assassin as Assassin …. When the team arrives to the besieged house hosting the Venatori , he quickly organizes the defense, but is noticed by the Red Court leader , who rapidly invites him to a parley, whose terms Dresden refuses. After Carlos Ramirez reports of the existance of a shoggoth in the house, Dresden quickly surmises the direness of the situation and the intentions of the Red Court.

Later, the house they're in being destroyed by a cadre of White Court soldiers, he releases the Shoggoth, killing Bravosa and scattering his forces.

He and Thomas Raith then draw the Shoggoth to an abandoned quarry , and destroy it. They discover that Jenny Greenteeth has cast a sleeping spell on her in order to take her place at the wedding and get some serious supernatural influence on Billy.

Proven Guilty sees Dresden investigate black magic in Chicago, at the behest of the Gatekeeper. He also finds himself up against faerie constructs based around horror films, and leads a charge on the Winter Fae capital, Arctis Tor , in order to retrieve Molly Carpenter , Michael's oldest daughter, who is later revealed to be the warlock behind the black magic.

At Molly's trial, Dresden "becomes a politician", in his own words, cutting off the Merlin 's choices until the Merlin is forced to allow Dresden to take Molly under the Doom of Damocles. In "AAAA Wizardry", Harry Dresden lectures a class of warden trainees about the importance of the five As in their future life: "ascertain", "analysis", "assemble", "act", "arrogance". In an attempt of helping the Yardly family dealing with a boogeyman , Dresden realizes that the creature was just benefiting from a preexisting situation.

In White Night , female practitioners start disappearing. It looks like the White Court may be taking a more active role in the war between vampires and wizards and it looks like Thomas Raith is connected. To make things worse, Thomas isn't answering Dresden's calls. Several rival interests among the White vampires are interwoven into a thicker, yet well-coordinated plot full of surprises and tag-team dueling action.

In "Down Town", Karrin Murphy calls Dresden to a murder scene, showing him a pocket watch that was found on the victim 's body. Dresden collects a piece of residue from the scene and promises to look into the matter. A visit to Thomas Raith at the Coiffure Cup and an inspection by Bob on the murder scene, yield nothing. Thomas is enjoying a game of " Evernight " at the Woodfield Mall , when Dresden reaches him, but a Black Court vampire gets in the way.

In "Heorot", Dresden and Ms. In Small Favor , Dresden loses his ability to charge his spells with Hellfire [] and has to make do without it for his favor to Queen Mab and the recent resurgence of the Denarians. He gains the ability to use Soulfire , the divine equivalent of Hellfire, fueled by his own soul. While they increasingly violently clash with each other and with the Chicago Police Department , Dresden figures out that a fae is sowing discord in Chicago for his own amusement.

He has to improvise a non-magical white lie to cover what happened to the car, as Mike Atagi wouldn't accept the magical truth. Mike Atagi offers him only two choices among "cheap, fast and good". In "Day Off", Dresden tries to enjoy a well earned day off. A group of non-talented youngsters, his apprentice , and two of the Alphas interfere, and the day off turns out as busy as his regular days. In Backup , Thomas Raith chases a Stygian who is bent on tricking Harry Dresden to discover and release a book that would wreck the century old Oblivion War.

After a meeting with Gwynn ap Nudd , he refuses to do it, having discovered the true meaning of the course. After examining the crime scene, and making friends with Mary and Max Martineaux and with Deputy Gentle , he is stopped by Agents Biggs and Lytle and warned not to interfere with their activities. He enters Taylor's pub for a beer where he is hit on by a ghoul in disguise who lures him on the street and engages him in a fight, interrupted by Listens-to-Wind , who leads him to the Wolf people's grove ; a palaver with the Wolf people's alpha results in a fight with them , which is stopped with the intervention of agent Lytle and his men.

Agents Lytle and Biggs are there and they have almost a fight with Dresden, interrupted by Deputy Gentle who calls jurisdiction on the two agents. In Turn Coat , Donald Morgan arrives on Dresden's door, injured and on the run; he's accused of the murder of a Senior Council member, though it's a setup.

Dresden assists the White Court , which has also been set up by the Black Council , in proving Morgan's innocence. During his investigation, he claims a Sanctum invocation , has to fight a Skinwalker and is finally able to pinpoint a traitor in the White Council.

Meanwhile, Dresden's brother is kidnapped and darkened by the Skinwalker. Dresden throws down a challenge of violence to the remaining Senior Council members. In "Journal", Donald Morgan discloses that his antagonistic relationship with Harry Dresden was in an attempt to establish whether Dresden was tainted by the Adversary.

He manages, at the cost of an university building's destruction. In Changes , Dresden is informed by Susan that they have a daughter, Margaret Angelica , who has been kidnapped.

The novel ends with Dresden drowning, having been shot by an unknown assailant. As he drowns, he hears two voices; one male Quintus Cassius and one female. In Ghost Story , Dresden is sent back to Chicago as a ghost to solve his own murder. Mortimer Lindquist is kidnapped by a cult worshiping Corpsetaker 's ghost and Dresden rallies his friends to take her down.

In the end, he learns that he had arranged his own murder, to renege on his Winter Knight deal with Mab , then had Molly Carpenter erase his memory of the arrangement. Uriel gives Dresden a second chance since his suicide was influenced by a Fallen Angel.

When Dresden chooses to "move on", however, it turns out that Queen Mab and Demonreach have kept his body alive all the time. The Queen then takes the resuscitated Knight to her domain. In Bombshells , as a token of gratitude toward Molly Carpenter , the Leanansidhe mentions that Dresden is in fact not yet dead. In Cold Days , Dresden wakes at Arctis Tor and spends three months in a combination of physiotherapy under Sarissa and naked combat training under Mab [] before accepting his first assignment as the Winter Knight - to kill Mab's daughter Maeve , already set on killing Dresden.

With the help of the Wild Hunt , Mab, and his allies, Dresden prevents the Outsiders and Maeve from staging an apocalyptic prison break on Demonreach. In Skin Game , Harry Dresden is stuck on Demonreach because of the "parasite" giving him increasing headaches, until Mab sends him off with three days to live, to join her creditor Nicodemus Archleone in a bank vault heist.

The mark turns out to be Hades, Lord of the Underworld. Dresden, having no choice at all, insists on bringing Karrin Murphy to watch his back, and a meeting with Donar Vadderung to prepare a strategy. Within a short time, the conspirators make enemies of Waldo Butters , Karrin Murphy, the Carpenters, and the Archangel Uriel , and find Nicodemus' wife Tessa hot on their trail, determined to stop their project at all costs.

Dresden, ostensibly working for the bad guys, is both hampered and conflicted at all times, and needs help keeping his white hat on straight - he gets this eventually from Michael Carpenter and from Hades himself. In "Jury Duty", Dresden is drafted as a juror in the murder trial of Hamilton Luther ; he manages to get Judge Jefferson to declare it a mistrial, by finding a key witness and by consistently disagreeing with fellow jurors about Luther's guilt. In "Day One", Dresden encourages Waldo Butters to fight the baku by pointing out that God would not assign someone a task greater than he can carry out.

In "Zoo Day", while at the zoo, Harry Dresden meets and rescues Austin , a young warlock just come into his powers. They're interrupted by Carlos Ramirez informing them that the Fomor have convened a peace summit in Chicago, hosted by Baron Marcone and that Dresden will have to provide security for the White Council 's senior members in attendance and to liaise with the Winter Court. When Ramirez and Raith leave, Dresden notices some very unusual footprints on the beach entering the lake, but not coming out of it.

At Dresden's place , Ebenezar McCoy warns him that he is likely to be stripped of his Warden status and covertly targeted for termination. After witnessing the Goddess Ethniu 's declaration of war against mortals, [] Dresden sprints to the marinas, where he duels McCoy and loses.

However, he manages to distract McCoy long enough to escape by pretending to be killed by McCoy — what was killed was actually an ectoplasmic construct of himself built for him by the Winter Lady. With the Blackstaff, Dresden creates a twenty foot thick wall of ice to stall the Jotnar while Cristos and McCoy turn the ground at their feet into a sink hole.

One Jotun escapes and scatters everyone, [] but Dresden is rescued by Murphy and the Alphas, who take him to Mab. Although Marcone throws it for Ethniu to run after, he manages to supply Dresden with Ethniu's blood in the process.

However, Dresden surmises that Justine is infected by Nemesis , and confirms this before fleeing to the safety of Demonreach. He also makes the case that Marcone owes him for defending his demesne, forcing Marcone to hand over his castle to Dresden. Mouse helps him, displayng a far greater mechanical expertise than him.

In "Monsters", Dresden is the recipient of a phone call by Viti about the welfare of a number of children. The Bruce Willis character in the Die Hard film series. I wanted a very different type of hero. I wanted my hero to be more like a blue-collar-type guy like him, not a Superman.

The whole concept of the Dresden Files, for me, was about taking the archetypical, classic PI and blending him with the archetypical, classical wizard. I think the two archetypes are really much more similar than one would at first suspect. Both tend to operate alone. Both, in general, tend to face forces and powers far beyond their own. Both operate to protect and guide those weaker than themselves. Both draw their true strengths from having and seeking knowledge.

Both spend their time confronting some of the darkest aspects of their worlds. That attitude of defiance of greater powers is a hallmark of both archetypes, and for Dresden to be what I wanted him to be, he has to be willing to confront those who clearly outclass him—whether they be towering, flame-wrapped demons or cynical agents of the F.

His wiseguy attitude is a part of that. That he was going to be the character you were going to be with for the whole series?

Well, remember the only reason I wrote my first book was to prove to my writing teacher how wrong she was about writing stuff. It was a very artificial process. From my Father probably. My dad was a very unique individual. Very quiet. At his eulogy I wrote 'My dad was a great man.