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== Wizards and witches ==

 

 

A reporter for the ''Daily Prophet'' known for her "enchantingly nasty" and often slanderous writings. She is {{spoiler|an unregistered animagus who can transform into a beetle}}, a fact that makes it easy for her to eavesdrop on people and reveal their darkest secrets to everyone.

 

* [[Twisting the Words]]: Rita writes only what she cares for what would make the most popular story, and so half her work is twisting the facts and words to fit her often slanderous version. [[Blatant Lies|The other half is flat-out lying]].

 

 

A world-renowned Bulgarian Quidditch player and the Durmstrang Triwizard Tournament champion. He becomes romantically involved with Hermione during his stay at Hogwarts, much to Ron's fury. He later shows up at Bill and Fleur's wedding, where he is angered by Xenophilius Lovegood's Deathly Hallows necklace. He explains to Harry that the symbol was the mark of Grindelwald. He remains in contact with Hermione, but only as pen pals.

 

* [[Wronski Feint]]: Uses the [[Trope Namer]] in the Quidditch World Cup.

 

 

The Headmaster of the Durmstrang Institute. Karkaroff is a former Death Eater who avoided imprisonment in Azkaban by becoming an informant for the Ministry and selling out several of his former comrades. He arrives at Hogwarts in the fourth book as one of the judges of the Triwizard Tournament. {{spoiler|When Voldemort returns, Karkaroff goes into hiding and is later found dead}}.

* [[Evil Teacher]]

* [[Foil]]: To Snape, who also gave up being a Death Eater, but for very different reasons.

* [[Put on a Bus]] -> {{spoiler|[[Bus Crash]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Red Herring]]}}: His main purpose.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]

 

 

The half-giantess Headmistress of the Beauxbatons Academy. Madame Maxime arrives at Hogwarts in the fourth book as one of the judges of the Triwizard Tournament and develops a relationship with Hagrid. When Voldemort returns, she goes on a mission with Hagrid to recruit the remaining giants in Britain to the fight against the Death Eaters.

* [[Love Interest]]: To Hagrid.

 

 

Gabrielle is Fleur's little sister, and looks exactly like a younger version of her. During the Second Task of the Triwizard Tournament, Gabrielle is placed in the lake as the person Fleur would miss most. Fleur is not able to reach her, so Harry Potter brings her to the surface alongside Ron. This gains Harry extra points for "moral fiber."

 

* [[Precocious Crush]]

 

 

Xenophilius "Xeno" Lovegood is a rather mad wizard who edits the ''Quibbler'' and is the father of Luna. He lives in the area of Ottery St. Catchpole, not far from the Weasleys, in a house that looks like a black tower. He believes in things few other people do, such as the Deathly Hallows, the Crumple-Horned Snorckack, and government conspiracies.

 

 

* [[Agent Mulder]]

* [[Windmill Crusader]]

 

 

A dark wizard defeated by Dumbledore years before the events of the series. In the final book of the series, it is revealed that he and Dumbledore had previously been working together to find the Deathly Hallows, become masters over death, and put Muggles under the domination of Wizards. Their friendship ended when Grindelwald attacked Dumbledore's brother Aberforth and the fight that ensued killed their sister Ariana.

 

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Mentioned on Dumbledore's Chocolate Frog Card in the first book, then never mentioned or referenced again until the final book, where he plays a major role in the [[Backstory]].

* [[Closet Key]]

* [[Evil Former Friend]]

* [[Evil Sorcerer]]

* [[Teen Genius]]

 

The teenaged girl, abused by her father and brother (due to them thinking she was a Squib), who [[Slipping a Mickey|drugged Tom Riddle Sr. with a potion]], marrying him when he was too infatuated with the potion to consent. When she became pregnant, she stopped giving him the drug, apparently believing he had fallen in love with her. He quickly left, and Merope, at 19, gave birth to Voldemort.

 

* [[Death by Childbirth]]: She dies giving birth to Tom Riddle, Jr., who later renames himself Voldemort.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Being abandoned by Tom Riddle, Sr.

* [[Expy]]: Of Mayella from ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]''.

* [[Posthumous Character]]

* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: She did this to Tom Riddle, Sr. once both her father and brother were locked away in Azkaban and she had an opportunity.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: on Tom Riddle, Sr. before she [[Slipping a Mickey|tricked him into drinking a]] [[Love Potion]]

* Yandere: For Tom Riddle, Sr., ''big time''. She [[Stalker with a Crush|stalked him]], [[Slipping a Mickey|drugged him with a]] [[Love Potion]], and being abandoned by him plunged her into so deep a depression that she couldn't even go on after giving birth to his child.

 

Sirius's mother, who sympathized with Voldemort's goals but did not join the Death Eaters. She lives on through a portrait of herself in 12 Grimmauld Place which has a Permanent Sticking Charm applied to it.

 

* [[Black Shirt]]

* [[Evil Matriarch]]: From what Sirius tells us, anyway.

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]]: Justified due to the Permanent Sticking Charm.

 

== House elves ==

 

 

A house elf who initially serves the abusive Malfoy family. Unlike his masters, he admires Harry and tries to warn him and protect him when Lucius Malfoy orchestrates the opening of the Chamber of Secrets...in [[Stop Helping Me!|unfortunate ways]]. He is eventually freed thanks to Harry and gets new employment in the kitchens at Hogwarts, from where he occasionally lends Harry a hand.

 

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: In the second book.

 

 

A house elf who serves the Black family. He shares the same ideologies as many of the pure-blood wizards, and looks down on [[Muggle]]-borns. Sirius Black [[Jerkass Woobie|treats him harshly]], which leads to some [[It Got Worse|unforunate events]] at the end of ''Order of the Phoenix''.

 

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: {{spoiler|To Regulus Black, and later to Harry at the end of ''Deathly Hallows''.}}

 

The Crouch family house-elf. She is extremely loyal to Barty Crouch, Sr. and [[Happiness in Slavery|very happy with her lot in life]]. For years, she cared for Crouch's imprisoned son, but she was freed as punishment for failing to keep him under control at the Quidditch World Cup. Winky eventually came to work at Hogwarts, where she was very unhappy and constantly worried about how her master was getting on without her. Remaining loyal to Crouch, Sr. even after he had sacked her, she refused to divulge any of his dark secrets.

 

 

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* [[Apron Matron]]: Augusta Longbottom.

 

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