Hector is the handyman at the Village of Fowl Devotees and the Baudelaire children's guardian while living in the village. Hector is a quiet, kind man who is too skittish to speak up when the Council abuses him or the Baudelaire children. As a result, Hector and the Baudelaires are forced to perform all of the villagers' chores, no matter how menial. Hector does rebel against the system, however, by housing a variety of banned mechanical objects and books in his barn, such as his self-sustaining hot air mobile home, which he uses to escape from the village at the end of the novel.
