Heather the Violet Fairy

**Heather the Violet Fairy** is the seventh and final fairy in the Rainbow Fairies.

## Plot

The seven Rainbow Fairies are missing! Rachel and Kirsty search for one in each RAINBOW MAGIC book. Read all seven books to help rescue the fairies and bring the sparkle back to Fairyland!

Fairyland is home to seven colorful sisters. Together, they are the Rainbow Fairies! They keep Fairyland dazzling and bright. But when evil Jack Frost sends them far away, the sisters are in big trouble. If they don't return soon, Fairyland is doomed to be gray forever!

The merry-go-round whisks Rachel and Kirsty away to a magical world. Could Heather the Violet Fairy have something to do with it?

Help the girls find the last Rainbow Fairy, and bring the color back to Fairyland!

## Profile

*Violet is often associated with intuition, and mysticism. Heather is into yoga and 'balancing her Chakras'. Like her colour, she's deep.*

## Appearance

Heather has wavy blonde shoulder-length hair with purple blossoms tucked behind her ear. She wears a knee-length violet dress with violet beaded necklace and bracelets and violet stockings and shoes. Her wings are round and violet-tinted. Her wand is described as "purple tipped with silver".

## Story Summary

On their last day on Rainspell Island, Rachel and Kirsty are flying a purple kite behind their vacation cottages. A slight tug draws their attention to a purple ribbon that’s appeared on the end of the kite tail, they reel it in and see that it reads “follow me”. The girls get permission to go exploring one last time before the ferry arrives, then let the ribbon blow in the breeze and follow it through a hedge to a small fair set up on a lawn. When it catches on the top of a merry-go-round, the girls hurry to look closer. The old man running the ride introduces himself as Tom Goodfellow; he has organised the fair.

The girls notice that the seven horses are all colours of the rainbow, and on the painted center pole more rainbow horses run along a beach. When the merry-go-round stops, the girls climb onto the last two horses - Kirsty on “Indigo Princess” and Rachel on “Prancing Violet”. The ride feels as if they’re riding the real horses in the painting, and when the horses stop again the girls begin searching for Heather the Violet Fairy, who turns out to be riding the violet horse in the painting. Tom Goodfellow directs the other children to a clown show, and Kirsty pulls a little golden paintbrush from her magic bag. Curious, she pokes at the painting, bringing a puff of violet fairy dust, then begins brushing all over the painting of Heather, lifting her right off the pole. The girls introduce themselves and tell Heather her sisters are all safe in the pot under the willow tree, and bring her there right away, with Kirsty carrying Heather.

At the pot, Izzy is the first to notice them, alerting the others. Heather is greeted by all her sisters and introduced to Queenie the bee, but then the nearby pond freezes over with a crackling sound. It isn’t goblins - they’re still in the Land of Sweets picking jellybeans. It’s Jack Frost himself! As he complains about the fairies being together, Ruby leads her sisters in a spell to create a wall of raindrops between them and Jack Frost, who simply turns the drops to ice. Before he can do anything else, Heather chants a spell to catch Jack in a large purple bubble from her wand. She then meets Fluffy the squirrel, who with Queenie looks quite sad to see the fairies go. Heather turns the girls into fairies, meaning to bring them to Fairyland to be properly thanked, but Jack Frost’s shout makes them pause - he’s melting inside the bubble. Although this would mean he couldn’t harm the fairies anymore, Sky points out that winter, and all the other seasons, couldn’t happen without Jack Frost, and the fairies all agree that they can’t let him melt. Instead, Sky casts a spell to transform the bubble into a snow globe, with Jack Frost now much smaller and still trapped, but no longer melting. Bertram the frog picks up the snow globe, and everyone climbs into the pot to be whisked away to Fairyland on a rainbow from all seven fairies’ wands.

When the fairies land, they join their magic together to create a magical rainstorm that brings colour flooding back into every part of Fairyland. They, Bertram, and the girls receive a warm welcome at the palace, and Queen Titania thanks the girls for all they’ve done. King Oberon makes Jack Frost promise never to harm the Rainbow Fairies again before he’s released from the snow globe, and Jack Frost agrees so long as he’s invited to the next Midsummer Ball, before leaving on a sleigh made of ice. The king and queen thank the girls again, remind them to keep looking for magic, and send them back to Rainspell Island on another rainbow, turning them back into humans at the same time. Back at the cottages, the girls’ mothers tell them to check and make sure they didn’t leave anything behind, and each girl finds a small snow globe filled with rainbow coloured fairy dust. The series ends with the girls promising never to forget each other or their fairy adventures.

## Trivia

* She was trapped in a painting on a Merry-go-Round.
* In this book, Rachel and Kirsty have their first meeting with Jack Frost.
* Her fairy dust is violet blossoms.
* In the movie *Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island*, she is voiced by Clarie Morgan.
* Heather's magic allows her to create fizzing violet bubbles. These can grow large enough to trap Jack Frost.
* She loves to meditate.

### Etymology

Heather's name comes from the shrub, heather. Heather is a heath (a shrub) that grows mauve-coloured flowers.