The end of Nathaniel Crozier’s visit to Whitby
We left Nathaniel Crozier just after he had tortured and killed poor old
Mr Roper.
His next evil deed is to send the horrible fish demon he
has secured to his service to kill Ben so that he can then destroy the magical
artefact that Mr Roper passed on to the little boy.
Luckily, the monster follows the wrong trail; it kills
another boy instead. ‘By chance’, this is someone who has bullied Ben in the
past.
Miss Boston returns from a harrowing visit to London, and
finds that all hell has broken loose because Nathaniel Crozier has destroyed
two of Whitby’s guardians. Once again, she decides that she must confront an
evil newcomer who is about to destroy Whitby. This at the age of 92: if she
isn’t a good role model for older ladies, I don’t know who is.
Miss Boston knows that she has taken on what looks like
an impossible task, but she sees it as a good sign, a sign of weakness, that
the appalling man wanted her out of the way and used his agents to try to
destroy her in London.
She has an advantage in that Nathaniel Crozier
underestimates her. He never has a good word to say about anyone - he called
his wife Roselyn stupid and greedy and Miss Boston an odious hag - and he
thinks of Miss Boston as a senile, dabbling amateur.
Crozier would get on well with Lord Voldemort, who also
underestimates the opposition and believes that “there is no good and evil,
there is nothing but power and those too weak to seek it”. Crozier boasts of
being a master of control and domination; he scorns limits and warnings – they
are for the weak.
