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Abbot, Hannah: Hannah is a Hufflepuff in Harry's year. She has blonde hair that she wears in pigtails. She's seems to be Ernie MacMillan's best friend as we often see them together. She sticks up for Harry when Ernie suggests he could be the heir of Slytherin. She works at the same srivelfig as Harry in Herbology after Hermione has been petrified and Ernie had apologised for suspecting Harry. In GoF she wears one of Malfoy's 'Support Cedric Diggory' badges that flash to say 'Potter stinks' which doesn't cheer Harry up at all. She collects chocolate frog cards and we see her swapping them with Ernie Macmillan. In fifth year, she becomes a Huffepuff prefect. She is a member of Dumbledore's Army (the D.A.). Apparently, Hannah is very susceptible to stress - in OotP we're told that during her O.W.Ls she burst into tears during Herbology and 'sobbed that she was too stupid to take exams and wanted to leave school now', so was the first to receive a calming draught from Madam Pomfrey. We also see her checking books out of the library looking 'frantic'. Maybe her nerves were justified, for in her Transfiguration exam she multiplied a ferret into a flock of flamingos, meaning the exam had to be paused for ten minutes to get them out of the Great Hall!
Abercromie, Euan: He was the first to be sorted in Book 5 and was placed in Gryffindor. He is repeatedly described as looking terrified and has 'very prominent ears'.
Ackerley, Stewart: He is sorted into Ravenclaw in Book 4.
Agrippa: A character on a Chocolate Frog card - to be precise, one that, as of book 1, Ron still hadn't got in his collection.
Aragog: We are introduced to Aragog in the second book. He is an
Acromantula, which means a giant spider. He was fed on scraps from the table
and raised from an egg by Hagrid when he was a child; Hagrid kept him in a
cupboard at Hogwarts and eventually even found him a wife called Mosag.
Together, Aragog and Mosag formed a colony in the forbidden forest of which
Aragog is leader. He is described as the size of a small elephant, with grey
hairs among the black and an ugly, pincered head. Each of his 8 eyes is
milky white, because he is blind. When he speaks he clicks his pincers. He
lives in a 'misty domed web'. Hagrid was expelled because Tom Riddle accused
Hagrid of being the heir of Slytherin and Aragog of being the monster from
the Chamber of Secrets, which was a lie. Hagrid received Aragog from a
traveller. Aragog comes from 'a distant land'. He likes the dark and quiet,
and it is his instinct to harm humans but out of respect for Hagrid he had
never done so, though this didn't stop him from wanting the other spiders to
eat Harry and Ron, which they would have done if Mr. Weasley's magically
enhanced Ford Anglia hadn't rescued them. He refuses to speak of the
basilisk because it is the natural enemy of spiders, rather like the
wizarding kind refuse to name Voldemort.
He died of old age in the spring of 1997. Hagrid, Harry and Slughorn
attended his burial. Slughorn got a good amount of venom from him, as
Acromantula venom is precious.
Arnold: Arnold is Ginny's purple Pygmy Puff (mini puffskein) who likes to ride on her shoulder at times.
Art Historian: Failed to remove the portrait from the Muggle Prime Minister's office.
Avery: A Death Eater. We meet him at the graveyard scene in GoF, where he begs forgiveness from Voldemort before receiving the Cruciatus Curse. He was involved in the plot to get Bode to remove the prophecy from the Department of Mysteries, informing Voldemort that Bode could retrieve it, which turned out to be the wrong information. He was present at the battle in the Department of Mysteries. He escaped Azkaban after the first war by claiming to have been under the Imperius Curse. He didn't attempt to find Voldemort after his downfall because he believed him finished.
Baddock, Malcolm: He is sorted into Slytherin in GoF.
Bagman, Ludo: Ludo Bagman is the head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports at the Ministry of Magic. He was a famous beater for the Wimbourne Wasps, and used to play Quidditch for England. We meet him at the Quidditch World Cup, where he is totally ignoring the command to look like Muggles and wearing long Wimbourne Wasp robes that have black and gold stripes with a logo of a wasp on the front. He is described as looking like 'a powerfully built man gone slightly to seed; the robes were stretched tightly across a large belly he surely had not had in the days when he played Quidditch for England. His nose was squashed (probably broken by a stray bludger, Harry thought), but his round blue eyes, short blonde hair and rosy complexion made him look like a very overgrown schoolboy.' Ludo has a gambling problem and bets with Fred and George and a lot of goblins at the Quidditch World Cup, resulting in a lot of problems for Ludo when he can't pay his debts. He was the commentator at at the World Cup, and the one who got tickets for Harry, Hermione and the Weasleys to sit in the top box. He is one of the judges of the Triwizard Tournament and tries to help Harry cheat so that he can win back the money he owes by betting that Harry will win. When he walks, he bounces, and he seems like a very jolly, good natured type of person, if not the sharpest tool in the shed. He's a flamboyant dresser; his wardrobe also includes purple robes with bright yellow stars. At the Yule Ball he danced with Professor McGonagall. After seeing Ludo in discussion with goblins, horrible journalist, Rita Skeeter begins talking to the trio about digging dirt on Ludo. She tells them, "I know things about Ludo Bagman that would make your hair curl." This doesn't seem to fit with the image Ludo projects, but as GoF goes on the trio do indeed learn a lot more. A short time later, Hermione ponders whether or not he could have been the one to conjure the Dark Mark. We know that he wasn't, but later we again have cause to question whether Ludo is as nice and friendly as he makes out. In Dumbledore's penseive, Harry sees him on trial for giving information to Death Eaters in exchange for Rookwood getting him a job at the Ministry. The trial was far from fair, and there is a lot of evidence to suggest Ludo was only acquitted because of his fame and image. Moody, Crouch and Dumbledore acted as if they were definitely not entirely convinced of his story, Crouch even suggesting he should be sent to Azkaban. Ludo claimed he didn't know Rookwood was a Death Eater, but surely even an idiot would realise in a time of war, anyone probing you for information could be up to something. At the end of book 4 we learn that Bagman had tried to pay Fred and George their winnings in leprechaun gold, which disappears, showing again that he may be a dishonest character. Keep an eye on him.
Bagman, Otto: Otto is Ludo's brother. He got into trouble over a lawnmower with magical powers, which Mr. Weasley smoothed over. In exchange for this, Ludo got the Weasleys very good tickets for the Quidditch World Cup.
Bagnold, Millicent: We find out in OotP that (she) Millicent was the Minister of Magic before Cornelius Fudge.
Bagshot, Bathilda: Author of A History of Magic.
Bane: Bane is a centaur who lives in the Forbidden Forest, described as 'black haired and black bodied' and 'wild looking' with a black beard. He is strongly against centaurs letting humans ride on their backs, and equally against Firenze teaching at Hogwarts. He is also against the centaurs interfering in fate, saying to Firenze: "What have you been telling him? Remember, Firenze, we are sworn not to set ourselves against the heavens." In book 5, Bane picks up Umbridge and carries her into the forest, after being called a filthy half-breed.
Belby, Marcus: He is a thin, nervous looking Ravenclaw seventh-year. He was invited to join the Slug Club because Slughorn taught his Uncle Damocles at Hogwarts. Belby's father and uncle don't get along well together so he doesn't know much about his uncle, and this just caused Slughorn to ignore him.
Bell, Katie: She is one of the Chasers for the Gryffindor Quidditch
team, and was a member of Dumbledore's Army. She may have had a bit of a
crush on Cedric Diggory, giggling and saying he was the 'strong, silent
type'.
In book 6, she was the only original member remaining from the team that
Harry had joined in his first year. She advised him to hold fair trials for
all and not discriminate because she was an older member of the team. In the
end, she succeeded in staying one of the three Chasers. Around wintertime,
Katie was accidentally cursed by a necklace, set by Draco Malfoy, that Madam
Rosmerta (who was under the Imperius Curse) had given her while in the
women's bathroom. She spent the better half of the rest of the year in St.
Mungo's. Dean Thomas took over her position as Chaser but she came back to
help Gryffindor win the Quidditch Cup at the end of the year.
Binns, Professor: Professor Binns is the only teacher who is a ghost at Hogwarts and he teaches History of Magic. Before each lesson, he glides in through the blackboard (which is said to be the most exciting thing that happens in his lessons)! Homework he has asked for has been: a 3 foot long essay on "The Medieval Assembly of European Wizards", "a foot-and-a-half long essay on giant wars" and "the goblin rebellions of the 18th century". His appearance is 'ancient and shrivelled' and 'many people said he hadn't noticed he was dead. He had simply got up to teach one day and left his body behind him in an armchair in front of the staff room fire; his routine had not varied in the slightest since.' He has a 'dry, wheezy/reedy voice' and reads in a 'flat drone like a vacuum cleaner' which sends everyone in class to sleep. When he clears his throat it sounds like a piece of chalk snapping and when he purses his lips he looks like 'a wrinkled old tortoise'. He has a tendency to get students' names wrong. For instance, calling Seamus Finnigan "O'Flaherty", Harry "Perkins" and Parvati Patil "Miss Pennyfeather". His lessons consist of his lecturing the students without stopping while they are supposed to take notes.
Black, Mrs: Sirius's mother is dead (she died in 1991), but she lives on in the form of a portrait at 12, Grimmauld Place. The portrait is hidden behind moth eaten velvet curtains, but whenever a loud noise is made the curtain flies open and the woman begins to shriek and scream. The portrait is life size. She has yellow skin, clawlike hands and wears a black cap. When she screams she drools and rolls her eyes. Mrs. Black is heavily prejudiced, disowning people from the Black family and 'blasting' them off the family tree tapestry if they do not marry into a pureblooded family. When people try to pull the curtains over her face as she screams, they find it exceptionally hard, and the portrait is stuck to the wall with a Permanent Sticking Charm so that she cannot be removed. She grunts in her sleep.
Black, Regulus: Sirius's younger brother, a Death Eater who was killed on Voldemort's orders because he panicked and wanted to leave the Death Eaters. He was killed a few days after he left his loyalties. It is popular speculation amongst readers to think that R.A.B. refers to Regulus. JK says that "it's a.um.fine guess."
Black, Sirius: Born circa 1960, Sirius Black was born into a
pureblood family with the motto Toujours Pur ("Always Pure"). His mother and
father both, though not Death Eaters themselves, believed that Lord
Voldemort had the right idea to purify the wizarding world. Sirius was not a
favourite in the family and his younger brother, Regulas Black, was the
pride of his parents for agreeing with their pureblood ideas. Growing up in
London, Sirius lived in 12 Grimmauld Place during his childhood, a house
heavily fortified by his father.
He was sorted into Gryffindor in 1971 (always the rebel), and Sirius spent a
lot of his time in detention with his best friend, James Potter. When the
two of them had detention in separate rooms they would communicate using
two-way mirrors. Along with James, Sirius used an illegal hex upon Bertram
Aubrey, whose head swelled to twice its normal size. They got a double
detention. When not in detention, the two them along with friends Peter
Pettigrew and Remus Lupin (whom dubbed themselves "The Marauders"), were
always stirring up some new prank in their minds. Around Black's second
year, he and his friends discovered that Lupin was a werewolf and spent the
better half of three years learning to become unregistered Animagi. In their
fifth year, when they did manage it, Black turned into a shaggy black dog,
much like the Grim. He was nicknamed "Padfoot" by his friends and was later
called "Snuffles" by Harry and the others. The Marauders took frequent trips
around the Hogwarts grounds and the Forbidden Forest in their animal forms,
learning more about Hogwarts than possibly any other students, and thus came
to write the Marauder's Map (later confiscated by Filch).
In his youth, Sirius retained the haughty Black good looks, with dark hair
that, as Harry thought, fell into his eyes with a sort of casual elegance,
and fathomless grey eyes. He was tall. Although Sirius was fiercely loyal to
his friends and an overall kind person, Severus Snape seemed to be his one
exception. He and Snape had a mutual dislike for each other and Sirius
jumped at the chance to help James torture him whenever he could.
At the age of 16, Sirius decided he had had enough of his family's
"pure-blood mania" and ran away from home. His family disowned him. He
stayed at the Potters' house and bought his own house (from gold he had
inherited from his Uncle Alphard) at the age of 17.
After his Hogwarts years, in 1978, Sirius was the best man at Lily and
James's wedding, described as a happy, laughing young man in the photos.
Sirius himself never got married because he was "too busy being a rebel". He
and the Marauders and Lily were actively a part of the first Order of the
Phoenix, fighting the war against Voldemort.
When Harry was born in 1980, Sirius was named Godfather to him and was to be
his guardian in case anything ever happened to Lily and James. When the
prophecy was made and Lily and James performed the Fidelius Charm, Sirius
was their Secret Keeper but convinced them at the last minute to use Peter.
Nobody was told of this change, not even Remus, because Sirius thought Remus
was the spy. Sirius was planning on going into hiding himself. Peter
betrayed Lily and James, and as Sirius raced on his flying motorbike to
Godric's Hollow, he found their house in ruins. Hagrid was already there and
Sirius told him that he should take Harry; he was his Godfather and now
legal guardian. Hagrid told him that on Dumbledore's orders he couldn't give
Harry to him, so Sirius gave Hagrid his motorbike (saying he wouldn't need
it anymore) and tracked Peter down himself. In the middle of a Muggle
street, Peter screamed for everyone to hear that Sirius killed Lily and
James and then blew the whole street up, turning into a rat and speeding
down to the sewers. Twenty workers from the Department of Magical Law
Enforcement took Sirius away to Azkaban Prison without trial. He was around
22 years old.
In Azkaban, Sirius kept himself sane because he knew he hadn't betrayed his
best friends. Since this wasn't a happy thought, the Dementors didn't affect
him as much. In the summer of 1993, before Harry's third year at Hogwarts,
Sirius saw the article in the Daily Prophet that said Ron's rat Scabbers was
going to Hogwarts. Sirius knew immediately that this rat was Peter
Pettigrew. One night, he transformed into a dog and snuck out of the prison
and swam to shore. He saw Harry for the first time in twelve years near
Magnolia Crescent. He broke into Hogwarts twice, once slashing the Fat
Lady's portrait, and once slashing the curtains to Ron's bed. The trio and
Snape encountered Sirius in the Shrieking Shack (he had long matted hair,
his face was gaunt and waxy, and his eyes sunken) near the end of the year,
and with Lupin's help, Sirius managed to tell them his story and turned
Scabbers back to Peter. Unfortunately, Peter managed to escape and Sirius
was locked in a room awaiting the Dementor's kiss. Harry and Hermione
managed to save him using a time-turner and he flew off with Buckbeak.
At word of Harry's scar hurting in his fourth year, Sirius returned to
Britain and kept in touch with Harry via fire and owl post. He was hiding in
a cave somewhere near the village of Hogsmeade. He was by Harry's side after
the third task and accompanied him to the hospital wing. He was told on
Dumbledore's orders to gather "the old crowd" for the second war that was
coming and to lie low at Lupin's for a while.
Sirius was the last living Black relative and inherited 12 Grimmauld Place,
which he turned over to the Order of the Phoenix as headquarters. Since it
was almost certain that Peter had told Voldemort of his Animagus being and
the fact that there was a 10 000 Galleon prize on his head, Sirius was
trapped in his house for months. Besides the fact that being back in his
childhood home brought back painful memories, Sirius was not one to sit
around. In June of 1996, Sirius and a few other Order members engaged in a
battle with Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries. Sirius taunted his
cousin Bellatrix Lestrange and she sent a jet of red light at him. His eyes
widened in shock and his body curved into a graceful arch before he fell
through the veil. It's uncertain what killed him - Bellatrix's spell or the
veil - but the end result was that he did die.
He left all of his property to Harry (if Harry did not accept it, it would
have gone to Bellatrix Lestrange), who did not have any need or want for it.
He had to keep Kreacher but let him work in the Hogwarts kitchens. Buckbeak
was given to Hagrid.
Sirius was reckless, brave, loyal, affectionate, and slightly embittered. He
never had a proper childhood, since being sent to Azkaban. His death hit the
Order members hard, especially Harry and Lupin.
Bletchley, Miles: He is the keeper for the Slytherin Quidditch team and a nasty piece of work. Before an important game he cursed Alicia Spinnet so that her eyebrows grew so long they reached her mouth. He's been on the Slytherin Quidditch team since Harry's first year, so must be either one or two years ahead of Harry.
Bloody Baron: The Bloody Baron is the Slytherin ghost, named because he is covered in silver bloodstains. He is described as gaunt, silent and staring, sometimes referred to as a 'spectre' rather than a ghost, and the other ghosts are intimidated by him so give him a wide berth. He is the only ghost or person at Hogwarts who can control Peeves the Poltergeist (Peeves calls him 'your bloodiness'). He attends Nearly Headless Nick's Death Day party. We don't know why the he is covered in blood - Harry asked Nick in first year but Nick said he had never asked. We learn in book 1 from Neville that the Baron was skulking around outside the Gryffindor Common Room. Harry pretends to be the Bloody Baron when Peeves spots him under the invisibility cloak. He says 'The Bloody Baron has his own reasons for being invisible' in a hoarse whisper, which may be the Baron's natural voice although we have never heard him speak.
Boardman, Stubby: The Quibbler says he is Sirius Black, lead singer of the Hobgoblins. This dubious claim is made by a Mrs. Purkiss, who says that she was having a romantic dinner with him on the day Sirius was supposed to have committed the crimes. She says she saw Sirius's photo in the paper and recognised him as Stubby, so had written to the Ministry expecting a full pardon. Apparently Stubby retired from public life after being hit on the ear with a turnip at a concert in Little Norton Church Hall.
Bole: Slytherin beater who left school when Harry was in fifth year. He had the usual Slytherin Quidditch player physique - i.e., he was a 'gorilla'. His partner beater was Derrick.
Bones: A wizarding family who suffered greatly at the hands of Voldemort. Hagrid tells us in book 1 that the Bones were 'some of the best witches an' wizards of the age'.
Bones, Amelia Susan: She was killed by Lord Voldemort himself in book 6, or so Fudge suspects, and all the evidence is that she put up a good fight. Her murder was in Muggle newspapers (although they just said she was a middle-aged woman who lived alone) and the police were baffled about her murder because she was found in a room locked from the inside. She was Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic when alive. She appeared as a judge at Harry's trial in OotP, where she showed she was indeed a fair person (Tonks had told us that she would be) because she was the only judge willing to give Harry a fair trial. She was described as a broad, square-jawed witch with very short grey hair and thick eyebrows who wore a monocle and looked forbidding, but the monocle and forbidding look may just have been because of the circumstances in which we met her (Harry's hearing). She spoke in a booming voice and had a briefcase. She was the grandmother of Susan Bones (a Hufflepuff in Harry's year), who has her middle name.
Bones, Edgar: We learn he was an original member of the Order of the Phoenix when Moody points out who's who in an old photo at Grimmauld Place. He tells us he was a great wizard and that he and his family were killed by the Death Eaters, though clearly Susan and Amelia survived.
Bones, Susan: A Hufflepuff in Harry's year. She wears her hair in a long plait and is the granddaughter of Amelia Bones. Her aunt, uncle and cousins were killed by Voldemort, which made her an object of curiosity, and able to empathise with Harry after the Daily Prophet ran an article about the escaped Death Eaters and their crimes. She is a member of Dumbledore's Army. One of the first friends she made at Hogwarts appears to have been Hannah Abbot, as she ran to sit next to her at the Sorting Feast in book 1.
Boot, Terry: Harry watches Terry get sorted into Ravenclaw as he waits in line for his own sorting. He's a Muggleborn and friends with Anthony Goldstein and Michael Corner. In fourth year he was in Dumbledore's office gossiping with portraits about how Harry killed the basilisk (something fishy going on there?). He is a member of the D.A. and during a meeting his wand once hit Alicia Spinnet on the ear while practising Expelliarmus. He questioned Hermione during their first ever D.A. meeting, asking why she was so smart and yet, not in Ravenclaw. He was one of the four Ravenclaws in Professor Slughorn's Advanced Potions class, which means that he got at least an E on his Potions O.W.L.
Bott, Bertie: The man that invented "Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans."
Branstone, Eleanor: She is sorted into Hufflepuff in Goblet of Fire.
Bryce, Frank: The Riddle's gardener who was murdered by Lord Voldemort. He was arrested on the suspicion of murdering Tom Riddle's parents and grandfather (Tom was the real culprit) because he was the gardener at their house and so had keys to the house. There were no broken windows or other signs of a break in, so the evidence pointed to Frank. He lived alone in a run-down cottage on the grounds and had fought in the Second World War which left him with a 'very stiff leg and a great dislike of crowds and noises'. He had gnarled fingers and a build-up of earwax. At the time of his murder Frank was almost 77 and very deaf, although he still kept up his gardening job for the new owner of the Riddle House. When he yelled he had a croaky voice. He had a deep mistrust of the police after they had taken him in for questioning and had no telephone, so when he saw lights on in the house on the night of his murder (he figured it was just more kids trying to get in) he investigated himself instead of contacting the police. He felt braver when it was time to take action than when he was waiting for it to happen; we saw this when he faced Voldemort and were told it had always been that way for him in the war. He was killed by Voldemort with Avada Kedavra, the Killing Curse.
Brocklehurst, Mandy: A half-blood Ravenclaw in Harry's year.
Brown, Lavender: Lavender was the first student to be sorted into
Gryffindor at the sorting in book 1, so she's in Harry's year. She is deeply
in awe of Professor Trelawney, along with her best friend Parvati Patil. Ron
makes one of the best jokes in the series in Divination, when Lavender talks
about an 'unaspected planet' which she is told is Uranus. Ron says
innocently, "Can I have a look at Uranus, Lavender?" Under the Imperius
curse in the fake Moody's lesson she imitated a squirrel. She has a shrill
giggle and she giggles a lot. Ron asked her to the Yule Ball in desperation
because he didn't have a date, but she was already going with Seamus
Finnigan. She is a member of the D.A. She loves Hedwig, Harry's owl,
thinking her very beautiful. She had a pet rabbit called Binky, but he was
killed by a fox, which she thinks was predicted by Professor Trelawney
(although Hermione was definitely not convinced of this).
In the sixth book, she appeared to have a crush on Ron Weasley, giggling at
everything, funny or not, that he did. They became girlfriend and boyfriend
later on in the book, but their relationship mainly consisted of snogging.
She wanted Ron to wear a necklace but he did not want to. She nicknamed him
Won-Won. She became increasingly jealous of the amount of attention
Ron and Hermione paid each other and eventually dumped Ron (who did not
complain about it) after she saw him coming out of his dormitory with
Hermione.
Buckbeak: Buckbeak is a hippogriff, which means he is half-horse half-eagle. The horse part of him is grey and he has orange eyes. In a Care of Magical Creatures lesson he bit Malfoy after being provoked, and faced being beheaded for being a dangerous creature. Harry and Hermione saved him from execution by using Hermione's time turner to go back in time and let him and Sirius fly away. When Sirius was living at Grimmauld Place, Buckbeak was kept in a room upstairs made into a makeshift hippogriff home by having straw on the floor. Sirius fed him dead rats. In book 6, Harry became Buckbeak's legal guardian (he was nicknamed "Witherwings" for a while for his own safety) but Harry let him live with Hagrid, which made everyone happy.
Bulstrode, Millicent: Millicent is a Slytherin girl in Harry's year who is described as 'looking like a picture Harry had seen in Holidays With Hags. She was large and square and her heavy jaw jutted aggressively.' As of second year, she was a lot bigger than Harry and is described as being 'no pixie' and 'ugly'. She partners Hermione at the Duelling Club, where she ignores her wand and traps Hermione in a headlock. Millicent left one of her cat's hairs on Hermione's back after the wrestling match, which Hermione made the Polyjuice Potion with because she thought it had belonged to Millicent. This meant that when Hermione drank the potion (which was a sick shade of yellow) she turned into Millicent Bulstrode's cat in second year and was in the hospital wing for weeks. The catlike human she turned into was black, with yellow eyes. Hermione and Millicent clashed again in book 5, when Millicent pinned her against the wall in Umbridge's office. Hermione started to cry into the back of Millicent's robes when Umbridge tried to use the Cruciatus Curse on Harry, and Millicent let her go in disgust.
Bungy: He is a budgie who lives at Five Feathers in Barnsley and keeps cool in the summer by waterskiing. Harry learnt about him when he saw Mary Dorkins investigating this remarkable talent on the news.
Carrows: (Family) Death Eaters. Didn't attempt to find Voldemort after the first war because they believed him finished.
Cauldwell, Owen: A Hufflepuff student, sorted in GoF.
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Failed to remove the portrait from the Muggle Prime Minister's office.
Chang, Cho: Cho is a very pretty Ravenclaw girl with long, shiny
black hair that she sometimes wears in a ponytail who plays the position of
Seeker on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. She is a year older than Harry, who
had a big crush on her for 3 years. In GoF he asked her to the Yule Ball,
but she was already going with Cedric. She is very popular, and Harry notes
that she even seems to go to the bathroom 'with an escort of four or five
girls' and so is impossible to get on her own. In the 2nd task, she was the
thing that meant the most to Cedric Diggory. She has supported the Tutshill
Tornados since she was 6, and her Patronus is a swan.
She is a member of Dumbledore's Army, and one of her best friends seems to
be Marietta Edgecombe who comes to the D.A. meetings with her and who she
often sits with. She kisses Harry at the end of a D.A. meeting before
Christmas, after she points out the mistletoe. Harry later described it as
'wet'. In OotP Hermione told us she 'spends half her time crying these
days', and Harry and Ron couldn't understand why. Hermione gave us an
insight into how she was feeling, telling us:
"Well, obviously, she's feeling very sad, because of Cedric dying. Then I
expect she's feeling confused because she liked Cedric and now she likes
Harry and she can't work out who she likes best. Then she'll be feeling
guilty, thinking it's an insult to Cedric's memory to be kissing Harry at
all, and she'll be worrying about what everyone might say about her if she
starts going out with Harry. And she probably can't work out what her
feelings towards Harry are, anyway, because he was the one who was with
Cedric when Cedric died, so that's all very mixed up and painful. Oh, and
she's afraid she's going to be thrown off the Ravenclaw Quidditch team
because she's been flying so badly."
Harry had a dream about Cho that involved them being in the Room of
Requirement again, Cho accusing Harry of 'luring her there under false
pretences; she said that he had promised her 150 chocolate frog cards if she
showed up'. In the dream, Cedric had given her lots of chocolate frog cards,
so Hermione said that he had better give Cho his firebolt. Harry and Cho go
on a date to Hogsmeade on Valentine's day in book 5, where they visit Madam
Puddifoot's, a tearoom decorated with lots of frills and bows that Cho
thinks is cute but Harry doesn't. The date ends in disaster when Harry tells
her he has to meet Hermione Granger, and Cho storms out of the tearoom in
tears after telling him Roger Davies has asked her out. By the end of the
book the relationship has definitely ended, and she is going out with
Michael Corner (Ginny's ex). She ignored Harry in book 6 on the Hogwarts
Express, pretending to be in deep discussion with her friend Marietta.
Chorley, Herbert: He is one of the Muggle Prime Minister's Junior Ministers, who was put under the Imperius Curse. The curse was not skilfully performed, which resulted in Chorley 'entertaining the public by impersonating a duck'. It is implied that he was fired for this unusual display, as we are told this means he is now spending 'a lot more time with his family', although according to Fudge, his family would be safer without him. The Prime Minister suggests it could have been caused by drinking, and that he just needs a rest. When taken to St Mungo's because of the Imperius Curse, he attempted to strangle three healers. Rufus Scrimgeour feels he is not safe to be in Muggle society, which, judging from this display, is probably correct.
Circe: One of the first Chocolate Frog card characters Harry collects.
Cliodna: One of the first Chocolate Frog card characters Harry collects. She is a druidess and the picture of her on the card was scratching her nose.
Corner, Michael: Ravenclaw's Michael Corner is quite the Casanova - he has dated Ginny and by the end of book 5 he is going out with Cho Chang. He met Ginny at the Yule Ball and by the end of the school year they were dating. He's friends with Anthony Goldstein and Terry Boot. He is a member of Dumbledore's Army, and was very impressed with Harry's flying in the Triwizard Tournament. He's described as 'dark'. Ron professes not to like him, saying that he had a 'really shifty look' about it and muttering insults, but this is probably solely because of his relationship with Ginny. He doesn't seem to be a very skilled magician, as when paired with Ginny in a D.A. meeting he was either 'very bad or else unwilling to curse Ginny'. This theory is a bit dodgey, though, as he was in Professor Slughorn's Advanced Potions class. The relationship with Ginny ended when he got sulky about Gryffindor beating Ravenclaw at Quidditch, so Ginny dumped him. He 'ran off to comfort Cho.' He is a half-blood.
Crabbe, Vincent: One of Draco Malfoy's henchmen. In one word: a
brute. He is described as looking 'thickset and extremely mean' and 'large
and thuggish'. Harry thought he and Goyle looked like Malfoy's bodyguards.
His partner in crime is Gregory Goyle, who he has lots in common with. Harry
meets them for the first time on the Hogwarts Express in book 1, where he
and Ron get into a fight with Malfoy. He is a Slytherin. When Malfoy
challenges Harry to a duel, he chooses Crabbe as his second, perhaps
suggesting he trusts more in Crabbe's destructive abilities than Goyle's.
Along with Goyle, he fights Neville in the first book, after Malfoy insults
Ron and Neville. We're told he always does exactly what Malfoy does, when he
signs up to stay for the Christmas holidays in book 2 after Malfoy does
this. Harry, Ron and Hermione steal one of his hairs to make a Polyjuice
potion which will disguise Ron as Crabbe, so they can interrogate Malfoy
about whether he is the Heir of Slytherin. (Harry takes one of Goyle's
hairs, and Hermione one of Millicent Bulstrode's.) They do this by drugging
Crabbe and Goyle with cakes, then shoving them into a broom cupboard. The
potion with Crabbe's hair in it turns a dark, murky brown. He speaks in a
'deep grunt', has a pudding bowl haircut, a flat nose and long gorilla arms,
which he holds stiffly. He's muscly and has a very thick neck. In book 3 he
dresses up as a Dementor along with Malfoy, Goyle and Marcus Flint, to scare
Harry and harm his Quidditch game. Harry fires a Patronus at them which
leaves them in a crumpled heap. At the Yule Ball he fails to find a partner
and wears green robes, looking like a 'moss covered boulder' in Harry's
opinion. In book 4 Malfoy lies and says that Crabbe got a 'bad bite off a
flobberworm' when talking to Rita Skeeter. Crabbe seemed very pleased with
himself about this. His father is a Death Eater, who is present at the fight
at the Department of Mysteries. On the train back home in book 4, he is on
the receiving end of a number of curses after Malfoy insults Ron and
Hermione. Harry used the Furnunculus Curse on him and George used Jellylegs,
which made the interesting effect of Crabbe sprouting little tentacles all
over his face. In book 5, he becomes Slytherin beater along with best pal
Goyle. Angelina Johnson commented that 'they don't look bright enough to
tell one end of a broom from the other.' In book 5 he also becomes a member
of Dolores Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad, set up to spy on students. Crabbe
is present at the fight in Umbridge's office and grabs Neville in a
headlock. He again gets into a fight on the train home from Hogwarts in book
5 and ends up looking like 'nothing so much as (a) giant slug squeezed into
Hogwarts uniform'.
He failed his DADA O.W.L. and during his sixth year, dressed up as a girl
(using Polyjuice Potion) to help Malfoy a few times. At the end, he feels
lost when Malfoy runs off with Snape.
Creevey, Colin: Colin is a Muggleborn wizard, born in 1981, whose dad is a Muggle milkman. When he first found out that he was a wizard, he was very excited and took lots of pictures to send home to his father. Harry Potter, a fellow Gryffindor of his, was amongst one of his most interesting things to photograph. He constantly followed him around and greeted him just to see Harry respond. In his first year, Colin asked Harry to autograph a picture for him but Harry declined. In November of Colin's first year, he was petrified by a Basilisk but didn't manage to get a picture (the camera was in his hand). He was revived the next May. He and his younger brother joined the D.A. in the October of 1995. Colin may have smuggled his brother into Hogsmeade, as his brother was a second year at the time and was therefore not allowed into Hogsmeade until the next year. He and his brother Dennis tried to modify a stack of "Support Cedric Diggory!/Potter Stinks" badges to say something good about Harry but only succeeded in getting them to read "Potter Really Stinks". Colin is short, excitable, and has mousy brown hair.
Creevey, Dennis: Dennis is a Muggleborn (born in 1983) whose dad is a Muggle milkman. He is Colin Creevey's two-year younger brother and was also sorted into Gryffindor when he attended Hogwarts in 1994. He was the smallest boy of his year and had to stand on his seat in the Great Hall to be able to see the Goblet of Fire, yet still only came up to everyone else's eye-level. During the storm that rocked the first years' boats, Dennis fell into the lake and was rescued by the giant squid, which he seemed to find amusing. He and his brother tried to modify some "Support Cedric Diggory!/Potter Stinks" badges to say something positive about Harry, but all they came up with was "Potter Really Stinks". In his second year, Dennis was possibly smuggled into Hogsmeade because he attended and joined the first D.A. meeting in the Hog's Head Inn. Like his brother, he has mousy brown hair.
Cresswell, Dirk: Creswell was one year older than Lily Evans Potter, so was presumably born c. 1959. He attended Hogwarts but, like Lily, he was Muggle-born. He is a very gifted wizard, though, according to Slughorn (his ex-teacher) and is now the Head of the Goblin Liaison Office. He still likes to give Slughorn inside information about the goings-on at Gringotts Wizarding Bank.
Crockford, Doris: On July 21st, 1991, this witch was so excited to meet Harry in the Leaky Cauldron that she came back to shake his hand again.
Crookshanks: Crookshanks is Hermione Granger's pet cat that she bought in Diagon Alley out of sympathy that no one wanted him because of his squashed face. He has ginger fur, yellow eyes, a bottle brush tail, and squat, bandy legs. He is part Kneazle and therefore has higher intelligence than normal cats. He recognized Padfoot in the third book and after much discussion, Padfoot (Sirius Black) finally managed to convince Crookshanks of why he was at Hogwarts. Crookshanks started going after Ron's pet rat Scabbers (who was really Peter Pettigrew in Animagus form) to try and bring him to Sirius. Of course, Crookshanks knew something was up from the moment he set eyes on Scabbers. This caused much rift between Ron and Hermione that year; Ron claimed that Crookshanks was out to get Scabbers from the beginning, while Hermione testified that cats chased rats. Because of his Kneazle background, Crookshanks doesn't like cheating, and he gives Ron and Harry disapproving looks when they cheat on their homework, reminding them strongly of Hermione. He likes playing with corks and watching them roll around.
Crouch, Grandfather: Barty Crouch Sr. had a grandfather who owned an Axminister rug, which was a flying carpet that could hold twelve people.
Crouch, Bartemius "Barty" Junior: Crouch Jr. was one of the Death Eaters responsible for torturing the Longbottoms into insanity and trying to bring Voldemort back to power. He was caught, though, and his father sent him to Azkaban for life. As a favour to his dying wife, Crouch Sr. smuggled his son out of Azkaban and put his wife under the polyjuice potion to look like her son. She died in Azkaban and was buried under her son's name. Crouch Jr. was nursed back to health by the family's house-elf, Winky. He was kept under control by the Imperius Curse and was kept under an invisibility cloak at all times. He attended the Quidditch World Cup in 1994 and sent the Dark Mark (with Harry's wand) into the sky as a warning to other Death Eaters who had gone free. He framed Winky by making her hold Harry's wand and putting her in the bushes. That summer, Voldemort broke the Memory Charm Crouch Sr. had placed on her (she had found out some years previously about Crouch Jr. still being alive) and found out that his faithful servant was still alive. He rescued Crouch Jr. and placed his father under the Imperius Curse. Crouch Jr. kidnapped Mad-Eye Moody and turned into him for the rest of the year (with polyjuice potion) to teach DADA at Hogwarts. His father went mad under the curse and fled to Hogwarts to warn Dumbledore but was killed by Crouch Jr. He entered Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire and ensured that Harry won the last task, taking him to the graveyard for Voldemort's rebirthing ceremony. Unfortunately for him, Harry escaped and Crouch Jr. took him to his office (disguised as Moody) and planned on killing him but Dumbledore saved Harry. Under the influence of Veritaserum, Crouch told his whole story. He was given the Dementor's Kiss. He had a pale complexion and straw-coloured hair.
Crouch, Mrs: Mrs Crouch was a short, wispy witch who cried and begged her husband not to send her only son to Azkaban, but he did. She was ill and dying but managed to convince her husband to let her and her son trade places. She took polyjuice potion to disguise herself as her son, and vice versa, and died in Azkaban. Dementors buried her outside the walls of the fortress, under her son's name.
Crouch, Bartemius "Barty" Senior: Crouch headed the Department of
Magical Law Enforcement during Voldemort's first reign. During the later
years of his reign, Crouch often threw suspected convicts into Azkaban
without a trial and gave Aurors the power to kill rather than capture
criminals. A prime example of this would be Sirius Black, who went to
Azkaban without a trial. Crouch Sr. became a new favourite for Minister of
Magic but when Crouch's son, Barty Crouch Jr., was caught with Death Eaters
trying to bring Voldemort back to power, the favouritism vanished. Crouch
gave his son a trial, though according to Sirius Black, only as a public
demonstration of how much he hated the boy. He was then removed from his
post and lowered to the post of Head of the Department of International
Magical Cooperation. Percy Weasley became his assistant in 1994.
As a favour to his dying wife, though, Crouch Sr. smuggled his son out of
Azkaban and gave his wife polyjuice potion so that she looked like her son.
She died in Azkaban. Crouch Jr. was kept under an invisibility cloak at all
times and was controlled by the Imperius Curse put on him. He was cared for
by Winky, their house-elf. Some time later, Bertha Jorkins found out about
Crouch Jr. and Crouch Sr. put a strong Memory Charm on her to make her
forget what she had seen. Years later, Voldemort managed to break into the
Memory Charm placed on Bertha and became determined to restore Crouch Jr.,
his faithful servant.
Voldemort visited the Crouch home and freed Barty Crouch Jr. who went to
Hogwarts and played the impostor, Mad-Eye Moody. Voldemort placed the
Imperius Curse on Crouch Sr. who went mad under it, fled to Hogwarts to warn
Dumbledore, but was killed by his own son in the June of 1995.
Crouch Sr. had dark hair but it started to grey after the pressure of his
work. By the time 1994 rolled around, he was fussy and uptight about rules
for the Triwizard Tournament. He dressed impeccably and had a perfectly
straight part through his hair and a neat little moustache.
Cuffe, Barnabas: Cuffe, an ex-student of Slughorn's, is the editor of the Daily Prophet and is always interested in hearing Slughorn's take on the day's news.
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Damocles: He is Marcus Belby's uncle but he doesn't get along well with Belby's father. He invented the Wolfsbane Potion and was awarded the Order of Merlin. He was a favourite student of Slughorn's.
Dawlish: He is a follower of Cornelius Fudge - a very strong auror who arrived with Fudge when he intended to send Dumbledore to Azkaban in book 5. He has short, grey hair and was a student at Hogwarts when Dumbledore was teaching. (He achieved 'outstanding' in all his N.E.W.T.s). He was knocked out by Dumbledore when he didn't back down, along with Fudge, Umbridge and Kingsley Shacklebolt.
Dearborn, Caradoc: He was a member of the original Order of the Phoenix. Harry saw a photograph of him. He vanished six months after the photo was taken and his body was never found.
Dennis: He is in Dudley's gang of big, stupid, bullies.
Delacour, Fleur: Fleur was born c.1977 and attended Beauxbatons
Academy. She spoke rudely about Hogwarts in a loud enough voice for everyone
around her to hear and was selected to be the Beauxbatons champion for the
Triwizard Tournament of 1994-1995. She insisted that Harry should not have
been allowed to become a Hogwarts champion but no one else said anything to
her about it. She was to rescue her younger sister, Gabrielle, during the
second task but failed, so Harry retrieved her. Fleur was so shaken by the
events that she became considerably warmer towards Harry after that. She
attended the Yule Ball with Ravenclaw's Roger Davies. She came in last place
for the Triwizard Tournament. She moved to England that summer to get a job.
She got a job at Gringotts and Bill Weasley was giving her private lessons
to "improve her English." In other words, they were going out. Less than a
year later, the two of them got engaged and Fleur stayed at The Burrow. Mrs.
Weasley, Ginny and Hermione didn't like her at all and nicknamed her
"Phlegm" because of her throaty voice. Mrs. Weasley thought Bill and Fleur
rushed into getting married due to recent dark events. At the end of the
year, Fleur proved herself loyal to her fiancé by stating that, although he
was disfigured from the Battle of Hogwarts, she was good looking enough for
the both of them (a bit snooty, but what can you do?). Mrs. Weasley's
dislike for her subsided after that and the two embraced.
Fleur's grandmother is Veela so Fleur is part Veela as well, making her
irresistible to boys when they see her, but coming off as snobbish to most
girls. Ron seems very taken with her in the sixth book, rushing to her to
get a peck on the cheek (he trips, though). She has long, silvery blonde
hair, deep blue eyes, perfectly even, white teeth and a throaty voice. Fleur
Delacour is French for "flower of the court" but JKR states that her name
means "noblewoman."
Delacour, Gabrielle: Fleur's younger sister, who at the time Harry saw her in the 1994-1995 school year, thought she looked no older than eight years old. She served as her sister's hostage in the second task and was very excited to see Harry the summer before his sixth year. This was probably because Fleur couldn't save her during the second task, so Harry did. She raved about him that summer. (Déjà vu, anyone?)
Delaney-Podmore, Sir Patrick: He is a bearded ghost and the leader of the Headless Hunt. He wrote a letter to Nearly Headless Nick rejecting his proposal to join the Hunt and interrupted Nick's speech at his Deathday Party by arriving with the Hunt on horseback and playing a game of Head Hockey. Nick called him "Sir Properly Decapitated-Podmore."
Derrick: He was one of the Slytherin beaters (along with Bole) until book 5, when they left Hogwarts and were replaced by Crabbe and Goyle. He has a gorilla-like physique and looked so stupid Angelina Johnson was surprised he managed to find his way on to the Quidditch Pitch without a signpost.
Derwent, Dilys: (1722 - 1741) She had silver ringlets and became a celebrated Headmistress of Hogwarts from 1741 to 1768. She later became a Healer at St. Mungo's. She has a portrait hanging in the Head's office at Hogwarts and in the main area of St. Mungo's.
Diggle, Dedalus: He is a member of the Order of the Phoenix (one of the original members as well as a current member), and part of the Advance Guard that collects Harry at Privet Drive. He is excitable, and wears vibrant clothes such as a violet top hat (which he drops at any sign of excitement). McGonagall suspects it may have been he who let off shooting stars in Kent after the downfall of Voldemort, saying 'he never had much sense'. Harry recognises him in the Leaky Cauldron when he shakes his hand, realising he had once bowed to him in a shop. He has white hair.
Diggory, Amos: Amos is the father of Cedric Diggory and their family lives in the village of Ottery St. Catchpole. He works for the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. He has ruddy face and a scrubby brown beard. He was fiercely proud of his son, especially after he caught the Snitch before Harry in the third book. Although he is generally a kind man, he can be stern, such as when he was interrogating Winky the house-elf, referring to her as "elf." When Cedric died, Amos couldn't speak but cried throughout the whole interview. He did not think it was Harry's fault that his son died, though.
Diggory, Cedric: Born in 1977 to his mother and father, Amos Diggory, Cedric grew up in the village of Ottery St. Catchpole. He was tall, handsome, with grey eyes and a silent attitude. In his fifth year of Hogwarts, he became a Prefect and took over as Seeker and Captain for the Hufflepuff house Quidditch team. He caught the Snitch before Harry (who fell off his broom) during the third book and wanted a rematch when he found out what had happened, which showed that he valued fair play. He seemed a bit modest, as he sort of quieted down when his father boasted about him beating Harry Potter at Quidditch. He was chosen as one of the Hogwarts Champions for the Triwizard Tournament, showing his strength as a wizard. He took Cho Chang to the Yule Ball and the two of them were dating. At the end of the year, he was transported to the graveyard and was killed by Wormtail using Voldemort's wand. He emerged from Voldemort's wand as a shadow, encouraging Harry and requesting that his body be taken back to his parents. Dumbledore extolled him in a speech on the last day of school, saying that he was a hard worker and a loyal friend.
Diggory, Mrs: Cedric's mom. She met with Professor Sprout, Dumbledore, and then Harry after her son died. She thanked Harry for bringing Cedric's body back and wouldn't accept the money Harry had won. She's not as emotional as her husband, it seems.
Dobbs, Emma: Hogwarts student, 1994-2001.
Dobby: Dobby the house-elf was bound to serve the Malfoy family
(head: Lucius Malfoy) for a long time and knew of Lucius's plan to reopen
the Chamber of Secrets using Tom Riddle's diary. He tried any means he could
think of to keep Harry Potter away from Hogwarts. At first, he intercepted
Harry's letters so that he wouldn't want to go back, and refused to give the
letters back to Harry (during a summer visit to Harry's room) unless Harry
promised he wouldn't go back. When Harry didn't, Dobby used magic to smash a
pudding over Mrs Mason's head to get Harry expelled for using underage magic
outside of school. Harry merely got a warning letter. During his visit to
Harry, Dobby accidentally let slip some hints about his master's plan and
repeatedly punished himself for doing so. Later, he tried to seal the
gateway to Platform 9¾ but Harry and Ron took Mr Weasley's flying Ford
Anglia to Hogwarts (nearly getting them expelled). Dobby enchanted a bludger
to go after Harry during the Quidditch match against Slytherin but Harry
only broke his arm. It was then broken even more by Gilderoy Lockhart's
attempt at mending the bones. Harry had to re-grow his bones that night in
the hospital wing and was visited by Dobby again. Later that year, Harry
tricked Lucius Malfoy into giving Dobby a sock (which was folded into the
book Lucius had, which he thrust into Dobby's hands) and Dobby was free.
Lucius was so angry he tried to have a go at Harry but Dobby stopped him and
promised Harry that he'd never try to save his life again.
Dobby then wanted to be paid for his work but had trouble finding a job.
Albus Dumbledore later let him work in the kitchens at Hogwarts and he was
the only house-elf paid there. He became good friends with the house-elf
Winky. He helped Harry during the second task in the fourth book and helped
Harry find the Room of Requirement in the fifth book. He was the only
house-elf who cleaned Gryffindor Tower since Hermione tried to set
house-elves free by planting knitted hats and socks everywhere. Dobby took
them all. In the sixth book, he willingly helped Harry find out more
information about Draco Malfoy and he and Kreacher got into fights about it,
much to Peeve's delight. Dobby has green eyes as round and as big as tennis
balls.
Doge, Elphias: He is a member of the Order of the Phoenix. A wheezy voiced wizard with silver hair, he was part of the Advance Guard that came to collect Harry. He is in the photograph Moody shows Harry of the original Order, and Moody said he used to wear a 'stupid hat'.
Dolohov, Antonin: He is a Death Eater. Karkaroff names him at his trial in the hope of being let off lightly, stating that he had tortured countless Muggles and non-supporters of Voldemort. He was caught shortly after Karkaroff. He has a long, pale, twisted face, and was one of the prisoners to escape Azkaban in the mass breakout in book 5. He was sent to Azkaban for the 'brutal murders of Gideon and Fabian Prewett.' He was present at the fight in the Department of Mysteries and paired off with Jugson to find Harry. Hermione cast Silencio on him and he lost his voice. He broke Neville's wand in two by kicking it, and slashed his wand, causing a streak of purple fire across Hermione's chest. She crumpled on the floor. He cast Tarantellegra on Neville and attempted the same slash he'd used on Hermione on Harry. He duelled with Sirius and Harry used Petrificus Totalus on him before he could hurt his godfather.
Dorkins, Mary: She was the Muggle news reporter who reported on Bungy the waterskiing budgie. See also: Bungy.
Dumbledore, Aberforth: Tall, thin and grumpy looking, with a long grey beard, he is Albus Dumbledore's brother and a member of the original Order of the Phoenix. He was arrested for performing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was 'all over the papers' but Aberforth held his head high and went about his business as usual. Dumbledore points out that this could be explained by the fact he isn't sure Aberforth can read. Moody describes him as a 'strange bloke'. He is the bartender at the Hog's Head pub in Hogsmeade, which smells strongly of goats. Sirius tells us that he has a long memory, because he banned Mundungus Fletcher from the Hog's Head twenty years ago. He attended his brother's funeral.
Dumbledore, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian: Albus Percival Wulfric
Brian Dumbledore was born c. 1844 and had a younger brother, Aberforth
Dumbledore. Upon entering Hogwarts (c. 1855), he was sorted into Gryffindor
house. Around 1862, the year he was to leave Hogwarts, Dumbledore sat for
his N.E.W.T.s and the Charms and Transfiguration exams were administered by
Griselda Marchbanks. (".did things with a wand I'd never seen before.")
During the 1940s, Dumbledore, who had auburn hair at this time, taught at
Hogwarts as the Transfiguration professor and was head of Gryffindor house.
He was distrustful of the star student, Tom Riddle. On June 13, 1942, a
student named Myrtle died and Rubeus Hagrid was framed for her death.
Dumbledore allowed Hagrid to stay at Hogwarts and train to become the
gamekeeper.
In 1945, Dumbledore defeated the dark wizard Grindewald. It is stated on his
Chocolate Frog Card as well, which reads:
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Currently Headmaster of Hogwarts.
Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern
times, Dumbledore is particularly famous for his
defeat of the dark wizard Grindewald in 1945, for the
discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood,
and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicholas Flamel.
Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music
and tenpin bowling.
In approximately 1970, Dumbledore became the new Headmaster of Hogwarts. He took careful precautions to allow Remus Lupin to attend school and transform secretly and safely. Sometime during this decade, Dumbledore created The Order of the Phoenix, a secret organization compiled of wizards fighting in the war against Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort ever feared.
In the spring of 1980 (the year Harry was born) or in the fall of 1981, Dumbledore interviewed Sybill Trelawney in the Hog's Head for the post of Divination teacher. He bore witness to a prophecy made by her concerning a boy born at the end of July who had the power to vanquish the Dark Lord. A Death Eater by the name of Severus Snape was eavesdropping on the other side of the door but the bartender threw him out. Around this time, Dumbledore also hired Snape (who had told his story and convinced Dumbledore that he was to be trusted) as Potions master of Hogwarts but refused his request to become the new DADA teacher, in fear that it might lure him into his old ways. On October 24th, Dumbledore told Lily and James about the prophecy and helped cast the Fidelius Charm to keep them safe. He offered to be their Secret Keeper as opposed to Sirius Black, even though they were set on having Black as their Keeper. Dumbledore remained worried, for he was almost certain there was a spy passing information onto Voldemort. On October 31st or November 1st, 1981, Dumbledore placed the now-orphaned Harry on the Dursleys' doorstep with a letter to Petunia. He may have contacted Petunia before this, as in the fifth book he sent a Howler telling her, "Remember my last, Petunia."
Around 1990, many people wanted Dumbledore to become the new Minister for Magic but he didn't want the job, so it was given to Cornelius Fudge. The following year, Dumbledore met Harry for the first time in ten years and their relationship grew past that of a teacher and a student. He rescued Harry from his second encounter with Lord Voldemort.
In June of Harry's fourth year, Dumbledore and Fudge got into a bit of row because Fudge wouldn't believe that Voldemort had come back to power. Dumbledore had Sirius round up the "old crowd" and The Order of the Phoenix was restarted. Snape was to go back to Voldemort and become his "spy". (Snape played a double-agent.) This time the Order was more prepared and headquarters was established at Number 12, Grimmauld Place, which was now Sirius's property.
On August 12, 1995, Dumbledore testified on Harry's behalf in front of the Wizengamot, despite recent rumours that he was spreading lies and was generally off his rocker. It must have been a bit difficult for him to testify as he had a lot to deal with and that he had been voted off the Wizengamot that summer. He thought Harry had enough to cope with and therefore did not make him a Prefect. In order to protect Harry from expulsion from Hogwarts later in the year, Dumbledore took responsibility for creating the D.A. and was removed from his post as Headmaster. Only a select few bunch of people knew where he went. (It is rumoured that he stayed in the Hog's Head, as his brother is the bartender.) In June of 1996, Dumbledore battled Voldemort in the Atrium at the Ministry of Magic. Fudge was forced to believe that Dumbledore was not telling lies and the news was out in the Daily Prophet by the next morning. After the battle, safely back in Dumbledore's office, Dumbledore recounted everything to Harry that he "should have told Harry (you) five years ago."
Dumbledore was tall, thin, and very old (approximately 150 years old). He had light, sparkling blue eyes, hidden behind half-moon spectacles and a very crooked nose (that looked as though it was broken in at least two places). His originally auburn hair turned silver and he had a moustache and a beard long enough to tuck into his belt buckle. He is often described as the greatest wizard of the age and had a scar the shape of the London Underground above his knee. He owned a Pensieve, a put-outer, a time turner, and several delicate silver instruments. His favourite foods were sherbet lemon drops and hot cocoa. His favourite flavour of jam was raspberry.
He received the Order of Merlin, First Class, and Grand Sorcerer, he was the founder and Secret Keeper of The Order of the Phoenix, he was the Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards (though temporarily "voted out" but reinstated), and the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot (temporarily denoted but reinstated in the sixth book). He was skilled in legilimency, could cast spells without a wand, could send messages with his wand, could become invisible without an invisibility cloak and could quite possibly see through them too.
Dumbledore's office is/was a large circular room with many books and portraits of previous headmasters and headmistresses. His portrait now hangs on the wall as well; we saw it sleeping soundly at the end of book 6. The Sorting Hat is kept in the office and so is his pet phoenix: Fawkes, though Fawkes may not come back to the office anymore. The Order of the Phoenix uses Fawkes to communicate with each other. The cores of Harry's and Voldemort's wand use a single tail feather from Fawkes. Dumbledore's Patronus is that of a phoenix.
Dursley, Dudley: Dudley is Mr. and Mrs. Dursley's only child. He is
an enormous blonde bully with blue eyes who is about the same age as Harry
(he was born on June 23, 1980). He had two bedrooms: one for himself and one
for all his stuff. That is, until Harry moved into his second bedroom. In
book 1 we are told that Aunt Petunia often said he looked like a baby angel,
whereas Harry thought he looked more like a pig in a wig. He has a large
pink face, small, watery blue eyes, five chins and thick blonde hair. By
book 5, he wears a leather jacket (which he is sick on when attacked by
Dementors). His best friend is Piers Polkiss. He is the leader of a gang of
bullies (including Piers, Dennis, Malcolm and Gordon). He goes to Smeltings,
a private school that Uncle Vernon once attended. The uniform is a lovely
arrangement of maroon tailcoats, orange knickerbockers and flat straw
boaters. They also carry knobbly sticks to hit each other with (good
training for later life). He likes to watch The Great Humberto on TV. He
snores. Aunt Petunia calls him 'sweetums', 'Dinky Duddydums', 'Ickle
Dudleykins' and 'Diddy darling'. Aunt Marge calls him 'Dudders' and 'Neffy
Poo'. Hagrid gave him a pig's tail after Uncle Vernon insulted Dumbledore in
front of him. He said he'd tried to turn him into a pig but it didn't work
because Dudley was so much like a pig already. The tail was removed at a
private hospital in London.
The first time Harry met Malfoy, he was strongly reminded of Dudley. By the
end of Dudley's first year at Smeltings, he was so fat his bottom drooped
over each side of chairs when he sat down. To impress one of Uncle Vernon's
clients, Dudley planned on saying 'We had to write an essay about our hero
at school, Mr. Mason, and I wrote about you'. Dudley hates magic and is
terrified of it. He has fallen victim to it four times: once, when Harry
made the glass in the reptile house vanish by accident and a huge snake
slithered towards him, once when Hagrid gave him a pig's tail, once when
Fred and George gave him a ton-tongue toffee and once when he was attacked
by Dementors. After his third year at Smeltings, he took home a letter from
the school nurse saying that he was obese and must diet. Consequentially,
Aunt Petunia put the whole family on a diet and they ate grapefruit for
breakfast.
Dudley doesn't take much of an interest in current affairs; according to
Uncle Vernon he probably doesn't even know who the Prime Minister is. By
book 5 he has become a complete hooligan known as 'Big D', who spends every
evening vandalising the play park, smoking on street corners, and throwing
stones at passing cars and children. He has also converted some fat to
muscle after having discovered a new talent for boxing. (He is the Junior
Heavyweight Inter-School Boxing Champion of the South-East.) When Dementors
attacked Harry in Magnolia Cresent, Dudley almost received the Dementor's
kiss, but Harry managed to drive them away with a Patronus and save both of
them.
Presents Dudley has received:
- pet parrot, but he swapped it at school for an air rifle
- small, working tank, which he used to run over the neighbour's dog
- tortoise, but its fate now is unclear, as in a tantrum he threw it through
the greenhouse roof
- video camera
- remote control aeroplane
- lots of computer games (including Mega Mutilation Part 3)
- VCR
- gold wristwatch
- computer
- at least four televisions (one broken because he put his foot through it)
- racing bike
- PlayStation, which he threw out of the window when angry because his
mother threatened to cut his pocket money
- lots of books, which he has never read
- money
- computerised robot (from Aunt Marge)
Dursley, Marjorie "Marge": Aunt Marge is Uncle Vernon's sister. She is a large, beefy woman with a purple face, tiny eyes, shovel-like hands and a moustache, who lives in a large house in the country where she breeds bulldogs. She wears tweed. She doesn't often stay at Privet Drive because she can't bear to leave her 'precious dogs'. Her favourite dog is called Ripper, and she takes him with her when she visits. The rest of her (twelve) dogs she leaves in the care of Colonel Fubster. Ripper once chased Harry up a tree and Aunt Marge didn't call him off until midnight. (Snape saw this memory in Harry's Occlumency lessons.) She hates Harry with a passion and loves to criticise him. One of her favourite hobbies is comparing him to Dudley and pointing out where he is lacking. She drinks wine and brandy and has a very firm grip. Once she burst a wineglass at Colonel Fubster's, a feat that was repeated at Privet Drive, but this time with the help of accidental magic from Harry. Harry loses control again when Marge insults his parents and he blows her up like a balloon. She has to be punctured by members of the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad. Her memory is modified so she has no recollection of the incident. In book 1 she fell ill after eating a 'funny whelk'.
Dursley, Petunia Evans: Petunia is Harry's aunt (Lily Potter's
sister). She is horse faced and horse teethed, blonde, bony and has a shrill
voice and high, false laugh. She has large, pale grey eyes. She hates and
fears magic and wanted to stamp all the magic out of Harry. Obviously, she
failed in doing this. She dotes on her horrible son Dudley. She is a
housewife and spends most of her free time spying on the (boring and
law-abiding) neighbours. She also cares a lot about what the neighbours
think and dreads the thought that they could find out about Harry being a
wizard. At a dinner party the Dursleys threw, she wore a salmon pink
cocktail dress and cooked roast pork and a pudding with whipped cream and
sugared violets. (At Vernon's work parties, she always wears the same sort
of frilly dress.) She's a neat freak and Harry thinks she'd faint at the
amount of earth under Professor Sprout's fingernails. She hates animals. At
home, she usually encourages Harry to stay out of the way. She is in denial
that Dudley could be a horrible bully, maintaining that 'he's a boisterous
little boy, but he wouldn't hurt a fly!' When she is stressed, she cleans
and tidies even when the house is already spotless. She reads gossip
magazines and is obsessed with scandals in the lives of celebrities. As well
as cleaning the house, she gardens and some of the flowers we know she grows
are begonias.
Her and her sister Lily had an ongoing animosity between them until Lily
died, which was when Petunia transferred her hate to Harry. She hated the
fact that Lily was a witch and once stated that she was a freak who "used to
come home every summer with frog spawn in her pockets and change teacups
into rats." This was a bit of an exaggeration.
She has been in touch with the wizarding world (Dumbledore, if you will), as
she got a Howler from him saying, "Remember my last, Petunia." This referred
to the letter Dumbledore left on her doorstep in 1981. She also has a
knowledge of Dementors and Voldemort, it seems, but is unwilling to
acknowledge it.
Dursley, Vernon: Uncle Vernon is Harry's uncle, but only related to him by marriage. He is Aunt Marge's brother, Dudley's father and Aunt Petunia's husband. He is a big, beefy man with small blue eyes, hardly any neck, a red face and a lot of moustache, who looks a lot like Dudley and Aunt Marge. He has black hair. He directs a firm called Grunnings that makes drills. He has a 'Medieval attitide' towards magic and hates and fears it. He has a new company car that he wants the street to notice and admire. He makes up a lie about Harry's school, telling Aunt Marge that Harry goes to St Brutus's School for Incurably Criminal boys. However horrible and ignorant he is, he is undeniably quite brave, standing up to Hagrid and shielding Petunia from the Weasleys, who he fears are dangerous. He is very cruel to Harry most of the time (he has gotten better over the past few years) and does anything in his power to make sure his nephew is miserable.
Edgecombe, Madam: Marietta's mother. She works in the Floo Network Office in the Department of Magical Transportation. She helped police the fires of Hogwarts for a while.
Edgecombe, Marietta: A Ravenclaw student in the same year as her best friend, Cho Chang. She is the daughter to Madam Edgecombe. She has curly reddish-blonde hair. She was taken to the DA meetings with Cho, even though she didn't want to go, and eventually sold them out to Umbridge. The parchment she signed her name on had been jinxed and her face broke out into purple bumps spelling the word SNEAK. She couldn't testify in front of Umbridge and Ministry officials because she was too busy trying to cover her face and was Obliviated by Shacklebolt soon after.
Elladora, Aunt: She is Sirius Black's aunt who started the tradition of beheading house-elves who got too old to carry tea trays.
Emeric the Evil: A historical wizard whom Ron and Harry sometimes get mixed up with Uric the Oddball.
Errol: Errol is the really old Great Grey owl that belongs to the Weasley family. He often collapses after hitting a window or from exhaustion and often needs help from other owls due to his old age.
Evans, Mark: Dudley and his gang of bullies beat him up in the summer 1995 after he cheeked Dudley.
Everard: A sallow-faced wizard with short black bangs, Everard was a former Headmaster of Hogwarts. His portrait hangs in the Head's office at Hogwarts and in the Ministry of Magic.
Fat Friar, The: He is the cheerful Hufflepuff ghost who wishes first years a good day and hope they get sorted into Hufflepuff.
Fawkes: Fawkes is Albus Dumbledores's phoenix (and Patronus shape) and rebirths himself when killed or simply when he turns too old by bursting into flame and re-emerging as a baby out of the ashes. Fawkes is the phoenix who lent two tail feathers (one each) to Tom Riddle's and Harry Potter's wands, thus helping Harry in the fourth book with the Priori Incantatem effect. Fawkes blinded the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets and used his tears to heal the wound in Harry's elbow. He then transported Harry, Ron, Ginny and Professor Lockhart back to a safer part of the castle. In the fifth book, he kept a lookout for Umbridge for Dumbledore and "swallowed" the Killing Curse that Voldemort sent Dumbledore's way (Fawkes was reborn after that). Dumbledore and the Order use(d) Fawkes to send messages back and forth to each other, though they use their Patronuses as well. Fawkes sang "The Phoenix Lament" when Dumbledore died. He has sung on other occasions throughout the series as well, such as when Harry was fighting in the Chamber of Secrets and when Harry and Voldemort's wands joined in the fourth book. Fawkes's colours are red and gold, and though speculation has been made about him being owned by Gryffindor, JKR has confirmed that Dumbledore is the only one who has ever owned him.
Fenwick, Benjy: A member of the original Order of the Phoenix. He was killed by Death Eaters and only bits of him were found.
Filch, Argus: Filch is the Hogwarts caretaker and is an ill-tempered Squib. He has a vast knowledge of the Hogwarts passages and corridors and always has reminders set up at the beginning of the year to enforce rules for students, such as being in their dorms on time. He owns a cat named Mrs Norris (whom he often refers to as "my sweet") and she looks out for troublemakers as well, calling Filch within seconds if someone is doing something wrong. In the second book, Harry and Ron caught Filch trying to teach himself basic magic. In the fifth book, he got permission from Dolores Umbridge to bring back "old punishments", such as hanging students by their hands and to whip misbehaving students (according to Educational Decree Number Twenty-Nine). He called Umbridge the best thing that ever happened to Hogwarts. He, Mrs Norris and Peeves don't get along well. Sometime in the 1977-1978 school year he confiscated the Marauder's Map from James Potter and co. He has grey lamp-like eyes and grey hair.
Finnigan, Seamus: Seamus is a half-blood Irish wizard with a strong accent. His mother is a witch and his father is a Muggle and it was a shock to him when he found out about his wife. Seamus is in Gryffindor and is a rabid Quidditch fan. He watched the Quidditch World Cup final with the Weasleys, Harry and Hermione, voting for Ireland over Bulgaria. He shares his dormitory with Harry, Ron, Neville and Dean Thomas (his best friend). He thinks Parvati Patil is the best looking girl in their year but went to the Yule Ball with her best friend, Lavender Brown. Under the influence of his mother and the Daily Prophet, Seamus had difficulty believing in Harry and Dumbledore in the fifth book, causing a big rift between the two boys. Finally, after Seamus had read the interview printed in The Quibbler, he was forced to believe Harry and the two made up. He joined Dumbledore's Army. At the end of the sixth book, he had a loud argument with his mother, whom wished to remove him from Hogwarts but grudgingly agreed to let him at least attend Dumbledore's funeral, indicating that he had more loyalty for him than he let on. He has sandy hair and bluish-green eyes.
Fletcher, Mundungus "Dung": Dung tried to hex Arthur Weasley in the second book when his back was turned and during the fourth book, Arthur demanded compensation for a twelve-bedroomed tent with en-suite jacuzzi that was ruined during the Quidditch World Cup final, while in actuality Dung slept inside a cloak propped on sticks. He was a part of the original Order of the Phoenix. He is a bit of a crook and was supposed to be on guard duty for Harry, making sure nothing shady happened to him in the summer of 1995, but abandoned his post for some stolen cauldron business. Harry was attacked by Dementors sent by Umbridge and Dung faced the wrath of Mrs Figg. He is very loyal to Dumbledore though, as Dumbledore got him out of a spot of trouble before. He is described as a squat, unshaven man with short, bandy legs and long, straggly ginger hair. (Déjà vu, anyone? Sounds sort of like Crookshanks, doesn't it?) He has bloodshot, baggy eyes and smokes a pipe which emits green smoke that smells like burnt socks. Mrs Weasley does not like his behaviour and has yelled at him on several occasions. He sold Fred and George some supplies to help get their shop running. He used Moody's spare invisibility cloak and dressed up as a witch on several occasions throughout the fifth book. He was the veiled witch in the Hog's Head who overheard that Harry was making a DADA group. He had to dress up because he was banned from the pub twenty-one years ago and the barman has a long memory. In the sixth book, he was caught by Harry trying to sell a bag of Sirius's things (now Harry's) and Harry was so upset and angry that he attempted to strangle Mundungus, but was stopped and Mundungus escaped. He got sent to Azkaban for selling fake Anti-Dark Arts devices and was caught during a botched robbery. He got sent to prison on charges of impersonating an Inferius. It is believed that the locket mentioned as "unopenable" from the Black house in the fifth book could be one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. It is not known whether Dung was trying to sell it or not.
Flume, Ambrosius: Flume used to be a student of Slughorn's and is now working in Honeydukes. He gives Slughorn a hamper of sweets for every birthday because he was the one of introduced him to Ciceron Harkiss, who gave him his first job.
Fortescue, Florean: Former owner of Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour in Diagon Alley. He knows quite a bit about medieval history and used to give Harry free sundaes every half hour, while helping him with his essays too. He is believed to have been dragged off by Death Eaters during the first few weeks of the second war.
"Froglike little man" in portrait: He hangs on the wall in the Prime Minister's office and delivers messages from the wizarding world to the Prime Minister. He is an ugly, 'froglike man wearing a long, (curly) silver wig... depicted in a small and dirty oil painting in the far corner of the room'. He has a crisp, decisive voice that sounds like he is reading a prepared statement and delivers the message to the Prime Minister each time he is about to be visited by Cornelius Fudge. His painting is probably stuck to the wall with a Permanent Sticking charm (like Mrs. Black's at Grimmauld Place) because it refuses to be taken down after many attempts. He is seen by the Prime Minister occasionally, yawning, scratching his nose, digging in his ear with a quill or even wandering out of the painting and leaving only muddy-brown canvas behind.
Goshawk, Miranda: Author of The Standard Book of Spells series.
Granger, Hermione Jane: Hermione Jane Granger is a Muggleborn witch
with parents who are both dentists. She is described as having "a bossy sort
of voice, lots of bushy brown hair and (until fourth year) rather large
front teeth." She has brown eyes. In an online chat, Jo told fans that her
birthday is on September 19th, 1979. Since third year she has owned a pet
cat called Crookshanks who is actually part kneazle (look it up in
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them!). She is in Harry's year at
Hogwarts and currently a Gryffindor prefect along with Ron Weasley.
We were introduced to Hermione in chapter 6 of The Philosopher's
Stone, when she came into Harry and Ron's compartment on the Hogwarts
Express and asked them if they had seen Neville Longbottom's lost toad. This
showed us immediately that she was willing to help people out, but also that
she liked to be in charge of things. The fact that she sat down without
being invited showed us that she wasn't at all shy, especially as she
proceeded to tell them all about the spells she had learnt and all the books
she had read. This showed us straight away Hermione's love for learning, and
also her skill as a witch, which are exceptional. Remus Lupin called her
'the greatest witch of (her) age I've ever met.'
Ron and Harry couldn't stand her after this, thinking she was a bossy show
off. Ron said 'whichever house I'm in, I hope she's not in it'!
Unfortunately for Ron, Hermione, Harry and Ron all ended up in the same
house - Gryffindor. At the feast Hermione told Percy (one of Ron's elder
brothers) that she was particularly interested in Transfiguration, which was
interesting because the lesson is taught by the Head of Gryffindor house.
Sure enough, in their first Transfiguration lesson Hermione was the only
student to have started transfiguring a match into a needle, an early
indication of her talent. She was just as good in her first Potions lesson,
knowing the answer to every question, though Snape the Potions master was
distinctly unimpressed.
She made friends with Harry and Ron after they saved her from a mountain
troll in first year. She had been in the girls' toilets crying because she
had overheard Ron saying "it's no wonder no one can stand her.. She's a
nightmare, honestly" on the night of the Halloween feast. They realised that
Hermione didn't know about the troll after they had all been told to go to
their dormitories, and decided to go and tell her themselves. However, the
troll had found its way into the toilets where Hermione was, and was
advancing on her. Harry and Ron distracted it, and Ron knocked it out by
levitating its own club above its head and then dropping it. After that
Hermione became friends with Harry and Ron. As the book says, 'there are
some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and
knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.'
She has very strong convictions and firmly believes that the way house elves
are treated is wrong. To this end, she founded S.P.E.W - Society for the
Promotion of Elfish Welfare, not spew! To join S.P.E.W costs XXXX and
members receive XXXX. So far the policies of S.P.E.W have included Hermione
knitting a lot of hats to sneakily place around Gryffindor common room for
elves to be freed once they found them. She didn't realise that Dobby the
house elf had gone around picking them all up, because other house elves
felt offended. S.P.E.W shows that Hermione has the best of intentions, but
maybe doesn't always get things right. So far we've been told repeatedly
that house elves LIKE to work, and it is actually cruel to them to expect
them to be free. Dobby seems to be a maverick in that he wants to be paid -
other house elves find the idea shocking and are ashamed of Dobby.
It was Hermione's idea for Harry to set up Dumbledore's Army, a club set up
during Umbridge's reign as High Inquisitor at Hogwarts, for the students to
learn Defence Against the Dark Arts illegally. It was a mark of how Hermione
does not always follow the rules. We saw during one of these meetings that
Hermione's Patronus was an otter - Jo said that her own patronus would also
be an otter. This ties in with the fact that Jo has said that Hermione is
probably the character she identifies most with. She says that during her
time at school she was a lot like Hermione - only less intelligent!
One of Hermione's particular talents is for conjuring portable fires that
she can carry around in a jam jar. We first saw this in chapter 11 of the
first book, where Hermione, Harry and Ron huddled around it at breaktime to
get warm. We saw it again at the first year Quidditch match where Quirrel
was cursing Harry. Hermione set fire to Snape's robes, because she thought
it was Snape that was doing the cursing. The third time she used the fire
was to save Harry and Ron's lives. She lit a fire to make the Devil's Snare
release them (it hates light and warmth).
Hermione is a stickler for rules and lives for reading, spending what seems
to be most of her free time in the library. Her solution to most problems is
to consult a book; so Harry thinks anyway, when wondering if he should ask
her about his scar hurting. In first year, Ron called her insufferable, a
statement echoed by Snape who labelled her an 'insufferable know-it-all'
when covering a Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson for Remus Lupin in
third year.
She helps Harry and Ron by checking their homework over for mistakes
although she refuses to let them copy her, once again showing her nature as
very moral and willing to help people.
Hermione's parents (being Muggle dentists) send her packages of sugar free
snacks to school, but that doesn't stop her giving Harry and Ron chocolate
frogs and Bertie Bott's beans.
She's shown how unwilling she is to break rules on numerous occasions -
telling Harry that he mustn't fly after Malfoy in their first flying lesson
and telling Harry that he mustn't go wandering around the school at night,
for example. However, she has shown that she will break rules if she feels
it is necessary. We saw this when she stole Potions ingredients from Snape's
office in second year, when she walked out of Divination, when she slapped
Malfoy, as well has having the idea to start the D.A. As well as loving
rules, she's very organised - she buys Harry and Ron homework timetables for
Christmas and colour codes her notes.
She is a very logical person as well as being very intelligent and
perceptive - we can see this when she solves Snape's puzzle in the
Philosopher's Stone. We know that she has a pink dressing gown (bath robe)
(chapter nine of book 1) and another interesting bit of information is that
the only thing she can be beaten at is Wizard Chess by Ron.
In book 6, she took a disliking to Fleur Delacour, nicknaming her "Phlegm"
with Ginny. She gets angry with Harry for being good in Potions because of
the Half-blood Prince's copy of the book and does some research to find out
whom the Half-blood Prince was and if it was a female. She joins the Slug
Club for being an excellent Potions student and asks Ron to come to a party
with her but doesn't take him when he makes a snide remark about her wanting
to take McLaggan (which she does). She finds Lavender and Ron kissing and
sends birds to attack Ron in an empty classroom and runs out sobbing. She
makes up with him after he is poisoned. At the end of the year, she (along
with a few other D.A. members) patrol Hogwarts on Harry's leave and battle
with Death Eaters, barely surviving only thanks to the Felix Felicis. She
and Ron have acknowledged their feelings for each other but are not together
officially. She tells Harry that she will stick by him no matter what, at
the end of the book.
Grawp: Grawp is Hagrid's little brother. They share the same giantess mother, Fridwulfa. He is approximately 16 feet (4.8 metres) tall and has knuckles the size of cricket balls. Hagrid first of learns of him during his mission to seek out the giants hidden in the mountains and persuade them to join the good side. The other giants bullied Grawp, as he was smaller than they were, so Hagrid brought him back and hid him in the Forbidden Forest. He had to tie him to the trees to keep him there, as Grawp did not want to stay. Hagrid attempted to teach him English and manners, which does not prove easy. When Hagrid left Hogwarts, he asked Harry, Ron and Hermione to look after him. Grawp saved Harry and Hermione from the centaurs at the end of the fifth book, getting frustrated that "Hagger" was nowhere in sight. In the sixth book, Hagrid claimed that Grawp was coming on much better and now lived in the mountains outside Hogsmeade. He even attended Dumbledore's funeral with Hagrid. Dressed properly and well behaved, he comforted Hagrid.
Greyback, Fenrir: Death Eater and a werewolf. Didn't attempt to find Voldemort after the first war because he believed him finished. He is a big, rangy man with a rasping bark for a voice. His robes are tight on him. He often smells of blood, sweat and dirt. He has yellow fingernails and sharp, pointy teeth. He is a friend of the Malfoy family and Draco used his name to scare Borgin into doing a task for him in Borgin and Burkes during the summer of 1996. He is the werewolf that bit Remus Lupin as a child because Lupin's father had offended him. His identity was kept a secret from Remus for a long time. Remus describes as probably "the most savage werewolf alive today." He likes to bite young children to get them away from normal wizarding society young. He thinks it his mission to contaminate as many people as possible to create an army to overcome wizards. Voldemort has promised him prey in return for his services and often threatens wizards by saying he will unleash Greyback on them if they don't do as they say (it produces good results for Voldemort). Greyback thinks that werewolves deserve blood and should revenge themselves on normal people. He has developed a liking to human flesh, whether it is full moon or not.
Grogg, Elfida: Briefly seen in a portrait.
Grubbly-Plank, Professor Wilhemina: She is an elderly witch with short, grey hair and a prominent chin. She substituted for Hagrid for Care of Magical Creatures in the beginning of the 1995-'96 school year and seemed to lots of students to be a much better teacher than Hagrid. She taught the students in Harry's year a lot about Unicorns and took the first-years across the lake that year. She nursed Hedwig back to health for Harry. She smokes a pipe.
Gryffindor, Godric: One of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry over 1000 years ago, Gryffindor believed that anyone showing magical ability should be allowed to attend Hogwarts. When the decision was reached to split the school into four houses, Gryffindor took those of daring, nerve and chivalry. The Sorting Hat originally belonged to him as well as the sword with rubies that Harry used in the Chamber of Secrets. He was great friends with Salazar Slytherin until a fight broke out between Slytherin and the other three founders. Gryffindor came from the moors and it is possible that the village of Godric's Hollow is named after him.
Gudgeon, Gladys: He writes fan mail weekly to Gilderoy Lockhart.
Grunnion, Alberic: One of the first chocolate frog card characters Harry collected.
H-K
Harkiss, Ciceron: A former employee of Honeydukes, whom gave Ambrosius Flume his very first job after being introduced to him by Horace Slughorn.
Hagrid, Rubeus: Hagrid is a half-giant and is very big. He was born
on December 6th, 1928, to his giant mother, Fridwulfa, and his Muggle
father. His mother abandoned his family when he was around three or four
years old. His first year of Hogwarts was in 1940 (Gryffindor house) and his
father died shortly after. In 1993, he was wrongly accused by Tom Riddle of
opening the Chamber of Secrets and was thereby expelled from Hogwarts. His
wand was snapped but he put the pieces back together and disguises his wand
as a pink umbrella. Dumbledore was understanding, though, and let him stay
at Hogwarts and train to be gamekeeper.
He was good friends with Lily and James and when they died, he rescued baby
Harry from the ruins of his house. He would not let Sirius Black take Harry
and used Black’s motorbike when offered to him. He delivered Harry to Number
4, Privet Drive, and howled when he had to leave.
On July 31st, 1991, he barged into the Dursleys’ rented hut, told Harry he
was a wizard and also gave Dudley a pig’s tail (which had to be removed at a
private hospital). He took Harry to Diagon Alley and explained to him about
Lord Voldemort. He bought Hedwig for Harry. In the Spring of ’92, he hatched
a Norwegian Ridgeback dragon named Norbert, obtained from a stranger in a
pub through a card game, but had to get rid of him. He was sent to Azkaban
for a few weeks in May (and was scared) because he was suspected of setting
a monster on the loose in Hogwarts.
In that June his name was finally cleared after fifty years of the suspected
murder of Myrtle. In the fall of ’93, he was given the position of Care of
Magical Creatures teacher. The next year he met Olympe Maxime and was very
taken with her. He took her to the Yule Ball and the following summer, the
two visited the giants of the north as envoys. He ran away from Hogwarts at
the end of Harry’s fifth year because Ministry officials attacked him to get
rid of him from Hogwarts (because Umbridge had a problem with half-breeds).
He was/is a part of the Order of the Phoenix.
He has beetle black eyes, crinkled in a smile, and long, tangled black beard
and black hair. He has a dog named Fang, who is a boarhound. He loves
magical creatures, especially dangerous ones and had a spider friend named
Aragog.
Hedwig: Hedwig is a female snowy owl with amber eyes. Hagrid bought her for Harry on his eleventh birthday at Eeylops Owl Emporium in Diagon Alley. Harry named her from a name he found in his book A History of Magic. She is an extremely intelligent owl and often nips Harry’s finger affectionately. She can understand human speech. She anticipates Harry’s needs. She flew to France so that Hermione could get Harry a present for his thirteenth birthday and arrived at the Leaky Cauldron within minutes of Harry’s arrival on the Knight Bus, even though he had sent her away for a week. She lives in Hogwarts Owlery and occasionally stops by for some toast at breakfast.
Hengist of Woodcroft: A medieval wizard who founded the town of Hogsmeade. He was driven away from his home by Muggle persecutors and settled in Scotland where he founded Hogsmeade. Some say the Three Broomsticks used to be his home. He is on a Chocolate Frog Card.
Hermes:Percy Weasley’s brown screech owl
Higgs, Terrence: A Slytherin born c. 1975. Higgs was the Slytherin Seeker from 1991-1992 and was replaced by Draco Malfoy.
Hooch, Madam: First name has speculation (Rolanda and Xiomara) but has not been confirmed yet. Hooch has short grey hair and yellow, hawk-like eyes. She is the flying instructor and the Quidditch coach at Hogwarts. She learned to fly on one of the old Silver Arrow broomsticks, which are not made anymore.
Hopkirk, Malfalda: Hopkirk works at the Improper Use of Magic office and sends out warning letters when underage magic is detected.
Hufflepuff, Helga: One of the “Hogwarts Four”, Hufflepuff helped found Hogwarts school more than 1000 years ago. She came from the valley and has a Chocolate Frog Card which states that “she brought people from different walks of life together to help build Hogwarts and was loved for her charming ways.” She wanted Hogwarts to accept all types of wizarding students and teach them all the same.
Humberto, The Great: A person on a television program that Dudley was angry he missed because the family was running from Harry’s letters.
Imago, Inigo: The author of the book The Dream Oracle.
Jigger, Arsenius: The author of the book Magical Drafts and Potions.
Johnson, Angelina: Angelina Johnson was born the week before Halloween in 1997. She is a Gryffindor (1989-96) Quidditch Chaser and is currently the Quidditch captain, as well. She is a tall black girl and attended the Yule Ball with Fred Weasley. The Slytherin Montague knocked her off her broom during the Slytherin vs. Gryffindor final of Harry’s third year. She held back George Weasley in 1995 when he was trying to get at Malfoy for talking about his family.
Jones, Gwenog: The captain of the Holyhead Harpies and also an ex-student of Slughorn’s, she allows free tickets to be given to her old teacher whenever he wants them. Slughorn is on a first-name basis with the team.
Jones, Hestia: Jones is a new member of the Order of the Phoenix and was a part of Harry’s Advance Guard. She has black hair and pink cheeks.
Jordan, Lee: Born in 1978, Lee Jordan was sorted into Gryffindor
house in 1989. He is two years older than Harry and is best friends with
Fred and George Weasley. He commentates on the Quidditch matches but gets a
bit carried away sometimes and offers his opinion a lot. Angelina Johnson
won’t go out with him. He is a black boy with dreadlocks.
When Harry saw him on Platform Nine and Three Quarters for the first time,
he was surrounded by a crowd of squealing students, holding a box that had a
hairy tarantula in it.
When Fred and George left Hogwarts, to do his bit for Dumbledore and fill
the empty space the twins left, Lee levitated some Nifflers through
Umbridge’s windows, which tore her office apart. Unfortunately, Umbridge
blamed it on Hagrid and used it as a reason to get him sacked.
Jorkins, Bertha: Jorkins was born c. 1958 and was two years ahead of
the Marauders at Hogwarts. She had a reputation for being scatterbrained and
a big gossip. In her sixth year, she once claimed that she saw someone
“kissing Florence behind the greenhouses” and didn’t ignore it so that
person hexed her. She appeared as a plump, scowling girl in Dumbledore’s
Pensieve, who complained about poor treatment from fellow students.
After Hogwarts she went to work at the Ministry of Magic and some people
were under the belief that she was shunted from department to department.
She ended up working in the Department of Magical Games and Sports. She was
a silly woman and when she went missing for a while in the summer of ’94 on
a vacation to Albania, most people assumed she’d lost track of time and
would come back in a week or two.
Some point before this summer, she went to Barty Crouch Sr.’s house to do
some work and overheard his house elf, Winky, talking to Crouch Jr. (who was
concealed by an Invisibility cloak). She realized then that he had escaped
Azkaban and was hiding in the house. Crouch Sr. placed a strong Memory Charm
on her to make her forget what she had seen and it was this charm that made
her so forgetful.
While she was in Albania, she didn’t lose track of the time and place, she
actually met Peter Pettigrew, who led her to Voldemort. Voldemort used
powerful magic to break through the Memory Charm cast on her and discovered
the upcoming Triwizard Tournament plans and that his faithful servant Crouch
Jr. was still alive. The magic he used on her was so powerful that she was
left “damaged,” so he killed her (1994).
The “shadow” of Bertha came out of Voldemort’s wand because of the Priori
Incantatem effect. She knew what was going on and urged Harry to not let go
of his wand.
Jugson: Jugson is a Death Eater who made his first appearance in the fifth book. He fought in the battle at the Department of Mysteries and is currently in Azkaban prison. During the battle, he paired off with Antonin Dolohov to find Harry.
Karkaroff, Igor: Karkaroff was a Death Eater during Voldemort’s first reign and ratted out his fellow Death Eaters to the Ministry in exchange for being spared a life sentence in Azkaban. He was caught by Alastor Moody after Voldemort's downfall and took out a big part of Moody's nose. He then became the head of Durmstrang Institute and aged a great deal in appearance over the next few years. His hair went from black to grey. He has blue eyes. He seemed to show exceptional favouritism towards the Bulgarian Quidditch team Seeker, Viktor Krum. When the Triwizard Tournament came along, Karkaroff was a judge and threatened to drop out of the Tournament when Harry became a Hogwarts champion. He met Snape at Hogwarts and the two shared a few conversations. His manner appears cheery but his smile does not reach his eyes. He ran for it in the June of 1995 when the Dark Mark burned into his arm to show that Voldemort had returned.
Karkus: The Gurg (chief) of a tribe of giants living in the mountains. He stood at about twenty-two or twenty-three feet and had the weight of a couple of bull elephants. He had a wife. Hagrid and Maxime gave him a branch of Gubraithian fire the first day and a battle helmet the next day. He seemed interested in what Dumbledore had to say but was killed by some of the giants the second night. His head was lying at the bottom of the water.
Kirke, Andrew: Kirke was one of the Gryffindor Quidditch team’s Beaters during the 1995-1996 season because Fred and George Weasley got kicked off the team. He was at least a second year by this time. He is no longer a Beater.
Kreacher: Kreacher’s ancestors have been serving the Black family for centuries. He became the “property” of Sirius Black after Mrs. Black died but Kreacher hated Sirius. He was very loyal to Sirius’s parents, and Sirius even caught him snogging a pair of his father’s trousers once. He makes snide comments about the current inhabitants of Number 12, Grimmauld Place, and constantly mutters to himself, doing no real up keeping. He tried to stop the Order throwing out various Dark Arts objects and would sneak them to his room (which was really a cupboard under the furnace). He had a picture of Bellatrix Lestrange in his room. When Sirius told him to “get out” once, he took it seriously and left to the Malfoys, where he told them hints about the Order, since he was still a house elf and still had to be loyal to Sirius. He told the Malfoys that the one person Sirius loved most in the world was Harry. He admitted to Dumbledore that he had told the Malfoys lots of things.
Krum, Viktor: Krum is the Seeker on the Bulgarian International Quidditch team. He is an extremely good flier and loved by Ron Weasley. He caught the Snitch before the Irish team in the Quidditch World Cup of ‘94 but Bulgaria still lost. He became the Durmstrang champion in his final year there during the Triwizard Tournament and was favoured by his Headmaster, Igor Karkaroff. He became taken with Hermione and asked her out to the Yule Ball, claiming that he only ever went to the library to see her. She accepted and was his hostage during the second task. During the final task, he used the Cruciatus Curse on Cedric Diggory. He was still corresponding with Hermione through letters a year later but she declined his invitation to stay at his house over the summer of ’95, preferring to stay with the Weasleys instead.
le Fey, Morgan “Morgana”: See also “Morgana.” Morgan was a medieval bird Animagus who was King Arthur’s half sister. She was a dark witch, Merlin’s enemy, and she affected many events during her time. She had great skill as a healer and was the queen of the island of Avalon. She was on one of the first Chocolate Frog trading cards Harry Potter ever saw.
Lestrange, Black Bellatrix: Bellatrix Black is estimated to be born
in the 1950s. She was born into the pure-blood Black family and had two
sisters: Andromeda Black Tonks and Narcissa Black Malfoy. She was Sirius
Black’s first cousin and married a man named Rodolphus Lestrange.
She attended Hogwarts around the same years as Lucius Malfoy (mid-sixties to
early seventies) and was sorted into Slytherin house. There, she met
Rodolphus Lestrange, who she later came to marry. A true Black with
pure-blood prejudices, she joined Voldemort’s ranks in the 1970s, as he was
gaining power. After the Dark Lord’s downfall (c. 1981), Bellatrix,
Rodolphus, his brother Rabastan, and Barty Crouch Jr., captured and tortured
two well known Aurors: Frank and Alice Longbottom, in hopes of finding
information to lead them to the Dark Lord. Bellatrix used the Cruciatus
Curse on the two of them until they lost their minds. The four of them were
sentenced by Barty Crouch Sr. and earned themselves a lifetime imprisonment
in Azkaban. Bellatrix escaped during the mass breakout of Death Eaters in
January of 1996 and rejoined Voldemort’s ranks (who had come back to power
the previous summer). She is one of his top supporters and he called her
“Bella”, as well as her sister Narcissa.
During the battle at the Department of Mysteries, Bellatrix attempted to
torture Ginny Weasley, but the D.A. members present protected her. When she
found out Neville was a Longbottom, she put the Cruciatus Curse on him. She
duelled expertly with Sirius and in the end, succeeded in sending him
falling through the veil. Harry chased her into the Atrium, where he
attempted to perform the Cruciatus Curse on her but didn’t have enough want
to cause her pain and she mocked him into giving her the prophecy. It had,
of course, broken before. Voldemort showed up and when Dumbledore had
defeated him, he fled with Bellatrix.
She is ruthless, kills first, and asks questions later, as we see when she
murders a fox, suspecting it could be an Auror. (It wasn’t an Auror.) She
doesn’t trust Snape and believes Voldemort is wrong about where his
loyalties lie. She claims that Voldemort shares everything with her, saying,
“He calls me his most loyal, his most faithful”; although by the sixth book
she doesn’t seem to be as friendly with him. She says that if she had sons
she would willingly sacrifice them for the Dark Lord. She is the Bonder for
Narcissa and Snape’s Unbreakable Vow.
Bellatrix carries the Black looks: tall with black hair, and in her case,
heavily-lidded eyes and an imperious manner. She has a strong jaw and is
“dark as her sister (Narcissa) is fair.” Azkaban faded her looks though, and
she is now left with a pale, gaunt face. She has not lost her arrogance or
devotion to Voldemort and did not recant her allegiance to him during her
trial.
Lestrange, Rabastan: Born in the 1950s, after Bellatrix Black and his brother Rodolphus Lestrange, Rabastan attended Hogwarts around the 1970s. He was in Slytherin house and later became a Death Eater. He was part of the group that tortured the Longbottoms and got sent to Azkaban for it.
Lestrange, Rodolphus: Also born in the 1950s, Rodolphus attended Hogwarts around the same time as Bellatrix Black (c. 1970s) and later came to marry her. He was in Slytherin house and became a Death Eater. He was part of the group that tortured the Longbottoms and got sent to Azkaban for it.
Lockhart, Gilderoy: Lockhart was born in the late 1950s and is
currently around 35 to 40 years old. He has wavy golden hair, forget-me-not
blue eyes and a perfect smile. He is obsessed with himself. His ideal
birthday gift would be harmony between wizards and Muggles, or a case of
Ogden’s Old Firewhisky. He wants to rid the world of evil and market his own
hair-care products. He is an international celebrity and author, he received
the Order of Merlin, 3rd class, he is an honorary member of the Dark Force
Defence League and the five-time winner of Witch Weekly’s Most
Charming Smile award. He specializes in Memory Charms because he tells
people of his adventures in fighting various creatures when in reality all
he did was interview the people who really dealt with the creatures and put
Memory Charms on them. His favourite colour is lilac.
In 1992-1993, he became Hogwart’s Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.
His office was filled with pictures of himself that he could autograph (with
a peacock feather quill) to his fans. He had robes in every possible colour.
He started the duelling club with Professor Snape to prepare the students in
case they ever needed it. In June of 1993, in the Chamber of Secrets, he
accidentally blasted himself with the Memory Charm he was aiming at Ron and
Harry. He is now in the Janus Thickey ward in St. Mungo’s Hospital (ward 49,
a ward for patients with long-term or permanent spell damage) where he tends
to wander off and get lost. He just recently learned “joined-up” (cursive)
writing and constantly gets fan mail, though he doesn’t know why. His nurse
is rather fond of him.
Books by Gilderoy Lockhart:
Break With a Banshee
Gadding With Ghouls
Gilderoy Lockhart’s Guide to Household Pests
Holidays with Hogs
Magical Me (his autobiography)
Travel With Trolls
Voyages With Vampires
Wandering With Werewolves
Year With The Yeti
Longbottom, Algie: Neville’s great uncle who tried to trick Neville into showing some magical ability when he was a child. He once pushed him off the end of Blackpool Pier and nearly drowned him. Another time, he held eight year old Neville out of an upstairs window and accidentally dropped him, watching as Neville bounced all the way down the garden and into the road. This was a cause for celebration in the Longbottom household and so Algie bought Neville Trevor the toad.
Longbottom, Alice: Alice is guessed to have been born a few years before Lily and the Marauders and have attended Hogwarts a few years before them. She married Frank Longbottom and the two of them became very well known and respected Aurors. They were both a part of the original Order of the Phoenix and defied Voldemort three times. They gave birth to a baby boy, Neville, who was born at the end of July. This meant that he was one of the two boys a prophecy made could be referring to. After the downfall of Voldemort, Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. tried to get information to the Dark Lord’s whereabouts from Frank and Alice and in the end, Bellatrix tortured them into insanity with the Cruciatus Curse. The two of them are now in the Janus Thickey ward in St. Mungo’s Hospital (ward 49, for permanent spell damage). Neville and his grandmother visit them frequently and although Alice doesn’t know who he is, she knows that Neville is someone she likes. She gave him a Drooble’s bubblegum wrapper and although Neville’s grandmother told him to throw it out, he pocketed it. Neville looks a lot like her. She used to have round face (though not anymore) and now has wispy white hair.
Longbottom, Augusta: Neville’s grandmother (Frank’s mother) who raises him in place of his hospitalised parents. She is a strong, proud woman who wears green robes, a fox-fur scarf, a stuffed vulture-topped hat and a red handbag. She is very strict and a bit tetchy with Neville, but loves him nonetheless. She’s very proud of him after his fight at the Department of Mysteries and thinks that Harry has more backbone than most people put together. She told Neville not to take N.E.W.T.-level Charms but little did Neville know that it was she who failed her Charms O.W.L.
Longbottom, Enid: Neville’s great aunt who’s possibly married to Uncle Algie.
Longbottom, Frank: Frank Longbottom is guessed to have been born and attended Hogwarts a few years before the Marauders, though it is not confirmed. At school he met a girl named Alice and the two of them got married later and became well known Aurors. Both of them were a part of The Order of the Phoenix and defied Voldemort three times. They gave birth to a baby boy at the end of the July of 1980, Neville, which meant that they were at risk. A prophecy was made foretelling of a boy born at the end of July who had the power to vanquish the Dark Lord. It is not known if they were informed of the prophecy. At any rate, Neville was not chosen as “the one.” After the fall of Voldemort, Bellatrix, Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange and Barty Crouch Jr. tortured Alice and Frank into telling the whereabouts of Voldemort, even though they didn’t know anything. They were tortured into insanity with the Cruciatus Curse. Neville was sent to live with his grandmother, who is also Frank’s mother. They are currently in the Janus Thickey ward in St. Mungo’s Hospital (ward 49, permanent spell damage) and do not even recognize family members. Neville and his grandmother visit them frequently.
Longbottom, Neville: Born on July 30th, 1980, to Aurors Frank and
Alice Longbottom, Neville was one of two boys who could apply to a recent
prophecy. Sybill Trelawney made a prophecy in front of Albus Dumbledore
foretelling of a boy born at the end of July who had the power to vanquish
Voldemort. This boy was born to parents who had thrice defied Voldemort.
Neville was one of the boys and Harry Potter was the other. It is not known
if Alice or Frank ever found out about the prophecy, but Neville, the
Pureblood, was not chosen by Voldemort to mark him as his equal. It was
Harry, the half-blood. Neville’s parents were tortured into insanity by a
group of Death Eaters after Voldemort’s downfall and Neville was sent to
live with his grandmother (Frank’s mother) when he was around one years old.
It was wondered for some years if he was squib because he didn’t show any
magical ability, but his Uncle Algie proved that theory wrong (see Uncle
Algie). Neville is in Gryffindor house at Hogwarts and is really forgetful.
He is not very intelligent but Herbology is his forte. He has a round face,
much like his mother’s, and seems to be slightly overweight. He snores.
Though his bravery isn’t that of a “typical Gryffindor’s”, it has been shown
throughout the books. For one thing, he joined Dumbledore’s Army, even
though he could have been expelled from school and learned the spells very
well. He stood up to his fellow Gryffindors when he knew he was right and
also risked standing up to Crabbe and Goyle. He