“What you’re asking me to help you do is an abomination Harry.” Bob’s voice was filled with more anger than I’d ever heard. His spectral hands were shaking as he stomped across the work room his feet making no sound at all. “I can’t be asked to show you that spell. I won’t be asked to do it.”

“Bob,” I let out a ragged sigh. We’d been arguing for hours now if not days about the spell. “It’s the only way I can come up with the help Selene.”

“Why help her at all. She’s a vampire Harry. You’re going to use a curse like that to help a vampire. If you do it, you’re no better than your uncle.”

Now that stung. I hated it when he said I was acting like Justin. “It’s not as if I’m trying to bind a good guy’s soul to the skull. He was a monster. He’s also the only one who can stop his brother. When Marcus is done with the vampires, he’s going to go after the humans. You know it. I know it. Selene knows it. You’re not the only way for me to do this Bob. But you’re the way I trust.”

“Do you know that it’s like Harry? Can you imagine what it’s been like for me to be trapped like this?” Bob stopped pacing and stared at me with those intense blue eyes over the top of the rune carved skull that held his mind and soul for eternity. “How many masters I’ve had to serve that weren’t as noble as you?”

“I know Bob. You’ve told me about stuff.”

“I have only scratched at the surface Harry Dresden. I haven’t told you a tenth of what I’ve seen or been forced to do by my masters. Don’t make me do this Harry.” He looked like he was either going to cry or kill me. I was very lucky he couldn’t touch the real world or anyone in it. “Please.”

“We have to do this Bob. I need to bind William’s soul to his skull or find some other way to bring him back to stop his brother. Now stop fighting me, and get me the damned spell. That’s an order.”

Bob stood up tall, prim and proper like the great English wizard he once had been, and glared at me one more time. “As you wish. Master.”

Damn, now that fucking hurt. But before I could say another word Bob vanished gone back into the ancient bone that was his prison to find me the spell I needed. Hurt and pissed off, I stomped out of my lab to go get something to eat. I was hungry, and I really had no idea how long it would be before Bob got me what I needed.

As I sat down in the Chinese restaurant down the block from my office, I watched as the won ton chips sank into my hot and sour soup. I was treading dangerous waters here. Bob was right. Cursing William to his skull was nearly necromancy, a violation of the seven laws and the Wardens could take my head for it. But William wasn’t human. He was a lycan. I was splitting hairs, but I had to do something before Marcus decided every human in LA was on the all you can kill buffet.

But the big question was, how did I make sure Marcus didn’t come back again? Could I cast the spell twice and put the two brothers into the skull or some other vessel together for eternity? It was making my head hurt just thinking of it. The only person I could talk to about it was Bob, and he was too pissed at me to have any kind of logical discussion. And I couldn’t blame him. I didn’t want to do the spell either. But if it comes down to me doing a dangerous spell to take out the big bad or me doing nothing, you know I’m going to do the big dangerous spell.

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Name: Harry Dresden
Fandom: The Dresden Files TV
PB: Paul Blackthorne
Alignment: Good
Species: Wizard

His magic foci:
Blasting Rod - a drum stick
Staff - hockey stick
Shield Bracelet - a silver bracelet made of small silver shield shaped links
Pentacle - used like a cross to ward off vampires and in other places when Faith is needed
Bob - enchanted skull that contains the ghost of a great wizard.
Ring - silver ring that collects kinetic energy until it is needed. Sadly it takes a long time to recharge.

Harry is a wizard, who works as a private investigator of sorts in Chicago (he's in the phone book, the only listing under "Wizards"), dealing with paranormal crimes and consulting for the Chicago Police Department. He is named after three different stage magicians — Harry Houdini, Harry Blackstone, Sr., and David Copperfield. This name was given to him by his father, Malcolm Dresden, a stage magician himself, who raised Harry while still performing his magic show all across the country. The stories are told from Harry's point of view in a hardboiled style. For game purposes, we'll say it all takes place in LA instead of Chicago.

Harry is considered a magical "thug," lacking fine control of his power, but is possibly one of the strongest wizards in the world in terms of pure magical strength. He favors fire and wind spells in battle, and he is an expert at tracking spells (which he uses in his investigations) along with summoning and entrapment spells to speak to faeries and other supernatural sources of information. Technology is not Harry's friend. Cell phones, computers and other modern conveniences short circuit and just die when he's around.

Harry's mother, Margaret Gwendolyn LeFay, was a wizard herself, although Harry knew little of her prior to book six. Harry was raised by his father, a stage illusionist, until the age of six, when his father died of a brain aneurysm. He spent some years as a ward of the state before being adopted at ten (shortly after manifesting his magical powers) by Justin DuMorne, a former Warden of the White Council who turned renegade.

Harry's history in the series differed from that of the novels in several significant ways; his father, Malcolm Dresden, did not die from an aneurysm, but was instead murdered by Justin (named Morningway rather than DuMorne, and Harry's biological uncle). Bob is the spirit of a medieval wizard who, in punishment for using black magic to resurrect his life's love, is doomed to spend eternity inside his skull; he can manifest a human appearance outside the skull - but only within a short radius of the skull itself - and must return to the skull when ordered. In "What About Bob?", it is revealed he was also Dresden's primary magical teacher as a child.

Harry wears a magical "shield-bracelet" (rather than a pentacle necklace, which makes an appearance in flashback scenes from "Bad Blood") that once belonged to his mother, and was given to him by his father. As a private investigator, Harry drives a Korean-war-era military Jeep instead of the infamous "Blue Beetle" VW Beetle of the novels (a change made based on actor Blackthorne's height and the difficulty of filming inside a VW Beatle).

According to "Bad Blood," Harry was around 31 when he killed Justin, instead of 16 as in the novels; a Red Court vampire, Bianca, protected Harry while the High Council investigated Morningway's death. The two had a sexual relationship that does not exist in the books.

In the episode "What About Bob?", the events surrounding Justin's death at Dresden's hands are fully revealed: Only five years prior to the series Dresden discovered that Justin, using black magic, was responsible for the death his father. Justin said that he did not kill Harry's mother, but he died before the truth could be divined. Dresden used thaumaturgy - in this case, a voodoo doll of sorts - to attack Justin, who fought back using his own magical ability. In the scuffle, Harry accidentally crushed the voodoo doll, causing Justin to die with a "circle-shaped crushing wound" around his heart.