Line #9 Characters/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor


1	[[foldercontrol]]
2	!Humans
3	!!Hogwarts Students
4	----
5	!!!Gryffindor
6	[[folder: Hermione Granger]]
7	The main character, the titular Parselmouth of Gryffindor, a teenage crusader for sentient rights with a knack at finding loopholes.
8	* AlmightyJanitor: Despite being a student still, during third year Hermione [[spoiler:becomes Fudge's unofficial advisor. According to her, the man needs so much advice that she's functionally ruling the country]].
9	* ConfirmedBachelor : In her own words, she has "more important things to do than play romance with the other kids", and, while she is definitely not asexual, intentionally puts off dating until ''after'' she's turned legally adult, finished her studies, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick stopped the murderous maniac running amok]].
10	* ConstantlyCurious: Curiosity, and a tendency to start asking strings of questions without letting the other fellow take a breath, remains one of Hermione's trademarks well into first year, for all that Harry and Ron help her work on it.
11	* DidntThinkThisThrough:
12	** Believing a few seconds of thinking can allow her to RulesLawyer one of Voldemort's horcruxes nearly gets Hermione killed.
13	** Because she didn't use human blood in [[spoiler:the ritual/potion to resurrect herself]], Hermione is, from a magical standpoint, no longer entirely human. (Mind you, it has its perks.)
14	* {{Flight}}: Learns the secret of Unsupported Flight from the Dementors and uses it liberally ever after.
15	* TheHero: Unconventional, to be sure, but a hero nonetheless, with a mission to turn the wizarding world on its head and making it fairer for everyone.
16	* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Becomes one for Minister Fudge.]]
17	* OfferedTheCrown: Anticipates that Slughorn is going to nominate her as Acting Minister for Magic after Fudge disappears — and flat-out refuses. ''She's too busy already.''
18	* PurpleIsPowerful: After [[spoiler:being resurrected]], Hermione's skin is a light mauve color and she's more resistant to poisons and immune to bleeding to death.
19	* RulesLawyer: Hermione gains a reputation as a relentless finder of [[LoopholeAbuse loopholes]], to the point that Dumbledore calls on her when the Sorting Hat is being difficult about his pledge not to reveal what he sees in students' minds during a Sorting.
20	* TryToFitTHATOnABusinessCard: ''Hermione J. Granger, Lady Macbrains of the Order of the Junior Marauders, Order of Merlin (2nd Class), Personal Advisor to Minister Cornelius O. Fudge, Knight of the Phoenix, Amabssador of the Violin Nation, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Hogwarts student]].''
21	* VolcanicVeins: After [[spoiler:being resurrected, Hermione's veins permanently glow purple because the blood used in the ritual wasn't human blood]].
22	* WideEyedIdealist: Hermione is insistent that Voldemort can be rehabilitated when even Dumbledore states that he needs to die. As the debate itself, whether Hermione or Dumbledore is right here is left ambiguous, as Voldemort stays TakenForGranite throughout.
23	* ZombieAdvocate: Naturally. And quite rightly too.
24	[[/folder]]
25	[[folder: Harry Potter]]
26	The widely-known Boy Who Lived and one of Hermione's earliest friends. His role (both as TheProtagonist and TheChosenOne) is confidently taken over by Hermione, and Harry is ''quite'' alright with that.
27	* OutOfFocus: Since he's no longer the primary point-of-view character, he doesn't get ''nearly'' as much attention as he does in the books, especially later on.
28	[[/folder]]
29	[[folder: Maximilian Candy]]
30	A boggart-turned-sentient-shapeshifter, born of an unlikely series of events, who becomes Hermione's friend and attends Hogwarts under the guise of a human boy.
31	* EmergentHuman: His most defining trait.
32	* ExtremeOmnivore: All food gets magically 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.
33	* IKnowWhatYouFear: Maximilian, owing to his Boggart nature, can see even an Occlumens's worst fear. Because he's a nice guy all around, he usually keeps it a secret.
34	* KryptoniteFactor: Still weak to the Riddikulus Curse (to the exclusion of nearly all other curses), which is useless on any other creature.
35	* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: 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.
36	* MundaneUtility: Apparently Maximilian uses his VoluntaryShapeshifting to turn off the parts of his brain that produce boredom.
37	* OCStandIn: He's the boggart from Lupin's lesson in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]''. You'd be forgiven for forgetting that this means he technically isn't an OriginalCharacter.
38	* ShapeshifterWeapon: Offers variations, such as turning into a pillow to serve as a very literal human shield for his friends.
39	* UpliftedAnimal: A Boggart (a non-sentient magical shapeshifter) who, by pure luck, turned into an accurate enough copy of a human being that he started to think… and hasn't stopped since.
40	[[/folder]]
41	[[folder: Ron Weasley]]
42	A likable everyman to Hermione's buzzing world-changer, Harry's best friend is brave and helpful, but, at heart, still a normal schoolkid — which is more than can be said of Hermione.
43	[[/folder]]
44	[[folder: Neville Longbottom]]
45	Harry's friend but only a vague acquaintance to Hermione at first, Neville slowly grows (both in narrative importance and in character) over the course of the story.
46	[[/folder]]
47	!!!Slytherin
48	[[folder: Draco Malfoy]]
49	The self-proclaimed King of Slytherin, Draco is a bully with a bit of an ego problem, and Hermione can't stand him. He does have quite a few henchpeople, though, and the Hat ''has'' to have put him in Slytherin for a reason…
50	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: For the first few years, Hermione and her friends don't even pay ''attention'' to Draco, who, being better at posing and [[PokeThePoodle poking poodles]] than actually harming anyone, is written off as no threat at all. Then it turns out she gave up too early too completely, because [[spoiler: he ''very nearly manages to kill her''. [[KarmicDeath With a snake]].]]
51	* SmugSmiler: Like the rest of Slytherin House, Draco is well-trained in the arts of sneering and smirking.
52	[[/folder]]
53	[[folder: Vincent Crabbe]]
54	One half of Draco's [[BumblingHenchmenDuo duo of go-to goons]], Crabbe takes his role as a henchman and his own lack of intelligence with great philosophy. He also appears to be involved with a plot by the Great Lake… but who knows what that might be.
55	* PunchClockVillain: Like most of the hired henchpeople in Slytherin, he just lets Draco boss him around because it's the normal place for a rather unintelligent youth in Slytherin. And also because Draco pays him.
56	[[/folder]]
57	[[folder: Gregory Goyle]]
58	The other half of the Crabbegoyle duo, meaner and more ambitious than Crabbe (though hardly more intelligent).
59	* PunchClockVillain: Like most of the hired henchpeople in Slytherin, he just lets Draco boss him around because it's the normal place for a rather unintelligent youth in Slytherin. And also because Draco pays him.
60	[[/folder]]
61	[[folder: Bronson Pike]]
62	One of the members of Draco's "gang", Pike is, at one point tasked by Draco with retrieving Tom Riddle's Diary and his attempt is a ZanyScheme involving dressing up as a Dementor.
63	* ActorAllusion: In the original canon, he's only known as Pike, with no first name given; here he is called Bronson, after the actor who portrayed him in the films, Bronson Webb.
64	[[/folder]]
65	[[folder: Douglas Wilkes]]
66	A henchman-for-hire, two years younger than Hermione. For a Slytherin, he's not very good at sneering yet, but extremely likable. Hermione hires him in Third Year as part of a LoopholeAbuse scheme to [[ScrewDestiny get rid of the Prophecy]].
67	* OriginalCharacter: Apparently some relation of the Death Eater Wilkes, but that's as close as canon gets to this young fellow.
68	* PunchClockVillain: Inasmuch as being a professional minion makes you a villain; of course, his role in the story sees him working for Hermione instead.
69	* SweetTooth: Downplayed, but he does accept chocolate as payment instead of Galleons.
70	[[/folder]]
71	[[folder: Pansy Parkinson]]
72	One of Slytherin's minions-for-hire, formerly a member of Draco's "[[PokeThePoodle villainous]]" band. Has a phobia of wolves.
73	[[/folder]]
74	[[folder: Mina Moores]]
75	A Slytherin Prefect, very talented at [[EvilIsHammy acting dramatic]] and [[SmugSmiler sneering]]. Despises Hermione out of general loyalty to Draco, who fancies himself her archnemesis.
76	* OriginalCharacter: ''Presumably'' there is a female Slytherin Prefect, but who knows what her name is and what she's like in canon.
77	* SmugSmiler: A master of the art of Slytherin smirking and sneering.
78	[[/folder]]
79	!!!Ravenclaw
80	[[folder: Luna Lovegood]]
81	A lovable CloudCuckooLander with a talent for painting, Luna is Hermione's friend.
82	[[/folder]]
83	!!!Hufflepuff
84	[[folder: Helen Monroe]]
85	In Hermione's year, Helen is the great-great-granddaughter of one Dorian Monroe, who served in [[Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald Grindelwald's armies]]. She is very set upon springing the one she considers to be her personal Dark Lord out of Nurmengard — refusing to accept that he's pulled a HeelFaceTurn and doesn't ''want'' to escape.
86	[[/folder]]
87	[[folder: Hannah Abbott]]
88	Also in Hermione's year, a sweet girl who plans to become a Healer.
89	[[/folder]]
90	[[folder: Wesley Weasley]]
91	Ron's young cousin who, through circumstances, becomes revered as the new Boy Who Lived. It goes to his head a bit.
92	* WrongGenreSavvy: Is extremely convinced that he is TheHero.
93	[[/folder]]
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95	!!Hogwarts Staff
96	!!!Professors
97	[[folder: Professor Albus Dumbledore]]
98	The wise and immensely knowledgeable Headmaster of Hogwarts, Dumbledore is something between a friend and a mentor for Hermione.
99	%%* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Hermione.
100	* PuttingThePalInPrincipal: Student Hermione genuinely becomes one of Dumbledore's closest friends.
101	* RenaissanceMan: He is portrayed this way; aside from his magical power, appreciation of chamber music and skill at ten-pin bowling, he is also shown to casually repair a cuckoo clock while in the middle of a conversation.
102	* SweetTooth: As in canon, Dumbledore is rather fond of his sweets, mugs of cocoa and other delicacies.
103	[[/folder]]
104
105	[[folder: Professor Alexander Max]]
106	Second Year's emergency Defence Professor after Gilderoy Lockhart [[VillainExitStageLeft runs away]], Professor Max is menacing, mysterious, and appears to like Dark Magic more than defending against it… but you've got to admit he's ''good''.
107	* {{Determinator}}: It is implied the reason [[VagueAge Professor Max]] is still alive is because he is still waiting to teach the Ghoul Studies class he was promised more than a century ago.
108	* NightmareFetishist: Of the PlayedForLaughs variety; he loves dark monsters and ghoulies and doesn't see why no one else does. After Fudge calls back the [[EmotionEater Dementors]] from Hogwarts in Second-Year, while everyone else is cheering, he ''begs'' Dumbledore to let them stay.
109	* PutOnABus: Being a Defence Professor, this was to be expected. At the end of Second Year he goes off to Azkaban to write a monograph on Dementors, and he hasn't been heard from since.
110	* VagueAge: Professor Max has been the Ghoul Studies professor "since the 18th or 19th century", and calls 120-year-old Dumbledore "young"… but at the same time does not look ''that'' old, not having a single gray hair for one thing. MethuselahSyndrome is probably at play.
111
112	[[/folder]]
113
114	[[folder: Professor Rubeus Hagrid]]
115	* ZombieAdvocate: Hagrid, to a fault, when it comes to the Acromantulas. He's not [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman entirely wrong]]… but not [[TheHorde entirely]] [[IAmAHumanitarian right]], either.
116	[[/folder]]
117
118	[[folder: Professor Remus Lupin]]
119	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 werewolf]], but what's a centuries-old Dark Curse when you've got the planet's foremost RulesLawyer among your students?
120	* CoolTeacher: Considered a great and likable professor by all his students. Not being either evil or completely crazy helps.
121	* PutOnABus: As only natural of a Defence Professor. He and the Basilisk fly off to America to advertise Hermione's Lycanthropy cure in Summer 1994.
122	[[/folder]]
123
124	[[folder: Professor Gilderoy Lockhart]]
125	As in canon, an immoral gloryhound of a "hero" who comes to Hogwarts as Defence Professor for free publicity.
126	* MilesGloriosus: Gilderoy Lockhart, naturally. In fact, [[spoiler: he flees Hogwarts barely two months into the year following the Acromantulas' attack.]]
127	[[/folder]]
128
129	[[folder: Professor Gellert Grindelwald]]
130	Of ''[[Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald Fantastic Beasts]]'' fame, this Dark Wizard caused World War II (among other dark deeds)… but fifty years of jail have mellowed him down, and he ends up Hogwarts's Defence Professor, to everyone but Dumbledore's bemused outrage.
131	* TheAtoner: The reason he stays in prison is that, [[{{Foil}} unlike, say, Voldemort]], he actually feels remorse for his many, many crimes.
132	* InsistentTerminology: He's quite insistent that Hermione doesn't have [[spoiler:the magic of an Acromantula. Rather, her blood has the magic of an Acromantula's blood]]. Given the traits of [[spoiler:an Acromantula]] she doesn't posses, he's quite right.
133	* RetiredBadass: Not by choice, but the man who once came close to [[TakeOverTheWorld Taking Over The World]] is now a schoolteacher.
134	* SelfRestraint: He believes he ''could'' escape, if he wanted to, but he prefers to stay where he is, since he considers he has yet to pay for his crimes.
135	[[/folder]]
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137	!!!Others
138	[[folder: Sirius Black]]
139	The only human "Voldemort-Keeper" in the Third Floor Corridor, Sirius has faked his death and now enjoys a sweet life of chilling out in Hogwarts, preparing pranks with the Weasley Twins, and driving Snape nuts by pretending to be a ghost.
140	* DeathFakedForYou: Fakes his death with the help of Max the Boggart, and then his exorcism as part of Hermione's plan to deal with the Prophecy.
141	* PaperThinDisguise: Moody gives him a fake beard, glasses and hat to disguise himself. Even though he knows it is ridiculous, Sirius rolls with it and starts to call himself "Jester White", with nearly everybody else ([[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou even the narrator]]) following suit, much to Snape's despair.
142	[[/folder]]
143	[[folder: Argus Filch]]
144	As in canon, the grouchy [[MuggleBornOfMages Squib]] caretaker of Hogwarts. Not at all a threat to Hermione thanks to her [[PragmaticHero pragmatic attitude]] when it comes to [[{{Blackmail}} using Filch's unwillingness to reveal his Squibness against him]].
145	* DontYouDarePityMe: When Hermione tries to get him to stop overworking himself and get some help from the elves.
146	* SourOutsideSadInside: Per Chapter 33, it seems confirmed that Filch's crankiness is very much a function of his complex for being a {{Squib}}.
147	* {{Workaholic}}: Filch perpetually works himself half to death in his self-given mission of cleaning the whole Castle every day, which he does to prove to himself that he's just as good as wizards and elves, powers or not.
148	[[/folder]]
149
150	!!Ministry of Magic
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152	[[folder: Minister Cornelius O. Fudge]]
153	Wizarding Britain's vain Minister for Magic. Fudge is clueless and bombastic but not fundamentally bad… his main problem is that he'll take advice from [[UnwittingPawn anybody]]. Fortunately, that "anybody" soon ends up being Hermione.
154	* PuppetKing: With Hermione as the power behind the ministerial chair, through his constantly asking for her advice because he has no idea how to deal with any sorts of responsabilities.
155	* UnwittingPawn: Cornelius Fudge is ridiculously easy to manipulate, be it by Dolores Umbridge, Lucius Malfoy or someone else. He's actually a good guy at heart, but only avoids causing a world catastrophe because Hermione (who has come to control him most usually, and, therefore [[TheManBehindTheMan rule Magical Britain from the shadows]]) keeps a tight leash on him.
156	[[/folder]]
157
158	[[folder: Dolores Umbridge]]
159	[[/folder]]
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161	!!Dark Wizards
162
163	[[folder: Barty Crouch, Jr.]]
164	Formerly one of Voldemort's most diabolically competent followers, Barty Crouch Jr. escapes his father's Imperius Curse in Third Year and is now going after turncoat Death Eaters… although there seems to be more to his scheme than meets the eye.
165	* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Barty Crouch Jr. manages to invoke this trope in spite of the ''Harry Potter'' Wizarding World at large arguably already being an example — he shows up to [[spoiler: the Frost Fair]] wearing a ruby-colored Conquistador's helmet on top of his iconic [[RedIsViolent crimson robes]].
166	* KnightOfCerebus: Pre-Crouch plot: no villain, Voldemort is a silver monkey, fun and good times. Post-Crouch plot: [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Inferi]] and [[spoiler: [[YourDaysAreNumbered 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.
167	* PsychoSupporter: As the story progresses, Barty grows more and more delusional about the extent of Voldemort's power, referring to his fallen master as though he'd been some sort of disembodied, immanent god of darkness. (He is still massively dangerous, however.)
168	* RedIsViolent: As the leader of the Death Eaters, he wears scarlet robes instead of black ones. He ends up nicknamed the Crimson Heir of Voldemort by the papers — a name of which only Hermione seems to see the double meaning.
169	* WouldHurtAChild: And did, during the war. ''Repeatedly.'' In the story proper, he also murders [[spoiler: Wesley Weasley]] without a second thought… [[spoiler: even if Hermione later manages to bring him BackFromTheDead.]]
170	[[/folder]]
171
172	[[folder: Professor Quirinus Quirrell]]
173	First year's [[ObfuscatingStupidity deceivingly harmless]] Defence Professor hiding something dark and evil in that ridiculous turban of his. Just like said something, he ends up not being too much of a threat…
174	[[/folder]]
175	[[folder: Lucius Malfoy]]
176	Draco Malfoy's father, former Death Eater and all-around sleazebag. A PragmaticVillain who can be convinced to help good rather than evil for the right amount of gold.
177	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Downplayed, through Hermione accusing him of this.
178	[[/folder]]
179
180	[[folder: Professor Igor Karkaroff]]
181	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 murder at Crouch's hands in Third Year.
182	* AssholeVictim: As mentioned above, being free in the eyes of the law doesn't change his having been a ruthless Dark Wizard. Lampshaded by Hermione's confusion at how grave Dumbledore is acting about the murder:
183	--> '''Dumbledore:''' “I mean to say that he has probably been viciously murdered.”
184	--> '''Hermione:''' “…Ah, erm, not to make light of any human life, but why do you particularly care?”
185	* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: ''He'' was the first Inferius which Crouch sends at the heroes, in Chapter 41.]]
186	[[/folder]]
187
188	!!!Incarnations of Voldemort
189	[[folder: Lord Voldemort/The Turban]]
190	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.
191	* 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''.
192	[[/folder]]
193	[[folder: The Diary]]
194	Voldemort's first Horcrux. Is captured extremely easily, on account of being an inanimate object, and currently resides in the pocket of the Petrified Quirrell.
195	[[/folder]]
196	[[folder: The Locket]]
197	Also known as the Locket Chimpanzee, this piece of Voldemort used to reside inside Slytherin's Locket but was more-or-less-forcefully transferred into a statue of a chimpanzee. He's not amused.
198	* SealedEvilInATeddyBear: In a statue of a chimpanzee, to be exact.
199	[[/folder]]
200	[[folder: The Ring]]
201	Summoned out of the Resurrection Stone, this shard of the Dark Lord ends up in the body of a terracotta statue of a female archer. He's not amused.
202	[[/folder]]
203	[[folder: The Cup]]
204	The piece of Voldemort inside the Cup of Hufflepuff, he attempts to possess the Sorting Hat.
205	* EvilGloating: ''Will not stop'', even moreso than the other versions of Voldemort, and much to Hermione's annoyance. Even though he's in no position to gloat, at all.
206	* MergerOfSouls: [[spoiler: Forcefully, with the Sorting Hat.]]
207	[[/folder]]
208
209	[[folder: Scardemort]]
210	The Voldemort in Harry's scar. Not as harmless as in the books, by far.
211	* GrandTheftMe: Very nearly succeeds in taking over Harry's body.
212	* [[HijackedByGanon HighjackedByGanon]]: Most of Fourth Year has Barty Crouch Jr. as the antagonist, leading the Death Eaters by himself, but then the climactic battle happens without him when Scardemort's own EvilPlan comes to fruition and he summons all of the Death Eaters to him through the Dark Mark.
213	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: His attempt to take over Hogwarts by summoning the Death Eaters not only fails, but ends with the arrest of most of the Death Eaters who Barty Crouch had broken out of Azkaban earlier. The Dark Side as a whole was ''much'' better off without his interference.
214	[[/folder]]
215
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217	!! Muggles
218	[[folder: The Dursleys]]
219	Harry's loathsome but ultimately ineffectual and bumbling guardians. Kaiser's job is to make sure they don't bother Harry.
220	[[/folder]]
221	[[folder: The Grangers]]
222	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.
223	* 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.
224	[[/folder]]
225	[[folder: The Dysons]]
226	The Grangers' elderly neighbors, in whose backyard Nettle lives.
227	* OriginalCharacter: Two of many.
228	[[/folder]]
229	[[folder: John Hanger]]
230	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]].
231	* 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.
232	* OriginalCharacter: Though his pub itself, ''The Hanged Man'', is canon.
233	[[/folder]]
234	----
235	!! Miscellaneous
236
237	[[folder: Scabbers]]
238	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]].
239	[[/folder]]
240
241	[[folder: The Flamels]]
242	Nicolas and Perenelle, Dumbledore's old alchemist friends from France, who take a liking to Hermione after she [[spoiler: solves Lycanthropy]].
243	* CoolOldLady: Perenelle appears innocuous and meek next to her husband, but soon proves she can goes toe-to-toe with Barty Crouch Junior in a duel after Crouch [[spoiler: kills Nicolas]].
244	* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Nicolas, at the Frost Fair, is killed by a wordless Killing Curse of Barty Crouch's in the middle of a conversation with the Grangers.]]
245	[[/folder]]
246	----
247
248	!Sentient Nonhumans
249	----
250	!!Snakes
251	[[folder: The Great Basilisk]]
252	The Basilisk bred as a weapon by [[AncientEvil Salazar Slytherin]] beneath Hogwarts. Magical bonds prevent her from going against Slytherin's (or Voldemort's) order, but a little [[LoopholeAbuse outside-the-box thinking]] takes care of that…
253	* AdaptationalHeroism: This version of the Basilisk doesn't want to kill sapient beings, and only does so because she's compelled to by magical bonds. Nothing like this was ever even hinted at in the book.
254	* AscendedExtra: Arguably; despite how central she is to the events of ''Chamber of Secrets'', the Basilisk isn't much of a character in canon, so much as a plot device MonsterOfTheWeek.
255	* LoopholeAbuse: She reveals a good part of Voldemort's planning with the Horcruxes by using different words to avoid telling it all directly.
256	* NoNameGiven: She does not appear to possess one (Slytherin didn't bother naming her).
257	* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: The Basilisk isn't actually evil at all, merely bound to Slytherin and his Heirs' will, much like House-Elves. She is actually quite friendly and only killed sapients against her will.
258	[[/folder]]
259	[[folder: Apophis]]
260	The large, dangerous, badly-abused attack snake of Lucius and Draco Malfoy, whom they like to summon during duels through the spell ''Serpensortia''. Obviously, using a sentient slave as a weapon doesn't sit well with Hermione…
261	* AscendedExtra: Only appears in one scene in the books, whereas here, his backstory is greatly expounded upon and [[SparedByTheAdaptation he survives]].
262	[[/folder]]
263	[[folder: Nagini]]
264	Formerly You Know Who's [[RightHandCat right-hand snake]], Nagini has laid in wait of her Lord for eleven years, and she's starting to get ''twitchy''…
265	[[/folder]]
266	[[folder: Nettle and her Children]]
267	A female grass snake who lives in the Grangers' garden, and Hermione's good friend. Hermione teaches her and her children about the human world.
268	[[/folder]]
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270	!!Forbidden Forest Residents
271	[[folder: Toft and the Wolves]]
272	Sentient, magical wolves descending from werewolves who mated while transformed. Their leader, Toft, is the wisest and most powerful.
273	* NobleWolf: Naturally, their leader Toft is especially majestic.
274	[[/folder]]
275	[[folder: King Tolgar]]
276	An oversized Alizor and the leader of the Alizor Colony in the Forest.
277	* LargeAndInCharge: Towers above the other Alizors, as befitting of a character inspired by [[Literature/TheHobbit the Great Goblin]].
278	* MonsterLord: Though the other Alizors are quite sapient, the Alizor King must surely qualify, being [[LargeAndInCharge larger]] and far more calculating than his brethren, as well as the only one willing to discuss things (albeit in YouNoTakeCandle English) rather than just eat you.
279	* PoirotSpeak: He sprinkles his speech with Alizor interjections (and [[PardonMyKlingon curses]]) but does not really grasp English ''grammar'', constantly dropping pronouns for one thing.
280	* YouNoTakeCandle: The Alizor King, with his very ''basic'' grasp of English, sometimes slips into this. Most notably, he only rarely remembers to use pronouns.
281	[[/folder]]
282	[[folder: The Alizors of Tomberag]]
283	A tribe of subterranean goblin-like beings who lived in an underground lair in the Forest.
284	* AscendedExtra: Briefly seen in the Magical Creatures textbook in the movies.
285	* MoleMen: Alizors are depicted as akin to this, with some [[Literature/TheHobbit Tolkien Goblins]] thrown in, though they don't really ''resemble'' moles.
286	[[/folder]]
287	[[folder: The Acromantulas]]
288	The tribe of Acromantulas in the Forbidden Forest; not necessarily evil, but certainly barbaric and dangerous.
289	* TheGhost: Queen Mosag is behind the darkest event in the story but is defeated off-screen by Dumbledore before the heroes, or the readers, have had a chance to meet her.
290	* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Queen Mosag, the bloodthirsty and warmongering consort of Aragog, responsible for the Acromantulas' attack on Hogwarts.
291	* MeaningfulName: [[DragonRider Marchog]]'s name is derived from the Welsh word for a "knight", "horseman" or "rider".
292	[[/folder]]
293	[[folder: Alastair]]
294	A [[WhatCouldHaveBeen cut character from the movie]], Alastair is a teenage Acromantula who befriended Harry in his cupboard when he was still a spider-sized youngling. Poor cupboard-bound Harry had found an unexpected playmate, but Uncle Vernon didn't quite see it that way, and stomped on the poor thing, who, even after getting some healing from Hagrid, returned home with a twisted, cracked shell.
295	* TheUnfavorite: Due to Mosag's animalistic, strength-based idea of “worth”, Alastair (who's bad at fighting because of his injuries) naturally becomes this.
296	[[/folder]]
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298	!!Others
299	[[folder: Max the Boggart]]
300	'''''See Maximilian, under Hogwarts Students'''''
301	[[/folder]]
302	[[folder: The Sorting Hat]]
303	A [[AnimateInanimateObject thinking telepathic hat]] who has the Four Founders' memories, and a surprisingly talkative friend to Hermione.
304	* LawfulStupid: Downplayed (but still noticeable) in a specific incident where his oath not to reveal anything he sees in the mind of his Sortees prevents him from giving key information to Dumbledore.
305	* MergerOfSouls: [[spoiler: With the Cup Horcrux.]]
306	[[/folder]]
307	[[folder: The Golden Griffin]]
308	The Golden Griffin Gargoyle who guards the entrance to the Headmaster's Office (or, at least, ''used'' to).
309	* AscendedExtra: Only a very minor part in the books, and in the movies he's just seen in one scene and doesn't talk. Here, he's a recurring comic relief.
310	* TheStoic: The Golden Griffin, guardian of the Headmaster's Office, prides himself on staying still as a statue under all circumstances unless the correct password is spoken. [[spoiler: [[NotSoStoic Hermione manages to annoy him enough to make him quit.]] ]]
311	[[/folder]]
312	[[folder: Minerva]]
313	A [[PhantomZonePicture magical portrait]] of a younger Professor [=McGonagall=], whom Hermione befriends.
314	* AscendedExtra: A mere background cameo from the movies.
315	[[/folder]]
316	[[folder: Hedwig]]
317	Harry's exceptionally intelligent post owl. Heroic, but has a bit of an ego.
318	* SapientPet: To Harry.
319	[[/folder]]
320	[[folder: The Portrait of a Large Pile of Ash]]
321	An utterly crazy [[PhantomZonePicture magical portrait]] created by Luna Lovegood [[BasedOnADream based on a dream she had]]. Naturally a living ShoutOut to ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePortraitOfWhatLookedLikeALargePileOfAsh''.
322	* BasedOnADream: And [[CloudCuckooLander Luna Lovegood]]'s dream at that. Which goes a long way to explain… everything about it, really.
323	[[/folder]]
324	[[folder: King Ragnuk VII]]
325	The Goblin King, Ragnuk VII is a jaded but benevolent ruler.
326	* CoolCrown: A beautiful one in Goblin Gold.
327	* OriginalCharacter: Though there presumably exists ''a'' Goblin King in canon.
328	* KingBobTheNth: Ragnuk the Seventh. (Ragnuk I was a contemporary of the Founders, per canon.)
329	* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: Averted: one of the first things Hermione notices when meeting the King is that he just has ordinary business robes, aside from his CoolCrown.
330	* RoyalWe: Uses it to a fault, even though he doesn't otherwise speak in a particularly solemn way.

Context Characters / TheParselmouthOfGryffindor