| “ | Roz... if you can hear me... I love you. Please understand that I had to do it. "Aphrodite, fair and mighty, take this form of fixed stone, and turn her back to flesh and bone. As below, so above... I yield to you my truest love." | ” |
Harvey Kinkle is a main character on Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He is portrayed by Ross Lynch.
Harvey comes from a long line of witch hunters and previously dated Sabrina until he discovered that she was a witch. The continuous lies and witchcraft bred a distrust of Sabrina in Harvey, and they eventually broke up. Not long after, he began to develop feelings for Rosalind, and the two of them started dating.
Harvey is the lead singer and bassist of the Fright Club when the group is not busy fighting the monsters that threaten Greendale, or the world
Character Description[]
Sabrina's boyfriend, the Prince Charming of this dark fairy tale. Harvey is a young man in a small town starting to figure out his place in the larger world. He is politically minded, idiosyncratic, attractive, charismatic, and fun. Handsome and romantic, Harvey's also smart, woke, and compassionate. In the present-day, he is part of Greendale's counter-culture youth. He has no idea that he is descendant from a long line of witchhunters.[1]
Harvey Kinkle, Sabrina’s boyfriend. The prince charming of this dark fairy tale, Harvey is the son of a coal miner, a dreamboat and a dreamer, completely unaware of the dark forces conspiring to keep him and Sabrina apart.[2]
Early Life[]
Harvey was born and raised in Greendale. When he was 5 years old, his mother passed away. He met Sabrina Spellman on his first day of school and fell in love with her. He also had an encounter with the Dark Lord while exploring Greendale Mines as a child and was traumatized by the event. Harvey also used to sleepwalk as a child.
Throughout Chilling Adventures of Sabrina[]
Physical Appearance[]
Harvey is a young, slim, and tall teenage boy. He has dark brown hair and brown eyes. His clothing is usually quite casual and is usually seen using various checkered or striped shirts.
Personality[]
Harvey is sweet, friendly, and sensitive. He is also very shy and extremely insecure, due to his encounter with the Dark Lord when he was 8 years old. He is very distrustful when it comes to the supernatural, but his distrust doesn't extend to Rosalind's cunning and Sabrina's witchcraft. Although, he had a hard time accepting her true nature because of his trauma and the death of his brother, Tommy, who was the only person beside Sabrina who ever showed him any affection.
Relationships[]
Mr. Kinkle[]
Harvey and Mr. Kinkle
For many years, Harvey had an estranged relationship with his alcoholic and abusive father. It began shortly after his mother died when Harvey was 5 years old. Harvey's only means of protection was his older brother, Tommy, who stayed home from college to ensure that Harvey was taken care of. The tension grew as Harvey got older and his father continued to push him to start working in the family mines so that one day he may takeover and continue the family tradition. However, after a traumatizing event in the mines during his adolescents, Harvey had no desires to return and only sought to peruse his passion of drawing. Tommy died in an "accident" and Harvey was left to fend for himself. Fortunately, Sabrina intervened with a magic eggnog she conjured up to cure his alcoholism.
Tommy Kinkle[]
Harvey and Tommy
Tommy was Harvey's older brother and his only line of defense against a drunken and abusive father. Tommy stayed home from college in order to protect Harvey from their father. He supported Harvey's dreams to become an artist and defended his decisions to not work in the family mines. Tommy even took on more hours so that Harvey wouldn't have to as he knew that Harvey was traumatized from a previous experience in the mines. Unfortunately, during one of his shifts, the mines collapsed on top of Tommy, killing him. However, he was resurrected by Sabrina, though in his second chance at life, he was without a soul and not the brother that Harvey had come to know and love, forcing Harvey to kill him.
Sabrina Spellman[]
Harvey and Sabrina
Sabrina is Harvey's ex-girlfriend. He was the first mortal to learn that Sabrina was a witch, but she made him forget with a memory-erasing spell. They had a sweet relationship, but it began to slowly collapse because of Sabrina's secrets, which became more apparent after her 16th birthday. Their relationship was severed when Sabrina performed an unsuccessful resurrection ritual for his brother, which resulted in him having to kill Tommy. After that, he re-learned that she was a witch. They were still romantically attracted to each other after the breakup, but decided to move on. In Sabrina's absence, Rosalind's blindness began to take effect, leaving both Roz and Harvey to blame Sabrina, but they eventually reconciled after realizing that she wasn't the cause. Unbeknownst to Harvey, Sabrina performed a cord-cutting spell to sever all romantic ties between the two of them.
Rosalind Walker[]
Roz and Harvey
When Harvey was dating Sabrina, he and Roz were just friends. After parting with Sabrina and her departure to the Academy of Unseen Arts, he and Roz began to get closer and decided to pursue a relationship. After Lupercalia, they started dating. Rosalind supports his dream of becoming an artist and leaving Greendale. Harvey, in turn, was willing to give up his desires in order to be near his girlfriend when she went blind. However, thanks to Sabrina, Roz has since recovered.
Theo Putnam[]
Harvey and Theo
Harvey and Theo are close, childhood friends. He first met Theo when he still identified as Susie, however, Harvey was very accepting of Theo as he transitioned. The two of them even tried-out for the boys' basketball team together. The two have also been known to pair off and do their own investigating, specifically when Harvey wished to go down into the mines and was accompanied by Theo. While searching through Tunnel 13, which had been closed off, they were attacked by a mysterious woman dressed in white and a struggle ensued before Theo killed her with a pickax.
Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- Harvey met Nicholas before Sabrina met him, but forgot it because of a spell.[3]
- His mother passed away when Harvey was 5 and Tommy was 11.[4]
- According to the original script, her name was Martha and she was alive.[5]
- In the Archie Comics, Harvey Kinkle is the average boy-next-door who falls in love with Sabrina in every adaptation. Recurring is also his unawareness of witchcraft, although in almost all adaptations he discovers and accepts Sabrina's secret and usually with the Witch Council or the aunts opposing their relationship.
- In the 1971 comic series, he is introduced as being very similar to Archie Andrews.
- In the 2014 comic series set in the 60s, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa reinvented Harvey as the most popular boy at school that Sabrina likened to Paul Newman, "but cuter". In Issue #7, some data are revealed through his driving license. His full name is Harvey Dwight Kinkle, born September 28, 1949, and residing in 1879 Elm Street, Greendale, New York. He is 5'10 tall and weighs 162.
- In the 90s sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Harvey is a naïve and clumsy boy but still popular among girls at school, unlike the 1996 made-for-TV movie that launched the sitcom, where he's bullied at school.
- Unlike his other incarnations, this version of Harvey is explicitly shown to have an artistic talent.
Gallery[]
- See also: Category:Images of Harvey Kinkle
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References[]
- ↑ Lynch To Star As Harvey Kinkle In Netflix’s Sabrina Series
- ↑ Brennan Rees, Sarah, "Season of the Witch". Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Book 1. July 9, 2019. Scholastic Inc. & Archie Comics.
- ↑ Takeover Event (@Sabrinaspellman) - Instagram
- ↑ Original Script for Episode 1