Klaus Baudelaire

Klaus Baudelaire
is a fictional character and one of the three protagonists of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events series who appears in all thirteen novels. Klaus is the middle child of the Baudelaire orphans; he has an older sister named Violet and a younger sister named Sunny.He is twelve years old at the beginning of the series, and turns thirteen in The Vile Village. By the end of the series, he is fourteen. Klaus is the "bookworm" of the family, and his love of books has often helped him save himself and his sisters.

Interests and Skills
laus is an avid reader with an eidetic memory. His favorite book is The Water Cycle, Volume 196, but he also enjoys books dealing with multiple wars. He remembers virtually everything he reads, retaining information which often helps the Baudelaires to escape from situations that their archenemy, Count Olaf, leads them to and places them in. As a result of this appetite for books, he speaks many languages. Klaus always seems to know the definition of words that leave others baffled, though there are certain words that even he does not know the meaning of, such as in loco parentis (mentioned in The Bad Beginning by Mr. Poe) and xenophobe (mentioned in The Ersatz Elevator by Jerome Squalor). Prior to the demise of Klaus's parents, his father used to take him to the Akhmatova Bookstore as a special treat. He revisits it with Jerome Squalor in The Ersatz Elevator.

In The Austere Academy, Klaus and Isadora, one of the Quagmire triplets, seem to be finding an interest in each other, but in the eleventh book, The Grim Grotto, Klaus receives his first kiss (and first heartbreak) from Fiona, a mycologist.

Disguises
A recurring theme in the series is the Baudelaire children's disguises. At the end of The Vile Village, they are falsely accused of murder. From this point on, they have no more guardians, and are on the run from the police. While running from the police, Klaus assumes the following disguises:
 * In The Hostile Hospital, Klaus disguises himself as a doctor with Sunny, and they are taken to be the White-Faced Women, associates of Count Olaf.
 * In The Carnivorous Carnival, Klaus and Violet dress as a two-headed freak (Beverly and Elliot).
 * In The Slippery Slope, Klaus poses both as a Snow Scout and as a volunteer, although later in the series he does become a volunteer.
 * In The Grim Grotto, Klaus wears a diving suit with a picture of Herman Melville on the front.


 * In The Penultimate Peril, Klaus disguises himself as a concierge at the Hotel Denouement