This is just speculation on my part but I suspect that Murphy becoming a Valkyrie stopped the protection. We know that people swapped bits of souls during physical contact which sometimes leads to protection from WCV. Odin is giving Murphy unusual afterlife which presumably includes her soul somehow. Mab and Odin are allied and, after Odin does something to Murphy, Harry is now free to marry Lara. I think Odin helped Mab change Murphy in a way that frees Harry up.

It's worth noting that Jim has new short fiction coming out via Kickstarter short story collection. It wouldn't floor to me to discover he sets a short story immediately after a major DF book similar to the Murphy short story after Changes or the Christmas Eve story. Maybe he does something from Lara's or Maggie's perspective after Twelve Months. Maybe it's from Butters' perspective as he gets a third girlfriend, lol. Either way, this is now a strong possibility.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/unbroken/unbroken-new-tales-by-masters-of-fantasy

So far Harry is an anomaly amongst the Starborn we have met and i think Malcom is the key to that. Its Malcolm's nature that Harry inherited keeps him good. Which is part of the reason why I think Malcom was a plant by Uriel. Not a supernatural being though just a normal guy who is good. Good in the best way possible and good in its everyday form. That shows Harry the way and keeps him from becoming like the other starborn

I love this idea. I think it's completely within Uriel's wheelhouse and strategy to have a Starborn, wizard-to-be raised by a kind person that can also teach their child about basic misdirection and tricks. Having someone like that just kind of hanging around could be a massive force for good.

I suspect that people like Victor crop up all of the time and the White Council deals with them routinely. Victor was different because he had access to a very powerful killing curse, had a burgeoning drug empire, and had a fairly powerful demon that he barely controlled. I suspect that Nemesis propped him up in order to threaten Dresden and/or Morgan. Both would be positioned to be major threats to any play that Nemesis made against Demonreach so would be good people to eliminate as early as possible.

I've been thinking about this a lot and this makes a lot of sense that this would happen sometimes. Any being sensitive to thoughts may accidentally or purposedly repeat phrases like this as a way to be persuasive. Molly is a very sensitive person so it makes sense that she would be able to do it. While I suppose we could make the same argument about Maeve and Ramirez because they're magic users, I think there's another intriguing possibility: Carlos and Maeve were both infected by Nemesis and did it on accident.

Maeve being Nemfected a strong possibility given that she almost blew up Demonreach and that was the explicit goal of Nemesis in Battle Ground. She was also the very first target of the Starborn Winter Knight.

I think that there's a decent argument for Carlos too. First, we know that Justine was Nemfected and had to be infected by someone. Carlos had a few minutes next to her in White Night while Harry was listening to the WCV debate the merits of the crusade against low talent wizards. This was also around when Justine became close to Lara. Second, we know that Carlos was nearby a Cthulhu cult in Cold Case. He says that he got a report from Elaine to check it out but that's an easy cover story to make up. Third, we know that at least one shadowy organization tasked an attractive, respected, and talented White Council Warden to become close to Dresden in order to keep an eye on him. Would it be strange for another party to do something similar? Fourth, isn't it weird that several experienced Wardens fought Black Court Vampires in Battle Ground and only Harry and Carlos survived? Fifth, isn't it odd that several of the stories he prominently features include Outsiders? War Cry, White Night, Proven Guilty, Cold Case, and Battle Ground/Peace Talks all have Carlos and all have Outsiders. The only one with a lot of Carlos but no obvious Outsider influence is Dead Beat. That one is centered on a conflict with Kemmler's disciples but would it shock you to discover Kemmler made a deal with Outsiders? Maybe one Kemmler's disciples was Nemfected and that's how Carlos got Nemfected. Sixth, he's repeatedly mentioned as the youngest to every reach Warden Commander. It wouldn't be surprising if the Outsider gave him help to accomplish it.

Mab doesn't care.

Hula Hoop.

I think that the Darkhallow was similar to normal energy absorption but scaled up drastically and improved somehow. We've seen Harry do energy absorption a lot including the fight in the aquarium in Small Favor. Based on that fight, the typical way to do it has limits because it literally raised Harry's body temperature. The Darkhallow must have some type of containment mechanism to handle the extra energy. Maybe it's a combination of the ascension spell in "Welcome to the Jungle" along with the normal energy absorption?

Either way, I suspect that what Harry was tempted to do in Storm Front, and what Evil Harry did in Grave Peril, would be a scaled down version of the Darkhallow. It would have just been sucking the ambient emotional energy of a dark place to do destructive things. That would have in turn affected Harry in a bunch of different ways.