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Cold Days Predict-a-thon. [All the latest Spoilers permitted]
Faithmage:
1. Some as of yet unnamed squire/page of the WK it will be his fairy assistant that comes with the office.
2 A) Mouse will be the first to notice his return but this may not be known as he can't speak his first contact will be with Molly.
B) a Babylon 5 quote Molly: "I thought you were dead?" Harry: "I was, I'm better now."
C) I originally read coolest as in awesome and thought Molly pouncing on him and planting one(kiss) on him sounded "cool". However I may had missunderstood and now I believe that coolest is as in cold reaction, for that I bet Daniel carpenter will be the most upset with Harry, one for not passing a sword to him or another and two for messin up his sister.
D) Murphy kick him around some then kiss him and drop the L word.
3. His blasting rod magic will be inverted to suck heat out and be a freeze ray as he did before. Still a heat ray just the absence of it.
4. I nominate Boreas the old Greek god of the north wind and winter, a challenger to Mabs sphere of influence.
5. The conflict will ultimately be the choice between Molly or Murphy which symbolize the mortal and mystical sides of his dual existance. He will find a way to postpone the choice.
6. He will meet Fix at Mac's and warn him that when its time to throw down he'll call him first to get his affairs in order. Fix will pick a fight anyway, Harry will beat him but not kill him, adn let him know his offer stands, fix will agree.
7. Harry will find that Boreas or his "big bad" is on the BC and he is the one that sent the Athame to Lea and the wintercourt to disrupt it.
8. That Lash and Lasciel are aware of eachother and Harr is the battleground.
9. Harry will get the red gem back and it will give him some secret that his mom stored away in it, beyond the secret of all the ways/gates.
ebliss1:
1) My prediction is that Butters is the main companion, mostly due to the fact that I think Harry will need access to Bob, but his position as Winter Knight will cause complications should he actually re-take possession of Bob. Bob will be needed to educate Harry about the powers of the Winter Knight, the range of responsibilities and hierarchy of allegiances, and for a fair bit of comic relief between Harry, Butters and Bob.
2)
A) Butters will be first since Harry will need immediate use of Bob once he ventures out from Arctis Tor.
B) Harry will arrive in time to save Butters from a Fomor. He will then make a bad pun about “frozen fish sticks”.
C) Murphy will have the best reaction. Initially, she’ll shoot at him since she will believe him to be a shape-shifting imposter. After she realizes that he’s real, she’ll kick him in the groin for making her think he was dead.
D) Molly will have the most touching reaction since she’ll feel the weight of having to fill his shoes and the weight of having Lea as her teacher lift off her shoulders. There will be sobbing a-plenty all the way around.
3) His cool (no pun intended) new power will be the ability to flash-freeze opponents in place. He will then, using his “how can I combine magic, with technology, with cool sci-fi movie references?” style of operating, combine this ability with shooting the frozen opponents with a gun, thus shattering them like the T1000 in Terminator 2 where Arnold shot him after being doused in liquid nitrogen.
4) The enemy Mab sends him after will be: Bob. Mab still harbors her grudge toward Bob and dispatches Harry to hunt him down and return him. Harry will spend a great deal of time finding wording loopholes to explain why he has not yet completed the task, before realizing that he can hunt down Evil Bob and return him to Mab for apparently full credit, and can preserve “his” Bob at the same time. Instead of the Normandy re-creation we saw previously, we’ll see a re-creation of Hitler’s bunker as the Winter Knight storms Evil Bob’s sanctum. Evil Bob, will, however, have aligned with the Black Council and Harry will need to battle, freeze, and shatter several Fomor agents to get to Evil Bob – whereupon he will use the really sneaky trick of making Evil Bob try to escape in an animal – like Bob does with Mister, only to have Harry freeze it solid, locking him inside for transport to Mab.
5) Harry’s choice will be whether to turn Bob over to Mab as per his orders, or if he should try to defy Mab right out of the gate. The choice will be to spare Bob, and then the “give her Evil Bob” thought arises.
6) They will meet at Harry’s coming out party at Arctis Tor shortly after the intro chapters we saw in Ghost Story. The interactions from Harry’s end will be “well, isn’t this awkward?” and will be extremely stiff and formal from Fix’s end, to make sure everything is kept strictly in accordance with protocol, lest something happen. These instructions for Fix will come from Lily and will be painful for Harry to figure out, but he will understand given his new position relative to Fix and Lily.
7) Harry will learn about the timing of the Black Council’s plans – i.e., why now? But he will still be in the dark about what the actual plans are or what the goals are.
8) My 3 WAG Theories:
A) Lash is alive and well in Harry’s head, and is just waiting for Harry to contact her directly before she can manifest herself to him – just like the first time she had to wait until he used Hellfire.
B) Lara is part of the Black Council – Harry becomes more sure of this, but not 100%, when he learns how she was able to get a carrier group to help out in the aftermath of Chitzen Itza.
C) Lea is working to replace Mab as Winter Queen and will start trying to enlist Harry now that he’s the Winter Knight to help her toward that end.
9) My predictions about things that will be revealed in Cold Days:
A) Harry, as the Winter Knight, cannot enter Michael’s house unless specifically invited by Michael. The guardian angels will react to his Knighthood negatively.
B) Harry has to learn how to clean his new place all over again since the brownies who cleaned his old apartment were provided by Lily. As the Winter Knight, agents of Summer will not be able to work on his place.
C) Luccio will be killed off-screen by the Black Council to prevent her from remembering who altered her mind to seduce Harry and thus remove his protection from Lara and the White Court.
D) Justine is pregnant.
ebliss1:
BTW - great thread, and I love how many of us are envisioning Murphy kicking Harry.
Pinary:
1) Throwing in with the Toot crowd (though Harry's going to need some money if he's to pay the delivery guy).
2a) I'm guessing it'll be multiple people, more or less at once, at the "birthday party". Seems likely to me that all signatories of the Accords might be invited to have a delegation at such a shindig, so anyone there'll get the reveal all at once. This could include Fix, Lily, Ramirez, Luccio, Steed, Thomas, Marcone (and friends), and potentially one of the Senior Council (with Ebenezar, Listens to Wind, and Rashid being the coolest options).
2b) I'm thinking "mostly dead" or "got better" references are most fitting, but I think that, given the rushed nature of the Demonreach situation, he's likely going to keep not being able to pull something fun off (and be frustrated by this).
2c) Marcone. Dude's ice.
2d) Michael. He's been largely out of our sight lately, but there's no way Harry doesn't check in with Maggie to some extent or another, and Harry's exploits (and their results) in the last few books have to have been having an effect on the man. I mean, he's watched his daughter go nuts, his friend tear himself to pieces, the world take several steps towards hell, and now, suddenly, Harry's back... and in the clutches of evil. Don't tell me that encounter won't be wrenching.
3) I'm not the first to say it, but the gun from the cover. Magic plus rifle equals plus ten to badass.
4) It seems like one heck of a coincidence for Demonreach to be 24 hours from exploding right when Harry comes back, so it seems likely that that's someone's effort to disrupt his power base because holy crap he's back and scary as hell. It would have to be someone who would feel threatened by Harry coming back, would know about Demonreach, and would have the chops to pull off such a disruption, so I'm going to guess the Black Council is the big bad of the book. (I honestly don't see the immortal-killing being as important as the Demonreach situation. I don't think it'll be anyone we really know all that well.)
5) Could be that Mab's target is very hard to kill without offing some innocents as well. (Maybe an innocent host for the immortal or some such?)
6) They'll basically end up in a Harry-Marcone sort of relationship. ("We're cool, and we can work together, but both of us know we're going to end up fighting at some point, and we're both going to be prepared.")
7) I'm thinking we won't learn huge amounts, but we might hit upon one of their agents and get a hint at their motivations and goals.
8) Lash is the parasite, Uriel didn't actually straight give Harry Soulfire, Murphy's going to take up a Sword.
9) Harry ends up setting up shop on Demonreach and working out a few not-so-deadly Ways to and from Chicago. One of the first things he builds is a pizza oven.
Lind:
--- Quote ---1 ) Harry usually has a few supporting characters in each book. Who do you think will be the main sidekick in Cold Days and in what way will they help? Who else will have a significant contribution to the plot?
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Fix who will teach Harry about Faerie and Knighting and will be a way for Harry to demonstrate his determination to be independent of Mab. Other significant figures will be Bob, Toot Toot, and Maeve.
--- Quote ---2 ) At the end of Ghost Story, Harry has said goodbye to all his friends in Chicago.
a. Who will be the first friend to find out Harry isn't dead?
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Murphy because he will go to her first about how to get involved again in Chicago.
--- Quote ---b. What shenanigans/snark will Harry use when he "re-appears"?
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Turns out I was mostly dead instead of all dead. (Princess Bride if for some reason the reference doesn't click)
--- Quote ---c. Who will have the coolest reaction?
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Kincaid. Who will be in Murphy's company when Dresden comes to visit.
--- Quote ---d. Who will have the most touching reaction?
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Thomas. The way that Harry and he have problems opening up to each other means this is going to be spectacularly awkward but heartfelt.
--- Quote ---3 ) In nearly every book, Harry usually comes up with a new powerup/tool/way of making things go boom. Given that he just became the new WK, what new abilities will he rely on and which new ability will be the most useful to him during the story (and how)?
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Making things out of ice. Instant focus items that not quite as good as a dedicated blasting rod, or staff, or shield bracelet, can be called up at any time and used in a pinch. Also finding new ways to mix fire and ice. If you are familiar with Chrono Trigger, think the antipode dual skill for the destructive effect. On the constructive side, working out an approximation of icy hot for himself.
--- Quote ---4 ) Harry generally has a "Big Bad" to worry about. In fact, according to the blurb, Harry is going after someone very specific. Who will that enemy be, and how will Harry take him/her/it down?
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Unnamed Black Court elder in league with the Black Council. Immortal in this case only refers to the potential to live forever if their life is not ended by an outside agent.
--- Quote ---5 ) Harry usually faces some sort of "Choice" in every book. A point where the easy way out will cost his soul/humanity in some way. According to the blurb, this book will be no different. What will be the most crucial "choice" Harry makes?
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This book is going to be about Mab exploiting a rift in the Black Council to dish out some vengeance. The choice is going to be which faction Harry decides to help in the end. With Marva and Cowl both seeking help, Harry needs to decide which Devil he leaves standing and which he kills. He sides with Cowl.
--- Quote ---6 ) As the new Winter Knight, Harry is pretty much garunteed to encounter his Summer counterpart -- Fix. What will their interactions be? Will Fix survive?
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Strained at first meeting until Harry assures Fix that if they ever come in to conflict Harry first will warn Fix that that's how its got to be. With Maeve and Lily working deals in the past, I see no reason for the Summer Knight and Winter Knight not to pal about when not directly in conflict. See prediction 1 of Fix as my choice of main supporting character. Fix will survive but will be wounded, and the implication will be that Titania will see this injury as a reason to start thinking about replacing Fix.
--- Quote ---7 ) Jim has mentioned that it's about time now to start revealing some of the motivations/dealings of the shadowy figures working behind the scenes (i.e. what Harry calls the "Black Council"). What Black Council secrets/actions will be revealed in this book?
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See prediction 5 about different factions in the Black Council at odds. We are going to learn a little more about what went down at Arctis Tor in Proven Guilty and get a little more about why both Marva and Cowl were in Dead Beat working different angles.
--- Quote ---8 ) There are many WAG theories on the boards. Write up to three WAG theories you believe are correct that will be confirmed (or at least have evidence in favor of) in Cold Days.
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Odin is Black Council - evidence only
The Eebs survived - confirmed
--- Quote ---9 ) Extra credit: Write down any prediction about that you think might improve your final score. Only issues aluded to within Cold Days will be counted.
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Harry is going to get a look at the Athame, decide it is something important, and then totally fail to follow through on it... just like he failed to follow through on the importance of Demonreach
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