Kathleen "Kat" Harvey

Kat

Kathleen "Kat" Harvey is the deuteragonist and the love interest of titular character in the 1995 film, Casper. She also appears in the sequel/spin-off animated series, The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper.

She is portrayed by actress Christina Ricci, who also played Wednesday Addams in the first two Addams Family movies and Trixie from the Speed Racer movie.

In the animated series, she is voiced by Kath Soucie, who also voiced Lola Bunny in Space Jam.

History

Kat is a lonely teenager who lost her mother, and has a widower father: Dr. James Harvey who a ghost therapist, as he contacts with the spirits and help them cross through the other dimension. Unfortunately, this creates problems for Kat as she and her father has been moving around the country helping other spirits around the world causing her not to have a normal life like most teenagers her age. After being discovered on the News by Casper who falls for her, he indirectly draws the News to Carrigan which lead her into hiring Harvey, so he can get the ghosts out to collect the treasure hidden in the Whipstaff Mansion

When Kat and Dr. Harvey arrived, they were unintentionally scared off by Casper, so he have Kat locked in a closet for safety as he fights with the Ghostly Trio and have them vaccumed. The next morning Kat was walking around with a small vaccum, if she sees any ghosts. She went inside the kitchen and meet Casper. As she was about the scream, Casper wrapped himself around her face, to let him know that he is friendly and that she with wake his uncles if she scream.

She sat down on the dining table as Casper prepares her breakfast. Dr. Harvey join her as they were confronted by the Trio. Kat then argued a bit with the leader Stretch until Harvey intervine, as she was getting ready for school.

At school she was being made fun of by the students especially by her soon to be rival Amber Whitmire, by her name. She became popular right away after she told them that she lived in Whipstaff and had everyone be invited to her house for a Halloween party. Back at home, she was asked by her crush Vic DePhilippi to be her date at the dance and agree much to Casper's depression. However, it was a plan set up by Amber that she has yet to figure out.

That night, Casper does what he can to impress her, but she kept on brushing him off because he is ghost. Casper took her to the light house where they see the ocean. She asked him about his past, but he couldn't remember. Later in bed, Kat began explaining Casper about her mother and how she remembers the good times she had with her and wonders if her mother would forget about her as well.

The next morning, Kat went into an old attic and found a box that was filled with Casper's old stuff and redecorate the attic. When Casper woke up, she gave him a little tour of his old toys and a hand print of his human self making him realize that he has five fingers in each hand. After remembering everything, Casper gave Kat a dress his mother use to wear as Kat decided to use it for the party. He also showed her a sled, which explains his tragic death in that he has suffered a pneumonia attack after a sledding accident. Kat wonders what it was like to die to which Casper explained like being born, but only backwards, and that he didn't go where he was suppose to go, so he stay behind, so his father wouldn't be lonely. They both saw a news paper saying that J.T. McFadden was haunted by the ghost of his dead son and invented a machine to bring him back to life called the Lazarus.

Casper took Kat to the machine as they were being followed by Carrigan and Dibs. Casper had given Kat experience with his father's invention, one in particular is called the Up and At'em Machine. Inside the lab, Casper showed her around.

She activated the Lazarus, by pressing the button of a book that she found lying on the table. With the Lazarus now rose up, Casper attempted to enter inside the machine, but Kat was beginning to get worried. Casper claims that he's going to be alive. Unfortunatley, it all backfire when the glassed capulse that is used to make the entire machine to work was stolen by Carrigan and Dibs which caused Casper to turned into a sunnysizes up egg.

Kat helped Casper get back into his own ghost body with an old duster. They were intruded by a ghost of Carrigan after, falling down on a cliff, and took Casper's treasure chest that was contained in a vault and demanded Dibs to get the Lazurus to work, but he double crossed her and wanted the treasure all to himself, leading Carrigan to send him off flying with his fate unknown.

Casper and Kat tricked Carrigan about unfinished business, as Carrigan stated that she has none causing her to crossover.

The two attempted to try the Lazarus again, but was interrupted by a fully ghost Dr. James Harvey and the Ghostly Trio, with Harvey not remember who he was as well as his own daughter. Kat helped him by giving him the pinky promise they had before they moved.

Casper sees that Harvey needs the Lazarus more than him. With Harvey inside Casper activated the machine and brought him back to life. Kat ran up and embraced her father relieved that he is back alive again. They hear noises realizing that the party was still going on.

With the party going on, Harvey tells Kat to go in and have fun. She and alot of the party guess sees Vic and Amber running away after being scared away by the Ghostly Trio, when they originally attempt to sabatoge the party.

Later in the dance, everyone except Kat were dancing in slow music with their partner, as a blonde hair boy appeared before Kat and took her to the dance floor. The boy turned out to be Casper after he had her flown up and her gave her the line he said the night before. "Can I keep you?" Kat's mother Ameila who was an angel came to Casper and rewarded him for the sacrifice he made by becoming human for one night only, once the clock struck 10.

After the clock struck ten, Casper kissed Kat as he was slowly transforming back into his ghostly self. The guest were in stunned by his appearance as he gave a nervous "boo" causing everyone to leave the party terrified.

Casper, Kat and Dr. Harvey decided to have the party all to themselves with the Trio dressing as Little Richard preforming the Little Richard version of the Casper the Friendly Ghost theme song.

Similar Heroes

• Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
• Connie Maheswaran (Steven Universe)
• Emma Goodall (Power Rangers Megaforce)

Gallery

Kat and her father in the Animated Cartoon

External Links

• Katleen "Kat" Harvey - Casper the Friendly Ghost Wiki
• Kathleen "Kat" Harvey - Love Interest Wiki