I'll be the guy dressed up as Marcone.

...uh, actually, I'll just be coming from work, but hey, I can pretend I'm dressing up for it! 

Skin colour aside, I can't find the "new posts in the threads where you posted before". Where it is? I need it a lot!
(I like the red colour better)

Edited: forget it. I found it and now I feel dumb. Sorry!

Hey, took me a good 5 minutes of playing around with the site before I realized the massive change in that link...from the left side of the screen to the right... 

Looking good so far!!

...Hopefully it will still look good/actually work on my computer at work...we've still got IE6, but hopefully I'll be one of the lucky few to get IE7 in the next couple of weeks... 

Was there ever a real chance of a Harry/Molly romance?  Even leaving apart the age difference, the sheer inappropriateness of a romance between a wizard and his apprentice, and the Doom of Damocles, you'd think even Harry would know better than to risk being torn limb from limb by the only dark power that even he fears.   I refer, of course, to Molly's mother, Charity.  And Michael would let her do it.

The age difference ain't bad, especially given their potential life span.  Molly's about 25 and Harry is 38 or 39, I believe.  

Molly isn't his apprentice anymore, or if she still is, she won't be for much longer.  Harry pointed out numerous times throughout GS that she was operating near or at full White Council levels.  In regards to the Doom, I think both Harry and Molly are a bit beyond that, in regards to things they worry about.

As far as Charity goes...all bets are off!

Really, though, I don't know how she'd react.  She has substantially warmed up to Harry in the last few books (although warmed up for her is a relative term).  If they know what Molly's been up to lately, who knows, Charity and Michael could see Harry being someone who could get her back on track.

So, at the end there with Molly and Corpsetaker, when Corpsetaker puts a bullet into the back of Harry's head: I can only imagine how that must have seemed to Molly under her veil. There's Harry again, and he's just been re-killed in front of her eyes. Might have something to do with the fury she directs at Corpsetaker right after that.

Whoa.  I didn't even think about that part!

Karrin - How do you all think Murphy is going to react to finding out that a) Harry is alive , b) Harry arranged his own murder and all the consequences that came from it, and c) that Harry used Kincaid, possibly the only other male romantic interest for her other than Harry, to do it. Personally I saw this novel as the death knell for any possible romantic hookup between Harry and Murphy. It reminds me of Harry's reaction to Susan not telling him about maggie. "We're done, you knew it when you didn't tell me about my child" or something to that extent. I can't see Murphy forgiving Harry for what he's done to the city, his friends or her, regardless of him having the best of intentions.

Molly - As much as I love Harry's character, once we found out that Harry used Molly to arrange his own murder, I kinda lost a little (still love him) respect for him as a man. It was possibly the single most selfish thing he has ever done. Thoughtless AND selfish, especially after seeing the toll it has taken upon Molly both in the physical  and mental side of the coin. I personally think that they are setting up Molly as his H.E.E. down the line, as she fulfills all the holes in a relationship that would be setbacks to Karrin and Harry getting together. She's a wizard and can relat to that side of his life, she's going to live a couple centuries (barring anyone dying) and she's already stated how hard its going to be to watch all her friends and family die around her. Thus making her more reliant on her relationship with Harry. But I wonder how she's going to recover from the ordeal set out in gHOST Story, plus however long it takes Harry to get back to Chicago from the  Winter Court.

I did like parts of how his relationship with Molly is changing, as exemplefied by the whole conversation they had in the restaraunt, and the honesty with which molly let out her feelings towards him. Furthermore the revelation that Harry had decided on a ... i guess you could call it a  "pet name" for Molly for when she wasn't his apprentice anymore, sorta puts her on the level with Murphy as being the only other woman in his life with that level familiarity.

I think this pretty much ruled out any Harry/Murphy relationship anytime soon.  I can't rule out them getting together 3 or 4, or 8 books later in the series, but I think this pretty much took any chance of them getting together in the near future and swatted it in the nose with a rolled up newspaper while saying "NO."  I didn't like how Murphy's character evolved in this book--that is, I liked how it evolved, but didn't like what she evolved into in the slightest, and see it being a huge wedge between her and Harry when he eventually returns to Chicago.

I lost a lot of respect for Harry in regards to what he did to Molly.  I'd say that's probably the most effed up thing he's knowingly done in the series to date, and that goes beyond the whole murdering Susan thing.  It was truly a terrible thing he did to Molly, and I really hope he'll repair it over the next book or two.  I'm a serious Harry/Molly shipper after the events of Ghost Story, so I hope that Harry, in the process of fixing his and Molly's relationship, mans up and does something non-asinine when it comes to females this time around.

Murphy is 29 in SmF.  Maybe in 15 years.

Well, you know how they can make a 30 year old actor look like they're 90 years old with makeup, and how they can have 30 year old actors play teenagers...so why not a 14 year old play a 30-40 year old?  I mean, it's not like the role would be difficult for a kid to play, right?  Heck, gussy up a kid, give them the appropriate amount of makeup, and any 14 year old can play a 30-40 year old police lieutenant/sergeant with the necessary gravitas!   

And hasn't someone said that Jim will sign up to three items?  For publicity sakes, if B&N says you can only bring one item in, while the author says he'll sign up to three, that's very bad form on B&N's part.