Hector (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

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A Series of Unfortunate Events character
Hector's legs on a ladder
Hector
Gender	Male
Hair color	Unknown
Age	Adult (no further details)
Film actor	None
1st appearance	The Vile Village
V.F.D. alliance	volunteer

Hector is a fictional character from the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

In The Vile Village, he is the handyman in the Village of Fowl Devotees. He is appalled at the many rules of the village (e.g., there are to be no mechanical devices, no crows are to be harmed, there are to be no books except those about the rules), but he was cowardly and could never bring himself to speak around the Village Elders. He is described as having a knack for cooking Mexican cuisine. The roosting place of the VFD crows is the Nevermore Tree, which is located in Hector's backyard. He has an unfinished self-sustaining hot air balloon in his shed, which is banned under the village rules. He also collected as many banned books as possible before they could be burned. Violet Baudelaire, while under his care, helps him finish the hot air balloon. Near the conclusion of the novel, as the Baudelaires and Quagmires are running from a mob of villagers, Hector finally overcomes his fears when he appears in his (now functioning) balloon, scolds the Elders for their rules, and tries to help the Baudelaires and Duncan and Isadora Quagmire aboard; however, the Baudelaires are unable to make it. He was last seen flying away with the Duncan and Isadora. In The End, it is revealed that he was captured by an unknown marine object that Kit Snicket refers to as "the Great Unknown", though it is not known if it harmed him or protected him.

[edit] VFD Alliance

Hector is either a volunteer in V.F.D. or has some other connection to it. Snicket's autobiography quotes a letter from Jacques Snicket to Lemony that says, "I feel, Lemony, as if we are drifting away from one another, as if one of us is on the ground and the other is in some wondrous device, floating away into the sky, like that self-sustaining hot-air moblile home H is always talking about building." Hector is sometimes speculated to be the brother of Gregor and Ike Anwhistle.

Preceded by Jerome and Esmé Squalor (The Ersatz Elevator)

Guardian of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire

Succeeded by None official, but possibly Volunteers Fighting Disease or Hal (The Hostile Hospital)