Harry Potter

Harry Potter is the story’s seventeen year old hero. Instead of returning to Hogwarts for his final school year, Harry sets off with Ron and Hermione to hunt and destroy Voldemort’s horcruxes so that the Dark Wizard can finally be killed. Harry learns of the existence of the Deathly Hallows–objects that, when united, make their owner the master of death–but decides to continue following the instructions Dumbledore left for him and not pursue the Hallows. After discovering that he himself is one of Voldemort’s horcruxes, Harry willingly sacrifices himself. He enters a limbo stage between life and death where Albus Dumbledore explains why Harry isn’t dead (Voldemort took some of Harry’s blood, which contained traces of Lily Potter’s protection, tethering Harry to life so long as Voldemort lives) and how Voldemort can be defeated. Harry returns to consciousness and, with all the other Horcruxes destroyed, duels Voldemort one final time. Harry’s spell collides with Voldemort’s killing curse, which backfires on its caster. Voldemort falls down dead and Harry is, once again, a hero. Harry goes on to marry Ginny Weasley and have three children: James Sirius, Albus Severus and Lily Luna.

Ronald Weasley

Ronald Weasley is one of Harry’s best friends. He accompanies Harry on the quest to destroy Voldemort’s horcruxes. He sneaks into the ministry with Harry and Hermione to steal back the locket Horcrux in Dolores Umbridge’s possession. Influenced by the locket’s dark magic, Ron becomes disgruntled and bitter and leaves Harry and Hermione. He eventually returns with the help of the deluminator and uses the sword of Gryffindor to desolate the locket. Ron is also able to open the Chamber of Secrets by mimicking Harry’s parseltongue. There, he helps Hermione kill another Horcrux (Hufflepuff’s cup) with a basilisk fang. After Voldemort’s defeat, Ron eventually marries Hermione and has a daughter, Rose, and a son, Hugo.

Hermione Granger

Hermione Granger is one of Harry’s best friends. After altering her muggle parents’ memories to protect them from Death Eaters, Hermione accompanies Harry and Ron as they hunt horcruxes. Her beaded bag, magically expanded to hold a vast amount of tools and supplies, helps the Trio survive in the woods for weeks at a time. Hermione destroys Hufflepuff’s Cup horcrux using a basilisk fang and, after Voldemort’s defeat, marries Ron Weasley. The couple eventually have a daughter, Rose, and a son, Hugo.

Lord Voldemort/Tom Riddle Jr

Lord Voldemort/Tom Riddle Jr is considered the most evil Dark Wizard of all time. He takes control over Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic, and wreaks havoc on both the wizarding and muggle worlds with the help of his death eaters. Restored to his fullest power, Voldemort seeks and finds the supposedly unbeatable Elder Wand, which he believes will allow him to finally kill Harry Potter. After realizing that Harry has discovered the secret of his Horcruxes and has arrived at Hogwarts, Voldemort launches an attack against the school. When the Elder Wand fails to work better than his original wand, Voldemort kills Severus Snape with the intention of making the wand’s allegiance transfer to him. Voldemort casts a killing curse on Harry, but only destroys the piece of his own soul still residing in the boy. Harry survives the curse and Voldemort discovers that Harry is the true master of the Elder Wand. Voldemort ends up falling at his own hand when his own killing curse curse collides with Harry’s spell and backfires.

Albus Dumbledore

Albus Dumbledore is the late Hogwarts headmaster. Before his death at the hand of Severus Snape, Dumbledore told Harry to find and destroy Voldemort’s horcruxes. Dumbledore’s potentially troublesome youth comes into question when Rita Skeeter releases a biography called “The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore” just weeks following his death. The book reveals connections between Dumbledore and Grindelwald, a dark wizard Dumbledore defeated in 1945. Harry meets Dumbledore again while in a limbo state between life and death, where the old wizard congratulates Harry on his bravery and tells him that Voldemort can finally be destroyed once and for all.

Severus Snape

Severus Snape is the new Hogwarts’ headmaster. Although he is widely assumed to be a supporter of Lord Voldemort after killing Albus Dumbledore, Snape is actually a double-agent, carrying out orders from Dumbledore and protecting Harry while using occlumency to deceive Voldemort. Snape secretly delivers the sword of Gryffindor to Harry in the woods, enabling Harry and Ron to destroy the locket Horcrux. Snape flees from Hogwarts after dueling with Professor McGonagalll, and goes to Voldemort who kills him in order to gain full power over the Elder Wand. With his dying breath, Snape gives Harry a memory that reveals that Snape was in love with Lily Potter, and had been helping Dumbledore protect Harry ever since her death. The memory also reveals that Harry is Voldemort’s final unintentional Horcrux.

Neville Longbottom

Neville Longbottom is a friend of Harry’s who is in his final year at Hogwarts. Neville leads resistance efforts against Snape and the new Death Eater regime at Hogwarts. Eventually, he is forced to go into hiding and takes refuge in the Room of Requirement, which transforms into a hideaway for supporters of Harry Potter. Neville refuses to surrender, even when it appears that Harry is dead and Voldemort has won. After Lord Voldemort mocks him, Neville uses the sword of Gryffindor to kill Nagini, thereby destroying Voldemort’s final remaining Horcrux. He later becomes the Herbology professor at Hogwarts.

Remus Lupin

Remus Lupin is a member of the Order of the Phoenix and a werewolf. He is married to Nymphadora Tonks who gives birth to their son, Teddy, during the story. He is supportive of Harry’s quest and tries to go along with the Trio as they search for Horcruxes. Harry refuses to allow him to come, citing Lupin’s responsibilities as a husband and father. This leads to a spat between Lupin and Harry who later reconcile. Remus continues supporting the resistance movement and contributes to the underground radio show, “Potterwatch”, using the code name Romulus. Remus is killed while helping defend Hogwarts from the death eaters.

Nymphadora Tonks Lupin

Nymphadora Tonks Lupin is an auror and metamorphmagus (can change her appearance at will). She is newly married to Remus Lupin and gives birth to a son, Teddy Lupin, a few months before the battle at Hogwarts. When the battle breaks out, she comes to Hogwarts to defend the castle against death eaters. She is killed in the fight.

Molly Weasley

Molly Weasley is the mother of the Weasley children and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. She treats Harry as one of her own children, and strongly discourages him from putting himself in danger by going after Voldemort. While making preparations for Bill and Fleur’s wedding, she purposefully keeps Harry, Ron and Hermione busy with separate tasks in order to keep them from planning their quest. She later fights in the battle at Hogwarts, killing Bellatrix LeStrange.

Arthur Weasley

Arthur Weasley is the father of the Weasley children and a member of the Order of the Phoenix with a great interest in muggles and muggle inventions. He works as the Head of the Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects at the Ministry of Magic. When the Ministry falls into Death Eater control, Arthur is placed under surveillance due to his relationship with Harry and his status as a “blood traitor.” After Death Eaters discover that Ron is traveling with Harry, Arthur and the rest of his family go into hiding at his Aunt Muriel’s. He later fights in the battle at Hogwarts.

Bill Weasley

Bill Weasley is the eldest of the seven Weasley children, and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. He was bitten by an untransformed werewolf, which lead him to develop some wolf-like tendencies and food preferences. He marries Fleur Delacour, but their wedding reception is interrupted by news that the Ministry of Magic has fallen under Voldemort’s control. Bill and Fleur live by the sea at Shell Cottage where their home acts as a temporary safe house for those fleeing from Death Eaters and the Ministry, including Harry, Ron, and Hermione for a time. Bill fights in the battle at Hogwarts.

Fleur Delacour Weasley

Fleur Delacour Weasley is Bill Weasley’s wife and part Veela. She moves to England from France to marry Bill. Her wedding reception is interrupted by news that the Ministry has fallen under Voldemort’s control. She lives at Shell Cottage with Bill where she helps hide and take care of refugees on the run including Griphook the Goblin, Ollivander, and the Trio. Fleur fought alongside Bill in the battle at Hogwarts.

Charlie Weasley

Charlie Weasley is the second oldest Weasley child and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. He studies dragons in Romania, but returns to England to attend Bill and Fleur’s wedding. Charlie arrives at Hogwarts toward the end of the battle and helps in the final moments of fighting before Voldemort’s demise.

Percy Weasley

Percy Weasley is the third child in the Weasley family. He is a junior assistant to the Minister of Magic and largely estranged from his family. Despite his previously declared loyalty to the Ministry, Percy is present at the battle of Hogwarts and helps defend the castle from Death Eaters. Percy admits to realizing the error of his ways and reconciles with his family during the battle.

Fred Weasley

Fred Weasley is one of the middle Weasley children and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. He co-owns the joke shop Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley with his twin brother, George. Fred helps move Harry from Privet Drive to the Burrow by acting as a decoy. He also attends Bill and Fleur’s wedding. As the war escalates, Fred contributes to the underground resistance radio show “Potterwatch” using the code names “Rodent” and “Rapier.” He fights in the battle at Hogwarts where he is killed in an explosion.

George Weasley

George Weasley is one of the middle Weasley children and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. He co-owns the joke shop Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley with his twin brother, Fred. George loses one of his ears after he is hit by Severus Snape’s Sectumsempra curse while helping Harry escape safely from Privet Drive. George contributes to the underground radio show “Potterwatch” and fights in the battle at Hogwarts. He is devastated by Fred’s death.

Ginny Weasley

Ginny Weasley is the youngest Weasley child and in her sixth year at Hogwarts. She stands as a bridesmaid in Bill and Fleur’s wedding, and upon returning to Hogwarts, helps Neville organize resistance against the new Death Eater regime. Ginny attempts to steal the sword of Godric Gryffindor from Snape’s office, but is caught. She goes into hiding at her great Aunt Muriel’s with the rest of the family over the Easter holidays and does not return to complete the school term. She comes back to Hogwarts to fight when Harry arrives in the Room of Requirement. Despite Harry’s desire for her to remain safe and away from the battle, Ginny joins in fighting until Voldemort’s demise. She later marries Harry and has three children with him: James Sirius, Albus Severus and Lily Luna.

James Potter

James Potter is Harry’s father who was killed by Lord Voldemort. Harry sees James in the memory Snape left behind. James returns in a ghost-like form when Harry turns over the Resurrection Stone before sacrificing himself to Voldemort.

Lily Evans Potter

Lily Evans Potter is Harry’s mother who was killed by Lord Voldemort while protecting Harry. Harry sees her in the memory Snape left behind and discovers she was good friends with Snape before Hogwarts and during their early Hogwarts years. Lily returns with her husband in a ghost-like form when Harry turns over the Resurrection Stone before he sacrifices himself to Voldemort.

Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody

Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody is a former auror loyal to Dumbledore and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. He possesses a magical eye which can see through most surfaces and invisibility cloaks. He orchestrates the effort to move Harry from Privet Drive to the Burrow, coming up with a scheme in which other Order members act as decoys by taking on Harry’s appearance and flying in separate directions. Mad-Eye is killed by Voldemort himself during the operation.

Bellatrix LeStrange

Bellatrix LeStrange is one of Voldemort’s most loyal Death Eaters and a blood-thirsty, maniacal proponent of pureblood supremacy. She interrogates and tortures Hermione when the trio are captured and brought to Malfoy Manor, believing that they gained access to her Gringotts vault and stole one of Voldemort’s horcruxes. Bellatrix kills Dobby the house elf as he helps the trio escape Malfoy Manor. She is at the forefront of the battle at Hogwarts and duels with Hermione, Ginny and Luna all at once. Bellatrix sends a killing curse at Ginny who misses it by inches. Molly Weasley comes to her daughters defence and duels with Bellatrix, eventually killing her.

Dobby

Dobby is a free house elf and great friend to Harry. He apparates to Malfoy Manor and helps Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Ollivander, Dean Thomas and Griphook escape to Shell Cottage. Bellatrix’s knife pierces him just has he disapparates. Dobby died on the beach near Shell Cottage, where Harry buries his body.

Dean Thomas

Dean Thomas is one of Harry’s fellow Gryffindor students from Hogwarts. Dean spends his would-be seventh year at Hogwarts on the run from the Ministry due to his muggle parentage, until he is caught by a team of Snatchers and taken to Malfoy Manor along with Harry and several others. Dobby helps Dean escape to Shell Cottage. Dean later returns to Hogwarts to help fight in the final battle against Voldemort.

Luna Lovegood

Luna Lovegood is a sixth year Hogwarts student in Ravenclaw house and a friend of Harry’s. She attends Bill and Fleur’s wedding with her father and returns to Hogwarts where she helps with resistance movements against the new Death Eater regime. On her way home for Christmas, Luna is captured by Death Eaters who are angered by her father’s outspoken support of Harry. She is imprisoned in the dungeon of Malfoy Manor but escapes with the other prisoners, thanks to Dobby. She returns to Hogwarts to help fight in the final battle against Voldemort. During the battle, Luna helps Harry gain entrance to Ravenclaw tower and also helps him identify the diadem of Ravenclaw as one of Voldemort’s horcruxes.

Xenophilius Lovegood

Xenophilius Lovegood is Luna Lovegood’s father and the editor of the wizard magazine, The Quibbler. He is a guest at Bill and Fleur’s wedding where he upsets Viktor Krum by wearing a triangular symbol that Krum associates with dark magic. Harry later discovers the symbol is that of the Deathly Hallows. Xenophilius publicly supports Harry by printing articles about him in The Quibbler until his daughter Luna is imprisoned by Death Eaters in retribution. Harry visits Xenophilius’ home to learn about the Deathly Hallows. Hoping to get his daughter back in exchange for turning in Harry, Xenophilius summons the Death Eaters. Harry, Ron and Hermione disapparate, but not before allowing the Death Eaters a glance at Harry to ensure that they know Xenophilius was not lying.

Griphook

Griphook is a Goblin on the run from the Ministry of Magic. He formerly worked at Gringotts Bank where he was charged with the task of putting a sword, believed to be Godric Gryffindor’s, into Bellatrix’s vault. He noticed that the sword was a copy and not the real artifact, but kept the fact a secret. He is caught by Snatchers and imprisoned in Malfoy Manor, along with several others. He lies on Harry’s behalf and tells Bellatrix that the sword Harry carries is a fake and that the real one is still in her vault. Dobby rescues Griphook and takes him to Shell Cottage. There, Griphook agrees to help Harry break into Bellatrix’s vault (which they believe contains a horcrux) in exchange for the sword of Gryffindor. During the break-in, Griphook takes the sword, then betrays Harry, Ron and Hermione by alerting the other goblins of the presence of thieves.

Rufus Scrimgeour

Rufus Scrimgeour is the Minister of Magic in the year leading up to Voldemort’s rise to power. He is killed when the Ministry falls into Death Eater control.

Pius Thicknesse

Pius Thicknesse is made Minister of Magic after the fall of the ministry. He operates as a puppet for the Dark Lord and is held under the Imperius Curse. He fights on Voldemort’s side during the battle at Hogwarts and is removed from leadership upon Voldemort’s defeat.

Kingsley Shacklebolt

Kingsley Shacklebolt is a former Auror, and member of the Order of the Phoenix. He informs the Dursley family that they are in danger and persuades them to go into hiding, before helping transport Harry safely from Privet Drive to the Burrow. He sends his patronus, a lynx, to Bill and Fleur’s wedding to warn the guests that the Ministry has fallen and Death Eaters are on their way to sabotage the event. He goes into hiding, but contributes frequently to the underground radio program, Potterwatch, under the alias “Royal.” He is among the Order members leading efforts against the onslaught of the castle during the battle at Hogwarts. Kingsley is named Minister of Magic after Voldemort’s defeat.

Rubeus Hagrid

Rubeus Hagrid is a half-giant who teaches Care of Magical Creatures at Hogwarts. He is also a member of the Order of the Phoenix and helps transport Harry safely from Privet Drive to The Burrow on his flying motorbike, sustaining injuries in the process. Hagrid returns to Hogwarts where he gets in trouble for hosting a “Support Harry Potter party” in his hut, before going into hiding. He returns to Hogwarts to help in the final battle and is captured by Death Eaters. After Harry confronts Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest, The Dark Lord forces Hagrid to carry Harry’s seemingly lifeless body back to the castle.

Vernon Dursley

Vernon Dursley is Harry’s muggle uncle. Vernon reluctantly goes into hiding with his family when he learns they are in danger of being targeted by Voldemort.

Petunia Dursley

Petunia Dursley is Harry’s muggle aunt. Snape’s memory reveals that Petunia wanted to attend Hogwarts with her sister, Lily, but was turned down. Petunia goes into hiding with her family.

Dudley Dursley

Dudley Dursley is Harry’s muggle cousin. Before going into hiding with his parents, Dudley makes peace with Harry and shakes his hand.

Ted Tonks

Ted Tonks is Nymphadora’s father and a sympathizer of the Order of the Phoenix. Harry and Hagrid use his home as a safe house on the journey to move Harry safely from Privet Drive to the Burrow. Ted helps heal some of the injuries Harry sustained on the flight and is later tortured for information about Harry and the Order. A muggle born, Ted goes on the run from the Ministry and is eventually killed while trying to resist imprisonment.

Andromeda Tonks

Andromeda Tonks is the wife of Ted Tonks, the sister of Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange, and mother of Nymphadora. She is estranged from her sisters, who prize blood purity, for marrying a muggle born. She helped care for her pregnant daughter and later took guardianship of Nymphadora’s son, Teddy, after his parents’ deaths.

Rita Skeeter

Rita Skeeter is a journalist with a flair for exaggerating and twisting facts to suit her ends. She pens a “tell-all” biography of Albus Dumbledore designed to call Dumbledore’s good reputation and relationship with Harry into question.

Kendra Dumbledore

Kendra Dumbledore was the mother of Albus, Aberforth and Ariana Dumbledore

Elphias Doge

Elphias Doge is a childhood friend of Albus Dumbledore’s who writes the fallen headmaster’s obituary. Doge takes an extraordinarily high view of Dumbledore, which contrasts sharply to Rita Skeeter’s portrayal. At Bill and Fleur’s wedding, Doge encourages Harry not to let Skeeter’s book tarnish his memories of Dumbledore.

Aunt Muriel

Aunt Muriel is the Weasley children’s 107 year old aunt. She attends Bill and Fleur’s wedding and dishes gossip about the Dumbledore family that she remembers while growing up. The entire Weasley family eventually goes into hiding in her home.

Bathilda Bagshot

Bathilda Bagshot is a celebrated magical historian and a former neighbor of the Dumbledore family in Godric’s Hollow. She provides Rita Skeeter with much of the information included in Skeeter’s book about Dumbledore’s childhood and relationship with Gellert Grindelwald, though due to her senility, Skeeter is able to extract information from her which may or may not be accurate. She dies shortly after her interview with Skeeter. Voldemort’s snake, Nagini, possesses Bagshot’s body and lures Harry and Hermione into a trap in Godric’s Hollow.

Gellert Grindelwald

Gellert Grindelwald is a dark wizard imprisoned in Nurmengard after being defeated by Albus Dumbledore in 1945. In his youth, he spent a summer with his great-aunt, Bathilda Bagshot, in Godric’s Hollow – where he befriended Albus Dumbledore. Together, Grindelwald and Dumbledore made plans to seize power, unite the Deathly Hallows, and elevate wizards to their “proper place” above muggles. Their friendship falls apart when the young wizards fight with Albus’s brother, Aberforth. The three-way duel ends with the accidental death of sickly Ariana Dumbledore. Grindelwald stole the unbeatable Elder Wand from wandmaker Gregorovitch and soon gained power over Europe before eventually losing a duel to his now enemy, Albus Dumbledore, who consequently won the Elder Wand. Voldemort interrogates and kills Grindelwald in his quest for the Elder Wand.

Gregorovitch

Gregorovitch is a European wandmaker. Once in possession of the Elder Wand, he lost it to Grindelwald. Voldemort seeks Gregorovitch out for information on the wand’s whereabouts, using Legilimency to discover the wand had been stolen. Enraged, Voldemort kills Gregorovitch.
Aberforth Dumbledore is Albus Dumbledore’s brother and the barman at the Hog’s Head pub. Aberforth held Albus responsible for Ariana’s death and always felt overshadowed by his older brother which put a strain on their relationship. Aberforth keeps an eye on Harry throughout the year by using a two-way mirror. It is Aberforth who sends Dobby to Malfoy Manor to rescue the prisoners. When Harry, Ron and Hermione apparate into Hogsmeade, Aberforth protects them from Death Eaters by hiding them in his pub. He voices his opinion that fighting Voldemort is useless , but reluctantly helps the trio (and later, others who participate in the battle) enter Hogwarts through a secret passageway in his pub.

Ariana Dumbledore

Ariana Dumbledore was Albus and Aberforth’s younger sister who died at a young age during a duel between her brothers and Gellert Grindelwald. Aberforth tells Harry that an attack by muggle boys as a child made Ariana mentally disturbed and afraid to use magic. Instead, magic would explode out of her when she could no longer contain it, making her unstable and unable to attend school.

Kendra Dumbledore

Kendra Dumbledore was Albus, Aberforth and Ariana’s mother. After her husband was imprisoned for seeking revenge on the muggles who attacked Ariana, Kendra devoted herself to caring for her daughter. She felt shame about her daughter’s condition and kept largely to herself. Aberforth reports that Kendra was accidentally killed by one of Ariana’s uncontrollable outbursts.

Kreacher

Kreacher is a house elf who served the Black family at 12 Grimmauld Place, until Sirius’ death. Harry inherits Kreacher, along with the house, and orders him to relay information about Sirius’ brother, Regulus, who stole Voldemort’s locket horcrux and replaced it with a fake. Kreacher helps Harry discover the current location of the locket at the Ministry of Magic. As a reward, Harry lets Kreacher keep Regulus’s fake locket. Kreacher appreciates this gesture and is henceforth more convivial to Harry, Ron and Hermione. Later, Kreacher leads the Hogwarts house elves into battle to help defend the castle against Death Eaters.

Regulus Arcturus Black

Regulus Arcturus Black was Sirius’ brother and a former Death Eater who was rumored to have been killed by Lord Voldemort. Kreacher tells Harry how Regulus discovered that Voldemort was creating Horcruxes and, with Kreacher’s help, stole the real locket Horcrux and replaced it with a fake. Protections surrounding the Horcrux killed Regulus before he could destroy the locket, but Kreacher escaped and brought the locket to Grimmauld place.

Sybill Trelawney

Sybill Trelawney is the Hogwarts divination professor. She helped defend the school during the final battle by dropping crystal balls onto approaching Death Eaters.

Phineas Nigellus

Phineas Nigellus Black was a grandfather of Sirius Black’s and a former Hogwarts headmaster. His portrait hangs in 12 Grimmauld Place as well as the Hogwarts headmaster’s office. Because his painted incarnation can move between the two portraits, Phineas is able to pass messages and information from one location to the other. Hermione takes his portrait from 12 Grimmauld Place and stuffs it in her bag to prevent him from being able to see the trio’s location or hear their plans, as they suspect him to be a supporter of Voldemort. Nevertheless, Phineas is able to discern the whereabouts of their camp in the Forest of Dean which allows Snape to deliver the sword of Gryffindor to Harry.

Dolores Umbridge

Dolores Umbridge is the head of the Muggle-Born Registration Commission at the Ministry of Magic. She cruelly prosecutes innocent muggle-born wizards and witches, sending many to Azkaban. She writes a propaganda pamphlet, Mudbloods and the Dangers They Pose to a Peaceful Pureblood Society which she uses to promote her anti-muggle ideology. Umbridge takes Voldemort’s locket horcrux, an heirloom of Salazar Slytherin’s, as a bribe from Mundungus Fletcher, but does not know it is a horcrux. She feeds off of the dark magic in the locket and wears it while interrogating muggle borns. Harry, Ron and Hermione succeed in stealing the locket when they infiltrate the Ministry.

Lucius Malfoy

Lucius Malfoy is a formerly high-ranking Death Eater and father of Harry’s schoolmate and nemesis, Draco Malfoy. Desperate to regain Voldemort’s trust after repeated failures to carry out the Dark Lord’s orders, Malfoy allows his home to become the center of Death Eater operations. Voldemort takes Malfoy’s wand to use against Harry since his own wand shares a core with Harry’s and is, thus, unable to function properly against him. Snatchers bring Harry to Malfoy Manor which Lucius believes will lead Voldemort to forgive him. Instead Lucius is punished again when Harry gets away. When fighting begins at Hogwarts, Lucius begs to be allowed to find and retrieve Draco from the fight. Toward the end of the battle, Lucius retreats from fighting, abandoning Voldemort to find his son.

Narcissa Malfoy

Narcissa Malfoy is a Death Eater, wife to Lucius and mother to Draco. She is also Bellatrix Lestrange’s sister. She is present in the forest when Harry sacrifices himself, but is more concerned with the safety of her son inside the castle than Voldemort’s victory. When Voldemort asks her to confirm that Harry is dead, Narcissa asks Harry whether or not Draco is alive. When Harry confirms, Narcissa lies and tells Voldemort that the boy is dead.

Draco Malfoy

Draco Malfoy is a seventh year Hogwarts student. Although he sides with Lord Voldemort, like most of his family, Draco’s actions reveal his ambivalence about the Dark Lord’s regime. When asked to confirm Harry’s identity after Harry is captured by Snatchers, Draco lies and says he’s not sure. Harry steals Draco’s wand during a skirmish at Malfoy Manor. When Harry comes back to Hogwarts, Draco decides to pursue him and try to deliver Harry personally to Voldemort to restore his family’s good standing. Draco is unsuccessful in doing so and nearly dies when Crabbe loses control over Fiendfyre in the Room of Requirement. Harry saves Draco’s life and Draco spends the remainder of the battle trying to stay out of the thick of the fighting.

Minerva McGonagall

Minerva McGonagall is the Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts. She remains at the school after it falls under Voldemort’s control in an effort to protect the students. As the final battle approaches, she banishes Snape from the school and orders the evacuation of underage students. Minerva helps secure Hogwarts against advancing Death Eaters to allow Harry more time to look for Ravenclaw’s diadem. She is a critical participant in the final battle and later becomes Headmistress of Hogwarts.

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Filius Flitwick is the Charms professor at Hogwarts and the head of Ravenclaw house. He helps protect students at Hogwarts from the Carrow siblings who are in charge of discipline. When the battle breaks out at the school, Flitwick leads groups of students who wish to stay and help fight.

Pomona Sprout

Pomona Sprout is the Hogwarts herbology professor and head of Hufflepuff house. She helps defend Hogwarts during the final battle by dropping dangerous plants, such as Mandrakes, on Death Eaters.

Horace Slughorn

Horace Slughorn is the Hogwarts potions professor and head of Slytherin house. He leads Slytherins out of the castle to safety and calls in reinforcements from Hogsmeade before returning to fight Voldemort. Horace duels the Dark Lord himself, along with Kingsley and McGonagall during the final moments of the battle.

Aleto Carrow

Aleto Carrow is one of three Death Eaters in charge of discipline at Hogwarts under the new regime. She is also the new professor of Muggle Studies, a class that promotes anti-muggle prejudice. She tries to apprehend Harry in Ravenclaw tower, along with her brother Amycus, but is stunned by Luna Lovegood and tied up by McGonagall.

Amycus Carrow

Amycus Carrow is one of the Death Eaters in charge of discipline at Hogwarts. He also teaches the new Dark Arts class. He tries to apprehend Harry in Ravenclaw tower but is tied up by McGonagall.

Peter Pettigrew

Peter Pettigrew is a Death Eater and rat animagus. He has a magical silver hand, which Voldemort gave him as a replacement for the flesh hand Pettigrew sacrificed three years earlier in order to restore the Dark Lord to full strength. He is given the task of keeping guard over the prisoners at Malfoy Manor. Pettigrew begins to strangle Harry but hesitates when Harry reminds him of a life debt he owes Harry. The silver hand strangles and kills Pettigrew as punishment for this moment of mercy.

Stan Shunpike

Stan Shunpike is the former conductor of the Knight Bus. He is placed under the Imperius Curse by Death Eaters and forced to participate in a plan to pursue and capture Harry. Imperiused, Stan battles members of the Order of the Phoenix, including Harry, who disarms him.

Yaxley

Yaxley is a death eater in charge of the Department for Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic. He uses this position to enforce prejudiced laws and unjustly imprison muggle-born wizards and witches. He participates in the battle at Hogwarts.

Fenrir Greyback

Fenrir Greyback is a werewolf who especially enjoys attacking children. He works for Lord Voldemort and leads a gang of Snatchers hunting muggle-borns and other enemies of the Ministry of Magic. He aids in capturing Harry, Ron and Hermione and delivering them to Malfoy Manor. He later fights for Voldemort in the battle at Hogwarts, where he attacks several students.

Grawp

Grawp is Hagrid’s giant half-brother. He fights alongside the Order of the Phoenix in the battle at Hogwarts.

Cho Chang

Cho Chang is a graduate of Hogwarts who returns to help fight in the battle.

Lee Jordan

Lee Jordan is a graduate of Hogwarts and good friend of the Weasley Twins. He hosts the underground radio show, “Potterwatch”, where he is known by the alias, “River.” Jordan later helps defend Hogwarts in the final battle.

Hannah Abbott

Hannah Abbott is a seventh year Hogwarts student in Hufflepuff house. She helps Neville and Ginny lead revolts against the Death Eater regime at the school and helps fight in the final battle.

Lavender Brown

Lavender Brown is a seventh year Gryffindor student. She is attacked by Fenrir Greyback in the battle at Hogwarts, and probably dies as a result.

Parvati Patil

Parvati Patil is a seventh year Gryffindor student. She fights in the final battle at Hogwarts.

Padma Patil

Padma Patil is a seventh year Ravenclaw student and a prefect. She fights in the final battle at Hogwarts.

Seamus Finnigan

Seamus Finnigan is a seventh year Gryffindor student who fights in the battle at Hogwarts.

Colin Creevey

Colin Creevey is a former Hogwarts student who does not return to Hogwarts for his sixth year of school, due to new policies surrounding muggle borns. He does come back to the school to fight alongside Harry and the Order, but is killed at some point in the battle.

Pansy Parkinson

Pansy Parkinson is a seventh year Slytherin. She speaks up in favor of turning Harry over to Voldemort to spare an attack on Hogwarts. Afterwards, she evacuates the school with her fellow Slytherins and does not return to fight in the battle.

Vincent Crabbe

Vincent Crabbe is a seventh year student at Hogwarts. He flourishes under the new Death Eater regime at the school. When Harry returns to Hogwarts, Crabbe helps Draco Malfoy track down Harry, Ron and Hermione in the Room of Requirement as they seek Ravenclaw’s diadem horcrux. Crabbe conjures deadly Fiendfyre and loses control of the spell, destroying the diadem and losing his own life in the process.

Gregory Goyle

Gregory Goyle is a seventh year student at Hogwarts. When Harry returns to Hogwarts, Goyle helps Crabbe and Malfoy track down Harry, Ron and Hermione in the Room of Requirement. Harry disarms Goyle, while Hermione stuns him.

Nearly-Headless Nick

Nearly-Headless Nick is the ghost of Gryffindor tower. He helps Harry locate The Grey Lady.

Helena Ravenclaw

Helena Ravenclaw/“The Grey Lady” is the ghost of Ravenclaw tower and, in life, was the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw. Harry seeks her out during the early stages of the battle at Hogwarts, seeking information about Ravenclaw’s diadem. Helena reluctantly admits to stealing her mother’s diadem and retreating to Albania. She also admits to telling the young Tom Riddle (Voldemort) the whereabouts of the diadem.

The Bloody Baron

The Bloody Baron is the house-ghost of Slytherin. Harry discovers that, in life, the Baron murdered Helena Ravenclaw and then killed himself out of remorse.

The Fat Friar

The Fat Friar is the house-ghost of Hufflepuff.

Peeves

Peeves is a troublemaking poltergeist who lives at Hogwarts. He helps defend the school during the battle against Voldemort by dropping snargaluff pods on Death Eaters.

Charity Burbage

Charity Burbage is the Hogwarts professor of Muggle Studies under Albus Dumbledore. She is captured, tortured and killed by Lord Voldemort as an example the summer following Albus’ death.

Teddy Lupin

Teddy Lupin is born to Nymphadora Tonks Lupin and Remus Lupin at the height of Voldemort’s power. His parents leave him with his grandmother, Andromeda, when they go to fight in the battle at Hogwarts. Harry, Teddy’s godfather, helps care for the boy after Remus and Tonks are killed.

Betty Braithwaite

Betty Braithwaite is a reporter for The Daily Prophet. She interviews Rita Skeeter about her book, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore.

Ivor Dillonsby

Ivor Dillonsby is a wizard Rita Skeeter interviews for The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore. He claims to have discovered eight of the twelve uses for dragon’s blood, and alleges that Dumbledore stole his papers and tried to pass the discoveries off as his own.

Monsieur Delacour

Monsieur Delacour is Fleur Delacour’s father. He stays at the Burrow and attends his daughter’s wedding.

Viktor Krum

Viktor Krum is a Bulgarian quidditch player who attends Bill and Fleur’s wedding.

Mundungus Fletcher

Mundungus Fletcher is a member of the Order of the Phoenix and a dealer of stolen goods. He participates in the plan to move Harry from Privet Drive to The Burrow, but disapparates when Death Eaters begin to pursue him. Mundungus took the locket horcrux from Grimmauld Place at one point, but it is taken from him by Dolores Umbridge.

Reginald Cattermole

Reginald Cattermole is a Ministry of Magic employee whose muggle-born wife is being held on trial by Dolores Umbridge. Ron uses polyjuice potion to impersonate Cattermole when the trio infiltrate the Ministry to find the locket Horcrux. The real Reginald arrives at the Ministry in time to fetch his wife (who Harry, Ron and Hermione helped free) and makes plans to go into hiding with her and their children.

Mary Cattermole

Mary Cattermole is Reginald Cattermole’s muggle-born wife. She is unfairly put on trial by the Muggle-Born Registration Committee the day Harry, Ron, and Hermione infiltrate the Ministry. The trio helps her escape and tells her to go into hiding.

Albert Runcorn

Albert Runcorn is an employee of the Ministry of Magic who investigates muggle borns. Harry impersonates Runcorn in order to gain access to the Ministry.

Gornuk

Gornuk is a goblin formerly under employ at Gringotts. He goes into hiding after Voldemort seizes power and joins a gang of fellow outlaws including Ted, Tonks and Griphook. He dies resisting capture at the hands of Snatchers.

Dirk Cresswell

Dirk Cresswell is the Head of the Goblin Liaison Office, at least until Voldemort takes control of the Ministry. Cresswell forges a family tree to hide the fact that he is from muggle parentage. He is arrested when Albert Runcorn detects the forgery. He escapes and goes on the run along with Dean Thomas, Ted Tonks and two goblins. He is killed trying to resist capture by a group of Snatchers.

Antioch Peverell

Antioch Peverell was the oldest of the Peverell brothers. According to “The Tale of the Three Brothers” in The Tales of Beedle the Bard, Antioch was the first wizard to possess the Elder Wand, many centuries before Dumbledore.

Cadmus Peverell

Cadmus Peverell was, according to “The Tale of the Three Brothers” the first wizard to possess the Resurrection Stone, which he used to summon his dead lover.

Ignotus Peverell

Ignotus Peverell was the youngest of the Peverell brothers and ancestor of the Potter family. “The Tale of the Three Brothers” describes Ignotus as the wisest and most humble of the three. He was the first wizard to possess the Invisibility Cloak which Harry later inherits.

Scabior

Scabior is one of the Snatchers who apprehends Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

Bogrod

Bogrod is a bank teller at Gringotts. Harry puts Bogrod under the Imperius Curse in order to enter Bellatrix Lestrange’s vault undetected. Bogrod dies from dragon burns as Harry, Ron and Hermione flee the bank.

Lily Luna Potter

Lily Luna Potter is Harry and Ginny’s youngest child. She accompanies her family as they see her two older brothers, Albus and James, off to Hogwarts.

Albus Severus Potter

Albus Severus Potter is Harry and Ginny’s middle child. He is nervous about beginning his first year of Hogwarts and expresses fears that the sorting hat will put him in Slytherin.

James Sirius Potter

James Sirius Potter is Harry and Ginny’s oldest child. He is in Gryffindor house at Hogwarts.

Hugo Weasley

Hugo Weasley is Ron and Hermione’s youngest child.

Rose Weasley

Rose Weasley is Ron and Hermione’s oldest child. She starts at Hogwarts the same year as Albus Severus.