... She’s on record saying she doesn’t think Molly could handle her job.

Which would be why she's looking to Lara as a Molly-replacement.

But I don't think that's significant -- Mab is always looking ten steps ahead.  Her backup plans have backups, and contingencies, and emergency-exits.

It wouldn't surprise me -- at all! -- if Mab had a dozen or more potential Winter-Lady replacements being groomed, at any given time.

Thank you! I figured someone on here would have kept a weather eye out!

<sigh>
The Paranet... isn't what it used to be.     Time was -- years ago -- that passionate volunteers were writing transcripts of the audio, whenever Jim would do interviews and Q&A sessions.

Activity has dropped way off; I was very pleased (but rather surprised) to get the answer above so readily!

I'd love to figure out how to get things picking up again.  The series is still popular, I know!  So I'm  kinda puzzled... could it actually be that @iago's DFRPG was the tail wagging the entire Paranet dog?  And when EH abandoned the main DF rulebooks for the simplified DFA volume, the fanbase shrank too??!?

Where is the largest amount of insightful DF inquiry/speculation/WAG/etc these days... reddit?  And is <wherever that is> also filled with low-effort memery, naive & ignorant questions, and other chaff to be winnowed-through?

Cheeky G33k! Although I would point out the onus of proof is on the claimant 

Indeed the onus is!  I was pointing that out, myself:  without a cite (now provided... TYVM @kel0700!) the OP claim was every bit as unproven as my own claim  (I... uh... I'll have to go looking for the cite proving that claim!    )

Knowing his luck (and Jim's humour) Harry would be stuck on a shetland pony. 

At that point, he might as well ride Mouse...

So all, what do we think about this new information? Thoughts? Theories?

I think we don't have enough info, as yet.
Did that spell tap into Harry's "Starborn" powers?
Is a "Destroyer" just a "Sith" Starborn, fallen to the Dark Side... with this spell a more-sith-y sort of Starborn magic?

Honestly, I'm inclined to think not:  I think being Starborn is an Outsider-specific thing (and possibly a general ability to (eventually) overcome any/all mental domination)... but not a universal/overall powerup (I think   all.  that.  power.   is just Harry the Brute).  But the Rampires AFAIK never showed any Outsider-ish resistance to other WC wizards' magic (though that whole "Lords of Outer Night" is certainly evocative of some sort of relation to "Outsiders"), so I wouldn't expect the Starborn thing to give them any advantage.

Did he invest some "soulfire" into his pyrofuego -- even before Uriel's nudge & without conscious control -- making it (as we've been told) more of what it was, more of who Harry was (in that moment, Harry was a creature of desperation & rage) ... ?

Or was it some other (as-yet-unseen) feature of the Dresdenverse?  Jim kinda-sorta implies that, in his answer (but Jim loves to lead us astray sometimes; so).

So, according to a reddit comment I found, Jim has apparently said ...

Did this redditor cite their source, or provide an exact quote?
Because you can make any claim you want online...

Jim says that in Twelve Months, we will learn that Harry's starborn powers tap into a deep-Nevernever realm called Equestria, and he will summon a steed named Tirek Rainbow Lord to ride into battle, who will trounce Mab's unicorn.

Prove me wrong!
 

She matures "overnight" in coming books..

That seems extraordinarily-unlikely:  she has a huge amount of raw data, uncorrelated and largely without real-world references.  Getting it all organized, and making it RW-relevant, is just going to take time.

We've seen that Bob -- even though he has multiple centuries of experience --  sometimes still has problems with the sheer volume of information.

It's always possible that Jim could decide that the story needs Bonnie to make some dramatic strides in this direction, of course; and then he'll write it that way, applying whatever handwavium suits him.

errrr... bump, I think.

Is there a way we could get some sort of microtransactions/commissions/etc, as discussed in this thread, to support the cost of hosting the Paranet?
 

I  think that Uriel  out-Mab'ed Mab, here...

...
page 454 Ghost Story

Quote

"When you say what comes next, what do you mean exactly?"
  "The part involving words like forever, eternity, and judgement."
 "Oh," I said.  "What Comes Next."
  "Exactly."

...  However if Harry opts for what comes next he will be judged as we all will when we face Judgement.
 Here is what Uriel says; same page 454 Ghost Story

Quote

"So I can stay Between," I said quietly.  "Or I can go get on that train,"
"If you do," Uriel said, his eyes intent and serious, "then you accept the consequences for all that you have done while alive.  When judged, what you have done will be taken into account.  Your fate, ultimately, will be determined by your actions in life."
"You're saying that if I don't work for you, I'll just have to accept what comes?"
"I am saying that you cannot escape the consequences of your choices," he said.

... You will remember that Harry did choose what comes next, though since he really wasn't all dead, he never went on to what comes next.

Here's the thing: "What Comes Next" is entirely informed by -- quoting Uriel -- "the consequences for all that you have done while alive.  When judged, what you have done will be taken into account."

It wasn't Harry's time; he wasn't dead.  So his "what comes next" was just more opportunities to perform the actions upon which he would be judged, i.e. the very foundations of (and effectively thus part of)  Harry's "... part involving words like forever, eternity, and judgement."

Uriel told Harry the precise truth.
It just didn't mean what Harry thought it did.

I think Harry and Lara do marry ...do the wild thing honeymoon...and Lara conceives...just a afterthought twist... besides Maggie needs to be a big sister. 😳😜👍

WoJ is that there are no more plot-twist-new-family-member elements planned.

I don't think Harry & Lara can get together... WK+Whampire is a pairing of sex-mojo's that's very unstable!

WK-Mantle would almost-certainly try to kill the Whampire trying to control it, who would likely need to kill the WK if she was to survive.

Now that is a theory worth exploring.

What if at the end of the BAT, Harry becomes a new mantle like an Archmagus that governs or at least regulates magic in the Mortal Realms?

That seems more like something the Archive would do; I think the magic-knowledge there (everything ever written down about magic) is probably the most comprehensive in the world; though it's very possible that an Immortal being (like Thorned Namshiel) may know a bunch of stuff that never got written down.

But Harry is too ignorant of magic:  he's got more than a century of serious study before the senior wizards will take his knowledge-level seriously... and he doesn't have time to learn, before the BAT.