In Dead Beat, Butters comes up with a theory about why wizards live so long, why they affect electronics, and aspects of Harry Dresden's anatomy that make him special. In the series Grave Peril īutters has Great Threats-by Captain Brushpen From Dresden's notes, Butters designed a magical instrument that allows mortals to see and hear ghosts. Though he has no magical talent, Bob deems Butters very smart and really good with magical theory.

Harry Dresden taught him how to make a Circle of Power with chalk and a drop of his own blood to protect himself from supernatural threats. He acts as a physical therapist and friend to Dresden, and gives Dresden a guitar to practice on for physical therapy, prompting the other to comment that 'for a mortician, he's a pretty good healer.' However, he has hidden nerve and brains and, when needed, helps Dresden in unexpected ways. He seems perfectly content to hide, being ill-equipped to defend himself against the threats of necromancers, earning him a reputation of cowardice. Waldo Butters is 'cursed with a sense of honesty, a measure of integrity, and enough moral courage to make him act on it', so much so that he occasionally stands up to Dresden, who sees that he's a man of principle, who went right to the wall for the truth. He ultimately becomes a Knight of the Cross. Around this time he has started dating Andi Macklin. When he is asked why the 'four-eyed guy kept getting watch', Daniel gives him the radio-handle 'Eyes', which stuck. He drives an old Plymouth Road Runner with the licence plates: 'MeepMeep'. Practicing for a polka contest, he has a suit fitted with a big bass drum on his back and smaller ones on the side. He likes to listen to polka music, generally so loud that it can be heard down the hall. īutters is Jewish, and, by Dead Beat, is 37. As a medical examiner, he is typically dressed in blue scrubs, with fluffy bunny slippers. He is described as a small man (about 5'3, 120 pounds) with a wild shock of black hair, which gives him a persistent look of surprise. Waldo Butters is first introduced to Harry Dresden by Karrin Murphy on a case pertaining to a dead body that's been beheaded, mutilated, and the victim of a savage plague curse inflicted upon him by the Knights of the Blackened Denarius. I’m a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow.

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