Amanda Denton
Names: Amanda Dentonlittle AmandaAmanda
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 62 (16)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 62Two-year-old granddaughter of the Baumgartners; her convulsions were not epilepsy but a spontaneous breakthrough from latency into metapsychic operancy, per Johns Hopkins neurologists.
- Ch 65Five-year-old Amanda, the President's granddaughter, sensed Tremblay's mental coercion of Baumgartner and exposed him; she grew up to be a Grand Master Redactor.
Connections
- family ofPresident Baumgartnergranddaughter
- family ofErnie Dentonfather
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 62Second inauguration and Amanda's news
Nell arrives just in time and whispers that Amanda will be a metapsychic operant. Lloyd is sworn in, then scraps his prepared address and delivers a startling speech, leaving the Rotunda in shocked silence.
- Book 1 · Ch 65Attempted coercion of the President
On 27 October 2007, Tremblay mentally seized Baumgartner as he answered the Republican delegation, forcing him to decline a third term. Amanda burst in and denounced him, Fairweather opened Tremblay's mind, and the Secret Service arrested him.
- Book 1 · Ch 65Tremblay's trial and conviction
In July 2008 Tremblay was tried and convicted on Amanda's and the President's testimony, upheld by the Supreme Court, then expelled from the House and imprisoned.