Elliott Cohen (books)

**Elliott Cohen** is part of the fifth-grade Upside-Down Magic class at Dunwiddle Magic School. He is one of Nory's best friends.

## Appearance

Elliott is a tall, skinny boy with big, curly blonde hair. He seems to dress like an average kid, since his clothes are yet to be mentioned. He wears his swim trunks in tutoring with Ms. Cruciferous.

## About/Abilities

Elliott is an upside-down Flare. He is capable of weak flaring, but his freezing abilities are much more powerful. Elliott is a chatty boy who can be more than a little suspicious. He does not trust the Sparkies, his ex-best friends. He is a good companion, and both Nory and Willa are jealous of the other when Elliott is involved. He likes to fill silence with questions.

## Personality

Elliott is very social. He’s totally fine with going up to anyone and talking it’s them about anything. He’s very talkative, Nory found him a little bit annoying at first because he kept asking too many questions. In Dragon Overnight, he befriends kids from the other school quickly since he’s a very likable guy who finds it easy to make friends. He’s described as talking too much and asking too many questions, but still having a kind heart and the right intentions. As seen especially in the fifth book, Elliot is friends with many people in his class and wants them to get along. He became upset at one point when two of his friends began fighting.

While Elliot seems to be very loyal to his friends, this trait could possibly have a negative side- as he was initially unable to let go of his friendship with the Sparkies, even when they were unkind to him. His determination to be friends with them meant that he tried to reject his freezing abilities in hopes that the Sparkies would accept him. During this time, he seemed to adopt a negative opinion about about having unusual abilities, and acted sullen towards Nory, who he believed was responsible for the Sparkies' behavior towards him. He eventually accepted his freezing abilities, and following, he perhaps became even more loyal to his other friends.

## History

### Pre-Series

Elliott's fourth-grade friendships deteriorated after his magic came in. He was the first member of the UDM class to mention the Sparkies, who are his enemies. They melted his bike tires at one point.

Elliot has lived in the area of Dunwiddle for his whole life, and knew many of the UDM kids prior to the start of their class.

### *Upside-Down Magic*

Elliott was not happy about the Upside-Down Magic program and told Nory negative stories about their classmates before the first day of school.

### *Hide and Seek*

At the end of the book, Elliott is invited to attend Sage Academy because he may be Flare/Freezer, and because he helped save Stone Horace from skunks.

### *Night Owl!*

Nory mentions she will miss Elliott when he decicded to attend Sage Academy.

## Trivia

* Elliott is the only member of the UDM class to have serious problems with his pre-series friends.
* He is one of 6 UDM students, along with Bax, Willa, Marigold, Pepper, and Andres, to play an instrument, in his case, guitar.
* He seems to be afraid of dragons.
* "Elliott" is a variety of "Elijah", which means "the Lord is my God".
* He is the only UDM student to have a typo on a page. It said Elliot instead of Elliott. This occurred in Showing Off.
* He is one of the eight UDM students from the books to appear in the film alongside Nory, Andres, and Pepper.
* He is the first double talent with Upside-Down Magic shown in the series (revealed in *Hide and Seek*).