I can't NOT get in on this after seeing this thread!

So...

One of the issues we run into with this is that the children of Harry's friends - for the most part - are years apart from Maggie. So, I'm going to drop that idea all together and go with completely non team Dresden related ideas... other than the secret son of Marcone. That idea is just too amazing, especially if he's actually the Xander of the group because Marcone is trying to keep him away from the dark side of business until he's older. Protecting children is one of Marcone's goals, after all.

For a heavy... Troll girl has already been done with Meryl, so I'm going to avoid beings of fairy origin. Perhaps the scion of one of the small "d" dragons might be interesting. Someone who still has the ability to switch between human form and claws, wings, scales, fire-breath galore! But, who is just a whelp, a baby of their kind who can't do much else. Alternatively, we've already been given the Heavy in the form of Mouse. See "Mouse fights a van" in Proven Guilty. Or, maybe the two of them develop an almost Gimly and legolas relationship.

Another character that might be fun, if we're adding a feline presence to the team might be a Neko. Most of what we have seen so far is based in Western mythology and it might be fun to see a bit of what the eastern mythical creatures are up to. Are they fighting the Outsiders as well? Or, are they trying to deal with other problems? Yes, a child probably wouldn't let us see much of this, but they might provide a glimpse. Alternatively, they might provide nightmare fuel in the question of: Are Neko actually the changelings of Malks who have had children with humans? 

Alternatively, the baby dragon could play the feline role, as the tendency in fiction is to depict them similarly to cats...

I do like the idea of Maggie making friends with the pretty and popular girl who begins as her arch nemesis... but the pool of possible stereotyped origins is rather slim. Sidhe of some kind? White Court? A sylph might be fun, providing the team with some air support(unless the dragon isn't too young to fly yet).

Another magic user or two would be fitting, I think. Harry does have a number of wizard allies alongside his closer friends. Perhaps the kid of a local sorcerer or paranet member who has a lot of promise when it comes to magic? Someone who's skills complement or contrast with Maggie's(if she's a potential wizard). It might also be cool to have someone like Abby from the Ordo, with future sight powers. Might make a fun "super awkward smart kid." Alternatively, someone with Casandra's Tears or - in general - some other divination-based ability.


...There are too many fun ideas.

Mostly though, I'm hoping for things we haven't seen before in large quantity. We've seen a lot of the vampires and the fairies, and I doubt we're going to get a twelve-year-old knight of the cross(unless Maggie sneaks out one night with Amorachious). What haven't we seen a lot of? That's what I want to see.

TWG?  MMO?  Not familiar with these abbreviations.

TWG: The White God (The Abrahamic God or Christianity, etc...)

MMO: Short-hand for MMORPG, meaning massively multiplayer online roleplaying game.

If anyone does end up going and see this could you ask what is Mister's cat name for Harry? For some reason this is the first question I would ask if I could go myself.

Silly human! Such things as true names are beneath the notice of Mister. He needs no such clumsy tool to enforce his will upon reality, nor the need to enforce his will. Reality simply does everything it can to satisfy Mister's desires.

And, to satisfy the question of the original post: Unfortunately I'm living the broke, no-longer college student life at the moment. I won't be going.

Michael himself has said that their job isn't to punish - and he does use that word specifically, if my memory serves(sorry, don't have my copy of Death Masks available at the moment) - when first explaining the Knights' purpose to Harry. They are supposed to save. And besides, Warrior shows us that Michael wouldn't be acting calm and thinking through the consequences were he to walk in on the execution of his daughter(and presumably Harry).

My reason for "Dark Pact" for the Blackstaff book is that I think that whomever takes up the Blackstaff makes a pact with someone, or something.  Also there could be a reason Harry has to take up the staff similarly to taking up the Winter Knight mantle.

Somewhere, wasn't there a WoJ about the Black Staff choosing his or her successor? Seems like kind of a d*ck move if there's a dark pact of some kind involved. Though, there does have to be something that allows Eb to summon and dismiss the BS.

Another possible book title:
Long Shot

why?  Well he uses the handle Longshotauthor, and I think he uses the handle long shot when he plays video games sometimes.

Are you insinuating that these are actually Jim's journals, and he's just changing the names of the people involved? 

Half fun and half serious: What do you guys think some of the upcoming book titles will be for the books we don't know yet? So, not Mirror Mirror or Peace Talks. Personally, I'm curious if one of the books will be called Black Staff.

This is a strange question that occurred to me while I was planning out part of my own original work procrastinating:

1) Harry has said that magic comes from the energy of life.
2) There are exponentially more people than there were on earth a few hundred years ago(more life on earth?).
3) Conservation of energy has also been mentioned in regards to how magic works.

So, does the fact that there are more people mean that more magic energy is generated, or is this a major factor in why the powers that be have become diluted, their mojo spread out like Hades(?) and Santa Odin mentioned?