Moaning Myrtle[edit]

Moaning Myrtle (born Myrtle Elizabeth Warren[21]) is a ghost that haunts the first floor girls' lavatory
at Hogwarts. True to her nickname, she has a tendency to moan, sob, whine, wail and complain,
especially when death is mentioned. Her constant moping and wailing causes plumbing problems in
the lavatory she haunts. Rowling revealed on her website that Myrtle was in Ravenclaw House[22] and
on Twitter that her full name was Myrtle Elizabeth Warren.[23] Rowling states "The inspiration for
Moaning Myrtle was the frequent presence of a crying girl in communal bathrooms, especially at the
parties and discos of my youth."[24]
In Chamber of Secrets, it is established that the character is the ghost of a Muggle-born witch who
died while a student at Hogwarts, fifty years before the events in the book. Myrtle was hiding in the
first floor girls' lavatory to elude Olive Hornby, a classmate of hers who perpetually tormented her
about her glasses, when the Chamber of Secrets was opened and the basilisk emerged and killed
her. Tom Riddle used her death to create his second Horcrux: his diary.[9] After death, Myrtle haunted
Olive everywhere she went, until Olive complained to the Ministry of Magic, which ordered Myrtle to
return to Hogwarts. Ever since then, Myrtle has sulkily haunted the same lavatory where she died.
Despite living up to her name, she is flirtatious with Harry, especially during his bath, and also makes
lascivious comments regarding Cedric's bath suggesting voyeuristic tendencies.
Myrtle also helps Harry with his second task in the Triwizard Tournament, in Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire. Myrtle tells Harry how to solve the puzzle of the golden egg that he retrieved in the
first task, by opening the egg underwater. She is far less miserable, and enjoys having Harry briefly
to herself to boss around. He later meets her in the lake where she directs him to the merpeople's
village and says they don't like her. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, she comforts Draco,
who is worried about the task Voldemort assigned him. After Harry injures Malfoy
using Sectumsempra, Myrtle quickly spreads the news throughout the school, screaming, "Murder!
Murder in the bathroom!"
Shirley Henderson portrays Myrtle in the film versions of Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire; the
character does not appear in the film version of Half-Blood Prince.

Garrick Ollivander[edit]
Garrick Ollivander is the proprietor of Ollivanders, a prestigious shop which sells magical wands
in Diagon Alley. Although Ollivander is generally presented as a genial elderly man, Harry is
unnerved the first two times he meets him in the series because the wandmaker appears to admire
what Voldemort could do with his original wand and, later, the Elder Wand. Despite his wands'
popularity, he can easily remember the materials and attributes of every wand he has ever sold, as
well as its owner. In Philosopher's Stone, Ollivander assists 11-year-old Harry in selecting his first
wand. Finding Harry a particularly difficult customer to match, Ollivander finally selects an eleven-
inch-long wand made of holly containing a phoenix feather (later revealed to have come from
Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawkes), which is perfectly suited to Harry. Ollivander is intrigued that this
particular wand would suit Harry, and reveals that Fawkes contributed only one other feather, to the
wand being used by Voldemort.
Ollivander appears in Goblet of Fire during the preliminary ceremonies of the Triwizard Tournament,
where he acts as an expert judge for the Weighing of the Wands. In Half-Blood Prince, his shop has
closed and is boarded up, and Ollivander himself is missing. The opening scene of the Half-Blood
Prince film shows Mr Ollivander hooded and forcibly seized from his shop by three Death Eaters.
In Deathly Hallows, Ollivander has been captured by Voldemort and imprisoned at Malfoy
Manor with Luna, with whom he develops an affectionate relationship as the two strive to keep each
other's spirits up. He is among those rescued from the manor by Dobby, after which, at Shell
Cottage, he provides Harry and his friends with some useful information about the Elder Wand. He
later goes into hiding at the home of Auntie Muriel and sends Luna a new wand as a gift.
British actor John Hurt appeared as Ollivander in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone and reprised his role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part
2.
His first name was revealed in Pottermore. It was also revealed that he is married and has a son and
a daughter (the latter deceased). Some of the names of his wandmaker ancestors were also
revealed: Geraint Ollivander (ancestor), Gerbold Octavius Ollivander (paternal grandfather),
Gervaise Ollivander (father).

Pansy Parkinson[edit]
Pansy Parkinson is a Slytherin student who is described as pug-faced and frequently seen with an
unnamed gang of Slytherin girls, acting as their leader, or at least spokeswoman. She is first
mentioned in the Sorting in Philosopher's Stone, and makes her first appearance in Madam Hooch's
flying class, during which she teases Parvati Patil for defending Neville Longbottom after Draco
steals Longbottom's Remembrall. In Prisoner of Azkaban, she cries and follows Malfoy to the
hospital wing after he is attacked by Buckbeak, and continues to fawn over him despite his
deliberate exaggeration of the extent of his injury. They attended the Yule Ball together in Goblet of
Fire.
Throughout the series, Pansy regularly mocks Harry and his companions. She gives false
information on Harry, Hermione, and Hagrid to Rita Skeeter, and openly voices criticisms of Hagrid
to Umbridge in terms of her displeasure about his Care of Magical Creatures class and her difficulty
in understanding his voice. She and other Slytherins also taunt the Gryffindor Quidditch players from
the stands during a morning practice, notably teasing Angelina Johnson about her braided hair.
During a Gryffindor-Slytherin match, which is also Ron's debut as the new Gryffindor Keeper, she
conducts the Slytherin students as they sing a demeaning song entitled "Weasley is our King".
Pansy has a slightly increased role in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. She is made a
Slytherin prefect along with Malfoy, and later joins Dolores Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad.
When Dumbledore's Army flees the Room of Requirement following Dobby's revelation of an
informant, Pansy searches the girls' bathrooms for escaped members and seizes Hermione's list of
names as evidence. However, the Inquisitorial Squad members are jinxed in the midst of a student
rebellion following Fred and George Weasley's departure from Hogwarts. Pansy is thereafter
admitted to the hospital wing and misses a day's worth of lessons after sprouting a pair of antlers.
Near the conclusion of Deathly Hallows, when Voldemort demands Harry's surrender to prevent the
attack on Hogwarts, she advocates handing him to the Death Eaters, only for the other houses to
collectively respond by standing up and pointing their wands at her. She eventually evacuates with
the other Slytherins.
Pansy was portrayed by Katherine Nicholson in the Philosopher's Stone and in the Chamber of
Secrets, Genevieve Gaunt in Prisoner of Azkaban, Charlotte Ritchie in the Goblet of Fire, Lauren
Shotton in Order of Phoenix, by Scarlett Byrne in Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2.

The Peverell brothers[edit]

The Peverell family is first mentioned in Half-Blood Prince as ancestors of Marvolo Gaunt, the
maternal grandfather of Voldemort. In the final book of the series, they are revealed to be the original
owners of the Deathly Hallows, which, according to The Tales of Beedle the Bard, they received
from Death, although Dumbledore believed it is more likely that they created them themselves. The
Peverell lineage continues through its living descendants, including Harry and his children.
After Hermione saw the symbol of the Deathly Hallows on Ignotus Peverell's grave in Godric's
Hollow, Harry recalled Marvolo Gaunt boasting that his ring held the Peverell coat of arms on it, thus
realising that the three brothers were the Peverells. Harry deduces that he is descended from
Ignotus, as the cloak is passed down through his family. Furthermore, Rowling has confirmed that
Harry and Voldemort are indeed distant relatives because of their relation to the Peverells, as the
majority of wizard families share common ancestry.[1]
Antioch Peverell was the eldest of the three Peverell brothers, and owner of the Elder Wand. He was
killed in his sleep after bragging about the wand's invincibility, having won a duel with it. The
murderer then stole the Elder Wand, thus initiating its bloody history.
Cadmus Peverell was the middle of the three Peverell brothers, and owner of the Resurrection
Stone. Using the Stone, he resurrected the girl he had once hoped to marry, who had died an
untimely death. Though she had returned to the mortal world, she did not truly belong there and
suffered. Driven mad by this, he killed himself to join her. The Stone was later embedded in a ring
that ended up belonging to Marvolo Gaunt.
Ignotus Peverell was the youngest of the three Peverell brothers, described in The Tales of Beedle
the Bard as "the humblest and the wisest of the brothers". He was the owner of the Cloak of
Invisibility, due to which, unlike his brothers, he successfully avoided dying for many years, living a
full and long life, and ultimately "greeting Death as a friend." Harry deduces that his invisibility cloak
is the original cloak owned by Ignotus. Unlike other cloaks of invisibility, it has never shown any kind
of fading or damage despite the cloak being passed down through many generations of the Peverell
family and ultimately to Harry. Harry is therefore a descendant of Ignotus Peverell. Both by birthright
and by blood relations, Harry Potter is the rightful owner of the three Deathly Hallows[citation needed], yet
he decides to keep the Cloak only, returning the Elder Wand to Dumbledore's tomb after using it only
to repair his own holly wand, and leaving the Resurrection Stone lost in the Forbidden Forest. In the
film Deathly Hallows Part 2, Harry destroys the Elder Wand, snapping it in half and throwing the
pieces off a bridge.

Madam Rosmerta[edit]
Madam Rosmerta is the landlady of The Three Broomsticks pub. She is described in the books as
"a curvy sort of woman" with curly hair; several students—including Ron—have a crush on her.
In Prisoner of Azkaban, Madam Rosmerta is angered when Dementors are in Hogsmeade as their
presence is scaring away many of her customers. Apart from hosting an informal meeting between
McGonagall, Cornelius Fudge, Filius Flitwick, and Hagrid, she does not play a major role in the early
part of the Harry Potter series.
In Half-Blood Prince it emerges that in order to fulfil his mission to assassinate Dumbledore, Draco
has managed to place Rosmerta under the Imperius Curse. He uses her to pass on a cursed
necklace to Hogwarts student Katie Bell, who accidentally touches the necklace and is herself
subjected to the very harmful curse intended for the Headmaster. Draco also commands her to send
a bottle of poisoned mead to Horace Slughorn intending it to be a Christmas present for
Dumbledore, after overhearing Hermione mentioning that the school security would not recognise
something put in a mislabelled bottle, and knowing that a package from Rosmerta would not be
checked. Malfoy communicates with Rosmerta through enchanted fake Galleons. After Harry and
Dumbledore's adventure in the cave to retrieve a locket they believe to be one of Voldemort's
Horcruxes, they apparate to Hogsmeade, where Madam Rosmerta alerts them to the presence of
the Dark Mark above the school and gives them brooms on which they can travel rapidly back to
Hogwarts, where Draco's plan can be brought to completion. Rosmerta is among those paying
respects at Dumbledore's funeral.
She is named after the Gaulish goddess Rosmerta, whose attributes include abundance and fertility.
Julie Christie appeared as Madam Rosmerta in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Azkaban.

Stan Shunpike[edit]
Stan Shunpike is the young, pimply conductor of the Knight Bus. He speaks with a Cockney accent
and talks to Harry as he travels to London in the first part of Prisoner of Azkaban. He also appears
briefly in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire at the Quidditch World Cup, boasting to a group of
Veela, the Bulgarian team's official mascot, of his ambitious plans to become the next Minister of
Magic. In Order of the Phoenix, he conducts the Knight Bus when Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred,
George, Ginny, Lupin, and Tonks take it to return to Hogwarts after the Christmas holidays. Stan
mentions that he does not believe the media rumours about Harry being insane, though Harry
interprets Stan's actions as not caring how insane someone is as long as he/she is famous enough
to get into the papers.
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Stan is arrested on suspicion of Death Eater activity.
Harry and Dumbledore, however, believe that he is almost certainly not guilty. Even so, Stan is kept
in Azkaban in order for the Ministry of Magic to give the pretence that progress is being made in the
capturing of Death Eaters. When the new Minister for Magic asks Harry to be a sort of mascot for the
Ministry, Harry refuses on the grounds of the Ministry's actions at the time – namely holding Stan
under arrest. In Deathly Hallows, a "strangely blank" looking Stan is among the Death Eaters who
pursue Harry during his escape from Privet Drive. Harry gives himself away to his attackers by
attempting to only disarm Stan, as Harry believes him to be under the Imperius Curse, and is later
reprimanded by Remus Lupin. Later on, when Harry, Ron and Hermione are captured in the forest
by Fenrir Greyback, Ron attempts to pose as Stan only to be immediately disbelieved and told Stan
has "put a bit of work their way" referring to turning in missing or wanted Muggle-borns.
Stan was portrayed by Lee Ingleby in the film adaptation of Prisoner of Azkaban.