Maya the Harp Fairy

Maya the Harp Fairy
UK US Illustration

Race	Fairy
Gender	♀ Female
Series	Music Fairies
Magical Item(s) / Animal(s)	Harp
Symbol(s)	Harps

Maya the Harp Fairy is the fifth fairy in Music Fairies series.

Fairy Profile from the Official RM Facebook Page[]

Maya's Fairy Magic is a tinkling, twinkling, cloud of sparkling pink and silver hearts. When she plays her harp it has a calming effect, no matter how hectic the situation might be. Maya has a light and airy personality that matches her music. She never loses her temper, even with goblins who are up to their usual mischief. She just plays them a lullaby, and they drop off to sleep right in the middle of their naughty tricks!

Blurb[]

Jack Frost's goblins have stolen the Music Fairies' Magical Instruments, so nobody can play music properly! Can Rachel and Kirsty help Maya to find her Magic Harp?

Appearance[]

Maya has glossy, black hair in a ponytail with a red hairband. She wears a halter-neck dress patterned with yellow, orange, red, purple, pink swirls, and red sandals. Her wings are pointed and bright red-tinted.

Symbol: Harps.

Magic Object/Job[]

Magic Object: Harp.

Job: Ensuring that all harp music sounds beautiful and played well at weddings.

Story Summary[]

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Harp Goblin in Maya — Goblin playing the harp

Kirsty's former babysitter Kerry is getting married in the Wetherbury Hotel, and Kirsty, Rachel, and Mrs Tate are attending as guests and to help with decorations. Mrs. Tate sends the girls to the banquet room to scatter confetti on the tables, where they meet a distressed harpist who can’t get her harp to sound right. Once she leaves the room, Rachel opens a confetti packet and Maya the Harp Fairy flies out. She tells the girls her magic harp, and some goblins, are nearby and uses magic to help them finish their confetti-spreading in seconds. Hiding Maya in a tulip, the girls head back for the lobby, passing the pianist they saw on the way in who is now looking very annoyed. In the lobby, a crowd has gathered around a goblin playing a golden harp very well. He finishes one tune and is about to start another when the hotel manager arrives and sends him away at the request of the pianist.

The girls follow the goblin outside into the hotel gardens. As he passes through an archway, he pulls out an ice wand and shrinks the magic harp so it fits in his suit coat pocket. The girls come close to catching him in a statue garden, but a second goblin sees them and helps the first one over the garden’s tall stone wall and out of sight. Maya turns the girls into fairies and they follow the goblins back into the hotel lobby, where they hide in the chandelier and see the second goblin pushing a trolley with the wedding cake on top and the first goblin mostly hidden beneath the tablecloth. Following them back to the banquet room, the girls and Maya watch as the goblin with the harp starts bragging about his musical skill. Hoping to start a goblin argument, Rachel warns the goblin with the harp that the other one might try to steal it while Kirsty tells the other goblin he’s a better player and should take the harp. Maya has to use her magic to keep the cake from falling over as they begin wrestling around on the floor and bumping into things.

The second goblin manages to knock the tiny harp away from the first one; it goes flying through the air and ends up on top of the cake. Both goblins are reaching for it when Kerry’s bridesmaid hurries in and enlists their help arranging wedding presents. Once they’ve left the room, Maya retrieves her harp from the top of the cake and replaces it with a lookalike made of marzipan. She turns the girls back into humans just in time for them to hurry to the ceremony before Kerry walks down the aisle.

Trivia[]

Maya's favourite colour is yellow.
In the chapter “A Wrestling Match”, the illustrations show Kirsty and Rachel talking to opposite goblins as what the text says. The US publication changes the text to fix this error and renames the chapter to “Cake in Crisis”.
The marzipan harp is called white chocolate in the US version.
Her Swedish name is Hedvig.
Her Croatian name is Mia.