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Arthur Poe
Arthur Poe (often referred to as Mr. Poe) is a fictional character in Lemony Snicket's ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'' series. Mr. Poe is a banker in charge of the Baudelaire and Quagmire fortunes and the Baudelaire orphans' guardianship. He is distinguished by a congenital cough, purblind demeanor, and general inefficacy in caring for both sets of children.〔p. 134, ''The Unauthorized Autobiography''〕〔p. 52, ''The Reptile Room''〕
Poe is the first to bring the news of Bertrand and Beatrice's death to the Baudelaire children. As executor of the Baudelaire estate, he interprets the will's instructions that the children "be raised in the most convenient way possible" as meaning they should remain within the city limits,〔p. 15, ''The Bad Beginning''〕 and arranges for their distant cousin Count Olaf to take custody. When the Baudelaires contact Poe at his bank, Mulctuary Money Management, to report Olaf's abuse, the banker points out that Olaf is acting ''in loco parentis'', and can raise them as he sees fit.〔p. 65, ''The Bad Beginning''〕 However, when Olaf traps Sunny in a birdcage and attempts to force Violet to marry him, Poe invokes citizen's arrest just prior to Count Olaf's escape.〔p. 155, ''The Bad Beginning''〕
Following these events, Poe successively places the children under the care of Monty Montgomery, Josephine Anwhistle, Sir, Jerome and Esmé Squalor, and finally the Village of Fowl Devotees, acting as their temporary guardian in the interim. When the Baudelaires escape the village amidst accusations of murder (and later arson and kidnapping),〔p. 317, ''The Grim Grotto''〕 Poe is one of the few adults to maintain the Baudelaires' innocence and disbelieve the incriminating ''Daily Punctilio'' articles published by his sister Eleanora.〔p. 136, ''The Unauthorized Autobiography''〕 When the Baudelaires return to the city to meet up with V.F.D., Poe intervenes on a tip from a "J.S." (initials variously used by Jerome Squalor, Justice Strauss, Count Olaf, Esmé Squalor, and possibly others) with the intent of clearing the Baudelaires' names and restoring his role as executor,〔 but the children refuse to accompany him. After Mrs. Bass robs Mulctuary Money Management, Poe is placed in charge of the investigation, which leads him to the Hotel Denouement. When the hotel is set on fire, Poe is on the third floor.〔p. 334, ''The Penultimate Peril''〕 Whether he survives or not is left unanswered.
==Personality==
Although his primary responsibility in the books is to help the Baudelaires, the Baudelaires do not think he is helpful (Lemony Snicket describes him as being as helpful as a jar of mustard).〔In ''The Miserable Mill''〕 His focus on his banking career seems to make him completely oblivious to the hardships and danger of the Baudelaires. Though the Baudelaires seem to be much more intelligent than Poe, he completely dismisses and ignores everything they say as "ramblings of little children". Some fans of the series believe that Poe is being deliberately unhelpful and ignorant - (that he is actually a villain or a member of V.F.D., although there is no evidence in the books to suggest this), this could also just be a result of his incompetence. In ''The Penultimate Peril'', Justice Strauss at one point calls him "that idiotic banker." On many occasions he expresses a thought which is the exact opposite of what the Baudelaires are imagining, such as in ''The Vile Village'' when the Baudelaires comment that the death of Quigley does not change the birth identity of the Quagmires as triplets, while Mr. Poe says that the death of Quigley changes their birth identity, and in ''The Austere Academy'' when the Baudelaires interpret the term "cakesniffer" as an insult, while Poe interprets it as a "nice term that reminds him of pastry".
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