Right! At least we won't have to wait that long.

Hm, if it's Winter related, he could get orders from Molly, but they don't have a thorny talk with Michael or Charity. Though I bet there'll be foreshadowing to it.
But yeah, Marcone is just as likely as well. Harry and Murphy also need to get more info from him in general.
Maybe Harry looks up who's going to be there and getting some shocks?

@Walter the skull: Ooooh, yeah that'd be great!
@Dina: Yeah, you're not missing much.

@Walter the skull: Ooooh, yeah that'd be great!
@Dina: Yeah, you're not missing much.

@SpacedCowboy: Yeah, it's one of those things that's really irritating. And after Michael talked to him about it last book too! I get that IRL this stuff takes awhile to get rid of, but man, this is just getting to be too much. Also, she finds his chivalry endearing? Who are you and what have you done with Murphy?

With Rudolph I dunno, I can only think of a few options. I mean Harry and Murphy can be totally wrong about who it is, he could have switched hands w/o him knowing it, and even just a retcon. I don't think it's Marcone either, that feels counterproductive. Maybe it's the Fomor or Nicodemus even?

Yeah healing magic should have gotten a leg on modern medicine somewhere. Pretty disappointing that it hasn't.  Though I think it'd be fun to put Murphy and Harry at odds by making her the new Summer Knight. But yeah, not so fun since that would take away a great chunk of her agency. But yeah, if Butcher can't find a way to utilize her properly, then yeah, she'd probably die. Go out in a blaze of glory sure, but yeah probably die.

But yes Bob and Butters fixing that magic medicine issue right up would be amazing!

@Yuillegan: Yeah I'm not a fan of Rudolph mainly b/c he's so flat. It doesn't help that Harry keeps talking about the human power of denial. I read that line and went, 'op foreshadowing!'. Yeah, Harry can't really afford to have that sort of reaction anymore, especially since he's supposed to help keep the peace. Yeah, ok that's a good point about Nicodemus. I just picture the guy firing a rocket launcher at Harry's building, b/c at this point, he's got nothing to lose. But, hey maybe it's Mavra pointing cops at Harry and Murphy, she's done it before. Mind you it failed, but hey second time's the charm I suppose. That multiple hits, yeah we think alike in that regard.
 
2Yeah I'm like, no me gusta. Just too irritating for me. Agreed on 5, but that could be lessened by the fact that Harry has no idea what he's talking about.

I think we've all missed the most important part of IA's involvement. Somebody just went nuclear. They've involved mortals in a supernatural conflict. It'd be one thing if they were targeting Murphy to get at Harry. We've seen that sort of play at least twice before, not counting Changes where the perpetrator didn't live long enough to suffer the consequences. (Mavra in DB and the White Court in Jury Duty). Here, they're targeting Harry. Clearly part of the supernatural world and not the mortal world. We've heard that the masquerade is going to end. We've heard that it's starting to fray. Many have guessed this is the book for it.

Someone targeting Harry with IA makes me think it's even more likely this is where we're going.

That's very true. Maybe someone on the BC who got sick of Harry and has decided to do this on one of the most important supernatural events, prolly so they can oust Harry.

I'm on the site now there. There really is a chapter 5.

Well even as awesome as Mouse is, she still needs a therapist. I hope she has one and it's just one of those details we don't see.