Minor Slytherins
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The following are minor characters from the Harry Potter series in Slytherin House. The characters Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, also in Slytherin, all have their own article.
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[edit] Malcolm Baddock
| Harry Potter character | |
| Malcolm Baddock | |
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| Gender | Male |
| House | Slytherin |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
Malcolm Baddock is a student three years younger than Harry. He was Sorted into Slytherin in the fourth novel, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, between Stewart Ackerley and Eleanor Branstone. His arrival at the Slytherin table was met with applause, although Fred and George Weasley hissed at him, and Harry privately wondered if the first-year was aware of his new house's sinister reputation. Malcolm has not been mentioned since and nothing else is known about his character.
[edit] Miles Bletchley
| Harry Potter character | |
| Miles Bletchley | |
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| Gender | Male |
| House | Slytherin |
| Actor | David Churchyard |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
Miles Bletchley is the Keeper of the Slytherin Quidditch team. He once hit Alicia Spinnet with a jinx from behind in the library just before the Gryffindor-Slytherin match in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Since Bletchley was at least a second-year when Harry started at Hogwarts (he is mentioned in Philosopher's Stone as a member of the Quidditch team), and is still at Hogwarts in Order of the Phoenix, it is safe to assume he is no more than two years older than Harry.
The Slytherin Keeper in the film version of Philosopher's Stone was identified as "Bletchley", though that character was a girl. However, he was played by redheaded actor David Churchyard in Chamber of Secrets, but was not identified by name.
He was called "Kevin Bletchley" in the non-canon 2004 video game Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup.
[edit] Millicent Bulstrode
| Harry Potter character | |
| Millicent Bulstrode | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Hair colour | Black |
| House | Slytherin |
| Parentage | Half-blood (?) |
| Allegiance | The Inquisitorial Squad |
| Actor | Helen Stuart |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
Millicent Bulstrode is in Harry's year, and her appearance reminded him of a picture he saw in Holidays with Hags. She was a member of the Inquisitorial Squad during the fifth year[HP5].
Like most of the Hogwarts students, in the second year Millicent participated in the Duelling Club, as an off-shoot of the Defence Against the Dark Arts class. She ended up matched with Hermione Granger, and the duelling demonstration eventually turned into a wrestling match between the two.
Later in the same year, Hermione attempts to pose as Millicent in order to covertly collect information from Draco Malfoy in the Slytherin common room. Hermione prepares some Polyjuice Potion using a hair she found on her robes after the Duelling Club wrestling match, assuming it was one of Millicent's, in order to take on Millicent's appearance. As it turns out, the hair was from Millicent's cat, and thus Hermione takes on the appearance of the cat instead. [HP2]
Millicent's tentative blood lineage is given in the interview special "Harry Potter and Me". Like most magic families, her family has a connection to the Black clan. A possible relative named Violetta Bulstrode was wife to Cygnus Black, one of the sons of Phineas Nigellus Black, suggesting a possible distant relation to Draco Malfoy.
In the second movie, Millicent is portrayed by Helen Stuart, though the role is a non-speaking cameo. It is unknown whether Stuart will return for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
[edit] Marcus Flint
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| Marcus Flint | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Hair colour | Black |
| House | Slytherin |
| Actor | Jamie Yeates |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
Marcus Flint is Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team during Harry Potter's first three years at Hogwarts. He is described as looking like he has some troll blood in him (which is unlikely given that trolls are Beasts, not Beings). Flint and Gryffindor Captain Oliver Wood seem to share a mutual dislike, as their "handshakes" before matches often turn into attempts to break each other's fingers. Flint blocked Harry's broom in book 1, which stopped him from catching the Snitch.
Marcus Flint is a sixth year student in Harry's first year and is still in school two years later when he should have already finished school. Author J. K. Rowling explained this by saying that he failed his exams.[1] In later printings of the first book, however, he is a Fifth Year. Explanation notwithstanding, Harry Potter fans have taken to calling minor textual errors in the series "flints", after this particular mistake.
As Quidditch Captain, he would be 'Captain Flint': the name of the (deceased) Pirate Captain in Treasure Island (and also of Long John Silver's pet parrot in the same novel). The name Flint also contrasts with the name Wood.
It's possible that he shares some ancestry with the "Noble and Most Ancient House of Black": Ursula Flint was the wife of Phineas Nigellus, and many of the other important wizarding families (Malfoy, Crouch, Longbottom, Potter, etc.) married into (or descended from) the Black family tree.
Flint appeared in the first two movies and was portrayed by Jamie Yeates, who sported a set of false teeth for the role. Due to a cast listing error by the filmmakers, he was accidentally omitted from the cast in Philosopher's Stone, with Will Theakston (Terence Higgs) listed in his stead as having played Flint. This mistake was corrected in Chamber of Secrets; unfortunately, however, Yeates' last name was misspelled ("Yeats").
[edit] Daphne Greengrass
| Harry Potter character | |
| Daphne Greengrass | |
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| Gender | Female |
| House | Slytherin |
| Parentage | Pure-blood (?) |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
Daphne Greengrass appears in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, being called in to take the practical portion of an OWLS exam at the same time as Hermione Granger.
Daphne is tentatively considered a pure-blood Slytherin based on an BBC inteview with J.K. Rowling entitled Harry Potter and Me, wherein Rowling allowed screenshots to be taken of her notebook, specifically a page containing the names, genders, houses, and parentage of all the students in Harry's year. Greengrass's given name seems to have been 'Queenie' then, but it was changed prior to her actual mention in the books.
[edit] Montague
| Harry Potter character | |
| Montague | |
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| Gender | Male |
| House | Slytherin |
| Allegiance | The Inquisitorial Squad |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
Montague is a Chaser of the Slytherin Quidditch team and is Slytherin's Captain during Harry's fifth year. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban he grabbed Katie Bell's head and said he thought she was the Quaffle. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Fred and George Weasley forced him head first into a Vanishing Cabinet after he tried to dock fifty points off of Gryffindor, being a member of the Inquisitorial Squad. He turned up several weeks later jammed in a toilet and remained dazed for weeks. Some time after this incident, Draco Malfoy finds out that the inside of the cabinet was stuck halfway between Hogwarts and Borgin and Burkes, and in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Malfoy uses this as part of a plot with the Death Eaters.
His first name is unknown; he is called "Graham" in the non-canon Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup video game.
His name could be from "Romeo and Juliet," by William Shakespeare where one of the main family names is Montague.
[edit] Theodore Nott
| Harry Potter character | |
| Theodore Nott | |
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| Gender | Male |
| House | Slytherin |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
Theodore Nott is a fictional character from the Harry Potter books. He is in Slytherin House, but is not friends with Malfoy and other Slytherin students. His father, Nott, is a very elderly widower and Death Eater. In book 5, Theodore can be seen in the library with Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, and Draco Malfoy looking very angry at Harry as he walked by because Harry had named all four of their fathers as Death Eaters in the magazine The Quibbler. According to J.K. Rowling, Theodore is a clever loner who does not feel the need to join any gang, including Malfoy's.
Theodore Nott is the only known Slytherin of Harry Potter's year who can see Thestrals[2], meaning he has seen someone die (possibly his mother). His father and Professor Slughorn were old friends, and when Slughorn got on the Hogwarts Express, he waylaid Blaise Zabini and inquired after Theodore and Mr. Nott. Zabini answered that Mr. Nott was a Death Eater in Azkaban for breaking into the Department of Mysteries last June; Slughorn, not wanting any association with Death Eaters, was not pleased. As such, Blaise received an invitation to join the "Slug Club", whereas Theodore did not.
A scene that J.K. Rowling eventually cut from both Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire would have featured Draco Malfoy and Theodore Nott talking in the garden of the Malfoys' manor, which would have been one of the few times that Malfoy would be seen conversing with someone he considered an equal, and (in many ways) his superior, as Rowling has frequently said she had intended Nott to be cleverer than Malfoy.
Nott was also seen sniggering with Malfoy in Horace Slughorn's Potions class in Book 6.
[edit] Graham Pritchard
| Harry Potter character | |
| Graham Pritchard | |
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| Gender | Male |
| House | Slytherin |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
Graham Pritchard is a student three years younger than Harry. Graham was Sorted into Slytherin in the fourth novel, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, between Natalie McDonald and Orla Quirke. The character has not been mentioned since and nothing more is known.
[edit] Adrian Pucey
| Harry Potter character | |
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| Adrian Pucey | |
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| Gender | Male |
| House | Slytherin |
| Actor | Scot Fearn |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
Adrian Pucey is a student at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books. He serves as a Chaser on the Slytherin house Quidditch team, and was the second Chaser to score on Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, but is also noticeably absent from the Inquisitorial Squad. During Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, he dropped the Quaffle because he was too busy looking at the Snitch as it flew past his left ear. Because he was on the Slytherin Quidditch Team and thus must have been at least a second year during Harry's first year at Hogwarts, he must have graduated at or before the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Pucey appeared briefly in the first two movies, but had no dialogue. He was portrayed by actor Scot Fearn in both instances.
Due to a mistake in the closing credits of Philosopher's Stone, Fearn is erroneously listed as having played Slytherin Seeker Terence Higgs, while David Holmes was credited with the role of Pucey. Will Theakston played Higgs, while Holmes did not have an actual character role in the film, instead performing stuntwork for Quidditch scenes. These errors were corrected in Chamber of Secrets. However, in both films, Fearn's name was misspelled in the closing credits as "Scott Fern".
[edit] Urquhart
| Harry Potter character | |
| Urquhart | |
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| Gender | Male |
| House | Slytherin |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
Urquhart (first name unknown) is the Captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team during Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts. When he shakes Harry's hand before the Gryffindor-Slytherin match, he crushes it in a vice grip. He plays the position of Chaser.
[edit] C. Warrington
| Harry Potter character | |
| C. Warrington | |
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| Gender | Male |
| House | Slytherin |
| Allegiance | The Inquisitorial Squad |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
C. Warrington is listed as a Chaser for Slytherin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and as someone who tried to get into the Triwizard Tournament. To the Gryffindors, he apparently resembles a sloth. He was the first Chaser to score on Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and was later seen as a member of the Inquisitorial Squad.
[edit] Blaise Zabini
| Harry Potter character | |
| Blaise Zabini | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Hair colour | Black |
| House | Slytherin |
| First appearance | Philosopher's Stone (mention) Half-Blood Prince (appearance) |
Blaise is a tall, good-looking black boy with high cheekbones and long, slanting eyes. He had a famously beautiful mother who has been widowed seven times. Each of her husbands died mysteriously, and afterwards she acquired mounds of gold. It is not known which of the seven husbands, if any, was Blaise's biological father. Blaise is described as extremely vain, and like other Slytherins in his year, has strong prejudices against Muggle-borns and blood traitors.
While his name was mentioned during the Sorting ceremony in the first book, he finally made his first proper appearance in the sixth book. He is a Slytherin student in the same year as Harry Potter. In the sixth volume, Blaise is one of the students invited to lunch on the Hogwarts Express by Professor Slughorn, who is sizing up potential new members for his "Slug Club." Blaise apparently passes the litmus test, as he continues to receive invitations to Slughorn's parties once the school year begins. He does not seem to have a high opinion of his fellow members, if his comments to Draco Malfoy on the Hogwarts Express in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are any indication, yet in spite of that he does continue to accept the invitations.
While on that train ride, Pansy Parkinson accuses him of thinking Ginny Weasley pretty, which he denies. Nothing else has been mentioned of a possible romance between Blaise and another character.
In the film version of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a person named Zabini is revealed to be a Death Eater. Although this has never been confirmed by J. K. Rowling (nor was the name Zabini mentioned in the book of Goblet of Fire), this is likely a relative of Blaise's, considering the fact that Blaise is a member of Slytherin and expresses a loathing of "blood traitors" like the Weasleys in the beginning of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Indeed, when Pansy Parkinson mentions that he finds Ginny Weasley good-looking, he coldly replies, "I wouldn't touch a filthy little blood traitor like her whatever she looked like."
Before the release of Half-Blood Prince, the only information known about this character was that Blaise was a Slytherin in Harry's year. As a result, Blaise's gender and nature were hotly debated by fans and both male and female versions of the character were heavily featured in fan fiction. Rowling then confirmed on her web site that Blaise was a boy and that he would appear in at least another book.
[edit] Other
- Various Dark Wizards
During a 2001 TV special called Harry Potter and Me, J.K. Rowling showed the camera an early notebook page listing some of the students in Harry's year. Each student's name was given, along with his/her gender, house and parentage. These notes are considered tentative, as a number of details in the notes are known to have been superseded in the published books. For instance, Michael Corner and Anthony Goldstein are listed as Hufflepuffs in the notebook, but when they are introduced in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, both of them are Ravenclaws; indeed, Anthony Goldstein is one of the Ravenclaw prefects.
There are several students from Harry's year who are mentioned in the notebook, but have not yet been introduced in the actual books. The sole Slytherin on the list is noted below for the sake of completeness, but the name or house may change if/when this character appears in the series proper.
- Tracey Davis is listed as female, Half-blood Slytherin Student.
[edit] Slytherin Quidditch Team
The following characters are known only as members of the Slytherin Quidditch team and by the positions they play:
- Terence Higgs (Seeker before Malfoy, played by Will Theakston in the film version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Theakston was incorrectly listed in the closing credits as having portrayed Marcus Flint)
- Bole (Beater)
- Derrick (Beater)
- Harper (Seeker)
- Vaisey (Chaser)
[edit] References
- [1] "Why did Marcus Flint do an extra year at Hogwarts?" from the J.K.Rowling official site
- [2] "Is Theodore Nott the 'stringy' Slytherin mentioned in the Thestral class scene?" from the J.K.Rowling official site
- [3] J.K. Rowling interview: Blaise Zabini is male and will appear in future books
- [HP5] Rowling, J.K. (2003). Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. UK ISBN 0747551006/US ISBN 043935806X.
