History Literature / GuardiansOfGahoole

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Ginger, a spy for the Pure Ones.]]

* ReverseMole: [[spoiler: Hortense. She is a mature owl who is disabled, and so she impersonates an owlet, is deliberately captured by St. Aggies, fakes being moon blinked, and saves over twenty eggs from their tyranny with the help of Streak and Zan.]]

* {{Heaven}}: Glaumora.

* AbortedArc: Unfortunately, there are a number of major plot elements that disappear entirely as soon as they lose relevance. St. Aggie's basically vanishes after ''The Siege,'' with no word to the fates of the hundreds of {{Brainwashed}} ''children'' it enslaved. Flecks also are almost never mentioned again after ''The Shattering,'' despite their enormous significance in the early books.

* UnfortunateNames: Nyroc is named after Nyra, the most feared/hated owl in the entire Owl Kingdom. Even though Nyroc has never really done anything bad, his name still gives him a bad reputation, until he [[spoiler: gets the ember of Hoole.]]

** In ''Exile,'' The Striga and his Blue Brigade begin raiding homes to burn books.

* OrphanageOfFear: Definitely the St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls.
* OrphansOrdeal: Soren, Gylfie, and Digger, among others.

** A lot. Notably, "sprink", which is considered the most vile word in the owl vocabulary.
** Frink, an equivalent to piss (the verb, not the bodily fluid), and racdrops, an equivalent to... well, you should be able to tell.

* SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying: It's implied at certain points that bats are birds, and are blind.

* AntiAntiChrist: Nyroc/Coryn.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Boron and Barran.

* BadassBoast[=/=]IShallTauntYou: Twilight is always boasting about his own prowess and taunting his enemies with battle rhymes.

* CoolOldGuy / BadassGrandpa: Ezylryb, all the way.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Nyroc is recaptured by Nyra and he asks her if she loves him, Nyra mentions that Nyroc will be as great as King Hoole. [[spoiler: It turns out that he succeeds King Hoole, one book later.]]

* EnfantTerrible: Kludd. At first, he seems like a stereotypical annoying big brother, but Ms. P. senses that there's something very off about him, "unowlish."[[spoiler: Kludd pushes Soren from the nest in an attempt at fratricide, threatens to eat Ms. P., kills his parents, takes Eglantine to the Pure Ones, and by ''The Rescue'' has become Metal Beak, the BigBad.]]

* GrannyClassic: Despite being a snake, Ms. Plithiver is a grandmotherly archetype. She is a kind, gentle, wise figure who is still firm when she needs to be. Soren relies on her as a parental substitute.

* LotusEaterMachine: The Mirror Lakes are an insidious one. They are a seemingly perfect paradise in the middle of the otherwise barren landscape of the Beaks, with tall trees that have perfect hollows, soft moss, plentiful game, and extremely reflective lakes. They are first encountered by the Band while flying to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree in ''The Journey'', and cause them to become "fat, lazy, and vain," completely forgetting about their mission. Only Ms. P., who is blind, is not transfixed by the lakes. She forces the owls out of them with a PrecisionFStrike.

* TheOneThingIDontHateAboutYou: In book one, Ms. Plithiver thinks to herself that there is something very wrong with Kludd. He then coughs up a pellet and she reconsiders that no bird with such a noble digestive system could be completely bad. If only...

** Related-- Ms. P, who is much too proper to swear, gives Twilight an epic cussing out when the owls are trapped at [[LotusEaterMachine The Mirror Lakes]].
-->'''Ms. Plithiver''': [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Racdrops on your curled wingie!]]

* InsufferableGenius: Otulissa is [[Literature/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]] in owl form.

* EnfantTerrible: Kludd. At first, he seems like a stereotypical annoying big brother, but Ms.P. senses that there's something very off about him, "unowlish."[[spoiler: Kludd pushes Soren from the nest in an attempt at fratricide, threatens to eat Ms. P., kills his parents, takes Eglantine to the Pure Ones, and by ''The Rescue'' has become Metal Beak, the BigBad.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Owlets suffer a lot of abuse during the series as a whole. A lot of owlets try to fly before they're ready, which cause them to tumble out of nests, leaving them vulnerable to St. Aggie's patrols or other more mundane predators. St. Aggie's [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwashes]] owl children and turns them into mindless slaves. The Pure Ones indoctrinate ''Tyto'' owlets into their cult. Worst of all [[spoiler: Digger's baby brother was [[ImAHumanitarian ''eaten'' ]] by Jatt and Jutt. It's a miracle that Eglantine survived.]]

* WouldHurtAChild: Owlets suffer a lot of abuse during the series as a whole. A lot of owlets try to fly before they're ready, which cause them to tumble out of nests, leaving them vulnerable to St. Aggie's patrols or other more mundane predators. St. Aggie's [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwashes]] owl children and turns them into mindless slaves. The Pure Ones indoctrinate ''Tyto'' owlets into their cult. Worst of all [[spoiler: Digger's baby brother was [[ImAHumanitarian ''eaten'']] by Jatt and Jutt. It's a miracle that Eglantine survived.]]

* GreenRocks: The flecks are [[iron, which can disorient owls and destroy their senses with its magnetic field. Although fleck deposits are able to cause weird mutations like crippling Hortense and causing her father to see through rock.]]

** [[spoiler:The puffins in the last book. And how!]]

* OurDemonsAreDifferent