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Created on 2007-12-28 20:40:25 (#14549632), last updated 2008-02-04
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Basic Info| Name: | Harry Dresden |
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| Birthdate: | 1967-12-28 |
BioThis LJ is for RPing the TV version of Harry Dresden based on the SCIFI series. It is not based on book Harry, because that would be blasphemy. I could never dream of doing justice to Jim Butcher's incredible character.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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black court, bob, bob the skull, chicago, dresden files, harry dresden, jim butcher, magic, paul blackthorne, red court, role playing, urban fantasy, white court, wizards
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