It may be, but unless someone shows me something in text, I will keep my theory until !2 months. Mm, perhaps not even a text would convince me. Not after the trick Jim played us with the Christmas story. 

Which trick do you mean?

I have it as a separate comic book. No idea, if it was published as part of some larger collection.

She's the embodiment of knowledge but with as many people on the planet and the internet.

There's something I'm wondering about here: Ivy has access to everything written or printed on paper (Not just books, for example, in I think "Small Favor", Harry writes the message along the line of "Hold on, help is coming" on a random piece of paper, and Ivy later says she got it.) - but with computers, Internet, audio- and e- books, etc... well, does she have access to all that information, too? (Magic has problems with modern technology, as evidenced by Harry's)

If not, that'd seriously limit her knowledge. Or maybe even nullify her purpose. H.P. Lovecraft's works most likely also exist in audio- and e- book form, for example, and they made humanity aware of some of the Old Ones. Other ones can also easily be on the Internet, e-books, digital audio recordings... if Ivy's power can't access that kind of stuff, that'd make it largely obsolete in a modern age, at least until magic "catches up" (I don't remember where, but Harry once said, or narrated, that magic once caused warts and the like, which made its practicioners easy-ish to identify - presumably, it will eventually adjust to modern tech, and the side effects move on to something else).

I also believe this is why you go mad/have to be mad to mess with time, kill with magic etc. You have to believe in complete violations of the Laws of Reality.

How is killing someone with magic violating the Laws of Reality more than say, blowing up the building? To me, both seem equally "impossible", if you want to apply, let's call it "atheist" way of thinking (as in, "Magic does not exist!") and equally possible otherwise.

I think I've read somewhere, that it's the "slippery slope", that's a problem, evil (be it killing, or manipulating minds, or other stuff) gets easier, and eventually you find yourself a warlock (like with the guy who was executed early on in "Proven Guilty", or like how Harry explains why messing with people's minds using magic is said slippery slope, also in "Proven Guilty").

Plus (I think) it only seems to apply to humans for some reason - in "Changes", Harry flattened probably at least a few dozen of Blood Court vampires (by the end, when he did the gravity trick), without, as far as I can tell, any mental consequences.

Not to mention destroying the whole Red Court later on...

(well, unless there are consequences later on, and I just didn't get there yet)

Though I now wonder, if Winter Knight's Mantle had anything to do with it. Still in "Changes", I recall it showing Harry a mind-image of (I think) Rudolph frozen to the wall, or maybe impaled on some massive icicles. It didn't seem to have any actual control over him (so far?), but maybe it does some subtle influence, kind of like Lasciel's shadow did? (but don't tell me, I want to read about it for myself)

I'm reading "Grave Peril", currently at the party at Bianca's, where Lea claimed Harry broke the deal he made with her three times: one years ago, one a few days back, and one just a day ago or so when saving Charity Carpenter at the graveyard.

I remember two of those (years ago, when fighting Justin or his demon, and the one when saving Charity), but when did the third (technically second?) one happen? The only meeting they had in the meantime, that I remember, was when going after Agatha Hagglethorn's ghost in the Nevernever (from the hospital's maternity ward), but I don't remember Harry promising anything to her back then? (unless "I will go with you... when Hell freezes over!" somehow counts?)

Hello,

So, I'm thinking to order all the DF books published so far (perhaps except for comics) as the English originals. The store I'm probably going to buy them from has the books from five different publishers:
1) Little Brown Book Group
2) Roc
3) Ace Books
4) Orbit
5) New American Library

Assuming they have all the books from each one of them (I haven't checked yet, looking up them all is going to take a while), which one you think has the best quality of published books? (things like durability, lack of typos, aesthetics, including the cover images, this sort of stuff)