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== Gryffindors ==

 

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A socially awkward, forgetful boy who hides a painful past: his parents were tortured by Death Eaters to the point of permanent insanity and don't recognize him anymore. He is the usual [[Butt Monkey]] of Harry's group. Like the protagonists, Neville appears in all seven of the books, with varying importance to the plot. When not at Hogwarts, he lives with an extremely outspoken (and frightening) grandmother, whom he often talks about. Eventually becomes one of Harry's closest friends, and goes through a lot of great [[Character Development]] to become truly ''awesome''.

Nineteen Years Later, {{spoiler|he's married to Hannah Abbott, and he's the herbology professor at Hogwarts.}}

 

* [[All Up to You]]: He gets deputized by Harry during the Battle of Hogwarts to kill the last Horcrux.

* [[Belated Backstory]]: A little bit, mostly regarding his parents.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Mentioning his parents or anything related to them in a disparaging way. The first time it's pressed (by Malfoy), it takes Ron, Harry, Dean and Seamus to hold him back from beating him into the ground. The last time we see it he's being detained of a full grown death eater, who ends up having to call for help to hold him back.

* [[Die or Fly]]: How his magic was revealed.

* [[Dork Knight]]: Somewhere between the noble-hearted but awkward kid he starts out as and the [[Memetic Badass]] he grows up to be, he winds up here.

* [[Heroic Resolve]]: Lots of it, but as he's out of focus we only get hints of it. A notable instance is during Order Of The Phoenix, where it's greatly implied that his increasing devotion (and thus increasing skill) to Dumbledore's Army is tied to a sense of resolve after the person who tortured his parents had escaped from prison.

* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: Depends on whether you find his Uncle Algie's attempts to "scare" the magic out of him funny or not. The book had it [[Played for Laughs]], anyway. See [[Die or Fly]] above.

* [[Inept Mage]]: Up until book five, his only good subject was herbology.

* {{spoiler|[[Maybe Ever After]]}}: With {{spoiler|Luna}} in part 2 of ''The Deathly Hallows''. He told Harry that he was going to make a love confession to her, but whether he did or not is left a little vague. Whether he's with {{spoiler|Luna}} or {{spoiler|Hannah}} in the film epilogue is also unclear.

* [[Missed the Call]]: {{spoiler|The prophecy that predicted [[The Chosen One]] who would defeat Voldemort pointed to two possible candidates -- Neville and Harry. Voldemort chose to go after Harry, thereby (accidentally) collapsing the waveform and cementing Harry as the subject of the prophecy.}}

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: The most [[Tear Jerker|tragic]] case in the series: Alice and Frank Longbottom were tortured into insanity by Death Eaters and are now locked away in St. Mungo, and they're so damaged that ''they can barely recognize their son.'' The fact that his mother doesn't know who he is but knows that she wants to give him presents just makes it worse.

* [[Rebel Leader]]: One of them in ''Deathly Hallows.'' With Harry on the run, he steps in at Hogwarts.

* [[Take Up My Sword]]: {{spoiler|Twice. He continues to lead the rebellion after Harry doesn't return to Hogwarts during the hunt for the Horcruxes, and then when Harry seemingly dies, Neville continues the fight against Voldemort, ''literally'' taking up a Sword (of Gryffindor) in the process. Dude has balls of steel.}}

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Towards Harry. The 5th book and the 7th book shows us this in spades

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Snape]]

* [[You Are Not Alone]]: “HE'S NOT ALONE! HE'S STILL GOT ME!"

 

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The youngest child of the Weasley family and the first daughter born to that line in several generations. Ginny has something of a childhood crush on The Boy Who Lived, and has almost no dialogue during the first four books (because whenever the [[Sympathetic POV]] is near, she's struck dumb by his presence). In the second book, Ginny finally gets to go to Hogwarts... but as she has trouble making friends and feels quite lonely, she's an easy prey for Voldemort's [[Brainwashed|Brainwashing]] through [[Mailer Daemon|his diary]].

 

* [[Accidental Kiss]]: {{spoiler|With Harry, toward the end of book six.}} Not entirely accidental, but not entirely intentional, either.

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Her patronus is a horse.

* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: Her famous "Bat Bogey Hex" sounds outright [[Lovecraftian Superpower|Lovecraftian]].

* [[Damsel in Distress]]: In ''Chamber of Secrets''. Understandable, since she was also the [[Naive Newcomer]] and, well, ''just 11 years old''.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: the films.

** Her name is made even more embarrassing when one realizes how eerily similar ''Ginevra'' and ''Minerva'' are.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]

* [[Mailer Daemon]]: She finds [[Soul Jar|Voldemort's Diary]], and he uses it to sap her [[Life Energy]].

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[Unrequited Love Switcheroo]]

 

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Ron's mischievous next-older brothers, Fred and George stick out for their constant wisecracking, penchant for practical jokes, and lack of educational excellence. They have been friends with Harry for almost as long as Ron has, since they are on the Gryffindor Quidditch team as Beaters. In the grand tradition of Einstein, their poor grades do not stop them from opening a successful business selling joke/novelty items of their own invention.

* [[Black Best Friend]]: Lee Jordan.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: While the Twins are lighthearted even when it comes to their pranks, if you ever harm a child or Hogwarts in any way, they will focus the butt of their pranks on you. Just ask Professor Umbridge.

* [[Break the Cutie|Break The Comedian]]: For most of the series, the twins are almost always in a lighthearted and jovial mood. That is, until [[Darker and Edgier|Book 7]], when {{spoiler|Fred is visibly shaken by George's ''very'' ugly injury and later on, George is devastated by Fred's death, which [[Word of God]] states he never fully got over.}}

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Despite the above, they managed to invent Weasley's Wizard Wheezes and made a decent bit of cash off of it. They simply no longer cared about school by the time of the OWL examinations and were busy crafting their products. Ron mentions that their grades were usually very good before then.

** During their rebellion against Umbridge, they turned part of the castle into a swamp. Flitwick was so impressed with their skill that he decided to leave a section roped off in tribute to them.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Gred and Forge, due to how interchangeable they were {{spoiler|before the seventh book/film.}}

** The nickname actually originated from a joke in the first book. When receiving their Christmas [[Homemade Sweater From Hell]] from Molly Weasley, the twins comment on how Harry's doesn't have his initials sewn on it like theirs.

* {{spoiler|[[Foreshadowing]]: [[Word of God]] stated that she always intended to kill one of them off, and that she always knew it would be Fred. There are several hints of this throughout the series:}}

** {{spoiler|Molly Weasley's [[Parting Words Regret]] in Book 4 when they have a run-in with Death Eaters at the Quidditch World Cup.}}

** {{spoiler|Molly's boggart, which turns into the twins' corpses, among other dead family members [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Harry.]]}}

** {{spoiler|"They'll be murdered in their beds!"}}

* {{spoiler|[[Identical Twin ID Tag]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]: Fred}}.

** {{spoiler|[[Killed Mid-Sentence]]}}

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Nearly every moment with them is hilarious.

* [[The Prankster]]

* [[Twin Switch]]

 

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* [[Black Best Friend]]: To Seamus Finnigan.

* [[Character Focus]]: Starting with the 6th book.

* [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]]: {{spoiler|He was asked to join the Death Eaters, but refused and ran away to protect his wife and baby son. He ended up getting killed.}} Dean never finds out about this.

* [[Disappeared Dad]]

* [[Nice Guy]]: He's one of the few people who is pro-Harry in every single scandal he's in, and barely shows any sign of a grudge when he's dumped in his favor beyond his first knee jerk reaction.

* {{spoiler|[[Romantic False Lead]]}}

* [[Race Lift]]: By accident in the British edition of the first book, which deleted his introduction and reference to his race.

* [[Salt and Pepper]]: With Seamus.

* [[Where Da White Women At?]]: With Ginny, though it didn't last long.

 

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Another boy in Harry's year who is close friends with Dean Thomas. He does not initially believe Harry's claims that Voldemort has returned, instead opting to consider Harry insane, but he eventually comes around, apologizes, and joins Dumbledore's Army. He participates in the Battle of Hogwarts. His role in the battle is expanded in the final film, where he {{spoiler|blows up the covered bridge}}.

* [[Incendiary Exponent]]

* [[Inept Mage]]: In the films, his class projects catching fire or exploding in his face is a [[Running Gag]]. This gag was taken from Neville's ineptitude in the books.

* [[Made of Explodium]]

* [[Salt and Pepper]]: With Dean.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Again, with Dean Thomas.

 

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* [[Large Ham Announcer]]

* [[Large Ham Radio]]

* [[Trickster Archetype]]: In a less direct way that Fred and George when it comes to the acts, but not less mischievous

 

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* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: In the movies, where he and his brother were replaced by [[Composite Character]] Nigel Wespurt.

** He doesn't quite achieve this trope in the books, but he does slip [[Out of Focus]] a lot. {{spoiler|His eventual death is almost a [[Bus Crash]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

* [[Loony Fan]]

 

Colin and his brother Dennis are replaced in the films by:

 

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His character is an amalgamation of the Creevey brothers, of whom only Colin appeared in a film.

* [[Canon Foreigner]]: Being a composite of two book characters, he is exclusive to the films.

* [[Composite Character]]

* [[Keet]]

 

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Parvati Patil is a girl in Harry's year whose twin sister Padma is in Ravenclaw. She is usually seen with Padma and her friend Lavender Brown. She is popular, and considered one of the best-looking girls in the year, but does not seem that intelligent, being usually more concerned with fashion - though she tends to be more sensible and centered than Lavender. Despite sharing a room with Hermione, the two girls are not close. She is Harry's date to the Yule Ball, which goes nowhere fast. She later joins Dumbledore's Army, and participates in the Battle of Hogwarts.

* [[Theme Twin Naming]]

 

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Lavender is a Gryffindor in Harry's year who shares her room with Hermione and Parvati, but is closer to Parvati. She is frivolous and emotional, and does not seem to know magic very well. However, she becomes very interested in Divination, and also joins Dumbledore's Army. She remains peripheral until sixth year, where she manifests interest in Ron, who begins going out with her to spite Hermione. Their relationship declined after Christmas, and ended when Lavender realized that Ron would always be closer to Hermione. {{spoiler|At the Battle of Hogwarts, she was attacked by Fenrir Greyback, but saved by Hermione and Professor Trelawney. She survives, but her future is not known. In the eighth movie, she's not so lucky.}}

* [[Brainless Beauty]]

* [[The Cat Came Back]]: Ron cannot dump her, and each time he tries, she grows more possessive.

* [[The Ditz]]

* [[Dumb Blonde]]

* [[Floral Theme Naming]]

* [[Girl Posse]]: She is in one with Parvati.

* [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]]: She seriously thought Ron would appreciate being called "Won-Won".

* [[Smitten Teenage Girl]]

 

 

The Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team for the first three books. {{spoiler|He returns in ''Deathly Hallows'' to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts.}}

 

* [[Asleep for Days]]: In the first movie, Oliver Wood says to Harry that he was knocked out for a week after taking a Bludger to the head during his first Quidditch game.

* [[Kendo Team Captain]]

* [[Rousing Speech]]: Loves to make these to his team.

* [[Serious Business]]: Quidditch is '''very''' serious business to him.

* [[Shower of Angst]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in the third book after Gryffindor loses to Hufflepuff due to the Dementors knocking Harry out.

'''Fred Weasley:''' Still in the showers. We think he's trying to drown himself. }}

 

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A Chaser on the Quidditch team and Oliver Wood's successor as captain. She returns to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts and later marries George Weasley.

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Badass Long Hair]]

* [[Brown Eyes]]

* [[Settle for Sibling]]

* [[Statuesque Stunner]]

 

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* [[Hot Amazon]]

* [[Living Prop]]: Until we realize the necklace was a failed assassination attempt by Draco Malfoy.

* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]: "The bell rang just as Peeves swooped down on Katie and emptied an entire ink bottle over her head."

 

 

The third of the three Gryffindor Chasers in the earlier books.

* [[Living Prop]]

 

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* [[Alpha Bitch]]

* [[Brainless Beauty]]

* [[Fan Girl]]

** She could also be seen as a foil to Ginny. Both crushed on Harry from afar, but only Romilda acted like a stalker. Come to think of it, you could take almost any bad Harry/Hermione fanfic featuring slut!Ginny, replace all instances of "Ginny" with "Romilda", and the result would be a perfectly in-character Romilda.

* [[Girl Posse]]: Leads one.

** It could be argued that Romilda represents the negative aspects of the Gryffindor house. She is clearly reckless and persistent in her pursuit of Harry and isn't afraid of bad-mouthing Neville and Luna even when they are standing right next to her.

* [[Smitten Teenage Girl]]

* [[Stage Whisper]]: Uses one to insult Neville and Luna.

* [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]]

 

A Gryffindor boy one year above Harry. He is one of the few examples of a bad Gryffindor and embodies some of the worst aspects of the house, namely being a pushy, arrogant [[Jerkass]].

 

== Slytherins ==

 

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Hogwarts' resident bully, despite being smaller than most other Slytherins. Is the son of an influential and filthy rich man, who used to be a Death Eater. Merely bullies Harry throughout the first few books, occasionally setting off a major plot point. Usually seen hanging around with his cronies, Crabbe and Goyle.

By the sixth book, things have taken a major turn: {{spoiler|the newly-resurrected Lord Voldemort demands that Draco assassinate Albus Dumbledore, or die in the process (which is what he's probably hoping for, according to Draco's mother). Draco's mother, in desperation, goes to the [[Reverse Mole]] Snape and begs him to forge an Unbreakable Vow so that he would kill Dumbledore if Draco could not. Sure enough, Snape is the one who does the deed}}.

 

 

* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: Talks a lot of tough talk, and is actually skilled, but he's also a coward. Come book 6, when he joins the Death Eaters, you can't help but [[Jerkass Woobie|feel sorry]] for the guy when he realizes just how out of his league he is.

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]

* [[Break the Haughty]]: During the first 5 books, he never passes an opportunity to insult and demean Harry and/or his friends. But in book 6, his arrogant behavior starts to get less and less prominent to the point he is even crying because of his failure to execute Voldemort's orders.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Up until the sixth film, Draco is mostly used for comic relief.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Wait 'til my father hears about this!" A [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]] as far as the books go, but he does say variations of this three times in the films. (And there's a fourth time when it's [[Borrowed Catchphrase|said by Cormac McLaggen instead.)]]

* [[Dirty Coward]]

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]: The [[Trope Namer]] for [[Draco in Leather Pants]].

* [[Jerk Jock]]

* [[Jerkass]]: For most of the series.

* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Poor Tom Felton said that little kids would sometimes run away from him if they saw him in [[Real Life]], and though it doesn't bother him anymore, it used to hurt his feelings as a kid.

* [[Minor Injury Overreaction]]: More than once in ''Prisoner of Azkaban''.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: His whole family has this going for them, really.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: He's the first character to use the word "mudblood", which is basically the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' equivalent of the N-word.

* [[Princely Young Man]]: The [[Spoiled Brat]] type.

* [[The Rival]]

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: In the final movie.

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Spoiled Brat]]

* [[Starter Villain]]: Acts as a necessary foil to Harry and serves as his main adversary most of the time, since Voldemort isn't always around.

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: With his father and his son.

* [[Theme Naming]]: He is related to the Black family through his mother, which has a tradition of naming its members after constellations. As such, he is named after the Draco constellation.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Well, dull blond, but it looks white in the dark.

 

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Draco's friends/underlings/bodyguards. They are nowhere near intelligent, and are both very large and brutish. They follow Draco everywhere, and when Draco joins the Death Eaters, they follow suit. {{spoiler|Crabbe dies in the Battle of Hogwarts when he sets fire to the Room of Requirement and is trapped inside.}}

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Goyle.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: Crabbe is willing to kill Hermione, whereas Malfoy will not kill.

* {{spoiler|[[Karmic Death]]:Crabbe.}}

* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: {{spoiler|While not skilled or smart by any means, Crabbe reveals himself to be considerably more ruthless than previously thought in the Battle of Hogwarts, where he is able to cast Killing Curses and Fiendfyre without hesitation}}.

* [[Terrible Trio]]

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]

 

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* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: Does not have a pug face (see below) in the films.

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: Is said to have a face like a pug.

* [[Dirty Coward]]: When Voldemort delivers an ultimatum to Hogwarts in Book 7 to either surrender Harry or face a massive siege, she's more than ready to turn him in.

* [[Distaff Counterpart]]: To Draco.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To Ginny and Hermione.

** Pansy seems to be considered Hermione's "show", as Malfoy is Harry's "show". Ultimately, Pansy is Hermione's [[Arch Enemy]] and not Harry's. Harry and Pansy never really even interact with each other, though she does hurl taunts at him.

* [[Floral Theme Naming]]

* [[Girl Posse]]

* [[Lap Pillow]]: Draco rests his head on her lap on the train in ''The Half-Blood Prince''.

* [[The Quisling]]: Is the only student to suggest that Hogwarts should turn Harry over to Voldemort.

* [[Rich Bitch]]

* [[Villainous Cheekbones]]: When played by [[Scarlett Byrne]] - also plays into [[Adaptational Attractiveness]] due to the fact that Scarlett (and [[The Other Darrin|Genevieve or Lauren for that matter]]) are actually quite lovely in [[Real Life]].

 

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* [[Ascended Extra]]: {{spoiler|Since Crabbe's actor was fired before the filming of the final movie, Blaise's character becomes his replacement in the [[Terrible Trio]].}}

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Sort of. He was mentioned as the last person sorted in the first book, but wasn't important, let alone mentioned, until the sixth book, when he suddenly became a supporting player.

* [[Jerkass]]: To everyone, even Draco.

* [[The Quiet One]]

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Insults everyone, prompting Ginny to insult him back with "You're so talented...at posing."

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]

* [[Villainous Cheekbones]]

 

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* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: The Slytherin boy in the third film looks like him, but unlike him, is in Draco Malfoy's gang, and in the credits is not identified as Theodore Nott.

 

 

 

* [[Brawn Hilda]]

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: She's paired with Hermione in the Dueling Club scene in ''Chamber of Secrets'', and when the dust settles after the first round, she's forgone magic and has Hermione in a headlock.

* [[Huge Schoolgirl]]

 

 

 

* [[British Teeth]]

* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: He's still at Hogwarts in the third book even though he should have left at the end of the second. When asked about this, JKR said that either she'd made a mistake or he'd had to repeat his last year, and that she preferred the latter.

 

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These girls only appear in the films. They are young Slytherin girls who are members of the Slug Club, and were seen at Slughorn's Christmas party. In the final film, they and the other Slytherins are evacuated to the dungeons.

== Ravenclaws ==

 

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A [[Cloudcuckoolander]] of staggering proportions, probably because her father edits the Wizarding version of the "Weekly World News." [[Word of God]] claims that she's the anti-Hermione, in that she thinks entirely by faith whereas Hermione thinks entirely by logic. Though an oddball primarily used for [[Plucky Comic Relief|comic relief]], she is also one of Harry's most loyal supporters, forming a secondary [[Power Trio]] with Neville and Ginny that leads Dumbledore's Army in Harry's absence. Has an uncanny ability to speak aloud what others are only thinking.

 

 

* [[Adorkable]]: She isn't really a nerd, but she sure is socially awkward...in a good way.

* [[Alliterative Name]]

** [[Stealth Pun|Stealthily]] [[Punny Name|Punny]] [[Meaningful Name|Name]]: 'Luna' = 'Moon'. 'Moony' = 'Dreamy'. 'Lunacy' = 'Fullmoon-triggered insanity'. Those are obvious, with the right vocabulary. What takes the cake is 'Moon-eyed'. Not only are her eyes constantly wide, bulging, and unblinking in quasi-surprise, pointing to the usual definition, but they are described as "pale" and ''"silvery"''.

* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Has a wide variety of symptoms of all sorts of disorders. Theories on exactly what abound.

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Her Patronus is a hare. Like a [[Moon Rabbit]]!

* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: Not her herself, but how most Hogwarts students see her claims. "Yeah right, Luna. Nargles don't exist, now if you'll excuse me I have to go take care of my griffin."

** Of course, in magical Britain, there are as many witnesses and books written about griffins as there are for say, tigers in real life Britain, justifying that belief. In contrast, Nargle claims are as poorly supported as the Loch Ness Monster to muggles.

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: When being a Quidditch commentator.

* [[Brutal Honesty]]: "I liked the D.A. [[Tear Jerker|It was like having friends]]."

** ''(on Ron)'' "He's not very nice sometimes, is he?"

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: As a [[Charm Point]].

** [[Cuckoolander Commentator]]: In ''Half-Blood Prince''.

** Though the mural [[Stalker Shrine|on her bedroom wall]] may imply that it bothers her more than she lets on.

** She thinks that the Aurors are part of the 'rotfang' conspiracy which trying to bring down the Ministry of Magic by a combination of dark magic and gum disease.

** Rufus Scrimgeour is a vampire, and that the Ministry has an army of heliopaths, which do not really exist.

** Voldemort had just spent the previous year helping Harry win the Triwizard Tournament.

** People in the government are trying to kill Harry.

* [[Creepy Good]]: She is a mild version of this, in that she spouts horrific conspiracy theories and seems to be attuned to whole levels of magic the other characters can't access. She even gets stuck with the nickname "Loony Lovegood" because everyone else thinks she's crazy.

* [[Cute Witch]]

* [[Genki Girl]]: A borderline example. She's usually quite serene, but you should see how hard she laughs at Ron's joke about Goyle.

* [[Hyper Awareness]]

* [[Mad Dreamer]]

* [[Making a Spectacle of Yourself]]: Her Spectrespecs.

* [[Missing Mom]]: Luna's mother had an accident while she was experimenting with magic. Luna was nine.

* [[Mysterious Waif]]

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: "HARRY POTTER! YOU LISTEN TO ME RIGHT NOW!"

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[Poster Gallery Bedroom]]

* [[Promoted Fanboy|Promoted Fangirl]]: Her actress, Evanna Lynch.

**** On the other hand, the fact that she wanted to commentate could indicate that she's interested, just easily distracted. One can imagine the Lovegoods attending the Quidditch World Cup and spending the whole time counting nargles and talking about the secret loves of leprechauns.

* [[Strange Girl]]: Possibly the queen of this trope.

* [[Teen Genius]]: [[Word of God]] says that she's just as smart as Hermione, but they think in different ways.

 

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Padma Patil is Parvati's more studious, but less gregarious, twin. She is Ron's date to the Yule Ball, but he does not want to dance with her, so Parvati and Padma dance with other people. She becomes a prefect, joins Dumbledore's Army, and participates in the Battle of Hogwarts.

 

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Different As Night and Day]]: Is quieter but smarter than Parvati.

* [[Informed Attractiveness]]

* [[Theme Twin Naming]]

 

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Harry's first crush, Cho is a popular, attractive girl and his opposite number on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. A [[Love Triangle]] forms when she starts dating Cedric. She is torn up after Cedric's death and seems to become less popular as a result. She begins showing an interest in Harry because of his connection with Cedric's death, and he has his [[First Kiss]] with her. However, he lacks the emotional maturity to help her deal with her grief over Cedric, and she is unable to move forward herself, so they split up on bad terms. {{spoiler|She participates in the Battle of Hogwarts. In the future, she marries a Muggle.}}

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Her Patronus is a Swan.

* [[Asian and Nerdy]]: Well, smart enough to be a Ravenclaw at least.

* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: After losing Cedric and going out with Harry, she becomes this.

* [[Composite Character]]: Combined with Marietta Edgecombe in the film.

* [[Derailing Love Interests]]: While [[Justified Trope]], Cho becomes a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] after hooking up with Harry. They didn't last that long.

* [[The First Cut Is the Deepest]]

* [[Girl Posse]]

* {{spoiler|[[Her Heart Will Go On]]... eventually.}}

* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]: Sort of one for Ravenclaw.

* [[Nice Girl]]

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Actually deconstructed. She latches on Harry due to ''serious'' psychological problems, rather than merely being smitten; also, Harry only knew her on a shallow basis before dating her, and neither could handle the stress.

* [[Shiny Midnight Black]]

* [[The Stool Pigeon]]: In the fifth film, she takes Marietta's place as this.

* [[There Are No Therapists]]: She gets a lot of flack for using Harry to feel closer to Cedric, when anyone can see what the girl seriously needs is some grief counseling.

 

 

A thin, nervous Ravenclaw whom Slughorn considers recruiting into the Slug Club, as his uncle Damocles invented the Wolfsbane Potion. Belby blows the interview, though, and does not appear in the club meetings. This is changed in the films, where he is seen at the Christmas party. Though it was only as a waiter, and not as a guest.

* [[Actor Existence Failure]]/[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Robert Knox was killed in a fight when he was stabbed while trying to protect his younger brother.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* [[Ambiguously Jewish]]

 

 

Chaser and captain of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. Very popular with the ladies.

 

* [[Estrogen Brigade Bait]]

* [[Kendo Team Captain]]

* [[Kidanova]]: He's described as handsome and seems to be a ladies' man: he snags Fleur as his date to the Yule Ball and later canoodles with her in one of the rosebushes. In the fifth book, he's at Madam Puddifoot's, once again conspicuously kissing a girlfriend, and Cho informs Harry that he asked her out after Cedric died.

 

 

 

In the film, Marietta is cut. Instead, the D.A. is betrayed by Cho herself, [[Truth Serum|though not of her own free will.]]

* [[Composite Character]]: In the movie, her character is absorbed by Cho.

* [[Conflicting Loyalty]]: Torn between her loyalty to Cho and her loyalty to the Ministry.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Cho in-universe (and a fairly significant number of people out-of-universe) feel Marietta's fate was needlessly spiteful.

* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Played with. Cho defends her against Harry even after she ratted on the D.A. Everyone else, however...

== Hufflepuffs ==

 

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Hogwarts Triwizard Tournament champion (In reader's POV, the '''other''' Hogwarts Champion), Cedric is an intelligent and talented Hufflepuff student. He believes in fair play and is very gentlemanly.

 

 

* [[The Ace]]

* [[Always Someone Better]]: The only Seeker in the series to ever defeat Harry in a Quidditch match, though that was also due to Dementors flooding the field. He manages to make Cho, the girl Harry was pining for, his girlfriend, and the students by a great majority favored him over Harry as their Champion. And to top it all off, Cedric was just too nice of a guy for Harry to actually despise him.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: In the movie, but it fits his character.

* [[Chick Magnet]]

* {{spoiler|[[Death of the Hypotenuse]]: Not that it works out for Harry anyway.}}

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: When Hufflepuff won a Quidditch match against Gryffindor, Cedric offered a rematch, since Harry fell of his broom because of Dementors. Despite this being Hufflepuffs first victory against Griffindor in ages and a fair one at that. An even worse example is when he practically won the Triwizard tournament, he wanted to give the victory to Harry because Harry helped him a few times during said tournament.

* [[Jerk Jock]]: Averted since he's actually a pretty good guy, but when he dates Cho, the reader can definitely sympathize with Harry.

* [[The Mario]]: Magical abilities across the board were very good.

* [[Nice Guy]]

* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lion]]: Formerly the [[Trope Namer]].}}

* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: ''Harry'' often refers to him as handsome.

 

 

 

* [[Animal Motifs]]: His Patronus is a boar.

* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]

 

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A member of the D.A. in the fifth book, Zacharias basically exists to complain, usually in a rude manner, about everything Harry does in teaching them. In the next two books, he makes scattered appearance and continues to act like a jerk.

 

* [[Commander Contrarian]]: He apparently only comes to the D.A. meetings to complain about the way Harry teaches them.

* [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]]

* [[Dirty Coward]]: The very last time we see him he's pushing first-year students out of his way while fleeing from what is soon to become Hogwarts' final stand. My hero.

* [[Jerkass]]: His entire character is more or less just being a prick.

* [[Sesquipedalian Smith]]

 

 

Hannah is a Hufflepuff girl who hangs out with Justin Finch-Fletchley, Susan Bones, and Ernie Macmillan. She is very interested in Herbology, and speculates a lot on the weird things that always happen at Hogwarts. She joins Dumbledore's Army in her fifth year. In her sixth year, she is removed from school because her mother is murdered. She later returns to participate in the Battle of Hogwarts. {{spoiler|In the future, she marries Neville Longbottom and becomes the landlady at the Leaky Cauldron.}}

 

* [[Greek Chorus]]

* [[Mr. Exposition|Miss Exposition]]

* [[Missing Mom]]

* [[Regular Character]]: She is the only Hogwarts student from Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw who appears at least once in all seven books.

 

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Susan Bones is another member of the Hufflepuff clique, and was one of the first students to be Sorted. Her aunt Amelia is a senior Ministry official, but she is killed by Lord Voldemort, as were many of Susan's other relatives. At Hogwarts, Susan is friends with Hermione Granger, and later joins Dumbledore's Army. At the first meeting, she asks Harry if he can produce a corporeal Patronus. Later on, she participates in the Battle of Hogwarts.

* [[Fake Brit]]: Eleanor is American, being Chris Colombus's daughter. Not that it matters since she didn't have lines anyway.

 

 

The boy who causes Harry to out himself as a Parselmouth in ''Chamber of Secrets'' and then gets Petrified by the basilisk, fueling Ernie MacMillan & Co.'s suspicions that Harry is the Heir of Slytherin. Later a member of Dumbledore's Army. He is a Muggleborn, and we don't know what became of him after Voldemort came back.

* [[Mouthy Kid]]: Ernie thinks Justin is putting himself in danger by shooting his mouth off to Harry.

* [[Name's the Same]]: No, the actor is not the governor of Pennsylvania. That gentleman is Ed ''Rendell''.

 

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