List of Bartimaeus Characters - Other Magicians

Other Magicians

• Bess was part of Makepeace's rebellion and died after becoming a hybrid.
• Harold Button was a scholar, book collector, teacher of Jones in Ptolemy's Gate, and became part of the Interim Magicians Council as Home Minister at the end of the book. Button was a magician of no little power, able to summon many higher ranking spirits without assistance. However, while summoning a Marid, he made a mistake, in which the Marid was able to break out of its pentacle and tore off his leg before the automatic dismissal could set in. The irony was that he only summoned the Marid to ask it a few questions. Button was never interested in using his skills for his own ambition, but rather used them as a historical source to further his academic pursuits and his dislike for spirits was more as self-preservation, he also shows general concern for "commoners" which makes him different from the other magicians in many ways.
• Clem Hopkins was member and betrayer of the Resistance in the second and third books who died when he summoned Faquarl into his body. He was "thoroughly unremarkable", and "instantly forgotten". He was described as pigeon-chested, slender, with no abnormal features whatsoever. He is educated, able to read several languages, a skill highly useful for the resistance. It is mentioned that he is a commoner however this is unlikely since he was able to summon Faquarl into his body, this shows that he had magical abilities.
• Bruce Collins was the Home Secretary. In Ptolemy's Gate, he was turned into a hybrid.
• Burke was a part of Makepeace's rebellion in the third book, and died after becoming a hybrid.
• Rupert Devereaux was the Prime Minister and de jure Chief of Police in Ptolemy's Gate. He appeared in all three books and was killed in the third book when he became a hybrid. He had light brown hair and a charismatic personality that had greatly inspired Mandrake when he was young, though this respect later dwindled. He had a great passion for the performing arts, and so was great friends with the playwright Quentin Makepeace. He frequently delayed or cancelled government meetings to see plays. Near his death date, he grew paranoid with all the chances of betrayal within the government, and the strain caused his hair to became grey and his face wrinkled. He came to power by succeeding his own master, who had overthrown the previous government in a coup.
• Jane Farrar was the Assistant to the Chief of Police in The Golem's Eye and de facto Chief of Police in Ptolemy's Gate. In the second book, she attempted to charm and seduce Mandrake to get information for her master, Henry Duvall, though she was never associated with the conspiracy. In the third book, she is also shown as a brief romantic interest to Mandrake, although this connection quickly dwindles as Mandrake refuses to keep a dying Bartimaeus bound to this world, allowing him to go to the Other Place despite knowing what is presumed to be valuable information. At the end of the third book she attempts to rally her wolves against the hybrids and subsequently goes missing. It is assumed that she is dead.
• George Ffoukes was a member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in The Golem's Eye and a fourth-level magician. He was the master of the djinni Queezle.
• Marmeduke Fry was the Foreign Secretary in The Golem's Eye. He was slain by an Imp hidden in his pie between the second book, The Golem's Eye, and the third book, Ptolemy's Gate while trying to negotiate a peace treaty with the Americans.
• Harknett was Home Secretary between The Golem's Eye and Ptolemy's Gate, but when she spoke out against the Prime Minister's policies he sent six Horlas to her house.
• Harlequin was a British spy in Prague. He was described as being old and fat, with an oddly high voice. Nathaniel came to him seeking information about Golems. He had morbid tastes, particularly his 'unusual' candle, presumably a dead man's hand. He was later shot by Czech soldiers while posing as a hot dog salesman.
• Clive Jenkins was a secretary in the Ministry Of Internal Affairs in the third book, and died after summoning Naeryan into his body.
• Helen Malbindi was Information Minister in the second book and Foreign Minister in the third book. She was killed when she became a hybrid. She was described as having a short temper and being under a lot of stress; her nose turned white and bloodless when near a tantrum.
• Carl Mortensen was the Home Secretary in the second book and Minister of War in the third book and was killed when he became a hybrid.
• Sholto Pinn was a merchant in all three books, and was sent to hospital at the end of the events in Ptolemy's Gate. When most magicians took off their contact lenses to see the special effects of Makepeace's play without distractions, Pinn kept his monocle on. When he took it off to polish it, Imps and Foliots quickly dispatched the lower levels off the government, while the members of the Council and other higher ranking magicians were taken out by Djinn. When three Djinn attempted to take out Pinn, the merchant grabbed his stick, and destroyed one with a Plasm, injured another, but was beaten by the third, who used the old man's cane as a club against him. One of the few high-level magicians to survive; oddly, he didn't take part in the Interim Council. He was rotund and wears white clothing.
• Rebecca Piper was the assistant to Mandrake in the third book and becomes the de facto Prime Minister of the Interim Magicians' Council at the end of the book. She has vole brown hair scraped back from her hairline and pinned back.
• Julius Tallow was the Minister of Internal Affairs and a third-level magician in the second book, who accused Jones and Hyrnek of attacking him after they break his car window by accident and subjects them to the Black Tumbler, leaving Hyrnek disfigured. The Hyrneks seek revenge on him and put misprints in the books he orders. This leads him to develop yellow skin, and finally leads to his death when an afrit he summons escapes the pentacle and kills him.
• Arthur Underwood was the Minister of Internal Affairs and tutor/master of Mandrake in the first book, and is killed by Jabor while trying to defeat Simon Lovelace. A middle-level magician, he was fueled by paranoia. Bartimaues describes him as looking like the old version of magicians. With a white beard and old clothing, and all he needed to complete the look was a pointed hat and cape. Arthur thought very little of Mandrake and believed him incapable of summoning so much as an Imp, but eventually learned that he had summoned Bartimaeus.
• Martha Underwood was Mr Underwood's wife, who was always very kind to Nathaniel, and was someone he confided his true name to. A rotund woman with grey hair, she was eaten by Jabor in the first book. Jonathan Stroud has said that she may be a magician who gave up their training to marry Underwood, or she is from a commoner family which associates with the magicians, such as the Hyrneks . She demonstrates knowledge above that of a commoner, for instance knowing what an afrit is and what the capital of Azerbaijan is. Her husband's dislike of commoners would also make it unlikely that she was one.
• Jessica Whitwell was Security Minister throughout the series, and died trying to escape the hybrids with Shubit, her afrit, being the only magician with the courage to attempt to stand up to Nouda and the others, other than John Mandrake. She is described as bone thin with cropped white hair. She was considered to be possibly the most powerful magician in the government at the time of the series by John Mandrake. In The Amulet of Samarkand, it is said that she destroyed a marid (one of the most powerful types of spirit) by herself without the help of her own spirit. Throughout the series, she is shown to be very professional, strict, and above all, powerful.
• Withers was part of Makepeace's rebellion and died after becoming a hybrid.