What is BT?

Bath Time

It's a recently released short story, detailing Mister's thwarting of the big monkey(how Mister refers to Harry)'s attempts to dunk him under the soapy smelly water. Oh, and for some reason Eb goes all Black Staff during the tale. Supposedly, even more nuts than what we got in Battle Ground. Haven't read it myself, though...

Does anyone else feel like we're missing a scene at the end of BG where Harry has a chat with mama Murphy? Maybe at the funeral, or going to her house to tell her what happened to her daughter?

I think Murphy is alive in Mirror Mirror.  I doubt the Red Court has been destroyed.  If that is the case the Titan is still underwater somewhere.  I think it's going to be very painful when Harry sees alt-Murphy.  Oh, and I think alt-Murphy will be gunning for Harry.  Consider that Alt-Harry's friends will likely be Denarians, Necromancers and White Court vampires.

I vaguely remember a WoJ about Mavra being one of Harry's allies in the alt-universe, and something about Molly having become a necromancer with her Proven Guilty boy toy as a thrall. But, I have no idea from when or which event it comes. I could be entirely wrong in my memories, though.

Agreed on him seeing alt-Murphy being painful. I would guess seeing most of his friends in their alternate existences is going to horrify him, though(see the mention of Molly above...). It makes one wonder who he'll be able to turn to. A Dresden novel without anyone for him to play off of wouldn't work so well, after all. Michael seems an obvious choice, if he's alive. There's no telling if Small Favor even happened. The other Knights are also obvious choices, given what they do and who they are.

I'm kind of holding out hope that Morgan is still alive, and we might get some more of him, maybe mirroring Turn Coat with our Harry showing up at his door to plead for help. The two of them have soul gazed. So, it might make for a clever way to prove he isn't that universe's Harry. That said, Morgan still might kill him depending on what he sees, or even before Harry gets a chance to explain...

Mab would make another interesting consult, though not a tag along for the book. Having two Winter Knights in the timeline for a little while might make things a bit... messy. Heck, maybe the other Winter Knight could make a good(and by good I'm not sure I actually mean "good") character for Harry to interact with. I've seen some theories out there that Mab might have chosen Thomas in that timeline. Maybe there's a whole bit where Thomas is having difficulty trying to control the Mantle, and Harry helps him out. Or, more interestingly, the other way around.

Yes, I've descended into rambling.

The obvious most painful option would be Murphy. 'Cause... obvious reasons. I highly doubt she's as in the know if Harry went all dark side. Maybe she's even still working for or in charge of SI?

I... honestly, it's hard to speculate who he'd team up with. I'm still kind of digesting Battle Ground. Though, the wait between books is going to be a pain now that we've just gotten our latest fix.

That's it. I'm going to bed. I'll check back in tomorrow.

I find it far more likely that we'll get something along the lines of Rudolph writing Harry up for the murder, and trying to deflect. Where that ends up other than a nebulous "bad things follow," I don't know. But it feels very much like something he'd do, not thinking it through at all.

... but will probably never see...

I'll start off by proposing a couple.

1) Butters needing to explain to his parents about the supernatural, and how he's a Knight of the Cross, a nice callback to Bombshells.

2) Along a similar vein, Charity has brought the kids to her mother's several times throughout the series. Grandma Carpenter seeing the Winter Lady on the news, fighting the Fomor invasion of Chicago would give me all kinds of laughs.

Whadya got?

Jokingly: Well, I guess this confirms the "Harry travels back in time to become Merlin" theory.

Seriously though, I would guess Lea instead of Mab. She's a muse known for driving men insane with boink desires. Would certainly explain where Bob got his... drives. *shivers in fear* No idea on the father... unless Lea's blush and straightening of her dress at the end of Changes was a clue about a past fling she had with Vaderung(and not just her "negotiating quite vigorously" I think were her words?)?

How much do you guys think that plays into the theory?

"beginning and end?" Like... The alpha and the omega, perhaps?

Yes, it's a butt pull... but I kinda like this theory. So, have some more "evidence" as support, free of charge.

And, hey. If Dresden can be Kemmler and Merlin(both theories I've seen in various places), why not Jesus, too?

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yea, but I'd they know what a starborn does, and is immune to Nemesis then It creates whole host of other issues, why be afraid he went warlock in the first place? Why would Morgan even think he might be a Nemesis puppet unless he was totally ignorant of starborn? Idk, something ain't adding up... Plus we don't understand why Harry was meant to be a capital D Destroyer... This just makes more questions for me than answers... I really feel like Harry shouldn't have interrupted EB talking about starborn, there's more to it than what was said for sure. Feel like Jim gave us a piece to chew on but it's a misdirection... "Lookest thou over there!" And all

That inconsistency could be an implication that Eb is Nemfected...

Yet more support for that theory...