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The Ministry of Magic is a fictional British bureaucratic government Department in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling.

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[edit] Ludo Bagman

Harry Potter character
Ludovic Bagman
First appearance Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire

Ludovic "Ludo" Bagman is a former, highly successful Beater for the Wimbourne Wasps, whose good looks have gone a bit to seed; his nose is squashed in (apparently having been broken by a stray bludger) and he is quite a bit thicker around the middle than he was in his Quidditch days. The character is somewhat of a celebrity and is the head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports in the Ministry of Magic. It is revealed in the book that Bagman was accused of being a Death Eater about 13 years before the events in the fourth book because he had given information to recently discovered Death Eater Augustus Rookwood. Rowling uses Dumbledore's Pensieve to provide the character's backstory with regards to his trial and subsequent acquittal by the Wizengamot. It is revealed that he had believed Rookwood, who was his father's friend, to be beyond suspicion, and that, consequently, he had thought that he was aiding the Ministry by passing the information on to him.

Bagman loved gambling, which got him in financial trouble so severe that he paid some of his creditors (such as Fred and George Weasley and the father of Lee Jordan) with disappearing Leprechaun Gold, after they had gambled on the Quidditch World Cup. After the World Cup final, some goblins cornered him in the woods outside the stadium, took all the gold he had on him, and it still didn't cover all his debts. To clear his debts with the goblins, Bagman made a bet on the Triwizard Tournament (he was one of the Tournament's judges). He bet the goblins that Harry Potter would win. He tried to help Harry over the course of the Tournament, giving him a perfect score in the First Task even though he was injured, and offering him advice. Harry did win the Tournament (tying with Cedric Diggory since they both finished the Third Task together and had equal points from the first two), but Bagman did not win the bet: the goblins argued that Harry had tied with Cedric Diggory, and Bagman was betting he would win outright. Bagman ran away after the Third Task of the Tournament and his current whereabouts are unknown — we know that he has not yet repaid his debts to the goblins. One problem is that he is not fluent in Gobbledegook, the Goblin language. He only knows one word - bladvak (meaning "pickax").

In Quidditch Through the Ages, Bagman was one of the people who gave the book praise, saying: Bet you anything it'll be a best-seller. Go on, I bet you.

Bagman's character was cut from the film adaptation of book four, although he was featured in an earlier draft (and it was reported that Martin Landham had won the role).

[edit] Amelia Bones

Harry Potter character
Amelia Susan Bones
Parentage Pure-blood
Actor Sian Thomas
First appearance Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix

Amelia Susan Bones (d. July 1996) was the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. She is described as being a square-jawed witch with close-cropped grey hair and a monocle.

Harry's classmate from Hufflepuff, Susan Bones, is her niece. Her brother Edgar Bones was a member of the Order of the Phoenix during the first war and was killed together with his wife and children by Death Eaters.

Madam Bones sat on the Wizengamot and presided over Harry's trial in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, in which Cornelius Fudge acted as the prosecutor and Albus Dumbledore was the defence counsel. Despite poor treatment of Harry by Fudge, Madam Bones managed to keep the trial fairly unbiased and Harry was acquitted by a large majority of the court. During the trial, Madam Bones expressed admiration for Harry's ability to produce a corporeal Patronus at such a young age.

According to Cornelius Fudge, Bones is believed to have been brutally murdered by Voldemort himself shortly before the events that take place in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Fudge, the recently-dismissed Minister for Magic, said that all the evidence at the scene suggested she put up a good fight. The Muggle Prime Minister also referred to her as a "middle-aged woman that lived alone." Afterwards, some members of the Order of the Phoenix referred to her as one of the greatest witches of the era (her abilities were such that Voldemort may have chosen to kill her personally), and several wizards felt deeply troubled by Bones' death.

British actress Sian Thomas portrayed Bones in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.[1]

[edit] Dirk Cresswell

Harry Potter character
Dirk Cresswell
Parentage Muggle-born
First appearance Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Dirk Cresswell is the Head of the Goblin Liaison Office. He is Muggle-born, and a favourite student of his old teacher Horace Slughorn. Albert Runcorn exposed Cresswell's falsification of his family tree and caused him to be sent to Azkaban. However, halfway there, he Stunned the Auror Dawlish who had been Confunded and escaped. He was killed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Snatchers along with Gornuk the goblin and Ted Tonks while on the run from Death Eaters, leaving behind a wife and at least two sons. Cuthbert Mockridge is, as revealed by Mr. Weasley during Chapter Seven (Bagman and Crouch) in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the Head of the Goblin Liaison Office up to at least the August of 1995, though before the July of 1997, he was replaced by Dirk Cresswell.

[edit] Barty Crouch Senior

Harry Potter character
Barty Crouch Sr
Barty Crouch
Roger Lloyd-Pack as Barty Crouch
in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Parentage Pure-blood
Actor Roger Lloyd-Pack
First appearance Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire

Bartemius "Barty" Crouch, the elder, was the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement when Lord Voldemort first came to power. He became as ruthless as some on the Dark Side, and gave Aurors powers to kill rather than capture suspected Death Eaters who resisted arrest. He sent Sirius Black to the wizard prison Azkaban without a trial. Crouch appeared to be the favourite to become the next Minister for Magic, when his own son, Barty Crouch Jr, was caught with Death Eaters who were trying to bring Voldemort back to power. Crouch gave his son a trial before sending him to Azkaban; however, according to Sirius, the trial was a sham, merely a public demonstration of how much he hated the boy.

About a year after the trial, Crouch's terminally ill wife begged for her son's life to be saved, so Crouch gave her Polyjuice Potion that made her take on her son's appearance while their son drank some that caused him to take on his mother's appearance, and thus escape Azkaban. After the supposed death of his son in prison, public sympathy fell on Crouch Jr; the wizarding world placed all the blame on Crouch Sr, accusing him of driving his son to join the Death Eaters because of his neglect of his family. After the scandal, Crouch lost much of his popularity and he was shunted sideways to a post as the head of the Department of International Magical Co-operation.

Barty Crouch Senior makes his first appearance in the series at the Quidditch world cup in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Crouch accuses Harry Potter of attempting to set off the Dark Mark, and when Winky is found to have Harry’s wand, he angrily dismisses Winky, as the house-elf was supposed to look after his son who was always under an Invisibility Cloak. Voldemort and his servant Wormtail showed up at the Crouch family home and put Barty Crouch under the Imperius Curse, freeing Crouch Jr from the Imperius Curse placed on him by his father and thus rejoining Voldemort. Crouch continues to appear in public at first and is one of the five judges at the Triwizard Tournament, attempting to judge the contestants fairly. However, worried that Barty Crouch would fight the Imperius Curse, Voldemort later kept him imprisoned within the house and had him communicate exclusively through supervised owl post. Percy Weasley, who had become Crouch's loyal aid and was known to Crouch as Weatherby, replaced him as the British's Ministry's representative on the Triwizard judging panel.

Later Crouch Sr, who had escaped from his home, meets Harry Potter and Viktor Krum in the Forbidden Forest and begs to see Dumbledore. However, Harry, while on his way to inform Dumbledore of the events, unwittingly alerts Crouch Jr in the disguise of Mad-Eye Moody to his father's presence. Crouch Jr instantly goes to the Forest, proceeds to kill his own father, transfigures his body into a bone, and buries it on the Hogwarts grounds.

[edit] Dawlish

Harry Potter character
Dawlish
Actor Richard Leaf
First appearance Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Dawlish is an Auror. He is very capable, self-assured and is described as a "tough-looking wizard" with "very short, wiry" grey hair. He left Hogwarts with Outstandings in all his N.E.W.T.s. It is noted he continuously tries to take on wizards/witches who always outdo him.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Dawlish accompanies Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge to Hogwarts to confront Harry about the secret Dumbledore's Army meetings. Dawlish is knocked out along with Kingsley Shacklebolt, Dolores Umbridge and Fudge when Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, who took the blame for the Army on himself, escapes. A few weeks later, Dawlish is among the wizards who attempt to arrest Hagrid when the gamekeeper is sacked by Umbridge. Still later, Dawlish arrives at the Atrium of the Ministry of Magic with Fudge after the battle at the Department of Mysteries is over. Fudge then sends him to the Department of Mysteries to attend to the captured Death Eaters.

Dawlish appears again in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince guarding Hogwarts after the commencement of the Second War. He is sent to follow Dumbledore when the Headmaster leaves school to search for Voldemort's Horcruxes, but is "regretfully" hexed by the Headmaster. He is Confunded by Severus Snape early on in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Due to being Confunded, Dirk Cresswell managed to defeat him and escape halfway on the way to Azkaban. Later, Dawlish is sent to arrest Augusta Longbottom. After a struggle she places Dawlish in St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries and goes on the run.

British actor Richard Leaf portrayed Dawlish in the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.[1]

[edit] Amos Diggory

Harry Potter character
Amos Diggory
Amos Diggory
Jeff Rawle as Amos Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Actor Jeff Rawle
First appearance Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire

Amos Diggory works in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures at the Ministry of Magic, and first appears in a few scenes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Unlike his son, Cedric, who is quite modest, Amos likes to boast about his son's accomplishments and gives Harry a hard time. He is quite emotional and often gets carried away with himself. The Diggory family lives either in or near to the village of Ottery St Catchpole, near the Weasley family and the Lovegoods.

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Amos Diggory finds Winky lying beneath the Dark Mark at the Quidditch World Cup and questions her about what happened. Later, he asks Arthur Weasley to help Alastor Moody out of trouble the day Barty Crouch Jr and Peter Pettigrew kidnap him; thinking the incident is another false alarm from the paranoid Moody, he wants to ensure that Moody's new job at Hogwarts won't be jeopardised. Amos is openly rude to Harry before the Third Task, likely because he is angry that Harry is getting all the Hogwarts publicity in the Triwizard Tournament when Cedric himself was also a selected representative of Hogwarts—making Molly Weasley very angry, and almost starting a confrontation with her before his wife stops him. After his son's death, he is silent, leaving his wife to thank Harry for returning Cedric's body to her and Amos.

British actor Jeff Rawle portrayed Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In contrast to a boastful and impolite portrayal in the books, in the film, Diggory is represented as being quite amicable, however he is still very proud of his son and relentessly cries on Cedric's death.

[edit] Cornelius Fudge

Harry Potter character
Cornelius Fudge
Cornelius Fudge
Robert Hardy as Cornelius Fudge
in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Actor Robert Hardy
First appearance Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Cornelius Oswald Fudge was first introduced in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as the Minister for Magic of Great Britain. Due to the belief that Rubeus Hagrid is controlling Slytherin's Basilisk to attack on Hogwarts, Fudge shows himself in the school to send Hagrid to Azkaban; and also allows the removal of Dumbledore as Headmaster when pressured by Lucius Malfoy. However, it wasn't until Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban that Harry meets Fudge for the first time, who acts very kindly by not pressing charges against him for inflating Aunt Marge, and also advises him to be careful because an escaped convict is at large, suggesting Sirius Black might have a connection to him. When Fudge gets a drink at the Three Broomsticks pub, he inadvertently tells Harry that Sirius was James Potter's best friend and was believed to have betrayed the Potters to Lord Voldemort. Fudge allowed the near-execution of Buckbeak to occur, once again influenced by Lucius Malfoy.

His kindly relationship to Harry suddenly changes in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. When Harry emerges from the Triwizard Tournament's third task after having seen the rebirth of Voldemort, Fudge refuses to believe it, worried about the fallout of announcing Voldemort's return, and that that would be the end of the Wizarding world's years of peace, and decided to merely ignore all of the evidence rather than accept the truth. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Fudge also passes a law allowing him to place Dolores Umbridge, his Senior Undersecretary, as a teacher at Hogwarts; he then appoints her "High Inquisitor," and ultimately Dumbledore's successor as Headmaster, giving her (and by extension, himself) primary control of how Hogwarts is managed, because Fudge is particularly paranoid that Dumbledore is a threat to his power and that he is planning to train the Hogwarts students to overthrow the Ministry. However, this is overturned after Voldemort appears in the Ministry of Magic, which forces Fudge to resign as Minister for Magic and being replaced by Rufus Scrimgeour, though he stays on as a powerless advisor in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

[edit] Bertha Jorkins

Harry Potter character
Bertha Jorkins
First appearance (first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

Bertha Jorkins (b. circa 1957/1958, d. July 1994) was a Ministry of Magic employee killed by Lord Voldemort. Some years before her murder, she accidentally discovered that Barty Crouch Jr, who supposedly died in Azkaban prison, was still alive and being hidden by his father. Barty Crouch Sr silenced her with a too-powerful Memory Charm, permanently damaging her memory. Voldemort greatly damaged her mentally and physically while breaking through the Memory Charm, through which he gained information about the Triwizard Tournament and Crouch Jr. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Voldemort uses Harry in a ritual to restore his body. During the subsequent duel between Harry and Voldemort in the graveyard at Little Hangleton, Bertha is one of the shadows that spills out from Voldemort's wand and helps Harry escape. Rowling later said that her death was used to turn Nagini, Voldemort's snake, into a Horcrux.

Bertha Jorkins was a student at Hogwarts at the same time as James Potter and company. She was known as being nosy, with a good head for gossip.


[edit] Frank and Alice Longbottom

Harry Potter character
Frank and Alice Longbottom
Parentage Pure-blood
First appearance Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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 Lestrange. 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.[2]

[edit] Rufus Scrimgeour

Harry Potter character
Rufus Scrimgeour
First appearance Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Rufus Scrimgeour served as the Minister for Magic of Britain, succeeding Cornelius Fudge, from 1996 until his death in 1997. He is described as looking like an old lion with tawny hair and bushy eyebrows, with yellow eyes and wire-rimmed spectacles, and was heavily battle-scarred from his years of service as an Auror, giving him an appearance of shrewd toughness. Scrimgeour was a more capable leader than Fudge and oversaw the beginning of Lord Voldemort's second reign of terror. Prior to the events of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Scrimgeour headed the Auror Office of the Ministry of Magic. After Fudge's resignation, Scrimgeour was selected to be the next Minister and he visited the Muggle Prime Minister with Fudge, now a powerless advisor, to inform him about recent wizarding events, crucial to internal security.

Scrimgeour sought to raise the wizarding population's morale by asking Harry, who had been labelled as the 'Chosen One', to be seen visiting the Ministry, so that the public would believe that Harry supported the Ministry's actions against Voldemort. Upon becoming Minister, Scrimgeour's desire to use Harry to improve morale was a source of contention between the Minister and Dumbledore, who did not support this idea. Harry also rejected the role primarily because of his own antagonistic history with the Ministry, and the Ministry's treatment of Dumbledore and Stan Shunpike.[3]

Scrimgeour made a short appearance in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows at the Burrow with Albus Dumbledore's will. According to Scrimgeour, only three students were mentioned in the will – Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and Harry Potter. He was murdered shortly after the visit when Death Eaters took over the Ministry of Magic. He was tortured for Harry's whereabouts by Voldemort before he was killed. Harry felt a "rush of gratitude" to hear that Scrimgeour, in his final act, attempted to protect Harry by refusing to disclose his location. With the Ministry in Death Eaters' hands, the official line for Scrimgeour's death was that he resigned.

[edit] Kingsley Shacklebolt

Harry Potter character
Kingsley Shacklebolt

George Harris as Kingsley Shacklebolt
in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Actor George Harris
First appearance Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix

Kingsley Shacklebolt is a senior Auror, who was acting as informer for the Order within the Ministry of Magic when he was first introduced in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, when he volunteered to be one of the members of the Advance Guard that escorted Harry from the Dursleys' home to Number 12, Grimmauld Place. Kingsley was in charge of the search for Sirius Black in the Ministry - considered a prestigious job, as Sirius was the most wanted man in wizarding Britain. Knowing Sirius was innocent, he was supplying the Ministry false information that Sirius was in Tibet. He was present in the scene of the fifth book when Harry was confronted about Dumbledore's Army, after Marietta Edgecombe had betrayed it to Dolores Umbridge. Kingsley swiftly modified Marietta's memory, but to escape the Ministry, Dumbledore was forced to hex him too.

Kingsley takes part in the battle at the Department of Mysteries, and appears to be very skilled at duelling as he is seen fighting two Death Eaters at once. However, after Sirius is killed, he continues the duel with Bellatrix Lestrange, during which Kingsley is hit by a spell that causes a "loud bang" and he hits the ground "yelling in pain". In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the new Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, appoints Kingsley to the Muggle Prime Minister's office. Posing as a secretary, Kingsley is actually the Prime Minister's guard, assigned to protect him from possible attacks by the Death Eaters.

It is revealed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that Kingsley is the only wizard that the Dursleys seem to like, due to his skill at blending in well with Muggles. In that book, he continues to help battle Voldemort. He manages to send a timely warning to Bill and Fleur's wedding when Voldemort overthrows the Ministry of Magic, giving the guests a chance to escape. He continues to guard the Prime Minister, but is eventually forced to flee. He later is heard preaching equal rights for Muggles and Wizards on the radio show Potterwatch under the pseudonym "Royal". During the Battle of Hogwarts Kingsley duels, alongside Horace Slughorn and Minerva McGonagall, with Lord Voldemort himself.

Kingsley is appointed (temporary) Minister for Magic following the death of Voldemort and the deposing of Voldemort's puppet ruler, Pius Thicknesse. However, it was later revealed by Rowling in an interview that Kingsley did become the new Minister for Magic permanently.[4] He revolutionised the Ministry of Magic: some of his accomplishments include removing the Dementors from Azkaban prison and advancing the Auror department, through appointing Harry as department head. Kingsley is an accomplished wizard, seem from his work as an Auror,[clarify] plus the fact that he battled Lord Voldemort personally and did not die.[clarify] The other wizards who have battled Lord Voldemort personally were extremely skilled, such as Albus Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Horace Slughorn and Harry Potter.

[edit] Pius Thicknesse

Harry Potter character
Pius Thicknesse
First appearance Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Pius Thicknesse is first introduced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He is the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the start of the book, when he is placed under the Imperius Curse by Yaxley, who uses his position to infiltrate the senior ranks of the Ministry. Thicknesse is described as being a man with long hair and a beard, which are mostly black but tinged with some grey, along with a great overhanging forehead and glinting eyes.

After the coup in which the Minister for Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, is killed, the Ministry comes under the de facto control of Lord Voldemort, who appoints Thicknesse as his puppet Minister. Thicknesse joins the ranks of the Death Eaters for the rest of the book and fights with them at the Battle of Hogwarts, where he duels against Percy Weasley (who Transfigures him into a sea urchin). Following the end of the battle, the Imperius Curse that was placed upon him is broken. Kingsley Shacklebolt replaces him as interim Minister for Magic.

[edit] Nymphadora Tonks

Harry Potter character
Nymphadora Tonks
Nymphadora Tonks
Natalia Tena as Nymphadora Tonks
in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Parentage Half-blood
Actor Natalia Tena
First appearance Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix

Nymphadora Tonks is a Metamorphmagus, an Auror and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. She is described as having "...a pale heart-shaped face, dark twinkling eyes, and short spiky hair that was a violent shade of violet." Rowling also adds a comical side to Tonks's character: she is notoriously clumsy and unskilled at household spells, like cooking, cleaning, and setting the table, and frequently breaks things and trips. She despises her given name and prefers to be called by her surname alone.

Tonks is an only child. Her mother is Andromeda Black, favorite cousin of Sirius Black and sister to Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange (both née Black). She is therefore Draco Malfoy's first cousin. Andromeda's family, however, disowned her after she married Muggle-born wizard Ted Tonks, meaning that Nymphadora has had little contact with her extended family.

Nymphadora studied at Hogwarts and was sorted into Hufflepuff.[5] The character later mentions that she left Hogwarts and began three years of Auror training. As a Metamorphmagus, she barely had to study for her Concealment and Disguise exam but had difficulty with Stealth and Tracking due to her clumsiness. Nevertheless, she qualifies as an Auror one year before her first appearance in the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Tonks is introduced early as a member of the Order in the fifth book. At the time, she, and senior Auror Kingsley Shacklebolt, were acting as spies for the Order at the Ministry. She helps to escort Harry first from the Dursleys' house to Order headquarters, and later to the Hogwarts Express. Tonks later fights the Death Eaters at the Department of Mysteries, in which she was injured by her aunt, Bellatrix Lestrange, and had to be taken to St Mungo's hospital.

During Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Tonks is stationed at Hogsmeade and assigned to guard Hogwarts. Harry observes she is constantly depressed, rarely smiling or acting friendly. Her hair, normally a vibrant pink, was always a mousy brown colour, her abilities as a Metamorphmagus were also disturbed, and her Patronus changed some time after the battle from its original form to a large, silvery, four-legged animal. Such changes were held to be evidence of extreme shock or strong emotions. However, after Albus Dumbledore's death, it is revealed that Tonks had fallen in love with Remus Lupin, and her patronus had, as a result of this, changed to the form of a werewolf - a creature that Remus turned into every full moon. When he was reluctant to return her affections (believing that he was too old, too poor and it was too dangerous for her to be involved with a werewolf), her depression muted her magical abilities. At Dumbledore's funeral, it appears that Tonks and Lupin were now a couple; they are seen holding hands and Tonks's hair has returned to her favoured pink, signifying that she is happy again.

Early in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Tonks accompanies twelve Order members to take Harry Potter from the Dursleys' home to The Burrow, and before they leave the Dursleys' home, she announces that she recently married Remus Lupin. She flies with Ron, who impersonates Harry using Polyjuice Potion, as a decoy to have Death Eaters thrown off the real Harry's tail. Later in the book, Remus reveals Tonks is pregnant. Remus briefly left Tonks, as he believed he had caused her to be shunned by the wizarding society due to him being a werewolf - but he soon comes to his senses and reunites with her. She gives birth to Teddy Lupin, named after Tonks's father, who had been killed before the child's birth for being Muggle-born. Remus and Tonks choose Harry to be the godfather. Teddy is also a Metamorphmagus, like Tonks, as seen by his frequent hair colour changes right after birth. When Harry returns to Hogwarts in search of the Ravenclaw relic that Lord Voldemort had turned into a Horcrux, both Tonks and Lupin arrive along with other members of the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledore's Army. When the Death Eaters attack Hogwarts to get Harry, both of them join the others to hold off the Death Eaters in order to buy Harry time to find and destroy the Horcrux. During the Battle of Hogwarts, Tonks is killed by Bellatrix, and Lupin is killed by Dolohov, leaving Teddy an orphan left in the care of Tonks's mother Andromeda.[6]

[edit] Others

  • Broderick Bode: A worker in the Department of Mysteries. He is placed under the Imperius Curse by Lucius Malfoy, who sought to obtain the prophecy concerning Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort. Bode suffered spell damage from his attempt to steal the prophecy and was sent to St Mungo's Hospital; he was subsequently strangled by a potted Devil's Snare plant at Christmas to prevent him from revealing any information about the Death Eaters' plot.
  • Reginald "Reg" Cattermole: Works for magical maintenance in the Ministry of Magic. In the final book, Ron uses some of his hair to impersonate him to enter into the Ministry to steal Slytherin's locket. His wife, muggle-born Mary Elizabeth Cattermole, was being questioned at the time that Harry, Ron and Hermione stole the locket.
  • Mafalda Hopkirk: Works in the Improper Use of Magic Office in the Ministry, and is responsible for sending out warnings when magic by the underaged is detected. In the final book, Hermione uses some of her hair to impersonate her to enter into the Ministry to steal Slytherin's locket.
  • Griselda Marchbanks: An elder witch who resigned from the Wizengamot and was already working for the Wizarding Examinations Authority in Dumbledore's time as student. Marchbanks personally examines Harry and some of the students of his year's O.W.L.s.
  • Bob Ogden: Rowling used a memory of his that Harry and Dumbledore witnessed to expose the background of the House of Gaunt, Voldemort's maternal family. He worked as a Magical Law Enforcer and was Head of the Magical Law Enforcement Squad before he died.
  • Albert Runcorn: Works for the Ministry of Magic, and while his allegiance is never made explicit, it is implied that he is a supporter of the Death Eaters. In a discussion with Arthur Weasley, he is revealed to have discovered the falsified genealogy for Dirk Cresswell. Harry uses some of his hair to impersonate him to enter into the Ministry to steal Slytherin's locket.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Exclusive: More Potter casting", BBC, 2006-02-10. 
  2. ^ MuggleNet Interview with J.K. Rowling Rather, it is a sad anecdote about Neville's relationship with his mother—his grandmother comments that she has given him so many wrappers that he could paper his room with them.
  3. ^ Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; 2005; Chapter 16; Pages 345-347 (American edition).
  4. ^ "J.K. Rowling Web Chat Transcript", The Leaky Cauldron, 2007-07-30. Retrieved on 2007-07-30. 
  5. ^ What House was Tonks In?
  6. ^ "J.K. Rowling Web Chat Transcript", The Leaky Cauldron, 2007-07-30. Retrieved on 2007-07-30. 
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