Along with a really bad personality, Horrid Henry has a bad habit of not using his common sense. You would almost feel like you're reading/watching "Half-Witted Henry". Then again, other characters often have these moments, too.
In General
- Horrid Henry is often chastised by his parents for his bad behaviour.
You'd Expect: Perfect Peter to say nothing and just watch his older brother get his comeuppance.
Instead: He brags about how perfect he is, earning him a beat-down and/or an insult from Henry. - On several occasions, Henry has tricked Peter and often gotten him in trouble.
You'd Expect: After the first two or three times, Peter would wise up and (at most) take anything Henry says with a pinch of salt.
Instead: He keeps falling for the tricks. - On some occasions, Henry frames Peter for horrid stuff.
You'd Expect: Considering how good he usually is, hence his name, someone would chalk this up to someone trying to frame Peter and try to find the real culprit.
Instead: They punish Peter in various ways. - In "Horrid Henry's Perfect Day", it is established that Henry can act good if he puts his mind to it.
You'd Expect: Henry would try and adopt this pleasant persona more often. That way, he could get what he wants more often.
Instead: He just keeps acting horrid. - Henry's parents are very distraught over their older son's horrible behaviour.
You'd Expect: They'd try to be more constructive in their attempts to discipline Henry.
Instead: Their methods consist mainly of yelling at him and sending him to his room. - There are a number of occasions where something bad happens yet Henry doesn't seem to be the one at fault.
You'd Expect: That whoever thinks that Henry's the one at fault would let Henry give his side of the story and perhaps even declare him innocent until proven guilty.
Instead: They blame him without a second thought.
Book Series
- "Perfect Peter's Horrid Day"
- Towards the end of his "horrid day", Peter makes an attempt to end it off by doing a good deed which involves cleaning the plates that Mum and Dad used for afternoon tea. Unfortunately just as he's done cleaning the plates and is about to put them back in the cupboard, Henry jumps out and scares him before running away, making him drop the plates, causing them to shatter. Mum and Dad come in to the room.
You Expect: That Mum and Dad would let Peter explain why the plates are smashed and punish the real culprit.
Or: Even if Peter did indeed smash the plates, they'd assume it was an accident and help Peter clean up the mess.
Instead: They somehow get it into their heads that Peter broke the plates on purpose without letting him explain and send the poor kid to his room.
- Towards the end of his "horrid day", Peter makes an attempt to end it off by doing a good deed which involves cleaning the plates that Mum and Dad used for afternoon tea. Unfortunately just as he's done cleaning the plates and is about to put them back in the cupboard, Henry jumps out and scares him before running away, making him drop the plates, causing them to shatter. Mum and Dad come in to the room.
- "Horrid Henry's Birthday"
- On his birthday every year, it has been said that whenever Henry misbehaves, his parents tell him that he'll never have another birthday party.
You'd Expect: For them to stick to their word for at least one year. The scare of them following up on what they said would probably make Henry grateful to get a birthday party the following year, so it doesn't even have to be permanent.
Instead: They keep giving him a second chance, and it's the same scenario every time.
- On his birthday every year, it has been said that whenever Henry misbehaves, his parents tell him that he'll never have another birthday party.
- "Horrid Henry Tricks The Tooth Fairy":
- Henry is angry because every other kid in the town (even his younger brother, much to his ignominy) has lost a tooth and he hasn't. However, he heard from his dentist that if you eat too much sweets, your teeth will fall out. Unfortunately, the day when he typically has sweets is on Saturday and today was Thursday. Henry knows that he'll get into trouble if he eats the sweets before "Sweet Day".
You'd Expect: Henry to try to stay out of trouble.
Instead: Having apparently never learned the joys of delayed gratification or how tooth decay actually works, Henry resorts to eating all the sweets right there on the spot.
Naturally: He only succeeds in giving himself a sore mouth, a sore tummy, and sore gums.
Then Again: Even if he had waited, this would have done him no good. He's probably expected not to eat all of them even on Saturdays, and it's not like eating candy just causes your teeth to painlessly fall out instantly. - Mum discovers the empty jar, and asks Henry what he knows about it.
You'd Expect: Henry to own up to eating the sweets but then explain why he did it. Surely, Mum would understand that he did it because of a misconception rather than disobedience and at worst, just give him a telling off.
Instead: Henry promptly denies that it was him and blames it on mice, leading to Mum banning him from sweets for an entire month.
- Henry is angry because every other kid in the town (even his younger brother, much to his ignominy) has lost a tooth and he hasn't. However, he heard from his dentist that if you eat too much sweets, your teeth will fall out. Unfortunately, the day when he typically has sweets is on Saturday and today was Thursday. Henry knows that he'll get into trouble if he eats the sweets before "Sweet Day".
- "Moody Margaret Moves In":
- Margaret comes to stay at Henry's house while her parents are on holiday and proves to be a rather troublesome guest, making everyone follow the routine she has at her house.
You'd Expect: Henry's Mum and Dad would eventually just threaten to call Margaret's parents and tell them about how rude she's behaving unless she tries to get accustomed to her hosts' routine.
Instead: Outside of Mum briefly trying to put her foot down and make her have breakfast at 8:00AM rather than 6, they just give into her demands.
- Margaret comes to stay at Henry's house while her parents are on holiday and proves to be a rather troublesome guest, making everyone follow the routine she has at her house.
- "Horrid Henry Minds his Manners":
- Henry gets an invitation to compete in the TV show Gross-Out, a game show, while Peter gets an invitation to star in Manners with Maggie, a programme about manners. When they get there, they both wind up in their brother's show by accident.
You'd Expect: Both boys to explain to the TV producers they are supposed to be in different shows.
Instead: While Peter does try to escape Gross-Out (from what little we see), Henry just goes along with Manners with Maggie. Henry, not following the premise of Manners With Maggie, proceeds to misbehave.
You'd Expect: Maggie to put her foot down on Henry's bad behaviour and tell him he'll have no prizes unless he cleans up his act, and throw him out if he keeps up his bad behaviour.
Instead: She just goes through the show and keeps trying to convince Henry to behave. She gets more antsy as the show continues, and eventually has a mental breakdown when Peter comes in covered in slime.
The Result: Manners with Maggie is cancelled and Mischief with Mildred takes its place
- Henry gets an invitation to compete in the TV show Gross-Out, a game show, while Peter gets an invitation to star in Manners with Maggie, a programme about manners. When they get there, they both wind up in their brother's show by accident.
- "Horrid Henry's Swimming Lesson":
- Henry is having a swimming lesson at school, and he then starts up a rumour about a shark being in the pool. Everyone ignores him until he pretends to be a crocodile and grabs Aerobic Al's leg.
You'd Expect: The other students, having already been in the pool for some time, to realise at once that Henry is playing a trick and give him what for.
Instead: They all fall for it, and then run out of the pool.
- Henry is having a swimming lesson at school, and he then starts up a rumour about a shark being in the pool. Everyone ignores him until he pretends to be a crocodile and grabs Aerobic Al's leg.
- "Horrid Henry's Revenge":
- Henry tricks Peter into thinking there are fairies at night and leaves him stuck in a tree. Peter finds himself in trouble with his parents and tries to explain that Henry tricked him.
You'd Expect: Given how well they know their sons, Mum and Dad would believe Peter and give Henry what he deserves.
Instead: Mum insists that Henry is asleep in his bed (apparently, it didn't occur to her that Henry could have done this before he went to bed) and Dad bans Peter from stamp collecting for a month.
However: The next day, Mum notices that Henry's pyjamas are torn, dirty, and leafy, implying that Peter may have been vindicated after all.
- Henry tricks Peter into thinking there are fairies at night and leaves him stuck in a tree. Peter finds himself in trouble with his parents and tries to explain that Henry tricked him.
- "Horrid Henry's Computer":
- Henry is banned from using the computer for attacking Peter.
You'd Expect: The computer to have a password to keep anyone from inopportunely logging in.
Instead: Henry is able to sneak on the computer with no trouble at all, and makes up a password.
The Result: No one is able to log on. Mum can't get her spreadsheet, Dad can't get his report, and Peter can't get his essay. That's when Henry offers to help, but then says he can't because he's banned, causing his ban to be lifted. Once the sheets were printed out, Henry has made some tweaks to Peter's "Why I Love My Teacher" essay before it is printed out. Henry has renamed it "Why I Hate My Teacher", and replaced all the positive stuff with insults at Miss Lovely (whom he calls Miss Ugly).
You'd Expect: Peter to see the tweaks, hide his essay, and, if possible, explain the situation by saying that his big brother must have got into the document. That way, he'd be able to set his essay back to its original state.
Instead: He somehow fails to notice the tweaks, and turns in his essay in its current state.
As a Result: He gets in big trouble, and is banned from the computer for a week. - Mum and Dad have heard that Peter allegedly wrote a rude essay about Miss Lovely.
You'd Expect: Given that they know that Peter would be the last person to insult his teacher, they'd ask Henry if he might've had anything to do with it.
Instead: The thought never occurs to them and Peter still ends up getting banned from the computer.
- Henry is banned from using the computer for attacking Peter.
- "Horrid Henry Goes To Work":
- Henry's Dad takes his him to work. Bossy Bill, the son of Dad's boss (otherwise known as "Big Boss"), puts up a facade of model behaviour, but when his dad and Henry's leave, he drops it and wonders why his dad can't make his own tea. Thinking things are looking up, Henry asks him, "I thought you liked making tea." This offends Bill, and he tells Henry to make it.
You'd Expect: Henry to state that he also hates making tea, and tell Bill they may have some common ground.
Instead: He tells Bill to make the tea. They get into an argument, culminating in Bill threatening to tell his dad to fire Henry's.
As a Result: Henry makes a new enemy, and Bill later replaces the sugar with salt and blames it on Henry. - Bill starts talking on the phone and tells Henry to have a go. Despite initial hesitance to trust him, Henry eventually complies and picks up a phone.
You'd Expect: To lower his chances of getting in trouble, Henry would try a polite greeting.
Instead: "Hello, Smelly! You're fired!"
Unfortunately: Big Boss is on the other end, which doesn't bode well for Henry. - After the telephone fiasco, Henry is told to go with Bill to the photocopy room. Henry suggests that they photocopy their bottoms, and volunteers to go first.
You'd Expect: Bill to let Henry go first. That way, he could get Henry in trouble for the third time.
Instead: Bill insists that he go first, hoping to show Henry pasting photos of bottoms around the meeting room.
The Result: Henry brings in Big Boss while Bill is photocopying his bottom, causing Bill to be the one to get in trouble.
- Henry's Dad takes his him to work. Bossy Bill, the son of Dad's boss (otherwise known as "Big Boss"), puts up a facade of model behaviour, but when his dad and Henry's leave, he drops it and wonders why his dad can't make his own tea. Thinking things are looking up, Henry asks him, "I thought you liked making tea." This offends Bill, and he tells Henry to make it.
- "Horrid Henry's School Project":
- Henry is put in a group with Clever Clare, Weepy William, and Beefy Bert. Their ideas keep clashing, and they get in a fight. Henry is then told to work by himself, and then break time arrives.
You'd Expect: Miss Battle-Axe have someone watch over Henry.
Instead: She leaves him alone. Henry steals parts from the other groups' projects, causing them to all collapse. A fight along the classroom ensues. This then ends with Miss Battle-Axe being sent to Miss Oddbod's office.
- Henry is put in a group with Clever Clare, Weepy William, and Beefy Bert. Their ideas keep clashing, and they get in a fight. Henry is then told to work by himself, and then break time arrives.
- "Horrid Henry's Underpants":
- Henry has received a present from Great-Aunt Greta. Unfortunately, she thinks Henry is a girl named Henrietta and has sent him a pair of girls' underpants. To make matters worse, Rude Ralph, a friend of his, is coming over.
You'd Expect: Henry to throw his underpants somewhere safe and secure.
Instead: While he does put the pants in a safe place inside his drawer, it did lead to him unwittingly putting them on during his rush to get ready for school. He then realises this mishap during the day. - Henry panics and goes to the lost and found. Unfortunately, the only pair of underpants he's able to find belong to a toddler.
You'd Expect: Henry to put his underpants in and just go commando.
Instead: He decides to get Peter and tries to trick him into swapping underpants with him. It doesn't work. Only then does Henry decide to go commando.
You'd Also Expect: Henry to put his underpants in the lost and found, like before.
Instead: He leaves his underpants in the bathroom. Miss Battle-Axe finds them and suggests he wear them in front of the entire classroom.
- Henry has received a present from Great-Aunt Greta. Unfortunately, she thinks Henry is a girl named Henrietta and has sent him a pair of girls' underpants. To make matters worse, Rude Ralph, a friend of his, is coming over.
- "Horrid Henry's Thank You Letter":
- Henry is told to write a thank you letter to Rich Aunt Ruby for a cardigan she sent him (which he hates). After writing a brutally honest thank you letter to her, he gets the idea for a business of writing thank you letters for other people. Henry then persuades the kids to pay him for writing letters to their relatives.
You'd Expect: The other kids to realise that asking someone who isn't exactly known for his good manners to write thank you letters for them is essentially the equivalent of allowing a fox to guard a hen house, and turn down his offer.
Instead: They accept and let him write thank you letters for them, but Henry mails the letters as "fill-in-the-blank" papers.
The Result: Henry's customers are then punished for sending their relatives the letters. This causes them to complain to Henry just outside his front door, which makes him become outraged and slam the door.
- Henry is told to write a thank you letter to Rich Aunt Ruby for a cardigan she sent him (which he hates). After writing a brutally honest thank you letter to her, he gets the idea for a business of writing thank you letters for other people. Henry then persuades the kids to pay him for writing letters to their relatives.
- "Horrid Henry Peeks at Peter's Diary":
- Peter is writing a diary to read out to his class. Henry wants to know what's in it, but Peter won't tell him. When he does find it, Henry puts in some "improvements" to the diary's entries, which Peter notices on the day he reads his diary out loud.
You'd Expect: Peter to stop reading and explain that he didn't write this. Surely he would be allowed to have another shot, especially since this has happened before?
Instead: He decides to keep reading and ends up in big trouble.
- Peter is writing a diary to read out to his class. Henry wants to know what's in it, but Peter won't tell him. When he does find it, Henry puts in some "improvements" to the diary's entries, which Peter notices on the day he reads his diary out loud.
- "Horrid Henry and the Football Fiend":
- Miss Battle-Axe has two football tickets to a football match, and plans to give them to one of her students. They then hold a football match, in which the player of the match will receive the tickets. During the match, Henry keeps tripping players and hogging the ball, and even acts mad when Margaret trips him. Later on in the match, the students start copying what Henry did.
You'd Expect: Miss Battle-Axe to throw them (and Henry) out of the game, or at the very least give them a yellow or a red card.
Instead: She lets them keep playing, and gets distracted.
The Result: At the end of the match, Miss Battle-Axe criticises the students. She then declares herself the football fiend and gives the other ticket to her mother.
- Miss Battle-Axe has two football tickets to a football match, and plans to give them to one of her students. They then hold a football match, in which the player of the match will receive the tickets. During the match, Henry keeps tripping players and hogging the ball, and even acts mad when Margaret trips him. Later on in the match, the students start copying what Henry did.
- "Horrid Henry's Arch Enemy":
- Bossy Bill moves to Henry’s school and is placed into Henry's class, and Miss Battle-Axe wants him to know his way around the school by finding him a guide.
You'd Expect: She could pick one of the nicer classmates, like Kind Kassim.
Instead: Out of all of the students, she picks Horrid Henry, her worst student, merely because he is the only person with an empty chair next to him (likely because Miss Battle-Axe moved him to sit alone because he was misbehaving sat next to a friend). - Henry is not happy about being stuck with someone whose guts he hates.
You'd Expect: Henry to try to be friendly with Bill and hopefully make a new friend, or at the very least try not to act horrid to him at all.
Instead: He keeps trying to provoke Bill to try and get him expelled. He teases and pinches Bill, spreads rumours about him, and tries to get him to punch him.
The Result: Henry keeps getting into more trouble at school, and is banned from the computer for a week. He then blames his actions on Bossy Bill. - When Bill is off school due to a sore throat, Henry is told to mail him homework so that he doesn't fall behind. However, he gets the idea to make up homework, involving dropping eggs on his parents and making a mess around the house. He makes a plethora of spelling mistakes, though.
You'd Expect: Bill to notice the mistakes and sense something wrong.
Instead: Judging from what little we see, he apparently falls for it. The next day, his parents remove him from the school.
- Bossy Bill moves to Henry’s school and is placed into Henry's class, and Miss Battle-Axe wants him to know his way around the school by finding him a guide.
- Horrid Henry's Author Visit:
- TJ Fizz, Henry's favourite author, is coming to school. Henry is delighted, but he is feeling hungry. He has a packet of potato crisps, but knows that eating in class is not allowed.
You'd Expect: Henry to ask if he can go to the toilet, then sneak his crisps out. Surely, eating outside of the classroom won't get him in trouble.
Instead: He stealthily eats in the classroom. Henry's friends pester him for some crisps, and this results in him being caught and sent to Miss Lovely's room, where the author of Henry's least favourite book series is visiting.
Luckily: Henry manages to get back to his own classroom by pretending to be afraid of one of the author's props.
- TJ Fizz, Henry's favourite author, is coming to school. Henry is delighted, but he is feeling hungry. He has a packet of potato crisps, but knows that eating in class is not allowed.
- "Horrid Henry and the TV Remote":
- Henry decides to hide the remote so he can watch his favourite shows more often.
You'd Expect: Henry to hide it where he'll be likely to find it again, like his bedroom drawer. Or alternatively, something that could provide plausible deniability should someone find it, such as behind the TV.
Instead: He did hide it in a bucket of toy blocks no one has played with, but later on Mum gives the bucket to charity the next day, leaving the TV without a remote.
- Henry decides to hide the remote so he can watch his favourite shows more often.
- "Horrid Henry's Weekend":
- Henry is spending the weekend with his Rich Aunt Ruby. He is not happy, because it means he'll be spending the weekend with his cousin Stuck-Up Steve, whom he hates. When he overhears that Steve has a friend coming over, he's ecstatic, because he thinks he'll be able to trounce Steve. Unfortunately, the friend turns out to be Bossy Bill, and later, he and Steve dare Henry to jump off the top bunk of a bed onto a single bed.
You'd Expect: Henry to say no. Knowing Bill, this is likely an attempt to get him in trouble.
Instead: He falls for the ploy and jumps onto the bed. It breaks and he ends up not being allowed to go to the paintball party with Steve and Bill.
Then: Henry sees Steve and Bill laughing and realises they had sabotaged the bed. He claims to his parents that he didn't break the bed.
You'd Expect: Peter, having witnessed the whole thing, to side with his brother and claim that he did not break the bed. Surely seeing Peter vouch for his big brother's innocence would convince Mum that Henry didn't break the bed.
Instead: Peter proceeds to say "Yes, you did, Henry. I saw you." This statement then causes Henry to leap at Peter and pretend to be "a storm god", throwing thunderbolts at a foolish mortal. This doesn't improve his stand with his parents.
However: Henry manages to get revenge at Steve and Bill by tricking them into attending the party in their pyjamas.
- Henry is spending the weekend with his Rich Aunt Ruby. He is not happy, because it means he'll be spending the weekend with his cousin Stuck-Up Steve, whom he hates. When he overhears that Steve has a friend coming over, he's ecstatic, because he thinks he'll be able to trounce Steve. Unfortunately, the friend turns out to be Bossy Bill, and later, he and Steve dare Henry to jump off the top bunk of a bed onto a single bed.
- "Horrid Henry's Grump Card":
- Henry's parents have started giving out grump cards for spectacular behaviour. Grump cards allow their users to escape punishment, and Henry has never received one. Henry then plays with Peter to convince him to give him the grump cards that he has for good behaviour.
You'd Expect: Henry to be on his best behaviour and try to preserve the cards, or at the very least try not to use them all at once. Unless he decides to do a complete 180 in behaviour, his chances of ever getting a Grump Card again are (at best) pretty slim.
Instead: He acts like his usual self and keeps randomly using the grump cards. - Henry and Peter get into a fight on whose turn it is to use the computer. Mum tries to send Henry to his room and ban him from the computer, but he pulls out a grump card to show it to her. When she asks him where he got it, he tells her he got it for being good. Peter says that Henry tricked him and took his grump cards.
You'd Expect: Henry to explain that he'd played with Peter and tried to get along with him. Surely Mum would accept that as good behaviour and let him off the hook?
Instead: Henry flat-out denies tricking Peter, doesn't mention the games they played, and attacks Peter. This angers Mum to the point where she bans Henry from various things for a week, and forces him to go up to his room.
Then: When he tries to grab a grump card to prevent this from happening, Henry is unable to find one. He soon realises that he used them all up, in just one hour. Cue the Big "NO!".
- Henry's parents have started giving out grump cards for spectacular behaviour. Grump cards allow their users to escape punishment, and Henry has never received one. Henry then plays with Peter to convince him to give him the grump cards that he has for good behaviour.
TV Series
- "Horrid Henry's Fairy Dance":
- Henry tries to get Peter to use their father's best shirt for the material of his fairy wings. When Peter decides to do so, Henry is given the opportunity to get him into trouble, and then tells Mum.
You'd Expect: Mum to go to Peter and ask him what's going on and why he's using his father's best shirt.
Instead: She just nods it off.
- Henry tries to get Peter to use their father's best shirt for the material of his fairy wings. When Peter decides to do so, Henry is given the opportunity to get him into trouble, and then tells Mum.
- “Horrid Henry’s Underpants”:
- Henry pantses his friends Aerobic Al, Beefy Bert and Rude Ralph. After they get humiliated because of it, they decide to do the same thing to him as revenge when the perfect time comes.
You’d Expect: Them to try and do it when there are no parents or teachers about.
Instead: The first attempt they do to pull his trousers down is at home time, where there are parents picking their children up and teachers on duty.
- Henry pantses his friends Aerobic Al, Beefy Bert and Rude Ralph. After they get humiliated because of it, they decide to do the same thing to him as revenge when the perfect time comes.
- "Horrid Henry Tidies Up":
- Mum sets up a competition where whoever keeps their room tidy all week gets to decide which restaurant they go to on Saturday, with Henry choosing Gobble and Go and Peter choosing The Virtuous Veggie. On Friday, when Peter has four stars and Henry has none, Jolly Josh comes to visit and sets a trap in Peter's room with a fishing line tied around everything. When Mum goes to check Peter's room, Henry winds the line in, completely wrecking the room.
You'd Expect: Mum to ask Peter how his room got trashed and/or Peter to tell Mum how it happened.
Instead: She scolds Peter for his room being messy and Peter doesn't try to explain himself.
You'd Also Expect: Mum to give Henry one star for the day and Peter none, leaving Peter with four stars and declaring him the winner.
Instead: She takes away all of Peter's stars and gives them to Henry, resulting in Henry winning the competition.
However: When the family get to Gobble and Go, they find it has been taken over by Virtuous Veggie, so Peter wins in the end.
- Mum sets up a competition where whoever keeps their room tidy all week gets to decide which restaurant they go to on Saturday, with Henry choosing Gobble and Go and Peter choosing The Virtuous Veggie. On Friday, when Peter has four stars and Henry has none, Jolly Josh comes to visit and sets a trap in Peter's room with a fishing line tied around everything. When Mum goes to check Peter's room, Henry winds the line in, completely wrecking the room.
- "Horrid Henry's Secret Surprise":
- To stop Rich Aunt Ruby and Stuck-Up Steve from going to the surprise party which he thinks is for him, Henry phones Aunt Ruby to tell her the party's cancelled, then hangs up before she can ask what the reason is.
You'd Expect: Aunt Ruby to call Mum on her mobile to confirm Henry's telling the truth.
Instead: She apparently takes his word for it.
- To stop Rich Aunt Ruby and Stuck-Up Steve from going to the surprise party which he thinks is for him, Henry phones Aunt Ruby to tell her the party's cancelled, then hangs up before she can ask what the reason is.
- "Horrid Henry's Haircut":
- To get out of having a haircut, Henry puts on one of Razor Ron's wigs over his own hair.
You'd Expect: Ron to notice that Henry's wearing his wig and remove it.
Instead: He seemingly doesn't notice and gives the wig a haircut instead of Henry's hair.
Then: When Dad ruffles Henry's hair on the way home, the wig comes off, revealing Henry's real hair beneath.
The Result: Rabid Rebecca, now training to be a hairdresser, visits Henry's house and gives him a haircut.
- To get out of having a haircut, Henry puts on one of Razor Ron's wigs over his own hair.
- “Horrid Henry’s Horrible Homework”
- Henry finds a website that gives you random excuses for not doing your homework. They involve complicated subjects that you wouldn’t hear about very often. However, this backfired when Miss Battle-Axe decides to give a homework about a subject Henry found on the website and that if Henry of anyone else doesn’t do the homework, they will receive a Triple detention.
You’d Expect: Henry to simply look on the internet and do a little research about it.
Instead: Henry listens in on a conversation between Margaret and the Head of the Institute of Interglyco Genetics who is having dinner with Margaret and her parents. It would have been much easier and taken less time had Henry simply looked online and found a little bit of information. This also applies to Margaret. She claimed that the Head of the Institute was her fathers best friend, though there is a large age difference between them and considering how lucky the circumstances were, it’s very possible Margaret just ordered her father to pay the Head to come to dinner. It might have saved Margaret a very long and boring evening had she researched online.
- Henry finds a website that gives you random excuses for not doing your homework. They involve complicated subjects that you wouldn’t hear about very often. However, this backfired when Miss Battle-Axe decides to give a homework about a subject Henry found on the website and that if Henry of anyone else doesn’t do the homework, they will receive a Triple detention.
