There is a Nicodemus in the Gospel of John in the Bible.

Yes, but I believe that he is the one who offered his own tomb for Jesus to be buried in after He was taken down from the Cross.

No; the point is that Angels don't do that.

They do not "step in" that way, not even to "warn:"  not with an unambiguous Angelic-caliber "thou shalt not," not to influence mortals' free will.

That the Sword did burn Harry can only be a "warning" that a Spookyside "bad actor" is acting upon Harry; that his free will isn't entirely his own.  A free-willed mortal choice does not get an Angelic response or intervention.

Angels warn all of the time, they also test.  A warning really doesn't interfere with free will, a warning is a warning, but it's up to Harry as to how he is going to react to that warning.. It's still all about free will, it's Harry who decides how he wants to react, not outside influences making him do anything.

1/ But also, nope -- Harry already made that choice, and now has to live with the consequences.  When he chose to take on the WK-mantle, Harry chose chose to eventually become a monster.  The Angels (once again) do not intervene/warn when mortals have made their choice.  You might argue that some mortal may have been "tricked" into taking up a Knight-mantle without understanding how it could mess with their head; but Harry knew it would happen, fully accepted that it would (as it turns out, he has a slim chance not to become a monster!).

Yes, Harry took the least bad choice out of a number of very bad choices to save his daughter.  However becoming the Winter Knight doesn't mean he will automatically become a monster, those choices are still up to him no matter the influences of the mantle and the demands of Mab.  That's what Uriel's words were all about.

I think "it was just the WK-Mantle (with no Denarians) that triggered/enabled the Sword to act" is a better argument.  .. but also, I think there is a decent argument -- with supporting Dresdenverse lore -- to make a solid case for a Denarian Shadow to be involved.

I think we have to just disagree on that.. 

If it were just "Harry being Harry" -- mortal, fallible, flawed -- the Angel wouldn't have given Harry the slightest bit of discomfort.  The Angels don't stop mortals from mortally screwing-up.  The pain was a clear demonstration that, justified as his rage may have been, it wasn't just Harry being Harry; Harry was being influenced.

Under normal circumstances I would agree, however the murder of and dying in his arms of the woman he loved, wasn't normal.  Harry's reaction actually was a very normal human one, extreme emotion, grief, anger, shock, freeze, flight, or fight.  There was no thought process in his reaction, it was simply reaction.  It was Harry, reacting as a normal human, except Harry isn't a normal human, he is a powerful wizard and Winter Knight.

And, I repeat a critical point:  not one but two KotC's, 100% of the Swords in-play, were came to stop Harry; who was, in the end, merely a Knight of Faerie.  Any one KotC could likely have stopped the Winterknight.  Both of them hints more-than-gently at Denarian influence.

No, it was simply that it took that kind of power to stop a powerful wizard/Winter Knight who was in that moment a very upset human being who was reacting with understandably extreme grief and anger.  When Murphy died, Harry simply lost it, nothing more, but when a powerful wizard/Winter Knight loses it, it takes the likes of two Holy Knights to first stop him from harming anyone in his state, then calm him.  You see it at a football game, if a three hundred pound lineman loses it because a guy on the other team got in a cheap shot, it takes several other linemen to stop him, then calm him.  It isn't something you normally see a quarterback or one of the smaller backs do, they just aren't physically strong enough to hold him back in that moment

I don't think malign influence upon Rudy allows Angels to act to stop Harry.  I point again to the Squires invading Michael's home:  those Squires certainly were under Nicodemus & Anduriel's influence; but the Angels still permitted the attack on Michael's home, and for Charity to be abducted.

It wasn't angels that stopped Harry in that moment, it was his very human friends who stopped him, true they were better equipped, but in the end it was his very human friends risking injury to stop their very upset, but powerful and dangerous friend from doing something he'd regret later, and in the end harm their cause.

I don't think it takes the whispers of a Shadow (or other supernatural influence) to explain any of shitty things Rudy does.

I don't think so either, in the end Rudy is an emotionally unstable person who is also in plain English, an asshole.

Another question, how did Margaret and Malcolm meet?  Was it love at first sight? How did he change her attitude?  See here we go again, you cannot ask one question, because it sets up many others.

The Shadow wasn't actual Lasciel, nor Lasciel's presence.

It was a construct; built by Lasciel, but then independent & disconnected from the Fallen angel.

I have to disagree on that, time will tell who is right on that or we both are wrong, or right..

Absolutely not all of Lasciel's -- not a literal Fallen Angel -- maybe all of the Shadow's knowlege.

Yes, the Shadow did in my opinion, the Shadow was Lasciel in Harry's head.  That's why resisting it once that happened was such a big deal.

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!
 

In my opinion it doesn't matter whether she becomes Harry's guide about Starborn Phenomenon, he needs the information, that's important, but not as important as what Harry does with that information.  However the main thing Bonea has to do is grow up or at least mature a bit.  As she is presently, she is a pretty useless character, which begs the question, why all the drama over a half dozen books or more to end up with what? A brilliant, yet totally scatter brained, I further submit potentially dangerous toddler spirit?  Is the joke on Harry, or us?

 

We are his clients, not his employers or bosses. He offers what we want to sell and it is up to us if we want to buy it or not.

 I think that is a matter of point of view, yes, we are his clients or customers, but at the same time since we have the final say on buying his books or not, we are also his employers.  Because if we don't buy, the publisher won't employ him because they won't make money.  I think we are both right.