Minor Characters in the Dawn of Magic

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The following is a list of characters that do not fit the guidelines for receiving their own page, whether it be due to lack of a name, proper history, or other matters. This page lists minor characters from the Dawn of Magic.

## Characters

### Oliver Greenfield

Oliver is part of the large group of boys—that include Kevin and Ethan—that Adira and her friends spy on.

### Robby Schonlau

Robby is a German shephard dog and is part of the large group of boys Adira and her friends spy on. He is mistakenly described as being Ian's brother, when in real life, Robby was just a friend to Ian. Robby breaks up Ethan and Nathan from arguing about Emma, the girl Ian liked. When Kian says he smells someone, Robby flashes back that it's probably someone in the group. After Robby and his friends follow the scent but can't find anyone, Robby forgives Kian.

### Kian Nielson

Kian is a cougar with long, curved fangs. He is part of the large group of boys Adira and her friends spy on. Adira mentions that he had had a crush on her since fourth grade. Kian smells the girls and declares someone is spying on them. He encourages his friends to find Adira and her friends, but they run away too fast. Kian glares at Edmund when he laughs at him.

### Edmund Shurtleff

Edmund is a barn owl and is part of the large group of boys Adira and her friends spy on. Adira describes him as weird. When Kian leads the boys over to the vacant hiding spot Adira watched the boys from, Edmund laughs at Kian.

### Emma Li

A sixth-grader girl and a silky brown miniature horse. Nathan and Ethan bicker over whether Emma is nerdy when they discuss their crushes. Ian admits to liking Emma. At a sixth grade party, she tells Adira and her friends that the party is starting.

### Kesley Smith

A giraffe in Adira's class. She has a hard time taking notes, but her friend Sydney helps her. Kesley tells Adira that she's joining choir so she doesn't have to try to play an instrument with her hooves. In the second chapter, Adira again expresses pity towards Kesley.

### Sydney

Kesley's friend who helps her take notes in class.

### Mrs. Werner

Adira, Bekah, and Ethan's band teacher at school.

### Trombone lady

The lady with the trombone that helps Adira make a sound on the instrument.

### Clarinet lady

The lady with the clarinet that helps Adira make a sound on it. She laughs when Adira blows too hard into it, and the clarinet makes a piercing squeak. She was described as a badger in an earlier draft of the chapter.

### Mrs. Quebman

Adira's fifth grade music instructor who taught the class how to play recorders.

### Mrs. Yardley

Adira's science teacher. In real life, she tragically passed away during a minor surgery.

### Mrs. Neilson

Adira's social studies teacher. On a Friday afternoon, she hosts a movie in her classroom and gives the students airheads. Note that this actually happened in real life to Adira in sixth grade.

### Kyla Glazier

Adira's friend who, during class rotations, sits in Ethan's desk. Adira lies to her class that the note she wrote was for Kyla, when in reality, it was for Ethan.

### Katrina

A beautiful, slender fox and Adira's cousin. When asked if she wants to get lunch at the pool, she is the only one to say yes. She cordinates a meetup location with the Adira, Rachel, and Joseph after they have finished eating. After their lunch, she goes to the wave pool and asks how Adira's birthday went, to which she replies that it was the best.

### Adira's aunt

She picks up Rachel and Adira while they are walking home in stormy weather in her car; this is based off an actual experience Adira had in sixth grade. Although not mentioned in the story, the author Adira has confirmed that Adira's aunt is Katrina's mom.

### Dad Hunter

A cougar and Adira's father. Because he worked for New Beauties (a parody of NuSkin), the company invited all the families that worked for them for a pre-paid day at the Lagoon Amusement Park. While there, he takes the three older kids to get food and yells at Adira to come back after she runs off after smelling the sloppy joes. He tells her not to get more than two cups of soda, but Adira ignores him. Then, he takes Joseph on the scarier rides.

### Jacob Hunter

Jacob's mom pushes the stroller he and his younger brother are in while at Lagoon. When he joins the rest of his family eating dinner, he is screaming, which causes Rachel to flatten her ears and hiss at him. He rides rollercoasters with Matthew and screams in delight.

### Lion cub

A lion cub visiting the waterfall wanders behind it and discovers a door before it abruptly vanishes.

### Mother of the lion cub

The mother follows her child behind the waterfall. She then hears grunts and scratches coming from behind the wall where the door once was, concluding that it must've come from a large animal.

### School principal

During an assembly, he thanks a student named Brittany for performing a dance piece for the school. He then reads off who won awards for a writing competition, with Adira taking first place. He hands her her trophy. After the assembly ends, he invites anyone who submitted work to the contest to go behind the stage for free doughnuts.

### Brittany Orton

A young girl who competes in a school-sponsored performing arts competition. She performs a dance piece for everyone at school.

### Mackenzie Brook

A fourth-grader girl who wins third place in a school writing competition. Katrina told Adira that she only writes about horses.

### Mercy Ayre

A smart sixth-grader girl who had previously won a national writing contest and won lots of money for her and her family. She was a runner up to Adira.

### Courtney Sellers

A sixth-grader girl and deer. She glares at Bekah when Bekah accuses of Adira looking like she "lost her deer in a hunt." Bekah later snaps at Courtney for unknown reasons.

### Karter Roney

A sixth-grader boy. His family has a lot of money and owns a mansion. He is allegedly "friends with all of the boys in the sixth grade," including Kevin, Ethan, Nathan, and Kian.

## Trivia

### Author statements

* The principal of Adira's school was named Mr. Nielson, as was the case at Adira's real-life elementary school.
* Mecry's last name was changed from Smith (her real-life last name) to Ayre, and Adira can't recall why she did that, since every other character retains their real last name in the book.

### Interesting facts

* Brittany Orton's name came from the fact that the author couldn't remember her name in real life, which was Bridget. She went along with using her younger sister Brittany's name.

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