scrambledeggs said:
If ANYONE knows what I am talking about, I willy be a happy chap,
but Nathaniel from the Bartimaus trilogy. It's such an amazing ending to a trilogy.
What's worse is that he never had a truly happy life. The only 2 people he loved were either murdered in the first book, or were so disgusted by what he became they turned their back on him. All he had left was an untrustworthy demon (who he realises isn't so untrustworthy).
Just as bad is what happens to Bartimaeus. I nearly cried when Ptolemy gets killed. Bartimaeus is fully willing to sacrifice himself to buy Ptolemy, the only human he had any faith in, some time to live. Instead he has to watch impotently as the poor kid is surrounded and killed, as he gets banished back to the demon world.
One of the more powerful and infamous demons in the world is reduced to something so starved of rest and health that he's but a shadow of his former self, but he gives up his own life to aid the person responsible, because he reminds him of his previous master. His previous master who he still feels guilty for, thousands of years later.