List of minor Slytherin characters
The following are minor fictional characters from the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling in Slytherin House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. For other Slytherin characters, see Lord Voldemort, Severus Snape, Draco Malfoy, and Bellatrix Lestrange. The Slytherin House ghost, the Bloody Baron, is listed in the Hogwarts ghosts article.
Malcolm Baddock
Template:HP character Malcolm Baddock was a student three years younger than Harry. He was sorted into Slytherin in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, between Stewart Ackerley and Eleanor Branstone. His arrival at the Slytherin table was met with applause, although Fred and George Weasley hissed at him, and Harry privately wondered if the first-year was aware of his new house's sinister reputation. Malcolm was never mentioned again in the series and thus nothing else was known about his character.
Miles Bletchley
Template:HP character Miles Bletchley was the Keeper of the Slytherin Quidditch team. He once hit Alicia Spinnet with a jinx from behind in the library just before the Gryffindor-Slytherin match in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Since he was at least a second-year and already part of the Slytherin team when Harry entered Hogwarts, and is still at Hogwarts in Order of the Phoenix, it is safe to assume he was no more than one year older than Harry.
In the movie version of Philosopher's Stone, the Slytherin Keeper, identified as "Bletchley," was female, despite the fact that there were never any girls on the Slytherin team in the series. Bletchley was then played by redheaded actor David Churchyard in Chamber of Secrets, but he was never identified by name. He was called "Kevin Bletchley" in the 2004 non-canon video game Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup.
His whereabouts are unknown after Order of the Phoenix, but in the series finale, Mr. Weasley mentioned to Ron (infiltrating the Ministry of Magic in disguise) a Ministry employee named Bletchley who successfully used a Meteolojinx Recanto spell to make his office stop raining.
Millicent Bulstrode
Template:HP character Millicent Bulstrode was a Slytherin student in Harry's year, and the first Slytherin in the seven-book series to be Sorted. She was described as having a large, square build, and a jutting jaw; her appearance reminded Harry of a picture he saw in Holidays with Hags.
Her role in the books appeared to be similar to Pansy Parkinson's, only being something of a brawny female version of Crabbe and Goyle, physically assaulting Hermione whenever they were pitted against each other. In her second year, Millicent was one of the few participants in Gilderoy Lockhart's short-lived Duelling Club, in which she was paired up with Hermione Granger by Snape. The duelling demonstration eventually turned into a wrestling match between the two, ending with Millicent holding Hermione in a tight, painful headlock. Harry struggled to free Hermione from her grasp, showing she was quite strong.
Hermione later attempted to pose as Millicent in order to covertly collect information from Draco Malfoy in the Slytherin common room. She prepared some Polyjuice Potion, adding a strand of hair she found on her robes after the Duelling Club scuffle. However, the result was disastrous for Hermione as the hair was actually from Millicent's cat, which caused her to take on the cat's appearance in her human form. It took over a month for the effects to completely wear off, with Hermione being released from the hospital in early February, her normal appearance restored to her after being hidden behind bed shades to hide her and spare her the shame and humiliation of being stared at by students.
In Order of the Phoenix, her last appearance in the series, Millicent became a member of Dolores Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad. She confronted Hermione again in Umbridge's office, and was still large enough to overpower Hermione by pinning her against the wall, causing her to cry and gasp for air; she eventually released her but expressed immediate disgust in doing so.
Millicent's tentative blood lineage is given in the 2001 interview special Harry Potter and Me. Like most magic families, her family has a connection to the Black clan. A possible relative named Violetta Bulstrode was wife to Cygnus Black, one of the sons of Phineas Nigellus Black, suggesting a possible distant relation to Draco Malfoy. Her name is likely derived from the character of Mr. Bulstrode in George Eliot's Middlemarch, in which Bulstrode, a wealthy and outwardly pious man, is in reality selfish, greedy, judgmental and cruel, and who is likely guilty of murder in an effort to cover up his shady past.
In the second movie, Millicent is portrayed by Helen Stuart in a non-speaking walk-on role. She was seated behind Malfoy in Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class while the history of the Chamber of Secrets was being explained.
Vincent Crabbe
Template:HP character Vincent Crabbe (born 1979 or 1980, died 1998) is large, has gorilla-like arms, and wears a pudding bowl-style haircut. He is very unintelligent, which makes him little more than a "follower" of Malfoy. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, he joined the Inquisitorial Squad. He is portrayed in the films by Jamie Waylett.
Crabbe is described as being fat, stupid, and a bully. He is entirely lacking in introspection or inquisitiveness: at one point, Harry, Ron and Hermione trick him and Goyle into eating cakes containing a sleeping draught — by leaving the cakes on a bannister. Crabbe seems unable to make up his own mind or to see things his own way; he is generally told what to do. Nonetheless he is depicted as more intelligent than Goyle and in the Half-Blood Prince he quarrels with Malfoy for the first time. In the same book, he and Goyle are turned into girls via Polyjuice Potion.
His and Goyle's personalities are sometimes questioned by some readers, as Slytherins are typically described as "cunning", though the fact they were sorted into Slytherin may have to do with having a desire for power, as his father, Crabbe Sr, is a Death Eater, which is often considered another Slytherin trait. It is also possible that they do not fit into the other houses as well as they fit into Slytherin. At the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, he and Goyle are left feeling lonely, after their leader and friend Draco Malfoy leaves the school just before the end of the term.
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Crabbe has sided with the Death Eaters more strongly than either Goyle or Draco himself. He speaks for the first time, his voice being described as oddly soft for someone with his huge frame. Despite the fact that he's still not mentally quick, he has developed into a surprisingly powerful wizard, possibly as a result of Amycus Carrow's Dark Arts classes.
He and Goyle are mentioned as having excelled in inflicting the Cruciatus Curse on other pupils under Carrow's direction - "The first time they were the best in something" according to Neville Longbottom's account. At the same time, he becomes increasingly independent of Draco Malfoy, well-aware of the Malfoy Family's losing favour with Voldemort. However, while Crabbe gains superficial knowledge of many powerful Dark spells, he is unable to take them as seriously as they deserve or properly control them.
He defies Draco's order to not kill Harry and throws around the killing curse casually, as just another dueling ploy. Finally, he summons Fiendfyre which proves his own demise, as he never learned how to undo it, and he is left to burn to death. His Fiendfyre spell, fortunately, also destroys one of Voldemort's Horcruxes.
Marcus Flint
Template:HP character Marcus Flint is Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team during Harry Potter's first three years at Hogwarts. He is described as "looking like he has some troll blood in him".Template:HP1 Flint and Gryffindor Captain Oliver Wood seem to share a mutual dislike, as their "handshakes" before matches often turn into attempts to break each other's fingers. Flint blocked Harry's broom in book 1, which stopped him from catching the Snitch.
Marcus Flint is a fifth year student in Harry's first year, and is still in school two years later, but he is not mentioned in the fourth book. However, in older copies of the first book, he was a sixth year, leading to confusion regarding his appearance in the third book. Rowling explained this in an online chat by saying that he failed his exams[1]: in contradiction to her own published changes. Explanation notwithstanding, Harry Potter fans have taken to calling minor textual errors in the series "Flints" after this particular mistake.
It's possible that Flint shares some ancestry with the "Noble and Most Ancient House of Black": Ursula Flint was the wife of Phineas Nigellus, and many of the other important wizarding families (Malfoy, Crouch, Longbottom, Potter, etc.) married into (or descended from) the Black family tree.
Flint appeared in the first two movies and was portrayed by Jamie Yeates, who sported a set of false teeth for the role. He was accidentally omitted from the cast listing in the Philosopher's Stone closing credits, with Will Theakston (Terence Higgs) incorrectly listed in his stead as having played Flint. This mistake was amended in Chamber of Secrets; unfortunately, however, Yeates' last name was misspelled ("Yeats").
Gregory Goyle
Template:HP character Gregory Goyle (born c.1980), typically referred to simply as Goyle, is a fictional character in the Harry Potter books. He is friends with Draco Malfoy, generally following him around and doing his bidding. He seems to lack all intelligence, magical talent, and independent thought, and thus uses only his size and strength to bully other students or scare off anyone who threatens Malfoy. Goyle is usually mentioned alongside Vincent Crabbe, who is his friend and fellow lackey of Draco. Goyle is generally represented as the less intelligent of the two. He nearly fails his exams in his first year and is not able to give Dolores Umbridge a simple answer after being questioned about Hagrid's lessons. Goyle, along with Crabbe, fails his Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L in his fifth year. His father, Goyle Sr, is a Death Eater. Goyle started his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with Malfoy and Crabbe.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, he joined the Inquisitorial Squad. At the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, he and Crabbe are left feeling lonely, after their leader and friend Draco Malfoy leaves the school just before the end of the term. At the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Goyle attempts to take Ravenclaw's Diadem, the 6th horcrux of Voldemort, along with Crabbe and Malfoy from the Room of Requirement.
During the fight between the trio and Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Goyle is knocked unconscious. When Crabbe turns the Room of Requirement into an inferno with a Fiendfyre spell, Malfoy drags Goyle to relative safety until both are saved by Harry and Ron. Crabbe is killed by his own Fiendfyre. Goyle and Malfoy are left mourning for the loss of their friend. This was Goyle's last mention in the series, and his ultimate fate and later occupation are unknown.
Daphne Greengrass
Template:HP character Daphne Greengrass appears in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, being called in to take the practical portion of an OWLS exam at the same time as Hermione Granger.
Daphne is tentatively considered a pure-blood Slytherin based on a BBC interview with J.K. Rowling entitled Harry Potter and Me, wherein Rowling allowed screenshots to be taken of her notebooks, specifically a page containing the names, genders, houses, and parentage of all the students in Harry's year. Greengrass's given name seems to have been 'Queenie' then, but it was changed prior to her actual mention in the books. These notebooks are not considered canon, however, as they too often contradict information later found in the books.
Harper
Harper (first name unknown) was a reserve seeker during at least one Slytherin Quidditch match in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He is in the same year as Ginny Weasley, who describes him as "an idiot." Not much else is known about him.
Montague
Template:HP character Montague is a Chaser of the Slytherin Quidditch team, replacing Marcus Flint as team captain during Harry's fifth year. He is described as having a similar build to Dudley Dursley, and is larger than Crabbe and Goyle. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, he grabbed Katie Bell's head during the overly physical Quidditch Cup final, saying he thought she was the Quaffle.
He became part of Dolores Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad in the fifth novel, but was shoved headfirst into the Vanishing Cabinet by Fred and George Weasley as he attempted to dock fifty points from Gryffindor. He spent several weeks stuck in limbo in the cabinet and barely managed to escape by Apparating out, nearly dying in the process. He eventually turned up jammed into a toilet; Malfoy interrupted Snape's last Occlumency session with Harry to deliver this news. Though he was successfully extracted, Montague remained in a state of disorientation and under Madam Pomfrey's care in the hospital wing for weeks.
Montague's predicament is mentioned again in Half-Blood Prince, in which Malfoy finds out that the inside of the cabinet is stuck halfway between Hogwarts and Borgin and Burkes, and uses this as part of a plot with the Death Eaters.
His first name was "Graham" in the non-canon 2004 video game Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup.
Theodore Nott
Template:HP character Theodore Nott is a "weedy-looking boy" in Slytherin House, but is not friends with Malfoy and other Slytherin students. His father, Nott, is a very elderly widower and Death Eater. In book 5, Theodore can be seen in the library with Crabbe, Goyle, and Malfoy, looking very angry at Harry as he walked by because Harry had named all of their fathers as Death Eaters in the magazine The Quibbler. According to Rowling, Theodore is "a clever loner who does not feel the need to join any gang, including Malfoy's." Nott, though, was seen sitting and talking with Malfoy in Book 5 and sniggering with him in Horace Slughorn's Potions class in Book 6.
Nott is the only known Slytherin of Harry Potter's year who can see Thestrals,[2] meaning he has seen someone die. His father and Slughorn were old friends, and, while on the Hogwarts Express, Slughorn waylaid Blaise Zabini and inquired after Theodore and Mr. Nott. Zabini answered that Nott Sr. was a Death Eater currently imprisoned in Azkaban for breaking into the Department of Mysteries last June. Slughorn, not wanting any association with Death Eaters, was not pleased, and thus invited Blaise instead of Nott into his "Slug Club."
A subplot that Rowling eventually cut from the series storyline was to have featured Malfoy and Nott talking in the garden of the Malfoys' manor, which would have been one of the few times that Malfoy would be seen conversing with someone he considered an equal, as Rowling has said that Nott is just as pureblooded as Malfoy and somewhat cleverer.
Though not officially determined, it is suspected that Nott is likely the unnamed Slytherin boy (played by Bronson Webb) who was seen with Malfoy and Crabbe in a number of scenes in the film version of Prisoner of Azkaban.
Pansy Parkinson
Template:HP character Pansy, (c. 1980 -) described as a "pug-faced girl," first appears in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone at the broom flying class. During it, she teases Parvati Patil who defended Neville Longbottom when Draco throws away his Remembrall. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban she starts crying after Draco is attacked by the hippogriff Buckbeak, and is concerned enough to follow him to the hospital wing. Rowling establishes a firmer connection between Pansy and Draco when she accompanies him to the Yule Ball during the Triwizard Tournament in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. As well, on the train ride to Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Draco's head lay in Pansy's lap as she stroked his hair, wearing a smug expression. She also waited for him to take her hand just before leaving the Hogwarts Express. Rowling uses Pansy's character as a foil to Hermione Granger, whom she often taunts. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Pansy is among the characters who feeds Rita Skeeter false information on Harry, Hermione and Hagrid. A year later, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, she crudely remarks to Dolores Umbridge that it is difficult to understand Hagrid when he speaks and that everyone hated his subject. In that book, she is appointed a Slytherin prefect along with Draco, and joins the Inquisitorial Squad. She used her power and influence as prefect to direct the Slytherin students in a choir to sing Weasley is our King in the Quidditch games. During the scene in which Dumbledore's Army members attempt to escape from the Room of Requirement, Pansy searches for female D.A. members in the girls' lavatory and grabs the list of names as evidence. Later in the book, Pansy and other Squad members are jinxed during a student rebellion after Fred and George Weasley's departure from Hogwarts.
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Lord Voldemort demands Hogwarts to surrender Harry Potter to prevent his Death Eaters from attacking, Pansy stands up, urging Minerva McGonagall to hand Harry over; immediately thereafter, the Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs rise and point their wands at her threateningly, and she leaves with the other Slytherins rather than staying to fight.
Though her role in the series is relatively minor, she is Draco Malfoy's female counterpart and apparent love interest, and often speaks as the leader of the Slytherin girls, as Malfoy acts as the informal leader of the boys. It is unsure if the two pursued a love interest after Hogwarts; in the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, set years later, Draco Malfoy's wife is present, but it does not mention her by name.
Adrian Pucey
Template:HP character Adrian Pucey is a student at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books. He serves as a Chaser on the Slytherin house Quidditch team, and was the second Chaser to score on Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but is also noticeably absent from the Inquisitorial Squad. During Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, he dropped the Quaffle because he was too busy looking at the Snitch as it flew past his left ear. Because he was on the Slytherin Quidditch Team and thus must have been at least a second year during Harry's first year at Hogwarts, he must have left at or before the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Pucey appeared briefly in the first two movies, but had no dialogue. He was portrayed by actor Scot Fearn in both instances.
Due to a mistake in the closing credits of Philosopher's Stone, Fearn is erroneously listed as having played Slytherin Seeker Terence Higgs, while David Holmes was credited with the role of Pucey. Will Theakston actually played Higgs, while Holmes did not play any specific character in the film; he instead performed stuntwork for many Quidditch scenes. Though these errors were corrected in Chamber of Secrets, Fearn's name was misspelled in both films as "Scott Fern."
Urquhart
Template:HP character Urquhart (first name unknown) is the Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team during Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts. When he shakes Harry's hand before the Gryffindor-Slytherin match, he crushes it in a vice grip. He plays the position of Chaser.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix a portrait of Urquhart Rackharrow (1612-1697) is mounted in St. Mungo's. It is stated that he invented the Entrail-Expelling Curse, which apparently expels the internal organs.
Vaisey
Vaisey was a chaser for the Slytherin Quidditch team. He was said to be their best chaser during the fall of 1996, but was hit by a Bludger a week before the Gryffindor-Slytherin Quidditch match and could not play.
C. Warrington
Template:HP character C. Warrington is listed as a Chaser for Slytherin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and as someone who tried to get into the Triwizard Tournament. To the Gryffindors, he apparently resembles a sloth. He was the first Chaser to score on Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and was later seen as a member of the Inquisitorial Squad.
Blaise Zabini
Template:HP character Blaise Zabini is a black, tall, good-looking boy, with high cheekbones and long, slanting eyes. He has a famously beautiful mother who has been widowed seven times. Each of her husbands died mysteriously, and after each death she inherited a large amount of gold. It is not known which of the seven husbands, if any, was Blaise's biological father. Blaise is described as extremely vain, and like other Slytherins in his year, has strong prejudices against Muggle-borns and blood traitors.
While his name was mentioned during the Sorting ceremony in the first book, he finally made his first proper appearance in the sixth book. He is a Slytherin student in the same year as Harry Potter. In the sixth volume, Blaise is one of the students invited to lunch on the Hogwarts Express by Professor Slughorn, who is sizing up potential new members for his "Slug Club". Blaise apparently passes the test, as he continues to receive invitations to Slughorn's parties once the school year begins. He does not seem to have a high opinion of his fellow members, if his comments to Draco Malfoy on the Hogwarts Express in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are any indication, yet in spite of that he does continue to accept the invitations.
While on that train ride, Pansy Parkinson accuses him of thinking Ginny Weasley pretty; he does not deny this, but says that he wouldn't glance twice at a blood traitor no matter how she looked. Nothing else has been mentioned of a possible romance between Blaise and another character.
Before the release of Half-Blood Prince, the only information known about this character was that Blaise was a Slytherin in Harry's year. As a result, Blaise's gender and nature were hotly debated by fans and both male and female versions of the character were heavily featured in fan fiction. Rowling then confirmed on her web site that Blaise was male and that he would appear in at least another book.
The name Blaise is said to have been carried by Merlin's master.[citation needed]
References
- [1] "Why did Marcus Flint do an extra year at Hogwarts?" from the J.K.Rowling official site
- [2] "Is Theodore Nott the 'stringy' Slytherin mentioned in the Thestral class scene?" from the J.K.Rowling official site
- [3] J.K. Rowling interview: Blaise Zabini is male and will appear in future books
