Yeah, I figure that was introduced as a substitute because LtW would now get in trouble for getting too close to someone the Council has excommunicated.

He's probably also not going to be very mobile to come to Harry, and Harry isn't welcome at HQ.

Yeah, but LTW can entrust the journels with Rivershoulders, and I'd like to see anyone challenge him... Or more likely Rashid could deliver them, he no doubt knows more than one Way though the Nevernever to get from Scotland to Harry's castle or the island, and nobody is going to follow him on many of those routes either.
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Sorry. But from Kentucky they look much the same.

Yeah, well.. Not all Kentucky is blue grass horse country either....

One possibility is that she hid the flaw in LC.

That could be.. Or she had something to do with fixing it.

We learned in Skin Game that Lashiel is perfectly willing to "adjust" the perceptions of her host to get that host to act in the desired way.   We learned in Dead Beat that Lashiel was able to deceive Dresden even though he had not formally accepted the coin. 

So key question, were there instances between Dead Beat and White Night where Lashiel deliberately deceived or hid things from Dresden (using her illusion power) to keep some important information from him - or perhaps to create false information from a trusted source. 

Some possibilities:  Information that might identify "Cowl", information about necromancers/necromancy that bite him in Battle Ground, Something about the White Court?    No idea, but there do seem to be some possibility here.

Lasciel may have tried, but I doubt that her shadow actually did.  Remember once Harry realized the illusion of Sheila, he did question a lot of what the shadow told him and gradually she transformed into Lash.. However some could have gotten past him, but bare in mind at the times Harry was asking for information, often his life was in the balance.  It wasn't in the best interest of Lasciel for Harry to die, so the information as far as it went was accurate.

It may foreshadow what Eb is going through in the present.

Yes,  I hope Jim does follow through with this.  Harry needs to know what Eb is going through but  from a less emotional perspective. 

I don't see the series changing locations, but I could see Harry inheriting Eb's place in the Ozarks.  I could see Harry visiting that place in a single novel and perhaps using it as a safehouse for another character.  Yes, Harry's new home is a fortress, but there might be a situation where the character Harry is working with can't be seen entering Harry's home.

The series doesn't have to change locations for Harry to get his inheritance from Eb. Though in a sense the series has changed locations and sort of returned from where it started.  With Changes, Harry's cozy basement apartment burned up, now he is returning to his lab with a castle on top of it.  Perhaps because the island, the apartment, and Arctus Tor just didn't feel right as home... Not sure the castle will either.

As far the Eb's journals and all of the older ones go, I don't expect Harry will get the opportunity to read through all of them.  However, Ebenezer's personal journal might be something Harry will get a chance to look through.  One thing to keep in mind is that Jim won't want to give Harry too much information, because that equals too much power.  Perhaps Eb's journals will be damaged before Harry get's the chance to read them and Harry will only be able to derive clues from them, rather than complete explanations.  Also, I could see the earliest journal, the one that supposedly was written by the original Merlin to be mostly unreadable with only a few words or symbols clear enough to make out, but perhaps just enough for Harry to learn something important from.  Most likely, only Bonea would be able to read them as they wouldn't be in modern English and it would be older than even Bob would have experience with.

I think it is vital that Harry get those journals, especially the early one that Merlin wrote if they can be translated..  I believe there are clues in them for the coming BAT that no one knows of, or if they did, would fill Harry in about.  Even Eb came with this "need to know" crap in Peace Talks and then told Harry he didn't need to know about his own life at this point!  Listens to Wind may be able to help.

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Yet at some point in years past he had dinner with her father and his daughter.