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** [[Word of Dante|Matthew Lewis]], for one, believes he {{spoiler|dated Luna for the summer following his seventh year, but they broke up and he eventually married Hannah.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Supporting Leader]]: he leads Dumbledore's Army in resistance to the Carrows' regime in [[''Deathly Hallows]]''}}

* [[Action Girl]]: Of the [[Magical Girl]] type. She accompanies Harry to the Department of Mysteries in the fifth book, re-grouped Dumbledore's Army in ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' along with Neville and Luna, fought in the Battle of Hogwarts, and even took on [[The Dragon|Bellatrix Lestrange]] with Luna and Hermione.

** Unless you count her [[Chekhov's Gunman]] cameo in the first book, Ginny has her smallest role in ''[[Prisoner of Azkaban]]''. In the film, she had only a [[Mandatory Line]] and she didn't fare much better in the book version. Her last mention is in the thirteenth chapter of a twenty-two chapter book. She scolds Fred for being insensitive about Scabbers' death in one line and then disappears until ''[[Goblet of Fire]]''.

* [[Out of Focus]]: Ginny pretty much becomes a background character during book 3 and 4. ''This changes come ''Order of the Phoenix.''.

* [[Rescue Romance]]: It takes a few books to take off, but her and Harry's first major interaction is Harry taking on a giant snake and a [[Soul Fragment]] of Voldemort to save her. It should be noted that she had feelings for Harry ''before'' he rescued her though.

Dean Thomas is a boy in Harry's year who is popular and likes drawing. His friendship with Harry is strained in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'', in which Harry feels insanely jealous because Dean dates Ginny. But after Harry and Ginny end up together, Dean is not bitter, and helps them in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]''. He is a member of Dumbledore's Army and participates in the Battle of Hogwarts.

** And unforuntatelyunfortunately, [[Character Focus|what role he did have in the last book]] was not included in the movie.

** [[Chekhov's Gun]]: In ''Deathly Hallows Part Two'', {{spoiler|his knowledge onof explosives comes in useful when they need to blow up the bridge separating Hogwarts from the army of Snatchers.}}

* [[Nerves of Steel]]: In hindsight, everything about ''Potterwatch'', where he was the announcer and implied to be the creator, shows how strong is nerves are

Colin Creevey is a boy in the year below Harry's who is a self-professed fan. He is always walking around with his camera, and wants to get Harry's autograph. He is targeted in ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' for being a Muggle-born wizard, and joins Dumbledore's Army. {{spoiler|He is killed in the Battle of Hogwarts.}}

* [[Keet]]

* {{spoiler|[[Spared Byby the Adaptation]]}}: Due to suffering from [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]] and being replaced by [[Composite Character]] Nigel. However, he actually ''does'' make a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo in the last film.

Nigel Wespurt is a small Gryffindor boy who joined Hogwarts in 1994 and first appeared in ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''. He is a big fan of Harry's, and tries to get his autograph. Later on, he joins Dumbledore's Army and participates in the battle of Hogwarts.

* {{spoiler|[[Death by Adaptation]]:}} {{spoiler|In the original cut of the ''Deathly Hallows'' film, he dies, but his death is not shown in the theatrical release, leaving his final fate unclear.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Death by Adaptation]]: It is made clear she is dead following the attack by Greyback in the film version of ''Deathly Hallows'', despite her surviving in the novel}}.

** More specifically, in the book she is attacked by [[Complete Monster|Fenrir Greyback]], being raked by his claws, albeit while he's in human form. In the film, {{spoiler|he has pretty clearly torn her throat out and is ''[[I'm a Humanitarian|eating her]]'' when the Trio comes across him during the battle.}}

** Which is made all the more sad in the eighth film, {{spoiler|after she is mauled by Greyback, you see Parvati and Trelawney covering her body with a sheet in the aftermath of the first battle.}}

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Originally portrayed by Jennifer Smith in a small non-speaking role in the ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' film; when she was given a larger role in ''Half-Blood Prince'' and ''Deathly Hallows'', Jessie Cave was cast in the role.

* [[Sure Why Not]]: Because she was never given a [[Canon|proper description in the books]], the Fandomfandom eventually decided that she was blonde, buxom, and a bit of a ditz - [[Unfortunate Implications|despite the fact two different black actresses had played her]] prior to ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Half -Blood Prince (film)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.]]''. The producers eventually cast [[Jessie Cave]]... who is blonde, buxom, and [[Large Ham|playsplayed the character as ditzy as she cancould get away with.]]

** Granted, in each of those previous roles, one would have to do [[All There in the Manual|a bit of research]] to figure out that either of those girls was indeed Lavender. Additionally, a quote from the ''HBP'' book - something about Ron being so [[Make-Out Kids|closely intertwined it was hard to tell whose hands were whose...]] - gave the producers a bit more to go on.

Katie Bell is another Gryffindor Chaser. She joins Dumbledore's Army. During Harry's sixth year, she is incapacitated by a cursed opal necklace that keeps her out of Hogwarts for several months. She graduates, but returns for the Battle of Hogwarts, which she survives. By the time of ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Half -Blood Prince]]'', she and Harry are the two most senior members of the Gryffindor Quidditch team.

Romilda is a Gryffindor girl in a lower year than Harry's. She has a strong crush on him, and when she is introduced to the readers in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|Harry Potter]]'', she tries to get Harry to join her on the Hogwarts Express, but offends him by insulting his friends. At Christmas, she gives Harry some Chocolate Cauldrons spiked with love potion, which Ron eats, leading to his poisoning. She is a gossip, and does not think about things seriously.

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: To Harry.

* [[Foil]]: To Lavender Brown. Both Romilda and Lavender are the [[Abhorrent Admirer]] to Harry and Ron, respectively. The difference between them is that Lavender is a silly ditz who doesn't realize how annoying she is while Romilda is a snobby bitch who doesn't ''care'' how annoying she is. You can [[Alas, Poor Scrappy|feel sorry for Lavender getting her heart broken]], but with Romilda, you know her heart was never involved in the first place.

By the last book, {{spoiler|he appears in the Room of Requirement with his cronies to stop Harry, Ron, and Hermione from... whatever it is they're doing (The Trio is finding the last Horcrux, but Draco and company don't know it). One of his cronies turns on him and unleashes a [[Hellfire|Fiendfyre]] that ends up incinerating the whole room and killing himself. Harry goes and saves Draco anyhow, which in turn saves his own ass later on. Nineteen years later, Draco is married (but to Astoria Greengrass, not to his marginalnominal school love interest Pansy Parkinson) and has a son, [[Awesome McCoolname|Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy]]}}.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type II --> Type IV. In Book 6 &and 7. Before that, he's a ''huge'' [[Jerkass]].

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: {{spoiler|Realizes this thanks to Dumbledore at the climax of the 6thsixth book. By the 7thseventh book, it is fairly clear that he does not want anything to do with the Death Eaters anymore, and only remains on Voldemort's side out of fear.}}

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: {{spoiler|By the end of the 6thsixth book, Harry actually feels a bit of sympathy for Malfoy. Harry and the gang even save Malfoy in ''DH'', quite a few times. Ron says it best: "That's the second time we've saved your life tonight, you two-faced bastard!"}}

* [[Karma Houdini]]: ForHe's the son of a prominent wizarding family, which means that the Hogwarts staff cannot give him a harsh punishment. This also means that all the crap he pulled during Harry's school years, he gets almost no retribution. A good example is when he insulted Harry's dead mother and did not get any punishment for this, while Harry received a ban from Quidditch for punching him.

** And earlier {{spoiler|when he didn't tell Bellatrix that it was indeed Harry they had caught.}}

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]] / [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Frequently.

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: To Ron. They both come from old pure-blood families, but Malfoy [[Fantastic Racism|looks down on Muggle-borns and considers them inferior,]], while Ron is just as accepting of Muggle-borns and half-bloods as his father.

* [[Troll]]: Malfoy's preferred method of bullying. Particularly noticeable in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Prisoner of Azkaban (novel)|Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' where he provokes Buckbeak into attacking him in order to get Hagrid sacked, and again in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Order of Thethe Phoenix (novel)|Order Ofof Thethe Phoenix]]'' when he taunts Harry into attacking him, resulting in Harry being thrown off the Gryffindor Quidditch team.

* {{spoiler|[[Death by Adaptation]]}} / {{spoiler|[[Spared by the Adaptation]]}}: Due to Jamie Waylett's trouble with the law, Crabbe was written out of the last two films and Goyle {{spoiler|was killed off instead}}.

* [[The Voiceless]]: They don't have a single line of dialogue for the whole first six books. Crabbe's [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] moment in ''Deathly Hallows'' is all the more shocking by the fact that he [[Suddenly Voiced|actually gets to talk]].

* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]/[[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]]: Is played by fair -skinned, dark -haired actresses in the films despite the absence of any physical description of her hair and skin colour in the books.

Blaise Zabini is a Slytherin student in Harry's year and an associate of Draco Malfoy. He's left [[The Ghost|unseen]] for the first five books, but finally gets a physical description and role in ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Half-Blood Prince (novel)|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''. Although he doesn't take part in bullying like his peers, he shares their same [[Fantastic Racism|prejudiced views.]]

* [[Black Widow]]: His mother is a famous witch who married and widowed 7seven times, with all her dead husbands leaving her mountains and mountains of gold.

* [[OC Stand-In]]: Until [[''Half -Blood Prince]]'' was released. Even after, he's still arguably the most frequent target of this.

* [[The Unseen]]: For the first 5five books. This led to an interesting case of [[Fanon]] considering both his personality and Gender. He was later described as being black in the sixth book.

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* [[OC Stand-In]]: Not as much as Blaise, but he is actually quite popular in Fanfictionfanfiction.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: A subplot that Rowling eventually cut from the series storyline was to have featured Theodore and Draco Malfoy talking in the garden of Malfoy Manor, which would have been one of the few times that Draco would be seen conversing with someone he regarded as an equal, as Rowling said that Theodore was just as pure-blooded as him (and even somewhat cleverer). Rowling stated that she liked the scene so much that she tried to use it twice: first in [[''Chamber of Secrets]]'' and second in [[''Goblet of Fire]]''.

Another bullying Slytherin, not part of Draco's gang ''per se'' but apparently quite intimidating in her own right.

** Somewhat a case of [[Deconstructed Trope]], as it is brought up that Luna faces the treatment that many real life Cloud Cuckoolanders face during the educational years. She has, for example, always been an easy target of teasing by other students, and before her 4thfourth year, her only friend was Ginny. Neither of these facts seem to bother her especially much, though.

* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: Has a variety of both ridiculous and seemingly credible conspiracy theories. While the [[Arbitrary Skepticism]] for her imaginary animals might be justified, the skeptismskepticism for the conspiracies is...not. The Wizarding world is just so riddled with secret plots that the only reason the stuff Luna believes seems silly is that is ''sounds'' silly. And silly they do sound:

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Or rather the reverse of that; freaks are lonely. She got better by the 5thfifth book, though.

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: [[Word of God|J.K.Rowling]] confirmed that, as a Magizoologist, Luna discovers a great dealnumber of creatures nobody else thought existed, ''including'' some mentioned in ''The Quibbler''. However, she never discovers a [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Crumple-Horned Snorkack.]]

* [[Oracular Urchin]] - Especially how her actress looks and portrays her. Lampshaded in that {{spoiler|a future son is named Lysander, from the fairy-filled play, "''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream"]]''}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Promoted to Love Interest]]: To Neville in the eighth movie, but even then it apparently doesn't last long according to the actors.}}

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: ''Literally'' no.number 6six; counting the main [[Power Trio]] and first two members of her secondary trio (Neville and Ginny), Luna doesn't even get a ''name-drop'' until Bookbook 5five.

** Actually, in true Rowling style, the Lovegoods are mentioned in passing as attending the Quidditch World Cup in [[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the ''Goblet of Fire|Harry Potter]]''.

*** However, one wonders if Jo actually had the Lovegoods completely fleshed out at that point. It's implied that the Lovegoods are interested in Quidditch, which is emphatically not the case during [[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The ''Half-Blood Prince|Harry Potter]]'', when Luna spends most of the game looking at the clouds instead of commenting.

* [[Culture Equals Costume]]: Wears a sari to the Yule Ball in the film of ''Goblet of Fire''.

* [[British Accents]]/ [[Bonnie Scotland]]: Scottish in the movies, forprobably whateverbecause reasonKatie Leung is from Scotland.

* [[Culture Equals Costume]]: Wears a [[Qipao]] to the Yule Ball in the film of ''Goblet of Fire''.

* [[Truth Serum]]: In the film of ''Order of the Phoenix'', this is what makes her [[The Stool Pigeon]].

Ravenclaw student. Member of Lockhart's DuellingDueling Club. Joins Dumbledore's Army and, at the end of the fifth book, saves Harry from an attack by Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle. In the seventh book, he hears about the Trio's raid on Gringotts and escape on the dragon, and is beaten up by the Carrows for yelling about it in the Great Hall. He later participates in the Battle of Hogwarts.

Ravenclaw student, and later on a prefect. He joined Dumbledore's Army, and later on particpatedparticipated in the Battle of Hogwarts.

A member of Cho's [[Girl Posse]] and apparently the only one to stick with her after Cedric's death. Cho dragged Marietta along to join Dumbledore's Army with her. However, Marietta was part of the crowd which believed Harry to be a liar due to the fact that her mother worked for the Ministry. After six months of keeping her silence, Marietta betrayed the D.A. to Umbridge, but ended up getting the word "SNEAK" written across her face in purple pimples due to a jinx Hermione placed on the parchment they signed. [[Word of God]] says the pimples eventually faded, but left a few scars.

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* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: A series first.}}

A pompous and dramatic pure-blood Hufflepuff student in Harry's year. First appears in Book 2two. He is loyal to his friends and later becomes a fairly prominent supporting character.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: In [[The Bible]], Zacharias was a man who was temporarily struck dumb for doubting the word of the Lord. In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', Zacharias is a boy who is temporarily shocked into silence by Fred and George for doubting the word of Harry.

** In the [[HalfHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (novel)|sixth book]] Hepzibah Smith is mentioned to be a descendent of Helga Hufflepuff. If Zacharias is Smith's descendent then that might explain why he's in Hufflepuff House despite not showing the usual qualities.

* [[Name's the Same]]: Not to be confused with a more lovable dirty coward who is a Doctordoctor. [[Lost in Space|Doctor Zachary Smith.]]

* [[I Warned You]]: Hannah insists in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' that Sirius Black is evading the manhunt by turning himself into a flowering shrub. It turned out {{spoiler|she was mostly right, except that he was turning into a dog, not a plant}}. However, the trope ends up subverted because {{spoiler|she not only does NOT''not'' get to say "I warned you" to anyone, she never even finds out how close she was to the truth}}.