Wizard by Trade (collective work) (edit title/settings)

Characters edit see section history

• Harry Dresden: Wizard and private investigator; an honorable man who often gets into trouble because of his maverick ways.
• Detective Karen Murphy: The head of the Chicago police department which deals with "supernatural phenomenon"; more aware than most non-magical mortals about things that go bump in the night
• Elaine Mallory: Dresden's childhood companion and first girlfriend; the emissary of the Summer Sidhe and a Wizard
• Billy Borden: A werewolf Harry met in a former adventure; looks up to Harry and tries to look out for him.
• Toot-toot: A dewdrop faerie of the wyldfae, who provides information and other assistance.
• Mab: Queen of Air and Darkness. Monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe.
• Lea: Harry's fairy godmother who sold his bond to Mab, the Winter Queen, and is also the second most powerful being in the Winter Court.
• Ebenezar McCoy: A senior member of the White Council and Harry's former mentor. Tries to shield him from the politics of the Council.
• Listens to Wind: A member of the Senior Wizard's Council.
• Morgan: A Warden and agent of the Merlin; deeply hostile to Harry whom he considers a dangerous maverick.
• Rashid the 'Gatekeeper': An enigmatic member of the Senior Wizard Council.
• Bob: Spirit that resides in a skull at Harry's work room.
• Johnny Marcone: Head of organized crime in Chicago
• Michael Carpenter: Knight of the Cross and Harry's friend
• Charity Carpenter: Michael's wife
• Molly Carpenter: Michael and Charity's daughter
• Father Forthill: Priest
• Thomas Raith: White Court vampire
• Don Paolo Ortega: Duke of the Red Court vampires
• Shiro Yoshimo: Knight of the Cross, who bears the sword Fidelacchus
• Sanya: Knight of the Cross, who bears the sword Esperacchius
• The Archive: Embodiment of all human knowledge (aka Ivy)
• Nicodemus: Leader of the Denarians
• Jared Kincaid: The Archive's bodyguard and driver
• Lasciel: A Denarian, the Temptress
• Hendricks: Right hand enforcer to Chicago crime lord Johnny Marcone
• Waldo Butters: Medical examiner

Quotes edit see section history

• “Here’s where I ask why don’t you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.”

• “I caught it, stuck my tongue out at Aurora, yelled, “Meep, meep!” and ran like hell.”

• “And the fae have a way of making sure that further bargains only get you in deeper, instead of into the clear. Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there’s evil for you.”

• “She was also mad. Loopy as a crochet convention.”

• “The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell. “I don’t believe in faeries!””

• “I wanted to kick myself. Somewhere out there was a village I’d deprived of its idiot.”

• “I was scared. Not in that half-pleasant adrenaline-charged way, but quietly scared. Wait-on-the-results-of-medical-tests scared. It’s a rational sort of fear that puts a lawn chair down in the front of your thoughts and brings a cooler of drinks along with it.”

• “As I pulled into the parking lot, I reflected that odds were that not a lot of clandestine meetings involving mystical assassination, theft of arcane power, and the balance of power in the realms of the supernatural had taken place in a Wal-Mart Super Center. But then again, maybe they had. Hell, for all I knew, the Mole Men used the changing rooms as a place to discuss plans for world domination with the Psychic Jellyfish from Planet X and the Disembodied Brains-in-a-Jar from the Klaatuu Nebula. I know I wouldn’t have looked for them there.”

• “Maybe I’d been shut away in my lab too long, but Spenser never mentions that the Faerie Queen has a great ass. So I notice these things. So sue me.”

• “Elvii?' Marcone inquired.'The plural could be Elvises, I guess,' I said. 'But if I say that too often, I start muttering to myself and calling things "my precious," so I usually go with the Latin plural.”

• “My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.”

• “Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.”

• “I wouldn’t burden any decent system of faith by participating in it.”

• “The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.”

• “Compassion dictates that we must make allowances. Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.”

• “No trouble,” he said. “Sleep is god. Go worship.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Chicago

Organizations edit see section history

• White Council: Add a description of this organization.
• Denarians

First Sentence edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Jim Butcher (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Notes for Parents edit see section history

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Magic & Wizards
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Urban
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › Series

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Jim Butcher: Author's website

Movie Connections edit see section history

• The Dresden Files (IMDb): TV Show

More Books Like This edit see section history

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history