Dresden Files info for those who apparently missed it.
Harry Dresden is the only Wizard in the chicago yellow pages.
He doesn't do birthday parties or love potions.
Sort of like film-noir meets supernatural the tv series.
Wizards have a secret society, except its a lot more "old world" than the potterverse. Demons and Fae are running around, and neither are a laughing matter.
The High Councilact a lot more like the Jedi Council and less like ministry/government officials. There are the laws of magic.
(Killing with magic is bad, drawing power from death/darkness is bad, using magic against a human is bad)
Oh, and if you're bad? You get a nice shiny trial right before they chop your head off.
First Dresden book starts off with Harry trying to make a living and get along without triggering the hair trigger of an executioner.
You see, he killed his first teacher with black magic, you see. Hes only walking around because there was the extenuating circumstance that said teacher was trying to devour his immortal soul at the time.
So, he get a begrudged second change. They held off on executing him. But they let him now that any more screwups and he was a dead man.
Anyways: parts relevant to the particular potter crossover:
The Denarians are 30 Fallen angels, imprisoned in ancient silver coins. Anyone who bears one of those coins gets an instant magical and mental connection directly with said angel. Sometimes the angel subsumes the soul of the bearer, sometimes not.
Nicodemus is a long-time bearer who intends to bring about the apocalypse as soon as possible, not all the Denarians agree, but enough do that he is not to be trifled with.
The Order have a number of swords blessed with angelic might, and are the closest things to mortals that can actually stand up to them. Michael Carpenter is one of them. It has been revealed in some of the Dresden books that most of the other swords the order uses have been reforged at least once, except his.
Despite that, the order did lose track of it for some time in the dark ages, in England. His sword might very well be Excalibur.
Recc:
The Dresden Files are excellant mind candy, not great literature, but always a good read.
Harry Dresden is the only Wizard in the chicago yellow pages.
He doesn't do birthday parties or love potions.
Sort of like film-noir meets supernatural the tv series.
Wizards have a secret society, except its a lot more "old world" than the potterverse. Demons and Fae are running around, and neither are a laughing matter.
The High Councilact a lot more like the Jedi Council and less like ministry/government officials. There are the laws of magic.
(Killing with magic is bad, drawing power from death/darkness is bad, using magic against a human is bad)
Oh, and if you're bad? You get a nice shiny trial right before they chop your head off.
First Dresden book starts off with Harry trying to make a living and get along without triggering the hair trigger of an executioner.
You see, he killed his first teacher with black magic, you see. Hes only walking around because there was the extenuating circumstance that said teacher was trying to devour his immortal soul at the time.
So, he get a begrudged second change. They held off on executing him. But they let him now that any more screwups and he was a dead man.
Anyways: parts relevant to the particular potter crossover:
The Denarians are 30 Fallen angels, imprisoned in ancient silver coins. Anyone who bears one of those coins gets an instant magical and mental connection directly with said angel. Sometimes the angel subsumes the soul of the bearer, sometimes not.
Nicodemus is a long-time bearer who intends to bring about the apocalypse as soon as possible, not all the Denarians agree, but enough do that he is not to be trifled with.
The Order have a number of swords blessed with angelic might, and are the closest things to mortals that can actually stand up to them. Michael Carpenter is one of them. It has been revealed in some of the Dresden books that most of the other swords the order uses have been reforged at least once, except his.
Despite that, the order did lose track of it for some time in the dark ages, in England. His sword might very well be Excalibur.
Recc:
The Dresden Files are excellant mind candy, not great literature, but always a good read.