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The following fictional characters are teachers and staff of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books written by J.K. Rowling. The characters of Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall, and Rubeus Hagrid have their own pages. Alecto and Amycus Carrow are listed under Death Eaters.

Contents 1 Cuthbert Binns 2 Phineas Nigellus Black 3 Argus Filch 4 Firenze 5 Filius Flitwick 6 Gilderoy Lockhart 7 Remus Lupin 8 Alastor Moody 9 Poppy Pomfrey 10 Quirinus Quirrell 11 Horace Slughorn 11.1 Slug Club 12 Pomona Sprout 13 Sybill Trelawney 14 Dolores Umbridge 15 Others 16 References 17 See also

[edit] Cuthbert Binns

Harry Potter character
Cuthbert Binns
Species	Human (Ghost)
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Cuthbert Binns teaches History of Magic and has the distinction of being the only teacher at Hogwarts who is a ghost. It is said that he was so old when he took a nap in a chair in the teachers’ lounge/staff room that he died in his sleep and simply got up to go teach his next class as a ghost. Characters and readers speculate that he is unaware of being dead, but this is contradicted by the fact that in Harry's first class with him, Binns "floated through the blackboard".

His classes are infamous for being dreadfully boring. Binns does not engage with his students at all; rather, he drones interminable rote lectures about "The International Warlock Convention of 1289", or "a subcommittee of Sardinian sorcerers" in a monotonous voice described as sounding "like an old vacuum cleaner". So tied is he to his dull routine that he barely seems to notice he has students. On the one occasion when his class does attempt to quiz him on a historical subject, he cannot remember any of their names, and seems surprised that there is anyone speaking to him. Because of this attitude, he succeeds in teaching none except the most dedicated students.

His forename is derived from the sheet of scribbles, and has never been used by the author in any up-to-date source. However, it unquestionably derives from Rowling.

Binns has not appeared in the films. His explanation in the second book of the legend of the Chamber of Secrets is instead given by Professor McGonagall in the film. In the related video game, Flitwick gives the explanation.

[edit] Phineas Nigellus Black

Harry Potter character
Phineas Nigellus Black
Parentage	Pure-blood
Actor	John Atterbury
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Phineas Nigellus Black (1847–1926), more commonly known as Phineas Nigellus, is the great-great-grandfather of Sirius Black, and a former headmaster of Hogwarts. Sirius claims that Phineas Nigellus was the least popular headmaster Hogwarts ever had. Phineas' portrait hangs in the head master's office along with the portraits of the other ex-headmasters and headmistresses. Like the other portraits in the headmaster's office, the painting of Phineas helps the current headmaster. He does not seem to enjoy doing this. Albus Dumbledore addresses the portrait as if it were the living Nigellus himself.

He does not get along well with his great-great-grandson, young people, or most people for that matter; however, he did seem somewhat upset to find out Sirius, the last male Black, was dead, for purely dynastic or emotional reasons. He is unusual in being a character who openly criticises Harry's often rash behaviour in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. A second portrait of Phineas hangs in the Black family home at 12 Grimmauld Place. Like other characters in portraits in the wizarding world, Phineas can travel between his portraits.

In Order of the Phoenix, Harry uses the bedroom where Phineas’ portrait is hanging, and Phineas gives him messages from Albus Dumbledore. His voice can sometimes still be heard coming from the frame when he is not in it, making sarcastic comments. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hermione Granger removed the portrait from 12 Grimmauld Place and took it with the trio in their quest for Horcruxes; however, it was kept in her beaded bag so that Phineas could not see where they were. It is revealed through Severus Snape's memories that Phineas Nigellus had been aiding Snape and Dumbledore so that they could find the trio. After Voldemort's fall, Phineas said that the Slytherin's contribution in the cause should not be forgotten, referring to his own contribution and also Snape, Slughorn, and the Malfoys participation.

[edit] Argus Filch

Harry Potter character
Argus Filch
Image:Filchgof.jpg David Bradley as Argus Filch in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Parentage	Squib
Actor	David Bradley
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Argus Filch is the caretaker of Hogwarts in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series of books. While he is not a wholly evil character, he is certainly both short- and ill-tempered, which has made him very unpopular with the student body. His knowledge of the secrets and shortcuts of the castle is nearly unparalleled. The only people who have known more were the Marauders and the Weasley twins. He has been known to almost sadistically favour harsh punishments, leading to his alliance of himself with Dolores Umbridge when she imposes such, and to have an obsessive dislike of mud, animate toys, and all other things that might interfere with his creation of an immaculately clean Hogwarts.

Filch is revealed to be a Squib in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when Harry accidentally discovers he is trying to teach himself basic magic from a Kwikspell correspondence course. His inability to use magic in a setting where it would greatly help his duties and the fact that students are learning magic all around him are likely causes of his bitterness. Nonetheless, Filch is at least able to use wizarding devices that have their own innate magic (such as the Secrecy Sensor used in Book 6). Filch appears in the seventh book to complain that students are out of bed – evidently his principal complaint throughout the series. He is promptly informed that the students are on the move because the school is readying for war and to find Peeves. He is then ordered to oversee the evacuation of younger students.

Filch owns a cat named Mrs. Norris to which he has a particular and possessive attachment; perhaps his only such attachment. She acts as a hallway monitor or spy for Filch: if she observes students engaging in suspicious activity or out of bed after curfew, Filch arrives in seconds. She has been known to follow Hagrid everywhere when he goes about to the school, apparently under Filch's orders. According to Rowling, there is nothing particularly magical about Mrs. Norris, other than her being "...just an intelligent (and unpleasant) cat."^[1] It is the ambition of many Hogwarts students to "give [her] a good kick".

His name derives from that of Argus, a figure in Greek mythology notable for having one hundred eyes, and from the informal verb "filch", which means to steal or obtain.

David Bradley has portrayed Filch in all five of the Harry Potter Films as of 2007, and is slated to appear in the sixth movie.

[edit] Firenze

Harry Potter character
Firenze
Image:Firenzeinharrypotter.jpg
Species	Centaur
Voice actor	Ray Fearon
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Firenze is a Centaur and later a teacher at Hogwarts. His first appearance comes towards the end of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in which he rescues Harry from Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest. Having carried Harry to safety on his back, Firenze is involved in an altercation with the other centaur residents in the Forest, who object to the symbolic suggestion that centaurs are subservient to humans. They argue further about the responsibility of centaurs to read the future in the stars and whether it is correct to intervene in the unfolding of that future. Firenze remains with his herd but he is clearly at odds on some issues.

The character does not make another appearance until Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, in which he is appointed by the Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, to teach Divination at Hogwarts in place of Sybill Trelawney, who has been sacked by High Inquisitor Dolores Umbridge. When Harry sees Firenze in class, it is obvious that Firenze has been attacked, and it emerges that he was indeed cast out of the centaur herd for agreeing to answer Dumbledore's request for help. Firenze ignored the centaurs' taboo on assisting humans because he felt he had an obligation to contribute to the struggle against Lord Voldemort. At the end of the fifth book, Firenze remained a member of the teaching staff, and in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince he shares teaching duties with a reinstated Professor Trelawney, a situation which she finds most distasteful. The reason Dumbledore keeps him on is that Firenze would have no place left to go, being an exile from his herd.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, he is seen near the end of the book fighting alongside the other professors of Hogwarts, helping to defend the school against Voldemort and his Death Eaters; it was mentioned that he was wounded on his flanks by the Death Eaters but ultimately survived the battle. Although not mentioned in the series, according to a J. K. Rowling web chat Firenze's herd is later forced to acknowledge that Firenze's pro-human leanings are not shameful and allow him back into the fold.^[2]

He is described in the book, as a blonde centaur with astonishingly blue eyes and a muscled upper body, like all centaurs. Supposedly, he is quite good looking as many of the female population of Hogwarts are attracted to him. Parvati describes him as gorgeous.

[edit] Filius Flitwick

Harry Potter character
Filius Flitwick
Image:Flitwick(GoF).jpg Warwick Davis as Professor Flitwick in the three newest Harry Potter films.
Parentage	Half-blood
Species	Human with a dash of Goblin ancestry
Actor	Warwick Davis
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Filius Flitwick is the Charms Master at Hogwarts and the head of Ravenclaw. Apart from his posts, Professor Flitwick has served Hogwarts in many ways outside of the classroom. He used his magical skills to help decorate the Great Hall at Christmas time in the first book, as well as help guard the Philosopher's Stone by putting charms on a hundred keys so they can fly, making it difficult to find the key to the door of the next chamber. During Harry's second year, Flitwick helped Professor Sinistra carry a petrified Justin Finch-Fletchley to the hospital wing. He taught the front doors to recognise a picture of Sirius Black after his second break-in in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. He helped patrol the perimeter of the maze for the third task of the Triwizard Tournament held in Harry's fourth year. He eventually removed most of the swamp that had been created within the school by Fred and George Weasley in the fifth book in a couple of seconds, though he had previously left the swamp untouched to annoy Dolores Umbridge. He chose to leave a small patch of it because he said he thought it was "a good bit of magic," but it is possible that it was left as a tribute to the legendary Weasley twins.

Near the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Flitwick is summoned by Minerva McGonagall to ask Professor Severus Snape to come to the aid of the Order of the Phoenix against the Death Eaters (Battle of The Tower). However, he is unable to do so, since Snape has stunned him. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows he helps to put protective charms around the castle to hinder Lord Voldemort and his oncoming Death Eaters, and later fights in the Battle of Hogwarts against Voldemort's intruders, battling Yaxley and later defeating Antonin Dolohov (Hermione Granger states that Filius Flitwick was once a duelling champion ^[3] ).

In the film adaptations, Flitwick is portrayed by Warwick Davis. In the films, he is also a music conductor. J. K. Rowling said: "I must admit, I was taken aback when I saw the film Flitwick, who looks very much like a goblin/elf (I’ve never actually asked the filmmakers precisely what he is), because the Flitwick in my imagination simply looks like a very small old man."^[4] However, Rowling mentions on her official website that Flitwick is human, with "a dash of goblin ancestry." His appearance on screen noticably changes in the later films. He takes on a more human look, and many of the elf-like looks he had in the first two films are gone.

[edit] Gilderoy Lockhart

Harry Potter character
Gilderoy Lockhart
Image:Lockhartcos.jpg Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Actor	Kenneth Branagh
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Gilderoy Lockhart is a narcissistic wizarding celebrity who has written many books on his fabulous adventures encountering Dark Creatures. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Lockhart is appointed as Hogwarts' new Defence Against the Dark Arts instructor. In his first lesson, he gives the class a test concerning his many books on his favourite subject, which is himself. He is unpopular amongst the staff and is particularly disliked by Professor Severus Snape, who sought the position Gilderoy holds. Hermione Granger develops a crush on him, much to the disgust of Ron Weasley. Harry dislikes Lockhart in part due to the latter's belief that Harry flew to Hogwarts in a car to make himself more famous. After being photographed together for The Daily Prophet, Gilderoy thinks it put "ideas" of his own fame into Harry's head and that he (Harry) was handing out signed photos of himself. Lockhart is exposed as a fraud when, attempting to avoid entering the Chamber of Secrets, reveals to Ron and Harry that he never performed the amazing feats in his books, but stole other wizards' experiences and erased their memories with a memory charm (the only charm he proved he is skilled at performing). Lockhart claims he was once a nonentity and apparently failed to get himself noticed in youth. While trying to eliminate Harry and Ron's memories to conceal his fraud, the spell backfires due to his use of Ron's broken wand. Consequently, Gilderoy loses his memory and is sent to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

On Christmas in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter sees Lockhart in the hospital, slowly regaining his memory and childishly proud of being able to write joined-up letters (script). Lockhart still receives fan mail, although he has no idea why, and still enjoys signing autographs. Lockhart never fully recovers, despite all efforts to the contrary.^[5] He is harmless and guileless, but at the same time is a danger to himself, as he wanders aimlessly and cannot remember his identity or his location.

J. K. Rowling has said on her site that Lockhart is the only character that she directly based on a person she knew in real life, and that she "barely exaggerated", although she refuses to reveal who it was.^[6]

[edit] Remus Lupin

Harry Potter character
Remus John Lupin
House	Gryffindor
Parentage	Half-blood
Actor	David Thewlis (adult), James Utechin (teenager)
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Remus John Lupin, nicknamed Moony, first appears in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. Long after resigning from his post, Lupin remains in the story as a friend to the central character, Harry Potter. His first appearance is on the Hogwarts Express when a Dementor appears in the train and Lupin drives it away. During his tenure, he gave Harry private lessons in casting the Patronus Charm. His students, except a few from Slytherin, held him in extremely high regard and loved his hands-on teaching style. Harry and his friends considered him to have been their best Defence teacher. Until the climax of Prisoner of Azkaban, Lupin believed Sirius Black was guilty of betraying Lily and James Potter, and of killing Peter Pettigrew. Upon discovering the truth — that Sirius was innocent, and that the very much alive Peter Pettigrew was the traitor – he helped Sirius to explain the truth to Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Shrieking Shack. However, Remus had forgotten to take the Wolfsbane potion and so transformed into a werewolf without retaining control of his actions. While Harry, Ron, and Hermione were distracted by Lupin, Pettigrew assumed his Animagus form and escaped. Severus Snape, furious over Sirius's escape and his resultant loss of the Order of Merlin promised to him by Cornelius Fudge, publicly revealed that Lupin was a werewolf, whereupon Lupin resigned in anticipation of the public outcry against a werewolf teaching at Hogwarts.

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Lupin joins the newly reformed Order of the Phoenix and is part of the guard which escorts Harry from the Dursley family home in the book's opening chapters. Lupin lives in Grimmauld Place, the Order of the Phoenix headquarters with Sirius Black, but does not stay there often as he is usually sent on secret tasks for the Order. Towards the middle of the book, Harry see's a young Remus Lupin attending Hogwarts with his best friends James Potter, Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew through Professor Snape's pensieve. Through the pensieve Harry learns of the four friends bullying of a loner Snape. Although Lupin never perticipated he would usually be studying. Later, Lupin participates in the battle at the Department of Mysteries where he duels Lucius Malfoy, and comes out unscathed from the battle.

At the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, it is revealed that Nymphadora Tonks has fallen in love with Lupin, despite a thirteen-year age gap. He resists becoming involved with her because of the risks posed by the lycanthropy and other qualities which made him "too old, too poor, and too dangerous" for her. However, by the opening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Lupin and Tonks are married. Later in the book, it is revealed that Tonks is pregnant, whereas Remus thinks that the unborn child, who could potentially have inherited lycanthropy, would be better off without him. This results in an intense argument between Lupin and Harry. Eventually, he recognises the truth in Harry's words, which contradicted his own, and returns to his wife in time for the birth of his son, Teddy Remus Lupin.

Lupin remains active in the Order of the Phoenix throughout the year. Loyalists with the wizarding wireless hear him run the casualty reports section on the pirate radio station Potterwatch under the pseudonym of Romulus. Lupin commands a group of defenders on the school grounds during the Battle of Hogwarts and is last mentioned duelling Antonin Dolohov. Both Lupin and Tonks die in combat, killed by Dolohov and Bellatrix Lestrange, respectively^[7], leaving Teddy an orphan with Andromeda Tonks as his guardian and Harry Potter as his godfather. Rowling has since stated that she originally intended for both Lupin and Tonks to survive,^[8] but finally killed them off to compensate for the last-minute reprieve she gave to Arthur Weasley when he survived a snake attack in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.^[9] He makes one last appearance before Harry is struck down by the Killing Curse when the latter activates the Resurrection Stone to bring forth his parents, Sirius, and Lupin to comfort him. Lupin expresses hope that Harry will care for Teddy as though he were Harry's son and apologizes that Teddy will never know him [Lupin].

Rowling has stated that Lupin is the kind of teacher she wishes she had had. He is good-natured, kind, and able to extract the best in everyone. The fact that he is a werewolf and needs to take a potion to avoid hurting people for the rest of his life makes him a symbol of the consequences of prejudice and segregation, as well as society's often negative reaction to the ill and the disabled.^[10]

"Remus," is an allusion to Romulus and Remus,^[11] the legendary founders of Rome, who as infants were cared for by a she-wolf. Lupin borrows the name of the other twin, "Romulus," as a nom de guerre in the seventh book. His surname, "Lupin," recalls the English word "lupine" (meaning "characteristic of or relating to wolves"), which in turn is derived from Latin lupus ("wolf").

David Thewlis has portrayed Remus Lupin in the third, and the fifth films of Harry Potter as of 2007, and is slated to appear in the final two films.

[edit] Alastor Moody

Harry Potter character
Alastor Moody
Image:Gleesonmoodyclassroom.jpg Gleeson as fake Professor Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Actor	Brendan Gleeson
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody is an ex-Auror working for the Order of the Phoenix. Moody's character is portrayed as a teacher of Defence against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts in Goblet of Fire. It is not revealed until the climax of the book that the teacher is actually an impostor and the real Alastor Moody has been imprisoned in a magical trunk for most of that time.

Moody is perhaps the most famous Auror in modern times, single-handedly responsible for capturing numerous wizard criminals. He is also said never to have killed his quarry, even when permitted to do so, unless he had no other choice. Moody's face is badly scarred, described as looking as if a person with only the crudest understanding of the human face had carved it out of weathered wood. He has lost several body parts, including his left eye, right lower leg, and part of his nose, in fighting practitioners of the Dark Arts, and is cautious - some might say paranoid - in that he refuses to eat or drink food which he has not himself prepared. His magical eye can rotate 360 degrees and see through almost everything (including walls, doors, Invisibility Cloaks, and the back of his own head). He walks with a pronounced limp due to his prosthetic leg, and uses a walking staff.

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Moody is appointed as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, coming out of retirement as a favour to Albus Dumbledore. Shortly before the school year begins, however, Moody is attacked by Bartemius Crouch Jr, who subdues him with the Imperius Curse and takes Polyjuice Potion to assume his appearance. He keeps the real Moody alive so that he can be interrogated about his mannerisms and memories, and takes Moody's place at Hogwarts teaching Defence Against The Dark Arts. Moody's well-known habit of carrying around his own drinks in a private hip flask allows Crouch to take the Polyjuice Potion as needed without raising suspicion.

The pseudo Moody becomes noted for teaching and demonstrating otherwise higher-level topics to Harry's fourth-year class, such as the Unforgivable Curses and being a demanding teacher who expected students to work, as well as punishing Draco Malfoy by transforming him into a ferret. Crouch/Moody also mentors Harry, encouraging and tutoring him in the three Tournament tasks. After Harry unexpectedly returns alive from the graveyard battle with Voldemort, Crouch/Moody takes Harry back to his office, questions him about Voldemort and the graveyard, and reveals that he is in fact working on Voldemort's behalf. He then prepares to kill Harry, expecting to be rewarded, but he is stopped by Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, and Severus Snape. Having neglected to take his hourly dose of Polyjuice potion, Crouch transforms back to his own appearance and, under the influence of Veritaserum potion, confesses everything. Dumbledore then rescues the real Moody from his magic trunk.^[HP4]

In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the real Moody has joined the newly re-formed Order of the Phoenix, and leads the party transferring Harry from 4 Privet Drive to Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, accompanied by fellow Order members Nymphadora Tonks, Remus Lupin, and Kingsley Shacklebolt, among others. He appears at the climax of that book, arriving at the Department of Mysteries after being tipped off by Severus Snape. He also appears with Lupin and Tonks at the very end, when they give the Dursleys a warning concerning their treatment of Harry.^[HP5]

Moody's appearance in Half-Blood Prince is minimal, appearing only as a cameo at Dumbledore's funeral. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Moody is killed by Lord Voldemort; falling off his broom after he is abandoned by Mundungus Fletcher, who is acting as a decoy. The survivors are unable to recover his body, but later his eye is found by Harry Potter upon Dolores Umbridge's door, being used as a security measure. Harry steals the eye, disgusted that it would be used in such a way, and later buries it at the base of an old tree in Mad-Eye's memory.

[edit] Poppy Pomfrey

Harry Potter character
Poppy Pomfrey
Image:Pomfrey.jpg Madam Pomfrey, as portrayed by Gemma Jones, in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Actor	Gemma Jones
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Madam Poppy Pomfrey is a magical healer in the Harry Potter series of books. She is the matron in charge of the hospital wing at Hogwarts. In the first book, Ron goes to Madam Pomfrey after being bitten by Norbert, a baby dragon. After Harry fought Professor Quirrell in the dungeons, he spent three days unconscious in the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey helped Harry in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by regrowing the bones on his arm after Gilderoy Lockhart incompetently tried to mend it, removing all bones from it instead. Earlier on in the book, Hermione ended up in the hospital wing for a month after a mishap with the Polyjuice Potion, which left her half-feline. Later on, Hermione and other victims were stuck in the hospital wing after they were petrified by the basilisk.

After Dolores Umbridge stunned Minerva McGonagall in the fifth book to get her out of the way, Madam Pomfrey said she would resign in protest, if she were not afraid of what would become of the students without her. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Madam Pomfrey takes care of Ron dutifully after he was poisoned, and when Harry had his skull cracked during Quidditch. She burst into tears when she found out about Albus Dumbledore's death. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Madam Pomfrey and Argus Filch oversaw student evacuations from Hogwarts. She was later seen helping the injured in the pause after the Death Eaters' attack.

Madam Pomfrey is known to be very strict regarding the rules of her infirmary and to have a high opinion of any teachers who are competent in healing. She considers both Dementors and dragons to be detrimental to students' health.

[edit] Quirinus Quirrell

Harry Potter character
Quirinus Quirrell
Image:Quirrell-ps.jpg Ian Hart as Professor Quirrell
Actor	Ian Hart
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Quirinus Quirrell was the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during Harry's first year at the school. Though the character's first name was never mentioned in the novels, Rowling has named him as "Quirinus"; this name is also used in the official Harry Potter Trading Card Game.

Prior to his employment at Hogwarts, he is said by Hagrid to have had a "brilliant mind", and was a fine teacher while studying from books; some time before Harry's arrival at Hogwarts, "he took a year off ter get some first-hand experience". There were rumours that he encountered vampires in the Black Forest and one in Romania. Upon his return, he appeared perpetually nervous and had developed a stutter and nervous tics. Hagrid was able to say even before the beginning of the autumn term that he was "scared of the students [and] scared of his own subject".

Harry first meets Quirrell at the Leaky Cauldron, a hidden pub in London, while being escorted by Hagrid to Diagon Alley to shop for school supplies. Quirrell's manner is timid and unassuming. Quirrell is next seen at Hogwarts conversing with Potions master Severus Snape at the start-of-term banquet, and then regularly while teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons. Quirrell's attire includes a new purple turban which he claims to have received as a reward from an African prince for getting rid of a zombie. During the school's Halloween banquet, Quirrell appears in the Great Hall to warn staff and students of a troll in the dungeons, and then promptly faints. Harry and his close friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger come to suspect that Severus Snape is on a mission from Lord Voldemort to steal the Philosopher's Stone from a secret chamber in Hogwarts, where it is hidden. When Harry finally arrives in the chamber, he discovers that it is not Snape, but Quirrell who is the real villain.

During the climax of the story, as Harry and Quirrell struggle to recover the stone from the Mirror of Erised, Voldemort reveals himself on the back of Quirrell's head (formerly concealed by the turban, which was presumably obtained for this purpose) and speaks directly to Harry, threatening to kill him if he did not assist Voldemort in recovering it. After Harry refuses, Voldemort orders Quirrell to attack Harry, who holds off Quirrell long enough for aid to arrive, at which point Voldemort flees, in his non-physical form. Voldemort's departure, as well as the agony suffered by him because of his contact with the morally pure Harry, causes Quirrell to die, hence Dumbledore's comment that Voldemort is as merciless to his followers as to his enemies. In the film, Quirrell's death is much the same, although there are some minor differences. When Quirrell starts choking Harry and the boy tries to pry Quirrell's hand off, the hand crumbles into dust. Quirrell then tries to grab the Stone, but Harry grabs Quirrell's face, which begins to dissolve. His body then crumbles into a pile of dust and he dies. Voldemort's non-physical form rises from the ashes and knocks Harry insensate before retreating.

J. K. Rowling stated in a live web chat on July 30, 2007 that Quirrell had worked at Hogwarts as Muggle Studies teacher for a certain length of time, before taking the cursed Defence Against the Dark Arts position in the same year that Harry joined. ^[12] Quirrell is played by the British actor Ian Hart in the film adaptation of the book.

[edit] Horace Slughorn

Harry Potter character
Horace Slughorn
Image:Horace slughorn.jpg Mary GrandPré's illustration of Horace Slughorn (disguised as an armchair) from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Actor	Jim Broadbent
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Horace E. F. Slughorn was a former Potions Master at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He makes his first appearance in the sixth book of the series, resuming that teaching position in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Before the series starts, Horace Slughorn was the long-serving Potions teacher and Head of Slytherin House since at least the 1940s. He retired in the 1980s. During his long initial period of employment at Hogwarts, Slughorn taught several adult characters; among his pupils were the young Severus Snape and Lily Evans. The latter, who would become Harry's mother, was one of Slughorn's favourite students, whom he repeatedly praises as "one of the brightest I ever taught... vivacious... charming... cheeky", despite his slight preference of pure-bloods. An earlier cohort of students included Tom Marvolo Riddle. On one occasion, Riddle questioned Slughorn about Horcruxes. Having learned of the nature of Horcruxes, Riddle went on to perform the necessary Dark magic to create his own, which contributed to his formidable power in his later reign of terror under his assumed name of Lord Voldemort.

At some point after his retirement and the resurgence of Voldemort described in the novels, Slughorn went into hiding, concealing all knowledge of his whereabouts from both sides in the growing conflict in the Wizarding world. However, at the beginning of the sixth book, Dumbledore moves Snape, then Potions master, to the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, locates Slughorn, and convinces him to succeed Snape.

Slughorn demands less stringent entry criteria for Advanced Potions than his predecessor, Snape, lowering the required grade from a perfect O (Outstanding) to a near-perfect E (Exceeds Expectations). This last-minute change enables Harry and Ron to take Potions to NEWT level; but because Harry had not expected to be allowed to join the course, he has none of the necessary materials. Slughorn lends him an old textbook until he can procure his own, which forms a key plotline of Half-Blood Prince. In his first Potions class, Slughorn offers a small amount of Felix Felicis potion, known as "liquid luck", to the student who brews the best cauldron of Draught of Living Death. He tells the class that he has taken Felix Felicis twice, once at age 24 and once at age 57. Harry wins the potion, with the help of handwritten notes in the borrowed textbook, which in fact first belonged to Severus Snape. Harry continues to use the book in classes with great success, causing Slughorn to remark repeatedly that Harry has inherited his mother's abilities at potions. Harry later uses the Felix Felicis to retrieve a memory from Slughorn and later to protect his friends from the Death Eaters that attacked the castle.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Slughorn briefly appears with other Hogwarts teachers assembling to fight Death Eaters; it is revealed that he has become permanent head of Slytherin House, Snape having first fled and then (under the Voldemort-dominated Ministry) been promoted to Headmaster in the wake of Dumbledore's death. Though Slughorn is hesitant to join in the battle, and is assumed to have evacuated with his House out of the school (after it had shown it could not be trusted), he not only returns to the fray with reinforcements but summons up the courage to duel Voldemort (along with Minerva McGonagall and Kingsley Shacklebolt) personally.

Slughorn will be played by Jim Broadbent in the sixth Harry Potter movie. ^[13]

[edit] Slug Club

The Slug Club is the informal name given to a group of students favoured by Slughorn who accept his patronage and attend his extra-curricular meetings. Slughorn handpicks the students because they are connected to important people or he believes they have traits, such as ambition, intelligence, charm, and talent, which will make them important and famous when they leave school. Much to Draco Malfoy’s displeasure; Slughorn excludes students that have Death Eaters in their family. Throughout the school year Slughorn organises dinners and parties at which he makes introductions and forges useful contacts between members. Once out of school, many of his favourites go on to become outstanding in their various fields. According to Molly Weasley, the Ministry of Magic is "littered with Slughorn's old favourites". After leaving Hogwarts, Slughorn’s favourites often stay in touch and send him gifts, give him inside information, or get his opinion on the news or other important decisions. Slughorn is known to have helped his old favourites, as with getting jobs later in life.

In the book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry is invited to the first meeting held on the Hogwarts Express. Slughorn also invited Neville Longbottom and jMarcus Belby to the first meeting on the train, but was not impressed by them. He continued to invite Harry, Cormac McLaggen, Blaise Zabini, and Ginny Weasley to meetings, or parties, and later invited Hermione Granger after getting to know her across the first weeks of school. Harry, who does not particularly like Slughorn after meeting him before the start of school, manages to avoid most of the other meetings due to scheduling conflicts with Albus Dumbledore’s private lessons, detentions with Snape, or Quidditch practices (which, as captain, he could deliberately schedule to conflict with Slug Club meetings) every time he is invited.

During the Slug Club meetings, Slughorn often invites a famous person to forge contacts who are members. The Welsh Quidditch Captain, Gwenog Jones has appeared, as well as the fictional author Edward Worple and Worple's vampire friend, Sanguini.

Slughorn is described as preferring to be a "backseat driver" who uses useful contacts of his own (chiefly his students) to obtain things he desires. He is not above deceit and lacks some ethics, though he fears and hates the Death Eaters. Despite the less savory aspects of his character, Slughorn is usually benevolently avuncular and will gladly do someone a good turn on the off chance they'll be able to return the favor, even if it's years later. He serves as the center of a wide web of contacts, and helps talented wizards and witches find suitable jobs, in keeping with his views of a meritocracy. Despite his general assumption that pure-bloods have more talent, he admits a pleasureable surprise when he finds a talented muggleborn or half-blood student and, unlike many believers in blood purity, does not resent them for their blood.

[edit] Pomona Sprout

Harry Potter character
Pomona Sprout
Image:ProffSprout.JPG Miriam Margolyes as Pomona Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Actor	Miriam Margolyes
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Pomona Sprout is Professor of Herbology at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the Head of Hufflepuff House. She is described as a dumpy little witch with flyaway grey hair who wears a patched, frayed hat and shabby robes, often covered in earth due to the time she spends tending plants in the Hogwarts greenhouses. Sprout is introduced in Philosopher's Stone, but she plays no active role until Chamber of Secrets, in which she teaches her second year students to work with Mandrake plants. She is responsible for raising the Mandrakes to full maturity, at which point their juice is used to revive the petrified victims of the basilisk. Sprout subsequently appears in Goblet of Fire in which, as the Hufflepuff Head of House, she comforts Amos Diggory and his wife after the death of their son, Hufflepuff student Cedric Diggory, whom she knew well.

In Order of the Phoenix, Sprout is a nonvocal supporter of Harry Potter's story about Lord Voldemort's resurrection. Like many teachers at Hogwarts, she detests Dolores Umbridge's presence and does her best to disobey her. After the raid of Hogwarts in Half-Blood Prince, Sprout is a staunch advocate of keeping Hogwarts open after Dumbledore's death, stating that Dumbledore would have wanted it so. She also supports the suggestion that Dumbledore should be laid to rest at Hogwarts. Sprout attends Dumbledore's funeral, where she appears cleaner than she has ever been seen before.

In Deathly Hallows, she chases Severus Snape away from Hogwarts with Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick. Informed that Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters are coming to besiege Hogwarts, she uses her knowledge of magical plants by improvising offensive botany, and with some students, throw Mandrakes and Venomous Tentaculas off the castle walls at the approaching Death Eaters. The epilogue of the final book reveals that nineteen years after the events in Deathly Hallows, Neville Longbottom has become the Herbology teacher at Hogwarts. The circumstances of Pomona Sprout's departure from the job are not revealed.

[edit] Sybill Trelawney

Harry Potter character
Sybill Patricia Trelawney
Image:Trelawpoz.jpg Emma Thompson as Sybill Trelawney in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Actor	Emma Thompson
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Sybill Patricia Trelawney is the professor of Divination at Hogwarts. She first appears in the third book of the series, when Harry, Ron and Hermione start divination lessons. The friends generally believe Trelawney is a fraud, an opinion with which the teachers (particularly Minerva McGonagall) are inclined to agree. According to McGonagall, her credibility as a Seer is undermined by her habit of erroneously predicting, each year, the death of one of her students. Trelawney is the great-great-granddaughter of the celebrated seer Cassandra Trelawney, and, in fact, has inherited some fraction of her ancestor's talent, although it is, indeed, only a fraction and she cannot control her gift, nor does she use it with any sort of frequency.

Trelawney is portrayed as wearing many gaudy bangles, cloaks, and shawls, many of them covered with shining sequins. She is said to wear thick glasses, which causes her eyes to appear greatly magnified. Her classroom, in the North Tower of Hogwarts, is scented so heavily that students often fall asleep during class.

Prior to the events of the Harry Potter books, Trelawney falls into a prophetic trance while in an interview with Albus Dumbledore, saying:

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..."

This prophecy was overheard by Severus Snape, who relayed part of it to Lord Voldemort. This led Voldemort to attack the Potter family, believing that Harry was the child named. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Trelawney prophesises to Harry about the events of the book's climax, including Peter Pettigrew's escape and return to Voldemort.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, she is seen aiding in the fight against Voldemort and the Death Eaters by magically accelerating crystal balls at them from above. One knocks out the werewolf Fenrir Greyback after he attacks and wounds Lavender Brown (but did not bite her, thanks to Hermione's quick reflexes). Lavender is known to be a favoured student of Trelawney's.

In the British editions of the books, her name is consistently spelled as "Sybill". In the American editions, from her first appearance in Prisoner of Azkaban through Order of the Phoenix, her name is spelled as "Sibyll". However, in the American edition of Half-Blood Prince, it is re-spelled as "Sybill", matching the UK edition. The name "Sybill" alludes to the Sibyls of classical Graeco-Roman tradition, who were oracles that made cryptic predictions about the future which often could not be understood until they had already come to pass. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Trelawney is portrayed by British actress Emma Thompson.

[edit] Dolores Umbridge

Harry Potter character
Dolores Jane Umbridge
Image:Ootp002.jpg Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Actor	Imelda Staunton
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Dolores Jane Umbridge is the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in Harry's fifth year. She is a short, squat woman described in the book as resembling a large pale toad. She has a broad, flabby face, little neck, and a wide, slack mouth. In Order of the Phoenix she has "short, curly, mouse-brown hair" and often wears a black velvet bow (or pink Alice band) in her hair that reminds Harry of a fly about to be caught. In Half-Blood Prince, her hair had turned "iron-coloured".

Umbridge is first presented as an interragator at Harry's trial for underage wizardry in the opening chapters of Order of the Phoenix. It is later revealed that Umbridge herself had ordered Dementors to attack Harry. Umbridge is subsequently installed at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Defence Against the Dark Arts professor by order of The Ministry of Magic in Educational Decree Number Twenty-two. The Ministry of Magic is said to have stationed Umbridge to provide on the ground feedback and address what the Ministry believes are falling standards. Her teaching consists only of defensive magical theory, due to Fudge's paranoid fear that Dumbledore intends to use his students as an army to bring down the Ministry. She is soon appointed the first (and only) "Hogwarts High Inquisitor", by Educational Decree Number Twenty-three, in which position she is given extraordinary powers over the students, teachers, and curriculum. Umbridge creates the Inquisitorial Squad, which rewards some students for reporting on others and sanctions them to act as enforcers of Umbridge's rules. She later fires Sybill Trelawney as a teacher and deposes Albus Dumbledore, ultimately becoming Headmistress. Towards the final chapters of Order of the Pheonix, Umbridge tries to attack Rubeus Hagrid, but her attempt is thwarted. Hagrid escapes Hogwarts, and Minerva McGonagall is serverely injured and is sent to St. Mungo's hospital, clearing the way for Umbridge to assume complete control of the school. When Fred and George Weasley escape as well, a riot breaks out. Eventually, she is led into the midst of a herd of misanthropic centaurs, who beat her severely.

Umbridge's time at Hogwarts is characterised by cruelty and abusive punishments against students; she stands out especially for forcing Harry, Lee Jordan and other students who get detention from her to write lines using a quill that magically causes the words to be cut into the skin on the back of the writer's hand and uses their blood as ink. Umbridge even uses or attempts to use the potion Veritaserum and Cruciatus Curse in order to extract information from students. Her hatred for non-wizards and semi-human beings such as vampires and centaurs also is made prominent. It is in fact she who provokes the beating mentioned above, by speaking derogatively of the centaurs to their faces. She later has a small role in Half-Blood Prince, where Harry is disgusted to notice her at Dumbledore's funeral.

Umbridge plays a role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the head of the Muggle-born Registration Commission, and appears to have written a leaflet called "Mudbloods and the dangers they pose to a peaceful pure-blood society". She had somehow obtained Mad-Eye Moody's magical eye after his death, and used it to spy on the other Ministry workers from her office. She had also taken Slytherin's locket as a bribe from Mundungus Fletcher after he stole it from 12 Grimmauld Place. She uses the trinket to solidify her pure-blood credentials, claiming the "S" on the locket to stand for "Selwyn", her ancestral name, rather than "Slytherin". The recovery of this locket forms a major plotline in Deathly Hallows. Despite Harry being unable to conjure a Patronus while wearing the locket, Umbridge manages to do so. Rowling explains this by Dolores being a "very nasty piece of work" and having an affinity for the locket; the object aiding her instead of hindering her.^[14] She is attacked by Harry and his friends, who recover the Horcrux while Harry takes Moody's eye.

Following Voldemort's demise and the de-corruption of the Ministry, Umbridge is arrested, interrogated, put on trial, and imprisoned for her crimes against Muggle-borns.^[14]

Novelist Stephen King, writing as a book reviewer for the July 11, 2003 Entertainment Weekly, noted the success of any novel is due to a great villain, with Umbridge as the "greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter...".^[15] The Daily Mail described Staunton's portrayal of Umbridge in the 2007 movie as a "refreshing addition", with the character herself described as "a cross between Margaret Thatcher and Hyacinth Bucket".^[16]

[edit] Others

• Charity Burbage: identified as the Muggle Studies teacher in the final book. Because she taught a favourable study of Muggles, evidenced by an editorial article in the Daily Prophet, she was in direct opposition to the Death Eater philosophy of the supremacy of pure-bloods. She was a prisoner of Lord Voldemort, who tortured her, killed her, and fed her to Nagini.
• Armando Dippet: the Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who preceded Albus Dumbledore, during the time that Tom Riddle was a student and opened the Chamber of Secrets. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it is noted that Rita Skeeter has written a book titled Armando Dippet: Master or Moron?^[HP7].
• Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank: a substitute Care of Magical Creatures teacher. She first appears in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, taking lessons when Hagrid is unable to teach, and again in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when Hagrid is away on a mission for Dumbledore. She was played by Apple Brook in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
• Rolanda Hooch: taught broomstick flying to Hogwarts first years and was the referee of intramural Quidditch matches. She was described as having short grey hair and "yellow eyes like a hawk". Madam Hooch was played by Zoë Wanamaker in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
• Irma Pince: the librarian of Hogwarts, compared to an "underfed vulture". She tries to protect her books from students by placing odd jinxes on them. Madam Pince was portrayed by Sally Mortemore in the film adaptation of the second book.
• Aurora Sinistra: the Astronomy Professor. Her classes are held at midnight on the tallest tower of Hogwarts. Even though Harry does attend to Astronomy, no astronomy class has ever been described in the series, and thus, very little is known about Sinistra. She attended the Yule Ball in Harry's fourth year with Mad-Eye Moody (who was at the time Barty Crouch Jr. posing as the real Moody), "nervously avoiding his wooden leg."
• Wilkie Twycross: is a Ministry of Magic apparition instructor who teaches Hogwarts Sixth year students a course in Apparition. He is famous for teaching the method of the three D's (Destination, Determination and Deliberation). The students are constantly annoyed with this principle.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Hogwarts subjects

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