Characters

The boy who lived through the killing curse, then spent seven years learning why. Son of James and Lily, godson of Sirius Black, and the unintended Horcrux Voldemort made when the curse rebounded.

Harry’s first friend on the train and the youngest Weasley son. He is loyal, jealous, and braver than he thinks, from the chessboard under the trapdoor to the return that destroys the locket.

A Muggle-born witch who treats the library as a weapon. She keeps the trio alive with preparation, from the blue flames in the first year to the tent, the Ministry raid, and the last battle.

Defeated Grindelwald in 1945 and led Hogwarts through both wars with Voldemort. He became headmaster sometime after December 1956, not in the mid-1940s. He dies on the Astronomy Tower having already arranged Snape’s part in the end.

A half-giant expelled in his third year after Tom Riddle framed him for opening the Chamber. He brings Harry from the ruins of Godric’s Hollow, guards dangerous creatures with too much affection, and stays loyal to Dumbledore to the end.

A half-blood Slytherin who loved Lily Evans and spent the second war as Dumbledore’s spy. His cruelty to students is real. So is the vow that makes him kill Dumbledore and protect Harry until Nagini kills him.

The name Tom Marvolo Riddle made from his own. He split his soul to survive, fell in 1981 when Lily’s sacrifice rebounded the curse, and returned in 1995. He dies in the Great Hall when the Elder Wand refuses him.

James Potter’s closest friend, an Animagus dog, and the heir who ran away from a pure-blood house. Framed by Pettigrew, he spends twelve years in Azkaban, then two as a fugitive. Bellatrix kills him in the Department of Mysteries.

One half of Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. He and George leave school in a blaze of fireworks. Fred dies laughing in the Battle of Hogwarts, and the family does not recover the joke.

Bitten as a child and schooled anyway, because Dumbledore planted the Whomping Willow for him. He teaches Harry the Patronus, marries Nymphadora Tonks, and dies in the Battle of Hogwarts, leaving their son Teddy.

The youngest Weasley and a formidable witch in her own right. Tom Riddle’s diary nearly kills her in her first year. She later flies, fights, and marries Harry.

Raised by a formidable grandmother after Bellatrix tortured his parents. He grows from a boy who loses his toad into the student who kills Nagini with the Sword of Gryffindor. The epilogue has him teaching Herbology.

Fred’s twin. He loses an ear in the flight from Privet Drive and a brother in the battle. He keeps the shop, and the epilogue still has the joke shop’s name in the world.

Transfiguration teacher, Head of Gryffindor, and the spine of the staff. Dumbledore hired her in December 1956, while Armando Dippet was still headmaster. She leads the defence of the castle in the last battle.

The Ministry’s smiling enforcer. She tortures students with a blood quill, drives Dumbledore from the castle, and later sits in judgment wearing the locket Horcrux. Her Hogwarts house is given in supplementary writing, not in a Sorting scene.

The retired Auror with a magical eye, called Mad-Eye. He is locked in a trunk for most of the Triwizard year while Barty Crouch Jr. wears his face. The real Moody later dies on the flight out of Privet Drive.

A Ministry man obsessed with Muggle objects and quietly opposed to blood prejudice. Nagini attacks him in the Department of Mysteries corridor. He survives, and the family stays in the Order.

Harry’s uncle, director of a drill firm called Grunnings, and the loudest voice at number four, Privet Drive. He spends seven books trying to keep the wizarding world off his street, and still has to drive Harry away from it.

The Weasley matriarch. She knits terrible jumpers, fears for too many children, and kills Bellatrix Lestrange when the duel reaches Ginny. The Burrow is the closest thing Harry has to a family home.

The Malfoys’ house-elf until Harry frees him with a sock. He spends years trying to protect Harry badly, then saves him, Ron, and Hermione from Malfoy Manor and dies on the beach at Shell Cottage.

Minister for Magic through the first five books. He would rather Harry and Dumbledore be liars than admit Voldemort has returned, and he sends Dolores Umbridge to the school to make that policy stick. He is out of office before the war is.

The Marauder who became a rat. He betrayed James and Lily, framed Sirius, and lived as Scabbers until the third book. He restores Voldemort’s body and is strangled by his own silver hand in the cellar of Malfoy Manor.

Harry’s cousin, spoiled at Privet Drive and then briefly given a pig’s tail. A Dementor attack in the fifth book frightens him into something closer to a person, and he manages a goodbye in the seventh.

The Weasley prefect who believes the right office can fix the world. He breaks with his family over Dumbledore and Fudge, and comes back during the Battle of Hogwarts to fight beside them.

Former Head of Slytherin who collects famous students. His edited memory hides the advice he once gave Tom Riddle about Horcruxes. Harry wins the true memory, and Slughorn returns to fight.

A Ravenclaw who believes odd things and notices true ones. She fights at the Department of Mysteries, is kidnapped to pressure her father, and stands with Harry in the Room of Requirement. Later she becomes a naturalist.

A fair Hufflepuff seeker and Hogwarts champion. He shares the Tournament’s victory with Harry and is murdered in the graveyard the moment they arrive. His death is the proof the Ministry spends a year denying.

The Black family’s house-elf. He betrays Sirius to the Death Eaters and later, once he is treated as a person and given Regulus’s locket to remember, becomes loyal to Harry. He leads the house-elves into the Battle of Hogwarts.

Lily Potter’s sister. She chooses a life with no magic in it, raises Harry in the cupboard under the stairs, and still writes Dumbledore one letter that keeps the blood protection on the house.

The eldest Weasley son, a curse-breaker for Gringotts. Greyback scars him at the Astronomy Tower. He marries Fleur Delacour, and Shell Cottage becomes a refuge in the last book.

Hogwarts caretaker, a Squib who wants to bring back chains and who loves his cat, Mrs. Norris. He sides with Umbridge because she lets him punish students. He is still sweeping during the battle.

Bulgaria’s seeker and Durmstrang’s Triwizard champion. He is a better wizard than his scowl suggests, asks Hermione to the Yule Ball, and is at Bill and Fleur’s wedding when the Ministry falls.

A celebrity author who stole other witches’ and wizards’ deeds and wiped their memories. Hired for the Chamber year, he tries the same spell on Harry and Ron and erases himself instead.

Head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports, a former Beater, and a disastrous gambler. He runs the Triwizard Tournament as a show and spends it trying to help Harry so his own bets will pay. They do not.

Divination professor. Most of her prophecies are performance. Two are real: the one about Harry and Voldemort, made to Dumbledore in the Hog’s Head, and a later prediction about Wormtail returning to his master. Umbridge sacks her. The castle keeps her.

Beauxbatons champion in the Triwizard Tournament and later Bill Weasley’s wife. Part veela, sharper than the boys who gape at her, and host to the fugitives at Shell Cottage.

A Metamorphmagus Auror and a Black by her mother. She joins the Order, marries Remus Lupin, and dies in the Battle of Hogwarts beside him. Their son Teddy is left with Andromeda, and Harry is his godfather.

Lucius and Narcissa’s son, raised to sneer at Muggle-borns and never quite as cruel as the mark on his arm requires. In sixth year he is ordered to kill Dumbledore. He fails, hesitates in the Room of Requirement, and survives the war.

The other half of Draco’s usual pair. He is slow, large, and present whenever Crabbe is, until the fire in the Room of Requirement, which he survives because Harry pulls him onto a broom. The count includes his father where the books use only the surname.

Draco Malfoy’s bodyguard for six books, and then, in the Room of Requirement, the boy who casts Fiendfyre and cannot put it out. The surname also belongs to his father, a Death Eater. The count is every time the novels say Crabbe.

Harry’s dormitory mate, a Gryffindor who draws and plays chess with Seamus. Raised by Muggles, he is on the run in the seventh book, caught, and imprisoned in Malfoy Manor before the escape.

Ravenclaw seeker and Cedric Diggory’s girlfriend. After Cedric’s death she joins Dumbledore’s Army, and the grief between her and Harry never quite becomes a romance. Her friend Marietta betrays the D.A.

Harry’s snowy owl, bought in Diagon Alley with his first wizard money. She carries the mail of six books and is killed by a curse during the escape from Privet Drive.

The most fanatical of Voldemort’s followers. She tortured the Longbottoms into lasting madness, killed Sirius, and guarded the Hufflepuff cup. Molly Weasley kills her in the Great Hall.

Head of Magical Law Enforcement, then a disgraced father. He sends his own son to Azkaban, smuggles him back out, and is kept under the Imperius Curse until he escapes and is killed. In the novels, “Barty Crouch” without “Junior” is this man.

Gryffindor Quidditch captain. He cares about the Cup more than about exams, trains Harry as seeker, and finally wins it in the third book. He returns to Hogwarts to fight.

A pure-blood Gryffindor, Animagus stag, and Harry’s father. Brilliant and arrogant at school, especially toward Snape, and brave at the end. He dies wandless in the hallway at Godric’s Hollow.

A Gryffindor in Harry’s year who blows things up in class and, for a while, believes his mother’s doubts about Harry. He comes back to the D.A. and fights in the battle.

The Crouch family’s house-elf. She is blamed for the Dark Mark at the World Cup, dismissed, and drinks herself miserable in the Hogwarts kitchens. She is loyal to a master who does not deserve it, which is the point of her chapters.

The castle poltergeist. He is not a ghost and not a student. He obeys the Bloody Baron, fears Dumbledore a little, and in the last book is finally useful: he drops Snargaluff pods on invaders because he was asked.

Headmaster of Durmstrang and a former Death Eater who bought his freedom by naming names. He brings Viktor Krum to the Tournament, flees when the Dark Mark returns, and is later found dead.

Hermione’s bandy-legged cat. He spends the third book hunting Scabbers because he can tell the rat is not a rat. He is right, and Ron is a long time forgiving him.

Madam Pomfrey runs the hospital wing. She mends bones, grows them back when Lockhart vanishes them, and argues with anyone who tries to question a patient before she is finished. She is on the castle’s side.

The Auror who replaces Fudge. He wants Harry as a symbol for the Ministry and does not get him. He is killed when the Ministry falls, and refuses to say where Harry is.

A wealthy Slytherin who slips Tom Riddle’s diary into Ginny’s cauldron and buys influence at the Ministry. He fails Voldemort more than once, loses the diary, and is present, diminished, at the last battle.

A Gringotts goblin. He helps the trio after Malfoy Manor and then helps them break into the Lestrange vault, with a bargain about the sword that he does not keep the way they hoped. He is carrying the sword when he disappears into the battle.

A Gryffindor who treats Divination as a romance and, in the sixth book, treats Ron the same way. Greyback attacks her in the Battle of Hogwarts. The books leave her on the floor, alive or not unsaid.

Charms master and head of Ravenclaw, small enough to need a stack of books on his chair. He teaches the spells the students later use for real, and he helps hold the castle in the battle.

A crook in the Order because he hears things. He abandons Harry during the flight from Privet Drive and steals the locket Horcrux from Grimmauld Place. The trio spend a long stretch of the seventh book undoing that theft.

A reporter for the Daily Prophet who writes lies that read like gossip and are sometimes crimes. She is an unregistered beetle Animagus. Hermione traps her in a jar and later makes her write the interview that tells the truth about Voldemort’s return.

A Gryffindor who shares Divination with Lavender and goes to the Yule Ball with Harry. She is in Dumbledore’s Army and still in the castle when it is attacked.

A hippogriff who bows to Harry and attacks Draco when Draco insults him. The Ministry sentences him to death. Harry and Hermione save him with a Time-Turner, and Sirius later rides him as the name Witherwings.

Lily Evans, a Muggle-born Gryffindor, married James Potter and died refusing to step aside from her son. That refusal is the protection that saves Harry and later lets him return from the Forest.

A Gryffindor Chaser who becomes Quidditch captain after Wood. She goes to the Yule Ball with Fred and is in Dumbledore’s Army. She plays through Umbridge’s bans and the foul weather of the fifth year.

Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry’s first year, stammering and turbaned. The turban hides Voldemort’s face on the back of his head. He dies when Harry’s touch burns him.

Gryffindor’s ghost, Nearly Headless Nick, executed with a blunt axe that did not quite finish the job. He helps Harry in the second book and cannot eat the food at his own deathday party.

A Ravenclaw student killed by the basilisk in a bathroom, who stays there. Harry uses her memory of her death to find the Chamber, and she haunts prefects’ bathrooms and olive-green ponds with the same complaint.

The wandmaker of Diagon Alley. He remembers every wand he sold, including the brother wand to Voldemort’s. He is imprisoned at Malfoy Manor, rescued, and explains why Harry’s wand and Voldemort’s cannot fight cleanly.

The Weasley who works with dragons in Romania. He takes Norbert off the grounds in the first book, helps with the first task, and is in the Order. He is at the Battle of Hogwarts.

A Gryffindor Chaser. In the sixth book she touches a cursed necklace meant for Dumbledore and is taken out of the school for months. She survives and is back for the battle.

Luna’s father and editor of The Quibbler. He prints Harry’s interview when the Prophet will not, and later tries to hand Harry to the Ministry because Luna has been taken. He also tells the trio the Tale of the Three Brothers.

An Auror in the Order of the Phoenix. He guards the Prime Minister, disguises himself at the Burrow, and fights at the wedding and at Hogwarts. After the battle he is what the Ministry needed several ministers earlier.

Headmistress of Beauxbatons. She is half-giant, which she denies and Hagrid does not. She dances with him at the Yule Ball and later travels with him to the giants. She is on Dumbledore’s side of the war.

Hagrid’s boarhound. He is large, frightened of almost everything in the Forest, and loyal. He is a coward with good reason, and he still goes where Hagrid goes.

The werewolf who bites children so the ranks will grow, including Remus Lupin as a boy. He scars Bill Weasley and attacks Lavender in the battle. He is not given a school house. He is a weapon Voldemort uses.

A Hufflepuff who announces his pure-blood status and, for a chapter, suspects Harry of being the Heir of Slytherin. He apologizes, and he is steady in the D.A. afterward.

The Quidditch commentator who will not keep his bias out of the microphone. Fred and George’s friend, he later runs an underground radio broadcast, Potterwatch, under the name River.

Head of Hufflepuff and professor of Herbology. She grows the mandrakes that cure the petrified, and she is one of the staff who stays to fight when the school is asked to choose.

Conductor of the Knight Bus, proud of a job that mostly involves saying the name of the bus. The Ministry arrests him as a Death Eater on thin evidence. Harry refuses to curse him properly when they meet in the air, because he thinks Stan is Imperiused, not loyal.

A former Hogwarts headmaster and a Black. His portrait hangs in the head’s office and at Grimmauld Place, and he carries news between them whether he wants to or not. He is sarcastic, and he is useful.

Albus Dumbledore’s brother, barman of the Hog’s Head, and the owner of the goat-smelling room where the D.A. first meets. In the last book his bar is the secret way back into Hogwarts, and he tells Harry the story of Ariana.

Author of A History of Magic and a neighbor of the Potters and the Dumbledores in Godric’s Hollow. By the seventh book she is dead, and Nagini is wearing her body to lure Harry home.

A Black by birth who cares more for Draco than for the Dark Lord. She binds Snape with the Unbreakable Vow and, in the Forest, lies to Voldemort that Harry is dead so she can get back into the castle and find her son.

A centaur who saves Harry from Quirrell in the Forbidden Forest and is cast out of the herd for it. Dumbledore hires him to teach Divination. He reads the stars as warnings, not as comfort.

Vernon’s sister, called Aunt Marge. She insults James and Lily once too often at the kitchen table and is blown up like a balloon. The Ministry quietly repairs the evening.

The Muggle-born first year with a camera who is petrified by the basilisk and later joins the D.A. He sneaks back to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts and is killed.

The portrait that guards the Gryffindor common room and demands a password. She is attacked when Sirius Black slashes her canvas, and she spends a term in another frame before she will come back.

A Gryffindor Keeper who thinks he should be captain. Hermione takes him to Slughorn’s party to annoy Ron, and his tryout nearly kills a teammate. He is not invited back.

Hagrid’s half-brother, a small giant by giant standards, hidden in the Forbidden Forest. He is clumsy and attached to Hagrid. In the battle he fights, which is what Hagrid hoped a giant could be brought to do.

Dumbledore’s friend in the summer they planned a wizard-led world, and then his enemy. He stole the Elder Wand’s loyalty in a duel Dumbledore won in 1945. Voldemort kills him in Nurmengard after he refuses to give up the wand.

Marvolo Gaunt’s son, who speaks Parseltongue and lives in a shack above Little Hangleton. Tom Riddle stuns him, steals his wand and his ring, and leaves him to confess to the Riddle murders. Morfin dies in Azkaban.

A friend of Albus Dumbledore from their first Hogwarts train, later in the Order. He writes the honest obituary. Rita Skeeter writes the other one. Muriel prefers Rita. Harry has to decide which Dumbledore he is willing to keep.

One of the four founders, a duelist from the West Country. He wanted students with nerve, and the sword that answers a worthy Gryffindor is his. He quarreled with Salazar Slytherin over whether Muggle-born children should be taught, and he stayed when Slytherin left. The books name him when the Sorting Hat tells the founding, and again whenever that sword is needed.

A Slytherin in Draco’s circle, often the one speaking for the table. In the last book she is the student who shouts that someone should grab Harry and hand him over. The house does not follow her.

Filch’s cat, and the first creature petrified by the basilisk. She patrols the corridors as an extension of the caretaker. Students fear her more than they fear most prefects.

A Death Eater who attaches himself to the Ministry, puts Pius Thicknesse under the Imperius Curse, and grabs Hermione’s arm at the wedding. He is in the inner circle by the seventh book.

An elderly Weasley relative who comes to the wedding and repeats Rita Skeeter’s version of Dumbledore’s youth. She is rude, and some of what she says about Kendra and Ariana turns out to be near the truth. Harry hates her for the method and needs the information.

Landlady of the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade. Draco puts her under the Imperius Curse in the sixth book so she can pass the cursed necklace and, later, the poisoned mead. She is a victim of that plot, not its author.

Sirius’s younger brother. He joined the Death Eaters, learned that Voldemort had made a Horcrux of the locket, and died in the cave after switching it. Kreacher finishes the errand years later.

Substitute Care of Magical Creatures teacher when Hagrid is away or hiding. She is competent, which the class notices, and she does not have Hagrid’s need to be liked by a hippogriff.

A Gryffindor Chaser alongside Angelina and Katie. She is in the D.A. and in the team photographs of the early books, and she returns for the Battle of Hogwarts.

A Squib who lives on Wisteria Walk and spends years pretending to be the worst babysitter Harry has, because Dumbledore asked her to watch him. She is a witness at his Ministry hearing and a member of the Order.

Flying instructor and Quidditch referee. She has yellow eyes like a hawk and very little patience for a foul she did not see herself. She is the whistle at the start of every match that matters.

The Dumbledore sister who was attacked by Muggle boys and never recovered. Her power came out sideways and killed her mother. She died in a three-way duel between Albus, Aberforth, and Grindelwald. The books refuse to say whose curse hit her.

The acromantula Hagrid raised from an egg. He was blamed for the Chamber of Secrets and knows the monster was a basilisk, which he will not say while he lives. He dies of old age in the sixth book, and Hagrid buries him. His children do not stay grateful.

A Slytherin in Harry’s year who rarely speaks until Slughorn’s compartment. He is vain about his mother’s husbands and uninterested in Harry. The books give him very little else, and the page does not invent more.

A Hufflepuff Muggle-born who was headed for Eton before his Hogwarts letter. The basilisk petrifies him in the second book. He later joins Dumbledore’s Army.

The History of Magic teacher who died and did not notice. He is a ghost who lectures in a drone about goblin rebellions. Hermione is the student who stays awake. The others use his class for sleep.

A European wandmaker who once had the Elder Wand and boasted of it. A young Grindelwald stole it from his workshop. Voldemort hunts Gregorovitch down in the seventh book and kills him when the trail points onward.

Ron’s tiny owl, a replacement after Scabbers is exposed. Sirius sends him. He is too small for his own enthusiasm and usually called Pig, which this count does not use, because “pig” is also an insult and an animal.

The orphan who became Lord Voldemort. This entry is the schoolboy and the diary: brilliant, already murderous, sorted into Slytherin in 1938. The diary Horcrux opens the Chamber again in 1993 and is destroyed by Harry.

A Death Eater who is at Xenophilius Lovegood’s house when the trio escape, and who helps at Gringotts in disguise business of the vault. The books give him the surname and the orders, not a biography.

Slytherin Quidditch captain in the early books, a beater of a captain who will foul Wood’s team without blushing. He is still at school a year longer than the rules suggest, and then he is gone.

Cho’s friend. Her mother works at the Ministry, and Marietta betrays Dumbledore’s Army to Umbridge. Hermione’s jinx writes SNEAK across her face. The books do not forgive it quickly.

A Norwegian Ridgeback Hagrid hatches from an egg he won in a card game. The trio smuggle the dragon, later called Norberta, out to Charlie Weasley. The plan is how they are caught out of bed, and how Neville is, too.

Nymphadora Tonks’s father, a Muggle-born wizard. He shelters Harry after the flight from Privet Drive and is later caught on the run. The count skips the weatherman who is also called Ted in the first chapter.

A Hufflepuff who joins Dumbledore’s Army and spends the meetings doubting Harry. He commentates Quidditch in a voice Lee Jordan would not own, and he is gone from the castle before the last battle.

A Death Eater who murders the Prewetts and, in the Department of Mysteries, hits Hermione with a curse that should have killed her. He is broken out of Azkaban and keeps turning up in the last book until the battle.

Marvolo’s daughter. She tricks the Muggle Tom Riddle into a love potion, then stops using it, hoping he will stay. He does not. She sells the locket and dies in a London orphanage after giving birth to Tom.

Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and Susan Bones’s aunt. She sits at Harry’s hearing and is later found dead. The books treat that murder as proof the war has reached the Ministry itself.

Voldemort’s snake and, by the last book, a Horcrux. She kills Snape on his orders and is killed by Neville with the Sword of Gryffindor, which makes Voldemort mortal again.

The alchemist who made the Philosopher’s Stone with his wife, Perenelle. He is over six hundred when the first book begins. He agrees to destroy the Stone rather than let Voldemort take it, which means he agrees to die.

Cedric’s father, a Ministry man who is proud of his son in a way that annoys Arthur Weasley and is, later, unbearable to read. He is destroyed by Cedric’s death. The books do not give him a revenge plot. They give him grief.

A descendant of Salazar Slytherin who has almost nothing left but a ring and a locket and the habit of shouting about blood. He is Merope and Morfin’s father. His name becomes the middle name in Tom Marvolo Riddle.

A member of the Order who bows to Harry in a shop before Harry knows what he is, and who later helps move the Dursleys to safety. He is excitable, and he is reliable enough to be sent.

A Hufflepuff sorted with Ernie and Susan. She is frightened by the Chamber, pulled from school for a time in the sixth book after her mother is killed, and she is in the D.A.

An old, rich witch who collects relics and shows Tom Riddle Helga Hufflepuff’s cup and Salazar Slytherin’s locket. She is found dead, her house-elf blamed, and both objects gone. Riddle had been the charming guest.

A Ravenclaw who dates Ginny for a time and brings his friends into Dumbledore’s Army. After Gryffindor beats Ravenclaw at Quidditch, Ginny ends it. He is still on the student side of the war.

A Death Eater who works for the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures and is sent to execute Buckbeak. He is at the graveyard and later tries to bargain his way through the Ministry’s fall.

A Death Eater smuggled out of Azkaban and kept under the Imperius Curse by his father. He impersonates Alastor Moody for a year, delivers Harry to the graveyard, and is kissed by a Dementor before the school can hear the full story. His Hogwarts house is not stated.

The Weasley family owl, ancient and inclined to knock himself out on windows. He delivers a few battered letters and is then mostly replaced by faster birds.

Ravenclaw Quidditch captain. Fleur asks him to the Yule Ball and he spends the evening dazed by her. He is a champion’s date, not a champion.

An Order member who stands guard for the prophecy and is arrested for trying to break into the Department of Mysteries. The books treat the arrest as the Imperius Curse or something like it, not as a change of side.

A Death Eater who spied inside the Department of Mysteries for years. He is named in the prophecy-room fight and again among the prisoners who escape Azkaban. The books use him as a man who knew the Ministry from the inside.

Parvati’s twin, sorted into Ravenclaw. She attends the Yule Ball with Ron, joins the D.A., and is one of the Patil sisters the seventh book still has in the fight.

Mother of Albus, Aberforth, and Ariana. After Percival was imprisoned she moved the family to Godric’s Hollow and hid Ariana. She was killed by one of Ariana’s uncontrolled outbursts.

A Death Eater put in charge of the school with his sister in the seventh book. He teaches Dark Arts as cruelty. McGonagall duels him and the staff lock him away before the battle.

Colin’s younger brother, sorted into Gryffindor. He is a smaller presence than Colin, and he is among the students who come back to the castle for the battle.

Matron of the orphanage where Tom Riddle grows up. She tells Dumbledore the truth about the boy as she understands it: the other children are afraid of him, and a rabbit was found hanging from the rafters.

A mad knight in a painting who substitutes for the Fat Lady and changes the password every day. He lets Sirius in because the password is a list of sweets and Sirius has Neville’s list. He thinks this is chivalry.

An Auror who is impressive on paper and repeatedly stunned, Confunded, or otherwise defeated whenever the books need the Ministry to lose a fight. He is sent after Dumbledore, after Augusta Longbottom, and after Hagrid. None of those errands go well for him.

A Slytherin who wrestles Hermione during the dueling club and leaves a hair that is not hers in the polyjuice potion. The cat hair is the joke. Millicent herself stays a minor, solid presence in Slytherin.

Head of Magical Law Enforcement, then a puppet Minister after Yaxley puts him under the Imperius Curse. The Ministry that hunts Muggle-borns in the seventh book speaks with his title. He is at the battle on the wrong side of the hall.

A younger Gryffindor who decides Harry is famous enough to pursue. Her love-potion chocolates are eaten by Ron instead, and Slughorn has to get him to Horace’s office for the antidote.

A Death Eater name the books use for a follower who lied to Voldemort and was punished, and for a father in the old circle. The novels do not give a first name that this wiki will pretend to know. The count is the surname Avery.

An Order member who, with Dedalus Diggle, takes the Dursleys into hiding at the start of the seventh book. She is one of the people who do the unglamorous transport work of the war.

Amycus’s sister, set over Muggle Studies so she can teach contempt. She waits in Ravenclaw Tower for Harry and is stunned. The two Carrows are the school’s occupation, not its faculty.

A Gringotts goblin put under the Imperius Curse so the trio can enter the Lestrange vault. He is part of the break-in, not a volunteer, and the dragon in the depths is the thing the books remember next.

Slytherin’s ghost, covered in blood and the one spirit Peeves will listen to. The Grey Lady’s story in the last book says he loved Helena Ravenclaw, killed her, and then killed himself.

The founder who wanted the school closed to Muggle-born children. When the others refused, he left, but not before he built the Chamber of Secrets and sealed a basilisk inside for his heir. A thousand years later the heir is Tom Riddle, and the Chamber is opened twice. The books treat his prejudice as the house’s unfinished argument.

A Ravenclaw in the D.A. He is one of the students who notice that the Sword of Gryffindor has been moved, and he is among the people the Carrows punish in the seventh book.

The owner of the ice-cream parlour in Diagon Alley, who helps Harry with history essays in the summer before third year. He is dragged from the shop in the sixth book and does not come back.

A Ravenclaw prefect, Percy’s girlfriend, petrified by the basilisk while walking with him. She recovers when the mandrakes are ready. The books mostly use her as that incident and as Percy’s secret.

The son of Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks, born in the last book. Harry is his godfather. He is named, not yet a student, and the epilogue is where he is old enough to be seen on the platform.

A Muggle-born who ran the Goblin Liaison Office. In the seventh book he is on the run, forges his own family tree, and is caught with Ted Tonks and Gornuk. He is killed.

Ted’s wife, Narcissa’s sister, and Tonks’s mother. She was burned off the Black family tapestry for marrying a Muggle-born. Her house at the start of the seventh book is one of the last safe rooms Harry is given.

A Ravenclaw prefect who joins Dumbledore’s Army with Michael Corner and Terry Boot. The books use him as part of that group more than as a solo plot.

Muggle Studies professor. She writes that wizards should accept Muggles, and Voldemort kills her at the table in Malfoy Manor in the opening of the seventh book. Snape does not save her.

A name from the old Death Eater circle, remembered by Snape and by the trials. The books treat Mulciber as one of the people whose idea of humor was already cruelty at school. No first name is settled on this page.

An Order member present at the advance guard that collects Harry in the fifth book. The Prophet later reports her murdered. The books do not give her a scene of her own after that.

The Riddle family’s Muggle gardener, accused by the village of the murders and never charged. Decades later he walks into the house with a poker because he heard voices, and Voldemort kills him.

Rowena Ravenclaw’s daughter, the Grey Lady. She stole her mother’s diadem and hid it in Albania. The Baron killed her. She tells Harry where the diadem is, which makes the last Horcrux hunt possible.

A Death Eater name used when the snatchers and the Ministry are looking for Undesirables. The novels do not stop to describe him. He is here because the name is part of that hunt.

A Hufflepuff whose aunt is Amelia Bones. She knows about Harry’s hearing before he walks into it, and she sits with the D.A. The murders of her relatives are part of why the war is not only Harry’s.

A Death Eater. He blasts a table during the fight in the café on Tottenham Court Road and later fails Voldemort badly enough to be punished for it. The books use him as muscle with a name.

A Ministry official whose name is on the letters about underage magic. Hermione takes her shape with Polyjuice to enter the Ministry in the seventh book. The voice Harry knows from scolding letters becomes a disguise.

Father of the three Dumbledore children. He attacked the Muggle boys who hurt Ariana, refused to say why, and died in Azkaban. The family secret starts with that silence.

Mary’s husband, a Ministry worker. Ron takes his place with Polyjuice during the infiltration. The real Reg spends the morning in a problem with rain in an office, which is the sort of job the Ministry still has while it is committing worse ones.

Hufflepuff’s ghost, cheerful at every Sorting and ready to vouch for a student the other ghosts would turn away. He is a small part, and he is the house’s welcome.

Sirius Black’s mother. She is dead before the fifth book and still screaming from her portrait in the hall at Grimmauld Place. The tapestry of the family, with the burned-off names, is her kind of love.

Neville’s grandmother. She raises him, is hard on him, and is proud when he is worth being proud of. In the seventh book she is on the run, and she arrives at the battle in a hat with a vulture on it, ready to fight.

Bellatrix Lestrange’s husband. He is sent to Azkaban for torturing the Longbottoms and is among the Death Eaters who return when the prison is opened. The books give him a name and a sentence more than a private life.

The founder who prized a ready mind. Her diadem, made to sharpen wisdom, was stolen by her daughter Helena and hidden far from the castle. Centuries later Tom Riddle turned it into a Horcrux and stored it in the Room of Requirement. Helena, as the Grey Lady, is the one who tells Harry where it is.

A Ministry official from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement who visits the Gaunts in a memory Dumbledore shows Harry. He is the reader’s way into that house. The count uses his full name only, so Ogden’s Firewhisky is not him.

The founder who said she would teach the students the others might overlook, and treat them fairly. The house still means patience, loyalty, and hard work rather than a talent for show. Her small golden cup was later turned into a Horcrux and hidden in the Lestrange vault until a goblin and a Gryffindor broke in for it.

Neville’s mother. She and Frank were tortured into lasting incapacity at the end of the first war. She does not know Neville, and she still presses a gum wrapper into his hand, which he keeps.

Neville’s father, an Auror. Bellatrix Lestrange and three other Death Eaters torture him and Alice with the Cruciatus Curse until their minds are gone. They live at St. Mungo’s. Neville visits with sweet wrappers.

A Death Eater in the Department of Mysteries fight. The books barely characterize him. He is listed because he is named in that battle and nowhere much else.

Nicolas Flamel’s wife and partner in the Stone. The books give her little stage time. She is part of the decision to destroy it, and part of why the first book’s treasure is not a thing Harry is allowed to keep.

Rodolphus’s brother, convicted with him for the Longbottom torture. He is a named Death Eater in the trials and in the later escapes, and the novels do not build him a separate plot.

A Muggle-born witch dragged before the Muggle-born Registration Commission. Harry, Ron, and Hermione interrupt her hearing, and she flees the Ministry with her husband. She is one of the people the regime was built to process.

A Slytherin in Harry’s year who watches Harry at Borgin and Burkes and later sits in Slughorn’s club. His father is a Death Eater the books also call Nott. This page counts only the name Theodore Nott.

The handsome Muggle Merope Gaunt enchants, the father of the boy who becomes Voldemort. He abandons her when the potion ends. Years later his son kills him, his parents, and their gardener in the Riddle House.