I don't remember this... what exactly are you referring to?

And the Denarians are not free willed beings.  Only the people possessing the coins still have free will.  The Fallen themselves are still technically Angels and subsequently have never been given free will.

You mean the Fallen didn't choose to Fall? In that case, they're not The Fallen...they are The Pushed.

Even Lash had free will. She chose to burn herself out to save Harry, rather than let Harry die. I can't see how a shadow of a Fallen can have more free will than the Fallen itself.

What I was driving at is the fact that the Nickelheads have a countering agent...The KNights of the Cross. When the Nickelheads begin raising Hell, The Knights (not the Archangels) step in to counter them. It seems to me, for Uriel to be allowed to step in and intervene, then something more powerful than Nicodemus and his crew must be breaking the rules.

Besides, those thirty fallen angels are all bound within coins. None of them could leave the coin to whisper in Harry's ear. So you're looking at a fallen angel that *isn't* trapped within a coin.

Yep...my money is on Old Scratch, himself.