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Melriken:
Do me a favor, assume Elane is Kumori.
Assume Elane is still alive.

What does that mean for the Dresden Files and the future.

Specifically (but not limited to) the Paranet is being managed in part by Elane and signs point to the Paranet either replacing the White Council or merging with it.  If Elane is Cowl's loyal apprentice and has been shaping the Paranet she will absolutely have been shaping it to replace the White Council and join Cowl's Circle (black council).  This will do a LOT of damage to the forces of good (Harry).

How else is Elane positioned to cause problems and what kind of damage could she do with the Paranet?

Cthoniq:
My bet is a paranet heel turn in the later books. Picture this: the white council breaks down over time. Harry has personally saved their asses many times, now they've turned their back on him, and Jim has thoroughly shown what happens to groups that can't adapt when they don't have a protagonist on their side. The paranet starts to become the premier magical organization in the world, since it accepts all magical types, including presumably increasing numbers of former white council refugees. These wizards train up the minor talents, making an organization of literally thousands of increasingly competent wizards, backed up by a support base fully integrated with modern tech and society. It's a nice big support structure of suitably grand scale, just in time for the BAT. But Jim pulls a Wheel of Time, and has the Paranet go full Black Tower, with our protagonist's baby suddenly turning evil, because Elaine (probably a thrall herself, her actions in Dead Beat are not logically consistent) has enthralled or influenced many commanding members of the paranet, just like peabody did with the council. They do work for the same guy after all. Plus Elaine is demomstrated using mental magic twice that I can think of, so it's not outside her skills.

Jim has repeatedly says his goal as an author is to hurt the reader, ang having Harry's big ray of hope in the paranet suddenly turn to the dark side right aa the BAT kicks off would be a great (and foreshadowed) gut punch.

g33k:
There is a very very high probability that Elaine is Nemfected.

She was mentally-dominated by DuMorne, who was an Outsider-summoner.  With the big Harry/Justin fight, she fled to Summer...  And who was the first Nemfected we met?

Why, it was Elaine's "patron" and primary contact in Summer, Aurora.  Elaine was the very-clear vector from Justin's Outsider-influence to Aurora's corruption.

The entire Paranet is a tool of Nemesis.
And Harry laid the foundations, and handed it over.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Evidence for E = K please. Elaine was part of the Summer Court during the Kumori episodes and there is nothing to suggest Cowl had any connections at that point in Summer.

Cowl does seem to have connections with Winter, the attack on Arctis Tor, the suborning of Lea and Maeve. Nameless has even more of a connection, with all of the above openly so covering the changelings as well, including Sarissa, and even apparently Mister.

S = K is far more probable based upon the books.

Stay on topic. The OP has asked you to work from the assumption that E=K, not to debate the validity of that theory. Work within the parameters of the discussion please. - Mod Team

It is far more likely the White Council will take a renewed interest in Elaine because she is openly using the title Wizard, and they are trying to prevent Harry using that title.

Conspiracy Theorist:
Nemesis is limited to 13, it cannot therefore infect the entire Paranet, only bombard its members with spam and cat videos.

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