Deaths in the Harry Potter series
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This is a list of people (and creatures) that have been killed in the Harry Potter series. The list is sorted in chronological order within each book.
Entries in italics indicate deaths occurring "off-stage" — outside the actual timeline of the respective book.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
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[edit] Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- James and Lily Potter — murdered by Lord Voldemort on October 31, 1981.
- Grindelwald — defeated by Albus Dumbledore in 1945 (it is unknown if he died during his encounter with Dumbledore, but Rowling has specifically stated elsewhere that he is dead by the 1990s).
- A Unicorn — killed by Quirrell for its empowering blood.
- Professor Quirrell — was host for the bodiless Voldemort, and died shortly after Voldemort abandoned him.
- Nicolas Flamel and his wife Perenelle — died some time after the Philosopher's Stone was destroyed.
[edit] Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Moaning Myrtle — killed by the Basilisk when Hagrid and Tom Riddle attended Hogwarts, June 1943.
- The Basilisk — killed when Harry plunged Godric Gryffindor's sword into the roof of its mouth.
- Part of Voldemort's soul, represented as teenage Tom Riddle — The diary Horcrux was destroyed by Harry with a Basilisk fang.
[edit] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- 12 Muggle Bystanders — Killed by Peter Pettigrew as he escaped from Sirius Black, November 1st, 1981. Sirius was charged with the murders.
- Binky — Lavender Brown's rabbit. Death seemingly predicted by Professor Trelawney.
[edit] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- The Riddle Family — killed by Avada Kedavra curses cast by Tom Marvolo Riddle.
- Mrs Crouch — died in Azkaban disguised as her son Barty Crouch Jr
- Bertha Jorkins — killed by Lord Voldemort.
- Frank Bryce — killed by an Avada Kedavra curse cast by Lord Voldemort.
- A Spider - In a demonstration of the killing curse by 'Professor Alastor Moody'.
- Evan Rosier — killed by Aurors.
- Wilkes — killed by Aurors.
- Barty Crouch Sr — killed by Barty Crouch Jr
- Cedric Diggory — killed by Peter Pettigrew (on Lord Voldemort's orders).
- Barty Crouch Jr — received a Dementor's Kiss (technically still alive, but living without a soul—a fate described "worse than death" in the books).
[edit] Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Regulus Black — murdered on Voldemort's orders.
- Marlene McKinnon and her family — killed by Death Eaters.
- Benjy Fenwick — mutilated by Death Eaters.
- Edgar Bones and his family — killed by Death Eaters.
- Caradoc Dearborn — vanished, presumed dead.
- Gideon and Fabian Prewett — brutally murdered by five Death Eaters, notably Antonin Dolohov.
- Dorcas Meadowes — killed personally by Voldemort.
- Broderick Bode — strangled by a potted Devil's Snare plant, which was most likely sent by Lucius Malfoy or another Death Eater.
- Sirius Black — hit by a spell by Bellatrix Lestrange, sending him falling through a veiled archway that separates the world of the living from that of the dead.
[edit] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Part of Voldemort's soul — The ring Horcrux was destroyed by Albus Dumbledore.
- Amelia Bones — brutally murdered by Voldemort.
- Emmeline Vance — killed by Death Eaters.
- A Fox — killed by Bellatrix Lestrange.
- Hannah Abbott's mother — murdered by Death Eaters.
- Igor Karkaroff — killed by Death Eaters.
- Five-year-old brother of Montgomery sisters — killed by Greyback because his mother would not help the Death Eaters.
- Marvolo Gaunt — died after release from Azkaban. Possibly starved to death.
- Merope Riddle née Gaunt — died giving birth to Tom Riddle.
- Morfin Gaunt — died in Azkaban.
- Hepzibah Smith — murdered by Lord Voldemort.
- Hokey — old age.
- Aragog — old age.
- Gibbon — got hit by one of the Killing Curses the "huge blond Death Eater" was firing everywhere.
- Albus Dumbledore — killed by Severus Snape, with the Avada Kedavra curse at the Battle of Hogwarts.
