let's talk about all of the continuity
errors in peace talks
continuity errors and spelling mistakes
and everything because
there are a lot of them and the first
time i read the book i was pretty
annoyed
when i read these continuity errors
because i had just read
through the series everything was very
fresh in my mind i was like wait
that's not how that was that's not how
that was that's not how that was
it but then online i came across
the wonderful dresden files reddit where
Priscella
the master of the betas and keeper of
the timelines
said that for several of these little
mistakes the betas actually caught it
told the author jim butcher and then
he left it in now there's two reasons
that he would have left these in
one it's just he had a rush deadline he
neglected to fix it he wanted to but he
didn't but two these are all
purposeful clues to a future mystery
so let's explore all of these
mistakes as if they are all clues
because hey
why not it's super fun interesting point
number one this isn't completely a
mistake but like
it's interesting is at the beginning of
the book ramirez goes
and tells harry hey ebenezer told me to
tell you that the peace talks are
happening also i want you to be on the
security team but then when harry says
hey i'm on the security team
ebenezer is surprised so
there are lots of ways that this can be
explained and the easiest one
is ramirez just didn't tell ebenezer
that he was going to ask harry to be on
the security team
but we're not here for easy we're here
for fun so
here are some alternate explanations for
why this is happening
one the ebenezer in harry's apartment
is a time traveler and probably a
different version of ebenezer than the
one that ramirez talked to
two this version of ebenezer
is evil now this has various sub
sections like
he's evil because he just chose to be
evil he's evil because he's gone crazy
due to black magic
he's evil because he's been infected but
whatever the case
he is now working for the evil team and
is actively lying here
option three ebb is only acting
surprised
he actually knew all along but he wants
to
make harry think that he didn't know and
four ramirez is evil this also falls
into subcategories of
evil because he wants to be evil and he
will be evil because he's an infected
the funnest part about all these
different theories is that they all
kind of explain it on their own but they
can also be combined
so for example ramirez just being evil
ramirez is conning harry
ebenezer never actually asked ramirez
to tell harry things and ramirez is just
name-dropping to get harry to trust him
more
but if we assume that ramirez is lying
and that he and mccoy never talked
well then we can also assume that
ebenezer is actually actively spying on
harry and ramirez because he already
knew that ramirez had told harry about
the peace talks
alternatively if both ramirez and
ebenezer are evil
and ebenezer knows about ramirez's plans
we can assume that they're working
together on some evil conspiracy
however if we assume that ebenezer is
genuinely surprised here and he doesn't
know however they're both still
evil well then they're working for
different evil teams one of them is
working for
the black council and the other one is
working for nemesis
and which one is which who knows they're
both fun
ebenezer is evil and also traveling back
in time and maybe from the timeline he's
in
harry saved the day from the fomor and
he wants to get harry out of chicago
so that harry doesn't interfere on the
full mars plans which is why he starts
talking about harry you have to go
to defend your wizard status maybe he's
engineered this whole thing
and then he's genuinely surprised and
upset when harry can't leave because
ramirez has this
other plan alternatively if
ebenezer knew the entire time that harry
wouldn't leave because he knew ramirez's
plan it was only acting surprised that
means that he wants
harry off the white council and he's
only playing harry trying to seem like
he's his ally
but if ebb isn't evil his motivation is
probably more about
trying to warn harry off the wamps like
he
really believes that harry is going to
die because of this maybe because he's a
time traveler and actually knows that
harry's gonna die lara will betray him
ebenezer is from the future he knows
everything and he also knows that
that ramirez is evil so if ebenezer
isn't evil
his hint about someone will betray you
is trying to hint at ramirez but he
can't say it all right because paradoxes
etc okay mistake number
two which is more of a legitimate
mistake this one is so fun
so at one point in the book sagna is
written
santa and probably just a spelling error
but it's so fun to think this is
definitely foreshadowing
so if sonja becomes santa well that's
actually possible he can take on the
mantle of kris kringle
sonia has already shown to be a symbol
of hope
lover of laughter like him santa
fits right together also when harry
became the winter knight sonia was
pretty chill about it so
he probably probably also be okay with
joining winter himself okay
probably the most glaring error is when
harry goes into the brighter future
society and he's like huh this is so
cool i haven't been here since i was a
ghost
which is exactly what he said at the end
of skin game
where he went there not as a ghost so
apparently harry believes that he has
two first times since he was a ghost
entering the brighter future society
easy explanation
mab has taken his memory of the first
time he went to the brighter future
society not all of it because he still
remembers giving the where guild to
marcon
but enough of it that he doesn't
remember entering the building maybe
because he saw her
and marcone plodding in there right
mav wants to hide that so map and marcon
are definitely up to some shady business
okay next number three the handshake
ink tracing this is the one that i
didn't catch the first time
but like on a reread it makes no sense
so
at one point ramirez tracks harry down
an explanation is ramirez had
some ink on his pinky and he shook hands
with harry and harry got it on his wrist
right and that like attracts
however there are some issues here the
biggest issue
is that ramirez and harry never shook
hands
they fist bumped how do you get ink on
someone's wrist with a fist bump
i guess it's possible
but even if ramirez managed to do like a
beautiful job at getting the ink from
his
pinky onto dresden's wrist dresden
washes his hands i assume but we
actually have
at least two canonical times between
the fist bump and the tracking where
harry
like completely washes one he takes a
very long shower
two butters thoroughly cleans his hands
so you'd think that all that water would
wash away both the ink
and the magic because even if it's super
permanent ink and it doesn't get washed
off like the magical trace is going to
get washed off and then you won't be
able to use it to track him right
the best explanation for this is just
like
harry's ink on ramirez at the end of the
book it is
all a misdirection ramirez didn't
actually track harry down using this ink
and you know how i think this
how in the world did ramirez find harry
at the beginning of the book
right harry is on the beach at like five
in the morning
four in the morning running with his
brother they took his brother's car
so ramirez isn't tracking the monster
mobile
how did ramirez find them did he like
ask around at the embassy
at 4am like hey where's harry dresden
they're like oh he's probably out at
that beach again like i guess that's
possible but why would you go at 4am
like obviously dresden's probably
sleeping
can't you just wait a few hours right
ramirez must have a different way to
track harry maybe he has a sample of his
dna hair blood etc or maybe there's
something else nefarious going on like
ramirez is a time traveler and he knows
where harry is because he knows where
he's going to be
okay number four conjuritis
this in itself isn't really a plot error
i guess i have never mentioned it before
but that's okay it was kind of fun
but the problem is its name right
because this is a wizard disease
it is obviously named by wizards wizards
are huge
latin nerds as previously part of the
canon
totally latin nerds so we can assume
that conjuritis you know it literally
means
inflammation of the conjurer
right like it would make more sense if
they said something like hyper
conjure or something where you're
conjuring too much but no
it's inflammation of the conjure so
contour is obviously some sort of wizard
organ
similar to the way that like the third
eye the sight
is like a wizard organ right and it can
get inflamed and it usually happens as
your powers are developing
i guess uncontrollable conjuring just
happens sometimes when your conjurer
gets inflamed you know got all infected
by all those
puberty feelings maybe all of his
feelings are just infecting his conjurer
and then
there you go hopefully harry learns to
control it because that would be an
awesome power up he does that a little
bit with the bucket
we'll see five is a super theory that
explains
almost all of the mistakes in the book
and this
is time travel so harry
will time travel in a future book maybe
the next book
this works really really well with the
hounds of tindelos the cornerhounds that
show up because the hounds of tindelos
the cornerhounds
are from the lovecraftian universe
and canonically they hunt
time travelers and can time travel
that's like
their whole thing now jim butcher could
have
picked any monster for them to fight and
the fight would have played out about
the same
however it's the corner house which
heavily
heavily suggests that either harry or
ebenezer or both
are time travelers so let's say harry
next book jumps around in time and
what we're seeing now is the shock waves
of the ramifications of his time travel
for example at some point after butter's
cleaning his hands and ramirez tracking
harry down
near the wraith manor they shook hands
but then when harry went back in time
he changed that and then it didn't
happen so in our version of the book we
have this
temporal shock wave where ramirez
and harry never show hands but maybe in
the original timeline they did
and we're seeing all of these little
things these little inconsistencies
because
of this temporal shock wave which is
making little changes but not changing
everything yet
this also would explain the first trip
to the
brighter future society that maybe the
other trip never happened
in the new timeline it's mentioned that
the last
dragon that was killed was at tangaska
but that contradicts the cannon because
michael
actually slayed the last dragon but then
um
ebenezer took credit for tunguska so
contradiction there not a contradiction
if because of the time travel
michael never slayed the dragon which is
kind of sad because i would like rip
apart the entire carpenter family
um it mentions that he has a copper
summoning circle but at the time that
his lab burned down it was a braided
summoning circle um at one point the
plaque on the brighter future society
says better future society
and he mentions that he didn't have any
sandpaper when he was making a staff but
also he mentioned in skin game that he
did have sandpaper when he was making a
staff
and many more i'm sure there are so many
errors in this book that i didn't even
talk about and i know there are
links in the doobly-doo for awesome
discussions on this
on the paranet forum and on reddit
because i didn't pick up on all of these
i didn't come up with every explanation
here
links to everything because there are
some really smart people out there doing
awesome resident things
what do you guys think what are all
their awesome theories we can make from
these little inconsistent
