Character from The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Harry's first love and fellow apprentice under Justin DuMorne — a wizard who survived their mentor's betrayal, built her own life in hiding, and now runs the Paranet to protect minor practitioners the White Council ignores.
Elaine Mallory and Harry Dresden grew up together as Justin DuMorne's apprentices, and for a while, they were each other's whole world — two kids with power they didn't understand, raised by a man who intended to enslave them both. When Harry killed Justin and burned down the house, he believed Elaine died in the fire. She didn't. She escaped, went underground, built a life for herself outside the White Council's awareness, and spent years developing her own style of magic — more subtle than Harry's, focused on psychic and mental disciplines rather than raw force. When she resurfaced in Harry's life, it was complicated in the way that only first loves who share a traumatic past can be complicated. She's Harry's equal in talent if not in raw power, and she's made different choices about how to use it. She founded and runs the Paranet, a support network for minor practitioners — the hedge witches, small-time talents, and vulnerable magic-users who fall below the White Council's threshold of interest but above the supernatural community's threshold of notice. She protects the people no one else protects, and she does it without the Council's backing, resources, or approval.
Tall, athletic woman with honey-blonde hair and green eyes. Carries herself with a quiet confidence. Dresses in practical modern clothes — jeans, boots, a jacket with room to move. There's a wariness in her posture that never fully relaxes.
Also known as: Elaine, Elaine Mallory