This article catalogs the key characters from the books in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage.
The good and the bad characteristics are accompanied by the dull and the intelligent, the silly with the mature and the unapproachable with the loving.
They are, but by highlighting certain aspects of their personality, she makes it easy for the reader to think of real people in terms of these characters.
Thus an evil principal becomes the necromancer, the dead queen loved grandparent, Septimus as the most intelligent but quiet boy in class and Jenna, perhaps, as the new best friend in the neighbourhood" - Dawn.com[1]The Heaps are the main characters in the series.
Although the story revolves mainly around the protagonist Septimus and his sister Jenna, the whole family comes together in the adventures.
Silas was apprenticed to former ExtraOrdinary Wizard Alther Mella but left his apprenticeship, thus losing the title to Marcia Overstrand.
She studied with the Physik woman, Galen, about Magykal herbs and plants and it was there that Silas Heap met her while getting lost in the forest one day.
He betrayed his family in the second book Flyte by joining the evil necromancer DomDaniel and made a bargain with the dead necromancer—to restore him to life, if he's taken on as the next Apprentice to the ExtraOrdinary Wizard.
According to Fantasy Literature review, he's like the typical bad-guy who makes the mistake of not killing his enemies straight-away.
He has a medium-build figure, with the characteristic green eyes of a wizard and the curly straw-colored hair of the Heap family, and has a happy and helpful disposition.
[6] The eponymous protagonist of the series, Septimus spent the first ten years of his life in the Young Army as Boy 412 after DomDaniel attempted to abduct him.
Adopted by the Heap family as a baby in place of Septimus, Jenna is actually the daughter of the assassinated Queen, and thus a Princess.
She is of medium-build, often wears a tent-like dress (which gives her a dumpy appearance), and has a shock of flyaway grey hair, a wrinkled smiling face, and the bright blue eyes of a White Witch.
In Syren, Zelda sends Wolf-Boy for an errand to The Port Witch Coven, the success of which will entitle him to be a Keeper.
[7] In Fyre, she begins to become forgetful and later reveals that she has lost one of the bowls that are used to save the Dragon Boat as the Marsh Python ate it.
She then leaves Wolf Boy (now known as Marwick) to be the Keeper as she realises that she is too old and it is her time to die, and goes to visit with her brothers Benjamin and Theo Heap in the Forest as her final resting place.
In Magyk there is an instance when Theo is blown in by a storm and sits on the cottage's roof seeing Zelda see Septimus Heap's (he was Boy 412 then) true identity and family in the pond.
Alther has always shared romantic feelings for Alice Nettles, former Chief Customs Officer, and stays with her ghost in front of the Palace.
[8] Snorri is an independent and somewhat mysterious young Northern Trader, who comes to the Castle to trade her goods and find her father's ghost.
In a review by Katie Dickinson of Waterstones.com, she said that the character was interesting and she hoped that Snorri and her mysterious cat would stay on in the series.
Beetle is the General Dogsbody and Inspection Clerk in the Magykal Manuscriptorium and Spell Checkers Incorporated and is well loved by all.
He is bitten by the aie-aie and affected by the plague which spread in the Castle in Physik but recovered from it by the medicine brewed by Septimus.
After he was fired from the Manuscriptorium by chief scribe Jillie Djinn for discussing Manuscriptorium business in front of Jenna and for saying unflattering things about Jillie Djinn, Beetle joined Septimus and Jenna to bring back Nicko and Snorri from the House of Foryx.
After his apprenticeship, Merrin is continuously looked down by DomDaniel who always expects him to do brilliant magic (thinking him to be Septimus), which he fails to do.
He took a job in the Manuscriptorium and joined hands with a ghost, Tertius Fume, to send Septimus on a deadly Queste.
At present, Stanley is working to set up the Secret Service Message agency again by taking Jenna's permission.
He seems to dislike having to interact with the outside world, as he understands so little of the modern time and prefers staying at home, though he is on good terms with Septimus and Jenna, who resembles his long gone sister Esmeralda.
"[4][14] Better known as Boy 409, he is a friend of Septimus from the Young Army who got almost drowned one night in an expedition to the Forest, and was left for dead.
In book 5 aka Syren she was captured by the port witch coven but escaped along with Wolf-Boy, only to run into more trouble on The Marauder.
She storms The Cerys along with Jenna, Septimus, and Wolf-boy when it became overrun with Skipper Fry and The Crowe Twins, and also saves Miarr's life.