Can anyone remember the book with the conversation between Rashid and Harry? For most of the books I only have them as audiobooks and it does not really lend itself to searching.

Marcone does not strike me as a man who loves something, magic or knife throwing for it's own sake. But he loves it for the power it gives him. As opposed to Harry who loves magic for it's own sake.

Harry spent all of his life on not taking the wrong kind of power up and mostly succeeded untill the point where he touched a coin briefly to save a baby. Then he never picked up the coin for real and only took bits and pieces of power from the shadow when strictly necessary.

I imagine Marcone got hold of the coin, sat alone in a room and carefully considered it and decided he wanted more power than he currently had because he would need it to continue growing in power. And the he took it in as fast as he possibly could.

It could almost not be more different. As a result I am quite sure that it would be extremely hard for Marcone to put down the coin.

It seems unlikely, but extremely hardcore!

I think Listen is the sort of ice cream who brings his own freezer along, he seems very survival oriented so I can't imagine we have seen the last of him.

I think King Corb is salty bacon ice cream, the person making it thinks it is a great idea, but it is definitely bad taste.

It could also be that it is the wrestling book in the same way that ghost story was the detective being locked up with the prisoners-book.

It could be an arena in the nevernever where gods fight, everyone is immortal, but something else is on the line. Or maybe there is an event every 1000 years and the winner gets x, or maybe it is supposed to be safe but now one god killed another and Dresden has to figure out what happened.

During the attack Harry Dresden showed his true colours as a warlock in a display so much the essence of a fire inclined warlock (throwing a fireball on a group of mortals standing in the open) that it is highly likely to be his planned defiance of the council as it falls at exactly the same time as he has fully established his power base and unveiled the power of the island.

At least that is the most paranoid interpretation of it I can think up :-)

There should also be something on the ice wall that for a short time stopped the entire group of Jotuns and about surviving Drakul.

I am not sure the council would recognize that he mad Odin are loose allies from the events.

I would also guess that they are not surprised about that Molly has an army, she is the winter lady after all. But perhaps at her and Mabs personal power

I am thinking that the outer gates are keeping something bad out and Demonreach is keeping something in, and as a result they would not be close.

Just to elaborate on my post above. It would probably not have been very Harry to be diplomatic and calm, I just answered it in the spirit of what do I think the optimal course of action would have been.

Carlos started with the tracking device, but maybe they are equal when Harry uses his trust to make him a distraction and a fool in front of the accorded nations. I can't count the number of times Harry has mentioned never to look weak in front of predators and a guy who already uses a cane being pulled around like an idiot by his jacket looks pretty weak.

Not that I am fan of how Carlos is acting, but I think the winter knight settled the scales on that one.