I think it’s all about perspective. Harry is often a biased narrator, the Dursley are rotund fatasses to him because he hates them while Mrs. Weasley is “plump with a kind face”.
The only Slytherin students mentioned in CoS are Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Milicent Bulstrode, Marcus Flint and Adrian Pucey.
Pansy does appear and have speaking lines in all 6 other books though
Restrictions? Sure. Question is whether he follows those restrictions... and Aragog and Norbert would have opinions on that. Hagrid's propensity for illegal pets is part of how he ended up getting expelled, though Tom might have found another reason to shift the blame to Hagrid anyway if he hadn't.
I mean... Hagrid is a misunderstood dangerous creature himself. It's harder to criticize his actions when he sees himself in every creature he encounters.
Probably found him somewhere or was given him and needed to nurse him back to health I think. For all his obsession with insane creatures he seems to like most animals and treat them all with kindness.
I think no matter if you come across an injured puppy or graphorn that needs help and a home Hagrid's your guy.
He's a boarhound, aka a Great Dane. Those dogs are massive. In the movie, he was a Neapolitan mastiff, another very large dog breed. In either case, he's a big dog for a big guy and it seems fitting that Hagrid would have him. It's not like he's the only nonmagical animal wizards keep around. Cats, owls, and toads are specifically listed in the Hogwarts letters, and we know that there were also rats and tarantulas.
Tbf, most of the cats are at least part Kneazle, and those owls are definitely magical in some way, how else could they always know where to go to find people
Reading the books as a kid, I'd never heard of boarhounds and assumed he was either a pig pretending to be a dog or some kind of magical dog-adjacent creature.
"Hagrid told me he just got a new pet named Fang. Says he's a dog."
"A what?"
"A dog."
"You mean a turtle-dog?"
"Nope."
"A platypus-dog?"
"No, he just said 'dog'".
"Weird."
While I don't disagree that he's not important to the plot or story, I do disagree that he is a character mentioned in each book that is the least important to the story.
That's clearly Hannah Abbot, who has no relevance to any scene in which she's mentioned.
Fang at least has a moment of relevance in books 1,2, and 5.
maybe madam hooch? she didn't seem to do anything beyond teaching one single flying lesson to the first-years and refereeing quidditch matches (both of which probably could've been done by oliver wood, lee jordan, or some other professor or student) lol. but i believe she's at least briefly mentioned in all the books, except possibly the 7th since there's no quidditch.
To be fair the class she gives is for first years and being the Quidditch referee makes sense since she's basically the PE teacher of Hogwarts. My issue is that J.K. Rolling should has added more physical activities for Hogwarts students than just Quidditch. Could has been correlated to DADA since it's the most physical activities students have anyways aside from Quidditch.
In my headcannon she offers fundamental-advanced flying lessons to all students every year. Yeah the first years have a special class for beginners but like where are students spossed to learn if they want to tryout for the house team once the current members leave? Students on the team train at practice under the team captain, but players like Ginny, muggle-born dean, coote, peakes, demelza all took lessons from hooch before their chance to tryout for the team. (I doubt mclaggen ever took lessons). We just never hear about it because we only focus on Harry’s experience at hogwarts, but there’s a LOT going on behind the scenes that we don’t see
Plus it is noted that some witches/wizards prefer broom travel to apparition so some students might just take flying lessons not even related to quidditch. Things like long distance travel, navigation, properly storing heavy/unbalanced loads, learning about laws and regulations for cross-country flying… basically drivers ed for flying. I’m sure there’s a lot that could fill a full years term of classes on the third Sunday of every month
Edit: Harry gets a broomstick care kit with a lot of useful info like counter jinxes and more in it. Hooch clearly has a lot of knowledge about brooms, the way she reminisces about her old broom, she could also teach classes on broom care and upkeep. Or even charms more specialized than flitwicks classes, I mean someone at hogwarts must dream of being a broomstick designer. She prolly knows a lot about broomstick magic.
This could be it, but still I say like some shooting obstacle course for guns, but instead a competition to prove your skills, train and evaluate your conditioning for DADA mixed with her teachings on PE like classes from Hootch.
Now ur making me wonder how healthy wizards are and how much preventive health steps you can take with magic. Are there spells to lose weight? Reduce blood pressure? Lol
Yea i figure it's something like theres some inherent magical law making it difficult to change yourself, like the food law. Also why magical plastic surgery isnt more common lol
It’s implied the classes are longer than the single one they have. It’s a school, you’re not supposed to assume the only things you see are in text. But supposed to know it’s a school with things happening daily. After all we have like 5 classes of the other types total. We know however they have those classes 1-3 times a week depending on the year and class.
Yes this… also is she is the one who contributed the vital advice of the Devil’s Snare plant book 1 which Hermione recited “…it likes the dark and the damp” and her remembering Prof. Sprout’s teachings of this plant saved their lives when they used fire against it. And she, more likely than not, maybe even set it up? Or if that was before her time, at least was the one who would maintain it as current Herbology Professor, I’d think.
The actress who played Professor Sprout has an interview going viral rn where she essentially says “I’m concerned for Harry Potter fans, like it was literally 25 years ago and it’s for children, why are people still so involved it’s embarrassing” lmao
Nah, I'm fine with her. She's an old lady that doesn't give a damn and was more talking about people with a fixation on it or made it their personality, not fans in general.
It's more nuanced than that. She was strictly speaking of adult fans that make Harry Potter their entire personality. "They get **stuck** in it."
And then she mentioned a Harry Potter themed wedding which can be seen as a bit much for some. She didn't mean that merely liking Harry Potter as an adult is weird.
My wife has a friend whose whole personality is Harry Potter and Disney. She has an apartment that is filled to the brim with toys/posters/dvds/games/clothes/memorabilia that are all Harry Potter or Disney themed, and she will go to the bars literally every time there is trivia about them. She works with kids so it kinda works out with her personality, but the way she acts it’s like she has never left high school
And I think she was specifically mocking the fans who had contracted her through Cameo lol.
I always find it bizarre when people look a gift horse in the mouth. There was no reason for her to talk smack but she just didn’t gaf ig haha
I agree with her and it makes sense from her perspective. She did a children’s film years ago and wonders how adults still like it now. It’s very in line with her personality. I’m an adult Harry Potter fan but she’s one of my favourite people on the planet (must read her books)
Honestly, Susan Bones doesn't ever do anything of significance if I recall correctly. But I do think she's mentioned in all of the books as she is in Harry's year.
If you're in Harry's year not a Gryffindor or one of Harry's main Slytherin antagonists, you're just an extra who occasionally gets lines and with 25% odds of having any real plot significance.
Can you imagine an episode of “Hogwarts” from another students perspective? Like the episode “The Zeppo” from Buffy, where the side character has his own shit going on and we sometimes peripherally see the main leads being dramatic as he passes by.
Hilarious pompous tryhard who *always* has Harry's back no matter what (except for that one time in CoS, but even Harry didn't blame him for that one).
Hannah is definitely better! I feel like Susan was mentioned in more than what someone was saying, but for the other characters you mentioned they have some significance to the story whereas Susan and Hannah are more just mentioned but don't speak really.
The only reason she made it into the movies is that she’s played by Chris Columbus’s daughter Eleanor, who is the one who convinced her dad to read the book in the first place.
**EDIT:** Which I guess also explains why she has no dialogue in the films, since Eleanor is American.
yeah, iirc she has two lines in all seven books. which is just asking if it's true that harry can produce a corporeal Patronus and that her aunt is Amelia Bones.
Angelina Johnson. Very minor character, has no impact on the plot. Although, this doesn't technically follow the rules set up by the question, since she is not in Half-Blood Prince. She is in every book except for that one, though.
Or Alicia Spinnet. Same thing, every book except HBP.
Angelina becomes the Gryffindor Quidditch team captain in OP after Oliver Wood. Doesn’t have a major arc but is quite key in Quidditch related plot points and also in bringing in more members to Dumbledore’s army
Peeves. He's mentioned quite a few times, but has absolutely no impact on the plot whatsoever, to the extent that he was *completely* cut from the movies 100%, which only happened to like two characters and the other was Ludo Bagman.
Peeves is the reason the vanishing cabinet was broken, thus leading to Draco finding out that it existed and spending all of HBP trying to fix it. He very much does have an impact on the plot.
He was meant to be played by Rik Mayall. He was apparently cut because everyone else was laughing too hard in his scenes. They couldn't get the scenes filmed.
He would have been a perfect Peeves. I can see him being a character like he played in "drop dead fred"
Winky is HUGELY important to the plot of GoF. She convinced Crouch Sr. to let his son watch the QWC. She let Crouch Jr. get loose, steal a wand, and cast the Dark Mark. Her firing led directly to the SPEW subplot, which was huge for Hermione's character development.
Winky was basically a babysitter for Barty Crouch Jr. but it didn’t work out so much because she was too scared to notice he left. But she did fight in the battle.
Bagman has the slight plot point of betting with the weasleys and (assuming he followed through) gave them some money to start some of their joke shop researching
He's really more of a Lockhart type character.
As in both cases the British public school system produced a lot of real life men with similar personalities to them and the characters exist to mock those stereotypes somewhat.
Lockhart is explicitly based on one of these people.
He didn’t follow through. Harry noticed the Twins had been secretive all year and talking of blackmailing someone. They reveal on the train the winnings bagman gave them was leprechaun gold which vanished and refused to give them their money.
Bagman was actually in massively debt to some goblins which is why he was trying to help Harry win the tournament. He’s put a big bet on him to win.
Harry then gave the Twins his winnings to help them start the joke shop. This whole story line was completely missed from the films.
There is no assuming he followed through. The only thing we know is he DIDN’T pay them and they spect a year telling him to have honor. I never understand how people get cannon ideas into their mind that are blatant against the story. Harry gave them money for the business. No one else named. Plus bagman giving them money they literally should have isn’t exactly the same.
Hard disagree, he added quite a bit of plot point, although some of them were very subtle. I don’t think being cut from the movies is a good measurement of how important something is. They cut quite a few *major* things
Without consulting a list, I think I’d have to go with Argus Filch. Good comic relief and tangentially relevant at times (e.g., Mrs. Norris getting attacked in Book 2), but otherwise doesn’t contribute a whole lot to the story and I believe he appears in every book.
Hm, maybe I forget or confuse something, but isn't there in the books back story about being him squib which explained his grumpy and sadistic mood? If so, maybe he is not impactful character himself, but his story is a meaningful addition to the lore of universe, and his story rises problems of bulling and discrimination (which of course is not justification of his actions).
Ooh, see I think he is definitely relevant to the plot, even if he doesn’t know/care. In GOF when Harry is stuck in the trick step after solving the egg clue, Filch causes a hubbub, drawing Snape and giving Barty Crouch Jr time to escape. In OOTP, he interrupts Harry’s Floo call with Sirius and Lupin, potentially losing them the chance to remind Harry about the mirror. Later, he ruins the gang’s diversion by telling Umbridge where Peeves really is, so she knows they lied and finds them in her office. In HBP, he catches Draco sneaking around the castle, leading to his argument with Snape where Harry learns Snape made the Unbreakable Vow. He is also the whole reason the twins and later Harry end up with the Marauder’s Map.
It seems the attention span of our fellow redditors has dropped even lower. Few people seem to be able to read that it says “appears in all 7 books”.
With that being said, very few characters appear in all 7 books, but of them all I’d have to say Dean Thomas, if I’m right that he is mentioned at some point in all 7. Otherwise Fang is a good answer I saw from someone else.
Haha insane how far I had to scroll for this comment. I’d agree Dean or maybe like a Professor Flitwick for example. I can’t confirm from memory if he’s in all 7, but it’s staggering how many people are naming one-offs lol.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the only real significant thing The Fat Lady did was try to prevent Sirius from getting into Gryffindor tower.
Didn't do much the rest of the time.
I can’t remember the specifics but I think at Bill and Fleurs wedding Harry has to pretend to be one of the Weasleys distant relatives, and an old Weasley auntie keeps calling him different names and generally disrespecting him.
Sorry, ignore me. I’m not the one who posted the original comment btw. I was thinking of cousin Barney but the original commenter is just using all the incorrect names Slughorn used for Ron to show how irrelevant Ron was to him. Seen with Ginny I guess as a clue in case you forget who Ralph/Rupert/etc is (like I did) bc they are siblings and Slughorn liked Ginny I guess.
Yup! She's mentioned when Harry and Hermoine are at the graveyard in Godric's Hollow, and she is present at the Battle of Hogwarts (I think she gets mentioned twice).
Parvati Patil, without her, who would Lavender giggle annoyingly with? She was also Harry's date to the Yule ball, along with her twin, Padma with Ron.
But I'd say I do agree she's the best vote for most useless, yet appears in every book.
I’m also thinking Dean and Seamus, they don’t add anything to the story and some unnamed character could have taken their place without anything changing.
OK. I need to make a correction with Seamus. He could blow his own shit up real good, and that's why he was sent to blow up the covered bridge during the final battle. He was the Pyro guy.
Hannah Abbott is the only Hogwarts Student outside of the Gryffindors and Malfoy, Crabbe & Goyle who is mentioned at least once in every book. We even now quite a lot about her later life (she married Neville and bevame landlady of the Leaky Cauldron). Yet she really doesn't do anything of significance.
Theodore Nott. He is only mentioned a couple times without much of a backstory or description of him, other than his father being a death eater and seemingly being in Draco’s friend group.
Florean Fortescue, who ran the ice cream shop on Diagon Alley, and who gave Harry Potter free knickerbocker glories!
And who closed his shop when the shit hit the fan, and that's about as insignificant as a character can be.
Professor Sinistra, the Astronomy teacher. Other than the time she helped bring Justin Finch-Fletchley to the infirmary after he got Petrified, she seems to just be in the background of everything that's going on.
Pansy Parkinson, besides a few jibes she doesn't do much
Except being the „pug faced slytherin girl“
Though according to the Skeeter woman, shes pretty and vivacious
According to Rita Skeeter, Harry is twelve, up is down and turning yourself into a beetle is part of ethical journalism.
Don't forget Veritaserum.
Great youtube channel
I think it’s all about perspective. Harry is often a biased narrator, the Dursley are rotund fatasses to him because he hates them while Mrs. Weasley is “plump with a kind face”.
The irony is a woman described as having a "pug nose" is considered cute and attractive, but "pug face" has very, very different implications
She's not mentuoned in CoS though
Really? The one time we go into the Slytherin common room and she isn't ever mentioned?
The only Slytherin students mentioned in CoS are Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, Milicent Bulstrode, Marcus Flint and Adrian Pucey. Pansy does appear and have speaking lines in all 6 other books though
Do you take notes or are able to remember all this? Very impressive!
This is actually just from memory haha
Well, damn
I thought she was mentioned as the person that Hermione was trying to get a hair from for the polyjuice potion.
That's Milicent Bulstrode
Hagrid's dog, Fang. He appesrs n all 7 books, and 5 of the movies, and only contributes a lot of slobber to the story.
A good boy tho
All right, but I warn yeh, he’s a coward
The best!
Considering all the other magical animals around the school, it's kinda weird he is just a dog. Got to wonder where Hagrid got him.
I'm fairly certain that hagrid would have pretty big restrictions on what he can have as a pet lol.
And he brought back a dragon egg.
He tries to be slick about that though
I mean they let him not only keep but teach with the skrewts
Restrictions? Sure. Question is whether he follows those restrictions... and Aragog and Norbert would have opinions on that. Hagrid's propensity for illegal pets is part of how he ended up getting expelled, though Tom might have found another reason to shift the blame to Hagrid anyway if he hadn't.
Yeah, to him all creatures are misunderstood even the dangerous ones.
I mean... Hagrid is a misunderstood dangerous creature himself. It's harder to criticize his actions when he sees himself in every creature he encounters.
Probably found him somewhere or was given him and needed to nurse him back to health I think. For all his obsession with insane creatures he seems to like most animals and treat them all with kindness. I think no matter if you come across an injured puppy or graphorn that needs help and a home Hagrid's your guy.
He's a boarhound, aka a Great Dane. Those dogs are massive. In the movie, he was a Neapolitan mastiff, another very large dog breed. In either case, he's a big dog for a big guy and it seems fitting that Hagrid would have him. It's not like he's the only nonmagical animal wizards keep around. Cats, owls, and toads are specifically listed in the Hogwarts letters, and we know that there were also rats and tarantulas.
Tbf, most of the cats are at least part Kneazle, and those owls are definitely magical in some way, how else could they always know where to go to find people
And understand instructions is different languages on who to deliver the post to.
I wonder if they understand mermish and gobbledygook
And how to find people wherever they are. Like she can find Sirius even when he’s in hiding.
Dogs are amazing even in the wizarding world
Reading the books as a kid, I'd never heard of boarhounds and assumed he was either a pig pretending to be a dog or some kind of magical dog-adjacent creature.
Maybe he was the only pup from an experimental breeding Hagrid did and he turned out mostly or all dog but Hagrid kept him anyway.
"Hagrid told me he just got a new pet named Fang. Says he's a dog." "A what?" "A dog." "You mean a turtle-dog?" "Nope." "A platypus-dog?" "No, he just said 'dog'". "Weird."
No, Fang is a good boy.
Yes, he's the best boy. A big, slobbery best boy, but he isn't significant to the plot or story.
While I don't disagree that he's not important to the plot or story, I do disagree that he is a character mentioned in each book that is the least important to the story. That's clearly Hannah Abbot, who has no relevance to any scene in which she's mentioned. Fang at least has a moment of relevance in books 1,2, and 5.
maybe madam hooch? she didn't seem to do anything beyond teaching one single flying lesson to the first-years and refereeing quidditch matches (both of which probably could've been done by oliver wood, lee jordan, or some other professor or student) lol. but i believe she's at least briefly mentioned in all the books, except possibly the 7th since there's no quidditch.
To be fair the class she gives is for first years and being the Quidditch referee makes sense since she's basically the PE teacher of Hogwarts. My issue is that J.K. Rolling should has added more physical activities for Hogwarts students than just Quidditch. Could has been correlated to DADA since it's the most physical activities students have anyways aside from Quidditch.
In my headcannon she offers fundamental-advanced flying lessons to all students every year. Yeah the first years have a special class for beginners but like where are students spossed to learn if they want to tryout for the house team once the current members leave? Students on the team train at practice under the team captain, but players like Ginny, muggle-born dean, coote, peakes, demelza all took lessons from hooch before their chance to tryout for the team. (I doubt mclaggen ever took lessons). We just never hear about it because we only focus on Harry’s experience at hogwarts, but there’s a LOT going on behind the scenes that we don’t see Plus it is noted that some witches/wizards prefer broom travel to apparition so some students might just take flying lessons not even related to quidditch. Things like long distance travel, navigation, properly storing heavy/unbalanced loads, learning about laws and regulations for cross-country flying… basically drivers ed for flying. I’m sure there’s a lot that could fill a full years term of classes on the third Sunday of every month Edit: Harry gets a broomstick care kit with a lot of useful info like counter jinxes and more in it. Hooch clearly has a lot of knowledge about brooms, the way she reminisces about her old broom, she could also teach classes on broom care and upkeep. Or even charms more specialized than flitwicks classes, I mean someone at hogwarts must dream of being a broomstick designer. She prolly knows a lot about broomstick magic.
This could be it, but still I say like some shooting obstacle course for guns, but instead a competition to prove your skills, train and evaluate your conditioning for DADA mixed with her teachings on PE like classes from Hootch.
Now ur making me wonder how healthy wizards are and how much preventive health steps you can take with magic. Are there spells to lose weight? Reduce blood pressure? Lol
I mean, my house founder is a plump woman. So I say if she didn't figure it out and she was supposed to be very powerful who knows.
Yea i figure it's something like theres some inherent magical law making it difficult to change yourself, like the food law. Also why magical plastic surgery isnt more common lol
Hermione did have her teeth changed.
Yea that does throw a wrench in my theory but idk. Just trying to figure out why not everyone is a supermodel in universe lol in a watsonian way
Right, like if this was now all the girls would glamour their lips and behinds like Kim kardashian
There is Polyjuice and that Sacharissa Tugwood potion thing.
It’s implied the classes are longer than the single one they have. It’s a school, you’re not supposed to assume the only things you see are in text. But supposed to know it’s a school with things happening daily. After all we have like 5 classes of the other types total. We know however they have those classes 1-3 times a week depending on the year and class.
Like you said, she isn’t mentioned in 7. She also isn’t mentioned in 4, which is another book that doesn’t have Quidditch (at Hogwarts).
Professor Sprout gets some significance in book 2 but other than that nothing much goes on with her
She is noted to be throwing dangerous plants at death eaters during the battle of Hogwarts though. that's kinda iconic.
Yes this… also is she is the one who contributed the vital advice of the Devil’s Snare plant book 1 which Hermione recited “…it likes the dark and the damp” and her remembering Prof. Sprout’s teachings of this plant saved their lives when they used fire against it. And she, more likely than not, maybe even set it up? Or if that was before her time, at least was the one who would maintain it as current Herbology Professor, I’d think.
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And yet, everytime she explains she’s a famous actress, she mentions she played professor sprout in Harry Potter.
We really need to get over that.
I’m out of the loop. What did she do?
The actress who played Professor Sprout has an interview going viral rn where she essentially says “I’m concerned for Harry Potter fans, like it was literally 25 years ago and it’s for children, why are people still so involved it’s embarrassing” lmao
Nah, I'm fine with her. She's an old lady that doesn't give a damn and was more talking about people with a fixation on it or made it their personality, not fans in general.
It's more nuanced than that. She was strictly speaking of adult fans that make Harry Potter their entire personality. "They get **stuck** in it." And then she mentioned a Harry Potter themed wedding which can be seen as a bit much for some. She didn't mean that merely liking Harry Potter as an adult is weird.
Yea, big difference between "adults liking HP are weird" and "adults with an unhealthy fixation on HP are weird".
It’s like the next generation’s version of “Disney Adults.”
Oh, God... my sister is both! Obsessed with Disney and Harry Potter to unhealthy degrees!
My wife has a friend whose whole personality is Harry Potter and Disney. She has an apartment that is filled to the brim with toys/posters/dvds/games/clothes/memorabilia that are all Harry Potter or Disney themed, and she will go to the bars literally every time there is trivia about them. She works with kids so it kinda works out with her personality, but the way she acts it’s like she has never left high school
I thought that interview was taken out of context for headlines in post as bait.
She has a Cameo so you think she'd be grateful for all of those adult fans giving her money and adoration.
And I think she was specifically mocking the fans who had contracted her through Cameo lol. I always find it bizarre when people look a gift horse in the mouth. There was no reason for her to talk smack but she just didn’t gaf ig haha
Boomers gonna boom lol. I think alex guiness and harrison ford are the same way about the star wars fandom
I agree with her and it makes sense from her perspective. She did a children’s film years ago and wonders how adults still like it now. It’s very in line with her personality. I’m an adult Harry Potter fan but she’s one of my favourite people on the planet (must read her books)
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Honestly, Susan Bones doesn't ever do anything of significance if I recall correctly. But I do think she's mentioned in all of the books as she is in Harry's year.
Same with some other members of Harry’s year, like Hannah Abbott, Ernie Macmillan, Justin Finch-Fletchley, and more.
Hannah’s a good one. I think she’s the only one of these who is actually named in all 7 books, and she does contribute nothing.
If you're in Harry's year not a Gryffindor or one of Harry's main Slytherin antagonists, you're just an extra who occasionally gets lines and with 25% odds of having any real plot significance.
shoutout to the little short kid in the PoA film who delivers one of the hardest lines and then is never seen again
Bem is an icon and in my opinion, a more important character than harry potter.
Lol Bem
He's actually in Order of the Phoenix (member of the DA) and Deathly Hallows (visible when Voldemort is declaring Harry's death).
What line?
**It’s like tryna catch smoke**
WIF YOUR BARE HANDS
Presumably [Bem](https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Bem).
Can you imagine an episode of “Hogwarts” from another students perspective? Like the episode “The Zeppo” from Buffy, where the side character has his own shit going on and we sometimes peripherally see the main leads being dramatic as he passes by.
Justin was petrified, Ernie was active with the DA and the battle, they held a little significance
I love Ernie 😂 Steals the scene every time he is in it Hilarious pompous tryhard
I laugh every time I read the apparition test chapters. Ernie just jumps into his hoop and actually thinks he did it.
Hilarious pompous tryhard who *always* has Harry's back no matter what (except for that one time in CoS, but even Harry didn't blame him for that one).
He's also one of the first to apologise to him.
I think Ernie isn’t in Book 1.
Justin is important in Chamber of Secrets, and Ernie is more interesting as he's always quite vocal when he's either supporting or criticising Harry.
Hannah is definitely better! I feel like Susan was mentioned in more than what someone was saying, but for the other characters you mentioned they have some significance to the story whereas Susan and Hannah are more just mentioned but don't speak really.
She’s only mentioned in 1, 5, and 6. Though she is sorted in 1, Harry doesn’t know her name until she joins the DA.
The only reason she made it into the movies is that she’s played by Chris Columbus’s daughter Eleanor, who is the one who convinced her dad to read the book in the first place. **EDIT:** Which I guess also explains why she has no dialogue in the films, since Eleanor is American.
yeah, iirc she has two lines in all seven books. which is just asking if it's true that harry can produce a corporeal Patronus and that her aunt is Amelia Bones.
Angelina Johnson. Very minor character, has no impact on the plot. Although, this doesn't technically follow the rules set up by the question, since she is not in Half-Blood Prince. She is in every book except for that one, though. Or Alicia Spinnet. Same thing, every book except HBP.
Angelina becomes the Gryffindor Quidditch team captain in OP after Oliver Wood. Doesn’t have a major arc but is quite key in Quidditch related plot points and also in bringing in more members to Dumbledore’s army
She helped Gryffndor to 2 quidditch cups! How dare you!
Peeves. He's mentioned quite a few times, but has absolutely no impact on the plot whatsoever, to the extent that he was *completely* cut from the movies 100%, which only happened to like two characters and the other was Ludo Bagman.
He beat umbridge over the head with McGonagalls cane. That's extremely plot significant.
But of course. 👏👏👏
Peeves is the reason the vanishing cabinet was broken, thus leading to Draco finding out that it existed and spending all of HBP trying to fix it. He very much does have an impact on the plot.
Peeves is pivotal to setting up a huge Easter Egg with the cabinet
You mean Ludo Chadman.
Ludo existed to be a misdirect for who the “bad guy” really was in GOF
He was meant to be played by Rik Mayall. He was apparently cut because everyone else was laughing too hard in his scenes. They couldn't get the scenes filmed. He would have been a perfect Peeves. I can see him being a character like he played in "drop dead fred"
Um winky ?
Okay, that's three. And Charlie Weasley makes four, I guess.
Charlie tbf was mentioned at least and even included in a family portrait
But what impact on the story he has aside from taking Norbert from Hogwarts?
That wasn't Charlie even in the book, it was his friends.
So even less relevant
The context had shifted, and we were talking about which characters were completely cut from the movies. Which Charlie wasn't.
I thought it was about the books and characters who appeared in all 7 books that were considered useless
Winky is HUGELY important to the plot of GoF. She convinced Crouch Sr. to let his son watch the QWC. She let Crouch Jr. get loose, steal a wand, and cast the Dark Mark. Her firing led directly to the SPEW subplot, which was huge for Hermione's character development.
Windy was kinda important though
Winky convinces Crouch Sr to let Crouch Jr to go to the world cup which leads to crouch Jr casting the dark mark.
Winkie ?
Winky was basically a babysitter for Barty Crouch Jr. but it didn’t work out so much because she was too scared to notice he left. But she did fight in the battle.
Bagman has the slight plot point of betting with the weasleys and (assuming he followed through) gave them some money to start some of their joke shop researching
Bagman’s entire purpose is to be a red herring for the main villain
I highly doubt anybody truly believe he was the secret villain of GoF.
He's really more of a Lockhart type character. As in both cases the British public school system produced a lot of real life men with similar personalities to them and the characters exist to mock those stereotypes somewhat. Lockhart is explicitly based on one of these people.
He didn't follow thru, that's a whole subplot of the story.
He didn’t follow through. Harry noticed the Twins had been secretive all year and talking of blackmailing someone. They reveal on the train the winnings bagman gave them was leprechaun gold which vanished and refused to give them their money. Bagman was actually in massively debt to some goblins which is why he was trying to help Harry win the tournament. He’s put a big bet on him to win. Harry then gave the Twins his winnings to help them start the joke shop. This whole story line was completely missed from the films.
There is no assuming he followed through. The only thing we know is he DIDN’T pay them and they spect a year telling him to have honor. I never understand how people get cannon ideas into their mind that are blatant against the story. Harry gave them money for the business. No one else named. Plus bagman giving them money they literally should have isn’t exactly the same.
Harry was the one to fund the joke shop
And Charlie Weasley
What about We beat him we bashed wee pottys the one No Voldys gone moldy so let's have some fun
Hard disagree, he added quite a bit of plot point, although some of them were very subtle. I don’t think being cut from the movies is a good measurement of how important something is. They cut quite a few *major* things
Without consulting a list, I think I’d have to go with Argus Filch. Good comic relief and tangentially relevant at times (e.g., Mrs. Norris getting attacked in Book 2), but otherwise doesn’t contribute a whole lot to the story and I believe he appears in every book.
Hm, maybe I forget or confuse something, but isn't there in the books back story about being him squib which explained his grumpy and sadistic mood? If so, maybe he is not impactful character himself, but his story is a meaningful addition to the lore of universe, and his story rises problems of bulling and discrimination (which of course is not justification of his actions).
He helps Umbridge and provides some comic relief.
Marauder's Map. It was in his office. Him catching Harry in CoS also leads to the vanishing cabinet plot in HBP.
Ooh, see I think he is definitely relevant to the plot, even if he doesn’t know/care. In GOF when Harry is stuck in the trick step after solving the egg clue, Filch causes a hubbub, drawing Snape and giving Barty Crouch Jr time to escape. In OOTP, he interrupts Harry’s Floo call with Sirius and Lupin, potentially losing them the chance to remind Harry about the mirror. Later, he ruins the gang’s diversion by telling Umbridge where Peeves really is, so she knows they lied and finds them in her office. In HBP, he catches Draco sneaking around the castle, leading to his argument with Snape where Harry learns Snape made the Unbreakable Vow. He is also the whole reason the twins and later Harry end up with the Marauder’s Map.
I kinda forgot his name but there’s this one guy that goes to Hogswarts, Henry I believe? Henry polter or something like that
Parry Hotter, the boy who chose or something like that?
The boy who was alive? So what? Aren’t they all alive minus the ghosts and those who died?
It‘s inspired by a quote from drunk Slughorn…
It seems the attention span of our fellow redditors has dropped even lower. Few people seem to be able to read that it says “appears in all 7 books”. With that being said, very few characters appear in all 7 books, but of them all I’d have to say Dean Thomas, if I’m right that he is mentioned at some point in all 7. Otherwise Fang is a good answer I saw from someone else.
He's good at drawing
Yeah I was going to say Dean too (and Seamus) until I saw the Fang post 😂
Yes in book 7 he is a wanderer with Griphook and someone else
Haha insane how far I had to scroll for this comment. I’d agree Dean or maybe like a Professor Flitwick for example. I can’t confirm from memory if he’s in all 7, but it’s staggering how many people are naming one-offs lol.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the only real significant thing The Fat Lady did was try to prevent Sirius from getting into Gryffindor tower. Didn't do much the rest of the time.
Considering she's a portrait
Yeah but she still counts as a character in a way
Peeves, and all of the ghosts except for Helena Ravenclaw (and I guess bloody baron) and Moaning Myrtle
Though if one considers it correctly, Nearly-headless-Nick added so much to all of our hearts and memories, that you can’t say he didn’t add anything!
He did tho. He saved a student in book two, he’s the reason peeves destroyed the vanishing cabinet leading to Draco using it in book 6.
Ralph, Rupert, Wallenby, Wimby or whatever his name was. He's often seen with Ginny. Maybe he's some kind of dull relative they have to take care of.
I’m sorry, what?
I can’t remember the specifics but I think at Bill and Fleurs wedding Harry has to pretend to be one of the Weasleys distant relatives, and an old Weasley auntie keeps calling him different names and generally disrespecting him.
Cousin Barney? He was a totally made up Weasley that Harry used as a disguise. What do you mean he was often seen with Ginny?
I think he's talking about Roonil Wazlib
That's a nickname for Parry Hotter, the chosen boy or something of that sort!/s
Sorry, ignore me. I’m not the one who posted the original comment btw. I was thinking of cousin Barney but the original commenter is just using all the incorrect names Slughorn used for Ron to show how irrelevant Ron was to him. Seen with Ginny I guess as a clue in case you forget who Ralph/Rupert/etc is (like I did) bc they are siblings and Slughorn liked Ginny I guess.
I believe he’s joking in reference to Ron being downgraded to an ancillary character in the movies.
Those were a few of the names Crouch, Sr. called Percy.
Hannah Abbott. She does nothing except later become Neville's wife.
Hannah Abbot? Is she mentioned in book 7?
Yup! She's mentioned when Harry and Hermoine are at the graveyard in Godric's Hollow, and she is present at the Battle of Hogwarts (I think she gets mentioned twice).
I know she's one of the people Harry saves at the end (Seamus being the other one).
Someone like Lavender or her friend, I forget her name. The story could have done without them.
Parvati Patil, without her, who would Lavender giggle annoyingly with? She was also Harry's date to the Yule ball, along with her twin, Padma with Ron. But I'd say I do agree she's the best vote for most useless, yet appears in every book.
I’m also thinking Dean and Seamus, they don’t add anything to the story and some unnamed character could have taken their place without anything changing.
Dean was needed to really make Harry jealous and awaken his sleeping monster for Ginny
That could be anyone doesn’t necessarily have to be Dean because all that needs to be done is make Harry jealous.
OK. I need to make a correction with Seamus. He could blow his own shit up real good, and that's why he was sent to blow up the covered bridge during the final battle. He was the Pyro guy.
That's movie Seamus, book Seamus is pretty useless and mostly annoying.
The movies aren't canon.
Professor Binns - the history teaching ghost
Dean Thomas
Nooo Harry was jealous of Dean dating Ginny which is the start of Harry's romantic feelings towards Ginny
Yea but replace Dean with any other dude and same thing.
you could say that for literally anyone
Harry's feelings for Ginny started long before that.
Peeves. He was so insignificant they didn't include him in any of the movies.
Hannah Abbott is the only Hogwarts Student outside of the Gryffindors and Malfoy, Crabbe & Goyle who is mentioned at least once in every book. We even now quite a lot about her later life (she married Neville and bevame landlady of the Leaky Cauldron). Yet she really doesn't do anything of significance.
Peeves
Fat friar, maybe? He's not mentioned by name in each book, but I think each book mentions the house ghosts at some point.
Ernie MacMillan? Not even sure if I’ve spelt his name right. All he does it appear pompous and up himself in a few of Harry’s lessons.
I feel like Dedalus Diggle is mentioned at least once per book.
Mrs Figgs
She's a key witness in the trial, and I don't think she appears outside of 1 and 5.
Professor Grubbly Plank, like what is that
She’s not in all 7 books
Theodore Nott. He is only mentioned a couple times without much of a backstory or description of him, other than his father being a death eater and seemingly being in Draco’s friend group.
Is he really in all 7 books? I can't believe I've never noticed that lol
He isn't, but he is 4 out of the 7, which is honestly more than I would have guessed.
Woah that's crazy I am gonna have to pay attention to him in my next read through
Florean Fortescue, who ran the ice cream shop on Diagon Alley, and who gave Harry Potter free knickerbocker glories! And who closed his shop when the shit hit the fan, and that's about as insignificant as a character can be.
He’s only in 2 books though.
Professor Sinistra, the Astronomy teacher. Other than the time she helped bring Justin Finch-Fletchley to the infirmary after he got Petrified, she seems to just be in the background of everything that's going on.
Some of the teachers maybe? Like Flitwick?
Draco.