History Characters / HarryPotterHogwartsTeachers

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!!Heads of houses

[[folder:Albus Dumbledore]]
See [[Characters/HarryPotterAlbusDumbledore Albus Dumbledore]].
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[[folder:Severus Snape]]
See [[Characters/HarryPotterSeverusSnape Severus Snape]].
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[[folder:Minerva [=McGonagall=]]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"What? Do nothing? Offer him up as bait? Potter is a boy! Not a piece of meat!"'']]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Dame Creator/MaggieSmith, Fiona Glascott (''Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald''), Sandy [=McDade=] (''Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'', first West End run), TBD (''Cursed Child'', first Broadway run)
-->'''Voiced by:''' Mari Luz Olier (European Spanish), Magda Giner (Latin American Spanish, ''Philosopher's Stone''), Queta Leonel (Latin American Spanish, ''Chamber of Secrets''-''Deathly Hallows''), Vianney Monroy (Latin American Spanish, ''Fantastic Beasts''), Lina Rossana Costa (Brazilian Portuguese, ''Philosopher's Stone''-''Goblet of Fire''), Marly Ribeiro (Brazilian Portuguese, ''Order of the Phoenix''), Melise Maia (Brazilian Portuguese, ''Half Blood Prince'' and ''Deathly Hallows Part 2''), Maíra Goes (Brazilian Portuguese, ''Crimes of Grindelwald'')
-->'''Appears in:''' ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' | ''[[Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild Cursed Child]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]]''

->''"We teachers are rather good at magic, you know."''

Professor of Transfiguration, Deputy Headmistress, and Head of Gryffindor House. She is the third professor Harry encounters (after Hagrid and Quirrell). He promptly and wisely decides that she is someone "not to be crossed." [=McGonagall=] is protective of her students and ''really'' dislikes it when Snape wins the Quidditch Cup from under her nose. Though she is stern, she is fair and does have a sense of humor.

She is Dumbledore's right hand, deputy leader of the Order, and a powerful witch in her own right, and she is probably the teacher Harry trusts the most. Her Animagus form is that of a tabby cat with spectacle markings around her eyes, reminiscent of her glasses. She has a fondness for tartan and Ginger Newts. [[RunningGag If she walks into a scene and is startled, expect her to drop the stack of books she is always carrying]].
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: It's downplayed compared to some of the other characters, but the films remove many of her more snappy and stern moments, making her come across more mellow as a result.
* {{Adorkable}}: Surprisingly, she has a moment in the final film. The normally stoic [=McGonagall=] has a moment [[NotSoAboveItAll where she geeks out]] over summoning an army of AnimatedArmor.
-->'''[=McGonagall=]:''' [[{{Squee}} I've always wanted to use that spell!]]
* AdultsAreUseless: Subverted during the final book, where she's shown to be thoroughly competent when it comes down to it. She and the other teachers ready various defenses in preparation for Voldemort's siege, and she, Slughorn, and Flitwick together duel Voldemort to a standstill. In the films, she is able to thoroughly batter Snape, and the collateral damage of her attack takes out the Carrows.
* AgeLift:
** This ended up being the case for her portrayal in the films. Though she acts very stern and grandmotherly, her age at the start of the series is 56, which isn't actually all that old (much less for a powerful witch like herself). Maggie Smith was in her late sixties when filming started on Philosopher's Stone, and as such [=McGonagall=] looks like she's about seventy.
** It appears the film adaptations have aged her ''significantly'', to the point where ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald'' casts her in a flashback scene as being one of Dumbledore's contemporaries during their early(ish) teaching careers.
* AlliterativeName: '''M'''inerva '''M'''[=cGonagall=].
* {{Animorphism}}: She is an Animagus, a witch who has mastered the ability to transform into an animal (in her case, a cat) through strenuous study of magic.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is the Head of Gryffindor and the Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts, and there is a ''lot'' of asskicking.
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Shares a name with the Roman goddess of wisdom and warfare, and there isn't a single scene in the series where she appears the least bit unworthy of it.
* BadassBoast: "We teachers are rather good at magic, you know." This was her nonchalant response when asked if it was possible to secure the school against ''[[BigBad Voldemort]].'' Yes, you read that right; that response was against ''VOLDEMORT.''
* BadassBookworm: Smart enough to prove her knowledge to the Ravenclaw Dormitory door (who only lets you in if you answer a knowledge quiz correctly), and able to hold her own against Lord Voldemort.
* BadassTeacher: Unquestionably one of the biggest in the series. Madame Pomfrey confirms it, saying that four Aurors would have had ''no chance in hell'' of striking [=McGonagall=] if they hadn't attacked her without warning in a theoretically noncombat situation.
* BerserkButton:
** Don't be a DirtyCoward. She will not stand for cowardly behavior. After all, she's the head of Gryffindor House. And God help you if you threaten or harm any of her students. However, ''the'' biggest berserk button of the lot is this: Do ''not'' be Dolores Umbridge.
** The film version of ''Goblet of Fire'' implies that she does ''not'' take well to transfiguration being misused. Given that transfiguration happens to be her specialty (and in the first book she starts her very first class stressing how dangerous it can be when it goes wrong), this makes sense.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: While Dumbledore takes top spot on the "list of things you do ''not'' fuck with if you wish to live", [=McGonagall=] easily takes second place.
* BigGood: She serves as this at Hogwarts in Dumbledore's absence: she protects the students from the [[spoiler:sadistic Carrows, overthrows Snape, and leads the resistance against Voldemort when Harry returns]].
* BigNo: Her reaction to [[spoiler:Harry's DisneyDeath]] in ''Deathly Hallows''.
* BigSisterInstinct: Minerva held a deep love for her two brothers.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Besides Harry, [=McGonagall=] almost immediately takes a liking towards Hermione due to their similarities (intelligent, rule-abiding, logical).
* BotheringByTheBook: In the fifth book, she shows a side of this when Umbridge takes over, as it becomes her mission to torment Umbridge as much as possible. When one of the Weasley Twins' firecrackers disrupts her class, she lets it do its thing while having one of her students request Umbridge do the removal, similar to Flitwick.
* BringIt: [=McGonagall=] gives Snape a silent one of these when she fights him, by doing just that.
* CareerVersusMan: Pottermore reveals she turned down a proposal from her Muggle love in favor of a job at the Ministry that she ended up unhappy with. She might have chosen him, but she feared he would not take kindly to learning she was a witch.
* CatsAreMagic: She is a skilled and accomplished witch who can transform into a cat.
* ColdHam: Manages to be the center of attention while staying calm and collected.
* CoolTeacher: She's a strict taskmaster but a warm and loving teacher who will put her life on the line to defend her students, especially those in her own house. This is particularly prominent in the fifth and seventh book.
* DaddysGirl: According to Pottermore, she was very close to her Muggle father.
* DeadpanSnarker: [[WorldOfSnark In a world as snark-tastic as the Wizarding World]], it says a lot that she's a standout.
** She implies that a coward, a fraud, a werewolf and a wizard Nazi are all more competent than Umbridge, which especially pisses Umbridge off because she is notoriously anti-werewolf.
---> "I should have made my meaning plainer," said Professor [=McGonagall=], turning at last to look at Umbridge directly in the eyes. "He has achieved high marks in all Defense Against the Dark Arts tests set by a competent teacher."
** She mocks a prophecy of Harry's death in monotone:
---> "You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you die, you need not hand it in."
* DoWrongRight:
** Her first major moment in ''Order'' consists of Harry being sent to her for some kind of punishment, and her cautioning Harry to be careful ''how'' he subverts Umbridge's authority.
** In moments of dire need, she will approve of rule breaking. Most notable is telling Peeves the chandelier he is trying to drop unscrews the other way.
** Also, the way Jim Dale reads the audio book implies that rather than "steal" her walking stick, Peeves came up to her and told her ''exactly'' what he intended to do with it and that she gave it to him freely.
* EmbarrassingLastName: Unfortunately she not only shares her name with a Roman goddess of wisdom and warfare, but also with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall the most embarrassingly bad Scottish poet of all time]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: [=McGonagall=] is a stern disciplinarian who is just as willing to dock points from her own house and administer punishment for any significant infraction, but there are some forms of punishment that even she would consider too severe.
** After tranfiguring Malfoy back from a furret, she chastises Mad-Eye Moody [[spoiler:(actually Barty Crouch Jr. in disguise via Polyjuice Potion)]], who had transfigured Malfoy for attempting to potshot Harry with a hex, that transfiguration (the subject ''she'' taught, no less) would ''never'' be used as a means of punishment.
** [[TheSociopath Umbridge]], of course, needs no mention.
* {{Foil}}: The Sorting Hat had difficulty sorting her and Flitwick in the same way; both were toss-ups between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
* HiddenDepths: Who would have expected stern Professor [=McGonagall=] to be so into Quidditch? Pottermore reveals that she received a ''bad'' Quidditch injury in her final year at school which left her with a life-long desire to see Slytherin crushed! Thankfully, she gets to see this happen on several occasions. When Harry's team finally breaks Slytherin's winning streak in the third book, she's seen drying her eyes on a large Gryffindor flag.
* HonestAdvisor: She's never afraid to criticize Dumbledore, and he values her for it.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Despite openly questioning Professor Trelawney's competence in front of the students, she is the first to [[spoiler:comfort the erstwhile Divination teacher upon her dismissal at the hands of Dolores Umbridge.]]
* IAlwaysWantedToSayThat: A variation in the final movie. After summoning an army of stone statues and ordering them to protect the school she looks pleased with herself -- indeed, almost reminiscent of Hermione after getting to use a particularly cool bit of magic -- and notes that she's "always wanted to use that spell."
* IWasQuiteALooker: While there are very few drawn pictures of [=McGonagall=] throughout the series, Pottermore provides a look at her during her Quidditch days and [[https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Minerva_McGonagall?file=YoungMcGonagall.jpg wow]].
* IntergenerationalFriendship: By the ''Order of the Phoenix'' she has this dynamic with Harry. Usually when she refers to him as "Harry" rather than "Potter" she speaks to him as a friend rather than a teacher. Bonus points for providing the said trope's page quote.
* IronLady: Most definitely. Though she does have rare emotional moments.
* TheLostLenore: Her husband died several years prior to the start of the series, due to a Venomous Tentacula bite.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: She kept her maiden name out of respect for her Muggle father. Considering that he was a Muggle and her mother was a pure-blooded witch, this was met with some derision in the magical community.
* MamaBear: She will fight to the death to defend any one of her students, especially Harry, Ron, or Hermione.
** Lampshaded especially in the fourth book, when [[spoiler:fake]] Moody confronts Harry. After [[spoiler:fake]] Moody's been stunned into unconsciousness, Snape and Dumbledore are all over him, but [=McGonagall=] goes straight to Harry to make sure he's okay. When he isn't, she even argues with Dumbledore in order to send Harry to the hospital wing.
** She even shows shades of this towards ''Malfoy'' when she tells off [[spoiler:fake]] Moody for turning him into a ferret as a punishment, and chews out Harry for using Sectumsempra on him (the latter albeit offscreen).
* MayDecemberRomance: Her late husband, Elphinstone Urquart, was much older than her. This did not matter one infinitesimal jot to either of them.
* MeaningfulName: In Roman mythology, Minerva is the goddess of wisdom, strength, and skill. Now why does this sound familiar, again? Her surname is taken from GiftedlyBad poet [[https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/William_McGonagall William McGonagall]], apparently only because Rowling found the idea of someone as brilliant as Minerva being a distant relative of someone as talentless as William to be amusing.
* MinoredInAssKicking: Though it may not be expected, [=McGonagall=] holds her own in every battle at Hogwarts. Most notably, attacking a guy with a [[KillItWithFire fire-lasso]] and a swarm of knives in ''Deathly Hallows''. She also has an army of galloping desks.
* MixedAncestry: According to Pottermore, she is a half-blood with a witch mother and Muggle father.
* MorphicResonance: Her Animagus form is a cat with square-shaped markings around its eyes, exactly like the glasses she always wears.
* MyGreatestFailure: It's implied that she deeply regrets not listening to [[PowerTrio The Trio]] when they attempted to warn her about the Philosopher's Stone's attempted theft in their first year.
* NeverMessWithGranny: She is ''not'' a woman you want to cross.
* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: Before the final battle in TheMovie, she finally says Voldemort's name, telling Flitwick "You might as well use it, he's going to try to kill you either way."
* NotSoAboveItAll: Hilariously hinted at in Book Five; when people and particularly Peeves start pranking [[JerkAss Umbridge]], she suddenly displays much more tolerance to breaking the rules. Especially funny when she actually seems to help Peeves pull a prank on Umbridge.
** The fact that it's implied that Peeves ''didn't'' steal her walking stick and that she actually just ''gave it to him freely'' when he told her what he wanted it for.
** There's also the infamous moment when, upon seeing Peeves trying to unscrew a chandelier and having difficulty with it, she discreetly murmurs that it unscrews the other way and goes on her way.
** During the Christmas break of Harry's first year at Hogwarts, an incredibly drunk Hagrid kisses her on the cheek. To Harry's surprise, rather than being angry at the action, she blushes and appears rather girlishly embarrassed.
** One of her most badass scenes in the movies is when she animates ''all'' of Hogwarts' statues at once, rallying them with hue and cry to defend the school and fight Voldemort! She then turns to Molly Weasley, not even disguising her glee, and admits that she's always wanted to try that spell.
** She's mostly angry at Lee's bias in his Quidditch commentating, but when Malfoy prevents an easy Gryffindor victory in the Quidditch Cup by grabbing Harry's broom, she's just as livid as Lee, shaking her fist and shouting at Malfoy.
* NotSoStoic: Has an expressive side. In the books, it's most prominently shown when a drunk Hagrid kisses her cheek (and she becomes embarrassed) or anytime Umbridge is involved (where there's a good chance she starts yelling). After the use of "Piertotum Locomotor" in the final film, she looks giddy as a schoolgirl when she remarks that she always wanted to use that spell to Molly Weasley.
* NumberTwo: As Deputy Headmistress, she'll follow through on helping Dumbledore with whatever course of action he decides, [[MoralityPet but not before voicing her objections, improvements, and alternatives to the plan ''du jour''.]]
* OldMaster: She's old enough to be Harry's grandmother and is one of the most capable, demanding, and intimidating of his magical mentors. She's also one of the few characters able to fight against Voldemort for any length of time; even with help (she was fighting alongside Shacklebolt and Slughorn, both of whom are extremely powerful wizards themselves), the fact that the three don't die in all of five seconds speak worlds of their power.
* ParentalSubstitute:
** One of many to Harry. It says a great deal about their relationship that when, in ''Deathly Hallows'', Harry uses an ''Unforgivable Curse'' against Amycus Carrow, all he has to say about it is, "He spat at you." Nobody requires (nor expects) further explanation.
** Also one to Hermione due to their similar dispositions, and is clearly distressed [[spoiler:when she is petrified in the second book.]]
* PassionateSportsGirl: In her school years, she was absolutely this, and even as an old woman, she gets ''very'' passionate about the school's Quidditch matches. ''Especially'' the Gryffindor vs. Slytherin games, due to an incident in her final year at Hogwarts that led to her wanting to see Gryffindor crush Slytherin on the pitch.
* PetTheDog: MamaBear nature notwithstanding she's a stern authority figure who doesn't hesitate to severely punish students for infractions. She still has several of these:
** In ''The Sorcerer's Stone'', when she catches Harry flying to save Neville's Remembrall, she could have expelled him. Instead, she recommended him for a position on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, gifted him with what was at the time one of the finest racing brooms available and told Harry that his father would have been proud of him.
** She's much more gentle to Neville in the DeletedScene[[invoked]] from "Prisoner of Azkaban" showing the aftermath of Sirius' attempted break-in at the Gryffindor dormitory; rather than being '''''furious''''' like in the book, she acknowledges it was an accident and doesn't punish him.
** Given her strict adherence to rules one might expect her to be angry at Harry for his name appearing from the Goblet of Fire and assume that he had magically fooled the Age Line. Instead, she immediately believes him when he insists that he didn't do it, evidently realizes that someone is out to get him and defends him from Snape and Karkaroff's insinuations. It's played up further in the film where she's aghast at Snape's suggestion that they simply let the events unfold to determine the culprit.
--->'''[=McGonagall=]:''' Do nothing? Offer him up as bait? Potter is a boy, not a piece of meat!
** In ''Half-Blood Prince'' Neville is crestfallen that he won't be able to take Transfiguration at the N.E.W.T. level. After conceding that it's only because his grandmother wants him to, [=McGonagall=] suggests that it's high time that Augusta Longbottom be more proud of the grandson she has instead of the one she thinks she wants, something that shocks Neville, as [=McGonagall=] had never complimented him in such a manner before. She even offers to drop Augusta a line reminding her that failing her own Charms N.E.W.T. doesn't make it a "soft option".
* PlayingHamlet: If it's not an AgeLift and [=McGonagall=] is still supposed to be 46, then 56-63, then this applies to Maggie Smith, who was 66 when filming started on ''Philosopher's Stone'' and 76 at the end of ''Deathly Hallows, Part Two''.
* PrimAndProperBun: She always has her hair up in a tight bun. It's even slightly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''Goblet of Fire'' when several students giggle at her describing the Yule Ball as a "chance to let our hair down."
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While she's quite strict and doesn't favor Gryffindor with the same devotion that Snape favors Slytherin, she is the one teacher to go to when you need help. She might scold you later, but she'll help whenever you need it.
* RunningGag: Dropping a stack of books whenever something shocking happens.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Her resistance to Umbridge in Book Five includes encouraging mutinous, rule-flouting anarchy among the students. In which she participates. "It unscrews the other way," anyone? Usually, she wouldn't approve of sassing a teacher, but when Harry does it to Umbridge, she offers him a biscuit.
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Her area of specialty is Transfiguration, magic that primarily focuses on changing forms.
* StarCrossedLovers: Her first love was a Muggle named Dougal [=McGregor=]. She accepted his eventual proposal, [[spoiler:but had to go back on it after considering how her mother's revelation as a witch hurt her father and home life. He was later killed by Death Eaters, leading Minerva to wonder if she could have saved him had they been together.]]
* SternTeacher: Defeat a troll all by yourselves? 5 points added, ''after'' subtracting points for punishment and rewarding points for the impressive act. Caught out of bed in the middle of the night, and then questioning the teacher's punishment? 50-point penalty! Each! Note that she was subtracting the points from her own House on that occasion!
* StoicSpectacles: Minerva is never seen without her distinctive square-shaped glasses. [[MorphicResonance Even in cat form]], she has a similar pair of square-shaped markings around her eyes.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Try as she might to avoid it, every time Lee Jordan did Quidditch commentary, she'd hopelessly try to correct his rambling, only to eventually fall into his pace and begin playing the StraightMan to him in something resembling an unintentional comedy routine. This is averted in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' when Malfoy jumps onto Harry's broom; [=McGonagall=] flips! She can be seen shaking her fist at Malfoy with her hat now lopsided. When Lee graduates and the commentating position goes to Luna Lovegood, she falls back into the habit; this time trying to keep Luna on topic while she trails off on her signature CloudCuckoolander rants.
** Though it's not often seen, she seems to play this role to Dumbledore's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} as well.
* TranquilFury: In ''Deathly Hallows'', she silently counters all of Snape's attacks while firing back with a flurry of magic. Her expression hardly changes.
* TeenGenius: Had one of her papers published in ''Transfiguration Monthly'' while she was still in school.
* UndyingLoyalty: She follows Dumbledore's orders faithfully, although she will not hesitate to question him if she feels he is doing something wrong.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: To an extent. As an Animagus, she can transform into a cat whenever she wishes. However in the Potterverse, an Animagus can only shift to one other form, which they cannot choose.
* WitchClassic: Similar to Dumbledore being a WizardClassic, [=McGonagall=] fits this trope, especially in the film version. She was seen on the Quidditch Plaque in Philosopher's Stone, which meant she must've had skill with a broomstick, not to mention she turns into a cat, and her image is never complete without her hat.
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[[folder:Pomona Sprout]]
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-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/MiriamMargolyes
-->'''Voiced by:''' Yolanda Pérez (European Spanish), Ruth Toscano (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]]''

->''"Tentacula. Devil's Snare. And Snargaluff pods...yes, I'd like to see the Death Eaters fighting those."''

The short and plump professor of Herbology and Head of Hufflepuff House, Sprout doesn't mind getting dirty when dealing with dangerous plants. Like Flitwick, she is cheerful and fair to her students. Not a member of the Order, but loyal to Dumbledore even through Umbridge's reign and she played a significant role in the Battle of Hogwarts.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: For some strange reason, the GBC games made her a surprisingly good looking redhead.
* BackForTheFinale: Sprout disappeared after the ''Chamber of Secrets'' film, but returned for the final part of ''Deathly Hallows'' for a few cameos.
* BadassTeacher: Though not as noticeable as some of the others, she's quick to help [=McGonagall=] and Flitwick fight against Snape. She also takes part in the final battle where she survives, probably defeating a few Death Eaters in the process.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't mistake her sweetness nor Head of Hufflepuff status for weakness. She can handle tough and dangerous plants without much fuss, and she rebelled against the tyranny of Umbridge and Voldemort before using her knowledge of magical plants in the Battle of Hogwarts.
* CoveredInMud: She is described as having lots of earth on her clothes and fingernails that would make prim and proper Aunt Petunia faint. Justified, since Herbology is her specialty and she would naturally be around lots of plants and dirt.
* FluffyTamer: Apparently, the only person the Whomping Willow won't attack.
* GreenThumb: She weaponizes her plants in the Battle of Hogwarts.
* JerkassBall: Briefly grabs it in "Goblet of Fire" towards Harry, for stealing Hufflepuff's moment of glory when the Goblet spat out his name. She soon gets over it.
* MeaningfulName: Pomona is a Roman goddess in charge of fruit trees and gardens.
* TheSouthpaw: At least, according to her picture there on the right.
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[[folder:Filius Flitwick]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"A little extra wisdom never goes amiss, Potter!"'']]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/WarwickDavis
-->'''Voiced by:''' Eduardo Moreno (European Spanish, ''Philosopher's Stone''-''Half-Blood Prince''), Francisco Javier Martínez (European Spanish, ''Prisoner of Azkaban''), Víctor Agramunt (European Spanish, ''Deathly Hallows Part II''), Jorge Roig (Latin American Spanish, ''Philosopher's Stone''), Eduardo Fonseca ((Latin American Spanish), ''Goblet of Fire''), Creator/LuisAlfonsoMendoza (Latin American Spanish, ''Order of the Phoenix''), José Luis Miranda ((Latin American Spanish, ''Half-Blood Prince''-''Deahtly Hallows Part II'')
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]]''

->''"Now, don't forget that nice wrist movement we've been practicing! Swish and flick, remember, swish and flick. And saying the magic words properly is very important too--never forget Wizard Baruffio, who said 's' instead of 'f' and found himself on the floor with a buffalo on his chest."''

The short professor of Charms and Head of Ravenclaw House. A cheerful man who usually stands on a pile of books while addressing his class. Like Sprout, cheerful and fair to his students. Not a member of the Order, but loyal to Dumbledore and a former Duelist. He displayed the former under the rules of both Umbridge and the Carrows and the latter in the Battle of Hogwarts.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Downplayed as it only occurs in one movie, and one where he isn't very prominent anyway. Flitwick is a tad pricklier in the film version of ''Half-Blood Prince'', getting uncharacteristically impatient with Harry and Luna when they arrive late to Hogwarts and later using a fake excuse to avoid Slughorn for no readily apparent reason.
* AlliterativeName: The first letters of his first and last name are "F".
* AmbiguouslyHuman: He's actually part goblin.
* BadassMustache: Film Flitwick sports a 'stache that looks like it came straight out of the early 1900s.
* BadassTeacher: It's infrequently mentioned that he's a former dueling champion. Come ''Deathly Hallows'', the readers get to see why.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Prof. Flitwick is one of Hogwarts's nicest teachers. However, he used to be a dueling champion, as several Death Eaters would find out.
* ChekhovsGunman: A tiny one; the Gryffindors think he will lead the Dueling Club because of his reputation as an expert fighter. This gets revealed in the Battle of Hogwarts.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In the movies. Despite being played by the same actor, Flitwick's appearance dramatically changed between the second and third films, from an older-looking, bald and grey-bearded appearance to a much younger one with black hair and mustache (seen above).
* FacePalm: His reaction when Lockhart tells the students to ask him about Entrancing Enchantments.
* {{Foil}}: The Sorting Hat had difficulty sorting him and Minerva in the same way; both were toss-ups between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Is treated as this in the book at times. If the trio are having a discussion during his class, count on Flitwick being victimized by someone's spell going awry.
* HiddenDepths: According to the films and ''Hogwarts Mystery'', he's got a side hobby as the conductor for the school's choir and orchestra.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Part of the reason he was a dueling champion. He primarily used Charms, rather than the more usual destructive or offensive spells, and most of his opponents didn't know how to counter his attacks. Carried over into the Battle of Hogwarts, when a number of Death Eaters found that the tiny teacher who runs the school's music program [[UnderestimatingBadassery is not someone to be trifled with.]]
* LetsGetDangerous: Once things get heated at the end of the seventh book, he shows no fear in taking on some of Voldemort's toughest including Severus Snape, Yaxley, and Antonin Dolohov.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: Somewhat justified in that he has some goblin ancestry, and goblins are shorter than humans.
* NiceGuy: An all-around pleasant and amiable fellow.
* OldMaster: He is ''the'' expert on charms and is extremely powerful. Case in point is in "Order of the Phoenix" where Umbridge is entirely incapable of removing the swamp Fred and George left behind before they left; once she is no longer in charge, it takes Flitwick less than a minute to remove it.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Creator/JKRowling envisioned him as just a tiny old man, but his appearance in the first two movies made her rationalize he has a dash of goblin ancestry.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Don't let his small stature fool you. He was a master duelist prior to teaching at Hogwarts, and in ''Deathly Hallows'' he personally takes down Antonin Dolohov, arguably one of the most dangerous Death Eaters.
* RenaissanceMan: Dueling champion, leading expert on charms, teacher and, if the films are to be believed, a maestro.
* RetiredBadass: A dueling champion in his youth.
* SweetTooth: Like many wizards, he's fond of sweets. In the third book, he's seen ordering a soda with cherry syrup at the Three Broomstick. Then in the fifth, he gives Harry some candy as a reward for speaking out about Voldemort in an interview.
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[[folder:Horace Slughorn]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"These are mad times we live in, mad!"'']]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Jim Broadbent
-->'''Voiced by:''' Mario Martín (European Spanish), Arturo Mercado Jr. (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''

->''"Please don't think badly of me when you see it. You have no idea what he was like... even back then."''

An old friend of Dumbledore's and, until 1981, the Potions Master and Head of Slytherin House. In 1996, he returned to his post as Potions Master, and in 1997, resumed his post as Head of Slytherin. He runs an informal organization nicknamed the Slug Club, which is an invitation-only club of students whom Slughorn believes will be successful. He's taken a liking to Harry, Hermione and, decades in the past, Tom Riddle.
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* AbsentMindedProfessor: He is shown to be a bit of a bumbling old man when not practicing his trademark Slytherin smooth elitism. More pronounced in the films, where he often appears baffled and easy to manipulate, especially when confronted by assertive people like Harry or Tom Riddle.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Slughorn is described in the books as being very short and enormously overweight to the point that buttons on his clothes are constantly threatening to pop off. Jim Broadbent is 6"2 and nowhere near as portly as Slughorn is described as being.
* AdaptationalWimp: His film version is significantly more flappable and weak-willed, to the point of becoming downright cowardly at points of the story where he was merely fussy or upset in the books.
* AmbitionIsEvil: Subverted with Horace Slughorn, who's a member of Slytherin. Up to Slughorn's introduction to the series, all Slytherins played this trope straight, so the audience and Harry expect Slughorn to play it straight, too. His ambition comes in the form of favoritism and singling out talented or well-connected students he expects to benefit from in the future. What subverts this ambition being bad is that he's equal-opportunity and doesn't hold much prejudice against other houses or non-pure bloods. He's also nicer and more likable than all other Slytherins, and he [[spoiler:is genuinely ashamed of accidentally helping Tom Riddle's rise to power]].
** The level of "favours", he expects back from people are usually along the lines of Quidditch tickets or having an opinion published in the paper, or some sweets - basically, [[ComicallySmallDemand stuff that's trivial and inexpensive]].
* ApatheticTeacher: Only those students who Slughorn prejudges of being of great talent and skill, or having connections, get his undivided attention. Those students who don't might try and work hard and get by ok in his class, but they will never get invited to his parties. [[DownplayedTrope He's still thoroughly competent, though-]] he might ignore you, but he'll still make sure you pass.
* BadassTeacher: Not as overtly as others, but he proves at the Battle of Hogwarts that Dumbledore was not wrong when praising his skills. He takes on Voldemort in the last book along with [=McGonagall=] and Shacklebolt, and all three hold their own. That's right. ''Horace Slughorn fights Voldemort head-on. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking In his pyjamas]].''
* BerserkButton: He flips out when Harry asks him about Horcruxes. In part this is because of [[spoiler:his regret over telling Tom Riddle about them.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Merlin's beard!"
* CombatPragmatist: [[spoiler:Left with his students to make sure they escaped Hogsmeade safely,]] then gathered up enough forces to go back to the castle and guarantee victory.
* CoolTeacher: For all his favoritism, Slughorn does deliver an impressive first Potions lesson and he can make the course seem fun. Ethically though, his favoritism means he's still not a perfect teacher, although he's still much better than [[SadistTeacher Snape]].
* CowardlyLion: Is utterly terrified of the Death Eaters and Voldemort. [[spoiler:He still returns after evacuating the underage Slytherins in the book. In the movie, with the Slytherins sent to their dorms in the dungeons, he helps cast the protective spells over Hogwarts, terrified but determined to protect Hogwarts.]]
* CrazyPrepared: Despite being skilled in the art of Occlumency, Slughorn carries around an antidote for Veritiserum which can be resisted through Occlumency.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his pompous personality and relative lack of guts, many characters comment on his skill, including Dumbledore of all people, and it's implied even Voldemort still recognizes Slughorn as a powerful wizard. Certainly, Slughorn steps up to duel Voldemort alongside [=McGonagall=] and Kingsley, even although he was the only one of the three who had not proved to be a good fighter beforehand (rather the opposite, actually), and it's implied he holds his own just as much as them.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Not all Slytherins are evil. Though whether he escapes their reputation of all being assholes may be subject to some debate, as he still plays favorites with his students and singles out those that are famous or well-connected for special treatment. But to give him his due, he doesn't bully or abuse those who fail to catch his attention either, even if he can be a bit dismissive of them; and unlike the newer generation of Slytherins, he does recognize talent like Hermione's, even if it's someone with no connections or important relatives.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Returns near the end of the Battle of Hogwarts, leading the Slytherins in battle against the Death Eaters and dueling Lord Voldemort. Not bad considering he was too comfortable to move at the start of the last book...
* EnlightenedSelfInterest: As a NiceGuy from Slytherin House, whose [[PlanetOfHats Hat]] is ambition and self-interest, he'll often help people he thinks would have potential to become great so that he will gain some benefit some way or another later (although, he remains a sympathetic figure despite this considering that, as a general rule, he tends to help his proteges more than they help him). This backfired with Tom "Lord Voldemort" Riddle, to whom he provided information on dark magics such as the Horcrux, and he regards it as MyGreatestFailure.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Right before the Battle of Hogwarts in the eighth film, Slughorn is briefly seen taking a large gulp from a flask. Subverted when some viewers realized that it could've just as easily been [[GoodLuckCharm Feix Felicis]], which is pretty understandable considering how hellish he knows the next few hours will be.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While hardly a jerk in the true sense of the word, Slughorn's definitely got his moments, including his [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial shock that a Muggle-born would be better at magic than a pureblood]] and his favoring of certain students over others. Nevertheless, he is overall a decent guy, and he genuinely adores his favored students. Remember that he also happily invited Hermione into his club when he learned about her skills, and that his all time favourite student was Lily Evans, Harry's mother, who was a Muggle-born.
* KnowledgeBroker: Tom Riddle was able to get him to reveal what Horcruxes were with some flattery and a gift of crystallized pineapple, but this went down in his mind as MyGreatestFailure.
* LovableCoward: He's highly averse to risking life and limb, but his open self-interest and affability keep his cowardice from being galling.
* TheMentor: A couple of lines from Book 6 and some simple math imply that Slughorn took Snape under his wing during the latter's N.E.W.T. years.
** Also to Tom Riddle. Slughorn was likely his favorite teacher, and Dumbledore suspected that he got a few ideas from Slughorn about recruiting followers.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:Even decades later he's wracked with guilt over having told Tom Riddle about Horcruxes, feeling responsible for Voldemort's rise to power and the death of Lily Evans.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Telling Tom Riddle about Horcruxes;]] both because it casts him in a bad light and because it led to the death of Lily Evans, "one of my all-time favorite students."
* NobleBigot: {{Downplayed}}. Though he's one of the most sympathetic Slytherins in the series, there are hints that he holds to some aspects of 'blood purity' ideology, such as his assumption that Voldemort must be a pureblood and his surprise at Muggle-born wizards with above-average talent. He doesn't hold it against them, though, [[YouAreACreditToYourRace and tends to adore them even more in the face of their "minor problem".]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: After he cures Ron from love potion effects, he offers him a drink as a pick-me-up and birthday present, one he was saving for Dumbledore. The mead ends up being poisoned, and Ron nearly dies. Slughorn is horrified and gets help after Harry remembers to use a bezoar.
* PapaWolf: In book seven, [=McGonagall=] orders him to [[spoiler:evacuate all the Slytherins before the final battle. He doesn't argue and gets out as many as he can, except for Malfoy who slips away. Once the students are safe, he returns with an army.]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Especially when compared to Snape; unlikely the former Potions master, Slughorn actually cares about teaching his students. Even for the ones that he ignores, he makes sure that they can learn the material, and challenges the ones in his advanced classes. He has no reason to believe Harry is cheating, since Harry managed an Exceeds Expectations on his OWL. Then in the seventh book, after he [[spoiler:evacuates all of the students in his house, he comes back with an army to defend Hogwarts]].
* RedeemingReplacement: Even though he has flaws, he can be considered one for Snape when he takes his place as Potion teacher, at least as far as teaching is concerned. Indeed, he's shown to be far more sympathetic towards his students, doesn't bully them and doesn't give preferential treatment to the students of Slytherin. It's a testament to how bad Snape is, that Slughorn's ethically dodgy approach to teaching seems an improvement. He also ends up being the one professor who tries to do his best to break the House Divisions among Hogwarts.
* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX: Makes it a point to bring up his famous Muggleborn students as proof that he is not prejudiced, even while, as Harry put it, "still seeming much too surprised that a Muggle-born should make a good witch.” To his credit, he IS genuinely kind towards Muggleborns who display talent, he simply seems to have a subconscious expectation for purebloods to usually be better.
* SweetTooth: His favorite treat is Crystallized pineapple.
* TokenGoodTeammate: He embodies the traits of Slytherin before Voldemort showed up: genuinely ambitious and cunning but not destructively so, and considering blood purity to be little more than a curiosity.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Crystallized pineapple. To the point where Tom Riddle used it as part of a ploy to flatter him into spilling the secrets of what Horcruxes were.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:He became progressively more disturbed at Tom Riddle's eagerness to know more about Horcruxes but couldn't have imagined that Riddle would use that knowledge to become the most dangerous wizard in the world and wage two bloody wars against wizarding Britain.]]
* VicariouslyAmbitious: He doesn't have any big ambitions for himself, only for his students, and only ''some'' of his students, i.e. those with connections, skill, family ties, and those who he thinks might make it.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Happens in both the film and book. As it's revealed with Slughorn, he is a cowardly Slytherin who would rather avoid confrontation if he can help it, especially with the Dark Lord, but he also regrets that Voldemort killed his favorite student and he blames himself for giving over the information that indirectly led to Lily's death. [=McGonagall=] orders him to evacuate all the Slytherins and warns him that if he attempts any sabotage, then the defenders of Hogwarts will shoot to kill. Slughorn does so after initial hesitation, only to return with an army and fight Voldemort head on after Harry is presumed dead. In the film, the Slytherins are confined to their dormitory, but Slughorn joins in casting the protective spells over Hogwarts, looking terrified but determined to do his part.
* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Harry notes that while Slughorn lacks the overt anti-Muggleborn bigotry of the rest of Slytherin, he still seems a bit too surprised that Lily and later Hermione were such talented witches, and generally frames his view of them in this manner.
* YouOweMe: Given his habit of taking promising students under his wing and giving them their initial "foot in the door" to high-flying careers, almost every person of note in the Wizarding world owes him a favour. Although Slughorn is too lazy to take advantage of this beyond asking for free concert tickets and sweets.
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!!Other teachers

[[folder:Rubeus Hagrid]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I shouldn't have told yeh that..."'']]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Robbie Coltrane (films), Martin Bayfield (young), Chris Jarman (''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'', first West End run), TBD (''Cursed Child'', first Broadway run)
-->'''Voiced by:''' Carlos Kaniowsky (European Spanish), Victor Hugo Aguilar (Latin American Spanish, ''Philosopher's Stone'' and ''Chamber of Secrets''), Blas García, (Latin American Spanish, ''Prisoner of Azkaban''-''Deathly Hallows Part II'')
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' | ''[[Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild Cursed Child]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]]''

->''"I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. ‘Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.’ An’ he was right."''

The Hogwarts Keeper of Keys, gamekeeper, groundskeeper, Care of Magical Creatures professor and a half-giant as well. Hagrid introduced the wizarding world to Harry, and remains his friend throughout Harry's years at Hogwarts. He also has an unusual affection towards vicious beasts, including Norbert ([[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]]), Fluffy ([[{{Hellhound}} three-headed dog]]), Aragog ([[GiantSpider acromantula]]), and Blast-ended Skrewts. Also has a weakness for alcohol.
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* AdaptationalWimp: In the fifth book, he is able to shrug off several spells of nearly half a dozen Aurors, whereas in the seventh film a single spell is enough to render him unconscious.
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Which invariably leads him to trying to [[FluffyTamer make it a pet]].
* AllGenesAreCoDominant: He splits the difference between giant and human in size.
* BadassBeard: Hagrid sports a wild mane that immediately strikes fear into the well-kept Dursleys' hearts.
* BadassBiker: For two short periods during the series. It doesn't hurt when the bike in question can [[KillItWithFire shoot dragon flames at enemies]] and conjure freaking brick walls out of its exhaust pipe.
* BadassTeacher: DeconstructedTrope; Hagrid's ruggedness and love for dangerous monsters make him ignorant to the fact that his classes terrify his students and do little to educate them about anything practical.
* BearHug: He does this to Harry, Ron, and Hermione frequently.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: His undying loyalty to Dumbledore and to a slightly lesser degree [=McGonagall=] stems from their respecting and valuing his input, even as gamekeeper.
* BerserkButton:
** "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis NEVER -- INSULT -- ALBUS -- DUMBLEDORE -- IN -- FRONT -- OF -- ME!]]"
** Also, he's justifiably pretty pissed when the Aurors came calling to sack him in Book 5, but it was only after [=McGonagall=] came out to defuse the situation and took four Stunners to the chest that Hagrid well and truly flips out.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: While Hagrid is a lovable chap, don't anger him. If you insult Dumbledore or attack his friends, he will force you to repent.
** When Vernon Dursley insults Dumbledore, Hagrid loses it and aims a curse at Dudley, intending to turn him into a pig. It probably doesn't help that Hagrid is described as looking like he could "explode"; remember... Hagrid is ''half-giant''. Now imagine Hagrid as truly angry. Scary thought, eh?
** In the fourth book, when Karkaroff, mistakingly believing that Dumbledore arranged an attack on Viktor Krum, [[SpitefulSpit spits at Dumbledore's feet]], Hagrid promptly flies into a rage, [[NeckLift pins Karkaroff to a tree by the neck]], and [[OrderedApology demands that he apologize]]. It takes ''Dumbledore'' telling him to put Karkaroff down for Hagrid to obey and the only reason Hagrid listens is because he respects Dumbledore.
** Umbridge and four Ministry-trained Aurors found this out the hard way when they tried to ambush him one night. Umbridge, sadly, was the only one who escaped conscious. (Although, in another example of this trope, Hermione made her wish she hadn't.)
* BigBrotherInstinct: Hagrid loves his half-brother very much. In ''The Order of The Phoenix'', he brought him to the Forbidden Forest where Grawp can be free in the open air. His one request for the trio was to look after him while Hagrid was away. The scene is even more touching when he says he's the only family Grawp has.
* TheBigGuy: Amongst the Hogwarts teachers and the Order of the Phoenix. He's the largest staff member, one of the strongest, and extremely tough, [[UnskilledButStrong if unskilled]].
* BookEnds: Hagrid is the person responsible for driving baby Harry to the Dursley home in the prologue of ''The Philosopher's Stone''. Fittingly, when Harry leaves the Dursley home for the final time in-story at the beginning of ''Deathly Hallows'', Hagrid is the one to escort him. Even better, he does so both times by using Sirius' motorbike for transport. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Hagrid just before they take off for the final time.
-->'''Hagrid''': I brought you here sixteen years ago when you were no bigger than a bowtruckle. Seems only right that I should be the one to take you away now.
* BruiserWithASoftCenter: He's more soft spot than bruiser unless you make him mad. Which is not advised.
* TheCameo: In ''Cursed Child'', he appears in one of Harry's BadDreams [[spoiler:and again in a time travel scene which shows how he found baby Harry among the rubble of the Potters' house in Godric's Hollow]].
* CannotKeepASecret: Trust Hagrid with your business, trust him with your treasures, trust him with your life, heck, trust him with taking care of Harry Freaking Potter[[note]]An ''extremely smart idea!'' as Hagrid is ''dangerous'' to enemies.[[/note]], but for the love of all that is holy, don’t trust him with your secrets. A habit of slipping into DidIJustSayThatOutLoud mixed with being a chatty drunk ensures nothing in his knowledge stays with him alone for long.
-->'''Hagrid''': What that dog is guarding is strictly between Professor Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel.
-->'''Harry''': Nicolas Flamel?
-->'''Hagrid''': I shouldn't have said that. I should not have said that. I shouldn't have said that.
** It should be noted, that, with one exception, a lot of what he "shouldn't" have said was actually beneficial. For example, the instance of Nicolas Flamel above led to them finding out that the treasure Fluffy was guarding was in fact the Philosopher's Stone, and once Firenze tells Harry about the properties of unicorn blood, they deduce that the thief's goal is to somehow use the Elixir Of Life to bring back Voldemort.
** This is notably highlighted in ''Deathly Hallows''. After the Battle of the Seven Potters Fleur suspects Hagrid of letting slip the real date that Harry was being moved to the Burrow, though in this particular instance Hagrid was innocent.
* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: He has a habit of doing this, usually fairly obviously. When he first meets Harry, he mentions to him having been expelled from Hogwarts. However, when Harry asks him why he was expelled, he replies loudly "It's getting late! Lots to do tomorrow" and completely ignores the question.
* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: Hermione, Harry and Ron regard his decision to bring Grawp to the forest as his most insane action yet, something which Madame Maxime was reluctant about, and which Firenze notes is doomed. This should have been the one to finally kill him off, yet it turns out that Hagrid was right about his brother after all, and his efforts to teach him English and civilize him, proved to be a big success.
* CoolTeacher:
** Inverted. He really wanted to be one and did what he could to succeed. But Draco gets hurt by one of the magical creatures he was showing and after that, his confidence is gone. His class becomes particularly unpopular among Harry's year, even among the Gryffindors, to the point where no sixth year students sign up for his [=NEWT=]-level class. Granted, this may also have a lot to do with the course not being very useful for students aspiring for a career outside of magical creature care.
** It's worth noting that certain lessons demonstrate that Hagrid is capable of being this when he splits the difference between having enough confidence to teach about interesting creatures and stopping short of teaching about flat out dangerous creatures like Blast-Ended Skrewts. Everyone has fun when he teaches everyone about Nifflers and baby unicorns, and even the hippogriff lesson goes well until Malfoy is injured, mostly by BullyingADragon.
* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Occurs many times, especially when he's drinking. It even provides the one exception mention above. A disguised Quirrell deliberately gets him drunk before offering him a dragon egg (possibly to get him out of the way when he would inevitably have gotten caught) in exchange for information on how to neutralize Fluffy.
* DisneyDeath: He is apparently overwhelmed by acromantulas during the Battle of Hogwarts, [[spoiler:but is merely taken prisoner by the Death Eaters.]]
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Played with. He certainly knows his own strength when it comes to doing heavy physical labor or fighting -- and he puts it to good use. But the problem comes in when he tries to use normal 'human' signs of affection, like [[BearHug hugs]] or pats on the shoulder and winds up bruising people or tossing them about.
* DoggedNiceGuy: The class and cultural divisions between him and Olympe Maxime, despite their status as Half-Giants, prevents any real relationship.
* EmotionalBruiser: He's perhaps about ten feet tall, can bend metal with his bare hands, and most spells will simply bounce off him. Are you going to tell him it's not [[ManlyTears manly to cry in public?]] Didn't think so.
* TheFaceless: Teenage Hagrid in Riddle's diary in the second movie.
* FirstFriend: Hagrid is this to Harry, who before then lived under an abusive household and had no friends before in his life. Hagrid was the first to introduce Harry to the Wizarding World and has since remained figure in Harry's life.
* {{Flight}}: Claimed to have flown to the island Harry and the Dursleys were staying at in the first book. How he did this is a RiddleForTheAges as he didn't seem to have the bike with him and is too big for a broom (or a thestral) so it's usually put down to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.
* FluffyTamer: One of the best known examples, and even named one of his pets (a gigantic three-headed dog, to be precise) "Fluffy."
* FrameUp: In Book 2, it's revealed that he was expelled, with his wand broken and magical education permanently prevented from developing, because Tom Riddle framed him for attacks which he had committed. Riddle exploited the fact that he cut a dashing VillainWithGoodPublicity figure while Hagrid was a half-giant weirdo who got into trouble.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: As such, he knows a great deal about various creatures, magical and non-magical. He seems to consider "normal" creatures (as in, anything that isn't a walking death trap) relatively boring, but he loves them just the same.
* FunetikAksent: If yeh want ter sound like Hagrid, talk like this, o' course. [[CatchPhrase I shouldnta told ya that.]][[note]]Very thick West Country accent. Notable in that, despite about 95% of the named cast being from the British Isles, he's the only character depicted as speaking like this.[[/note]]
* GentleGiant: Hagrid has a heart of gold, and wouldn't hurt a fly. But as noted under BewareTheNiceOnes, it isn't wise to anger him.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Dad was a human wizard, and reportedly a short one; mom was a giantess.
* {{Herald}}: In ''Philosopher's Stone''.
* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Is the product of such a union.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: Being expelled by Hogwarts for a crime he didn't commit, framed by the young Voldemort no less, has essentially prevented Hagrid from having any other meaningful job in the wizarding world aside from being Groundskeeper and general Magical Creatures Expert for Dumbledore. Considering his wide knowledge and interest in magical creatures, he probably could have written a book like Newt Scamander or become a giant researcher if he had been given the chance.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: As the younger of the two with Dumbledore, who, in his own words, would trust Hagrid with his life. It becomes even more touching once you get a bit deeper into Dumbledore's character. He forms a friendship with the Trio, and [[spoiler:even seems to have a special bond with Harry's children as of the epilogue.]]
* InVinoVeritas: He has a penchant for drink, and at one point accidentally tells Quirrell how to get past Fluffy to get to the Philosopher's Stone.
* LastNameBasis:
** For some reason, nobody ever calls him "Rubeus" regardless of how close they are to him. Even Dumbledore, who's in FirstNameBasis with everyone. Even Grawp calls him "Hagger", indicating Hagrid instructed his own brother to call him by his last name.
** One of the few people who called him by his first name was Mr. Ollivander.
** The book ''Chamber of Secrets'' has Riddle address Hagrid by his given name in the memory he shows Harry of "arresting" him; the movie changes it back to the surname form of address. This case is exceptionally odd, as students are more often than not on a LastNameBasis with students not in their year and/or House, and what's even more peculiar is that Slytherin students in particular, like Riddle was, almost ''never'' use anyone's first name.
* LethalChef: His food is not so much inedible as it is simply unchewable, often described as having the consistency of solid rocks. Well, his stew is enjoyable enough until they find a talon in it.
* LightningBruiser: Hagrid is described as moving extremely fast for his size, can knock out grown wizards with a punch, and can absorb a great amount of punishment thanks to his Giant heritage.
* MagicallyIneptFighter: He can still cast spells with a piece of his wand hidden in his umbrella, but he has to rely much more on physical strength than the rest of the cast when it comes to fighting. Being resistant to magic thanks to his heritage helps, too.
* ManChild: He's in his sixties, but the trio have surpassed him in maturity and common sense by the time the third book starts, if not earlier. This doesn't mean that he is beyond saying WhatTheHellHero on the rare occasions where he's got a more sensible view of things -- Harry's suspicion of Snape, or Ron's short-lived estrangement from Hermione over the 'death' of Scabbers, for instance.
* TheMentor: He is the one who gets Harry himself started on his journey as TheChosenOne. He is also the Obi-Wan to Harry's Luke. [[spoiler:Except he actually manages to survive.]]
* MentorOccupationalHazard: Defied. [[spoiler:Hagrid has a few close calls throughout the series and fans worried about Hagrid for this reason. Rowling admitted that with his kindness, Hagrid's loss would have been a serious blow to Harry, and would be an obvious choice - however she said that from the beginning she had an image of Hagrid being the one carrying a supposedly dead Harry out of the forest in the final book.]]
* MissingMom: His mother, a giantess, left him when he was three. Hagrid mentions her death casually, as he hardly even remembers her and didn't consider her a model mother.
* MoralityPet: Hagrid is the only one [[SpidersAreScary Aragog]] won't eat or let his children eat.
* NaiveAnimalLover: He is infamous for his love of dangerous creatures, from dragons, to flesh-eating books. Although they really don't harm him (much), his monsters are often a danger to the heroes.
* NiceGuy: Skewed priorities and slight BerserkButton tendencies aside (and even those tend to be fairly harmless), Hagrid is one of the friendliest, most well meaning and honest characters in the whole series.
* NightmareFetishist: Considers dragons, [[GiantSpider Acromantulas]] and huge, three-headed dogs to be "cute."
* NoSell: Spells have very little effect on him due to his giant blood, since giants are highly resistant to magic.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[WildMassGuessing Possibly, due to his Giant ancestry.]] During Harry's first year, he was in his mid-sixties, yet looks like he might be in his thirties and acts a third his age (it's easy to forget that, while you might assume he was a contemporary of the Marauders, or Arthur and Molly Weasley, he actually attended school with ''Voldemort''). The fifth book implies he's looked the same way almost his entire life.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: He's prone to revealing knowledge of things he shouldn't admit to knowing anything about, especially to students like Harry.
--> "Ooh, I shouldn'a said tha."
* PapaWolf: Towards the children of Hogwarts and Harry in particular.
* ParasolOfPain: His wand, which was snapped when he was expelled, is actually in one piece and hidden in his now magical umbrella. The reason is works is because it's implied that Dumbledore has used the elder wand to repair it.
* PietaPlagiarism: At the end of Book 7, [[spoiler:Hagrid carries a NotQuiteDead Harry out of the forest in this fashion.]]
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Hagrid occasionally displays overt prejudice towards Muggles, Squibs, and foreigners. However, this is usually only when he encounters a particularly unpleasant example of one of these groups (i.e. Vernon Dursley, Argus Filch, and Igor Karkaroff) and is angered.
* RealMenWearPink: He's a hulking bruiser who tames monsters and often doesn't know his own strength. He's also prone to tears, baking (admittedly badly), gardening, knitting, sporting flowery aprons, and keeps what remains of his wand in a pink umbrella. JK Rowling said she got the inspiration from overhearing an intimidating burly biker worry about how his petunias weren't doing very well that year.
* ShaggyDogStory: His offscreen expedition with Madam Maxime to meet the Giants was revealed to be this, something even he laments. The only positive outcome for him was Grawp, rescuing his brother from being [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer picked on by the other Giants.]]
* ShoePhone: He has a wand disguised as an umbrella.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Hagrid was apparently one of these; his role getting smaller throughout the series is due to the series becoming darker. Mitigated slightly in the final book of the series, where he's the one to drive with Harry during The Battle of the Seven Potters in the beginning and [[spoiler: carry Harry out of the forest]] in the final chapter.
* SkewedPriorities: Sometimes places the safety and well-being of some of the bloodthirsty monsters he is so fond of above that of other people. In book 4 he frantically tries to instruct his students not to hurt the ''Blast-Ended Skrewts''.
* StoutStrength: Hagrid's ancestry makes him supernaturally strong and tough. His entire life as an employee of the school is spent doing physically taxing and highly dangerous tasks that other wizards would rather not (his predecessor left "to spend more time with his remaining limbs", according to Dumbledore). This is BEFORE one begins adding in the very dangerous situations he finds himself in as a result of his friendship with Harry. One of his first acts is to casually bend a rifle barrel into a knot after knocking a barricaded door down. And in the fifth book, he's shown being able to send a full-grown human flying through the air unconscious with a backhand.
* {{Teleportation}}: In the first book, he disappears when Harry blinks on the way back from Diagon Alley.
* TranquilFury: In the first film Hagrid's voice lowers ominously when Vernon [[BerserkButton insults Dumbledore in front of him]], which makes him seem even more livid than in the book.
* UndyingLoyalty:
** Hagrid will fight anyone who threatens or disrespects Dumbledore, even if it gets him fired.
** Hagrid will also go to the ends of the earth for Harry. In ''Deathly Hallows'' he brazenly holds a "Support Harry Potter" party in his hut directly under the noses of the Death Eaters overseeing Hogwarts.
* UnskilledButStrong: He never finished WizardingSchool and remains distinctly immature even in his sixties, but makes up for it by being massively strong and resistant to magic due to his Giant heritage. His standard fighting strategy amounts to walking up to whichever poor bastards he's fighting while shrugging off their spells and crushing them with his hands. It's pretty effective. However, there are hints he's a lot stronger with magic than he lets on, as his first two demonstrated uses of magic are done silently and using a snapped wand.
* WhatTheHellHero: Averted. Hagrid politely gives Ron and Harry some good advice after alienating Hermione in the third book.
* WildHair: The first thing mentioned about him after his size.
* WouldHurtAChild: While it's staged as a KickTheSonOfABitch moment, he vents his rage at Vernon Dursley's insulting the name of Albus Dumbledore by attempting to turn Dudley into a pig. The resultant instantaneous growth of a pig's tail causes Dudley to "howl with pain." Dudley is eleven at the time.
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[[folder:Sybill Patricia Trelawney]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"How nice to see you in the physical world at last."'']]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/EmmaThompson
-->'''Voiced by:''' Mercedes Montalá (European Spanish, ''Prisoner of Azkaban''), Mercedes Cepeda (European Spanish, ''Order of the Phoenix''-''Deathly Hallows''), Lisa Owen ((Latin American Spanish, ''Prisoner of Azkaban''), Sarah Souza (Latin American Spanish, ''Order of the Phoenix''-''Deathly Hallows'')
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' | ''[[Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild Cursed Child]]'' (mentioned only)

->"''The Eye does not See upon command!"''

The professor of Divination. Trelawney fancies herself a great seer "possessed of the Inner Eye", but is widely regarded by other characters as a fraud who makes up nonsensical prophecies on the spot, particularly because of her habit of predicting death to one student of every new class she teaches. She is able to make the occasional genuine prophecy, though. Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil seem to be the only two students who take her seriously.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the books she's described as looking like an oversized bug. Even with the crazy hair and glasses, she's still played by Emma Thompson.
* TheAlcoholic: It is apparent in ''Half-Blood Prince'' that Trelawney is rapidly descending into alcoholism over her employment problems and dire prophecies.
* AnimalMotifs: When Harry first sees her, his first impression is of a "large, glittering insect" because of all the bangles and beads she wears, as well as her enormous glasses.
* BadassBoast: After braining Fenrir Greyback with a crystal ball.
-->I have more, more for anyone who wants them!
* BewareTheSillyOnes: In the movie of ''Deathly Hallows: Part 2'', Trelawney can be heard saying "Crucio" in the final battle, when the trio are running across the courtyard before coming across Lavender. Trelawney may be a little crazy, but it seems that she actually ''is'' dangerous.
* BigDamnHeroes: In the book, she bludgeons Greyback with a crystal ball in the final battle to save Lavender Brown's life.
* BlindWithoutEm: It's somewhat implied in movie 3 that her (physical) sight's actually quite awful.
* TheCassandra: Well, often not to Dumbledore and occasionally not to Harry. Her mumblings, however, often contain actual predictions of the future that turn out to be true, such as her tarot vision of "the lightning-struck tower" and "calamity" in Book 6. The "lightning" turns out to be the [[spoiler:blazing green Dark Mark and the "calamity" Dumbledore's death.]] Interestingly enough, her (great-?)grandmother's name happens to be Cassandra.
* ChewingTheScenery: Courtesy of Emma Thompson's delightfully hammy performance. Not that her book version is restrained, with her overly dramatic proclamations about ''everything'', mixed with slightly antiquated language.
* TheChewToy: She rarely gets through a scene without somebody making a joke at her expense. Even Harry, or rather [[DeadpanSnarker especially Harry]], can't quite help himself.
-->'''Sybill Trelawney:''' Everything went pitch black and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled headfirst out of the Room!\\
'''Harry Potter:''' [[StealthInsult And you didn't see that coming?]]\\
'''Sybill Trelawney:''' No, I did not, as I say, it was pitch-[''[[DoubleTake throws him a dirty look]]''].
** Even other professors verbally pile on her, both directly and behind her back. [=McGonagall=] makes no secret of the fact that she thinks Trelawney is a fraud and makes several unsubtle quips to her in front of students in ''Prisoner of Azkaban''. Even ''Dumbledore'' openly belittles her to Harry.
* DrowningMySorrows: She starts drinking a lot of cooking sherry after Umbridge puts her on probation. Implicitly, she seems to have had this habit before, and never quite gets out of it (she's seen with a bottle of cooking sherry and looking quite unstable in Book 6).
* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her class and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do are, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is an extremely rare genetic ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most competent teacher in the entire school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight" other than her silly crystal balls and star charts. The real problem isn't her teaching or fortune-telling ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all, which even Dumbledore agreed with and attempted to remove from the curriculum.
* FaintingSeer: She enters into a trance whenever she makes a genuine prophecy, and doesn't remember it afterwards.
* FantasticRacism: She never says it to his face, but book 6 has her make some snide remarks about Firenze's race.
* FortuneTeller: She deliberately invokes as many related tropes as she can, because she's not too confident in her own abilities.
* GeniusDitz: She makes genuine prophecies in her trance state (but, naturally, never remembers them), and it's repeatedly hinted that she's actually a NotSoPhonyPsychic outside of said trance. Unfortunately, she tends to misinterpret what she sees along the lines of what she ''wants'' to see - which, being big on drama, means that she tends to interpret everything as an impending disaster.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: Crystal balls.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Implied to have one with Lavender and Parvati, who are the only two students shown as giving her much respect, let alone taking her class seriously, even going to visit her and comfort her after Umbridge fires her. [[spoiler:Which makes the blink-and-you-miss-it scene in ''Deathly Hallows Part II'' with her and Parvati mourning over Lavender's dead body even more heartbreaking.]]
* LadyDrunk: After Umbridge repeatedly humiliates her, she can often be seen with a bottle of sherry. Even after Umbridge leaves Hogwarts it seems she still indulges in it.
* TheMaidenNameDebate: Her brief marriage ended because she refused to take her husband's surname of '[[EmbarrassingLastName Higgenbottom]]'.
* MamaBear: In ''Deathly Hallows'' she saves Lavender Brown from being eaten alive by Fenrir Greyback by smashing his head in with her crystal ball! Poor Lavender wasn't so lucky in the movie though...
* NotSoPhonyPsychic: The only real prophecies Trelawney has ever made (both of them) happen when she goes into a trance, and thus she can't remember them afterwards. Every prophecy she actually makes on purpose is made up... possibly. However, if you squint FromACertainPointOfView they do come true, it's just that her general underlying interpretation is all wrong.
** She claimed to be seeing a grim a lot in POA but was really seeing Sirius Black in his animagus form (a large black dog which is what a grim looks like). The problem is that she believed the Grim was a sign of death, and that it meant Harry's days were numbered. In actual fact, Sirius Black is Harry's godfather and innocent all along, and the Grim by the end of the book is someone who Harry goes out of his way to save.
** Likewise in HBP she idly makes several prophetic comments while attempting to read some tarot cards, but dismisses them due to not recognizing their significance. She warns [[spoiler:Dumbledore about being on any towers, and Dumbledore did end up dying on top of the tower, but as Book 7 reveals, Dumbledore planned and arranged his death with Snape all along, well before Trelawney's warning, and Draco's attack on Hogwarts famously did not include any other casualties aside from a man who was SecretlyDying and planned a ThanatosGambit all along]].
* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: {{Subverted|Trope}}, then hilariously [[DoubleSubversion doubly subverted]] when all of her predictions eventually come true -- almost never in quite the way she expects or the way anyone else thinks it will turn out anyway, which is in fact the point of the ScrewDestiny theme of the series.
--> '''Albus Dumbledore''': "The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed... Professor Trelawney, [[CondescendingCompassion bless her]], is living proof of that."
* SmallNameBigEgo: Being a descendant of a famous seer and herself having some acuity to foreseeing she thinks of herself as an always right prophet. In truth she is really bad at it.
* UltimateJobSecurity: As a Seer, she's got only two accurate predictions under her belt sprinkled among numerous failures including predicting the deaths of a number of very much alive students over the years. As a teacher she's got a similar record. Save for Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil, every single student she teaches doesn't take her seriously and they've been known to make up fake predictions that she can't distinguish from real ones. She is by any reasonable measure terrible at her job. Dumbledore for his part straight up admits to Harry that he not only doesn't respect Trelawney, he doesn't respect Divination as a subject (not on the grounds that he doesn't believe in it, but because it's so hard to pin down genuine predictions, let alone arrange them on call) and would have axed it from the curriculum if parents didn't keep demanding that Hogwarts teach it, and then when [[spoiler:she did make her prediction about the Prophecy, Dumbledore hired her to protect her from Voldemort]].
* TheUnfavorite: She is the only one of Hogwarts' staff that Dumbledore himself personally mocks and belittles in front of Harry. Even Snape gets an insistent "Professor Snape, Harry" whenever Harry invokes LastNameBasis, Dumbledore straight up admits that he considers her a hack and never wanted to hire her to start with. This however does not stop him from treating her courteously and protecting her.
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[[folder:Quirinus Quirrell]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Yes, (Snape) does seem the type, doesn't he? Why, next to him, who would suspect p-p-poor, st-st-stuttering Professor Quirrell?"'']]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Ian Hart
-->'''Voiced by:''' Abraham Aguilar (European Spanish), Creator/JesusBarrero (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]''

->'''Dumbledore''': "''Keep an eye on Quirrell for me, won't you?''"

The Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher during Harry's first year at Hogwarts (and a Muggle Studies professor prior to that). He initially comes across as unconfident and incompetent, stuttering constantly, but this is a facade: he is a servant of Voldemort, and the host to his spirit.
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* AlliterativeName: '''Quir'''inus '''Quir'''rell. His first name is never actually mentioned in-series, though.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: [[spoiler: Pottermore reveals that he was bullied because of his stutter and timidness.]]
* AssholeVictim: After he is killed, no one mourns him.
* BaldOfEvil: Completely bald and in league with Voldemort.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: According to Pottermore, [[spoiler:Quirrell was intentionally seeking out Voldemort during his travels in hopes that he could use his power or at the very least get credit for his discovery.]]
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Quirinus Quirrell is the nervous, mostly unnoticed and seemingly innocent character throughout the entire novel. However, at the end it turns out that he has been possessed by Voldemort all along and has been trying to kill Harry all through the book.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He seems friendly to Harry when they first meet. However, he's been trying to locate the Philosopher's Stone and kill Harry under Voldemort's instruction. In the climax, he practically mocked Harry for thinking that he was harmless and nice.
* BodyHorror: He has Voldemort's face ''embedded in the back of his skull''.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: He's set up as probably the ''least'' likely person to turn evil, mainly due to his sheer wimpiness.
* EvilAllAlong: Seems to be nothing more than a meek, timid, perfectly benevolent teacher throughout the first book ... before the twist, anyway.
* EvilTeacher: Turns out the timid teacher was working for wizard Hitler.
* FightingFromTheInside: Very mildly, but the book suggests he is struggling against Voldemort on some occasions when Harry and co. hear him whimpering in his classroom at night, suggesting Voldemort is punishing him. They assume he is responding to Snape's bullying of course.
* FinalBoss: He's the final foe fought in video game adaptations of ''Philosopher's Stone'', channeling Voldemort.
* FreudianExcuse: According to Pottermore, Quirrell was bullied as a child for his timidness, which factored into his desire to "[[WhosLaughingNow make the world sit up and notice him]]".
* TheHeavy: As Voldemort was too weak to do anything, [[DragonInChief Quirrell takes most of the antagonism]] at his orders in both the first book and film, killing the unicorn to drink its blood and persuading Hagrid to give him a clue to pass Fluffy.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: In the film, Harry kills him by touching him, causing his body to crumble to dust. This is a step further than in the book, where Quirrel is merely burned by touching Harry and is implied to not have died until Voldemort's spirit left him.
* MasterActor: Though the true extent to which his nervous wreck persona was an act is somewhat unclear. It could either be his real personality prior to meeting Voldemort, with him foregoing it after the possession but continuing to act the part to avoid rousing suspicion, or it could be a direct consequence of sharing his body with Voldemort, and not entirely an act.
* MeaningfulName: Quirinus was one of the epithets of Janus, the ''two-faced'' Roman deity. In the [[DubNameChange Italian translation]] he's renamed Raptor which, fittingly enough, can mean "thief".
* MultipleHeadCase: Has Voldemort's face on the back of his head.
* NervousWreck: How he usually acts. It's not entirely clear if this was his real personality before meeting Voldemort, a facade to divert suspicion, or a result of Voldemort's possession taking a toll on him. It's likely however that it's a combination of all three.
* ObfuscatingDisability: His stutter is all part of his act as a meek, innocent teacher, and he completely drops it after revealing his true self.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Unsurprising given the [[{{Jerkass}} characters involved]], but both Voldemort and Snape are shown as quite willing to insult Quirrell years after his death, calling him "a fool" and "greedy and unworthy" respectively.
* StarterVillain: Though alongside Voldemort he's technically the main villain of the first book, he's less of a threat than most of the later series' antagonists.
* StutterStop: Stuttering being used as an obfuscating tactic to deflect suspicion from himself as the culprit behind the nefarious events of the first year.
* WhosLaughingNow: According to the backstory on Pottermore, a major part of what drove him to seek out the fugitive Voldemort, though "all" he initially wanted was, if not to be known as the man who finally got him, then to learn such powerful magic from him to ensure "he was never laughed at again". In practice: [[EvilIsNotAToy Didn't go that way.]]
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[[folder:Gilderoy Lockhart]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Big smile, Harry. Together you and I make the front page!"'']]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/KennethBranagh
-->'''Voiced by:''' Salvador Aldeguer (European Spanish), Oscar Gómez (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]''

->''"Let me introduce you to your new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher... me. Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five times winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award. But I don't talk about that; I didn't get rid of the Banden Banshee by smiling at her!"''

The Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher during Harry's second year at Hogwarts, Lockhart is a wizarding celebrity famous for his claimed defeats of various monsters like Yetis, banshees, werewolves, and trolls and his books detailing these exploits. When he arrives at Hogwarts, he completely fails to live up to his hype, proving himself to be quite untalented and incompetent, as well as vain and egotistical.
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* TheAce: Invoked. He likes to maintain a public facade of being this, but he's really a FakeUltimateHero.
* AdaptationalBadass: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but he is a little more competent in the [[VideoGame/HarryPotter video game version]], teaching Harry the Rictusempra and Spongify spells, both of which are extensively used in both ''Chamber of Secrets'' and ''Prisoner of Azkaban''. Harry even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it!]]
-->'''Harry:''' ''[after defeating [[BigCreepyCrawlies Aragog]]]'' Well, at least I learned something in Lockhart's class: Rictusempra.
* AdaptationExpansion: TheStinger of the second movie (the only HP movie to have one) shows Flourish and Blott's bookstore in Diagon Alley promoting Lockhart's last book, a ghostwritten autobiography called ''Who Am I?''.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The titles of every book he's ever released (Holidays With Hags, Traveling With Trolls, Year With a Yeti...)
* AgeLift: Lockhart was played by Creator/KennethBranagh, who was 42 at the time of the movie's release and appeared to play the character as being about that age. [[AllThereInTheManual According to Pottermore,]] he was '''28''' at time of his first appearance in the books. This would have put him at Hogwarts only a few years below the Marauders' generation (Lily, James, Lupin, Pettigrew, Snape were all born in between September 1959 and August 1960, Lockhart in January 1964).
* AntiMentor: He was hired by Hogwarts school to teach the students Defense Against Dark Arts. However, when he gets to teach, it quickly becomes apparent that he's rather incompetent, while passing it off as "accidents". That he's revealed to have stolen all of anonymous magicians' feats in order to become famous doesn't help. This was actually {{invoked|Trope}} by Dumbledore. When questioned by staff about why he was hiring so incompetent a teacher, he said there were many things Lockhart could teach the students; how not to act, for instance. It also helps that he was just about the only person who actually wanted the job.
* AttentionWhore: Pottermore gives the impression that he was always this trope, due to being spoiled by his mother. His years as a student at Hogwarts can best be summarized as him trying his damnedest to be the centre of attention, including (but not limited to) carving his name into the Quidditch pitch (for which he received a week's worth of detention), shooting an over-sized hologram of his own face into the sky, and mailing 800 Valentines to himself on Valentine's Day! That's not even mentioning that he went around telling people that he was going to create a Philosopher's Stone before he graduated, captain the English Quidditch team to World Cup glory, and then settle down to be Britain's youngest Minister of Magic. It got so bad that when he finally graduated (God knows how!), everyone in Hogwarts [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing breathed a sigh of relief]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Not that he isn't obviously an obnoxious egotist, but he does maintain a thin facade of sincere friendship with Harry, when in reality Harry is just one more way for him to draw attention to himself.
* BrightIsNotGood: He has a taste for brightly-colored clothing, and while he's no Death Eater, he's still a massive fraud who gets very ruthless when it comes to gaining fame and preserving his reputation.
* BrilliantButLazy: During his years as a student at Hogwarts, he did have the potential to be the expert he pretended to be later on, but his desire to achieve fame and fortune without any effort crushed all hopes of that happening. Just imagine how awesome he would have been if he had applied all that focus on being an AttentionWhore and mastering Memory Charms to actually achieving something instead.
* BrokenPedestal: Who initially seemed to be one of the most renowned celebrities in the wizarding world, turned out to be nothing more than a fraud who took merit for other wizards' achievements using his memory charm.
* ButtMonkey: He suffers various injuries and humiliations as he gets further in over his head, which for him doesn't take much.
* ChickMagnet: His book signing at Flourish and Blotts is stated to have been full of middle-aged witches. On top of that, the vast majority of his female students have [[HotForTeacher crushes on him.]]
* CripplingOverspecialization: He's extremely good at performing Memory Charms, but incompetent at any other spell he tries. WordOfGod is that he actually could have been perfectly competent at other forms of magic - indeed, nearly as good as he claims to be - but he never actually put in the effort.
* CursedWithAwesome: WordOfGod says he never recovers from the memory charm but he's happier that way.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: He seems to be a genuinely talented writer, and he's incredibly charismatic - had he decided to just write fiction, he could have become rich and famous in his own right. Additionally, due to his skill at Memory Charms, he would also likely have made a good Obliviator had he chosen to use that skill in seeking gainful employment. But he wants to be famous for his bravery as well, which leads him to his crazy memory schemes.
* TheDandy: He loves fine clothes and tending to his appearance.
* DirtyCoward: He tries to make a run for it when the other teachers try to push him into finding the Chamber and battle the monster within. When Harry and Ron actually bring him there, he decides he'd rather let Ginny die and fabricate a story about arriving too late after modifying Harry and Ron's memories than attempt to help save her.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He's such an AttentionWhore that he can't even comprehend the idea of Harry being a HumbleHero.
* EvilVirtues: When Lockhart tells Harry that the path to fame is a long, hard slog, he does seem to mean it.
* FakeUltimateHero: He never does the amazing things he is credited for but [[StealingTheCredit takes credit for them]] by using the only magic he is good at: erasing memories.
* FauxAffablyEvil: After his secret is outed and he plans to erase Ron's and Harry's memories, as well as leaving Ginny to die, he still maintains his quirky attitude.
* FeetOfClay: He manages to coast along fairly well on his own hype and stories stolen from the people that actually did them, who he magicked into forgetting and nothing else — at least until he runs into Harry.
* FreudianExcuse: As revealed on ''Pottermore'', Lockhart was a SpoiledBrat as a child, partly because he was also the only one of his siblings to be capable of magic. He came to Hogwarts expecting similar treatment and was disappointed to find he was treated as just another student.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Among the faculty at Hogwarts. Snape is (as one might expect) quite scathing, but even easygoing sorts like Professor Sprout are sick of hearing Gilderoy talk about Gilderoy.
* GeniusDitz: Can't really do anything but memory charms, which he is implied to be a genius at. Ironically, WordOfGod has it that he actually could have been that good at everything else, too, if only he'd bothered to put the work in.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: As {{lampshaded}} by Dumbledore, his signature spell doomed him.
-->'''Dumbledore''': Impaled upon your own sword, Gilderoy!\\
'''Lockhart''': [[BluntMetaphorsTrauma Sword? Haven't got a sword. That boy has, though. He'll lend you one.]]
* HotTeacher: Hermione certainly thinks so during most of the second book, however much she tries to deny it. She is not alone in this.
* IneptMage: He's not very good at anything except memory charms -- he even elects to just spout nonsensical gibberish when he can't think of a real spell to subdue the pixies he set free in his classroom. ''Pottermore'' states that Lockhart actually had the potential to be an above-average wizard, but he was more interested in gaining fame and attention than doing actual work.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He begins his lectures by reciting all his awards, up to and including Witch Weekly's Most-Charming-Smile Award. Also, their first test is on the important information in his books. You know, stuff like, "What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favorite color?"[[note]]Lilac.[[/note]] and "What is Gilderoy Lockhart's secret ambition?"[[note]]To rid the world of evil and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking market his own range of hair-care potions]]. And what exactly is Lockhart's definition of the word "secret" anyway?[[/note]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: While he first comes off as an incredibly narcissistic and annoying AttentionWhore, there seems to be nothing bad about him per se. That is, of course, until he reveals to have stolen his fame from others and plans to leave Ginny to die to save his own skin.
* LargeHam: Especially in the film when he's got Kenneth Branagh playing him.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: His real talent is Memory Charms.
* {{Leitmotif}}: As usual, Music/JohnWilliams is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ob2jTy33nU awesome]].
* MeaningfulName: He pretends to be the king of fighting off Dark creatures, but it's all fake glamour. He does, however, have the knack of unlocking the hearts of his female followers. Specifically, to "gild" something means to cover it with gold, and "roy" is an anglicisation of the French "roi", meaning King - leading to the surname Fitzroy being given to the bastard sons of Anglo-Norman monarchs. And indeed Lockhart cultivates an image of himself as handsome, talented, and brave to cover up the fact that he's a complete fraud.
* MentorWannabe: Lockhart assumes that Harry is a narcissistic celebrity like himself and tries to mentor him accordingly. Harry, ever the HumbleHero, obviously finds this annoying.
* MilesGloriosus: He's admitted he didn't do the things he has claimed to have done.
* MommasBoy: He was his mother's favorite, because he was a wizard and his two elder sisters were Squibs.
* MrFanservice: Has in-universe fangirls, including Hermione and Mrs. Weasley.
* {{Narcissist}}: His actor Ken Branagh wishes he could say that it's [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex a cover for some gaping insecurity]], but as far as he's concerned Lockhart's just that in love with himself.
* OhCrap: Happens a few times.
** The first is when he lets the Cornish Pixies out of the cage and realizes that he cannot stop them.
** The second occurs after he's easily knocked down by Snape and then has the audacity to brag to everyone in the room that had he wanted to he could've easily countered Snape's spell and defeated him. Snape gives him a murderous look that immediately ends their demonstration.
** The last happens after the rest of the staff task him with saving Ginny from the Heir and Monster of Slytherin, sarcastically citing his bragging that he could easily get the job done. This actually causes him to attempt a ScrewThisImOuttaHere.
* OutGambitted:
** Dumbledore knew a few of Lockhart's victims personally and, after accurately piecing together what was going on, invited Lockhart to teach at Hogwarts with the intention of exposing him as a fraud. When Lockhart initially refused, Dumbledore revealed Harry's presence at the school, knowing that the chance to "train" another celebrity would tickle Lockhart's ego and draw him into the headmaster's trap. As you can see, it paid off.
** On the flip-side, it resulted in the DADA curriculum being wasted on learning nothing useful except to never let Cornish Pixies out of a cage. In fairness, Lockhart's fraudulence likely would have been exposed much sooner had the Chamber of Secrets not been opened. Not to mention, the jinx on the position ever since Voldemort tried to apply for it some thirty-odd years ago meant Dumbledore was having a hard time looking for a competent teacher anyway - in the book, it's explicitly stated that Lockhart was the ''only'' applicant for the job.
* PetTheDog: In the movie, when Snape accuses Harry of attacking Mrs. Norris by noting that Harry was not at dinner, Lockhart gives Harry an alibi by pointing out that Harry was helping him answer his fan mail.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When he's given the task of venturing into the Chamber of Secrets to save Ginny, the first thing he does is to pack up his bags. Harry and Ron, however, confront him and won't let him off scot-free.
* ShamelessSelfPromoter: He takes every opportunity to refer to his past exploits and point out how useful his skills are to a given situation. He claims several prestigious titles, repeating them throughout the book, and has written several biographical works based on his adventures.
* ShrineToSelf: His "I Love Me" office at Hogwarts. Lots of pictures of himself.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Of course, it could just be an act designed to keep his fraudulent reputation afloat. His vanity about his physical appearance is almost certainly genuine, though.
* SmugSnake: He's very smug about himself despite being thoroughly incompetent in any real peril, and views most other characters as tools to gain more publicity.
* SpoiledBrat: In his youth, his mother spoiled him rotten.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: He wears quite a variety of colourful outfits throughout the book, and loves tending to his own appearance.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: A milder form of a "villain", considering his true nature.
* WouldHurtAChild: Has no problem trying to wipe out Harry and Ron's memories as they go to rescue Ginny. His spell backfires on him, however, as he used Ron's broken wand to cast the Memory Charm.
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[[folder:Remus John Lupin]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Now fear makes people do terrible things, Harry."'']]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' David Thewlis
-->'''Voiced by:''' Miguel Zúñiga (European Spanish), Rodrigo Murray (Latin American Spanish, ''Prisoner of Azkaban''), Martín Soto (Latin American Spanish, ''Order of the Phoenix''-''Deathly Hallows'')
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''

-->''"Your parents gave their lives to keep you alive, Harry. A poor way to repay them -- gambling their sacrifice for a bag of magic tricks."''

Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher for his third year and one of James Potter's best friends during his time at Hogwarts. He joined the Order of the Phoenix alongside the other Marauders. Remus was bitten by a werewolf in his youth, but his condition was kept secret from the public until the end of Harry's third year.

He and Nymphadora Tonks fall in love sometime between years 5 and 6, marry sometime between years 6 and 7, and have a child (Teddy) towards the end of year 7.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. The books went into detail of Remus' insecurity of being a werewolf, shame of not standing up to his friends for their bullying, and initially refusing to be in a relationship with Tonks. The film adaptations does show him facing discrimination but didn't deal with any of the personal hardships of his book counterpart.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the books, he is described having a pale face with premature lines, and light brown hair that is flecked with grey that both progress as his life continues. In the films, his hair is completely brown and does not look lined anywhere on his face.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed. Remus is still a NiceGuy in the books like he is in the films, but unlike the former, he didn't attempt to abandon his child and wife, although his reason for doing so in the books wasn't out of cruelty but fear of harming both of them.
* AdaptationalUgliness: Despite the above, he does also have several facial scars in the films that he does not have in the books.
* AgeGapRomance: There is a twelve or thirteen year difference between him and Tonks[[note]]he was born in 1960, she was born in either 1972 or 1973[[/note]], which is something that greatly [[InsecureLoveInterest bothers]] him.
* AnimalMotifs: [[NobleWolf Wolves]], as indicated by his names, his status as a werewolf, and his Patronus- which according to JK is actually a normal wolf rather than a werewolf, implying it would be his Patronus either way. Lupin likely doesn't want to take any chances of his condition being identified by his Patronus, which explains why he uses a weaker, unformed version to repel a Dementor on the train in his first appearance.
* AntiHero: He is very noble, but he is perfectly willing to dirty his hands, such as when he [[spoiler:and Sirius were going to execute Pettigrew in cold blood at the end of book 3 without any remorse]]. He also shows a consistent trait of trying to ignore or failing to confront obvious, important issues or problems (like how he silently disapproved of James and Sirius' bullying habits in school, but never did anything to stop it, or his brief flirtation with fleeing from his responsibility as a father when Tonks falls pregnant with a potentially werewolf offspring).
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: His perceptiveness and his skill at reading people make him a great teacher.
* BabiesEverAfter: In ''Deathly Hallows'', Tonks is pregnant with her and Remus' child who she later gives birth to in the same book. [[spoiler: Then they both die, in the final battle.]]
* BadassBookworm: While his friends James and Sirius were said to be naturals when it came to magic, Lupin seems to have gotten his tremendous skill through hard work and studying. It's notable that after the Ministry battle, he's one of two Order members who gets through unscathed, with the other being [[TheArchmage Dumbledore]].
* BadassTeacher: Regarded as the best self-defense teacher to teach Harry's year.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Remus does not view his lycanthropy as a 'power', but as an incurable curse to be endured.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: At the climax of the third book, when asked "Shall we kill him together?" [[spoiler:by Sirius, concerning Pettigrew]], Remus simply answers "[[TranquilFury Yes, I think so.]]"
* BoundAndGagged: In the book, Professor Snape does this to him at the Shrieking Shack and falls over being unbalanced because of this.
* ByronicHero: Lupin has many characteristics of a Byronic hero, [[HeroOfAnotherStory though that's not his role in Harry's story.]] He is world-weary and ostracized by society, well-read but cynical, and forced to live outside the normal order. He is a less extreme version than Sirius, and after the sixth book he seems to be moving beyond this status.
* CoolTeacher: Everyone in Harry's year, aside from those with prejudice against werewolves, liked him so much that they wanted him to stay on as the DADA teacher even after he was outed. The fact that he doled out chocolate as medicine didn't hurt.
* TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed: Rowling claims that she based Lupin's condition and his ostracism for it as an analogy for AIDS (rather than homosexuality as many assume). Like AIDS, being a werewolf is a problematic but perfectly survivable condition as long as they have appropriate treatment. But victims nevertheless face ostracism and fear. Said treatment is also very expensive and difficult to produce, much like many medications for AIDS in real life, which further contributes to his ostracism.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first we see of him he is napping on the train ride to Hogwarts. Not too long after that he shows up unexpectedly to save Harry and Ron's asses from [[EldritchAbomination a dementor]] that boarded the train. He remains a CoolTeacher and a ReasonableAuthorityFigure for the rest of the series.
* EvilAllAlong: Subverted in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' when he rescues Sirius from Harry and embraces him like an old friend, leading Harry and co. to the reasonable conclusion that he is a Death Eater who has been aiding Sirius in his attempts to kill Harry. In actuality, he had realized Sirius was GoodAllAlong and was planning to kill the true villain, Peter Pettigrew.
* {{Foil}}: To Lockhart (see above). While Lockhart is flashy but utterly inept, Lupin looks unimpressive but really knows what he's doing.
* FormerTeenRebel: He was one of the original Marauders. Not as bad as James and Sirius, but he did do time in detention.
* GentlemanAndAScholar: Remus is a mild-mannered, pleasant, scholarly figure who genuinely cares about the children under his care and is generally well-liked.
* GoodIsNotSoft: He is generally nice and firmly on the good side, but he doesn't bat an eye about killing his former friend in revenge and admonishes Harry for being too kind on their enemies who are willing to kill.
--> '''Remus Lupin:''' "Harry, the time for Disarming is past! These people are trying to capture and kill you! At least Stun if you aren't prepared to kill!"
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: His major character flaw. In Rowling's own words, "Lupin's failing is he likes to be liked. That's where he slips up – he's been disliked so often he's always pleased to have friends so cuts them an awful lot of slack."
** Remus admits that he wishes he had taken a tougher stand with his friends' antics when they were at Hogwarts rather than serving as their enabler.
** His lack of backbone with his friends was a genuine character flaw that he rightly criticizes himself for later in life, but never was it a FatalFlaw that led to some sort of fall from grace. Then again, if he objected to it, he might have gotten James and Sirus to stop, so he had a moral duty which he ignored. And this in fact informs his decision to abandon Tonks and his unborn child, his self-hatred and insecurity of wanting to be liked has left him unprepared in a situation where he has to be in charge and take responsibility as a parent and husband, lapsing almost into a need to be part of Harry's gang much like he was with James' group rather than be his own man. Harry chews him out by reminding him of his father's example.
** A scene set from when he, James, Sirius, Lily, Peter, and Snape were all still students at Hogwarts sums up things rather nicely. James and Sirius are bullying Snape, Peter is cheering them on, Lily is defending her friend, and Remus is trying (and failing) to pretend he is too busy reading a book to notice any of it, even though the frown clearly etched onto his face indicates otherwise.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Towards Tonks. Though he does care about her and ends up marrying her, he's still extremely insecure about their relationship since as a werewolf, he believes he's nowhere near good enough for her. It gets even worse when Tonks gets pregnant, since his fears that their child will either be a werewolf as well or be ostracized for having one as a parent nearly drive him to abandon her and try to join Harry, Ron and Hermione on their search for Horcruxes.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Unsurprisingly with Harry, the son of his old friend James. Harry eventually [[spoiler:becomes godfather to Remus's son.]]
* TheLancer: In ''Deathly Hallows'', especially the second half of the film, he becomes one to [[BigGood Kingsley]].
* MeaningfulName: Remus is a legendary co-founder of Rome who was raised by wolves; "Lupin" is Latin for "wolf-like." His codename on ''Potterwatch'' was Romulus, referencing the same legend. It gets to the point that those who are well-versed in Latin and mythology can predict what he actually is early on in ''Prisoner of Azkaban''.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: He goes AxCrazy at the climax of ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' due to this trope being a trait of lycanthropy. Usually he's able to take a Wolfsbane potion to prevent this.
* MoralityPet: Sirius tells him that he was the only one who was able to make James and himself feel ashamed of their more dubious actions when they were teenagers.
* {{Neet}}: WordOfGod says that he lived off James because he couldn't find work due to his lycanthropy.
* NiceGuy: He's unfailingly kind and considerate towards everyone. He even felt sympathy for the werewolf who bit him as a child, until he learned that it was Fenrir who attacked him. He's even nice to Snape, despite the Potions professor's open hatred of Lupin, to the point that Lupin has forgiven Snape within minutes of being fired based on Snape releasing his identity to the public.
* OnlySaneMan: As a youth, among the Marauders, but also as an adult, since he's the sanest Hogwarts professor to appear in the series. He could also be thought to be this amongst his fellow werewolves. While many of Lupin's kind turn against humanity and join Voldemort, he stays firmly on the side of good.
* ParentalSubstitute: One of Harry's first. He frequently acts as a source of advice and guidance, and after Sirius' death Harry comes to hope for letters from Lupin instead while at Hogwarts.
* PerpetualPoverty: A side-effect of being a werewolf. James and Lily supported him financially while they were still alive, but for most of his adult life Remus has been prevented from gaining any form of employment by [[FantasticRacism the Ministry's anti-werewolf laws.]]
* PlayingWithFire: The first time we see him use magic, he conjures flames in the palm of his hand.
* PowerLimiter: He can produce a corporeal Patronus, but he prefers to use a weaker insubstantial one. His Patronus takes the form of, well, a wolf, and he doesn't want to blow his cover.
* PropheticName: Remus, as in Remus and Romulus, the legendary twin founders of Rome who were raised by a wolf in their infancy.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The first really accessible teacher in the story. One of the first accessible adults to appear in the story. He also serves as one in the Order of the Phoenix, allowing Harry to know about some of the important things they discuss in their meetings so he has a general idea of what Voldemort is up to (and won't be paranoid about not knowing if he's in danger or not), but won't tell him all of their secrets as he's still not a member.
* SaveOurStudents: After two useless Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers (and before two downright [[EvilTeacher evil ones]]), he comes along and actually teaches them what they need to know.
* SinsOfOurFathers: Was bitten by Fenrir Greyback as retaliation for Lupin's father offending Greyback. Expanded material in Pottermore reveals that the offense was the elder Lupin saying during a trial of Greyback[[note]]Greyback had managed to convince most of the committee that he was an innocent Muggle despite the elder Lupin pointing out all the signs of him being a werewolf. The other members' laughter caused him to lose his temper.[[/note]] that werewolves were "soulless, evil, deserving nothing but death."
* TheSmartGuy: Of the Marauders; by smart, we mean "with common sense." Remus doesn't consider himself as much of a genius as James and Sirius, who were more HardWorkHardlyWorks, coasting with high marks easily with little effort while Remus had to be more studious.
* TeamDad: Remus Lupin fulfills a quite parental role towards his students, and it is especially obvious when he takes it upon himself to help Neville out with his confidence issues. He is also one of the first true father figures that Harry has ever had, and by far the most approachable teacher yet to work at Hogwarts.
* TemptingFate: Not him, but his dad, who described [[FantasticRacism werewolves as subhuman scum]] when testifying at the trial of Fenrir Greyback (a werewolf who, it has to be said, conforms to all the worst stereotypes and then some, turning people intentionally). Greyback promptly escaped, tracked down the Lupin family, transformed and infected Remus.
* ThemeNaming: Remus coming from the story of Remus and Romulus, twins raised by a she-wolf.
* UnableToSupportAWife: His poverty was one reason that he thought he should never marry. (Albeit not the major one.)
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom:
** He was the one who brought Peter Pettigrew to the fold of the Marauders, encouraging James and Sirius, who he had befriended, to take in the ButtMonkey and help him out. This did no one, including Peter, any good.
** More directly, his failure to take the wolfsbane potion the night he confronted Wormtail had disastrous consequences for the entire wizarding world -- not only did it massively endanger the lives of his friends and companions that night, but it allowed Wormtail to escape custody, meaning that not only did Sirius remain a fugitive, but also that Wormtail was able to rejoin Voldemort and play a key role in his return to power, effectively making all of the tragedies of Books 4-7 possible. Maybe you should have been a little less hasty there, Remus.
* WerewolfThemeNaming: Lupin, as in Lupine, as in "wolf-like". Remus as in one of the two legendary founders of Rome, who were raised by a wolf.
* WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt: His surname, which is one letter away from a word meaning "wolf-like", could only fit on a werewolf. He's also named after Remus, the twin brother of Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome. Both twins were raised by the she-wolf, Lupa.
* WhatTheHellHero: The prospect of having a child, who could potentially inherit his lycanthropy and would face discrimination either way for being a werewolf’s son, sends him into such a fit of panic that he tries to follow Harry in the Horcrux hunt, [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou arguing that Tonks and his child would be better off without him]]. Although his fears are justified, his response is certainly not, and unsurprisingly, [[OrphansOrdeal Harry]] is very much not on board with the “Kids are better off without their parents” argument and calls him on it immediately.
-->'''Harry Potter:''' If the new regime thinks Muggle-borns are bad, what will they do to a half-werewolf whose father’s in the Order? My father died trying to protect my mother and me, and you reckon he’d tell you to abandon your kid to go on an adventure with us? [...] I’d never have believed this. The man who taught me to fight dementors – a coward.
** Earlier in the third book, he gave one to Harry:
-->''"Your parents gave their lives to keep you alive, Harry. A poor way to repay them -- gambling their sacrifice for a bag of magic tricks."''
* WhenHeSmiles: The books describe Remus after the birth of his child. The happiness radiates off the page.
* WolfMan: In the film adaptations... although not the case in the books.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: He's in his mid and late thirties throughout the series. When he's first introduced, his hair is described as prematurely greying, and later descriptions mention his hair getting greyer and his face becoming more lined. Probably a consequence of being a werewolf or just his generally hard life. Played straight in the movie as well; David Thewlis was already 41 when he portrayed Remus Lupin.
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[[folder:Dolores Jane Umbridge]]
See Characters/HarryPotterMinistryOfMagic.
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[[folder:Rolanda Hooch]]
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-->'''Portrayed by:''' Zoë Wanamaker (films), Helena Lymbery (''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'', first West End run), TBD (''Cursed Child'', first Broadway run)
-->'''Voiced by:''' Lucía Esteban (European Spanish), Andrea Coto (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild Cursed Child]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]]''

->''"Now, I want a nice clean game... from ALL of you!"''

The Hogwarts flying teacher and referee for the school Quidditch matches. She doesn't appear much, but she seems to be very strict and serious, though she humorously went gaga over Harry's Firebolt in the third book.

While she is seen off and on throughout the books, she only appears in the first movie due to [[WrittenInAbsence salary disputes with her actress]].
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* AnimalMotifs: Her eyes are constantly being compared to those of a [[NobleBirdOfPrey hawk]].
* CatchPhrase: In ''VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery'', nearly everything she says is a warning on something to watch for while flying.... "or you will surely fall to your death."
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Doesn't appear in the movies after the first one.
* CoolOldLady: A throwaway reference to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI "The Great War"]] in one of the games reveals that she's at least ninety years old as of the start of the book series.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: Gets her first name from the trading card game. Prior to this, ''Website/IMDb'' called her Xiomara.
* NotSoAboveItAll: While most of the time she comes off as stern and impartial, seeing Harry's Firebolt makes her geek out quite a bit.
* SternTeacher: The penalty for flying a broom without her permission? Expulsion.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Has yellow eyes like a hawk.
* UnnecessaryRoughness: She deplores the use of this trope in Quidditch, but is sometimes lackadaisical when it comes to enforcing against it.
* WrittenInAbsence: Madam Hooch originally had a small part in the second film, but she got written out when a deal couldn't be reached with Zoë Wanamaker. Later on, Wanamaker was willing to come back for ''Deathly Hallows Part II'', but was never asked.
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[[folder:Firenze]]
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-->'''Portrayed by:''' Ray Fearon
-->'''Voiced by:''' Eduardo Gutiérrez (European Spanish), Hermán López (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''

->''"Unicorn blood will keep you alive even if you are an inch from death...but at a terrible price."''

The Centaur that rescued Harry from Quirrell in the Forbidden Forest when he was serving detention in ''Philosopher's Stone''. When Dolores Umbridge fired Sybill Trelawney in 1996, Dumbledore hired him to replace her so as to prevent the Ministry from installing another puppet teacher. After Umbridge's removal at the end of the year, Trelawney was reinstated and the Divination curriculum was split between them, much to her irritation.

Unlike other Centaurs, Firenze is polite and friendly to humans, even allowing the 11-year old Harry to ride on his back when taking him to safety. This made him unpopular among his kind and his herd attempted to kill him after his hiring as Professor for daring to spread the Centaurs' art of Divination to humans. Hagrid rescued him, but he was banished from the herd and the forest for his transgression.
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* AdaptationalUgliness: The book describes his human half as that of a handsome blonde man with striking blue eyes, whereas the movie made him look far more bestial and covered with grey hair.
* {{Astrologer}}: Firenze and other centaurs use the position of the stars to see the future, though their views differ substantially from Professor Trelawney.
* BadassNormal: He stood by the rest of the staff in the final battle, despite having no magic to fight with.
* BigDamnHeroes: His debut in the series.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He's slightly less blue and orange than his fellow centaurs and is regarded by them as a CategoryTraitor but he nonetheless has a view and perspective that is hard for Hogwarts students to understand.
* BrutalHonesty: While Firenze concedes that Trelawney may or may not have gifts as a seer, he does not know and doesn't outright call her a fraud, he is brutally frank about what he thinks of her methods. Mostly anyone who spends any time with the woman usually agrees.
-->'''Parvati Patil:''' Professor Trelawney did astrology with us! Mars causes accidents and burns and things like that, and when it makes an angle to Saturn, like now, that means people need to be extra careful when handling hot things--
-->'''Firenze:''' [''calmly''] That, is human nonsense.
** More broadly, he's critical of people thinking that interpreting the stars can be used as a MundaneUtility when the universe has bigger fish to fry - and all the evidence in the series suggests that he's right.
* DemotedToExtra: Though he retains his minor appearance in the first film, his role as Professor Trelawney's replacement was left out of ''Order of the Phoenix''.
* {{Expy}}: His nature as [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch a calmer, more reasonable Centaur]] who acts as a teacher to the hero makes him one to [[Characters/{{ClassicalMythologyMortalsAndDemigods}} the centaur Chiron of Greek Myth.]]
* FullNameBasis: He always calls Harry Potter by his full name.
* HotTeacher: As mentioned above, his human features are very handsome, prompting Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown to put their grief over Trelawney's sacking aside to swoon over him.
* IOweYouMyLife: Downplayed, while he disagrees with Hagrid's attempt to raise Grawp he won't do anything about it but asks Harry to dissuade Hagrid. Firenze mentions that the other centaurs would have had killed him if Hagrid didn't interfere and he genuinely respect the half giant's love for every creatures he meet.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Centaurs as a whole are very analogous to Native Americans, especially with the mentions of being allowed restricted territories by the government. Their main methods of Divination consist of stargazing and burning leaves to find patterns in the smoke.
* MrFanservice: His human half is fairly pretty, [[WalkingShirtlessScene he doesn't wear clothes]] (granted his lower half is that of a horse so it doesn't matter much) and he quickly gains the admiration of Parvati and Lavender when he starts teaching. Hermione, by contrast, is dismissive.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Decidedly humbler and more accepting and appreciative of humans than any others of his herd.
* NiceGuy: Never says a single harsh word to anyone in the series, with the closest he gets being dismissive of Trelawney's methods with BrutalHonesty (which he follows up with an acknowledgement that she may genuinely be a seer), and a bit condescending, especially when he tells Harry that Hagrid's brother is a lost cause. As Grawp later proves at [[spoiler: Dumbledore's]] funeral, when he turns up beside Hagrid dressed in a literally giant suit and not only behaves perfectly, but attempts to comfort his brother.
* OnlySaneMan: Among the centaurs, or at least in the eyes of Harry and his friends. In the eyes of his own species he’s a traitor to his kind.
* TheStoic: Comes off as it, especially when factoring in his tolerance. Even after Dean Thomas unintentionally wonders if Hagrid breeds the Centaurs like cattle, he merely corrects him and continues the lesson, whereas far lesser insults send the other centaurs into violent indignant rage.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cuthbert Binns]]
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-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''

->''"My subject is History of Magic. I deal with facts, not myths and legends."''

The History of Magic teacher and the only ghost teacher. Student legend has it that he died in his sleep while seated by the staff room fire and got up to teach the next day, leaving his body behind. Binns's lessons consist of him delivering lectures which are so boring that they put everyone to sleep, except for Hermione. But he doesn't care and just keeps droning on and on.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Whenever he addresses a student, he always gets their name wrong. He calls Hermione Granger "Miss Grant", Parvati Patil "Miss Pennyfeather", Seamus Finnigan "O'Flaherty" and Harry Potter "Perkins".
* AdaptedOut: He isn't present in the movies, with [=McGonagall=] taking his role of explaining the Chamber of Secrets.
* AgentScully: He insists the Chamber of Secrets could not possibly be real.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Again, we're being informed the Chamber of Secrets and the existence of a monster therein is surely just a myth by a ghost who works teaching the history of magic at a Wizard's School. To be fair, he justifies it by saying that generations of headmasters, including Dumbledore, searched for it in vain.
* TheBore: It's impossible for anyone other than Hermione to listen to Binns' lectures without falling asleep. This isn't a matter of the subject itself being boring -- Harry notes at one point that the history Binns teaches could very well be quite interesting if it were being recounted by anyone other than Binns.
--> It was amazing how he could make even bloody and vicious goblin riots sound as boring as Percy's cauldron-bottom report.
* CaptainOblivious: He may not realize he's dead.
* CompositeCharacter: In the films, [=McGonagall=] explains the Chamber of Secrets instead of him and Flitwick does it in [[VideoGame/HarryPotter the video game]], though the GBC and GBA ones featured Binns doing it.
* DutyThatTranscendsDeath: Even his own death doesn't prevent him from continuing to teach - though, granted, it is sometimes posited that he didn't even ''notice.''
* LectureAsExposition: The one time he's useful in the series is when he explains the Chamber of Secrets. He thinks the legend is stupid, but he tells it anyway because the students are paying attention to him for once.
* NapInducingSpeak: His lectures put everyone to sleep, with only Hermione being able to resist.
* PassedInTheirSleep: School legend has it that elderly Professor Binns died while napping in the teachers' lounge. He then got up to teach his next class as a ghost, and it's entirely possible he hasn't actually noticed he's died. Presumably the rest of the faculty were unable to think of a tactful way to broach the subject. Though he does have a tendency to enter his classroom by passing through the wall.
* UltimateJobSecurity: He's the only teacher Umbridge doesn't interrogate. Not that there'd by any real way to fire a ghost teacher. [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} Who you gonna call?]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Charity Burbage]]
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-->'''Portrayed by:''' Carolyn Pickles
-->'''Voiced by:'' Rosalba Sotelo (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''

->''"Severus... please... we're friends..."''

The Muggle Studies teacher and an opponent of pure-blood prejudice. The first and only time we meet Burbage is in the VillainOpeningScene of ''Deathly Hallows'', in which Voldemort murders her and then feeds her to Nagini.
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* FantasticRacism: Burbage is outspoken against this. Shortly before the Death Eaters got her, she published an editorial against pure-blood prejudice in the ''Daily Prophet''.
* NamesToTrustImmediately: Her first name is "Charity" for crying out loud.
* RedShirt: She exists to die and her death doesn't really have an emotional impact on any characters.
* RememberTheNewGuy: She was never seen or mentioned before her death. Justified since Muggle Studies was mentioned as an elective class in previous books.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Septima Vector]]
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The professor of Arithmancy.
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* TheGhost: She is one of the least seen professors.
%%* LivingProp
* MeaningfulName: Both of her names have mathematical connotations and she teaches Arithmancy, a kind of number magic. "Septima", of course, comes from the Latin for "seven", while vector algebra is a rather high-level form of mathematics that will generally never be encountered by those who don't choose to study mathematics in high school.
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[[folder:Aurora Sinistra]]
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The rarely seen professor of Astronomy.
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* TheGhost: An unusual example, since unlike other rarely seen Hogwarts teachers such as Professor Vector or Charity Burbage, Harry does in fact take Sinistra's class -- it's just that no scene in the entire series actually depicts one of these classes (except for the O.W.L. exam) and Sinistra is thus never given any description or characterization. Whenever she's named in the text, it's usually with "of the Astronomy department"' after, just in case you forgot who she was three books ago.
* MeaningfulName: An aurora is a kind of astronomical phenomenon, like Aurora Borealis, aka The Northern Lights.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Subverted. With a name like "Sinistra" you'd think she were cut out to be a Marvel villain, but the name has nothing to do with the contemporary English meaning of "sinister". It's a reference to the star Sinistra in the constellation Ophiuchus, and harkens back to the original Latin meaning of "sinister", "left".
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank]]
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-->'''Portrayed by:''' Apple Brook
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]''

A substitute Care of Magical Creatures professor featured in the fourth and fifth books when Hagrid is indisposed.
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* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Even Harry, Ron, and Hermione (begrudgingly to varying degrees) admit that she's a good teacher, but lie to Hagrid about it because they clearly don't want to hurt his feelings. When Umbridge inspects her class, Wilhelmina effortlessly manages to pass even with her voicing open praise for Dumbledore. Hagrid himself ultimately feels she's a better teacher than him (which she might be, in regards to actual teaching skills), and considered having her take over full time.
* CoolOldLady: She can be gruff and to the point, but the woman certainly knows how to keep her students interested in the class.
* CoolTeacher: Many of Harry's classmates instantly prefer her to Hagrid, mainly because Wilhelmina makes the class enjoyable without putting everyone in danger with wild, unpredictable creatures like Hagrid does.
* DemotedToExtra: She was never really that important to the plot beyond being a stand in for Hagrid at times, but the most she gets in the films is a cameo and acknowledgement in the fifth movie. Considering this was the movie that originally was 3 hours long, it's very possibly there were originally more scenes with her, especially considering that her actress has the good fortune to receive a credit.
* NiceGirl: She refuses to criticize Dumbledore even when Umbridge attempts to prompt her to, and despite her taking over Hagrid's job and most of her students openly telling her how much better of a Professor she is than him, she never badmouths Hagrid and praises his handling of Hogwarts's thestrals in one of her lectures.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Harry trusts her enough in the fifth book to bring Hedwig to her when she gets injured.
* RedeemingReplacement: Most of the student body enjoy her classes far more than they do Hagrid's, but she clearly believes he himself is a competent professor and never badmouths his teaching skills. She even compliments his training of the school's thestrals, pointing out it's entirely unlikely that they would've attacked Hedwig because of Hagrid's care.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Silvanus Kettleburn]]
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''Literature/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' | ''[[VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]]''

The Care of Magical Creatures professor before Hagrid.
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* AnArmAndALeg: By the time he retires, his remaining limbs consist of one arm and half of a leg.
* ArtificialLimbs: His character design in [[Videogame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]] has them. Notably, the leg displayes minimal jointing while the arm ends in a fairly basic clamp. He's also shown with a bandage constantly covering one eye socket, and the dip in the cloth implies there's nothing behind it. If there's more sophisticated magical replacements available, he's not using them.
* AscendedExtra: In the series proper, he only receives a single mention. He has a somewhat larger role in ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them''.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: [[Videogame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]] implies he's not quite all there, and that's after you discount the artificial limbs. He's just a little too blaise about the possibility of serious injuries in his class, treats a chimera on the loose as something akin to a runaway cat, and takes an overall approach to dangerous creatures which makes you wonder how he has ''any'' limbs left. In terms of teacher competence, going from Kettleburn to Hagrid was pretty much a lateral move.
* FluffyTamer: In his capacity as the Care of Magical Creatures professor.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Technically. Care of Magical Creatures is mentioned in ''Chamber of Secrets'', but its teacher is not specified until ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', at which point he has already retired.
* UltimateJobSecurity: He underwent 62 periods of probation during his tenure as professor.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Bathsheda Babbling]]
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The Study of Ancient Runes professor.
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* AdaptationExpansion: In the books, she does not appear, nor is she ever mentioned. In the films, an uncredited extra plays an unnamed professor who could be her.
* AllThereInTheManual: Her name comes from a list of Hogwarts professors on JK Rowling's website.
* DeathByAdaptation: She is killed in the Battle of Hogwarts in the films.
* MeaningfulName: Babbling is a way of describing language, typically that which is difficult or impossible to comprehend, and thus makes a fitting name for a professor of Ancient Runes.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Herbert Beery]]

-->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/TheTalesOfBeedleTheBard'' (mentioned)

A former Herbology professor during Armando Dippet's time. He left Hogwarts to pursue a career in the Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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* AllThereInTheManual: He's only mentioned in Dumbledore's notes of The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
* MeaningfulName: Herbert, as in "herb" referencing to the subject he taught.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Tried to invoke this by casting two students who were dating in the lead roles of his play, unaware that the boy had broken up with his girlfriend in favor of another of the actresses shortly before the curtain rose. [[FromBadToWorse The results were predictable.]]


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!!Non-teaching faculty

[[folder:Argus Filch]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Students out of bed! Students in the corridors!"'']]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/DavidBradley
-->'''Voiced by:''' Aparicio Rivero (European Spanish), Jesse Conde (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]]''

->''"A pity they let the old punishments die. Was a time detention would find you hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons. God, I miss the screaming."''

The Hogwarts caretaker, he has an extremely antagonistic relationship with the students and mostly acts as an obstacle to Harry throughout the series. His bitterness towards the students probably stems from the fact that he is a [[MuggleBornOfMages Squib]], that is, someone who while born into a magical family has no magical abilities on his own. He has a cat named Mrs. Norris, probably the closest thing he has to a friend.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: In the film, he has a crush on Umbridge.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Despite having more or less the same supporting-level role he had in the books, the films do take special care to show his love for Mrs. Norris, proving he's not all bad. His appearance in several background scenes during the final battle of ''Deathly Hallows, Part II'' indicates he stayed and fought the Death Eaters. He's very clearly distraught when all seems lost and Voldemort demands their surrender.
* ArchEnemy: Peeves the poltergeist and the Weasley twins. Also implied to have been one for the Marauders back in the day.
* BerserkButton: Hurting Mrs. Norris, as shown in the second book.
** Track in mud or make a mess and feel his wrath. Or be Peeves.
** Hell, be a student in his vicinity, and he will unleash the fury on you.
* BlackShirt: He's the ''only'' Hogwarts employee who supports Umbridge when she [[TyrantTakesTheHelm takes the helm]] because she allows him to use harsher methods to discipline the students. Alas, he never gets to use them, because the school is ''too'' full of rebels by that point.
* ButtMonkey: Many of his appearances involve getting hexed, cursed, jinxed, or otherwise pranked by students who gleefully subvert his authority at every turn; Fred and George are particularly talented at this. The film version of ''Order of the Phoenix'' goes out of its way to emphasize his bumbling, inept attempts to capture members of Dumbledore's Army.
* ChildHater: He hates the Hogwarts students and revels in every opportunity to inflict the harshest punishments he's allowed on them.
* CrazyCatLady: He's ''very'' attached to Mrs. Norris and flies off the handle when he suspects Harry of Petrifying her.
* DisproportionateRetribution: While he has a case of StrawmanHasAPoint about the messes caused by the students as he's a MuggleBornOfMages, his idea of how they should be punished for it is not. His desired methods so line up with Dolores Umbridge, that he was the only one on her side as it meant he could use a horsewhip on rule-breakers.
* TheDragon: Acts as Umbridge's right hand during her brief stint as Headmaster.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: During his time as Umbridge's de facto second-in-command. He couldn't care less about the Ministry's effort to consolidate its power over Hogwarts; he's only interested in having his nemesis Peeves expelled and being able to inflict sadistic punishments on students.
* EveryoneHasStandards: For as much as he seemed to delight in harshly punishing students, in ''Deathly Hallows Part II'', even Filch is shown giving a dazed look of despair when Voldemort brags to everyone that he finally killed Harry and claims victory of the Second Wizarding War.
* {{Familiar}}: It's implied, at least in the earlier books, that Filch shares a far deeper connection with Mrs. Norris than it seems. Apparently Mrs. Norris patrols the school on her own, and if she witnesses any rule-breaking Filch turns up shortly afterwards. In one encounter Harry actually had to tell Mrs. Norris he wasn't breaking any rules. While [[WordOfGod Rowling]] states that Mrs Norris isn't a familiar, she goes on to state that that being said, Mrs Norris ''is'' the single closest thing to a familiar in the entire Wizarding World.
* {{Flanderization}}: Filch was used more and more for comic relief as the films went on, especially in ''Order of the Phoenix.''
* {{Foil}}:
** To Hagrid. Both characters have care-taking roles at Hogwarts and are often looked down upon for their lineage (Hagrid for being half-giant, Filch for being a Squib). However, Hagrid is much more amicable and approachable (if reckless), whereas Filch spends most of his appearances berating students and generally being more bitter. Their pets are even contrasted, with the hawkish Mrs. Norris and the loyal but cowardly Fang.
** To Mrs Figg. Both are cat-loving Squibs, but Mrs Figg holds no bitterness towards other wizards, and Ron suspects the reason Filch hates the students so much is that he's jealous.
* FormallyNamedPet: Mrs. Norris.
* FreudianExcuse: He's part of an ostracized group that receives scorn or pity from most of the magical community. It's indicated that the caretaker position at Hogwarts is one of the only ways for him to stay in contact with his magical roots, which means spending every day surrounded by children who are studying the powers that he was denied.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: He's treated with a degree of professional courtesy by teachers but is otherwise not well regarded by most of the Hogwarts staff. Hagrid goes as far as calling him a "sneaking Squib" right in front of Harry and Hermione, and [=McGonagall=] gets exasperated with his overeager behavior multiple times, finally losing her patience and calling him a blithering idiot in ''Deathly Hallows''. This seems however to be averted with Professor Sprout and Professor Snape. While Sprout is known to be nice to everyone, even Harry notices in ''Philosopher's Stone'' that Filch is on friendly terms with Snape.
* FunHatingConfiscatingAdult: Filch had a room full of things confiscated from students, including the Marauders' Map, which the Weasley twins liberated and then gave to Harry. Heck, he's so much this that Ride/TheWizardingWorldOfHarryPotter even made an entire shop out of it ("Filch's Emporium of Confiscated Goods") and it's claimed that all the employees there are Hogwarts students who have to work there to serve detention.
* HarmlessVillain: Downplayed. He's not actually a villain but in the first few books he's a legitimate obstacle to Harry. Starting with ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' he gets flanderized into a big ButtMonkey who is completely ineffective at disciplining students and spends the rest of the series as an annoyance more than anything.
* HiddenDepths: When the portrait of the fat lady gets slashed up, Dumbledore gives her to Filch to repair. The next time we see her, there's not so much as a mention about being able to see where she was patched up, implying that he was able to perfectly restore her even without magic.
* GreenEyedMonster: It's all-but-stated the reason for his bitterness is because he's a [[MuggleBornOfMages squib]] surrounded by wizards.
* IHaveThisFriend: His excuse when Harry finds a letter claiming to be a beginner's course in magic in his office, proving him to be a Squib.
* IllKillYou: Threatens to end Harry after suspecting that he was responsible for petrifying Mrs. Norris.
* {{Jerkass}}: He hates the student body, advocates corporal punishment, and is generally an unpleasant person to be around.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Filch loves torturing misbehaving children, and misses the old days when he could hang kids from the rafters and hear them scream. A lot of that talk is probably wishful thinking (not that this is a huge improvement); Dumbledore seems to have hired Filch, and Dumbledore most likely did not allow thumb screws, chains, or any of the other implements Filch claims to miss. His paraphernalia could easily be left over from well before his time.
* MeaningfulName: Argus was the hundred-eyed guardian of Io in Myth/ClassicalMythology, using his multiple eyes to keep watch on her forever, and Filch is notorious for keeping a hawkish eye on students and showing up to bust troublemakers at inopportune times. "Filch" is British schoolkid slang for "to commit petty theft".
* MuggleBornOfMages: He's a "Squib", a person born to a wizard family who doesn't have the ability to use magic.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Filch almost manages to become this -- after four books of being an empty threat, he's given the authority to hand out the sadistic punishments he's always dreamed of once Umbridge takes over. The only problem is that, by that point, there are so many troublemakers he doesn't know who to go after first.
* PetTheDog: Despite his unpleasant behavior, Filch loves his cat dearly. He becomes very upset when he thought Harry petrified/killed her.
* RelativeButton: Never, ''ever'', try to harm a hair on Mrs. Norris if you don't want the life choked out of you.
* SilentSnarker: In the film version of ''Sorcerer's Stone'', he rolls his eyes at Hagrid worrying about Norbert living in a colony.
* SpearCounterpart: To Aunt Petunia - both are authority figures who dislike Harry and other wizards, and it's implied they do so [[GreenEyedMonster out of jealousy]].
* TheResenter: His personality is at least partly caused by bitterness over being surrounded by children learning magic when he himself never could do it.
* UltimateJobSecurity: The man is a borderline sociopath who explicitly enjoys causing children pain and can't just magic away whatever messes the students cause. At no point is the option of firing him ever considered.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Poppy Pomfrey]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Well, what did you expect, pumpkin juice?"'']]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Gemma Jones
-->'''Voiced by:''' María Teresa Neila (European Spanish), Liza Willert (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' | ''[[Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild Cursed Child]]'' (mentioned only) | ''[[VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]]''

->''"You should've been brought straight to me! I can mend bones in a heartbeat, but growing them ''back''..."''

The Hogwarts matron and nurse, expert in medical magic. While she is kind-hearted and always well-meaning, she's [[MamaBear overprotective of the students in her care]], which is PlayedForLaughs. She regards Harry, and his tendency to fall into dangerous exploits, with a kind of friendly exasperation. A frequent sight in the hospital wing is Harry, landed there after his latest crazy adventure, begging to be allowed to do something while Madam Pomfrey insists he needs to rest more.

Madam Pomfrey shows up in all the books, but appears very infrequently in the movies.
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* AlliterativeName: ''P''oppy ''P''omfrey.
* BerserkButton:
** In the name of all that is holy and sane, do NOT walk into the hospital wing if you're covered in mud. Ever.
** Be Gilderoy Lockhart, that'll do it.
** Lay a finger on Professor [=McGonagall=], that'll work too!
* CombatMedic: While her main claim to fame is as a medic, she's also an effective duellist, as she demonstrates during the final battle.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has moments:
-->'''Pomfrey''': Nothing to worry about, I mended it at once, but I'm keeping you in overnight. You shouldn't over exert yourself for a few hours.\\
'''Harry''': I don't want to stay here overnight, I want to find [=McLaggen=] and kill him.\\
'''Pomfrey''': I'm afraid that would come under the heading of 'overexertion'.
* DontAsk: She seems to know not to ask. In all her years at Hogwarts she probably has seen a fair share of students with injuries the result of things students shouldn't be doing, but her job is to see to the students' health. Just looking at Ron's dragon bite, there's no way that she bought Ron's story that a dog bit him. (Especially seeing as dogs aren't even a legal pet at Hogwarts.) Also, given her status as a healer, it's very likely she knew Hermione had a mishap with Polyjuice Potion. [[TruthInTelevision This attitude is standard procedure for medical professionals]] -- if she reports their misdeeds then they're less likely to come to her for healing and will be at risk of their injuries getting worse or killing them.
* ICanStillFight: She's the one who replies, "No, you can't. Go to sleep, Harry."
* MamaBear: The safety of Hogwarts' students is her first priority, to the point that she tells Harry that it's the only reason she hangs around during Umbridge's reign.
* TheMcCoy: Working in the same field as the real [[Franchise/StarTrek McCoy]], no less.
* MeaningfulName: Her last name rhymes with 'comfrey', an herb traditionally used to dress wounds. It's also an alternate spelling of Pontefract, a Yorkshire town long famed for the growing of the medicinal herb licorice. Also, poppies contain opium, which from ancient times has had medical uses as well as recreational ones.
* TheMedic: She runs the school's nurse's office, and considering it's Hogwarts, she's got a LOT of experience tending to wounds, anything from standard scrapes and bruises to all of the bones in a student's arm disappearing.
* OhNoNotAgain: Upon seeing Harry in the third book, "Oh, it's you, is it? I suppose you've been doing something dangerous again?"
* SchoolNurse: Since Hogwarts is a WizardingSchool, she specializes in medicinal magic and can heal cuts and broken bones in a matter of minutes.
* SecretKeeper: She knew about Remus' condition from when he was a student.
* TeamMom: Among the Hogwarts staff, though more to the students than her fellow staff members.
* YouCanBarelyStand: She's probably lost count of the number of times she's had to tell Harry this over the years and struggle to keep him in bed so he can recover from whatever injuries he's currently suffering from.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Irma Pince]]
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-->'''Portrayed by:''' Sally Mortemore
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Half-Blood Prince]]'' | ''[[VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]]''

-->''"Chocolate in the library! Out — out — '''OUT!'''"''

The ScaryLibrarian who runs the Hogwarts library. Madam Pince doesn't trust students any further than she could throw Hagrid, and is known for putting odd jinxes on her books to protect them.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Sally Mortemore hardly looks like any vulture.
* AdaptedOut: She is played by an extra in ''Chamber of Secrets'', but, aside from that, is entirely absent from the film series.
* AnimalMotifs: Apparently she looks like an "underfed vulture". [[SarcasmMode Lovely.]]
* BerserkButton: Eat in the library or write in books and she'll attack you.
* ContinuityCameo: Sally Mortemore plays her in the second film, though you'd only know her nonspeaking character is meant to be Madam Pince from the credits. She has no role and doesn't appear in any of the other films, though she has a speaking role in VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery in which Sally Mortemore reprises her role.
* DisproportionateRetribution: She's placed dozens of curses on each of the books should they be mistreated, stolen, or vandalized. Dumbledore himself notes that he made the mistake of doodling in one of her library books, then found the book trying to beat him on the head. And he can not guarantee he's gotten off all the curses on the very copy of ''Literature/QuidditchThroughTheAges'' that the reader is holding...
* HiddenDepths: According to ''Hogwarts Mystery'', she's a fan of the Frog Choir.
* LivingProp: She has almost no role in the books other than occasional mentions of her unpleasantness.
* NiceHat: One of the few wizard hats you'll see in the films, but it's pretty cool.
* PairTheSpares: In a possible parody of {{Shipping}}, students speculate about her and Filch in the sixth book.
* PlayingGertrude: In the second film, she appears to be in early middle-age, but the books' description implies that she is an old woman.
* ScaryLibrarian: She will curse you and hit you for the most minor infractions.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Sorting Hat]]
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[[caption-width-right:275:"Oh you may not think I'm pretty, but don't judge on what you see, I'll eat myself if you can find a smarter hat than me."]]
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Creator/LesliePhillips (films), Chris Jarman (''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'', first West End run), TBD (''Cursed Child'', first Broadway run) | ''[[VideoGame/HarryPotterHogwartsMystery Hogwarts Mystery]]''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Ramón Reparaz (European Spanish, ''Philosopher's Stone''-''Chamber of Secrets''), Ramón Reparaz Jr. (''Deathly Hallows Part II''), Mario Filio (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' | ''[[Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild Cursed Child]]''


->''"Hmm, difficult. VERY difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind, either. There's talent, oh yes. And a thirst to prove yourself. But where to put you?"''

The Sorting Hat is a wizard's hat, formerly belonging to Godric Gryffindor, that has been empowered with the intelligence from the four founders of Hogwarts. It is sentient, converses with students who place it on their head, composes and recites songs, and can attack things by blinding them. So, despite being just a hat, it certainly is a character.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: Apparently outfitted with the personalities of all four founders of Hogwarts.
* DeadpanSnarker: In the books, he slyly repeats "You would have done well in Slytherin" to Harry. In the films, they add a "raised eyebrow" when Harry insists the Sorting Hat is wrong.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: The Sorting Hat sings one to the Hogwarts students at the beginning of Autumn Term, describing the Four Houses and what they value, and occasionally giving warnings.
* HammerSpace: Gryffindor students can pull Godric's sword out of the Sorting Hat. As the Hat himself sings, he once belonged to Gryffindor himself and sat upon his head.
* HumanityEnsues: In ''Cursed Child'', he is portrayed by a human actor [[EnforcedTrope since making an expensive talking animatronic hat for a character that appears in just a few scenes would be incredibly wasteful]].
* LargeHam: He bombastically shouts the decided house for every student, but his ham value is greatly increased for the films, where he voices loudly his reflections about every choice instead of whispering them to the sortee's ear, though it isn't made clear whether his decision process is audible to the school or just the audience.
* MrExposition: He loosely exposits the backstory of the founding of Hogwarts in song at the beginning term feast every year.
* NoIndoorVoice: When announcing which house students are going into, the Hat ''ALWAYS'' talks in a boomtastic voice that echoes in the Great Hall - and in the films, does this in general, at a contrast to the telepathic communication it uses when talking to people wearing it. When Harry was whispering not to be sorted in Slytherin, everyone heard what he was thinking thanks to the Hat.
* {{Telepathy}}: The Sorting Hat uses Legilimency to determine which house to place new students in.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last we see of the hat in the books, Voldemort has set it on fire. ''Cursed Child'' reveals it wasn't destroyed, and Harry mentions it in the epilogue of ''Deathly Hallows''.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: ''Pottermore'' reveals the reason Neville Longbottom's sorting took so long was that the while the Hat quickly decided to place Neville in Gryffindor House, Neville was intimidated by Gryffindor's reputation for courage and didn't feel he belonged there, and asked to be put in HufflepuffHouse instead. The Hat refused to budge, and later events in the books proved it was right about him.
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[[folder:Trolley Witch]]
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[[caption-width-right:339:"Anything from the trolley, dears?"]]
-->'''Portrayed By''': Jean Southern (Film 1), Margery Mason (Film 4), Sandy [=McDade=] (''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'', first West End run), TBD (''Cursed Child'', first Broadway run)
-->'''Appears in:''' ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher’s Stone]]'' | ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' | ''[[Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild Cursed Child]]''

The old woman who pushes the candy trolley on the Hogwarts Express.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Becomes pretty dangerous in ''Cursed Child''.
* BelatedBackstory: Much like Dumbledore and Snape before her, the [[BitCharacter Trolley Witch]] gets some backstory long after her first appearance in ''Cursed Child''.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Though she initially appears innocuous, ''Cursed Child'' reveals that aside from selling sweets, her duty is to prevent students from leaving the train, which she accomplishes by [[spoiler:transfiguring her hands into claws. She's very likely [[HumanoidAbomination no longer technically human]]]].
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: She is consistently called the Trolley Witch, and her real name is never revealed.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: She has long forgotten her real name in favor of the nickname everybody uses.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler:Explosive pumpkin pasties.]]
* NeverMessWithGranny: The Marauders and the Weasley twins learned her terrible power, though Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy manage to evade her.
* Really700YearsOld: ''Cursed Child'' reveals that [[spoiler:she is over 200 years old, having been hired by then-Minister for Magic Ottaline Gambol to work on the Hogwarts Express when it began in 1830.]]
* SpikesOfDoom: [[spoiler:She can transfigure her hands into these.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Though it has no plot relevance, discussing her role in ''Cursed Child'' is impossible without spoiling the surprise.
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** The film version of ''Goblet of Fire'' implies that she does ''not'' take well to transfiguration being misused. Given that transfiguration happens to be her specialty, this makes sense.

* DisappearedDad: Hagrid mentions that his father died when he was 11, shortly after Hagrid started at Hogwarts.

* LightningBruiser: Hagrid is described as moving extremely fast for his size, can knock out grown wizards with a punch, and can absorb a great amount of punishment thanks to his Giant heritage

* {{Flight}}: Claimed to have flown to the island Harry and the Dursleys were staying at in the first book. How he did this is a RiddleForTheAges as he didn't seem to have the bike with him and is too big for a broom so it's usually put down to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.

He and Nymphadora Tonks fall in love sometime between years 5 & 6, marry sometime between years 6 & 7, and have a child (Teddy) towards the end of year 7.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Inverted. The books went into detail of Remus' insecurity of being a werewolf, shame of not standing up to his friends for their bullying, and initially refusing to be in relationship with Tonks. The film adaptations does show him facing discrimination but didn't deal with any of the personal hardships of his book counterpart.

* ArchEnemy: Peeves the poltergeist and the Weasley twins.

* ArbitraryScepticism: Again, we're being informed the Chamber of Secrets and the existence of a monster therein is surely just a myth by a ghost who works teaching the history of magic at a Wizard's School. To be fair, he justifies it by saying that generations of headmasters, including Dumbledore, searched for it in vain.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: For some strange reason, the GBC games made here a surprisingly good looking redhead.

* AgeLift: Lockhart was played by Creator/KennethBranagh, who was 42 at the time of the movie's release and appeared to play the character as being about that age. [[AllThereInTheManual According to Pottermore,]] he was '''28''' at time of his first appearance in the books. This would have put him at Hogwarts only a few years below the Marauders' generation (Lily, James, Lupin, Pettigrew, Snape were all born in 1960-1961, Lockhart in 1964).

-->'''Voiced by:''' Eduardo Moreno (European Spanish, ''Philosopher's Stone''-''Half-Blood Prince''), Francisco Javier Martínez (European Spanish, ''Prisoner of Azkaban''), Víctor Agramunt (European Spanish, ''Deathly Hallows Part II''), Jorge Roig (Latin American Spanish, ''Philosopher's Stone''), Eduardo Fonseca ((Latin American Spanish), ''Goblet of Fire''), Luis Alfonso Mendoza (Latin American Spanish, ''Order of the Phoenix''), José Luis Miranda ((Latin American Spanish, ''Half-Blood Prince''-''Deahtly Hallows Part II'')

* CoolTeacher: For all his favoritism, Slughorn does deliver an impressive first Potions lesson and he can make the course seem fun. Ethically though, he's not a very good teacher, although he's still much better than [[SadistTeacher Snape]].

** Inverted. He really wanted to be one and did what he could to succeed. But Draco gets hurt by one of the magical creatures he was showing and after that, his confidence is gone. His class becomes particularly unpopular among Harry's year, even among the Gryffindors, to the point where no sixth year students sign up for his class.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Not all Slytherins are evil. Though whether he escapes their reputation of all being assholes may be subject to some debate, as he still plays favorites with his students and singles out those that are famous or well-connected for special treatment. But to give him his due, he doesn't bully or abuse those who fail to catch his attention either, even if he can be a bit dismissive of them.

* NiceGirl: She refuses to criticize Dumbledore even when Umbridge attempts to prompt her to, and despite her taking over Hagrid's job and most of her students openly telling her how much better of a Professor she is than him, she never badmouths Hagrid and praises his handling of Hogwarts's thestrals one of her lectures.

** The level of "favours", he expects back from people are usually along the lines of Quidditch tickets or having an opinion published in the paper, or some sweets - basically, stuff that's trivial and inexpensive.

* MentorOccupationalHazard: Defied. [[spoiler:Hagrid has a few close calls throughout the series and fans worried about Hagrid for this reason, but J.K. Rowling has stated that she surprisingly never had any intent to kill him.]]

* PlotArmor: Many readers worried about possibly losing Hagrid over the course of the books. Rowling admitted that with his kindness, Hagrid's loss would have been a serious blow to Harry, and would be an obvious choice -- [[spoiler:however she said that from the beginning she had an image of Hagrid being the one carrying supposedly dead Harry out of the forest in Book 7 that she was writing towards.]]

* StoutStrength: Hagrid's ancestry makes him supernaturally strong and tough. His entire life as an employee of the school is spent doing physically taxing and highly dangerous tasks that other wizards would rather not (his predecessor left "to spend more time with his remaining limbs", according to Dumbledore). This is BEFORE one begins adding in the very dangerous situations he finds himself in as a result of his friendship with Harry. One of his first acts is to casually bend a shotgun barrel single-handed after knocking a barricaded door down. And in the fifth book, he's shown being able to send a full-grown human flying through the air unconscious with a backhand.

* {{Leitmotif}}: As usual, Music/JohnWilliams is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10txEevyJcw awesome]].

* CoolTeacher: Inverted. He really wanted to be one and did what he could to succeed. But Draco gets hurt by one of the magical creatures he was showing and after that, his confidence is gone. His class becomes particularly unpopular among Harry's year, even among the Gryffindors, to the point where no sixth year students sign up for his class.

* LastNameBasis: For some reason, nobody ever calls him "Rubeus" regardless of how close they are to him. Even Dumbledore, who's in FirstNameBasis with everyone. Even Grawp calls him "Hagger", indicating Hagrid instructed his own brother to call him by his last name.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his pompous personality and relative lack of guts, many characters comment on his skill, including Dumbledore of all people, and it's implied even Voldemort still recognizes Slughorn as a powerful wizard. Certainly, Slughorn steps up to duel Voldemort alongside McGonagall and Kingsley, even although he was the only one of the three who had not proved to be a good fighter beforehand (rather the opposite, actually), and it's implied he holds his own just as much as them.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Despite his pompous personality and relative lack of guts, many characters comment on his skill, including Dumbledore of all people, and it's implied even Voldemort still recognizes Slughorn as a powerful wizard. Certainly, Slughorn is one of the three wizards that personally Voldemort at the end, even although he was the only in the trio who had not proved to be good fighter beforehand (rather the opposite, actually), and it's implied he holds his own just as much as them.

* RomanceOnSet: Tried to invoke this by casting two students who were dating in the lead roles of his play, unaware that the boy had broken up with his girlfriend in favor of another of the actresses shortly before the curtain rose. [[FromBadToWorse The results were predictable.]]

* BadassBookworm: While his friends James and Sirius were said to be naturals when it came to magic, Lupin seems to have gotten his tremendous skill through hard work and studying.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her class and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do are, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is an extremely genetic ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most competent teacher in the entire school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight" other than her silly crystal balls and star charts. The real problem isn't her teaching or fortune-telling ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all, which even Dumbledore agreed with and attempted to remove from the curriculum.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her class and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do are, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is a genetic ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most competent teacher in the entire school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight" other than her silly crystal balls and star charts. The real problem isn't her teaching or fortune-telling ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all, which even Dumbledore agreed with and attempted to remove from the curriculum.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her class and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do are, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is a genetic ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most competent teacher in the school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight" other than her silly crystal balls and star charts. The real problem isn't her teaching or fortune-telling ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all, which even Dumbledore agreed with and attempted to remove from the curriculum.

* DumbassHasAPoint: While almost every time she appears the Trio are mocking her class and how much of a waste of time the ridiculous tasks she makes them do are, in their very first lesson with her in the third book, Trelawney correctly points out that she is expected to teach a literally unteachable subject. Divination is a genetic ability you are either born with or not, and even those who have the gift seem to have no control over when and what visions they see, meaning even if she was the most respected teacher in the school, she would still have no actual way to teach the subject to the 99.9% of Hogwarts students who were not born with "the sight" other than her silly crystal balls and star charts. The real problem isn't her teaching or fortune-telling ability, it's that Hogwarts offers the subject at all, which even Dumbledore agreed with and attempted to remove from the curriculum.