Minor Character - The DaVinci Code

One minor character in the book The Davinci Code, by Dan Brown, is Remy Legaludec.  He is the manservant of Sir Leigh Teabing, a renound British historian.  The character's role in the plot is to do whatever Sir Teabing asks him to do.  He helps move the plot along by carrying out various orders that Sir Teabing commands him to do. 



This is a picture of what Remy looked like in the book's movie

If the author made Remy have a more important role in the story, I think that the plot would be a lot different.  The author could make Remy more important by giving him more speaking lines that counteract what Sir Teabing tells him to do.  I think that Remy disagrees with a lot of things that Sir Leabing tells him to do.  This can be seen when Sir Leabing ties up the monk Silas and holds him hostage on his private jet while they escape the French police and fly to England.  Remy does obviously not agree with this decision because as soon as Sir Teabing leaves them alone, Remy cuts the duct tape that binds Silas together and Remy gives Silas his pistol.  This could strengthen the originality of the plot because I have never read a book before where a once small character makes one decision to influence the entire plot of the story.