Characters
- Mr. Elives - A mysterious and crotchety old man who runs a magic supplies store. He is implied to be capable of great magic, though his exact origins and capabilities are left very vague.
- Roxanne and Jerome - A pair of talking Immortal Rats. They are introduced at the end of Jennifer Murdley's Toad when a cursed witch spews them from her mouth, and serve as Elive's messengers for much of the rest of the series. Jerome is often shown to be more gruff and easily offended, while Roxanne is portrayed as more warm and motherly.
- Hyacinth Priest - A librarian and storyteller who appears throughout the series. She is implied to be a close associate of Elives, giving the children the necessary information about their purchases and occasionally serving as a more levelheaded offset to Elives' gruffness.
- Russel Crannaker - a boy obsessed with Halloween who is given a ring capable of turning him into a monster.
- Jeremy Thatcher - an underappreciated artistic prodigy who hatches and develops a telepathic connection with his pet dragon.
- Tiamat - Jeremy's female pet dragon, named for the chaos monster in Babylonian mythology. She has a telepathic connection to Jeremy and is invisible to almost everyone but him. She is largely portrayed as naive and childlike, though she occasionally displays amischievous streak when her master is in discomfort.
- Mr. Kravitz - Charlie's art teacher. He is mostly portrayed as hostile toward Jeremy and unappreciative of his artistic skills, though he at one point admits that Jeremy is his most talented student, lacking only proper discipline, and it is suggested that he is actually jealous of Jeremy's talent.
- Charlie Eggleston
- Jennifer Murdley
- Juliet Dove
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Thus we may define the real as that whose characters are independent of what anybody may think them to be.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)