Characters

Gabrielle Delacour • Character Gabrielle is Fleur Delacour’s younger sister, served as Fleur’s designated hostage in the second task of the Triwizard Tournament (GF26). Read More

Gabriel Truman • Character Gabriel Truman is a Hufflepuff prefect. He pens the letter that is a welcome to and a history of Hufflepuff House to newly sorted students. Read More

Edmund Gaddlegate • Character Edmund Gaddlegate was a Muggle boy who lived in the village of Poppleton, England in the late 15th century. (BoS)… Read More

Brian Gadwilde • Character Brian Gadwilde was the author of the book Jiggery Pokery and Hocus Pocus. Read More

Galatea Merrythought • Character Galatea Merrythought was the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts from c. 1895 to c.1945. Soon after graduating from Hogwarts, Tom Riddle asked Headmaster Armando Dippet if he could remain and teach because Professor Merrythought was retiring after teaching for “nearly fifty years” (… Read More

Ottaline Gambol • Character Ottaline Gambol was Minister for Magic from 1827 to 1835. She was more appreciative of Muggles and their technology than many wizards of the time, and thus introduced the Hogwarts Express as the method of transport to Hogwarts (Pm). Read More

Gamp family • Character The Gamp family is an illustrious Wizarding family. Members of this family include a famous political figure and a magical theoretician. While not appearing as one of the “Sacred Twenty-Eight,” the family evidently is primarily Pureblood, since one of their number married into the Black family. Notable Members of the… Read More

Ulick Gamp • Character Ulick Gamp was the head of the Wizengamot before he became the first Minister for Magic, in office from 1701 to 1718. He founded the Department of Magical Law Enforcement (Pm). Read More

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Garrick Ollivander • Character Garrick Ollivander is an old wandmaker – “the best” according to British witches and wizards – who runs Ollivander’s on Diagon Alley (HBP6). He has eerie, moon-like eyes and makes Harry a bit uncomfortable, as he seems just as fascinated by the power of wands used for… Read More

Garvin Lünger • Character Garvin Lünger was a 18th century German warlock who claimed to have invented Instant Darkness Powder. Lünger also falsely claimed to have invented the Wand-Lighting Charm but both claims turned out to be false (BoS). Read More

Gaspard Shingleton • Character Gaspard Shingleton was the celebrated inventor of the Self-Stirring Cauldron (FW). Read More

Corvinus Gaunt • Character An 18th-century descendant of Salazar Slytherin who made sure the hidden entrance to the Chamber of Secrets was well-protected when “new-fangled plumbing” was built around it, which later became Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom (Pm:Chamber of Secrets). Obviously Corvinus was a Parselmouth, like many in the Slytherin family line, including Tom Riddle. Read More

Gaunt family • Character The Gaunts are an ancient, in-bred, Pure-blood Wizarding family, direct descendants of Salazar Slytherin. The family is listed in the infamous Pure-Blood Directory from the 1930s as being one of the “Sacred Twenty-Eight” families which stayed true to pure-blood status. Most of the Gaunts were gifted with the ability to speak… Read More

Marvolo Gaunt • Character Marvolo was the patriarch of the Gaunt family, such as it is. He was belligerent and violent, with a paranoid streak. He shorter than his son Morfin, with odd proportions. He has “bright brown eyes, short scrubby hair, and wrinkled face.” Harry think he looks like a powerful, aged monkey. Read More

Merope Gaunt • Character Merope Gaunt was the daughter of Marvolo Gaunt and mother of Tom Riddle. Eighteen-year-old Merope’s hair is lank and dull and she has a “plain, pale, rather heavy face.” Her eyes also gaze in opposite directions. Merope’s father is extremely abusive to her and derisively calls her a “Squib” (and other… Read More

Morfin Gaunt • Character Morfin Gaunt was the son of Marvolo Gaunt. He is first seen dressed in rags, his thick hair so matted with dirt the color was indistinguishable. He was missing several teeth, and his eyes, like those of his father and sister, looked in opposite directions. Morfin is a Parselmouth and… Read More

Gawain Robards • Character Gawain Robards was Head of the Aurors after July of 1996 (HBP16). Read More

Gemma Farley • Character Gemma Farley was a Slytherin prefect (Pm). Read More

Ferdinand Jägendorf • Character Ferdinand Jägendorf was the coach and manager for the Liechtenstein National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Read More

Geoffrey Hooper • Character Geoffrey Hooper was a Gryffindor student at Hogwarts in the 1990s (OP13). Read More

George Weasley • Character George Weasley is one of the seven children of Arthur and Molly Weasley and twin brother to Fred Weasley. The twins are co-owners of Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, a highly successful joke shop in Diagon Alley. About the Weasley Twins: Mischief managed! The Weasley twins are the staunch enemies of pretension, authority, and… Read More

Georgina Smyth • Character Witch who writes in to Tilden Toots’ herbology radio show “Toots’ Shoots ‘n’ Roots” to ask about a sick Flitterbloom plant (JKR). Read More

Georgios Xenakis • Character Georgios Xenakis was a Referee at the Quidditch World Cup tournament in 2014 (Pm). Xenakis refereed the match between New Zealand and Bulgaria, where he made a call to send New Zealand Chaser Dennis Moon off after judging him to have caused a deliberate collision with a… Read More

Georgi Zdravko • Character Georgi Zdravko played Keeper for the Bulgarian National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Bulgarian fans were nervous about Zdravko’s ability to keep opposing Chasers from scoring goals at the Quidditch World Cup 2014 tournament (Pm). During the New Zealand game he let in 17 goals and there were only further… Read More

Geraint Ollivander • Character Geraint Ollivander was a great medieval wandmaker (Pm). According to his descendent Garrick Ollivander, he wrote that if someone was chosen by a cypress wand, he knew they would die a heroic death (Pm). Read More

Gerbold Octavius Ollivander • Character Gerbold Octavius Ollivander was a wandmaker and the grandfather of Garrick Ollivander (Pm). Read More

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Gertie Keddle • Character A nosy witch living on the edge of Queerditch Marsh. She kept a diary that is now kept in the Museum of Quidditch in London. Translated from Saxon, the diary has the first recorded mention of an early version of Quidditch (QA). She provides glimpses of precursors of the Quaffle,… Read More

Gervaise Ollivander • Character Gervaise Ollivander was a wandmaker and the father of Garrick Ollivander (Pm). According to his son, “You will never fool the cedar carrier” was a phrase he often used to describe owners of cedar wands (Pm). Read More

Ghost of a knight with an arrow sticking out of his forehead • Character Harry, Ron and Hermione see the knight with an arrow sticking out of his forehead speaking to the Fat Friar at Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington’s 500th Deathday party on Oct. 31, 1992 (CS8). Before his death, he was a wizard (OP38). Read More

Ghost of a ragged man wearing chains • Character The ghost of a ragged man wearing chains attended the Deathday party of Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington on Oct. 31, 1992 (CS8) This ragged man is — or rather was — a wizard (OP38). Read More

Ghosts of gloomy nuns • Character A group of ghosts of gloomy nuns attended Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington’s 500th Deathday Party on October 31, 1992 (CS8). Read More

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Gibbon • Character Gibbon was a Death Eater who set off the Dark Mark during the Battle of the Tower. He was hit by a Killing Curse from Rowle that had missed Lupin (HBP29). Read More

Gideon Crumb • Character Gideon Crumb played the bagpipes in the popular wizarding band The Weird Sisters. Read More

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Gideon Prewett • Character Gideon Prewett was a member of the original Order of the Phoenix. Along with Fabian Prewett, one of the brothers of Molly (Prewett) Weasley (JKR, OP9), they were, according to Hagrid, among the “best witches and wizards of the age” who were killed during the first wizarding war (PS4). Read More

Gifford Ollerton • Character Gifford Ollerton was a famous giant-slayer. He killed the giant Hengist of Upper Barnton, and became the town’s local hero (FW). Read More

Gilbert Wimple • Character Gilbert Wimple was a member of the Committee on Experimental Charms, a job which at some point resulted in him gaining a pair of horns. He was one of the Ministry officials attending the 1994 Quidditch World Cup final (GF7). Read More

Gilderoy Lockhart • Character Gilderoy Lockhart is a celebrity wizard and author, on staff for the 1992-1993 school year at Hogwarts as Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. Read More

Ginny Weasley • Character Ginevra Molly Weasley (Ginny) is the youngest child of the Weasley family and the only daughter. Ginny is the youngest child and only daughter of Arthur and Molly Weasley (CS3), and the first girl born to the family in several generations (JKR). Though consistently underestimated by… Read More

Gladys Boothby • Character Gladys Boothby created the Moontrimmer racing broom in 1901, but was unable to keep up with commercial demand for it by Quidditch enthusiasts who wanted the broom’s new height-flying features (QA9). Read More

Glanmore Peakes • Character Glanmore Peakes was a wizard who was famous for slaying the sea serpent of Cromer (FW). Read More

Glenda Chittock • Character Glenda Chittock is a popular presenter of the W.W.N. (Wizarding Wireless Network) program Witching Hour (FW).  … Read More

Glinda Crook • Character Glinda Crook was a witch who worked for the Campaign for Greater Freedom for Wizards (DP4). Read More

Glover Hipworth • Character Glover Hipworth was the inventor of Pepperup Potion (FW). Read More

Gnarlak • Character Gnarlak was a Goblin living in 1920s New York City. He is something of an underworld figure who, among other things, traded in magical creatures. Gnarlak had been an informant for Tina Goldstein and she took Newt to meet him in the Blind Pig while they were looking for a… Read More

Godelot • Character Godelot was an early medieval Dark wizard, who was an owner of the Elder Wand and the author of Magick Moste Evile (TTB, DH21). Godelot lived in the middle of the first millennium, before the founding of Hogwarts and a century after the previous appearance of the wand… Read More

Anthony Goldstein • Character Anthony Goldstein was a Ravenclaw student in Harry’s year who became a prefect (OP10) and a member of the D.A. (OP16). He fought in the Battle of Hogwarts (DH29 ff.). Read More

Goldstein family • Character A wizarding family. Notable members in Britain include Anthony Goldstein, a half-blood wizard who fought in the Battle of Hogwarts. Anthony is also related to the American Goldstein family (JKR:Tw), whose notable members include Queenie Goldstein and Porpentina Goldstein Scamander. Queenie and Tina’s parents died of Dragon… Read More

Queenie Goldstein • Character Queenie Goldstein is the beautiful younger sister of Porpentina “Tina” Goldstein (JKR:Tw). The two shared an apartment in New York City in the 1920s (WFT). Both Queenie and her sister attended Ilvermorny School for Witches and Wizards, though they were in different houses (Queenie was in Pukwudgie while Tina was… Read More

Golgomath • Character Became Gurg after killing Karkus in the summer of 1995; a huge, violent giant who favored the Death Eaters (OP20) . Read More

Goliath • Character Mercenary giant used by the Philistines in their war with the Israelites. Was slain by a young boy with a slingshot (fw). Read More

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Gonçalo Flores • Character Gonçalo Flores played Chaser for the Brazilian National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Read More

Gondoline Oliphant • Character Gondoline Oliphant was a naturalist famous for studies of life and habits of trolls. Her interest in these dangerous beasts had a tragic end. While drawing sketches of trolls in the Cotswolds, the subjects of her sketches clubbed her to death. Read More

Arsenia Gonzales • Character Arsenia Gonzales was a Chaser for the United States National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Appearances Part of the team representing the United States in the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, Gonzales participated in the first round match against Jamaica (won by 240 points to 230)… Read More

Goodwin Kneen • Character Goodwin Kneen was a twelfth century wizard who wrote about a Yorkshire Quidditch match to his cousin in Norway (QA3, QA7). Read More

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Hesphaestus Gore • Character Hesphaestus Gore was one of the earliest Aurors. He served as the seventh Minister for Magic from 1752 to 1770 and put down the bloody goblin rebellion which started in 1752. He was unsympathetic to the werewolves who had joined the goblins, a stance which many feel caused further attacks… Read More

Dragomir Gorgovitch • Character Dragomir Gorgovitch was a Quidditch player (Chaser) who transferred to the Chudley Cannons team in the mid-1990s. Mentions Gorgovitch, who came to the Cannons around 1995, is the record holder for most Quaffle drops in a season (DH7). Ron borrowed Gorgovitch’s first name for the alias… Read More

Gormlaith Gaunt • Character Gormlaith Gaunt is Isolt Sayre’s aunt and kidnapper, who is killed in her attack on Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Gormlaith Gaunt was a fanatic about blood purity, and she disapproved of her niece being raised to have an open and positive attitude toward Muggles. Determined to to prevent… Read More

Gornuk • Character Gornuk was a deep voiced goblin who went into hiding with Griphook to avoid capture by the Death Eaters and the Ministry of Magic. They were later joined by Dirk Cresswell and then by Ted Tonks and Dean Thomas (DH15). Gornuk was subsequently murdered, along with Dirk Cresswell and… Read More

Goshawk family • Character A wizarding family. A notable member is Miranda Goshawk the author of the Standard Book of Spells book series. Read More

Diadema (Goshawk?) • Character Diadema is mentioned as a sister to the famous Miranda Goshawk, who used the Bat-Bogey Hex on Diadema to get her to return clothes she took without Miranda’s permission. (BoS)… Read More

Miranda Goshawk (1921-) • Character Famous author of the Standard Book of Spells series of books (Standard Book of Spells Grade One through [known] Grade Six) which are required textbooks for students at Hogwarts (PS5, PA4, GF10, OP9, HBP9). Read More

Romilda (Goshawk?) • Character Older sister of Miranda Goshawk. Romilda enjoyed tricking her younger sister Miranda with inaccurate incantations. When Miranda published her famous spellbook, she had special editions created for her sisters with incorrect incantations in them. Romilda suffered a magical mishap as a result, but eventually her tail disappeared (BoS). Read More

Tangwystl (Goshawk?) • Character Tangwystl is mentioned as a sister to the famous Miranda Goshawk, who used the Bat-Bogey Hex on Tangwystl when she wanted to quiet her so she could do her homework. (BoS)… Read More

Goyle Sr. • Character Goyle Sr. was Death Eater who was present at Voldemort’s rebirth (GF33). He is the father of Gregory Goyle, a Slytherin student in Harry’s year. Read More

Goyle family • Character A wizarding family. Notable members: Goyle Sr. Gregory Goyle… Read More

Graham Pritchard • Character Graham Pritchard was a Hogwarts student who was sorted into Slytherin in 1994 (GF12). Read More

Mr. Granger • Character Hermione Granger’s father, a Muggle dentist (PS12, GF3). He and Hermione’s mother bring their daughter to Diagon Alley before the start of term in August, even going into Gringotts with her (CS4) and pick her up from King’s Cross each June (OP38). They have taken Hermione skiing… Read More

Mrs. Granger • Character Hermione Granger’s mother, a Muggle dentist. Read More

Granger family • Character A muggle/wizarding family. Notable members of this family include: Hermione Granger Mrs. Granger Mr. Granger… Read More

Hermione Granger • Character Resourceful, principled and brilliant, Hermione Jean Granger is easily the brightest witch of her generation. She, along with Ron Weasley, is one of Harry Potter’s closest friends. She is also Muggle-born (her parents were dentists – PS12), and so is a living, breathing example of the fallacy of pureblood… Read More

Hugo Granger-Weasley • Character The younger of Ron and Hermione’s two children, brother to Rose. Hugo seems to be good friends with Lily Potter (DH/e).  … Read More

Rose Granger-Weasley • Character Rose Granger-Weasley is the older of Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger’s two children, and their only daughter. She is sorted into Gryffindor House at Hogwarts. On 1 September 2017, Rose was preparing to take the Hogwarts Express to her first year at school, and was nervous about the sorting (DH/e). Hermione… Read More

Granville Jorkins • Character The birth of his sister Griselda Harmonia Jorkins was announced in the Daily Prophet (DP2)… Read More

Graves family • Character A family which remains influential in American wizarding politics (Pm). Members include: Gondolphus Graves Percival Graves Merton Graves… Read More

Gondulphus Graves • Character Gondulphus Graves was one of MACUSA’s original twelve aurors (Pm). Read More

Merton Graves • Character Merton Graves was the cello player for the popular wizarding band The Weird Sisters. Read More

Percival Graves • Character Percival Graves was an exceptionally skilled wizard and an auror who worked for MACUSA. In the 1920s, Graves was tasked with tracking down whatever creature was terrorizing New York City. For some time, the suspicion fell on Newt Scamander and his escaped fantastic beasts (WFT). Percival Graves was a descendant of… Read More

Grawp • Character Grawp was Rubeus Hagrid‘s half-brother, a giant whose mother was Fridwulfa. Grawp was small for his age and was abused by the other giants in their mountain stronghold. After discovering his half-brother there, Hagrid insisted on bringing Grawp back to live in the forest near Hogwarts. Grawp… Read More

Great Auntie Enid • Character Possibly married to Great Uncle Algie (PS7). Read More

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Great Uncle Algie • Character Algie tried to trick Neville into showing some magical ability as a child. Pushed him off the end of Blackpool Pier once and nearly drowned him. Algie held Neville out of an upstairs window when he was eight and accidentally dropped him, only to see the boy bounce all the… Read More

Greek chappie • Character A “Greek chappie” is how Hagrid describes the man who sold him Fluffy, the three-headed dog, while having a drink at the Hog’s Head pub in Hogsmeade (PS11). Read More

Astoria Greengrass • Character Astoria is the younger sister of Daphne Greengrass. She entered Hogwarts two years after her sister and eventually married Draco Malfoy. Their only child was named Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy. Lucius and Narcissa objected to Draco’s choice of a wife, but he defied them. Astoria once told her son that this… Read More

Daphne Greengrass • Character Daphne is a witch in Harry’s year at Hogwarts. She took her O.W.L.s at the same time as Hermione (OP31). Read More

Greengrass family • Character The Greengrass family is a Wizarding Pure-blood family, listed in the ‘Pure-Blood Directory’ (c. 1930) as one of the ‘Sacred Twenty-Eight‘ families (Pm). Notable members: Astoria Greengrass Daphne Greengrass… Read More

Gregorovitch • Character Gregorovitch was a famous and highly-acclaimed European wand maker (GF18). He retired from business in the late 1980s; one of the last wands he made was that of Viktor Krum (DH8). At one time Gregorovitch owned the Elder Wand and bragged about it, only to see it… Read More

Gregory Cotton • Character Gregory Cotton played Seeker for the Appleby Arrows Quidditch team in the 1990s (DP3). Following an airborne scuffle with Pride of Portree seeker Dougal McBride (resulting in Cotton’s winning the Snitch), his head was transfigured into a cabbage by his irate opposite number. The Referee discovered that both Seekers… Read More

Gregory Goyle • Character Gregory Goyle is one of Draco Malfoy’s thuggish cronies. Goyle has short, bristly hair that extends down onto his forehead. His eyes are small, dull, and deep set, and he speaks with a low, raspy voice. He’s a mean bully who enjoys whatever chance he gets to boss people around,… Read More

Gregory the Smarmy • Character Gregory the Smarmy was a medieval wizarding inventor who created Gregory’s Unctuous Unction, a potion which induces the drinker to believe that the one who gave them the potion is their best friend (FW). Read More

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Fenrir Greyback • Character Fenrir Greyback was a werewolf, low-level Death Eater, and friend of the Malfoy family. He killed for fun and especially enjoyed infecting children. Greyback was a follower of Voldemort since at least 1970s, though he was in it for the access to victims, not for ideological reasons. Read More

The Grey Lady • Character The Grey Lady is the Ravenclaw House ghost; in life, she was Helena Ravenclaw, the daughter of Hogwarts founder Rowena Ravenclaw. Helena stole her mother’s diadem to make herself cleverer and fled to Albania. Her mother became deathly ill soon after and sent Helena’s long-time admirer to find her and bring her back. When… Read More

Glynnis Griffiths • Character Glynnis Griffiths played Seeker for the Holyhead Harpies Quidditch team in 1953. Read More

Wilda Griffiths • Character Wilda Griffiths was a Chaser for the Puddlemere United Quidditch team during the 1990s. Considered to be an outstanding Chaser, Griffiths was lured away from the Holyhead Harpies by a huge fee, much to the chagrin of their talented but dangerous captain Gwenog Jones. She was also said to… Read More

Grimmson • Character Grimmson was a rough and obnoxious “Beast Hunter” who offered his services to the Ministry of Magic in 1927 to hunt down American Obscurial, Credence Barebone (CG). He was chosen for the job after Magizoologist Newt Scamander refused to become an Auror and hunt down Credence, for whom he felt… Read More

Robert Grimsditch • Character Robert Grimsditch was one of the original twelve American wizards and witches to volunteer to serves as aurors for the newly-created MACUSA (Pm). Read More

Elias Grimstone • Character Elias Grimstone was the developer of the Oakshaft 79 broom (QA9). Read More

Grimwold Jorkins • Character The birth of his sister Griselda Harmonia Jorkins was announced in the Daily Prophet (DP2)  … Read More

Gellert Grindelwald • Character Gellert Grindelwald was a brilliant, ambitious, and ultimately dangerous wizard who tried to take over the wizarding world, starting in the early 1920s and ending with his defeat by Albus Dumbledore in a famous duel in 1945. Two years younger than Dumbledore (DH18), as a teenager Gellert was blond, wore… Read More

Gringott • Character The goblin who founded of Gringotts Wizarding Bank in 1474 (FW, WWHP). Read More

Griphook • Character Griphook is one of the goblins who operates the underground tram-carts that take wizards to their vaults at Gringotts Wizarding Bank (PS5). He and the goblin Gornuk were on the run (along with wizards Dirk Cresswell and Ted Tonks), having refused to… Read More

Griselda Harmonia Jorkins • Character The birth of Griselda Harmonia Jorkins was announced in the Daily Prophet (DP2)  … Read More

Griselda Marchbanks • Character Griselda Marchbanks was an elderly witch who was head of the Wizarding Examinations Authority (OP31) and an elder of the Wizengamot, although (together with Tiberius Ogden) she resigned the latter office in protest at the appointment of Umbridge as ‘Hogwarts High Inquisitor’. The Daily Prophet included her in its smear… Read More

Grizel Hurtz • Character Grizel Hurtz is the “Agony Aunt” of the Daily Prophet and one of the experts featured on the Problem Page (DP3). Ms Hurtz advised lovelorn witch Lilith Molesby about the drawbacks of using a Love Potion to force a wizard to be in love with her. She recommended a course… Read More

Grogan Stump • Character Grogan Stump was a popular Minister for Magic who served from 1811 to 1819 (Pm). Read More

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Stoyanka Grozda • Character Stoyanka Grozda was a Chaser on the Bulgarian National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Read More

Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank • Character Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank is an elderly witch with closely cropped gray hair and a very prominent chin who teaches Care of Magical Creatures. Professor Grubbly-Plank was the supply teacher (US: “substitute”) who covered for Hagrid when he was indisposed after Christmas break (January 1995, GF24) and again when he was off negotiating… Read More

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Grugwyn Rufford • Character Grugwyn Rufford was a disgruntled member of the Welsh National Gobstones Team, who complained to the Daily Prophet (DP1)… Read More

Alberic Grunnion • Character Alberic Grunnion was the inventor of the Dungbomb (FW). His Chocolate Frog card was one of the ones Harry received on his first journey to Hogwarts (PS6). Read More

Godric Gryffindor • Character Godric Gryffindor was the founder of Gryffindor House and one of the co-founders of Hogwarts, described as one of “the four greatest witches and wizards of the age” (along with the other three founders) (CS9). Read More

Malodora Grymm • Character Malodora Grymm was a famous hag. She used a beautification potion to conceal her true form, married a king, and used a charmed mirror to reinforce her self-image. She became jealous of the most beautiful girl in the land and fed her a poisoned apple to get rid of her. Read More

Davey Gudgeon • Character Davey Gudgeon was a Hogwarts student in the 1970s who almost lost an eye playing a game in which people tried to get close enough to the Whomping Willow to touch its trunk (PA10). Read More

Galvin Gudgeon • Character Galvin Gudgeon played Seeker for the Chudley Cannons Quidditch team (DP1). Read More

Gladys Gudgeon • Character Gladys Gudgeon wrote weekly fan mail to Gilderoy Lockhart (CS7, OP23). Read More

Elladora Guffy • Character Elladora Guffy was the next-door neighbour of Ethelbald Mordaunt. Madam Guffy was fond of practical jokes. She was been known on occasion to enchant Mordaunt’s garden furniture. This infuriated Mr. Mordaunt, which he eloquently expressed in a letter to the Daily Prophet (DP1). Read More

Zamira Gulch • Character Zamira Gulch was the author of Practical Household Magic. She also wrote for the Problem Page of the Daily Prophet (DP3). Ms Gulch specialised in readers’ everyday magical problems and advised a witch who could not get her Fixing Charms to stick. She suggested better concentration while performing charms… Read More

Gulliver Pokeby • Character Gulliver Pokeby was a wizard who studied magical birds. He wrote about his discovery that the cry of an augurey foretells rain, not death, in his book Why I Didn’t Die When the Augurey Cried (FB, Pm). Read More

Alastor Gumboil • Character Alastor Gumboil is an employee at the Ministry of Magic, recruiting for new members for the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. He placed an ad in the Daily Prophet looking for applicants for the position of “Hit-Witch” or “Hit-Wizard”. Mr Gumboil’s office is located in Room 919 at the Ministry (… Read More

Gunhilda of Gorsemoor • Character Gunhilda was a one-eyed, hump-backed witch who was a beloved healer in the 16th Century. Gunhilda is known for developing a cure for Dragon Pox (FW). A statue of Gunhilda stands in the corridors of Hogwarts; a secret passageway leading to Honeydukes’ in Hogsmeade opens with a door in her hump… Read More

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Guthrie Lochrin • Character Guthrie Lochrin was a Scottish wizard who, in 1107, talked about suffering “splinter-filled buttocks and bulging piles” as a result of riding a broomstick (QA1). Read More

Arnold Guzman • Character Arnold Guzman was an American who met with Newt Scamander at the Ministry of Magic in 1927. He was very persuasive in explaining how dangerous Gellert Grindelwald for members of the Wizarding World, especially Purebloods who saw him as a hero. Guzman also warned Newt that Grindelwald would use the… Read More

Gwendolyn Morgan • Character Gwendolyn Morgan was a Quidditch player and the Captain of the Holyhead Harpies team in 1953. After her Seeker, Glynnis Griffiths, caught the Snitch to give them the victory in a hard-fought seven-day match, the captain of the Heidelberg Harriers, Rudolf Brand, proposed marriage immediately he landed on… Read More

Gwenog • Character Gwenog was a friend of Gertie Kettle, a witch who was interested in the wizarding game being played on Queerditch Marsh. Gertie Keddle’s diary records that her friend Gwenog came over for tea and they then went out and watched some wizards and witches knocking around rocks while… Read More

Gwenog Jones • Character Gwenog Jones is the retired Captain and Beater of the only all-female professional Quidditch team, the Holyhead Harpies, and manager of the Welsh National Team in 2014. After a game she enjoys relaxing with friends, drinking butterbeer, and listening to The Weird Sisters (FW). Read More