Characters / Harry Potter and the Boiling Isles

The Boiling Isles

The Owl House Crew

Harry Potter

• Adaptation Name Change: Downplayed. Being also named after his maternal grandfather, Harry's full name here is Harry James Dell Potter.
• Commonality Connection: Harry bonds with Luz very quickly over both being friendless loners until they stumbled upon a magical world.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Harry genuinely doesn't understand why people caring about him react so badly to the tidbits he casually reveals regarding his childhood in Privet Drive.
• Deadpan Snarker: We get hints of the sass Harry displayed in the books:
  Luz, talking about Mattholomule: Wow, you were right, Gus, he is a little jerk.
  Mattholomule: If I had a snail for every time I've been called that.
  Harry: Yeah, if only. Then you could maybe buy yourself a voice that doesn't make people's ears bleed.
  • Also shown in other occasions, such as when he first meets Hunter:
    Hunter: Well, human, I don’t see how it’s your place to question the decisions of Emperor Belos.
    Harry: If they’re stupid decisions like that, I bloody well will.
    Hunter: Think you're clever do you? The Emperor's goals go far beyond the understanding of even the wisest of witches. You’re just a child-
    Harry: Well, you're just a teenager.
    Hunter: Are all humans so insolent? You should know not to mouth off to your betters.
    Harry: Good to know. Once I see my betters I'll get right on that.
• Height Angst: Word Of God puts Harry at 4'6. He's quite small for his age and neither the narration nor other characters let him forget it, much to his chagrin. So much so that when he switches bodies with Luz and gains about a foot in height, Harry quickly tells her not to take it away from him when she tries to say she's not that tall.
• Instant Expert: Harry started learning to play the flute during Christmas time, and by the summer he's apparently skilled enough to play it and be considered good by an expert bard like Raine, and even writes his own music.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Or rather "mother", in this case. Whereas Lilith is tall, regal, well-kept, straight-faced, strict, and morally questionable to say the least, Harry is small, modest, wild, emotional, with a certain disregard for the rules, flexible, and rather morally upstanding for the most part.
• Locked Out of the Loop: He doesn't have a clue that Lilith is his mother, and the growing number of people who do know (Eda, Lilith, Darius, Eberwolf, and Belos by the time of Chapter 23) are knowingly keeping it from him.
• Magic Music: Harry takes to Bard magic and by Chapter 24 it's clear that he's starting to get the hang of it, being able to make magical constructs of solid sound and make small objects move to his music.
• Messy Hair: Harry's hair is frequently described as wild and untamable. Eda says that all Clawthornes have thick and messy hair, remarking in her thoughts that Harry has definitely inherited it, and that his is even messier than her's was at his age. Given that he's also a Potter, Harry's hair is definitely untamable by any comb.
• Nephewism: Harry's summer caretaker is (unknowingly) his aunt Eda, while his real mother Lilith avoids him and fears telling him the truth of their relationship. Though aunt and nephew by blood, Harry clearly comes to view Eda as something of a mother-figure over time, and she considers him one of her kids.
• Nice Guy: The kid has a big heart and morals, perhaps even just a smidge more than his canon-counterpart. In the books Harry was quite okay with a lot of questionable and even downright cruel things (Montague and the Vanishing Cabinet, Marietta's pimples), as long as they happened to people he thought deserved it. Here, after getting an insight into how his retaliation affected Amity, that part of him seems to take a bit of a backseat.
• Past Experience Nightmare: Harry has this seemingly every night after his run in with the Dementors in the Monster Island maze, reliving the deaths of James and Lily.
• Signature Instrument: The carved wooden flute he received from Hagrid last Christmas is on its way to become this. Harry secretly taught himself how to play it for fun and even Raine thinks he's quite good at it.
• Older Than They Look: Harry is almost twelve, but he is often mistaken for a ten-year old (and Darius thinks that's being generous).
• Uneven Hybrid: Downplayed. Harry should be half-human half-witch, however, the Clawthorne's do have a single human ancestor in the form of Caleb Wittebane. It is implied that this is the reason Harry overall appears to be human, albeit a magical one. Still, despite looking human, Harry can draw (admittedly faulty) Spell Circles and has some affinity for Bard and Beast Keeping magic. Lilith and Eda themselves are unsure of exactly what Harry is.

Luz Noceda

• Affectionate Nickname: Often calls Harry "little dude".
• Big Sister Instinct: Luz quickly develops this towards Harry. Being two years older than him she takes on a bit of a Cool Big Sis role. Just like in canon, this also applies to King, and to a slightly lesser extent Ron as well.
• Bile Fascination: Luz mentions the term In-Universe, in regards how she has always been drawn to the odd and off-putting. In her own words, things like ghosts, ghouls and shed snakeskin all got "charisn'tma".
• Commonality Connection: Right in the first chapter, Luz quickly connects with and bonds with Harry. Both of them feel shunned and out-of-place where they've grown up, and both found belonging and friends in a hidden magical world.
• Cuteness Proximity: Luz has no problems cooing over things, people, and acts she finds adorable.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Is occasionally jealous at how Harry and Ron are human but have inherent magic, while she has to struggle just to find the glyphs.
• Guilt Complex: Even before everything that happened with Belos in canon, Luz here has a clear tendency to blame everything on herself. When faced with a big challenge, her POV often repeats how she just wants to do something right for once instead of causing trouble for everyone else.
• Nice Girl: Maybe even moreso than in canon. Harry even has problems believing that the could have a Friendless Background at first because she's just so sweet and friendly.
• Took a Level in Badass: Luz finds the Plant glyph far earlier than she did in canon, and uses it effectively to save herself, Eda, and King from the Dementor in the maze.

Ron Weasley

• Adaptational Badass: In canon, Ron does have the occasional moment of brilliance, but he's generally a Butt-Monkey who's always Overshadowed by Awesome in every aspect of his life and struggles with self-esteem issues because of it. In this fic, he's completely lost his Butt-Monkey tendencies and is consistently portrayed as an ingenious and competent Guile Hero who sees connections and finds solutions that everyone else misses. It probably has something to do with how he's treated with a lot more warmth and respect at the Boiling Isles than he ever was in the wizarding world; so while still harboring a number of insecurities he's far less likely to let those insecurities get the better of him.
• Big Eater: Perhaps even more than in canon. Ron is the only human with no problems eating Not-Dogs, and if King is to be believed, he once ate an eight-pound block of fudge in twelve minutes.
• Commonality Connection: Ron bonds and gets along very well with Gus. In Chapter 21 they reveal to each other how they both feel overlooked, but even moreso they both feel alone and unable to truly connect with others; Ron because he feels mediocre and behind everyone else, and Gus because of his intelligence and young age.
• The Blind Leading the Blind: When discussing non-magic human things with Gus. For example Ron confidently corrects him in saying that Luz's smartphone is not called a "phune" but a fellytone.
• Guile Hero: To a much bigger degree than in canon, expanding on his role as a tactician but also showing that he is Fred and George's brother. Ron brings a whole lot of the twins' prank items with him to the Boiling Isles and shows quite a bit of creative thinking in using them, like tricking some thugs into eating Canary Creams or using Hair Fudge to grow a beard and pass for a dwarf.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Apparently, Ron can play the trumpet, and does the intro to Fred and George's radio show.
  • Though by no means the bookish type, Ron enjoys good stories and it is later revealed that he on occasion writes fanfiction about the Chudley Canons with a self-insert named Jon Measley.
• Secret-Keeper: Ron wants to tell the others, but after Harry demanded it, he promises to keep what the Dementors made Harry see a secret.
• Took a Level in Badass: By the time of chapter 20, Ron finally gets a handle on the Abomination magic he has been studying in secret.

Eda Clawthorne

• Accidental Misnaming: Eda frequently refers to Hogwarts as "Hogwash", though it's revealed later she only does it to mess with Harry and Ron.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: While in the original show Eda never seems too torn up over how bad her relationship with Lilith has gotten, her POV in this story makes it clear that Eda is saddened and genuinely miss how close she and her sister once were.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Frequently pats the kids' heads or ruffles their hair.
• Big Little Sister: Though actually two years younger than Lilith, the curse has accelerated Eda's aging to make her look old and grey.
• Children Raise You: Eda remarks to herself many times how the presence of the kids is changing her (though she probably wouldn't admit they're changing her for the better).
• Crossover Relatives: All Eda knew was that she had a nephew somewhere that she'd never met. She had no idea said nephew was a human, or a wizard, and certainly not that he was the very came human wizard she an Luz happened to pick up one day.
• Cunning People Play Poker: Eda is master criminal with no shortage of cunning, and it seems her playing poker with Ron (and Scabbers, apparently) is a regular occurrence.
• Distracted by My Own Sexy: While doing a body-swap, Eda is quite vocal about admiring her own body. Given that Luz is currently in said body and Eda is in Harry's - the body of her nephew and an eleven-year old boy - the whole thing is creepy and is commented as such by passerby. Funny, but creepy.
• Honorary Aunt: Even before she discovers that she's his biological aunt, Eda kind of takes on this role to Harry after posing as his aunt for the Weasleys.
• Lethal Chef: Despite being skilled at Potions, Eda is a horrible cook, outright saying that she'd make "Chernobyl look like a firecracker" if she did anything more advanced than boiling an egg.
• Mama Bear: Don't mess with her kids. The moment Eda thinks they're in danger or anyone's hurt them, she's quick to anger and promises of bloody, messy retribution.
• Parental Substitute: Harry, Luz, Ron and King all think of her as a parental figure, and Eda reciprocates. In Chapter 23 Ron straight up refers to her as their "surrogate mother-figure" quite casually, and in the same chapter Harry's POV reveals he thinks of Eda as the closest thing to a mother he's ever had.
• Secret-Keeper: Eda knows about Harry being Lilith's son and agrees to keep it secret, if only because she's afraid of hurting him and doesn't want to be the one who has to tell Harry.
• So Proud of You: Whenever the kids do something that genuinely impresses her, Eda doesn't hesitate to show it, often in the form of hair-ruffles, pats on the back, noggies, and the occasional "That's my boy/girl!".

King

• Hidden Depths: King is childish, a little bit of a Cloudcuckoolander and has no sense of subtlety, but he can be very insightful all the same.
• Tyrant Takes the Helm: He tries this with the garden gnomes at the Burrow, declaring himself their king and starting to give orders. It doesn't work.

Hooty

• The Friend Nobody Likes: All other occupants of the Owl House have very little patience for Hooty.
• Grammar Nazi: Reveals himself to be this while being the editor for Luz, Ron, and King's book.
  Hooty: You split an infinitive?! Hoot-rageous! Do it again!
• Hidden Depths: For all his shrill, cheerful tomfoolery, Hooty has surprisingly cultured interests.
  • He loves the works of Shakespeare and enjoys attempting one-man productions of his works like Hamlet.
  • Hooty is also adept at playing the piano using his tongue, according to himself, and can "play Vivaldi's Four Seasons like it's nobody's business, hoot hoot!"
  • He's later revealed to be a skilled cook, and gives some decent advice to Luz, Ron, and King when they've got writer's block.

The Hexsquad

Amity Blight

Willow Park

Gus Porter

• Adaptational Intelligence: While he was no slouch in canon, there Gus only skipped two grades whereas in this story he skipped four, being in the same class as the Blight Twins.
• Commonality Connection: Gus bonds and gets along very well with Ron. In Chapter 21 they reveal to each other how they both feel overlooked, but even moreso they both feel alone and unable to truly connect with others, Gus because of his intelligence and young age, and Ron because he feels mediocre and behind everyone else.
• Smart People Play Chess: Gus immediately takes a liking to the game after Ron introduces it, and they often play together over a cup of tea on the afternoons.

The Emperor's Coven

Emperor Belos/ Philip Wittebane

• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: After defeating the infamous and powerful Witch King, Belos was made ruler of the Boiling Isles.
• Benevolent Dictator: Is viewed as this by most of the Isles. As described in Lilith's POV:
  A hero, a saviour, a guiding hand - not feared but loved.
• The Emperor: Right there in the title.
• Modest Royalty: He is noted for not wearing any needless extravagance such as a crown or jewels, only plain white robes and his golden mask to hide his face.
• Reluctant Ruler: Is supposedly this, in that Lilith claims Belos initially refused the crown, but was practically forced onto the throne by the witches and demons who were desperate for peace after the Witch King's war. Of course, this is Belos we're talking about, so how genuine his reluctance was is up in the air.

Lilith Clawthorne

• Anti-Villain: Lilith loves and covets the power and authority she holds as Head Witch, and gladly uses it for her own benefit. She serves a dictator and is actively attempting to capture her sister. She isn't above cheating just to get her way. She is controlling and can be rude, dismissive and cold to people and practices she considers beneath her. She essentially abandoned her son, and one could even argue that she is partly responsible for Harry suffering ten years of misery at the Dursleys' hands. However, Lilith is shown frequently at least trying to be friendly with her estranged sister, protecting her son from danger. At the end of the day it is clear she means well and only wants what's best for her family (or at least what she considers best for her family). She truly believes that she is doing good by serving Emperor Belos.
• Beneath the Mask: For her supposed maturity, Lilith can be petty and childish. Above even that, through her POV it becomes clear that despite her prestige as Head Witch and the way she caries herself with confidence and elegance, Lilith has a very low self-esteem:
  Titles, influence, power, superiority, magic; no matter how much Lilith decorated herself in these things, something ugly and rotten had always cowered beneath it, inside of her, even when she was a girl.
• Deadpan Snarker: Despite her well-kept bearing and belief that she is the pinnacle of maturity, Lilith has her moments of snark.
  Ron: If you give Harry a hard time, you'll have to deal with us.
  Lilith: Oh, well, I'm terrified now. Yes, I suppose thirty years of Coven training has just been a warm-up compared to you three. Two humans and a mutt with sad delusions of grandeur - why, I'm quaking in my boots.
• Guilt Complex: Guilt is described in her POV as an old friend. Lilith suffers immense self-loathing for cursing Eda and, despite all her sneering and condescension, clearly hates herself for it. This guilt is then amped up to eleven once she learns how exactly Harry got his scar and sees through magic vision that something dark is festering inside it...
• Hypocrite: Tells Vitimir that, unlike him, she honours her promises... only to later tell Emperor Belos about how Harry survived Voldemort trying to kill him, even though she promised him not to say a word about it.
• Mama Bear: Lilith, for all her failings, is clearly protective of her son. When Darius makes some very thinly veiled comments about Harry's safety, thinking he's threatening her child, it enrages Lilith so much that she casually throws a wooden table against a wall with such force that it turns to splinters, immediately thereafter promising Darius that if he as much as looks in Harry's direction she will make sure reduce him to a stain. And when Vitimir later takes an interest in Harry for his experiments, Lilith doesn't hesitate to fight him off, and would have killed him if Harry himself hadn't talked her down.
• My Beloved Smother: Downplayed. While interacting with him or those he lives with, Lilith comes off as overprotective of Harry, fussing over his health, and also acts bossy and condescending at times. However, fact of the matter is she still leaves Harry with Eda, and doesn't really check in on him except for occasionally sending her palisman.
• The Resenter: As much as she feels guilty over what happened between her and her sister, Lilith does show resentment towards Eda for multiple reasons, eventually including how Harry - her own son - clearly adores Eda while Lilith is practically a stranger to him (though to be fair, that is of her own making).

The Golden Guard

• Adaptational Early Appearance: Appears in Chapter 23, about the time "Sense and Insensitivity" takes place in canon, much earlier than his first canonical appearance.

Coven Heads

Darius Deamonne

• Affectionate Nickname: Downplayed. Eda calls him "Dar-Dar" but it's obviously meant as ridicule.
• Berserk Button: Never insult the way Darius dresses.
• Translator Buddy: Occasionally has to be this for Eberwolf, who only speaks Beast-tongue.

Eberwolf

• Adaptational Gender Identity: While Eberwolf's gender was never outwardly stated in the original show, Dana Terrace and her crew primarily referred to the character using he/him pronouns. In this story, Eberwolf goes by they/them.
• Animal Lover: Eberwolf adores and respects all living creatures, and it is something they find essential to Beast Keeping magic as a whole.
• The Beast Master: They're Head Witch of the Beast Keeping Coven for a reason, though they themself hold firm that it's more about respect and favors than actual control.
• Breath Weapon: Of the Fire variety. Implied to have Inherited the spell from a dragon, Eberwolf can breathe actual dragonfire.

Vitimir Addersfork

• Bad People Abuse Animals: We first encounter him gleefully flaying a chimaera and harvesting its organs while it's alive. Given Lilith's reaction, this is far from the first time he's done something like this.
• Bloody Murder: Sort of. When Harry sicks snakes on him, its remarked that Vitimir doesn't bleed, but rather that some yellow pus leaks from the bite marks. Whatever it is, it causes the snakes who bit him - venomous snakes from the infamously deadly Boiling Isles - to die quite painfully instead.
• Breath Weapon: Of the Poison variety. Apparently called his "Burning Breath", Vitimir can expel a gas from his mouth which can melt Abominations and cause unbelievable damage to one's lungs, described as shredding them and making it feel as if knives cut the inside of your throat with every breath.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Clearly enjoys inflicting this on animals, and is strongly implied to subject witches to it as well.
• Mad Scientist: He is obsessed with deepening his knowledge of potions and ingredients, and has no qualms about doing all kinds of horrendous experiments to do so.
• Named by the Adaptation: Downplayed. His last name is revealed to be "Addersfork".
• Professor Guinea Pig: While he loves experimenting on others, he's just as willing to experiment on himself, to the point that when a bunch of snakes he had captive break free and bite him, they die because he's "more poison than witch", as Lilith puts it.
• Reformed Criminal: Claims to be this. Having been "fished from the blackest cells of the Conformatorium" and officially pardoned by Emperor Belos for his crimes, said crimes being murder and implied torture for his experiments. It is clear, however, that he still murders and tortures to his heart's content, albeit more covertly.
• Would Hurt a Child: and does. He goes after Harry, an eleven-year old, with his poisonous breath which is described as extremely painful, and could have destroyed Harry's lungs completely. Vitimir was also eager and quite happy to disect Harry, and would have done so if Lilith hadn't fought him off.

Hexside

Viney

Principal Bump

Dobby

• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: After being freed, Dobby can admit to Harry that his former owners were bad, foul Dark wizards, and that their garden parties were subpar at best.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: He kind of becomes one to Principal Bump after joining Hexside's staff as a custodian. It's kind of a case of Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond because Dobby's competency levels is fairly average for a house-elf... But since Hexside has never had a house-elf before, he comes across as the world's best custodian.
• Loophole Abuse: How he ends up freed. Dobby's terms of enslavement says he has to serve the Malfoys "as long as he walks this Earth" (unless he's presented with clothes, of course). When he followed Harry and Ron to the Boiling Isles, he ended up in a different realm and as such he was no longer walking "this Earth".

Others

The Wizarding World

The Weasley Family

• Berserk Button: Never mess with Molly's shrubberies — especially not her "laurel shrubberies with the two-level effect and the lovely path down the middle!”
• Small Role, Big Impact: Fred and George only appear in one chapter so far, but Ron has brought a number of their joke items to the Boiling Isles, and those items end up playing a crucial role in several chapter plots.
• Unfazed Everyman: Well, as much as this can apply to a family of wizards, it applies to them. When King inadvertently sets an army of garden gnomes on the Burrow, they just treat fighting them off as a fun family exercise. Molly even plans on sitting this one out because she's in the middle of reading Holidays with Hags — but joins in when she finds out that the gnomes are threatening to destroy her shrubberies.

Others

Hermione Granger

• Put on a Bus: Hermione's parents move to France after her first year at Hogwarts, making her come with them and attend Beauxbatons instead. It's never said directly, but it's implied that it's because of the troll incident and the Philosopher's Stone situation, and that her parents just decided Hogwarts was too dangerous for her.

James Potter

• Affectionate Nickname: He called Lily "Lily Flower."
• Posthumous Character: James is, of course, dead in the present day. We get to see Lilith's memories of him, though.

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