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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #225 on: May 26, 2009, 02:29:04 PM »
This might be in here already (23 pages + lazy me = no research:

that puts them at 13-15 years apart in the timeline but The Warrior has this line:
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Huh.  That makes no sense to me.  In "Grave Peril," Michael was in his mid-forties, and Molly was twelve.  Therefore, he would have been in his early thirties when she was born.  Also, Word of Jim indicates Michael and Charity wasted no time getting hitched and starting the Carpenter family dynasty.  Yet I can't imagine Charity being in her early thirties when she was rescued from the dragon, giving her some fifteen years of magical experience.  I find it a lot likelier that she was in her early twenties, for around a ten year age difference.  She would still have ten years on Harry, so it might be easier for him to mentally categorize Michael and Charity as being in the same age range.  Hmm.

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #226 on: May 27, 2009, 02:27:36 PM »
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Well, we should probably incorporate a major event in the life of
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we learned about recently into the Timeline.

Set somewhere around
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i would say. :-)

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #227 on: May 27, 2009, 02:37:12 PM »
hints to Changes Spoilers inside

Well, we should probably incorporate a major event in the life of
(click to show/hide)
we learned about recently into the Timeline.

Set somewhere around
(click to show/hide)
i would say. :-)

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #228 on: May 27, 2009, 05:49:45 PM »
Well, we should probably incorporate a major event in the life of
(click to show/hide)
we learned about recently into the Timeline.

Set somewhere around
(click to show/hide)
i would say. :-)

I would query whether this is solid enough to go in the timeline, on the grounds that unless someone has info from Jim specifically, we do not know that
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #229 on: May 27, 2009, 06:02:12 PM »
I would query whether this is solid enough to go in the timeline, on the grounds that unless someone has info from Jim specifically, we do not know that
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I phrased it "
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"  I find the DM option much likelier than the GP option, from a reader's point of view.  And if the book contradicts it, I'll change it!

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #230 on: May 27, 2009, 09:28:56 PM »
That's the fun thing with the edit button. But I'm not sure it doesn't happen
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #231 on: May 28, 2009, 08:46:02 AM »
That's the fun thing with the edit button. But I'm not sure it doesn't happen
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No, it's not actually. We know he hasn't seen Susan between GP and DM. IIRC its mentioned at the beginning of DM.

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #232 on: May 28, 2009, 01:14:24 PM »
That's the fun thing with the edit button. But I'm not sure it doesn't happen
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Meh.  That's such an outside chance, I'm not worried about it. 

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #233 on: May 28, 2009, 01:52:21 PM »
Hah, found what i was looking for.

DM Paperback p.7
I still kept trying to find a way to remove her affliction, but I'd received only a card and a postcard or three from her since she'd left.

I conclude that he hasn't seen her.

Also, we know for a fact that he hasn't seen her between GP and SK
SK:
I read her syndicated column in the Arcane. She must have been mailing them in to her editor, so at least I knew she was alive. She'd asked me not to follow her and I hadn't.

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Last possibility is that she was
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when she left after GP. wich is highly unlikely.
I just don't think she could/would have kept that from him when she saw him in DM.

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #234 on: May 28, 2009, 05:58:27 PM »
Last possibility is that she was
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when she left after GP. wich is highly unlikely.
I just don't think she could/would have kept that from him when she saw him in DM.

I think it's very likely she would have, but come argue about this in a more appropriate thread ?
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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #235 on: May 28, 2009, 06:35:58 PM »
Yeah.  No more discussion about the opening to #12 in this thread.  I'm confident in my decision.

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #236 on: May 28, 2009, 07:04:14 PM »
Yeah.  No more discussion about the opening to #12 in this thread.  I'm confident in my decision.
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Sorry I know you said the end but I just couldn't help myself :-[

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #237 on: July 04, 2009, 02:16:06 AM »
Not to change the tack of the conversation but according to this time line Mister is a least 13 (that's how long Harry has had him) and still VERY spry.  Either some of Harry's magic longevity is rubbing off or like Mouse he's no ordinary pet.  Given how Mouse defers to him I wonder what's the deal.  Although the Za Lord Guard say they have to defend the brownies from him so maybe he's normal and important character pet live a long time in DV. 

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #238 on: July 14, 2009, 10:29:46 PM »
*chanting softly* She knows something we don't know :o

Sorry I know you said the end but I just couldn't help myself :-[

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Re: Dresden Files: Series Timeline
« Reply #239 on: July 14, 2009, 10:34:43 PM »
Not to change the tack of the conversation but according to this time line Mister is a least 13 (that's how long Harry has had him) and still VERY spry.  Either some of Harry's magic longevity is rubbing off or like Mouse he's no ordinary pet.  Given how Mouse defers to him I wonder what's the deal.  Although the Za Lord Guard say they have to defend the brownies from him so maybe he's normal and important character pet live a long time in DV. 
Mister is actually God in disguise, keeping an eye on Harry  :)

But seriously, Ive known cats that lived past 20, though Ill admit that they lost their spryness long before that. 
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