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[SPOILERS BG] Christmas Eve changed. I got you, Jim Butcher!!!

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Regenbogen:
Remember our discussions of the sample chapters of Peace Talks? The chapter in which McCoy tells Harry about the Council vote. We sort of thought, Harry would still be on the Council after Battle Ground.
Because the title "wizard of the White Council" is mentioned in the short story "Christmas Eve".

So, I read the short story as it is " printed" in my e-book. It is when Harry tries to assemble the bike and says to himself that it should not be a problem to [tadaaaaaa!!!!!!] "the Wizard of Chicago".
This confused me, so I compared with the older text, the illustrated one from the website. And in that version he indeed called himself "a wizard of the White Council".

I see you, Butcher! 8)

Do you think, Mr. Butcher hadn't decided yet in 2018, if Harry will be thrown out?
Or did he write "White Council" deliberately to not spoiler us readers?
Edit: or to mislead us?

Mira:


He either changed his mind, or he didn't want to totally spoil us.. ::)  I haven't reread Christmas Eve at the back of Battle Ground yet, but when I read that he had been kicked out of the Council, that got my attention too.  What I thought was either at some point before Christmas he got reinstated, or even if he no longer is a member of the White Council, he still sees himself that way.

Also did you catch in Battle Ground just after he is kicked out and Michael finds out and swears loudly enough to make a sailor blush, he tells Harry that Charity has invited him and little Maggie
over for Christmas Eve because she knows it will be painful for him without Murphy.

But face it, except for that little spoiler that he changed, most of us figured out from the tone of
it that Murphy had been killed in the battle.

Con:
Honestly I thought Eb was dead since the first few chapters of Peace Talks. Maggie says.

"Will Grandpa come for Christmas?"

Mira:

--- Quote from: Con on October 02, 2020, 07:11:28 PM ---Honestly I thought Eb was dead since the first few chapters of Peace Talks. Maggie says.

"Will Grandpa come for Christmas?"

--- End quote ---

Apparently Jim changed his mind on that one.. Or it might be natural for a ten year old, when meeting her great grand pa for the first time might ask that very question.

ElJefe81:
It was obviously meant as a wink and a nod to the Christmas Eve story, but it seemed kind of odd to me that at Mid-Summer, Michael was already telling Harry he was invited for Christmas.  It would have been more cohesive with something like "our home is always open to you".  Anyone else feel like that seemed a bit weird?

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