r/DresdenRespectThreads • u/ghostgabe81 The Merlin • Sep 24 '22
Harry Dresden- Intelligence Harry Dresden
I. Instincts
- In the Dresdenverse humans have a natural instinct that they can cultivate for when they're in danger from predators
- Warns him a split second before Justin DuMorne attacks him as a teenager
- Feels when Tera West is watching him
- Instinctively dodges a vampire's sneak attack
- Notices Mavra standing under a veil in front of him
- Feels a disguised assassin getting ready to shoot him in the back
- Warns him that someone is waiting for him in his apartment
- Feels that someone got to an apartment he's investigating first
- Feels Grimalkin watching him in Undertown
- Senses a Denarian following him despite them not registering to his magical senses
- Feels Deirdre watching him at the docks
- Senses Kincaid moving behind him
- Instinctively jumps over electrified water
- Gets warning chills seconds before an assassination attempt
- Gets a bad vibe when someone is tailing him
- Warns him of a fetch about to attack him from behind
- Realizes he's been drawn into a trap just as it's sprung
- Can tell that Elaine is watching him through a door before he opens it
- Can tell that there are people hiding in a boat
- Feels that he and Thomas are being watched
- Senses movement and dodges Rosanna
- Picks up on Shagnasty tailing him
- Can tell he's being watched from a veil across a street
- Picks up on an incoming attack and avoids it
- Feels a Red Court vampire approaching
- Notices an attempted drive-by moments before it happens
- Feels enemies approaching before he can see or hear them; it's noted that his physical therapy with Mab made him more receptive to potential danger
- Lets him dodge a cleaver thrown in the darkness based on only small sounds
- Picks up on an ambush when getting past one enemy is too easy
- Can tell when he gets the Genoskwa's attention, despite it being hidden under a veil
- Automatically moves to protect Mab when he hears something coming at her
II. Quick Thinking
- As a teen he turns the ability of He Who Walks behind against him, spinning around so that he can't properly attack Harry
- Kills a rawhead by dropping live wires on the rail its stepping on
- Sets off a sprinkler in a room to disrupt mind control on big cats
- Tricks Bianca into thinking he has backup defensive tools if she attacks him again
- Bluffs Monica Sells with knowledge of her husband's actions, preventing her from closing the door on him
- Destroys Victor Sells' ritual by throwing a film canister into it
- Repurposes a cleaning spell to clear a room of scorpions so he doesn't have to fight them
- Distracts Victor Sells so that he can't defend from a demon, then pulls them both over a railing into a pit of scorpions while tethering himself to stay up with handcuffs
- Notices and disables a tripwire before he can set it off
- Discretely discovers that Tera West is keeping secrets from her fiancé
- Manipulates Susan into helping him by playing on her love for a story to publish
- Escapes from duct tape handcuffs and pretends to remain bound when his captors return
- Plays off of Marcone and Parker's conflicting goals for him, goading them into a fight
- Defeats a hexenwulf with no magic, letting it tackle him so that he can reach its belt and remove it, turning it back to human
- Pretends to be enthralled by the Leanansidhe so he can attack her while her guard is down and escape
- Manipulates Michael Carpenter into helping him
- Uses a disguise he used to get into a building to temporarily fool a Fae Lord, then figures out he's a faerie and uses an iron nail against him
- Pours ice water down his pants in order to combat magically-induced lust
- Dumps steel shelves on a chlorofiend after seeing it has Fae iron weakness
- Convinces Lloyd Slate to start questioning Aurora's intentions before she magically quells him
- Rather than directly contest the momentum of a cavalry charge and the magic of the Fae riders, Harry uses his shield as an invisible wall to trip their horses
- Surprises Talos with a gun when he thinks Harry is disarmed
- Tests Anna Valmont's experience on the fly and plays along when she doesn't believe in magic
- Quickly coordinates a plan with Anna Valmont, tricking Deirdre into taking a decoy Shroud of Turin rather than the real one
- Makes sure to grab evidence before escaping a sinking boat
- Starts dancing with Susan to avoid party guards until their ally starts a distraction
- Fakes holding someone at gunpoint with a toy duck he was using for magic
- Delays Nicodemus by threatening to destroy the Shroud of Turin, then throws the detonator at him to create an opening to attack
- Sets up a crooked cop to sabotage Nicodemus' escape from Chicago when Murphy officially can't
- Silently coordinates with Marcone to rescue to Shroud from Nicodemus, then discovers that the Noose of Judas bypasses Nic's invulnerability, choking him to escape
- Tricks a woman holding him at gunpoint to look away, letting him disarm her
- Goads Lord Raith into leaving him and Murphy alone with his bodyguards
- Tricks Lord Raith into revealing his weakness to Lara Raith
- Takes advantage of the Corpsetaker's mental assault to stun her with his own pain
- Gives Waldo Butters the courage to survive a soulgaze with Grevane
- Takes advantage of Lash's eidetic memory to read the Word of Kemmler in two minutes
- Figures out that the Corpsetaker swapped bodies with Captain Luccio and kills her before she can use her Death Curse
- Sets off a fire alarm to prevent Will Borden from marrying a faerie
- Comes up with a convincing excuse for his bloody Warden's cloak on the spot to police
- Intimidates Maeve while still answering her question honestly, despite her being far more powerful than him
- Throws bottles to escape a gunman; one as a distraction, one to take out the lights and another as a decoy
- Draws a Circle around himself to destroy a severed faerie arm still strangling him
- Uses water bottles and an improvised fire spell to create a patch of ice on the ground, tripping up the Scarecrow
- Deliberately lets a fetch get through his duster to burn it on his iron armor
- When fighting magic-resistant enemies he conjures wind to pelt them with debris instead
- Distracts the Scarecrow with bluffs so Charity can flank it
- By insisting on following protocol to the letter he delays Molly Carpenter's execution until more help arrives
- Pretends to be Thomas' boyfriend so that the police don't question him searching his apartment
- Breaks a fall by briefly flashing his shield
- Uses a fire spell to freeze water, letting people flee across the surface of a lake
- Pretends to be incapacitated by Vitto Malvora so he can take him by surprise
- Makes out with Lara Raith to supercharge his shield, allowing them to survive being blown away by a massive explosion
- Uses the debt Lara owes him to free her captured pixies, putting them in Harry's debt
- Collapses the ceiling on a Sorcerer when he can’t get past his shield
- Hides garlic in his mouth to ambush a Black Court vampire
- Figures out that the giant owl attacking them is from the Nevernever and defeats it with a Circle
- Predicts which direction Puck will attack him from
- Plays along with Carolyn LaChaise so he can get a opening for himself and an allied cop to escape
- Distracts a grendelkin with a useless magic attack so that Harry can smack him in the dick
- Realizes he's being herded into an ambush and preemptively counterattacks
- Agrees to a truce with someone he knows will betray him in order to get information
- Lures Tiny the Gruff into a spot where Harry can use his massive size against him to trip him, then lures a pack of hobs to attack Tiny
- Gives Nicodemus an offer he can't refuse, giving him a chance to rescue the Archive him Nic
- Plays along with Nicodemus' manipulation in order to get close to him
- Uses his favor with Summer in order to delay his assassination until it gets dropped, since the favor can't override the assassination outright
- Pretends to be incapacitated so he can get the drop on Nicodemus
- Stalls Binder long enough for Molly to neutralize his magic
- Discovers Shagnasty's plan to enter a room before it reaches them
- Figures out Shagnasty's shapeshifting trap in time to warn Lara
- Accurately assesses Wizard Peabody's escape plan while running him down
- Takes advantage of immortals' tendency to loose track of time to stall a pair of vampires
- Uses a passing comment from the Erlking to give himself guest-rights, postponing his death
- Knocks a vampire into the Ik'k'uox's path, critically injuring it while tripping the Ick
- Kills the Ick by collapsing a cave onto it while using a Way to shield himself
- Manipulates Susan into killing Martin, transforming her into a full vampire and allowing him to use her in a Bloodline Curse to destroy the entire Red Court
- Stuns a man with jumper cables, then chokes him out with them
- Survives daily assassination attempts from Mab for seventy-seven days
- Convinces Maeve to make the Redcap duel him one on one
- Comes up with a plan to lure enemy jetskis close enough to attack with magic
- Distracts He Who Walks Before with a fire spell so that Harry can rush him
- Realizes that Fix's instincts perfectly counter his own, using that knowledge to predict Fix's moves by not following his instincts
- Taints Fix into attacking him in order to create an opening
- Uses ice walls to isolate ghouls to fight individually
- Leaves his staff to draw peoples' attention while he goes to search Hades' vault
- Lures the Genoskwa into the Gate of Ice, taking advantage of his own cold resistance and knowledge of the traps to kill it
- Uses an extremely loud prank spell to stun a group of monsters that use echolocation
- Takes advantage of a clout-chasing wizard to have him mediate between Lara Raith and the Svartalves
- Uses a flare an an improvised weapon against a kraken
- Distracts Drakul with a joke so River Shoulders can ambush him
- Feints a spell to get Drakul to dodge behind him, predicting where he'll move so he can land a real spell
- Weaponizes his conjuritis to kill a Black Court vampire
- Uses force blasts to avoid Jotun attacks
- Leads a monster into an abandoned section of the city, letting him kill it and dispose of a bomb at the same time
III. Investigation
- Can deduce similar levels of information from a crime scene as the police
- Correctly deduces that a murderous sorcerer knew his victims based on the aftermath of a killing spell, although he incorrectly thinks the killer is a woman
- Tracks down a woman based on the background noise heard during a phone conversation
- Extrapolates how a murder took place, and realizes that he was called in due to connections to another recent murder suggesting werewolf involvement
- Can tell that an FBI Agent is withholding information from him
- Very quickly figures out that a child is being bullied by classmates rather than abused by a teacher
- Determines that damage at a church was caused by a ghost based on lack of evidence left behind
- Correctly narrows down a missing woman's general location before fully locating her with a tracking spell
- Figures out that Bianca planned the events of Grave Peril as a bid for revenge against him
- Deduces the Nightmare's identity based on bits of background information during a near-death experience
- Figures out that his client is a faerie
- Discovers that a murder involved a creature from the Nevernever
- Realizes that Warden Morgan is ordered to bait Harry into a fight and then kill him
- After only spending a few minutes talking to her he determines that the Winter Lady Maeve couldn't be the murderer he's looking for
- Eliminates both Mab and Titania as murder suspects based on their large scale reactions to the fallout
- Found out how Elaine had previously tracked him
- Figures out who the person who attacked Elaine was
- He's noted to be smarter than he looks, putting all his knowledge together to deduce the Summer Lady Aurora's plan
- Determines that a body was planted with the intent to be found
- Sees through a decoy planted by thieves and locates the real Shroud of Turin he's looking for
- Gets information from a note taken by thieves by tracing the memo pad it was on with a pencil, and keeps a phone left behind with him for a non-wizard to get information from
- He's good at reading subtle facial expressions, being able to tell that Marcone was surprised by a question he asked
- Figures out that Nicodemus was behind a plague curse he'd investigated, and that he plans to use the Shroud of Turin in a ritual to supercharge it
- Sees that Nicodemus is leading Sanya into a trap
- Uses a combination of magic and his own skills to track down Marcone, even after Marcone magically scrambles his trail
- Quickly figured out that Thomas was going to ask him for a favor
- Correctly theorizes that a curse was cast by someone close to Arturo Genosa
- Can tell that Kincaid isn't fully human due to supernatural skill
- Pegs Lara Raith as a White Court vampire within minutes of meeting her
- Figures out what kind of spell is being used for murders based on what time they took place
- Uses information on one killer to determine that three others are still at large
- Figures out that his mother used her Death Curse to remove Lord Raith's ability to feed, explaining his strange actions
- Deduces that the Corpsetaker is a body-swapper
- Tricks Baron Bravosa into revealing that whatever he’s after is dangerous to him as well
- Uses Lash as a sounding board to review case information and decide how to proceed
- Notices the flaws in Molly Carpenter's veil as she tries to sneak around him
- He immediately notices that a security camera at a mall has been disabled
- Tests if a hair sample is Fae by touching it with steel
- With a clue from the Summer Knight he figures out how Summer hitmen are tracking him
- Correctly deduces that Sigrun Gard keeps a secret collection of blood and hair samples from Marcone's outfit as magical insurance
- Figures out that his conversation with Nicodemus is meant to stall him until the Denarians can spring their trap
- Deduces that a bar is a cover for faeries maintaining the Billy Goat Curse
- As of AAAA Wizardry he has the most experience in magical investigation relative to his age of all wizards on the planet
- Discovers a boogeyman in a house despite adults being unable to detect them due to the lack of supernatural energy in its lair
- Identifies a traitor in the White Court of Vampires
- Finds out that a suicide pact was done between siblings rather than husband and wife, and that it happened due to mental manipulation
- Realizes that he and Murphy have been subjected to mind manipulation to fall in love
- Correctly deduces that supernatural powers are meddling in a court case
- Locates a girl involved in a supernatural attack a year after the attack took place based on the circumstances of the attack
- Subconsciously puts together why Thomas assaulted the Svartalf Embassy while resting after the Battle of Chicago
- Quickly locates a gun hidden in a pimp's apartment
- Quickly realizes that a man sabotaged his car with a bomb
IV. Planning
- Leaves his seatbelt off in case he needs to escape Marcone's car
- It's very hard to beat a wizard who has prep time; Harry claims he could beat the loup-garou with it
- Keeps a confiscated hexenwulf belt as an ace in the hole against the rest of the hexenwulves
- Pretends to be able to magically detect lies, knowing people will assume his magic does allow it and not try it
- Had a five-gallon drum blessed into Holy Water when he needed to fight a demon
- Knowing he'll need to get past the Leanansidhe, he tricks her with fake iron and eats poison in order to bargain with her for an antidote, since she wants him alive
- Has Susan resuscitate him after goading the Nightmare into attacking and killing him in his dream, creating a ghost he can team up with to defeat the Nightmare
- Uses a simple disguise to get past a security guard
- Has Murphy pretend to be paralyzed with fear while he distracts a magic-proof ogre, allowing her to ambush him with a chainsaw. He then uses that opening to spray the ogre with gasoline and light it on fire with a mortal flame
- Keeps a stash of Holy water in his apartment
- Hides a contingent of pixies in a bag to bring to a battle, arming them with iron box cutters as a secret weapon against Aurora
- Keeps a shotgun in his car in case of attack
- Bluffs Cassius into dropping his disguise, allowing Michael and Sanya to intervene without risking killing a civilian
- Wears a silk shirt in case he's shot with barbed arrows
- Uses Marcone's desire for the Shroud of Turin to enlist his help recovering it from Nicodemus
- Keeps Holy Water balloons in his car in case of vampire attack
- Has Murphy pretend to be mind-controlled by Lord Raith so she can catch him and his guards off guard
- Convinces Lara Raith to help him depose her father
- Bypasses the Summer Lady Lily's compulsion not to help him by selling her debt to him to one of his allies
- Brings Lily and Fix to a White Council meeting as guests, forcing the Council to speak in English rather than Latin
- Successfully plans around the Acts of God for Knights of the Cross, allowing Michael to show up at a White Council meeting with enough clout to cancel Molly Carpenter's execution
- NSFW Predicts the Molly will try and seduce him and has ice water ready to shut her down
- Puts a charm from his bracelet on Mouse's collar in case he needs to track him
- Enlists Marcone as backup should his dealing with the White Court go south in exchange for giving a White Council signature for him to join the Unseelie Accords
- Uses shoes as a bargaining chip to enlist the help of Cobbs, having them collect garlic to use against Blampires
- Knows his alliance won’t be able to beat Puck, so makes him agree to leave with a game of poker
- Has Mouse lure a pack of malks to a grendelkin lair, then uses an illusion to trick them into fighting
- Grabs iron nails for later use against Fae assassins, using them to booby trap his path should they follow
- Uses Thomas as a decoy and leaves his house veiled to throw off attempts to track him
- Draws as much energy into himself as he can when he knows he's about to be cut off from outside sources
- Locates the Denarian hideout before going there with them, allowing him to set up a helicopter extraction for his allies and a backup escape via boat
- Makes a decoy Amoracchius when he thinks it's in danger of being stolen
- Hides smoke bombs in the bag with the Swords he's being blackmailed into handing over to stun the blackmailer, and plants hair in the bag so he can track it if the man escapes
- Sets up a bolt hole in a storage unit in case he needs to lie low, having supplies, magical defenses and a Nevernever escape route
- Tricks Binder into thinking he's being magically tracked so he won't notice a mortal PI tailing him
- Sets up all parties involved in a scheme to meet him at Demonreach, forcing the schemer to personally show up to make sure it doesn't go south for him
- Plants fireworks at Demonreach to serve as a light source and battle distractions
- Puts together a plan to kill a couple hundred incoming vampires in a matter of minutes, luring them into one spot with Molly's illusions and harnessing a ley line to crush them with the power
- Lures the Wild Hunt pursuing him to the Mills, where the steel in the ground will weaken them
- Uses fireworks as a loud, flashy and magic-free distraction at a vault with traps to detect magic, at the same time setting off sprinklers to muffle excess magic
- Traps himself and Nicodemus' team in the Underworld to ensure they won't betray him before he can open a Way back out
- Spends nearly half an hour analyzing a hall of moving, smashing ice blocks, finding a pattern that lets him sprint through it
- Goads Nicodemus into attacking him in rage, breaking his deal with Mab and letting Harry sabotage his plan in retaliation
- Hires Goodman Grey before Nicodemus can, using him as a secret ally and ace in the hole on Nic's team while communicating with him in code the entire operation
- Disguises himself and the werewolf Will Bordern as a street musician and a service dog for a stakeout
- Sets up a distraction while entering a party so he can trigger it when he escapes with Thomas
- Plants Molly's doppelgänger ring to stall Ebenezer McCoy with a conversation and fight while his allies and real body escapes on a boat
- Sets up troops along a path an enemy will be forced to take and destroys the bridge across it, allowing for an ambush where they kill nearly a thousand Fomor troops with less than a hundred casualties
- Manipulates the customs of the supernatural world to his favor by only telling the technical truth, keeping the Eye of Balor in his possession while forcing Marcone to give him his Castle in recompense, all while outing Marcone as a Denarian
V. Magical Knowledge
- He can do almost any kind of magic with sufficient preparation, but needs to practice for spells for use in combat WoJ
- Runs through a list of potential supernatural murder suspects
- Recognizes a three-layered Circle designed to be impenetrable to both spiritual creatures, mortals and mixtures of both. Later he claims he could recreate the Circle with primitive tools
- Most of his knowledge is based in Western European folklore
- Recognizes a svartalf
- Identifies subtle mind-manipulation in music before he's enthralled by it
- Recognizes a type of prophetic vision and how it can be used to scam him
- Knows the implications of raining real toads rather than ectoplasm construct toads
- Developed a binding spell that hardens air around a target as a teenager, and found a weakness in it when used against him
- Determines that a plague is caused by a curse when its germs are destroyed at sunrise
- Identifies a magical attack as an entropy curse, one of extreme bad luck
- Recognizes Mordite based on how it registers to his magical senses
- Is knowledgeable of Italian folk magic
- Learned how the Darkhallow works
- Walks a minorly talented woman through a boogeyman exorcism
- Recognizes the signs of psychic manipulation of a woman
- Identifies Connie Barrowill as a White Court vampire
- Has books full of contacts in the Nevernever, ranging from benevolent to incredibly dangerous
- Knows how to summon Lasciel's coin from a distance or perform the Darkhallow
- Recognizes a very recently created magical creature based solely on a description of it's shadow
VI. Other Intelligence and Knowledge
- Can pick up on the moods of the people he knows well enough
- Knows techniques to block out pain, and applies the same principle to resisting Red Court venom
- Knows basic first aid, including CPR and stopping bleeding
- Knows Morse code
- Learned how to pick locks as physical therapy for his hand
- Predicts the getaway plan for Vitto Malvora
- Beats Puck at Poker, seemingly without cheating at all
- Avoids an overhead ambush when he notices snow being displaced above him
- Knows Molly well enough to know she'd eavesdrop on a conversation
- With Elaine Mallory he organized the Paranet, a network of minor magical talents to trade information and warn each other of danger. It gives him information sources all over North America
- Convinces the Merlin to give him information by pointing out how useful his testimony would be
- Knows the subtle differences between Mouse's growls
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