Agreed, unless there is a rule against the Winter Knight getting a salary from his Queen
...  I seem to remember that there was a rule against him being paid, because Mab could have given him money then and didn't.  Unless Harry just doesn't want to be in Mab's debt anymore than he has to be so refuses a salary.

I don't think there's any "rule against" salary, no.
If Harry had included a cash stipend in his negotiation, I don't think Mab would have blinked or balked.

But there is now a rule against Harry being paid:  he didn't bargain for it... and Mab fulfills her bargains with surgical precision, and zero charity.

... Remember before the battle, Molly was buying a house close to her parents to further protect them and she loaned Harry her old place because he was homeless ...

I think Harry is morally/philosophically opposed to leveraging his power too-directly for wealth; it's a really easy line to cross, with a huge morally-grey area.
I suspect this is a too-strict interpretation of the anti-warlock values that Ebenezer instilled.

Molly has no such inhibitions.  She owns a luxurious condo in an ultra-secure enclave, paid for with magical service.

I don't doubt she has used her waywalking & veils & so forth to make her own wealth, independent of the Winter Court.

Like... in her "Ragged Lady" phase, she likely learned a bunch about the criminal underworld of Chicago.  Returning to it as the Winter Lady, she could just walk into a drug-deal under a Veil, put everyone to sleep, and walk out with all the cash; or something similar in other places, where she doesn't bump against Marcone (but I suspect that during the Fomor build-up, his hold over all those street-deals was much weaker:  killing one of those non-Marcone deals might actually put Marcone in Molly's debt!).

Or just use a Way to courier some high-value deliveries with unmatchable-by-mundanes speed & security.

Or Veil into some top-tier business negotiations, and leverage that knowledge in the stock market.

etc etc etc.

Or not, Michael wasn't guided to her aid in the first few books...

No, of course not!  It's the Dresden Files, not the "Carpenter Files;" the Scooby Gang forms around Harry.

But in an Alt!Verse -- where Alt!Harry isn't a suitable nucleus for Scoobies -- Michael looks like he might be a more-active part of the Chicago scene.  "God will provide..." and in lieu of Harry, Michael looks like a damned-good candidate!

... I go back to the original assumption that everyone seems to have, and since I don't keep up with them I don't keep up very well with WOJs, is the other Harry is an evil counter point to our Harry.. If nothing if changed because of that, shrug of shoulders, Harry in the other universe is evil..  However I don't think so ...

The "evil Harry" idea comes from the older WoJ's; new ones are much less readily available/searchable, in that nobody AFAIK has taken the time to transcribe interview/etc videos... or even collect them.

From 2016:

When are we going to see Mavra again?
Um… 19?  *pondering*  Wait, I’m sorry we’ll definitely see her in Mirror Mirror.  She’s a fast ally of Dresden’s in Mirror Mirror.

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Fight Night is the supposed title of the book coming out after Mirror Mirror that deals with pro wrestling. In it Hades introduces/hires Harry to investigate trouble happening with gods who are masquerading as pro wrestlers ... 

Yeah, I think Jim might even have mentioned "Fight Night" as the prospective title for his "pro wrestling" book.  Haven't seen the Hades link before, though; can you dig up that cite for me?

The central conceit is AFAIK that a bunch of deity-level adulation-junkies are getting their fix -- their "worship" -- from the "pro wrestling" circuit, the pomp, the glamour.

Given the whole thing with costumes & masks & very-public personna's (that often shift) I expect this is where Harry learns about taking-off and putting-on a Mantle:  lets him "keep" the WK-Mantle without being quite so tightly-bound to all those strictures.

Do we know for sure that Justine's illness was manic depression? As we know there are more than one type of mental illness.  If Justine suffered from a form of schizophrenia for example, hallucinations possibly could be the perfect avenue for Nemesis to enter. Can you imagine if Justine was hearing voices for example how easy it would be for Nemesis to become one of those voices? 

I don't think we know the form(s) of Justine's mental illness, no (noting that multiple-diagnoses are very much a thing).  It's not clear to me that Jim does, himself.

I doubt Jim will specifically write it as "hallucinations" though -- that really muddies the whole "free will" issue, which is thematically-important to the Dresdenverse.

Just you wait, it's only a matter of time until Harry defeats communism by making a giant statue of himself and butchers the evil pacifists.

I ... guess this is a further riff on "Sword of Truth" (the sundial statue "Life"?)

I'm pretty sure that Jim pretty-rigorously avoids politics (as Harry, he denigrates all politicians equally, just as politicians, without ever calling out specific policies).

And your own remarks in themselves seem to be straying well-into the explicitly-disallowed territory... even if you're "just making a joke" or "forgot the /s" or whatever. 
 

...  It is mentioned in Changes that a ton of politicians and business leaders all died/disappeared at the same time the red court died.

I don't remember that...

Nevertheless, it's so.

It's in the chapter immediately following the one where Susan dies; Harry talks about the fallout from the destruction of the entire Red Court; so, not in-the-moment stuff or stuff Harry personally saw/experienced; but Harry telling us about things that he heard of, broadly.

More like an associate of Winter or with Winter, I doubt that Kringle would take a direct order from Mab for example, or that she would give one.. I think they actually agree on a lot of stuff, I also think because of his multiple mantles that he is way too complex to be a subject.

Yes, Odin & Mab agree on lots of stuff (as we saw in Skin Game)... though not on all things.

But the Kringlemantle is one of Winters/Mab's.  Within the scope of Kringle's duties, it is entirely subject to Winterlaw.  Now... Mab does not wish to be seriously at odds with Odin, so she isn't likely to give
any orders that Odin -- or Vadderung -- finds deeply offensive.  By the same token, Odin doesn't want to be seriously at odds with Mab, so Kringle is always looking for ways to be inoffensive.

When push comes to shove (if Mab orders something he's unwilling to do) Odin can simply take off the Kringlemantle and say, "nope."

The thing is:  neither of them want this to happen simply as a result of Aesir/Faerie political squabbling, or points of pride between the two monarchs or their courts.  The Kringlemantle and what it represents and does is important to both of them.  Without ever actually speaking about it, they are lowkey collaborating to avoid needless conflicts; and both of them are pretty damned good at that sort of tactico-strategic thinking, so it works well (and has for hundreds of years).