Jenna Heap

Jenna Heap
Septimus Heap character
Jenna Heap, as illustrated by artist Mark Zug
First appearance	Magyk
Created by	Angie Sage
Information
Nickname(s)	Jen (by Septimus) Jens (by Simon Heap)
Aliases	Jenna, the Queenling
Title	The Princess
Family	The Royal Family, The Heaps
Relatives	Silas Heap (adoptive father) Sarah Heap (adoptive mother) Septimus Heap (adoptive brother) Nicko Heap (adoptive brother) Jo-Jo Heap (adoptive brother) Edd Heap (adoptive brother) Erik Heap (adoptive brother) Simon Heap (adoptive brother) Sam Heap (adoptive brother) Zelda Zanuba Heap (adoptive great-aunt) Grandpa Benji (adoptive grandfather) Milo Banda (birth father) Cerys (birth mother) Queen Etheldredda (great-great-etc. grandmother) Marcellus Pye (great-great-etc. uncle) Princess Esmeralda (great-great-etc. grandmother)

Jenna Heap is a leading character in the Septimus Heap book series by Angie Sage. She is the adoptive sister of Septimus and the adoptive daughter of Silas and Sarah Heap. Jenna has many friends in the book, yet also a lot of enemies. Although she acknowledges they are not her birth family Jenna loves her adoptive family very much - this includes her seven brothers, her Grandpa Benji, her Mum and Dad, and her Aunt Zelda.

Jenna is a young princess, with deep violet eyes and a fair complexion. She is small for her age and wears a red tunic which is secured about the waist with a golden sash. Her dark hair is kept in place by a thin golden circlet, which denotes that she is the princess. Her appearance resembles that of all the queens before her, and she resembles her birth mother closely. Although very loving and caring, she can sometimes be very stubborn, as is observed by her older brothers.

After Jenna was born, her mother, Queen Cerys, was assassinated. Marcia Overstrand, the apprentice of the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, took the baby Jenna to safety, after watching the murders of the ExtraOrdinary Wizard and the queen. To protect the young princess, in case the assassin was to return, Marcia gave her to Silas Heap, an Ordinary Wizard. Silas' seventh son, Septimus, was born on the same day as Jenna, but he supposedly died. Silas and his wife, Sarah Heap, adopted and raised the princess.

In the first book, Magyk, Marcia tells Jenna on her 10th birthday that she is a princess and that she has been discovered. Marcia escapes with Jenna to the Marram Marshes, accompanied by Silas, his son Nicko, and a young army guard called Boy 412. At Aunt Zelda's place in the Marram Marshes, Jenna becomes friends with Boy 412 and begins to learn magic from Marcia. She, along with Boy 412 and Nicko, discover a hidden Dragon-Boat, which she discovers is her legacy, and they use it to save Marcia. At the end of the first book, Jenna learns that Boy 412 is her long-lost adoptive brother, Septimus Heap.

The second book, Flyte, opens with Jenna getting kidnapped by her estranged brother Simon, who takes her to his hideout in the Badlands. Jenna escapes and meets her brothers Septimus and Nicko at the port, but a dark stranger tails her. Jenna, along with the others, is discovered by Simon's tracking ball, Sleuth, and a battle begins, with Jenna's side aided by the Dragon-Boat. Simon damages the Dragon-Boat, but gets captured. Jenna, who loves the Dragon-Boat, becomes hysterical and goes to a secret room in the Palace called the queen's room, which is only accessible by queens or princesses. She gets Aunt Zelda to perform the "transubstantiate triple" spell to revive the boat. In the end, the dark stranger is revealed to be her biological father, Milo Banda.