Midnight for Charlie Bone

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Badass Teacher: Dr. Saltweather and Senor Alvaro, though barely mentioned at all in the final battle, make quite a team. Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Averted with Amy, who never forgets her husband Lyell even ten years after his disappearance. Left Hanging: It is never explained why the villainous faction was holding the famous pianist Alberto Tuccini hostage in the third and fourth books, nor what happens after he parts way with Charlie, Billy, and Paton.

Another issue with Charlie for me was his total inability to learn from his mistakes. He continually put himself in mortal peril even though he had to have someone pull him out of the fire multiple times. He just didn't develop in that regard. He was also rather gullible - not the least bit savvy for a kid who is just allowed to roam town like he is.His mother - what can you say? I can't even imagine a mother letting someone treat their child so poorly, even if it was a grandmother. She was weak and apathetic and again, it was unrealistic. His mother suffered loss, yes, but she was able to go on with her day to day life and even move on to dating (this was implied by Charlie asking her is she had another boyfriend) but she was unable to stand up for her child? Either unrealistic or just a rotten mother. I kept coming away from her feeling like she has sold her child for a place to live.

Disney Death: Timoken's sister Zobayda is presumed drowned after she throws herself into a river to protect Timoken from the viridees. Turns out she survived and was taken in by a merchant, who she eventually fell in love with and married. Charlie Bone is the protagonist of the series. Through his father, he is descended from the Red King and through his mother, from Mathonwy, a Welsh magician and friend of the Red King. Charlie can hear the voices of people in photographs and paintings. He can use his powers to talk to the people inside them and on some occasions he can take items from the paintings. He is related to Grizelda, Lucretia, Eustacia, Venetia and Paton Yewbeam. Benevolent Boss: The Red King was certainly this, when he ruled the Red Castle centuries ago. He was kind and fair to all who were put under his care, and everyone respected and liked him. The series begins with Charlie Bone accidentally getting the wrong photograph from the photo developer... And discovering that he can hear people talking in the photo. While he is perturbed at this development, his grandmother and great aunts inform him he has magical abilities and enroll him in Bloor's Academy where he becomes part of the music department (because of his supposedly dead father, who played the piano). At Bloor's, Charlie makes new friends, encounters strange magic, and learns all about the history of his Big, Screwed-Up Family.

Unexpected Inheritance: At the end of Red Knight it's revealed that Lyell was the true inheritor of Maybelle's will, which means that he inherits all of the Bloors' fortune and Bloor's Academy. I play the flute. Unless someone is extraordinarily gifted -and I mean with magic - they aren't going to be playing the flute in a time span of ten minutes. It takes quite a bit longer than that to get any kind of sound out of it at all. Sometimes it can take kids days of practicing through frustration to get their mouth positioned in the right way. Forget learning the notes and fingerings. Why aren't kids allowed to talk practically ever? Olivia falls and she gets in trouble for making noise.

Emma Tolly can turn into birds and fly, and is an excellent artist specialising in drawing birds. She was hypnotized by Manfred Bloor for eight years and renamed Emilia Moon. Charlie and his friends rescue her in the first book. She lives with her aunt, Julia Ingledew because her parents died and her previous guardian made the mistake of giving her to the Bloors. She saved Tancred from drowning and started dating Tancred at the end of the last book.Mundane Utility: Charlie uses his wand to help him remember things he's studied for school. Olivia sometimes uses her illusion power to stir up mischief when she gets bored. Her excuse for forcing Charlie to go to Bloors was that she didn't have any money. That after his father 'died', he left them with nothing and so they had to rely on his hated grandmother for everything. Tell Me About My Father: Charlie asks this of his mother at the beginning of Midnight for Charlie Bone. Evil Old Folks: Quite a few, but Ezekiel Bloor deserves special mention; he's a Grumpy Old Man taken to the extreme.