Fitz

Fitz is an orphaned young man that assisted Harry Dresden while he was a spirit in Ghost Story.

Description
Fitz was part of a gang of dis-placed youths that shot up Murphy's house on the orders of their Fagin-like like leader: Aristedes, or "baldy" as Harry calls him.

Abilities
Fitz has the rare ability to hear (but not see) Ghosts. He's a smart, natural leader, calm and rational under pressure and able to weigh liabilities and to make—and enforce—decisions in the face of opposition.

Appearance
Harry described Fitz as "youthfully scrawny, his skin bronze enough to look Native American, though his tangled red hair and pug nose argued otherwise. His eyes were an odd shade of brown, so light as to be nearly golden." He was just under six feet tall, taller than his companions. Fitz was about age seventeen but an experienced-aged much older look in his eyes. He had boxer-like scars around his left eye.

Details
Fitz knows about old books and old movies: Oliver Twist and Harvey. Harry thought "I had to help this kid".

Fitz was terrified of Molly—the Ragged Lady.

Biography
Because of Fitz's ability to hear Ghosts, and Harry's natural concern for kids in trouble with no one to help them, Harry enlists his help in finding his murderer, and also helps Fitz escape the small gang he is caught up in.

In Ghost Story:
Harry Dresden's Ghost and Sir Stuart Winchester follow the gang of kids in their truck after they shot up Murphy's house. Stuart causes them to crash. With clear thinking, Fitz gathers all their weapons, unloads them and buries them under the snow. Harry follows them to their hide-out where he leans that they are all under the thumb of "Baldy" (Aristedes) who is furious and abusive to Fitz for ditching the guns. Harry talks Fitz, who can hear him, out of reacting to Aristedes that would get him killed. Harry tells him to meet by the guns at eleven, he'll help him.

Later, afer meeting by the guns, Harry's Ghost takes him to Nick Christian at Ragged Angel Investigations seeking information on the location of a cult gang he may have heard about—Nick calls them the Big Hoods. Then Harry takes him to Saint Mary of the Angels where Father Forthill tends to his physical needs: food, shower, rest.

Speculation
It has been noted that this odd combination of attributes, as well as a name that means bastard, imply that he could be the son of Tera West and Harley MacFinn

External References

 * Fagin - Wikipedia
 * Oliver Twist - Wikipedia
 * Charles Dickens - Wikipedia