I thought it might be fun to look at some minor issues in Proven Guilty.

Harry hits the Winter Wellspring with Summer Fire which causes every Winter Fae on the border with Summer to rush back to Arctis Tor to try to kill Harry.  After getting back to Chicago Harry discovers that this was what Lily hoped would happen.   Harry figured out that Lily and Maeve were working together because when time got slowed down around Arctis Tor, this allowed Summer forces on the border with Winter to leave their defenses and go attack the Red Court and only Maeve had the ability to mess with time and how it flowed around Arctis Tor.  (OK Mab or Mother Winter could do the same thing but Lily wasn't talking to either of them.)

So here's mystery #1:  Did Harry have to specifically hit the Winter Well Spring to make this plan pay off?  Because if he did it seems like a real low probability move by Lily.  Harry could have fried Eldest Fetch without ever touching Winter's Well and how could Lily even predict Harry would have to get to the top of Arctis Tor in order to rescue Molly?  Theoretically, the battle could have taken place downstairs or in some room within the castle or on the stairs leading to the top.  Perhaps Maeve might have suggested where Harry would have to go to find Eldest Fetch and Molly. 

Even so, what if Harry hadn't hit the Well with Summer Fire and instead used Summer Fire to knock down a wall or parapet that was an integral part of the castle.  Would this have had the same effect on the Winter Fae at Summer's border?  I can't prove this but I have a feeling it would have been the same or near enough to make no difference in the overall result.  The way Jim has written about Mab's palace; though admittedly that's very little, suggests Arctid Tor is almost alive, and perhaps even sentient.  The way the castle reacted to blood being spilled on its floor is suggestive of the first and in Cold Days Harry mentions some lights and or shifting colors within the walls that he decided were probably unsafe to stare at for too long.  This suggests Artic Tor is more than another pretty Faerie Ice Castle.  There may be a specific psychic connection between Arctis Tor and all of Winter.  Someone could stand outside and throw rocks or even Hellfire at it and it wouldn't cause a reaction but an attack using Summer Fire or perhaps any specific Summer magic would cause all of Winter to come back to defend their Capitol.  So that's my answer to my own question.   

Minor mystery #2:  Was Maeve surprised that Lily's plan worked?  Maeve didn't think very highly of Lily so I wouldn't be surprised if she expected Lily's plan to fail.   If this was the case that would mean Maeve wasn't happy she had to slow time and allow Summer to attack the Red Court, but she had no choice if she wanted to continue to deceive Lily.

Minor mystery #3:  Was Maeve surprised that Harry survived his encounter with Eldest Fetch?  I'm guessing Maeve knew about Eldest Fetch because during the final confrontation with the Scarecrow Harry realizes he's dealing with a fetch, but one that has been granted extra power.  This suggests Nemesis involvement, though it doesn't absolutely prove it, but what else explains this?  If Maeve expected Harry to die than except for continuing to reinforce Lily's trust in her, Maeve didn't have a very good day.  She had to help Lily attack the Red Court which, even if it wasn't a full ally was at least a useful asset, and the annoying wizard survived another violent encounter that should have killed him. 

Do you have any different explanations or other questions about unsolved Proven Guilty mysteries that; as far as you know, haven't been discussed yet?

I have a more specific question I'm seeking an answer to.  So I'd like to get some opinions from the group mind.  This is about Mab personally killing a mortal rather than sending her Knight to do the job.  In Summer Knight we get this exchange between Bob and Harry:

"A Sidhe Knight is mortal," Bob said. "A champion of one of the Sidhe Courts. He gets powers in line with his Court, and he's the only one who is allowed to act in affairs not directly related to the Sidhe."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning that if one of the Queens wants an outsider dead, her Knight is the trigger man."

I frowned. "Hang on a minute. You mean that the Queens can't personally gun down anyone who isn't in their Court?"

"Not unless the target does something stupid like make an open-ended bargain without even trying to trade a baby for - "

"Off topic, Bob. Do I or don't I have to worry about getting killed this time around?"

"Of course you do," Bob said in a cheerful tone. "It just means that the Queen isn't allowed to actually, personally end your life. They could, however, trick you into walking into quicksand and watch you drown, turn you into a stag and set the hounds after you, bind you into an enchanted sleep for a few hundred years, that kind of thing."

Of course Bob doesn't know everything.  He thought the Summer Knight does the same job for Titania that the Winter Knight does for Mab.  So here is what I'm wondering about.  Mab was furious about her daughter being tainted by Nemesis.  Lea told Harry she went gonzo on the Red Court at Chicken Pizza because Lea owed them payback for Bianca giving her such a "treacherous gift."  However, I'm mostly concerned with Mab here.

So if Mab became aware that a pair of mortal wizards handled the item which tainted Maeve through Lea, how far would she be allowed to go to seek vengeance against them, assuming it could be proven that at least one of them was part of the plot to taint Lea?  While it was done in a stealthy manner, I would say that giving Lea the tainted Athame was a direct attack against the Winter Court and therefore it would be considered to be an act directly concerned with the Sidhe.  Do you think Mab would need to tell Harry to kill the people involved or could she could do the job herself, and not just indirectly by turning Cowl into a stag and setting the hounds after him; which now that I think about sounds like something Lea might do.

I'm assuming if Lea found out first she wouldn't need Harry or anyone else to seek vengeance for her, though Cowl might be a handful for Lea to deal with on her own.  Discus.   

I don't think this is going to happen, but I've got to admit it has some appeal.  However, the would mean that the Blampire that turned Kemmler would be even scarier, because I don't see Kemmler being turned by some newbie vamp like the one in "its My Birthday, Too." 

Now that I think about it, wouldn't Kemmler's new "Master" want Kemmler to become its magic teacher?

If Harry gets to use some of the money that will come from the diamonds he got in Skin Game, I could see Harry buying out several properties in a cul-de-sac so he could avoid collateral damage to neighbors should his new domicile ever get attacked.  Wherever Harry decides to move to I bet avoiding collateral damage will be a concern.

One thing I think could be added to the list of items Harry would want for his new home.  The back yard, not the interior.  A brick fired pizza oven.   

I wonder how the "Fistful of Warlocks" ss ties into the Morgan/Kemmler story?

Wyatt Earp was in Dodge City from 1876 - 1879.  So Luccio begins her pursuit of Kemmler and his associates at that time.  I remember reading somewhere that Donald Morgan fought in the First World War in the British Army.  Unfortunately, that doesn't tell us much about Morgan's age at the time.  He could have been anywhere between fourteen to in his sixties; though if he was that old no one would have known his true age because outwardly he would have stopped aging.  However, it suggests Morgan was either British or Canadian.  Theoretically, he could have been in the Indian Army too.  I'm not forgetting about the ANZAC forces, but I think Jim would have mentioned Morgan having an Aussie or Kiwi accent.  The point I'm trying to make is that unless Luccio followed Kemmler up to Canada in the months following "Fistful of Warlocks" she probably came across Morgan a number of years later and possibly not in North America.

First of all, I don't think, that Simon Petrovich is Cowl. Why? "Where is the Russian?" Cowl, from what I can remember, has a Germanic accent. Not Russian.

I never thought of Cowl as having a German accent or really any kind of accent.  The only clue Cowl might be German is he knew the difference between Shubert's music Erlkönig and Goethe's poem, which provide the words used in the song.  However, you don't have to be Austrian or German to know who those two people were.  Harry has any affinity for classical music so he's heard of Franz Shubert and probably went to concerts where his music was played.  Whether he's read much poetry or anything by Goethe is something we have no way of knowing, but I wouldn't be surprised if Harry is much better read than the average college graduate because he doesn't have a TV, radio or the internet. 

Cowl doesn't like "the bad man Kemmler". Maybe we've seen his character, maybe not. It might be interesting, but I don't recall any characters with a German [ ok, it's also possible to be Netherland ] accent. But given, that Die Lieder des Erlkönigs were collected in Germany, he is already familiar with summoning Herne the Hunter.

Maybe Cowl already knew about summoning Herne the Hunter or maybe he he didn't care who called him as long as it was done close enough for Cowl's purposes.  Destroying the books was one way to prevent someone in say Milwaukee from calling up Lord Herne on the very night Cowl needed him in Chicago. 

I think that the internet could be what starts the disaster of the three book trilogy.....remember when something gets on the internet it is impossible  to get rid of. imagine one of the books about worship of an elder good were put on the internet.  according to how the oblivion war works the more people who know about the elder god the more powerful it is and the easier time it has showing up on are plane of existence. now imagine IVY  trying to fight an elder god that has been connected to an internet meme.

I don't think the final trilogy will start that way, because the Oblivion War is something that has occurred and is continuing in the background of larger Dresdenverse, but if the Dresden Files was about the Oblivion War your idea is a pretty good one.