"Look at my son, Mr. Raven. Isn't he handsome, my little Manfred? That's right. Look into his his eyes. Like lovely shiny coals, aren't they?"
Manfred Bloor (b.1985) is a major antagonist of the Charlie Bone Series. Manfred was the only son of Harold Bloor and Dorothy de Vere.
Appearance
When the reader first comes across Manfred's character, he is described as a "mean-looking boy" with a "long, narrow face and a wispy mustache," as well as having dark, parted hair drawn back into a ponytail. Further descriptions later in the series show Manfred to be a "tall and lanky figure" with a "bony face" and "coal-black eyes." Nimmo continually stresses his thinness as she often uses the word "bony" in descriptive paragraphs regarded him, like the aforementioned bony face and another instance when she mentions his bony shoulders. Manfred is also described in Charlie Bone and the Shadow of Badlock to have streaks of grey in his hair.
Powers and Abilites
As a result of his ancestry, Manfred is endowed with the ability to hypnotize people by staring them in the eyes, sometimes having a very prolonged effect. He used this power to erase all of Lyell Bone's personal memories, as well as to keep Emma Tolly in a state of constant hypnosis for over eight years. However, it is later revealed that this power was at its peak when Manfred was nine years of age, and as of the fourth book, when Manfred is eighteen, he becomes concerned that his hypnotic ability seems to be waning. By the fifth book, he has seemingly lost this power completely. However, this book also reveals that Manfred is developing into a fire-bringer like his ancestor, Borlath.