Will he marry her?

[Cats_are_evil]

After waiting so long for the book. We've discussed pretty much everything under the sun. But I don't know if this had been asked so I will. Will he or won't he?

[Lord Kinbote]

Yes.  Only cheat out of that result should be if Lara dies, which I don't expect.

Second Q:  Will they consummate?  I think yes, too.

[Mr. Mouse]

After waiting so long for the book. We've discussed pretty much everything under the sun. But I don't know if this had been asked so I will. Will he or won't he?

Harry will go to the bathroom right before heading to the altar and ... transfer to Mirror Mirror land, leaving Lara at the altar and Mab seething.

[Cats_are_evil]

Man, if he did that and came back. Mab will have to discipline him.

[Mira]

  I don't know, I can see it go either way, the thing is I don't think Lara wants to get married anymore than Harry, between the two of them, they may be able to outsmart Mab.

[g33k]

Harry will go to the bathroom right before heading to the altar and ... transfer to Mirror Mirror land, leaving Lara at the altar and Mab seething. 

This is my theory, more or less.

Maybe not a bathroom, maybe just the changing-area where Harry takes off his jeans/T/duster uniform & puts on a tux (but it still has the necessary mirror for checking fit&c...)

I don't know, I can see it go either way, the thing is I don't think Lara wants to get married anymore than Harry, between the two of them, they may be able to outsmart Mab.

Agreed:  neither of them really want to marry.  The thing is, I don't think Mab wants that, either!  I think she has a big ol' pile of other agendas based on her telling them to get married... including forcing them to work together to (try to) outsmart her.  Mab being Mab, I'm sure she has contingency plans for if they do get married, but I think her preferred option is for them not to.

The main questions I have are:  is it a full swap, with Mirror!Harry coming to Harry!Prime's world (where he's expected to go through with the marriage to Lara)?  Because that's part of the OG Mirror,Mirror ST:TOS episode, with evil!Kirk&co coming to the Federation, and Jim has been frank that he's stealing shamelessly there.  And then (also based on the ST episode):  is it just the Harrys who swap, or is it Harry plus a big pack of his Scooby Gang (and if so, who?) swapping with Mirror!Harry and his Posse?

I can just imagine the moment when Harry is standing there at the altar -- seeing Mab(??!?) in the front row of the audience -- and waiting to see who his bride is... aaaand it's Lara Raith, making Mirror!Harry go "o shit, I thought I was going to a safer universe!"

Meanwhile, Mab is thinking, "what the fuck have you done, Dresden, where is Winter's Knightmantle??!?"  And when the officiant gets to "Speak now, or forever hold your peace," it's Mab who speaks up.

[g33k]

... Second Q:  Will they consummate?  I think yes, too.

I don't think they can.
Some time ago, WoJ stated that the WK-Mantle combined with Whamp-Mojo in really bad ways: the only possible outcomes would be a mentally-broken & fully whamp-enslaved WK, or a dead Whampire.

[Bad Alias]

I don't think they can.
Some time ago, WoJ stated that the WK-Mantle combined with Whamp-Mojo in really bad ways: the only possible outcomes would be a mentally-broken & fully whamp-enslaved WK, or a dead Whampire.

I recently heard him answer a question about if Thomas was Winter Knight and feeding on Winter. I think Jim took it as feeding on Winter Fae. His answer was basically that it would be bad for Thomas because "you are what you eat" so he'd be getting Winter impulses from the Mantle and the Hunger on top of his normal Hunger impulses.

As to the mirror swapping, Mirror Harry kills the new arrival Harrys to cover his tracks, so it's likely they will both be in the same universe.

As to the will they marry question, Jim said the swap takes place in the first chapter of Mirror Mirror. If Twelve Months is twelve months, whether Harry gets pulled into the alternate universe depends on when the marriage is supposed to take place.

We'd have to read the end of Battle Ground carefully and compare the wedding date to when Twelve Months starts.