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The books begin with four famous magicians from DC's history meeting Timothy Hunter, a poor adolescent British boy with messy, dark hair and coke-bottle glasses, who is destined to be the supreme avatar of magic of the age, on par with Merlin in the Dark Ages. They show him everything they know about magic, and at first he refuses the call but then accepts.
Everyone and everything he meets wants to use Tim for their own purposes or kill him (Except, obviously, Death herself), including demons, fairies, and angels. Tim's friends and family are targeted by supernatural forces beyond imagining in attempts to get Tim to agree to a [[Magically
After the four-part series, Tim got a continuation of the title, focusing much more upon himself and the forces dealing with him rather than the DC Universe (this was around the same time the Vertigo line was distancing itself from stuff in the DCU). Unlike, say, [[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]], Tim does ''not'' immediately start taking magic lessons; instead, he wanders around, wondering what to do with his life now that it has irrevocably become more bizarre, and dealing with all sorts of hard situations.
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* [[Batman Gambit]]: Tim pulls off an ''impressive'' one with Barbatos in the very last issue.
* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: [[Hellblazer (Comic Book)|John Constantine]] to Tim.
* [[Changeling Fantasy]]: Tim is apparently the illegitimate son of Queen Titania and her human falconer [
** At least at first. Then Auberon says that Tim has no faerie blood and it seems he's the illegitimate son of Tamlin and Mary Hunter, and the changeling son of Titania and Tamlin is his half-brother whose fate is unknown. But it's never completely certain. A third possiblity raised is that Mary Hunter was a faerie nursemaid under a glamour who smuggled Tim out of Faerie at Titania's request to hide the fact that Her Majesty was a human sorceress under a glamour and the baby, having been fathered by Tamlin, was fully human.
** So the only thing really certain is that Tamlin is Tim's biological father and William Hunter isn't.
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*** An homage is made to this in the fanfic [[Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality|Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality]], where Harry's Patronus is humanity.
* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]: Tim, multiple times.
* [[Magically
* [[Merlin and Nimue]]: Provides the page quote from Tim's brief meeting with Merlin.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Mary Hunter died in a car accident a decade ago or so.
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* [[Magick]]: The alternate spelling of the word "magic" was brought about by the fact that the original ''Books of Magic'' series was being adapted as a series of [[Young Adult]] novels, and DC wanted to distance this book, with much more adult content, from that series.
* [[The Mole]]: John Constantine suspects there is one. {{spoiler|He should know, because the mole is [[Mole in Charge|Constantine himself,]] allying himself with the Faerie Queene against the humans. Except it ''then'' turns out he was playing the Fairie Queene all along and the entire thing was a [[Batman Gambit]] orchestrated by him and Tim Hunter. }}
* [[Stop Worshipping Me!]]: After the people of Tim's created world realizes he's their creator, they begin worshipping him like a god and doing terrible things in his name. He's not amused.
* [[Straight Gay]]: Jackie Constantine. Which makes some amount of sense, as she's the [[Distaff Counterpart]] of John Constantine, whom we know is [[Bi the Way]]. Jackie never shows any attraction to men, though, and identifies as gay.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Lampshaded by Edmund ("Ed") of Hebron and Molly.
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