I don't even know where those questions of mine in the OP came from. They must be pretty old, because I didn't even remember some of them. Anyway, these are scavenged from a "Questions to Be Asked at Q&As" thread from about a year ago:

Some of mine(AcornArmy), to start off:

1) Angels are apparently all soul. So:
   1a) Can angels be soulgazed?
   1b) Can the Fallen in the Denarii be soulgazed through the second pair of eyes which sometimes show up on the foreheads of the Denarians? And, if so:
      1b.1) Will the soulgaze be different than the one you would see if you simply soulgazed the Fallen's Denarian host?

2) Would you(Jim) please clarify exactly who the Faerie Queens can personally kill and who they can't? And also whether these limitations extend to having other fae kill mortals? At various times in Summer Knight and in the rest of the series, we've been told or seen evidence that:

-- The Sidhe Knights are the only ones allowed to act in matters not directly related to the Faerie Courts. (SK, Ch. 10)
-- The Queens are not allowed to kill anyone who isn't a member of their own Court. (SK, Ch. 10)

And yet:

-- We've seen fae servants of the Faerie Queens kill and attempt to kill mortals many times.
-- Aurora was able to try to kill Harry just fine, but was unable to harm Murphy. (SK, Ch. 20-21)
-- When Harry is preparing to deal with Mab to become the Winter Knight, he thinks to himself that Mab can't kill a mortal, only make them wish they were dead. The implication seems to include the Winter Knight. (Changes, Ch. 30)

So which mortals can the Faerie Queens kill? Bob tells us one thing, but evidence in the books indicates something else.

For non-Jim people who'd like to try to answer question #2 themselves: I'm well aware that there are different guesses to be made about what the Queens' limitations are. I've made some of them myself over the years. This question is meant to get a definitive answer from Jim on the subject, though, so we don't have to rely on guesses anymore.


From Vairelome:

From one of the recent threads concerning Maggie, there was some discussion about her official last name right now (post GS, staying with the Carpenters).

So: "What is Maggie's official last name right now?" and if clarification is needed, "Under what last name is she registered at the local elementary school (assuming that's where she's placed)?"


From Karley:

1) How and when did Harry and Michael meet? Would you consider writing a short story about their first encounter?
2) How long has Arthur Langtry been the Merlin?
3) How does one become the Merlin?
4) Is the Winter Lady Maeve the same person as or was she some way involved with the old Irish Queen Maeve of Connacht?
5) If Harry ever does put his full effort into universe-hopping, can you make him go to Discworld?
6) What are the names of the other three minor vampire courts?
7) How did Justin DuMorne find out about Harry?
8 ) When did the old Mother Summer retire and why won't Mother Winter retire?
9) How old is the Gatekeeper?
10) How did the White Council annex the New World shamans and what were the reaction of the Natives?


From Eleyctra:

Is it significant that the eyes of Lea changed from gold in the earlier books, to green in Changes? Is Mab controlling Lea more than we think?


From jeno:

1) How old were Eb and Maggie Sr when they first manifested a talent?
2) How can Kusanagi be a Sword of the Cross when it predates the crucifixion?
3) How many sisters does Thomas have?

so if Kincaid is a Scion, doesn't that make Harry a Scion as well?

"What's the point of shooting if you're just going to miss?" He smiled, made a mime-gun of his thumb and index finger, and aimed at me. His thumb fell forward and he said, "I'm as human as you are, Dresden. I'll see you later." (Blood Rites)

Possible evidence in favor of this idea in the Harry's Possessiveness thread.

Okay, kind of a long list, here goes:

Doylist analysis on LC fix timing
Black Council "Recruitment"
Catalogue of Harry's Nightmares (WIP)
Mouse's Origins
Missed subtleties from my fifth reread of Changes
White Court Magic-Users, Death Curses and Soulfire
Something about Harry
Uriel's long game? FM, DB, Ch, and GS (WIP)
WC vamp wizards
Lea and the Black Athame
Maeve did it.
PG: combining Neurovore and Knnn.
An evilish-Elaine theory in summary
Taking a closer look at Small Favor (LONG)
The case for Titania
Who recruited and trained Victor Sells?
Harry Dresden, Most Wanted
A Theory about Black Magic Corruption
THOUGHT EXERCISE Harry Dresden - a serial killer who targets schoolgirls

Oh, and a couple of mine that I'm fairly happy with:

Maggie LeFay and the Outsiders
Harry's Possessiveness

I couldn't remember very many theory threads that were still around, so I basically just opened the Topics posted list for a few dozen regular posters and looked for good theory threads they'd started. I found several that I'd read already and forgotten about, and several that I hadn't seen before. So this was a productive exercise.   I'm sure I've missed some good ones, though, especially any good theories that didn't have their own thread dedicated to them.

Not all of these are theory threads, though. Some of them are just collections of information which seem like they could be useful as reference materials in the future.

As I understand it, they're not able to kill anyone who's not involved in Faerie business.
It's only a physical restriction for the queens--for the rest of the Faeries, it's at best a guideline.See above: Harry was directly involved in Faerie business as Mab's emissary.

Yeah, but these are just guesses. The fact is, we've gotten information that doesn't fit together very well. There have been a lot of guesses made about how things are supposed to work-- I've made a few myself-- but this question is meant to get an official response from Jim someday, in the hope of clearing up the issue for good.

I've noticed something in Dead Beat that wa interesting. When Cowl lifts his arms to touch the Darkhollow, his arms are described as "long, weathered arms covered in old scars." NOW, the only person I can recall having this "weathered" descriptions is Injun Joe. Infact, many times that Injun Joe is introduced in the story this word appears. Theory, Injun Joe being a healer finds an injured Elaine, heals her, then recruits her. Joe is very interested in aspects of life and death that could tie into a benevolent form of Necromancy. Does this theory hold water?

It does not, I'm sorry to say. Listens-to-Wind showed up at Harry's house that very night to help heal the Wardens, and there was no mention at all of him looking the slightest bit battered or bruised. According to all sources in DB, having the Darkhallow explode in your face would be a somewhat damaging experience, and in White Night, Cowl-- if it was actually Cowl-- still moved in such a way that it conveyed that he was in pain, which seemed to confirm the idea that Cowl had been badly injured by the Darkhallow crashing.

Of course, Cowl could've been injured by something else, and he might have been just fine after the Darkhallow ended, allowing him to go heal people at Harry's apartment as Injun Joe. But that doesn't seem like the safest bet.

Per (Dead Beat):

"She never got it. In that single second of uncertainty, Corpsetaker had been relying upon her disguise to defend her, and had her mind bent upon planning her next step-not preparing her death curse. The bullet from my.44 hit her just over her right cheekbone."

If I remember correctly, it's always Harry doing the recounting of him shooting Corpsetaker. She was standing in front of him with her back to him, so even though she turned her head when he called her name, it may be that Harry still thinks of it in terms of shooting her in the back of the head. A personal-impression thing, rather than a strictly-factual thing. Harry's own sense of it at the time was that he was shooting her from behind, in the head, so he thinks of it as shooting her in the back of the head, regardless of where the bullet actually hit.

See, I'm refering to the route, not the result. The whisper altered his route as well as the result.

Yeah, but I think the two are not independent. Altering the route caused the change in result, because a route that didn't include a chat with Uriel led straight and only to suicide after becoming the Winter Knight. Uriel was what gave Harry the hope for a future.

The difference in what Harry does first seems odd, if you focus on the Winter Knight thing vs. the suicide thing(it did to me too, until a few minutes ago), because why wouldn't he have tried to call Uriel both times? But if the primary difference in Harry's decision tree was simply that the Whisper made him feel like such a shit that he didn't deserve to call on Uriel, then the rest of what happened falls naturally from that fact. Without Uriel, suicide; with Uriel, no suicide.

He had made the decision, even if he didn't remember why he made that decision.  But before he heard the words, it was hopeless, there was nothing he could do.  It was only after he was told it was all his fault was he willing to take that extra step.

But again, we've gone and done this over and over, nobody's getting their minds changed.

Well, then why bring it up? The second time his mind went through most of the same thoughts that he'd had before, which indicates that he had not made a decision yet. Unless you want to say that he'd already made the decision at that point the first time around, too. And the second time, he called Uriel for confirmation of his injuries and begged for help before doing anything else. It was only after talking to Uriel that he decided on what he had to do. The second time, he actually took longer to come to that conclusion than he had the first time, because the first time, he never even bothered to talk to Uriel first.