Vincent Crabbe
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| Harry Potter character | |
|---|---|
| Vincent Crabbe | |
| Gender | Male |
| Parentage | Pure-blood |
| Allegiance | The Inquisitorial Squad |
| First appearance | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
Vincent Crabbe, (b. 1980) a fictional character in the Harry Potter books, is a student at Hogwarts and a member of Slytherin House. Crabbe, along with Gregory Goyle, are rarely seen without their ringleader Draco Malfoy.
Crabbe is large, has gorilla-like arms, and wears a pudding bowl-style haircut. He is very mean and very stupid, which makes him little more than a "follower" of Malfoy. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, he joined the Inquisitorial Squad.
Crabbe is a lot like Dudley Dursley, being fat, stupid, and a bully. He is entirely lacking in introspection or inquisitiveness: at one point, Harry, Ron and Hermione trick him and Goyle into eating cakes containing a sleeping draught — by leaving the cakes on a bannister.
Crabbe seems unable to make up his own mind or to see things his own way; he is generally told what to do. Nonetheless he is depicted as more intelligent than Goyle and in the Half-Blood Prince he seems to quarrel with Malfoy for the first time. In the same book, he and Goyle are turned into girls via Polyjuice Potion.
His and Goyle's personalities are sometimes questioned by some readers, as Slytherins are typically described as "cunning". Possibly, they do not fit into the other houses as well as they fit into Slytherin.
His father, Crabbe Sr, is a Death Eater.
At the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, he and Goyle are left feeling lonely, after their leader and friend Draco Malfoy leaves the school just before the end of the term. Crabbe has never had a speaking part in the series.
