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The school bully, who has been targeting Conor ever since Conor learned of his mother’s diagnosis. Harry is often flanked by his cronies, Anton and Sully. Harry frequently trips, punches, and taunts Conor. As the book goes on, however, Harry starts to realize that Conor actually wants to get beaten up—as Conor describes in the book, Harry’s bullying is one of the only things that feels normal in his life. When Harry realizes this, he quickly changes tactics. He tells Conor that he is going to do the worst thing he can think of to do to Conor, which amounts to simply ignoring him along with the rest of the students. This makes Conor feel completely invisible, and he becomes extremely angry. Conor confronts Harry in the cafeteria, and while the monster narrates the third tale about an invisible man who wanted to make people see him, Conor beats Harry up. Conor breaks Harry’s nose, arm, and several teeth, demonstrating how isolation can turn even a gentle kid into a violent monster.
Harry Quotes in A Monster Calls
The A Monster Calls quotes below are all either spoken by Harry or refer to Harry. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Understanding Quotes
And for a moment, Conor was entirely alone.
He knew right then he could probably stay out there all day and no one would punish him for it.
Which somehow made him feel even worse.
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Invisible Quotes
His classmates kept their distance from him, too, like he was giving off a bad smell. He tried to remember if he’d talked to any of them since he’d arrived this morning. He didn’t think he had. Which meant he hadn’t actually spoken to anyone since his father that morning.
How could something like that happen?
But, finally, here was Harry. And that, at least, felt normal.
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The Third Tale Quotes
Harry leaned forward, his eyes flashing. “I see nothing,” he said. Without turning around, Conor asked the monster a question. “What did you do to help the invisible man?”
And he felt the monster’s voice again, like it was in his own head.
I made them see, it said.
Conor clenched his fists even tighter.
Then the monster leapt forward to make Harry see.
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Punishment Quotes
He was going to be punished. It was finally going to happen. Everything was going to make sense again. She was going to expel him.
Punishment was coming.
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There are worse things than being invisible, the monster had said, and it was right.
Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.
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A Note Quotes
I’m sorry for telling everyone about your mum, read the first line.
I miss being your friend, read the second.
Are you okay? read the third.
I see you, read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.
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Harry Character Timeline in A Monster Calls
The timeline below shows where the character Harry appears in A Monster Calls. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
School
Conor can taste blood in his mouth. He bit the inside of his lip when Harry and his cronies, Anton and Sully, tripped him walking into school just now. The three...
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...ground, when he sees a girl in his class, Lily Andrews, coming over. She tells Harry, Anton, and Sully to leave Conor alone. They make fun of him for the fact...
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...if this is true. Conor looks at the three boys, and says no—he fell, and Harry, Anton, and Sully were helping him up. Lily is stunned, and Miss Kwan sharply asks...
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Life Writing
Conor walks home after avoiding Harry the rest of the day. He also avoided Lily, who was very upset when she...
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Grandma
...asks how school was, and he says it was fine—even though Lily was still fuming, Harry was still bullying him, and Miss Kwan had pulled him aside to ask “How He...
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Understanding
At school, Harry punches Conor in the stomach and he falls to the ground, scraping his knee. Anton...
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Harry raises his fist once more, as if to swing it at his face, but Conor...
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Invisible
...“as if she could no longer see him.” He waits by himself until he sees Harry and Sully and Anton, walking across the yard, their eyes locked on him. Conor feels...
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...scolds for this behavior. He hasn’t even spoken to anyone since that morning. But when Harry eventually approaches him, Conor is relieved—“that, at least, felt normal.” Harry stops a foot away...
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I No Longer See You
...him. Conor is staring at his lunch tray, not eating any of the food, when Harry comes over and knocks Conor’s orange juice into his lap. Anton and Sully mock him...
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Harry tells Conor that he is going to do the worst thing he can do. Conor...
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The Third Tale
The monster begins a tale about an invisible man as Conor starts to walk after Harry. The monster narrates: “it was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people...
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Conor calls Harry again. The cafeteria falls silent. Conor grabs Harry and twists him around. Harry pretends not...
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The monster reaches its hand past Conor and knocks Harry across the floor. Harry gets up, his head bleeding, and shouts that no one sees...
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Harry taunts Conor, saying that everyone is sorry for him because of his mother, that Conor...
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Punishment
...office. She says she doesn’t know what to do or say to Conor: he put Harry in the hospital after breaking his arm, his nose, and several teeth. She explains that...
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Conor thinks about how he had felt what the monster was doing to Harry in his own hands—could feel Harry resisting as the monster twisted his arm. He remembered...
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...monster who did it. Miss Kwan says that an entire dining hall saw Conor beat Harry and heard him yelling about being seen. Conor flexes his hands, and realizes how sore...
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A Note
...but he never has anything to say. The monster hasn’t returned since the attack on Harry.
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