Who is H Anwhistle?

[counto]

The Snicket Family/Clan tree is one of the most secretive of families throughout the series of ASOUE. One thing that is interesting is that all the Snicket children have a theme of naming each new child a different letter of the alphabet. From A. Snicket to O. Snicket (who I'm sure is Olivia). One branch on the tree D's Children, the girl with the one eyebrow and one ear. The children being G, H, I. It's a common theory/fact that D maybe Josephine's mother in law aka the mother of both Issac "Ike" and Gregor Anwhistle. 

But who is H Anwhistle? Now some believe it to be Hector, however I disagree. One because Hector's family has been said to have been two generations of handyman at the Village of Fowl Devotees which would imply that he was born there. We also know that Ike and Gregor were possibly raised in Lake Lachrymose like Josephine. 

Two Hector never mentions having any siblings in TVV. This may be either he doesn't like to talk about out it or he tries to hide the fact that he was a volunteer. I think however the most likely is that he never had any to talk about. 

And three, his first name doesn't really reference anything to the rest of the Anwhistles. For example Josephine is named after Josephine the Singer or the Mouse Folk by Franz Kafka and Gregor is named after the character Gregor Samsa from The Metamorphosis also by Kafka. Plus Ike Anwhistle sounds like I Can Whistle as a fun fact. Now from what we know Hector's name is based of the famous Greek legendary hero from The Iliad by Homer. 

A Greek warrior who after offending the gods of Olympus, is blown off course by Poseidon and faced with many perils to return home to his fiance in waiting. Hector's airship may be an illusion to the journey the character takes. I'm not sure if this is close connection to the Anwhistles or not with Kafkaesque names. But the likely hood of Hector being an Anwhistle is within doubt. Which opens us this thread's question: who do you think is H. Anwhistle? 

[Optimism is my Phil-osophy]

I think that in order to consider Hector as a possibility, we need to assume that he is lying ... And he is lying. He is a member of VFD, he knows what VFD really means and he knows that crows are animals trained by VFD. Even though he was taken to fake parents (like Lemony in ATWQ) I think he is likely to be Anwistle.

[Hermes]

*Puts on Dante hat, feels uncomfortable.*

This is hard to judge, because it's not clear how much background information we have. In the context of ASOUE alone, I would have said that Hector was too young to be the brother of Gregor and Ike (and H is presumably the middle sibling, so older than Ike): but since Josephine's age seems to have been rectonned in ATWQ, Ike's might be as well, putting them in the same age-band as Lemony, Beatrice and so on - and also Hector. There's also the issue that Hector seemed to have lived in VFDevotees all his life, but ATWQ shows that is wrong as well; it would still seem that his family came from there, but Jean Lucio's theory of fake parents would get round that. (Though I still don't find that theory credible. And wouldn't the Anwhistle siblings in any case have been kept together, as it it seems the Snicket siblings were?)

Other suggestions
- Hal: But Dewey seems to make it clear he wasn't in VFD until recruited by Kit.
- Hugo: I don't think anything specfically rules this out; he might have dropped out of VFD because of his disability.
- Humphrey: This is my favourite. He is a peripheral character, of whom anything might be true, so it makes sense to use him to solve a mystery.

[Venusian]

You seem to be confusing Hector with Odysseus. Hector was a Trojan prince and warrior, brother of Paris whose actions lead to the war. Hector was seen as a model for chivalry and the true hero of the story instead of the protagonist Achilles. Hector was also the name of the adoptive father of King Arthur. Both legendary Hectors have roles as fathers and warriors, perhaps an allusion to how our Hector was a caregiver to the Baudelaires and Quagmires. Or perhaps not.