He’s ensconced in his own personal castle, healing his various wounds, and training an eager new apprentice.-- https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/out-law-jim-butcher/1148099903?ean=9798347030026#
I was always wondering why we never heard from Fitz again after Ghost Story. I thought, he would be interesting. And just think about his ability to hear dead people after the Battle of Chicago. Poor kid. He would go crazy without Harry's help.
Or the young warlock Harry met in Zoo Day. Aiden? Or something other with A.
Edit: Austin! I think it was Austin.
I don't think it will be Faith Astor, because I already casted her as Kumori, lolDon't laugh too hard, you could be right about Faith Astor.
Fitz and his disappearance after Ghost Story was definitely one of the flys in the ointment for my enjoyment of that book. The side story about him seemed such a pointless waste of pages, compared to the many other things Jim could have written about. If he turns out to be the new apprentice, that would change things a bit retrospectively.
... I don't think it will be Faith Astor, because I already casted her as Kumori, lol.
For the life of me I can't remember his name but the guy in Skin Game who lost his tongue. Ended up leaving the nickleheads. Most likely I'll remember who he is at 3 in the morning. Since he's been associated with the Denarians the council wouldn't touch him.
I could be misremembering something Jim said right about the time Battle Ground came out, maybe just a little after. The Battle of Chicago could remove some side characters from the series. For example, we briefly saw Officer Rawlins and EMT Lamar in Battle Ground. Did either or both of them survive? We don't know.
I don't think we've seen the last of Rawlings, I think he and Harry will have at least one more confrontation. Yeah, Rawlings could have gone totally insane but I think he will try to find some way of charging Harry and their confrontation will be in court.
I don't think we've seen the last of Rawlings... he killed Murphy, Harry came close to killing him for doing that, but justice one way or the other hasn't been resolved ...
You're talking about Rudy, not Rawlins (no "g").:-[ Yeah, my bad, realized it later. Not much sleep last night and a lot on my mind today, got them mixed up..
Rawlins is a beat cop, an older one who worked with Karrin's dad; he tries not to address the reality of the supernatural, but he absolutely believes. We first met him in Dead Beat, where he was working the security detail at SPLATTERCON!!! when Harry arrived to investigate.
Well, given Harry's status or lack thereof with the White Counsel, it's got to be someone already estranged from the White Counsel and/or has no interest or hope of getting in their good graces.I suspect Harry has no useful way to get a candidate to the WC's attention. Anything Harry does -- anyone Harry recommends -- arrives under the taint of "probably the tool of that fae-compromised warlock, Dresden." Harry would be putting them into the same "Sword of Damocles" Warden-hounded role that he hated so badly (if they didn't just chop the poor 'prentice out of hand, on "general principles").
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... I also think that Butcher is unlikely to intro a major new character at this point ...Tho FWIW it doesn't have to be a "major" new character! IIRC we only ever met Kim Delaney in the opening of Fool Moon, but she had been (for a short while) Harry's apprentice; just enough to set her on her feet, she was never going to be WC-caliber. So it might be another short-term apprentice like that.
Looking back, I'm going with Fitz from Ghost Story. Certainly seemed like that character was going somewhere. Took up a subplot and a lot of ink but then exited midway thru that book, and haven't seen him since. Fitz felt like groundwork, and you know how Butcher drops stuff in books from left field and then uses the stuff later.All told, I really like this theory!
... I think Mort Lindquist would be more suited to act as a mentor to Fitz, seeing as Mort can interact with ghosts he could give Fitz much more practical advice then Harry ...How about this plays instead to a different fantheory: Harry organizing the "lesser talents" (via the Paranet) not just for self-protection, but to police their own ranks (vs. warlock-ism), to investigate, etc; but above all to detect emergent talents and scoop in to educate them, train them, and as much as possible to prevent the Wardens from needing to Snicker-Snack any more youth-gone-astray.
Tho FWIW it doesn't have to be a "major" new character! IIRC we only ever met Kim Delaney in the opening of Fool Moon, but she had been (for a short while) Harry's apprentice; just enough to set her on her feet, she was never going to be WC-caliber. So it might be another short-term apprentice like that.
She never really was Harry's apprentice ...Better tell Harry that... HE thinks she was!
... she had no interest in becoming a wizard.She had no ability to become a WC-caliber wizard, she just didn't have enough mojo.
Better tell Harry that... HE thinks she was!
She had no ability to become a WC-caliber wizard, she just didn't have enough mojo.
Harry's words were, "sometimes apprentice"No, he said "a sometime apprentice" (with no "s" on the end of "sometime").
... If Kim was apprenticed to Harry, he was thus teaching her to be a wizard someday. You said yourself and Harry also said it I believe that she didn't have the talent to become a wizard. I doubt that Harry would have consented to teach her to be a sorcerer. So what was he teaching her to be? ...Someone who pilots a fighter-jet can train a student to fly a commercial airliner (for many years, retired fighter pilots were the single largest source of commercial pilots for US airlines) -- they don't have to train them to be a fighter-jock.
a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.
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The odds are very good that -- though Dresden was undoubtedly overqualified to teach her -- he was still the only teacher who was qualified and willing.
Someone who pilots a fighter-jet can train a student to fly a commercial airliner (for many years, retired fighter pilots were the single largest source of commercial pilots for US airlines) -- they don't have to train them to be a fighter-jock.
A "practitioner" would be the term, I believe. He was teaching her to be a better (safer, more in-control) practitioner. She clearly had enough power to get herself in trouble; I really can't see Harry refusing to train someone like that (particularly an attractive young woman).
Apprentice by definition;
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... and the therapy book is supposed to be about recovering, not making more issues, right?Well, that would be the normal therapeutic presumption, yes.
I'm guessing Bonnie, based on the eager bit. She seems like the most eager existing character, and I feel like taking on a new apprentice he's not related to our responsible for would not be the best decision, and the therapy book is supposed to be about recovering, not making more issues, right?
... and it lives in a crudely carved wooden skull Harry meant to be Bob's new home, now since Bob is back with Harry, sort of redundant ...Yeah, about that...
... We are told that Bonnie has all of Lasciel's knowlege, and Harry's as well ...Yeah, about that, too...
Absolutely not all of Lasciel's -- not a literal Fallen Angel -- maybe all of the Shadow's knowlege.
But I'm pretty sure Bonea won't suddenly become (for example) Harry's Guide to the Starborn Phenomenon; I do expect she'll have some highly-pertninent Starborn-relevant info, though!
You have to understand, it's implied from what Lash said at the end of White Night that she (and by extension Bonnie) has a great deal of information that is integral to the metaplot and can't be revealed just yet because it would make Harry's life to easy.
So instead she gets to be a genius with all the answers that is simultaneously too dumb to realize she has to hand them out until the last 3 chapters of whatever book they become relevant in.
Just as an example, she 99% knows all about what a starborn is, she can probably tell Harry exactly what Nick's been up to, may well have a bunch of information about what the Black Council has been up to...
Like, she has to be useless, or we don't get a story.
You have to understand, it's implied from what Lash said at the end of White Night that she (and by extension Bonnie) has a great deal of information that is integral to the metaplot and can't be revealed just yet because it would make Harry's life to easy.
So instead she gets to be a genius with all the answers that is simultaneously too dumb to realize she has to hand them out until the last 3 chapters of whatever book they become relevant in.
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Like, she has to be useless, or we don't get a story.
... Just as an example, she 99% knows all about what a starborn is, she can probably tell Harry exactly what Nick's been up to, may well have a bunch of information about what the Black Council has been up to...I don't think it's at all certain that Bonea knows everything Lash knew... but if she knows just half of what the Shadow knew, that'd be a huge trove of new data for Harry! I kind of think Lash knew she could only send part of herself forward as Bonea, and tried to curate for Harry to have access to the most-useful bits; but OTOH there's also the likelihood that there may have been too much chaos & unpredictability to the event, and Lash couldn't control things completely that way.
Yes, the Shadow did in my opinion, the Shadow was Lasciel in Harry's head...
The Shadow wasn't actual Lasciel, nor Lasciel's presence.I have to disagree on that, time will tell who is right on that or we both are wrong, or right..
It was a construct; built by Lasciel, but then independent & disconnected from the Fallen angel.
The reason I mention this is because I think Mort Lindquist would be more suited to act as a mentor to Fitz, seeing as Mort can interact with ghosts he could give Fitz much more practical advice then Harry. However, if Mortimer is one of those side characters who didn't survive the Battle of Chicago, then Fitz becoming Harry's apprentice makes more sense.
If this were to be the case, I could see Fitz eventually contacting Mort's ghost, thus getting a new teacher from beyond. Fitz wouldn't be a long-term apprentice and could take Mort's place if Dresden needs some ghostly knowledge in a future novel. Seeing as this is a novella and not a full novel, it makes sense Harry's new apprentice; whoever it may be, isn't an apprentice for more than the duration of the story.
Don't laugh too hard, you could be right about Faith Astor.
... If the apprentice was straight human it would be a pissing match with the WC because Harry isn't part of the wc anymore. And you know that the merlin would make it a "public" complaint to Mab ...It's not like Harry's gonna "register" his new apprentice! The WC has already proven itself unable to track down newly emerging potential apprentices; how closely can they afford to watch Harry?
... Maybe (thought I don't think it is) Thomas's sister has talent and can't sit on the sidelines even though she didn't turn. That's the kind of thing Jim likes to do to Harry. It would give Harry something to feel guilty about how Thomas will react if he ever gets him backOoooh, Inari! That's another interesting option!
I watched a bunch of interviews with Jim yesterday. In one interview he said it was an entirely new character. He brought up the joy of idiocy, the writing concept where the writer wants an ignorant character who can ask all the questions about the world that the reader would ask. The apprentice is going to be our new idiot.
He said in another interview that Harry was going to get a Valkyrie body guard.
In one interview [Jim] said it was an entirely new character.