A death curse is perhaps the most powerful spell that a wizard can cast, at the moment of his death. The series makes a big deal about how raw power is only so useful and what makes you truly powerful as a wizard is finesse and control. It is presumed that Harry will hold the mantle of Winter Knight until he dies, as only with the death of the old knight can a new one be named. I think he might be a lot more powerful, he just doesn't realize/doesn't want to admit it. More.
Control, information, knowledge and foresight. They'd bring the entire White Council and if he decided to fight he'd just say something insulting and then attack.
Harry is effectively a student driver behind the wheel of an 1200hp mustang.
Dresden Files is a FANDOM Books Community. After Harry lost that power, the Archangel Uriel awarded him the Angelic power of soulfire, which is used to make a sort of magical framework for the magic being used, turning, for instance, a straight force attack into an enduring silvery construct hand able to bash and batter repeatedly.
Harry Actively Collaborating with Demonreach is all of the above, plus the ability to imprison anything short of an archangel, (maybe), that happens to come on the Island. Harry seems to have extremely high potential to move large amounts of magical energy around. He might be able to take on even more powerful beings... the Mothers... Uriel... Lucifer... we just don't know. According to Luccio she would breakfast in Prague, lunch in Rome, and be in Tibet by sundown, with a couple of stops for coffee along the way. (There probably are other examples , but those are the only ones I can remember at the moment ). I know he ranks himself in the top 20 or 10(cant remember exactly), but I think that is an example of him being an unreliable narrator. [11] Dresden recalls Cassius' death curse again while floating in Lake Michigan—a familiar voice tells it to "hush now".[12]. I think this is a good question. A strong wizard's aura interferes with devices such as computers, airplane engines, and car motors, severely limiting his use of any modern/electronic gadgets.
Maybe its cuz im a dude but i like that description very apt, I dont think any current society or nation could defeat him on demonreach. This effect cloaks him in shadowy power, turns mundane weapons into powerful magical killing tools, lets a motorcycle ride across Lake Michigan, and hides the identity of those under its influence behind masks of ancient hunters, even supplying mounts for those without them (Karrin's motorcycle becomes a huge shadowy cat). Finally, the mantle has raised his threshold to pain; he has several wounds stitched up without any anesthesia, remarking that he was aware of the sensation and it was not pleasant, but it did not hurt. Feel free to add your own! [7], In Dead Beat, during Harry Dresden's meeting with the Wardens at McAnally's Pub, Morgan mentions that he witnessed four different death curses in a single day while battling with the Red Court in Sicily. That's something terrifying.
Harry has summoned spirits across multiple mythos in his time, including faeries big and small, Voodoo loa spirits of knowledge, and actual demons, using this skill and thaumaturgic rituals. Losing all of his equipment after rescuing Maggie. Harry ON Demonreach is that, with extra oomph to his spells and intellectus.
His first use of a ritual in battle is in Changes. If you're not on the island, Demonreach can't do anything to you.
The power of the Winter Knight is also incredibly savage, even predatory, and Harry has to constantly be on guard against its influences (and comes to know how his brother Thomas sees the world). He has become slowly better, faster, and neater about opening portals to the Never Never…he even uses one as a shield in combat to absorb falling stalactites from a collapsing ceiling. He has considerable magical brute strength, though his control is initially somewhat lacking - for example, while he could easily shatter a pair of handcuffs, he may also break the wrists of the person wearing them. Harry is also using physics more, using his shields to turn enemies attacks back upon themselves or their allies, and ripping heat away from areas to create ice as well as power fire attacks simultaneously, and transforming himself (and a White Court vampire) into an explosion-powered cannonball.
Yet another power that all wizards have is the soul gaze, a meeting of the eyes that transforms into a highly personalized and revealing look at the other person's psyche and soul, and one of the reasons why people instinctively don't look deep into another's eyes. He can reliably take on red and white court vampires and ghouls, low to mid level fae and sidhe. But destruction isn’t really power. He can deliberately cause widespread havoc around high-tech items just by drawing in his magic, a practice he refers to as "hexing.". There was a WoJ on this and he said that with Demonreach its really about location. As one of the most powerful younger wizards of the White Council, Harry has a large repertoire of magical powers. It is an immediate way to identify someone or something flawlessly. The force energy that used to be stored in his rings he has instead moved into his staff, as he has not had time to make rings, and he has a new trick for getting around things immune to magic: condensing a steel hard ball of ice into existence and propelling it with force magic like a cannonball, to great effect. Starting with his first exposure to the island of Demonreach, it also appears that Harry is starting to develop foresight, a characteristic seemingly common to all wizards as they get older (and are not warned about ahead of time to stop them from wondering if this or that event was foreseen). In a few centuries, after he learns that controll and efficiency he could cast spells like he fucking runs; forever. Harry's first use of the Sight was on a tree, and he can perfectly picture the gnome-like spirit within it to this day. If he pulled out all the stops and actually went all out now, I would be interested in seeing what he could do. He's a bigger threat to folks, but it doesn't take him into the Mab tier.
Unlike some of the other magic users in the series, Harry shouts foreign languages and faux Latin commands to perform spells. Select a category below and browse the Spells. Harry believes that the force of his curse could wipe every living thing off the island of Demonreach, and others agree. Probably any wizard, or Necromancer (including Kemmler). Several times he refers to himself as having "enough raw power to be one of the top 10 or 20 wizards but nothing like the control of a truly powerful wizard" when he first faces the denarians he comments about how even a modest talent can become extremely powerful not because it grows in potential but because the practitioner has time to refine and build their control.
With a Name he could take on Lea, The ErlKing, the Ladies, Odin, The Red King, probably a Dragon like Ferrovax, Mab, Titania, any Black Court vampire no matter how old.
Who the Gatekeeper doesn't want to tangle with, and doesn't flinch at the thought of overpowering freaking Mab?. Ivy is the best example - we don't know how much raw power she has, but as Archive, her ability allowed to her to fight multiple Denarians as long as she had power. The mechanics of mental assault and defense, the uses of advanced illusions via Molly Carpenter's burgeoning ability, and the rather spooky powerful abilities of ectomancers, the people who can speak with and control ghosts (a very separate line of study from necromancy). If you are on the Island... well... good luck. By defeating the leaders of the Hunt, he takes command of the entire pack to lead the defense against an Outsider assault on Demonreach Island.
For example, Harry lights candles in his apartment by muttering "Fliccum Biccus," an allusion to the "Flick your Bic" lighter advertising campaign. Demonreach? Harry has developed much better control of his magic (he starts using illusions, veils, and Luccio's cutting fire beam, raising and lowering shields with great speed; and fine uses of soulfire), huge area effect spells; pure mental summoning of extremely powerful entities without a summoning circle; and using the fire and ice exchange trick in combat multiple times. In my head it's like driving, anyone with a ton of horsepower can drive really fast, but to be really impressive you need to be able to drive around things and through small openings at that high speed.
Harry had set up a situation, harboring a fugitive suspected of murdering a member of the Senior Council, luring them to Demonreach, which some of the Senior Council knew more about than Harry at that point, and he had time to set up unpleasant surprised for them. Spells. Harry Dresden. [5], Dresden learned that Margaret LeFay cursed Lord Raith on her deathbed, preventing him from feeding, and thus prevented him from gaining strength. He, as an inexperienced teenaged spellcaster, managed to overpower and(maybe) kill a wizard that had at least a century on him, and who was well versed in battle magic. He wanted his curse to kill Dresden, but he was too weak to manage that and so settled with cursing Dresden to "die alone".