I understand, but if you go back and read the different definitions of what an unreliable narrator is, Harry really doesn't fit, at least not consistently ...
The naive (aka ignorant) POV is one of the key types of "unreliable narrator."
And Harry is
always ignorant.
He
starts that way (q.v. Jim writing an actual, literal, "talking head" to "educate" Harry); but, despite how much he has learned, Harry
stays that way:
- he's a magical heavyweight, and he's fighting his way into the deeper & murkier end of the supernatural power-pool
- he's also a PI, so he inquires & investigates as a central element of his professional life
Despite all he has learned, he keeps forging out beyond what he knows, into new areas... areas where he's
still ignorant.
Again: the books
rely upon Harry's ignorance. Even when he's not working for a "paying customer," he's usually investigating things. This is
central to the genre that Jim's writing (with the DF novels). If Harry were to become "knowledgeable" he'd become a quest-giver minor character, instead of a questing protagonist.
Finally, I reiterate:
Jim himself says that
Harry is an unreliable narrator. When professional writer (who has not only a bunch of successful novels, but a bunch of academic & workshop training in writing) says "I used this well-known method" ... I honestly don't understand why it's so important to you to deny it.
... Too many times the term "unreliable narrator" is the fall back crutch when there is no evidence to prove the poster's point one way or another ...
OK, this is an entirely different point! And it can be a crutch, yes; but equally, it can be simply point out that just because Harry says such-and-such is "true" (like his early reports of Mab being "the archetypal evil queen"), that too isn't really "evidence" that "such-and-such" is a "truth" of the Dresdenverse.
Harry can tell us 100% "the truth as he understands it," and simultaneously Jim can be 100% lying (without even that Faerie veneer of "technically true, but you misunderstood"). Harry is just
wrong, very very often.