History Characters / TheParselmouthOfGryffindor

* ExtremeOmnivore: All food gets magicall vanished — turned into magical energy — the moment it enters his body, anyway, so Maximilian pulls no stops and does things like eating the wrapping along with the candy.

Second Year's emergency Defence Professor after Gilderoy Lockhart [[VillainExitStageLeft runs away]], Professor Max is menacing, mysterioys, and appears to like Dark Magic more than defending against it… but you've got to admit he's ''good''.

* ZombieAdvocate: Hagrid, to a fault, when it comes to the Acromantulas. He's not [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman entirely wrong]]… but not [[TheHorde entirely]][[IAmAHumanitarian right]], either.

Third year's Defence Professor, the nice and competent Remus Lupin is closer to Harry and Ron than to Hermione. His only problem is that he's a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolvf]], but what's a centuries-old Dark Curse when you've got the planet's foremost RulesLawyer among your students?

* MergerOfSoul: [[spoiler: Forcefully, with the Sorting Hat.]]

An utterly crazy [[PhantomZonePicture magical portrait]] created by Luna Lovegood [[BasedOnADream based on a dream she had]]. Naturally a living ShoutOut to ''Fanfiction/HarryPotterAndThePortraitOfWhatLookedLikeALargePileOfAsh''.

* IChooseToStay: Even if given a chance to leave his prison, he prefers to stay where he is, since he considers he has yet to pay for his crimes.

* TheMindIsAPlaythingToTheBody: An unusual ''willing'' example: he can (and does) alter parts of his brain to become better-suited to whatever he's doing, such as turning off the part of his brain that induces boredom if he's studying. Other characters are understandably creeped out by this.

In Hermione's year, Helen is the great-great-granddaughter of one Dorian Monroe.

* WouldHurtAChild: And did, during the war. [[FridgeHorror Repeatedly.]]

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!! Muggles
[[folder: The Dursleys]]
Harry's loathsome but ultimately ineffectual and bumbling guardians. Kaiser's job is to make sure they don't bother Harry.

[[folder: The Grangers]]
Daniel and Sally Granger, Hermione's dentist parents. Daniel seems to care less about his patients than he does about what they pay him, but both are generally decent people and a loving (albeit, by necessity, distant) family to Hermione.
* IllPretendIDidntHearThat: When Hermione mentions that she has a "pet Dark Wizard millionaire", they both decide that (for the moment) they don't want to know.

[[folder: The Dysons]]
The Grangers' elderly neighbors, in whose backyard Nettle lives.
* OriginalCharacter: Two of many.

[[folder: John Hanger]]
The elderly owner of Little Hangleton's pub, ''The Hanged Man''. Loves to gossip and to make strangers pay more than they ought to. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also a surprisingly good cook]].
* GossipyHens: A male example. Not that there's much happening in a little village, so he makes do by endlessly recycling the town's ''only'' interesting story (the decades-old Riddle murders) to no end, and making up ludicrous conspiracy theories about what few strangers pass through town.
* OriginalCharacter: Though his pub itself, ''The Hanged Man'', is canon.

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!! Miscellaneous

[[folder: Scabbers]]
Formerly Peter Pettigrew, the "magical rat" Scabbers [[spoiler: becomes Ron's friend — though without revealing his background — and later flees Hogwarts rather than face Voldemort again, either as foe or follower]].

!Sentient Nonhumans

* WideEyedIdealist: Hermione is insistent that Voldemort can be rehabilitated when even Dumbledore states that he needs to die.

* KnightOfCerebus: Pre-Crouch plot: no villain, Voldemort is a silver monkey, fun and good times. Post-Crouch plot: [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Inferi]] and [[spoiler: [[YourDaysAreDying Hermione is dying]]]]. Notice anything? Not that a good dose of wacky humor doesn't remain throughout, but the stakes have definitely been raised there.

Formerly Peter Pettigrew, the "magical rat" Scabbers [[spoiler: becomes Ron's friend — though without revealing his background — and later flees Hogwarts rather than face Voldemort again, either as foe or enemy]].

'''''See Maximilian, under Howarts Students'''''

One of Slytherin's minions-for-hire, formerly a member of Draco's "[[PokingThePoodle villainous]]" band. Has a phobia of wolves.

Former Death Eater who named names to get out of Azkaban, and now Headmaster of Durmstrang, as in canon. Still a Dark Wizard and morally abhorrent, and makes only a cursory attempt to hide it. Karkaroff is despised by most of the other Death Eaters, free or otherwise, starting with Barty Crouch Junior, which leads to his apparent murder at Crouch's hands in Third Year.

* IKnowWhatYouFear: Maximilian, owing to his Boggart nature, can see even an Occlumen's worst fear. Because he's a nice guy all around, he usually keeps it a secret.

* TheMindIsAPlaythingTotheBody: An unusual ''willing'' example: he can (and does) alter parts of his brain to become better-suited to whatever he's doing, such as turning off the part of his brain that induces boredom if he's studying. Other characters are understandably creeped out by this.

[[folder: Lord Voldemort]]
Once the most powerful Dark Lord in the world, but overall a minor issue for Hermione past first year… Hermione calls him the Turban, much to his annoyance.
* AnimateInanimateObject: For much of First Year, Hermione is convinced "Tom Riddle" is the name of Quirinus Quirrell's turban, which she takes to be an artifact similar to the Sorting Hat. Only later does she realize the turban is just covering up ''something else''.

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!! Muggles
[[folder: The Dursleys]]
Harry's loathsome but ultimately ineffectual and bumbling guardians. Kaiser's job is to make sure they don't bother Harry.

[[folder: The Grangers]]
Daniel and Sally Granger, Hermione's dentist parents. Daniel seems to care less about his patients than he does about what they pay him, but both are generally decent people and a loving (albeit, by necessity, distant) family to Hermione.
* IllPretendIDidntHearThat: When Hermione mentions that she has a "pet Dark Wizard millionaire", they both decide that (for the moment) they don't want to know.

[[folder: The Dysons]]
The Grangers' elderly neighbors, in whose backyard Nettle lives.
* OriginalCharacter: Two of many.

!! Miscellaneous

[[folder: Scabbers]]
Formerly Peter Pettigrew, the "magical rat" Scabbers [[spoiler: becomes Ron's friend — though without revealing his background — and later flees Hogwarts rather than face Voldemort again, either as foe or enemy]].

!Sentient Nonhumans