Minor members of the Order of the Phoenix

This article is about minor members of the Order of the Phoenix from the Harry Potter books. The Order is a society formed by Albus Dumbledore to fight against Lord Voldemort. It encompasses detail from all seven Harry Potter novels, including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which was published on July 21, 2007.

Caradoc Dearborn

Caradoc Dearborn was a member of the original Order of the Phoenix. He is mentioned in passing in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, where he is in the photograph of the old Order. Dearborn went missing during the First Wizarding War, and was presumably murdered by Death Eaters.

Edgar Bones

Template:HP character Edgar Bones was a member of the Order of the Phoenix in the 1970s who was killed, with his wife and children, by a Death Eater. Alastor Moody said that "he was a great wizard", and Hagrid considered the Bones family to be among the best witches and wizards of the age. Edgar Bones was the brother of Amelia Bones. His niece, Susan Bones, is a Hufflepuff girl in Harry Potter's year. After the mass breakout of Azkaban Prison, she tells Harry that she can relate to him, regarding the circumstances of his fame.

Dedalus Diggle

Template:HP Character Dedalus Diggle is a wizard and a member of the Order of the Phoenix and part of the Advance Guard who helps Harry Potter escape from the Dursleys' house in Book 5. Harry also remembers Diggle as bowing to him once outside a shop. In the first book, when he recalls the incident, he remembers Aunt Petunia being very frightened. Harry met Diggle in the Leaky Cauldron in Philosopher's Stone. He can be seen in that scene in the movie. Diggle was described by Minerva McGonagall as "never having had much sense", after, on the night of November 1, 1981, he releases shooting stars over Kent to celebrate the downfall of Lord Voldemort. Diggle wears a violet suit with matching top hat, with a small flower tucked into the brim. In the Deathly Hallows, he helped get the Dursleys into a protected area. His house was destroyed by the Death Eaters, although he was not there at the time.

Elphias Doge

Elphias Doge is among the members of the Order of the Phoenix that comes to collect Harry and take him to Grimmauld Place at the begininng of Order of the Phoenix. He is described as being "wheezy-voiced" and "silver-haired." It is also known (according to Moody) that Elphias Doge used to wear a "stupid hat." He writes an obituary of Dumbledore for The Daily Prophet. It is where the reader first learns about Albus Dumbledore's family tragedies. Elphias is notable in the seventh book for being one of the few who openly continues to defend Dumbledore, although his belief wavers at the hands of Ron's aunt Muriel. As students at Hogwarts, Doge and Dumbledore were good friends and planned a trip around the world together. But that was before Dumbledore's mother, Kendra, died.

Benjy Fenwick

Template:HP character Benjy Fenwick was an Order of the Phoenix member during the first war against Lord Voldemort. Moody tells Harry he was blasted to pieces by Death Eaters.

Arabella Figg

Arabella Doreen Figg, better known simply as Mrs Figg, is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. She surreptitiously watches over Harry Potter while he is at home with the family of his mother's sister, the Dursleys. She makes her first appearance as Harry's babysitter, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. She has a lifelong love of cats and often shows photos of her cats to Harry when he is sent to her house, much to his displeasure.

Though she maintains a good Muggle cover, Mrs Figg is actually a Squib, a non-magical being born to a family of wizards. She does "a roaring trade" in cross-bred cats and Kneazles, their magical variant. Mrs. Figg even belongs to the Order of the Phoenix and functions as one of Albus Dumbledore's liaisons between the magical and Muggle worlds.

Her forename is of Scottish origin, derived from "Annabella"; however, an alternate form of "Arabel" in the Middle Ages was "Orabel", derived from the Latin word "Orabilis", meaning "To Invoke (a Saint)". One might make a tenuous connection between this and her attempt to rescue Harry from first the Dementors and then the Wizengamot.

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore refers to "Arabella Figg" as part of "the old crowd", giving the first clue to her true identity. Author J. K. Rowling confirmed that the two characters are the same person, placed near Harry's childhood home to keep an eye on him.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix she aids Harry after he and his cousin Dudley Dursley are attacked by two Dementors, and chooses to reveal herself to him. When the Ministry of Magic tries to have Harry expelled from Hogwarts for underage use of magic (which he did to save himself and Dudley) Mrs Figg's testimony before the Wizengamot is crucial in allowing Harry to stay at Hogwarts. She also reveals that she deliberately made Harry's stays with her unpleasant so that the Dursleys would continue to send him to her.

According to J. K. Rowling's website, Squibs are actually incapable of seeing Dementors. However, Mrs Figg was familiar with the negative feelings caused by those creatures, so she was able to testify on Harry's behalf before the Wizengamot without committing perjury, although she apparently lied about being able to see the Dementors, as demonstrated by saying that the Dementors "ran", and then being corrected - Dementors don't run, they float.

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Mrs Figg attends Dumbledore's funeral at Hogwarts.

Hestia Jones

Hestia Jones is a pink-cheeked, black-haired witch who is part of the advance guard that helps Harry Potter in his escape from the Dursleys in Order of the Phoenix. She is a new member of the Order of the Phoenix. The morning after Harry arrived at headquarters she was standing guard at the Department of Mysteries after Kingsley Shacklebolt's night shift. She is supportive of Dumbledore and believes him when he says Lord Voldemort has returned. Her name comes from the Greek goddess Hestia, the goddess of the hearth and protector of the home. (This is played upon as she is first seen near a toaster.) She escorts the Dursleys from Number 4 Privet Drive into hiding at the beginning of Deathly Hallows, along with Dedalus Diggle.

Frank and Alice Longbottom

Template:HP character Frank and Alice Longbottom are the parents of Neville Longbottom, a Gryffindor boy in the same year as Harry Potter at Hogwarts. Along with Alastor Moody, they are remembered as being three of the greatest Aurors the Ministry ever had. According to Dumbledore, they had "thrice defied" Lord Voldemort by 1981.

Their success, however, was cut short, as Frank and Alice were tortured into insanity with the Cruciatus Curse by a group of Death Eaters, led by Bellatrix and Rodolphus Lestrange, and which included Bartemius Crouch Jr. Neville was raised by his paternal grandmother while his parents became permanently resident in a Closed Ward at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. Their torture is remembered by the Order as one of the most horrific crimes committed by Voldemort's followers.

Neville and his grandmother visit Frank and Alice over the holidays. Neither of them recognize him as their son, but Alice rather recognises Neville as someone she likes. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Alice gives Neville a Droobles bubble gum wrapper during his visit at Christmas break and Neville puts it in his pocket even though his grandmother tells him to throw it away, saying that he already has many others. The significance of this incident was hotly debated by fans, but this debate has recently been put to rest in an interview with author J.K. Rowling, in which she stated the event has no further implications towards the plot of the story, but was merely based on events of a friend and his mother with Alzheimer's.

Frank's wand was used by Neville while he attended Hogwarts, until it was broken in Order of the Phoenix in the Department of Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic, by the Death Eater Antonin Dolohov.

Marlene McKinnon

Template:HP character Marlene McKinnon is introduced to the reader in a photograph of the original members of the Order of the Phoenix. She was killed by Death Eaters (among them Travers, according to Igor Karkaroff) together with her whole family, two weeks after the photo was taken. Hagrid considered her one of the best witches of the age. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry reads a letter that his mother wrote to Sirius Black, in which Lily Potter mentions "Wormy" (Peter Pettigrew) visiting. Lily says she thought he seemed down, and attributes this to hearing "the news about the McKinnons" and says that she "cried all evening when [she] heard." She probably died around about early to mid August in 1981.

Dorcas Meadowes

Dorcas Meadowes is introduced to the reader in a photograph of the original members of the Order of the Phoenix. She is the only known member of the Order apart from James and Lily Potter who was personally killed by Lord Voldemort.

Dorcas is a minor character who is only known to some fans through Harry Potter Fan Fiction.

Sturgis Podmore

Template:HP character Sturgis Podmore’s (born ca. 1957) activities in the first Order are unknown other than the fact that he was one of the few members that did not die or lose their senses. In the reconstituted Order, he was at the Ministry of Magic guarding the Prophecy until he was arrested by a Ministry of Magic security guard for trying to break into the Department of Mysteries, and was sentenced to Azkaban for six months. Harry, Ron and Hermione speculate that he had been placed under the Imperius Curse by Lucius Malfoy. Interestingly, his date of birth would place him two to three academic years above Lily and James Potter at Hogwarts.

Sturgis Podmore may also be distantly related to Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore who incidentally is the leader of the Headless Hunt which Gryffindor ghost Nearly Headless Nick has been refused entrance to on a number of occasions.

Emmeline Vance

Template:HP Character Emmeline Vance is a stately-looking witch and part of the advance guard that helps Harry Potter escape from his family, the Dursleys, in Order of the Phoenix. She is seen wearing an emerald green shawl. She was one of the few surviving members of the original Order of the Phoenix.

She is captured and killed by Death Eaters in the summer of 1996 on information Severus Snape claims to have given, as described in The Half-Blood Prince. According to Cornelius Fudge, the recently-dismissed Minister for Magic, in conversation with the Muggle Prime Minister, her murder happened "just round the corner from [The Prime Minister's office]," presumably 10 Downing Street.

As Snape was revealed to have been working on Dumbledore's side all along in Deathly Hallows, it raises doubts as to whether he really did provide information that could have been used to kill her.