Laurie McCartney

"*They're more than just animals, they're my family…and I won't let you hurt them.*"
—Lexy to DuBois

"*A happy ending is a new beginning.*"
—Final line
**Laurelei Jaime "Laurie" McCartney** is the human protagonist of *Madagascar* franchise, starting in *Madagascar*

to *Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted* and the deuteragonist in *Penguins of Madagascar*.

## Background

### Early life

Laurie was born in 1994 to Lola and Robbie in
Cleveland, Ohio. After the death of her parents, Laurie and her brother, Logan,
go to move in with their paternal aunt, who is the owner of the Central Park
Zoo. Her mother was descended from the Dryads; people who knew had the ability
to talk to animals.

## In Madagascar

Laurie later finds herself on a ship to Madagascar, and awakens to find the people she was friends with are there. However, teh penguins' future enemy, the North Wind had put her on the ship to ensure her safety from their greater enemy. There, she is the fourth friend to land there, finding Alex there and Gloria and Melman.

### Physical appearance

Laurie has somewhat of a Goth-like feature to her.
Despite being thirteen, Laurie has a bit of an adult-like appearance, wearing
blue high-heel boots. She has black jeans, and blue skirt with a one-hand black
glove. She was five foot two and then shrank to ten inches. Her blonde hair is
usually in a ponytail.

### Personality

Being only thirteen years old, Laurie is a very
adventurous and spirited individual. She can't wait for a great adventure
beyond the Atlantic Sea. This adventure starts when she finds herself stranded
on an island. A special ability for her is that she can understand animals, and
no one ever understands her except for her animal family. Her adventures often
lead to most of her friends (especially Skipper, Kowalski, Private and Rico)
being a bit protective of her. She is at first unaccepted by Alex's father but widely accepted by his mother. Zuba distrusts Laurie until she saves him and his son from the other humans.

She considers all animals (not the nasty ones) as her family. She will hurt anyone who hurts them in return.

## Relationships

### Alex

***Main article: Alex and Laurie***

He is Laurie's brother sometimes father figure.

### Melmen

Melmen is her father figure

Laurie and him have known each other since the day Laurie was brought to live with her aunt, Megan. Since her parents died in a car crash recently, and that Melman and Gloria were married later on, they adopt Laurie as well as their giraffe  and hippo sons and daughter.

### Kowalski

Kowalski usually upsets Laurie, even when she is
shrunken to their size.

### Skipper

Skipper is more protective of Laurie than the others,
mostly because she is only a human child and because she is female. She is also
one of the few humans who only literally understand them. When it is revealed she was kidnapped with them and shrank, Skipper along with others had assumed that she just was left in New York and risks his life to save the girl. She considers him a
friend and a family member

## Trivia

* Laurie is one of the few characters in the gang who have a last name. The first character is Melman.

* She is the second youngest of the group, and older than Private (human age wise)

## Family members

* Oliver Prescott (husband)

* Hannah Abigail (daughter)
* Sylvia (daughter)