Abstract. We work on the Hardy space H2 of the open unit disc U, and consider the numerical ranges of composition operators Cϕ induced by holomorphic self-maps ϕ of U. For maps ϕ that fix a point of U we determine precisely when 0 belongs to the numerical range W of Cϕ, and in the process discover the following dichotomy: either 0 ∈ W or the real part of Cϕ admits a decomposition that reveals it to be strictly positive-definite. In this latter case we characterize those operators that are sectorial. For compact composition operators our work has the following consequences: it yields a complete description of the corner points of the closure of W , and it establishes when W is closed. In the course of our investigation we uncover surprising connections between composition operators, Chebyshev polynomials, and Pascal matrices.