About Harry not telling his visitor about Nemesis. Just because they are all striving for the same target and working together it might not mean that they selflessly communicate all of their failures to each other. If the attack on Demonreach was one groups action they might not painstakingly describe to the others how much they failed.

Their communication could also be slow or fast, maybe secure communication requires travelling to some far away place in the never-never?

It is just, as far as we know, they are all working together does not nessecarily mean hivemind coordination.

The most important part of guessing a potential traitor is whether he is working with nemesis or not. If he/she is then I think everyone helping to stop the attack on Demonreach can be ruled out. Unless they are manipulated I guess :-)

...Yeah. I took the term power creep from him. He often says that the way for an author to handle it is by having to know where your character is going. It's stated in conjunction with a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

To be fair I think the term "Power Creep" is usually taken to mean how characters slowly become to powerfull for the obstacles they are facing. Like in DnD at lvl 5 the world is full of deadly threats, but at lvl 15 a good party can really steamroll a lot of things. Jim then states that he is not going to have this problem in Dresden Files because he has planned out the books till the end. In this way Dresdens power will never creep too high relative to the things he is fighting, i.e. there will be no power creep.

I agree, but I really like the thread so I just took the thread to mean Power Increase, which I think was Bad Alias intent.

Moving on.

One thing I like related to power creep is the realization that comes from meeting something that used to be a threat, but is not (much of a threat) anymore. Like in a DnD game where we early in the story had a boss fight with a troll and somewhat later had to conquer a small castle manned by lots and lots of trolls. That made the progression of our characters very clear. I hope we will see that in Peace Talks, e.g. Dresden punching an Octokong in the face.

Having the swords in custody means that he always have them on hand when needed, assuming that there is someone who can wield them. Given the nature of them I would expect that anytime they are meant to be used there will be someone on hand to use them. They, now it, can't even be tricked to deal with an emergency somewhere else. So they are at least really really handy ally power ups.

I remember seeing a word of Jim somewhere that the threat he makes to Mavra on having read the word of kemmler is because there is also something in there for dealing with black court vampires very  efficiently. If nothing else knowing how to become a minor did must be some sort of power up.

Now I look forward to how much of a difference it will make for Harry not to be pregnant anymore  :-D

Aren't the senior council set in order of age? That scene when Eb gets on they call out names untill they get to his and then he says I'll do it. And then the senior council voted him in. (That is how I remember it)

It is a LOT of wizards who would have to abstain before they got to 30somthing Harry

I look forward to seeing "...all captain winter now..." In action. Winter knight melee fights with once enhancements are going to be awesome. Maybe soulfire powered ice claws etc.

Also Molly meeting the Merlin again...

I realise that there is just soo many things to look forward to. I will just list two :-)

-To see the effect of Harry not being limited by money in terms of building cool magical stuff. It has always held him back to some degree before, but now he has a bag of diamonds.
- I wonder if he is going to use earth magic more, it was stated in changes that it is a more physically demanding discipline than the others and since he is now at the very least one of the physically strongest mortal wizards in the world, that could be something.

What do you look forward to?