| Harvey Hunter | |
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| Nickname | Harvey |
| Age | 09 (The Demon Headmaster) |
| Occupation | School Pupil (Original series) Member of SPLAT |
| First Seen | Book: Book One TV: Look into my Eyes 1 |
| Last Seen | Book: Facing the Headmaster TV: Takes Over Part 6 |
| Actor | Thomas Szekeres |
Harvey Hunter is one of the main characters of both the Demon Headmaster Books series and 1990's television adaption. Together with the rest of the members of SPLAT he tries to foil the Headmaster's plans for world domination before it's too late.
Personality
Harvey is a pleasant-laid back boy, very different to his older brother, Lloyd. It's clear that he is very close to Lloyd, possibly because Lloyd has always looked out for him at school and helped him stay out of trouble with the Headmaster.
Harvey accepts Dinah into the family and SPLAT a lot quicker than Lloyd and the others do, and soon he is as close to his new sister as he is to his brother. Harvey seems to understand Dinah more than Lloyd does and is more prepared to listen to her.
Skills
Harvey, like the other members of SPLAT apart from Dinah, cannot be hypnotised by the Headmaster; he, like the others, is immune to it. Being immune to hypnotism means that he is banned from assembly. This is where the Headmaster hypnotises people and reads knowledge to them. We see in the book that the Headmaster meets with students and hypnotises them on their first day; Dinah apart, this didn't work with the members of SPLAT. He and Ingrid also appear to be the 'master minds' when it comes to computering and therefore cannot be hypnotised by the octopus. In the first episode of series 2, it is seen that he tried to hypnotize himself by looking in a mirror and telling himself that he is very tired, while Lloyd and Dinah spied on him, giggling.
"Has he ever tried it with you? Gazed into your eyes and told you you were tired?" said Dinah. "Yes, " Lloyd said slowly. "He did once. When I first came to the school. He took off his glasses and stared at me and said "Lloyd, you are feeling very tired. You are very very sleepy." "And what happened?" asked Dinah. "Nothing much. I just said, "no Sir, I'm fine thank you".
Character history
Pre series
There's not much concrete information about what the lives of many of the series characters were like before the series. He lives in Conningham with his parents Mr and Mrs. Hunter and LLoyd with no reference to living elsewhere or moving in recently so they could have easily lived there for all of Harvey's life.
It seems that the Harvey and the other SPLAT members have been attending St Champions for sometime before the start of the series. In the first book, Dinah has a conversion with another pupil Lucy Green, where Lucy says she's being attending the school since she was 5 which could also be true for Harvey. In the first book LLoyd and Harvey recall attending a private meeting with The Headmaster when he first started the school, implying this is something all students go through, where the Headmaster attempts Hypnosis against Hunter and finds out that he can't be Hypnotised. This leads the Headmaster segregating Harvey and the other members of SPLAT from the other students and banning them from attending assembly.
It is stated that they formed SPLAT as a way to look after each other, since it was the five students against the Headmaster, The Prefects and the other students. SPLAT help each other out by keeping an eye out for the prefects, so they can warn each other and swap details of all the new rules the Headmaster invents so that they don't get caught out. It's also implied that Lloyd and the other try to keep as low profile as possible and just get through school.
The Demon Headmaster
When we first meet Harvey, he is upstairs in The Hunter's House waiting for Dinah Glass, the girl the Hunter family is adopting, to arrive at their house for the first time. Harvey and Lloyd are attending St Champions school at this time and along with Mandy, Ian and Ingrid are outcasts as they are immune to the Headmasters powers.