How about Harry's dream-conversation with Malcolm by the campfire in Dead Beat?  Malcolm lists a whole bunch of events that await his son, and death is right in the middle of them, in keeping with Changes's position about halfway through the series.

From War Cry:

3291 BC - The Akkadians are decimated by a colossal shoggoth.  A surviving warrior seeks to warn his nation's prior enemy, but King Hammurabi of Babylon doubts his word and is powerless when the creature attacks his own city.

The date for this event seems to be about 1140 years off, if JB is suggesting the actual Akkadian Empire was finished off by this thing, and 1541 years off if this is supposed to be the real Hammurabi.  If we assume the cultural and personal names are a translation-convention to preserve the Mesopotamian "feel" of the historical flashback, and that the characters involved are from a couple of forgotten cultures of which the shoggoth left no trace for archeologists to unearth, then the captioned date could be accurate in the Dresdenverse. 

Either way, this one's date in the Timeline may have to read "Ancient Mesopotamia (3291 BC?)" until we hear from Jim if it's just a flub from his misreading "3rd millennium BC" in a history book as the 3000s, not the 2000s.


The events of War Cry itself are in late January or early February, four months after Yoshimo's leg was broken in Dead Beat.

Well, fwiw, there is a WOJ about the Stone Table that indicates both courts have access to it when and where they should.  So it appears that while Summer is in power in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter is in Power in the Southern, and Vice Versa.

Or the Southern Hemisphere isn't a factor in determining the Courts' relative power, because most of the planet below the equator is ocean and dominated by the Fomor, who hate both Courts.

Certainly. Kemmler stuff, take two:
Those two accounts seem fairly different, don't you think? I mean, I wouldn't consider 1961 as being even close to "during" WW2, as has been pointed out.

Kemmler's the one who taught Corpsetaker everything she knew.  Who's to say he didn't stick around as a shade, same as she did?  The Council could've finally whacked his body for keeps during WWII, then come back and cleaned up the Ghost of Kemmler in 1961.

Close but not quite.  The person doesnt have to consciously Will it, they just have to have Free Will to do it.  So Toot or Bob cannot break the circle (which is why Bob was able to toss harry a potion through a circle in SF).  However if he accidentally knocks something over the circle that is, in Uriel's words, "A Fair Ball."  That is supposedly one of the most common amateur mistakes young summoners make, and why harry always so careful cleans the area around the circle before he attempts summoning.

So now Shagnasty has free will?  He used a circle to break Harry's soulfire-lasso, so unless skinwalkers have free will, it can't be a prerequisite for circle magic.  As for cleaning the area around a circle and laying it out precisely, that's what's necessary to prepare a circle before it's empowered, to make it operate as efficiently as possible so it can be infused with more energy and restrain more powerful beings.

Just wanted to add, Thomas met Justine at Club Zero so that would put that place on a strong emotional connection.

But, again, it wouldn't fit the description of "gentlemen's club".

Hmmm... maybe the club he brought Michael out to just happens to be where Thomas was, when he first learned that his long-lost little brother had moved to Chicago and opened an investigation business there?

- Checked the timeline, and it looks like Mr. Beckitt (do we know his first name?) must have gotten killed in prison very soon after he was arrested.  Storm Front took place in March of year 0, White Night in May of year 7, and Murphy claimed he'd been dead for "nearly seven years" in WN.

Could explain why Helen only did five years ("nickel in the pen"- Harry in WN), if her husband died in detention before their court trials were complete and her lawyer shifted most of the blame for the drug charges onto him and Sells.  (Helen's year of release may rate a mention.)

- Harry first developed his tracking spell at age 14, because he kept losing his house keys.

- Immediately after Proven Guilty, Mouse causes some property damage at the vet's when a paperwork snafu nearly got him neutered rather than his van-injured shoulder X-rayed.

- Simultaneous with the events of White Night, Ebenezar and the senior Wardens spend a few days battling a powerful rakshasa and its minions in India.

- Kincaid gives Murphy the P90 some time during the year before White Night.

One thing the Reference Collection could definitely use, if it hasn't already got one I can't find:  a thread summarizing the many, many, many secrets which Harry is either keeping or privy to.  In what books does he learn about them; who else knows and when do they find out; whom is he most worried about concealing the truth from; at what point (if any) did the information cease to be secret or relevant?  With so much secret information to keep hidden, even Harry himself must have trouble keeping track of it at times, so we readers could surely use a summary to consult.

Naturally, a thread about this topic would need to be either spoiler-marked in big, black capital letters, or chock full of hidden text with ambiguous headings (e.g. just "Lara" as a heading for the secret that