" Other examples of Hooper's victimisation were like the crow and the Red Room incidents, where Hooper only had to do the primary job of trapping Kingshaw into his fears, and letting Kingshaw's imagination do the rest of the job. .
As Hooper always "spied" on Kingshaw, he had managed to discover Kingshaw's weaknesses and used these to prey on him. The crow incident in Chapter three, one sees that Hooper decided to torment Kingshaw even more after knowing his fears, as he saw from his window, Kingshaw being pursued by a crow. He secretly took a stuffed crow from the attic and left it in Kingshaw's room. He waited outside the room, anticipating Kingshaw to exhibit his fears through his wild screams at what he had discovered. This very act is a real obvious bullying act on Kingshaw, tortures him both psychologically and emotionally. Knowing that if he were to scream for help, he would loses this psychological war between Hooper and himself. So he had to bear all his fears and made sure that no signs of him being scared were shown.
Besides being victimised by Hooper's psychological warfare tactics, Kingshaw was also bullied by him both physically and verbally. Hooper called him names like "scaredy" and "Mummy's baby-boy", which evidently showed that Kingshaw was despised by Hooper. Hooper would resort to all kinds of vile means to drive Kingshaw out of Warings. The first example was again, when Hooper purposely put a "stuffed crow" on Kingshaw's bed to scare him out, and let Kingshaw's imagination do the rest of the job. This was particularly cruel as Kingshaw was greatly victimised by his fear for crow. It evoked our sympathy as we know how dreadful it is if someone put a cockroach, which is the creature you are most scared of, on your bed. .
Another example that showed Kingshaw had been tormented by Hooper ruthlessly was when he was locked inside the Red Room, which contained all the "stiff animal bodies", "dead fish", and of course, the "moths.