Characters in Changes

Harry Dresden

Chicago wizard and private investigator who learns he has a young daughter and wages a desperate campaign against the Red Court vampires to save her life.

Also in Restoration of Faith, Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight, Death Masks, Death Masks [Dramatized Adaptation], Vignette, Blood Rites, Dead Beat

Arianna Ortega

A Red Court duchess who orchestrates the kidnapping of Harry's daughter in revenge for her husband's death at the hands of Ebenezar McCoy.

Susan Rodriguez

A former journalist half-turned by the Red Court years earlier, and the mother of Harry's daughter Maggie, who was taken as part of a vampire blood ritual.

Also in Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Death Masks, Death Masks [Dramatized Adaptation]

Molly Carpenter

Harry's apprentice, whose growing and increasingly reckless use of magic becomes crucial to the campaign against the Red Court.

Also in Death Masks, White Night, Small favor, Turn Coat, Ghost Story, Skin Game, Brief Cases, Peace Talks, Christmas Eve, Shadowed souls

Toot-toot

The diminutive commander of Harry's pixie guard, who turns up to help however his small size allows.

Also in Summer Knight, Small favor, Turn Coat, Battle Ground

Sanya

A Knight of the Cross who fights alongside Harry in the assault on the Red Court's stronghold.

Also in Death Masks, Small favor, Battle Ground

Karrin Murphy

A Chicago police detective and Harry's closest ally, who helps him plan and carry out the rescue of his daughter from the Red Court.

Also in Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight, Blood Rites, Dead Beat, Proven Guilty, White Night, Small favor, Turn Coat

Bob the Skull

The spirit intellect bound to a skull who serves as Harry's wisecracking source of magical knowledge and advice.

Also in Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Dead Beat, Small favor

Maggie Dresden

Harry and Susan's young daughter, kidnapped by the Red Court at the start of the book, and the reason Harry goes to war to get her back.

John Marcone

Chicago's ruthless crime lord, normally Harry's adversary, who forms an uneasy alliance with him to fight the Red Court.

Also in Storm Front, Fool Moon

Thomas Raith

Harry's half-brother, a White Court vampire who joins the fight against the Red Court to help save Harry's daughter.

Also in Grave Peril, Dead Beat, White Night, Small favor, Backup, Turn Coat, Twelve Months

Ebenezer McCoy

Harry's mentor and a powerful wizard of the White Council, whose killing of a Red Court duke years earlier set the story's events in motion.

Also in Death Masks, Blood Rites, Dead Beat, Proven Guilty, Turn Coat, Peace Talks, Battle Ground

Anastasia Luccio

Captain of the Wardens and Harry's lover, caught between her duty to the White Council and her relationship with him.

Also in Dead Beat, Small favor, Turn Coat, Side Jobs, Brief Cases