Charmain Baker

Charmain Baker is the main character of House of Many Ways. She is a teenage girl who is a bookworm and does not known anything about magic, having been raised thinking it to be vulgar by her mother. William Norland, the Royal Wizard of High Norland, is her great-uncle.

House of Many Ways
When Charmain first appears, she is sitting in a chair reading while her family are talking. Her aunt arrives the next morning to take her to Norland's House. She meets Peter Regis and learns about the Lubbock. She is also appointed the temporary librarian to King Adolphus X and his daughter Princess Hilda and meets Sophie Hatter, Howl (in disguise as Twinkle), Calcifer and Morgan.