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Harry is a houseless man of indeterminate age with whom Avery often plays chess in the park. They have a standing bet: if Avery wins, Harry must allow her to buy him breakfast. (Avery mostly funds these breakfasts by hustling her high-school classmates in poker). After multibillionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and wills Avery almost his entire fortune, she asks her new lawyer Alisa to find Harry and secure him housing. Toward the novel’s end, Tobias’s mother-in-law Nan shows Avery a picture of Tobias’s only son, Tobias “Toby” Hawthorne II, who supposedly died in a fire 20 years prior. Avery is shocked to realize that Toby and the man she knows as Harry are the same person—a revelation hinting that Tobias, who had Avery under surveillance prior to willing her his fortune, may have made her his primary heir due to her kindness to his estranged son.
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Harry/Tobias “Toby” Hawthorne II Character Timeline in The Inheritance Games
The timeline below shows where the character Harry/Tobias “Toby” Hawthorne II appears in The Inheritance Games. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapters 11–20
...a new car, Avery asks whether she can use the money to get her friend Harry a place to stay. Soon Alisa says it’s “handled.”
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Chapters 21–30
...middle name. When Avery asks what happened 20 years ago, Alisa says that Tobias’s son Toby died in a fire in a vacation home. However, Toby’s body was never found. Avery...
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Chapters 31–40
...with Skye’s “shirtless, grieving” son Jameson, who is an amazing person just like Tobias and Toby. Skye claims that Jameson was Tobias’s favorite grandson—because he’s “hungry” and so similar to Toby....
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Chapters 51–60
...marks and calls Jameson over. Jameson shines a light on the marks, which read “ Tobias Hawthorne II .” Suddenly, Avery hears a bang, sees bark spinning through the air, and feels pain....
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...He tells her not to think about that—she should think about the infinity symbol and Toby’s name. What if they mean that Toby is still alive? Avery angrily points out that...
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Chapters 81–Epilogue
...as many surveillance photos of Avery, including of her with Libby and her homeless friend Harry. Avery concludes that Tobias understood her and chose her for a reason.
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...commit murders themselves. Tentatively, Avery says that Tobias changed his will the first time after Toby died. Nan says that Toby “was a good boy […] until he wasn’t” and shows...
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...in the doorway and asks why Avery looks so disturbed. Avery says that she knows Toby—she plays chess with him—and thinks the name “Harry.” When Nan says that’s impossible because Toby...
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