The End! :D (spoiler alert!)

 The Dragon Boat is then used by Boy 412, Nicko and Jenna in order to save Marcia and stop DomDaniel from being the ExtraOrdinary Wizard again. The boat can communicate to Jenna inside her head because she the Princess. However, only Boy 412 can make it fly and steer it. They rescue Marcia, who managed to stay alive thanks to Hotep-Ra’s ring, and Boy 412 agrees to become Marcia's Apprentice. They throw DomDaniel overboard, and he dies in the bog, after creatures attack him. Later, the Heap family discover during the apprentice banquet that Boy 412 is really Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son.

How did this happen? The answer is the midwife secretly worked for DomDaniel. DomDaniel needed a powerful apprentice and Septimus, who was a seventh son of a seventh son, would be born with such abilities. The midwife pretended Septimus was dead, and smuggled him to the Young Army, where another one of DomDaniel’s workers is supposed to take the baby. But the midwife’s own child was enlisted in the army, and she places Septimus in a cradle next to her own child. DomDaniel’s worker accidentally takes the midwife’s child, leaving Septimus to be raised in the Young Army as Boy 412 instead. Don’t believe me? As proof, Sarah takes off Septimus’ hat, to reveal a thick bush of golden locks, the signature Heap trait, and lovingly accepts Septimus as her long-lost son.

             The End. <3

The Middle

Meanwhile, the hunter reaches the dump, and spends quite a while in unclogging the chute. After sending one of his men to make sure they are still not stuck somewhere inside, he looks for anyone who may have seen the escapees. He notices Sally and confronts her. Remember that the hunter is quite an intimadating man, considering that he looks at everyone like they're a fox he has to capture. She denies knowing anything, but the hunter sees fear in her eyes. He knows. He threatens to burn down her café, unless she confesses. She still refuses, but one of her customers rats out Marcia’s group, and the huntsman allows the customer and his friends to leave before he burns the café down. He locks Sally inside and sets the building on fire. However, Sally survives because of Marcia’s KeepSafe Charm.

The assassin follows the group, heading for the Marram Marshes. His skilled men manage to catch up with the small sailboat, but are unable to see them through the thick fog. Boy 412 causes a scuffle, for he thinks that the wizards are holding him captive, believing it is another crazy way for the Young Army to assess him. Jenna, just a bit stronger than 412 (much to his dismay) manages to keep him quiet, before he kicks the boat, and alerts the hunter where the boat is. Marcia uses a Reverse Spell to Project the Muriel, the boat that they're sailing on, and distract the Hunter, upon which he loses the group’s trail, and has to return to the castle.

The group reaches the Marshes, and must navigate through perilous bogs, but reach a safe cottage, belonging to Aunt Zelda, a white witch. Zelda is Silas’s aunt, which would make her Jenna’s great-aunt. The witch keeps everyone safe and well-fed throughout the winter. The groups learns that the Supreme Custodian is doing the bidding of DomDaniel, the ex-ExtraOrdinary Wizard. He is the main antagonist in this book, for he is trying to return as a Darke ExtraOrdinary Wizard. However, he needs to have Jenna killed before he can return to the castle to rule. On the island, Boy 412 wanders around the marshes, falls into a pit with a large cavern in it, and finds a ring that glows when he places it on his finger. He keeps the ring a secret for some time. Marcia then walks with Boy 412, (who is beginning to like the Heap family) and shows him a charm that Alther gave to her when she was his Apprentice. Marcia sees that Boy 412 has potential, and asks him to become her Apprentice, but he refuses.

Aunt Zelda also helps Jenna, Nicko, and Boy 412 make shield bugs to help guard themselves. Marcia then tries to use her Midnight Minutes to protect herself when she goes back to the Wizard Tower because of a letter that said that she should.What she does not know is the letter was not from Silas Heap, as she had previously thought, but from the Supreme Custodian. But then she gets captured by the Custodian Guards because she got her Midnight Minutes wrong. A few more weeks pass until the hunter discovers the groups location with Aunt Zelda, in the marshes, and returns to assassinate Jenna. Jenna and Boy 412 defend themselves by using shield bugs, and Aunt Zelda uses a Freezing Spell on the Hunter. Soon after the Hunter was frozen, they try to figure out the identity of DomDaniel's Apprentice, who claims to be Septimus when they capture him. Nicko firmly denies it after seeing what treachery the apprentice could do. Then, the Apprentice escapes and tells DomDaniel of their location.

A bit after that, Aunt Zelda tells Boy 412 that the ring is the legendary Hotep-Ra's dragon ring, which gives him control over the Dragon Boat. Aunt Zelda gives Boy 412 a book with the legend of Hotep-Ra. The legend says that Hotep-ra, the first ExtraOrdinary Wizard, was being pursued by people planning to kill him. Therefore, the dragon became a boat to save her mastser and before Hotep-Ra died he put the boat in his hidden temple. Afterward, Boy 412 soon begins to become interested in the art of Magyk, and the mysteries surrounding the ring. Aunt Zelda later tells Boy 412 that the cave in which he found the ring is connected to a secret cavern containing Hotep-ra's temple, and within it, the Dragon Boat.

That's all for now folks! I know its alot to take in, but, remember to just read it over another time. You'll get it soon enough.

Yours truly,

             A.L Dimond

Angie Sage

This is a picture of Angie Sage, who lives in England and was the author of this book.

What happens next...

6 months later, Sarah learns from a neighbor that the Queen has been assassinated, and the Castle is under the control of the Supreme Custodian. Also, the queen’s newborn daughter had gone missing. Her neighbor also says that the assassination had occurred months before, but had been kept a secret. The neighbor, who owns a cafe and hears all the gossip, mentions that it happened around the time Alther Mella, Marcia Overstrand's mentor, had been killed. Sarah realizes that Jenna is the missing princess, but decides to keep this a secret from everyone, except from Silas.

Ten years to the day, Jenna Heap is celebrating her tenth birthday with her parents and six other brothers. But Marcia interrupts the party, telling the family that another woman living next doors works as a spy for the Supreme Custodian, and has confirmed with him that Jenna is the queen’s daughter. Marcia states that she must take Jenna into safekeeping right away, for the assassin is on his way. Sarah agrees, and explains to a reluctant Jenna that she is a princess, and that she must go with Marcia.

Marcia whisks Jenna to her apartment in the Wizard Tower, where she can temporarily be kept safe. The Wizard Tower is where many Ordinary Wizards reside, with Marcia, being the Extraordinary Wizard, at the top. Marcia also finds a boy, part of the Young Army, had been buried in the snow, and had almost died. The boy, called Boy 412, is rescued by Marcia, and is taken into her apartment to warm up. The Young Army was put in by the Supreme Custodian. He is the man who had the Queen killed, and plans to finish his job with Jenna. he is also the head of state of the castle, but an oppressive one So the assassin, being the skilled and frightening  huntsman that he is, manages to locate Jenna’s whereabouts, and goes after her. Silas, Nicko (the youngest of the six brothers) and their dog, Maxie decide to pay Jenna a visit. Shortly after they arrive, the ghost of Alther Mella warns Marcia that the assassin is outside the tower. Marcia panics and tries to get everyone, including Boy 412, out of the tower through the rubbish chute. The group ends up in the dump, with the hunter hot on their heels. Marcia clogs the chute to make it look as though they had gotten stuck. But in the night, Sally Mullin, who owns a café nearby  saw them. Silas tells her about their situation, and Sally allows them to use her sailboat, the Muriel to escape. Marcia gives Sally a KeepSafe Charm in return for her thanks. Silas, Marcia and the children then flee to the Marram Marshes, with Nicko sailing the boat. They are going there to stay with Aunt Zelda, Silas's aunt.

Old English

If you have chosen to read the book, you may notice the unusual spelling of Magyk words. I did some research, and found that almost all the Magyk words were spelled in the way they would have been spelled around the time of Shakespeare, or Old English. So, technically, they're not "spelling all the words wrong" so much as indicating the similarities in society. I bequeath thee a link to a couple of Old English Words. Have fun!http://www.ibequeaththee.com/oldenglish.html

The Beginning

     I hope anyone reading this blog realizes that my brief summaries cannot capture Sage's quirky, clever, and witty form of writing, as she circulates perspectives with an admirable ease. I can only encourage you to read it and see for yourself the magic of her writing.

     The book begins with a Wizard called Silas Heap, trudging through the snow on his way home. It is the coldest night of the year. He has just received herbs and charms from Galen, the Physik woman who lives in the Forest. They are to protect his new baby boy, who had been born earlier that day. As Silas is walking, he suddenly senses a small heartbeat in the snow. He stops and listens. Underneath a bush just ahead of him, he sees a bundle wrapped tightly with blankets. He picks up the baby, and sees that she has dark violet eyes. He decides to take her home, thinking that one more child wouldn't make too much of difference. He continues to walk, but soon Marcia Overstrand, who is the Apprentice to the Extraordinary Wizard appears to him, telling him to pretend that the baby was born unto him. He accepts unconditionally. before he makes it home, however, he finds out that Marcia's mentor has been killed, making Marcia Extraordinary Wizard. His newborn at home that was born that day was their seventh son. His was to be named Septimus, as all seventh sons of seventh sons are named. However, when Silas makes it home, he arrives to a terrible site. The Midwife who is tending to Sarah, his wife, ran out of their small home with Septimus in hand. There is only one problem: he is dead. Silas walks in his house, and solemnly hands Sarah the baby, not knowing what else to say or do. She bursts into tears.
        
       They name the baby Jenna, and she settles nicely into the Heap household, as if she were meant to be there all along. Jenna becomes one of the family. The youngest son, Nicko, had been only two when Septimus had died and Jenna came to their family. The other brothers, who were not much older, soon forgot as well. But Silas and Sarah could never forget.
     

      

Here is an image of the book Magyk, by Angie Sage.

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to my blog. The purpose of this website is a book report for English class, on the spectacular book, Magyk, by Angie Sage. I will be writing, daily, about the happenings of the book, as well as commenting and reviewing. In adddition, articles, pictures, and fun facts about the author will be posted. I really hope you enjoy this blog, and this book. And who knows? Maybe you'll even choose to read it for yourself ;)
                                       Yours truly,
                                                     A. L. Dimond