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Time traveling Dresden - explains “continuity errors?”

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nadia.skylark:
Also, if I remember correctly, at the party in Cold Days Harry says that he is seeing the Erlking without his helmet for the first time, even though he saw him without his helmet in Changes.

Bad Alias:
He removes his helmet in Chapter 36 of Changes. In Chapter 5 of Cold Days, Harry states it "was the first time I'd seen him wearing something other than a helmet." This isn't necessarily a continuity error, but it would take a weird reading of that sentence for it not to be.

morriswalters:
I'll point to a reddit thread about the shroud.  Fifteen books in, the wonder is that there aren't more continuity errors and retcons given what Jim has said about the writing the books.  If someone just has to have time travel or bust consider the various revisions as alternate time streams.  Has anybody produced a word count of the books to this point?

Bad Alias:
Morris makes a really good point. The counter to "it's just a mistake" is that I've often heard that Jim did it on purpose for this or that instance. (Never directly from him though, so it might just be a rumor).

The thing about continuity errors is that they can be so jarring that they can ruin a chapter or even a whole book (for me). A lot of mistakes in otherwise good/great fiction can be like that. (I haven't found any to be that jarring in the Dresden Files).

Eguzky:

--- Quote from: Bad Alias on May 27, 2019, 07:39:01 PM ---He removes his helmet in Chapter 36 of Changes. In Chapter 5 of Cold Days, Harry states it "was the first time I'd seen him wearing something other than a helmet." This isn't necessarily a continuity error, but it would take a weird reading of that sentence for it not to be.

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Not really. I wear trilby hats. If Dresden ever met me outside my house, I'm always wearing one. Even if I was not, I would be wearing nothing on my head.
If I then went to a baseball game and worse a ballcap, Dresden could say it 'was the first time I'd seen him wearing something other than a trilby.'
It's only referring to the fact that all Dresden has seen is a helmet or nothing.

Now if he said 'It's the first time I saw him without his helmet on', that would be a different matter.

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