Lee Hargrove is the main protagonist of the sixth book in the Goosebumps Hall of Horrors series, The Birthday Party of No Return!
History[]
Lee Hargrove is a kid who is always unlucky. Especially compared to his friend Cory Duckworth who always seems to be the luckiest kid in school. Everything changes when Lee is given a vulture claw by an unnamed sender. The claw turns out to be good luck and Lee's luck instantly changes. That is until his luck starts to change for the worst. It turns out that kissing the claw can lead to the owner having even worse luck than before. His bad luck continues to worsen, which includes turning Cory's birthday party into a complete disaster.
At said party, Lee learns that Cory also received a vulture claw a while back and that's been his source of good luck. frustrated, Lee tries to get rid of his vulture claw, but it seems to keep coming back to him. At the school football game, Lee kisses Cory's vulture claw, hoping it'll transfer the bad luck. However, both he and Cory end up crashing into one another during the game. At a school assembly, Lee and Cory begin to transform into vultures and attack one another. However, it's revealed that neither of them transformed at all and were hallucinating. They soon learn that all of this was the work of their friend Laura Grodin who gave both of the boys vulture claws to ensure that they would have bad luck and that she would win the chance to go to sports camp.
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Personality[]
Despite his best efforts, Lee constantly feels like he's the unluckiest kid in school. As such, he's usually in a miserable mood. He's also someone so desperate for good luck that he tries to sabotage Cory's good luck in the process. He's athletic and into sports, but his bad luck constantly gets in the way.