Hi, I’m Charles Baker Harris, but people call me Dill. I’m from Meridian, Mississippi, but visit my Aunt Rachel Haverford in Maycomb each summer. She lives next door to the Finches, who I became friends with the first summer I went to visit. I’m a year older than Scout (my fiancé), but am much shorter than her. I am a great fibber, and can “tell the big ones”. I love to act out scenes from books and movies, and am especially fascinated by Boo Radley. He’s supposedly a ghost who lives on the other side of the Finches. I really want to see him someday, and try every summer I go to Maycomb. The first summer, I would stand at the lamppost, staring at the Radley house, and we got a even more obsessed as the years went on. For example, Jem, Scout, and I once tried to stick a note on a loose shutter of the Radley house, right below the window, but Atticus caught us. It got me sick when Tom Robinson lost the trial, and I find it disgusting that he only lost because he was black. My mom got remarried one summer and I couldn’t go stay with Aunt Rachel, because my new father and I planned to build a fishing boat. We never did, and I felt neglected. So, I hopped on a train, walked about 10 miles or more to Maycomb, and climbed on the back of a cotton wagon to get to Jem and Scout’s house. I needed attention desperately.

Dr. Reynolds is the Maycomb doctor. "Had brought Jem and me into the world, had led us through every childhood disease known to man including the time Jem fell out of the tree house, and he had never lost our friendship. Dr. Reynolds said that if we were boil-prone things would have been different...” He is well known to Jem and Scout. He has a strong bond with the Finches.