The Battle of Hogwarts showed us different sides of many characters that we’d known for years. Here are the ones that shone when their beloved home was under threat.
After all, our journey with Slughorn was a tricky one – this is the man that favoured
It’s the measure of a very special story that its characters feel so real to you, it’s almost as if they’re your own friends.
Remus Lupin – Anger Remus Lupin: fondly remembered as a kind man with a slightly
Take our Sirius-ly hard quiz to find out how well you know Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black.
Sirius Black was a mysterious man: we even thought he was a murderer for a while.
Have you ever watched the credits roll on a movie and thought,‘What on earth does a gaffer do? Who is this best boy?’ Let me try to explain…
There’s a scuffle, some murmuring into a walkie-talkie and a man in boots, holding
Which characters are a chip off the ol’ block, and which have serious daddy issues?
He was a thin man, going bald, but the little hair he had was as red as any of his
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Quirrell was a nervous man, distinctive for his stutter and turban, although it became
There was some seriously questionable parenting going on in Harry Potter’s world, and rather a dearth of dads, but there’s no doubt that some of our favourite characters got that little bit farther…
But this kind man, who married a Muggle, spent his entire life looking for a cure
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Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus
While re-reading Philosopher’s Stone, you’re bound to notice a few familiar names cropping up. Here are some we’ve spotted.
Dedalus Diggle Before he knew he was a wizard, Harry met a ‘tiny man in a violet
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Devoted to Newt’s animals as much as she was the man himself, Bunty was so reliable
