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Harriet "Harry" Doyle was the ex-wife of Allen Francis Doyle and an ethnodemonologist.

Biography

Harriet and Doyle married when they were twenty, but barely a year later, just as they were discussing having children, Doyle's previously unknown Brachen demon heritage manifested itself. Although Harry eventually came to accept it after the initial shock, enjoying the possibilities it created for them, Doyle was unable to accept his demon side or to believe that Harry truly did so, and the two subsequently drifted apart. For her part, Harry was fascinated to learn of the existence of demons and became an ethnodemonologist, someone who studies demonic cultures. She eventually tracked Doyle down again when she became engaged to Richard Straley, an Ano-Movic Demon.

Doyle eventually agreed to sign the divorce papers after Angel confirmed that Ano-Movics were non-violent. Harry subsequently invited Cordelia Chase to her bachelorette party, reasoning that Cordelia was the only woman she'd met recently under three hundred, but she and Cordelia left the party when a conversation Angel had overheard at the bachelor party revealed that Richard intended to eat Doyle's brains as part of a ritual to bless their marriage - an obscure ritual, seldom invoked because it had been a long time since anyone in his clan married a divorcee, but one his family were absolutely insistent on. Unable to go through with the wedding, Harry called the engagement off.

At some point after the end of her relationship with Richard, Angel asked Doyle to talk to Harry for information on the Kurgarru, a race of demons who eat the souls of others (Angel's only other option for information being Giles, who Angel is naturally reluctant to contact).

After Doyle's death, when Angel and Cordelia contacted Harrie to help exorcise a group of vapour demons that had been summoned by renegade priest, Father Noe. She later advised Angel not to allow Doyle's death to prompt him to cut ties with his other allies.

She was attacked and injured while on a dig by the forces of the Coalition for Purity, a pure-blood demon supremacist group led, ironically enough, by Doyle's father Axtius, who blamed Harry and Angel for encouraging Doyle's human 'weakness'. She later contacts Angel Investigations to warn Cordelia about Axtius's actions, also revealing that the Scourge are not affiliated with the Coalition as their own arrogance would prevent them collaborating with others.

Behind the Scenes

She was portrayed by Kristin Dattilo.

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 == Biography ==
-Harriet and Doyle married when they were twenty, but barely a year later, just as they were discussing having children, Doyle's previously unknown [[Brachen demon]] heritage manifested itself. Although Harry eventually came to accept it after the initial shock, enjoying the possibilities it created for them, Doyle was unable to accept his demon side or to believe that Harry truly did so, and the two subsequently drifted apart. For her part, Harry was fascinated to learn of the existence of demons and became an ethnodemonologist, someone who studies demonic cultures. She eventually tracked Doyle down again when she became engaged to [[Richard Howard Straley]], an [[Ano-Movic Demon]].
+Harriet and Doyle married when they were twenty, but barely a year later, just as they were discussing having children, Doyle's previously unknown [[Brachen demon]] heritage manifested itself. Although Harry eventually came to accept it after the initial shock, enjoying the possibilities it created for them, Doyle was unable to accept his demon side or to believe that Harry truly did so, and the two subsequently drifted apart. For her part, Harry was fascinated to learn of the existence of demons and became an ethnodemonologist, someone who studies demonic cultures. She eventually tracked Doyle down again when she became engaged to [[Richard Straley]], an [[Ano-Movic Demon]].
 Doyle eventually agreed to sign the divorce papers after [[Angel]] confirmed that Ano-Movics were non-violent. Harry subsequently invited [[Cordelia Chase]] to her bachelorette party, reasoning that Cordelia was the only woman she'd met recently under three hundred, but she and Cordelia left the party when a conversation Angel had overheard at the bachelor party revealed that Richard intended to eat Doyle's brains as part of a ritual to bless their marriage - an obscure ritual, seldom invoked because it had been a long time since anyone in his clan married a divorcee, but one his family were absolutely insistent on. Unable to go through with the wedding, Harry called the engagement off.