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kbrizzle:
On a reread of Stf, a few things jumped out at me that confirm some of theories bandied around this forum.


* Malcolm Dresden is described as being a traveling magician who took little Harry around with him - while Harry rationalizes this as Malcolm taking small jobs at random little towns, it seems to me that this is Malcolm’s best effort to hide little kid Harry from his mother’s enemies
* I don’t think Victor Sells was Nfected - when Monica reveals all she knows about what’s going on, she says that she drank 3Eye & looked at Victor, a memory that makes her almost throw up - I imagine looking at an Outsider with one’s Sight would drive a normal human insane, let alone a wizard.
Also, other (somewhat sane) people would have looked at Victor with their Sight (like Helen Beckett) & while I’m sure that was a highly unpleasant experience, it’s nothing compared to seeing an actual Outsider
* Despite being a very angry man, Sells decides to use lust as a way to power his spells instead of rage - something that is way more easily available than setting up sex rituals. This screams of the White Court to me - a way for Lord Raith to control Sells, leading credence to theory that he was Sells’ sponsor
* The dark emotions that Harry feels when he sees Sells’ lake house with his Sight - the ones that make him feel like he can just take power & use it for his own ends, seem like the corruptive influence of black magic on someone whose soul has already been tainted by such - it is overt & appeals directly to Harry’s greed (we know goateed Harry exists). This doesn’t seem like Nemesis, which I imagine is infinitely more subtle (sorta like Lash)

Con:
I mean it's already confirmed some nemesis infection, when Dresden finds out about Nemesis it lists his first three cases. Oh and the Red Court were most likely involved given they tried to supercharge the spell to hit ancestors in Changes.

Vodyanoy:
That's one tangle of plotlines I can't quite understand - Bianca was extremely shirty about her employee being killed (by someone who was nemfected), but seemed to be complicit with Cowl later on.

Avernite:

--- Quote from: Con on October 03, 2019, 07:27:27 AM ---I mean it's already confirmed some nemesis infection, when Dresden finds out about Nemesis it lists his first three cases. Oh and the Red Court were most likely involved given they tried to supercharge the spell to hit ancestors in Changes.

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Yes, and the persons mentioning his first cases were very trustworthy indeed.

Mind, there's an escape to make it true as an Outsider plot and yet not true as Nemfection - if Raith (with Bianca?) was running the gig, well, he has very tight Outsider connections.

morriswalters:
In what book does it explicitly or otherwise attribute Victor Sells as a nemfection?  In Proven Guilty Harry attributes Sells to the Black Council.  In the exchange between Harry and Rashid in Turn Coat Sells isn't mentioned and in Cold Days Rashid says, in the last couple of years, and Sells is ten or more years back.

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