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Mirror Mirror Next?

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Smaug with OCD:
I've seen several posts that claim Mirror Mirror will come directly after Battle Grounds. And, given what is implied to happen in the next book I can't help but feel the timing is extremely poor. If magic is revealed to mortals, wouldn't it be better to see the implications of that, rather than the parallel reality where Dresden made a different Choice?

Is it true that Mirror Mirror is next? Why the... I don't want to use the word distraction, but it seems appropriate while unaware of the finer details...? Thoughts?

Grifter:
Power is out all across the city.  My guess is that cameras will be out of commission.  So it's going to be a very dark night with explosions and screams and people sheltering inside.  And come the morning, there will be no trace of any of the participants.  Just damage and victims and rumors with very little evidence.

And by the end of next day, the story on the news will be about the city water supply being tainted with a drug previously known in the streets as ThreeEye, which caused a lot of hallucinations.  The damage will have been caused by those hit with higher doses that rampaged through the city, and by the drug dealers that fanned the flames.

And they'll hope that no-one in the Dresdenverse watched Batman Begins.

Who knows, maybe we'll even get a mention of Larry Fowler blaming Harry. Imagine how that would feel, having saved the city, only to have the citizens think he's involved because he's been stoking the 'supernatural' subculture for years, which encouraged these poor youngsters to try this supposed magical drug.  Just thank goodness the effects wore off so quickly without side effects.

It's not like Chicago in the Dresdenverse isn't ready and willing to accept the lies.

Yuillegan:
I have been wondering about this a bit. Each book in the series serves a purpose in the greater story, and each book has a somewhat strategic placement because of that. Each book has opened the doorway for new possibilities and developed things further (although some do this better than others). Some are more pivotal, some less so.

My theory is that Mirror Mirror will be about teaching Harry that he had to make the choices he has made, as he will be feeling intense loss and questioning himself. Somewhat like Ghost Story perhaps, but through a different lens. But like Ghost Story, it will also reveal a larger part of the cosmology.

And I wonder how much time will have passed by the time he returns? No time at all wouldn't be very interesting. I'd say he comes a few months later at least. If not a year.

ClintACK:
I'd guess Harry will have a heck of a lot of regrets following Battle Ground.

Mirror Mirror could be like It's a Wonderful Life -- Harry's chance to see how much worse it could have been.

KurtinStGeorge:
There's our time and there's time within the Dresdenverse.  It's quite possible the time it takes for Harry to get sucked into the Mirror Mirror world, have his adventure and then find a way back, may only take a few seconds in the Dresdenverse.  However the readers will have to wait a couple of years until Harry's next book comes out.

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