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Chris McCubbin:
I've been rereading Dead Beat, and one thing really jumped out...
When Harry is helpless at the feet of Cassius/Liver Spots, expecting to be tortured to death, he thinks about Shiro and decides that his best tactic is to stall in hopes of divine intervention, probably in the form of one of the Knights. He figures that as a former Denarian Cassius has a karmic connection to the Knights, and also the total depravity of the necromancers would tend to attract disapproving heavenly attention. In Harry's own words, "In my own experience, I had noticed that when something truly, deeply evil arose, one of the Knights tended to show up."
This goes on for several paragraphs. Butcher makes it kind of a big deal.
Here's the thing ... when Harry is rescued a couple pages later it's not Michael or Sanya who saves him ... but Waldo Butters (ably assisted by Mouse) performing what is probably the first physically heroic act of his life ...
So what I'm wondering is ... is this just a cool coincidence, or was Butcher actually foreshadowing Butters destiny as a Knight a full eight books before his actual recruitment?

Sorry if this has been thoroughly hashed over previously. I'm new here.

groinkick:
I'm not sure.  Jim has said Butters was going to be a throw away character but then really starting liking him.  So I guess there is a chance that he did realize he wanted him to be a Knight, and dropped those hints.

Avernite:
Harry and Uriel discuss it in Skin Game, so at elast in hindsight it was deliberate; what the author was thinking at the time of Dead Beat is anyone's guess ;)

Though Harry has been saved by friends instead of Knights at several other times.

raidem:
I'm thinking Jim at least had that as a possibility in mind when he wrote it.  He could have not had butters become a knight, but...

Talby16:
I think while Butters was intended as a throw away character, Jim wrote this scene as a foundation to possibly build a future friendship/debt on if he so needed. The fact that the story evolved so that in Uriel's words "an incipient Knight of the Cross rescued Harry from a former Denarian" is a cool fact in hindsight.

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