Purpose
To learn and practice magical methods of self-defence
Resistance against
Death Eater
Death Eater activities in Hogwarts
Affiliations
Order of the Phoenix
Enemies
Lord Voldemort
Death Eaters
Dolores Umbridge
Ministry of Magic
Ministry of Magic (indirectly)
Inquisitorial Squad
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army (or D.A. for short) is a fictional student
organisation in J. K. Rowling's
Harry Potter
Harry Potter series that is founded by
the main characters, Harry Potter,
Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger,
to stand up against the regime of
Hogwarts
Hogwarts High Inquisitor Dolores
Umbridge, as well as to learn practical Defence Against the Dark Arts.
It was founded in the fifth book,
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix.
Contents
1 Synopsis
1.1 Fictional organisation history
1.2 Members
2 Notable
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army members
2.1 Lavender Brown
2.2 Cho Chang
2.3 Colin and Dennis Creevey
2.4 Seamus Finnigan
2.5 Neville Longbottom
2.6 Luna Lovegood
2.7 Parvati Patil
2.8 Dean Thomas
2.9 Fred and George Weasley
3 Impact in the real world
4 References
5 External links
Synopsis[edit]
Fictional organisation history[edit]
In
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the new Defence Against
the Dark Arts professor, Dolores Umbridge, chooses to teach only the
basic theoretical principles of the subject in her classes instead of
practical applications, due to Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge's
erroneous fear that
Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore is preparing to assemble a
student army to overthrow him. This theory-only approach is widely
unpopular among the students, especially those characters like Harry,
who are in their fifth year and have to take their
O.W.L.
O.W.L. exams on the
subject later in the year. Harry also believes that lack of practical
experience makes them more vulnerable to Lord Voldemort's forces,
though the Ministry staunchly refuses to accept that Lord Voldemort
has returned. This prompts Hermione to suggest founding a student
group where Harry would teach practical Defence Against the Dark Arts.
After
Dolores Umbridge
Dolores Umbridge learns about the project, she bans all
unapproved student organisations, so meetings are secretly held in the
Room of Requirement
Room of Requirement and announced to members through the use of
enchanted fake Galleons created by Hermione. Cho Chang suggests the
"Defence Association", shortened to "D.A.", as the official name for
the group, but Ginny Weasley's suggestion of "Dumbledore's Army", to
mock the Ministry's paranoia and to show the group's loyalty to
Dumbledore, is chosen.
When Cho's friend Marietta Edgecombe betrays the group to Umbridge
(Cho herself while under the influence of the truth potion Veritaserum
in the film), Marietta is cursed with pimples on her face. Hermione's
spell on their D.A. coins helped to find any traitors. Later on, to
prevent Harry's expulsion and the incrimination of other members,
Dumbledore claims responsibility for organising the group, then
escapes when Ministry officials attempt to arrest him. Though the D.A.
stops meeting following these events, three members — Ginny,
Neville and Luna — join Harry, Ron and Hermione in the battle
in the
Department of Mysteries
Department of Mysteries towards the end of the fifth book. In
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Neville and Luna are
distraught due to the fact that the D.A. no longer exists. When
Hogwarts
Hogwarts is invaded by Death Eaters, they are among the members who
join the Order of the Phoenix in the ensuing battle.
In
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with Harry, Ron and Hermione
absent from Hogwarts, Neville, Ginny and Luna begin a covert rebellion
against new headmaster
Severus Snape
Severus Snape by reactivating the D.A. However,
Luna is abducted at Christmas and Ginny leaves during Easter, leaving
Neville for a few weeks as the D.A.'s leader. Neville tells Harry that
most of the D.A.'s activity ceased shortly after Michael Corner was
tortured by
Death Eater
Death Eater siblings
Alecto and Amycus Carrow
Alecto and Amycus Carrow for trying
to rescue a first-year boy from imprisonment. The group thereafter
hide from the
Death Eaters
Death Eaters in the Room of Requirement, using a secret
passage to the Hog's Head to find food. The D.A. believed that if
Harry returned he'd lead them in a revolution against Snape and the
Carrows and are disappointed when he initially refuses to let them
help. Harry does lead an impromptu revolt, but only himself, Luna and
Professors McGonagall, Sprout, Flitwick and Slughorn take part in it,
with Harry and Luna taking out the Carrows, and the professors
(rallied by McGonagall and Harry) driving off Snape. In the book's
climax, the D.A. (alongside the Order of the Phoenix) plays an
important role in the Battle of Hogwarts, giving Harry enough time to
find the remaining Horcruxes.
In the alternate timeline appearing in
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child - in which
Voldemort
Voldemort wins the Battle of Hogwarts, kills Harry
Potter and institutes a terrible reign of terror - the fugitive Ron
and Hermione maintain the last remnants of the D.A. Twenty years
later, they still wage hopeless resistance against the all-powerful
Voldemort, clandestinely helped by Snape - in this reality still alive
and still teaching at Hogwarts. Eventually, these remnants of the D.A.
sacrifice themselves to cover the escape of
Scorpius Malfoy
Scorpius Malfoy and let
him restore the timeline where Harry wins.
Members[edit]
Character
House
Background
Hannah Abbott
Hufflepuff
A student in Harry's year described as "pink-faced" with blonde hair
worn in pigtails. In Order of the Phoenix, Hannah is named a
Hufflepuff
Hufflepuff prefect and joins Dumbledore's Army. In Half-Blood Prince,
Hannah leaves
Hogwarts
Hogwarts after her mother is murdered by Death Eaters,
but she returns in the series finale to take part in the Battle of
Hogwarts. The adult Hannah becomes the landlady of The Leaky Cauldron,
and has married Neville Longbottom.[1] Charlotte Skeoch played Hannah
in the film adaptations of Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire, and
voiced the character in the Order of the Phoenix video game. Louisa
Warren voiced Hannah in Part 2 of the Deathly Hallows games and played
her in the background of Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2.
Katie Bell
Gryffindor
A student who joins the
Quidditch
Quidditch team in her second year (Harry's
first) as a Chaser, and joins
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army in her sixth year. In
Half-Blood Prince, Katie is badly cursed after accidentally touching a
necklace
Draco Malfoy
Draco Malfoy intended to give Dumbledore, and is hospitalised
for several months in St Mungo's Hospital. In Deathly Hallows, she
re-joins the D.A. to participate in the Battle of Hogwarts. Katie was
portrayed by Emily Dale in a non-speaking part in the first two films.
She featured in an expanded role in Half-Blood Prince and a brief
appearance in Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2, in which she was
played by Georgina Leonidas, who also voiced the character in the
Half-Blood Prince video game.
Susan Bones
Hufflepuff
A student in Harry's year. She is the niece of Ministry of Magic
official Amelia Bones and deceased Order of the Phoenix member Edgar
Bones. Eleanor Columbus (daughter of director Chris Columbus)
portrayed Susan in a non-speaking role in the first two films, but she
has a speaking role in the video games.
Terry Boot
Ravenclaw
A student in Harry's year who is close friends with housemates Michael
Corner and Anthony Goldstein.
Lavender Brown
Gryffindor
See section below
Cho Chang
Ravenclaw
See section below
Michael Corner
Ravenclaw
A student in Harry's year. Michael and
Ginny Weasley meet and begin a
relationship after the Yule Ball, but after
Gryffindor
Gryffindor defeats
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw in a
Quidditch
Quidditch Cup final, Michael expresses his displeasure
of the result and the relationship ends. He then begins seeing Cho
Chang, fresh from her split with Harry. In Deathly Hallows, Michael is
tortured by the Carrows for trying to free a first-year boy from
imprisonment during Snape's regime as
Hogwarts
Hogwarts headmaster, causing the
D.A. to cease operations prior to Harry's return.
Colin and Dennis Creevey
Gryffindor
See section below
Marietta Edgecombe
Ravenclaw
Part of Cho Chang's cadre of giggling
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw girlfriends; her
mother works for the
Floo Network
Floo Network authority in the Ministry. Marietta
reluctantly joins D.A. out of peer pressure from Cho. Marietta becomes
an informant and betrays the group to Umbridge, which is not without
consequences: the parchment that all the members signed back at The
Hog's Head at the first meeting was jinxed by Hermione, causing anyone
breaking the oath to have purple pustules spelling the word "SNEAK" to
break out across their face. In the film adaptation of Order of the
Phoenix, Marietta does not appear and her betrayal is instead
committed by Cho, under the influence of the
Veritaserum potion.
Justin Finch-Fletchley
Hufflepuff
A
Muggle-born
Muggle-born student in Harry's year. In Chamber of Secrets, he is
temporarily petrified by the basilisk after seeing it through
Gryffindor
Gryffindor House ghost Nearly Headless Nick. Justin was played by
Edward Randell in the film adaptation of Chamber of Secrets.
Seamus Finnigan
Gryffindor
See section below
Anthony Goldstein
Ravenclaw
A student in Harry's year. In Order of the Phoenix, Anthony is named a
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw prefect and joins Dumbledore's Army. In Deathly Hallows he
is one of many D.A. members holed up in the
Room of Requirement
Room of Requirement who
enthusiastically greet Harry upon his return to Hogwarts, prior to
entering the Battle of Hogwarts.
Hermione Granger
Gryffindor
Founder.
Angelina Johnson
Gryffindor
A student two years older than Harry that has been a Chaser on the
Gryffindor
Gryffindor
Quidditch
Quidditch team since her second year, and replaces Oliver
Wood as team captain in Harry's fifth year. At the end of Deathly
Hallows, she returns to
Hogwarts
Hogwarts for the final battle. Rowling
revealed that after the war she marries George and has two children, a
son called Fred Jr (after George's late twin) and a daughter named
Roxanne. Angelina was portrayed by Danielle Tabor in the first three
films.
Tiana Benjamin was recast for the role in Goblet of Fire, and
voiced the character in the Order of the Phoenix video game.
Lee Jordan
Gryffindor
A student two years older than Harry, and a close friend of Fred and
George. He serves as Hogwarts'
Quidditch
Quidditch commentator. In Deathly
Hallows, Lee becomes an undercover pirate radio anchor, broadcasting
under the pseudonym of "River" on an anti-
Ministry of Magic
Ministry of Magic radio
station called Potterwatch, which supports the activities of Harry and
the Order of the Phoenix. He and George successfully take down Death
Eater Yaxley in the Battle of Hogwarts.
Luke Youngblood portrayed the
character in the first two films and voiced the character on the fifth
video game.
Neville Longbottom
Gryffindor
See section below
Luna Lovegood
Ravenclaw
See section below
Ernie Macmillan
Hufflepuff
A student in Harry's year, described as a stout boy, occasionally
pompous but well-meaning and is descended from nine consecutive
generations of pure-blood witches and wizards. In Chamber of Secrets,
Ernie initially believes that Harry is the Heir of Slytherin and
responsible for the attacks on
Muggle-born
Muggle-born students; However, after
Hermione is Petrified, Ernie realises his mistake and apologises to
Harry. Ernie becomes a
Hufflepuff
Hufflepuff prefect in his fifth year, and joins
Dumbledore's Army. He is among the few
Hogwarts
Hogwarts students who openly
side with Harry's and Dumbledore's claims that
Voldemort
Voldemort has returned.
In Deathly Hallows, he participates in the Battle of Hogwarts. Louis
Doyle played Ernie in Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire, and
voiced the character in the video game adaptation of Order of the
Phoenix.
Padma Patil
Ravenclaw
A student in Harry's year, and the twin sister of
Gryffindor
Gryffindor student
Parvati Patil. In Globet of Fire, Padma attends the Yule Ball with
Ron, but he is completely uninterested on his date, instead spending
the evening stewing in jealousy over Hermione's date with Viktor Krum.
In Order of the Phoenix, Padma becomes a
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw prefect, and joins
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army along with her sister. They are taken home by their
parents after Dumbledore's death at the conclusion of Half-Blood
Prince, but in Deathly Hallows they return to take part in the Battle
of Hogwarts. In the
Harry Potter
Harry Potter film series, Padma is a member of
Gryffindor
Gryffindor house instead of Ravenclaw, and she is portrayed by Afshan
Azad.
Parvati Patil
Gryffindor
See section below
Harry Potter
Gryffindor
Founder.
Zacharias Smith
Hufflepuff
A Chaser for the
Hufflepuff
Hufflepuff
Quidditch
Quidditch team, described as unlikeable
and irritating. He joins the D.A. but is the most sceptical of Harry's
claims. In Half-Blood Prince, Zacharias splits
Quidditch
Quidditch match
commentary duties with Luna during the term. After Dumbledore's death,
his 'haughty-looking' father escorts him from
Hogwarts
Hogwarts before the
funeral, implying that he was not supportive of Dumbledore and his
policies. In Deathly Hallows, before the Battle of Hogwarts, he is
seen pushing past younger students for the evacuation point rather
than staying to fight alongside the D.A. Nick Shirm briefly appeared
as Zacharias in the film adaptation of Order of the Phoenix.[2] Shirm
also voiced the character in the video game adaptation of Order of the
Phoenix.
Alicia Spinnet
Gryffindor
A student two years older than Harry and a Chaser on the Gryffindor
Quidditch
Quidditch team. Returns in the final book to defend the school in the
Battle of Hogwarts. Alicia was portrayed by Leilah Sutherland in
Philosopher's Stone, and by Rochelle Douglas in Chamber of Secrets.
Dean Thomas
Gryffindor
See section below
Fred and George Weasley
Gryffindor
See section below
Ginny Weasley
Gryffindor
See
Ginny Weasley article
Ron Weasley
Gryffindor
Founder.
Notable
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army members[edit]
Lavender Brown[edit]
Lavender Brown is a
Gryffindor
Gryffindor student in Harry's year. She is a close
friend of housemate Parvati Patil, and the two also seem to have a
reasonably close relationship with Professor Trelawney, comforting and
supporting her in her various crises. In Order of the Phoenix, she
initially believes the Ministry's smear campaign against Harry, but is
among the original members of Dumbledore's Army. In Half-Blood Prince,
Lavender becomes Ron's first girlfriend for several months; he
relishes the opportunity to make Hermione jealous and prove that he
can "snog" (kiss) people whenever he wants. It becomes increasingly
evident that Ron is not particularly enamoured with Lavender and
actually finds her irritating. Lavender becomes jealous of Ron's
friendship with Hermione, and finally splits up with him when she sees
them leaving Harry's dormitory together, as she is under the
impression that they had been alone together, not realising Harry was
there under his invisibility cloak. In Deathly Hallows, during the
Battle of Hogwarts, Lavender is attacked by Fenrir Greyback; she dies
in the film, whereas in the book she is saved by a crystal ball hurled
by Professor Trelawney.
Kathleen Cauley portrayed Lavender in a non-speaking cameo of Harry
Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Jennifer Smith portrayed Lavender
in a brief, non-speaking role in Prisoner of Azkaban. Jessie Cave
played the character in a larger role from Half-Blood Prince onwards.
Cho Chang[edit]
Cho Chang is a
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw student one year above Harry, and plays
Seeker for the
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw
Quidditch
Quidditch team. She is best known for being
Harry's first love interest, is described as being "very pretty" with
long dark hair and is frequently accompanied by a group of giggling
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw girls. In Goblet of Fire, Harry's crush on Cho intensifies
and he works up the courage to ask her out to the Yule Ball, but Cho
apologises and replies that she had previously accepted Cedric
Diggory's offer. Nonetheless, Cho is still kind to Harry, much to his
relief, and she refuses to wear one of Malfoy's "Potter Stinks"
badges. She and Cedric maintain their relationship until his murder by
Peter Pettigrew.
Cho is one of the first students to believe Harry's declaration of
Voldemort's return in Order of the Phoenix, and when invited by
Hermione to join the D.A., she joins because she is determined to
fight against
Voldemort
Voldemort and avenge Cedric's murder. Cho initiates a
kiss with Harry after the last D.A. session before the Christmas
holidays; much to Ron's amusement, Harry describes the kiss as "wet,"
but then explains that Cho was crying. Harry and Cho go out on a date
on Valentine's Day, but her sustained grief over Cedric's death, her
jealousy over Harry's friendship with Hermione, and Harry's lack of
knowledge about girls all make for a miserable experience. Their
relationship ends when the D.A. is exposed following Marietta
Edgecombe's betrayal of the group to Umbridge. Cho defends her
friend's actions by saying that Marietta simply made a mistake. On the
train back to King's Cross, Ginny reveals that Cho was now seeing
Michael Corner.
In the series finale, Cho demonstrates her loyalty to
Hogwarts
Hogwarts when
she returns to join other D.A. members in hiding in the Room of
Requirement prior to engaging in the Battle of Hogwarts; Harry and
Cho, united by a common cause, appear on amicable and friendly terms.
She shares with Harry the little information known about Ravenclaw's
diadem (one of Voldemort's Horcruxes). Rowling said during an October
2007 book signing that Cho marries a Muggle.[3]
Cho was played by Scottish actress
Katie Leung
Katie Leung in the film series
starting from when the character made its debut in the Harry Potter
and the Goblet of Fire. In Order of the Phoenix, she exposes
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army to
Umbridge
Umbridge while under the influence of the
Veritaserum potion, as opposed to her friend Marietta in the novel.
Colin and Dennis Creevey[edit]
Colin and Dennis Creevey are two
Muggle-born
Muggle-born brothers sorted into
Gryffindor; Colin is one year younger than Harry, and Dennis is two
years younger than Colin. Both are delighted at the discovery that
they are wizards, and are star-struck by Harry. Colin takes
photographs of memorable people, objects and events to send home to
his family. Ironically, Colin's camera later proves to be a lifesaver
when he attempts to take a picture of the basilisk, and the camera
lens shields him from the creature's direct and fatal eye contact, and
Colin is only Petrified. Despite being too young to take part in the
Battle of Hogwarts, Colin sneaks back into the castle to participate,
and dies in combat.
Hugh Mitchell played Colin in the film version of Chamber of Secrets,
and voiced the character in the Order of the Phoenix video game.
Dennis never appeared in any of the films. In the Order of the Phoenix
and subsequent films, the roles of Colin and Dennis were morphed into
a second-year character named Nigel Wolpert, portrayed by William
Melling.
Seamus Finnigan[edit]
Seamus Finnigan is an Irish
Gryffindor
Gryffindor student in Harry's year who is
described as having sandy hair. His mother is a witch and his father a
Muggle, who only found out his wife's secret after their marriage. He
is best friends with housemate Dean Thomas. In Order of the Phoenix,
Seamus is initially influenced by the Ministry's smear campaign
against Harry, and his mother nearly prevents him from returning to
Hogwarts. However, he later realises his mistake, offers his apologies
to Harry, and becomes a late addition to the D.A. In Half-Blood
Prince, Seamus refuses to allow his mother to take him home before
Dumbledore's funeral. In Deathly Hallows, it is stated that Seamus is
taking shelter in the
Room of Requirement
Room of Requirement along with several D.A.
members; his face is bruised so badly after being punished by the
Carrows that Harry initially fails to recognise him until he speaks.
During the battle, he, Luna, and Ernie help Harry fight the Dementors
by conjuring their respective Patronuses; Seamus' takes the form of a
fox. He is last seen entering the Great Hall to take part in the final
stage of the battle, when Harry shields him and Hannah Abbott from one
of Voldemort's curses.
Devon Murray
Devon Murray played Seamus in the
Harry Potter
Harry Potter film series and voiced
the character on the eighth game. He has appeared in all eight films,
one of the few characters to do so.
Neville Longbottom[edit]
Neville Longbottom
Neville Longbottom is a pure-blood
Gryffindor
Gryffindor student in Harry's year,
described as round-faced and "short and plump and blond".[4] His
parents, Frank and Alice Longbottom, were prominent Aurors and Order
of the Phoenix members until they were tortured into insanity, through
the use of the cruciatus curse, by a group of
Death Eaters
Death Eaters led by
Bellatrix Lestrange. Neville was subsequently raised by his paternal
grandmother, Augusta. Throughout the series, he is often portrayed as
a bumbling, disorganised character and a rather mediocre student,
though he is highly gifted at Herbology. Neville plays a minor role in
the first four books, but Rowling wanted him to perform an act of
bravery in Philosopher's Stone, in which Neville "finds true moral
courage in standing up to his closest friends — the people who
are on his side" towards the climax.[5]
According to Rowling, Order of the Phoenix "was a real turning point
for Neville" due to the central role he played in the book.[6] His
magical abilities improve dramatically during D.A. meetings. Neville
participates in the battle in the Department of Mysteries, in which he
accidentally breaks the prophecy about Harry and Voldemort.[7]
Dumbledore, to whom it was originally made, explains that it concerned
"the Chosen One", a wizard who would have the power to vanquish
Voldemort
Voldemort and who would be born "as the seventh month dies" to
"parents who have defied the Dark Lord thrice"; thus could refer to
either Neville, who was born on 30 July 1980, or Harry, who was born a
day later.[8] This means that Neville could easily have had Harry's
fate, had
Voldemort
Voldemort chosen to target him instead of Harry. Neville is
also one of the few D.A. members to participate in the battle of the
Astronomy Tower in the climax of Half-Blood Prince.
In Deathly Hallows, with
Hogwarts
Hogwarts at the mercy of new headmaster
Severus Snape
Severus Snape and
Death Eater
Death Eater siblings Alecto and Amycus Carrow,
Neville reforms the D.A. with Ginny and Luna, and spends much of his
seventh year as the resistance's leader, helping students who are
tormented under the new regime. He is punished for his actions by the
Carrows and is forced to go into hiding in the
Room of Requirement
Room of Requirement to
avoid Azkaban or death. In the Battle of
Hogwarts
Hogwarts Neville openly
defies Voldemort, so the Dark Lord immobilises him, places the Sorting
Hat on his head and sets it on fire. Neville later breaks free of the
curse, pulls
Godric Gryffindor's sword
Godric Gryffindor's sword from the Sorting Hat, and uses
it to decapitate Nagini (on Harry's orders), thus destroying the final
Horcrux. In the ensuing conflict, he assists Ron in defeating werewolf
Fenrir Greyback. In the epilogue of Deathly Hallows, Neville is
Herbology professor at
Hogwarts
Hogwarts and still good friends with the Potter
and Weasley families. Post-Deathly Hallows, Rowling revealed that
Neville married Hannah Abbott, now the landlady of The Leaky Cauldron,
and his students think it is particularly cool that he lives above the
pub.[9][10][11]
Neville was played by Yorkshire-born actor Matthew Lewis in the Harry
Potter film series. He has appeared in all eight films.
IGN
IGN listed Neville as their sixth top
Harry Potter
Harry Potter character, calling
him the "quintessential dimwit-turned-hero".[12] In NextMovie.com's
Harry Potter
Harry Potter Mega Poll, Neville was voted as the top character that
should get a spin-off movie or book.[13] Empire listed Neville as
their 8th favourite
Harry Potter
Harry Potter character.[14]
Luna Lovegood[edit]
Luna Lovegood
Luna Lovegood is a
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw student one year younger than Harry. She
is described as having straggly waist-length dirty blond hair, grey
eyes and a "permanently surprised look". Rowling has often said that
Luna is the "anti-Hermione", as Hermione is "inflexible and logical,"
as opposed to Luna, who would "believe 10 impossible things before
breakfast."[15] Her father, Xenophilius Lovegood, is the
editor-in-chief of The Quibbler, a strange magazine claiming
supposedly untrue things Luna and her father believe. When Luna was 9
years old, her mother Pandora died while performing spell experiments.
Luna witnessed the accident, which enabled her to see Thestrals. Luna
is at first socially isolated at school, gaining the nickname "Loony"
Lovegood for her bizarre ways, but she appears to have the rare
quality of caring little about what others think of her, although she
sometimes gets incensed when her outlandish beliefs are challenged.
In Order of the Phoenix, Luna and her father are among the few who
believe Harry and Dumbledore when they claim that
Voldemort
Voldemort has
returned, and she also becomes a member of Dumbledore's Army. Later in
the book, she joins Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville in the
conflict with
Death Eaters
Death Eaters at the Department of Mysteries. In
Half-Blood Prince, Luna remains close friends with Harry and the
others. Harry later invites Luna to Slughorn's Christmas party. She
also does the
Quidditch
Quidditch commentary for Gryffindor's game against
Hufflepuff, a scene that Rowling particularly enjoyed writing, calling
it "blinding inspiration".[16] Later, when
Death Eaters
Death Eaters attack
Hogwarts, Luna, Ginny, and Neville are the sole D.A. members who
answer the call to protect Hogwarts.
In Deathly Hallows, Luna and her father attend
Bill Weasley
Bill Weasley and Fleur
Delacour's wedding at the Burrow. She returns to school for her sixth
year, where she and Ginny help Neville secretly revive the D.A. to
oppose Snape's regime as
Hogwarts
Hogwarts headmaster. Later in the book,
Harry, Ron and Hermione learn that Luna has been kidnapped by Death
Eaters in an effort to prevent her father from publishing information
in support of Harry. However, she is later rescued, along with the
recently captured Harry, Ron, and Hermione, by Dobby, who takes them
to safety at Shell Cottage. When Harry returns to
Hogwarts
Hogwarts in search
of Ravenclaw's diadem, Luna helps him enter the
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw common room
to view a replica of it, and participates actively in the Battle of
Hogwarts. Rowling revealed that, after Hogwarts, Luna pursues a career
that is "the wizarding equivalent" of a naturalist.[17] She marries a
fellow naturalist named Rolf, the grandson of Newt Scamander, and has
twin boys, Lorcan and Lysander.[18][19] After Harry and Ginny are
married, they name their daughter Lily Luna.
Irish actress
Evanna Lynch
Evanna Lynch portrayed Luna in the last four Harry
Potter films, and reprised the role for StarKid productions' A Very
Potter Senior Year.[20]
IGN
IGN listed Luna as its 12th top
Harry Potter
Harry Potter character, saying that
her looniness made her a "delight".[12] Empire listed Luna as its 10th
favourite
Harry Potter
Harry Potter character in "The 25 Greatest Harry Potter
Characters".[21]
Parvati Patil[edit]
Parvati
Patil is a
Gryffindor
Gryffindor student in Harry's year and the twin
sister of
Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw student Padma Patil. Her best friend is Lavender
Brown; they are particularly fond of Trelawney's Divination class, and
share many common interests. In Goblet of Fire, when Harry needs a
date to the Yule Ball, he asks Parvati and she accepts. However, her
evening is a disappointment as Harry spends the evening jealously
preoccupied with Cho Chang's date with
Cedric Diggory
Cedric Diggory and disdains
dancing with Parvati; she eventually abandons him to dance with a
Beauxbatons boy whom she then later meets in Hogsmeade. In her fifth
year, Parvati joins
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army along with her sister. In
Half-Blood Prince, the twins are almost removed from
Hogwarts
Hogwarts by their
parents, and ultimately do return home after Dumbledore's death.
However, the
Patil twins return to their seventh year at Hogwarts, and
participate in the Battle of Hogwarts.
The Patils' names and appearance in the films imply that they are of
Indian descent.
Patil is a common Marathi surname in the state of
Maharashtra, India. Rowling originally intended the twins' first names
to begin with "Ma", and on her classlist from
Harry Potter
Harry Potter and Me,
their last name was spelled as Patel. Parvati means 'daughter of the
mountains', an alternate name for the
Hindu
Hindu goddess Durga, the goddess
of strength, while Padma is the Sanskrit word for lotus, an alternate
name for the
Hindu
Hindu goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity.
Together, they form a part of the trinity of the
Hindu
Hindu goddesses.
Parvati was portrayed by Sitara Shah in Prisoner of Azkaban. Shefali
Chowdhury took over the part for Goblet of Fire, along with the film
and game versions of Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince.
Dean Thomas[edit]
Dean Thomas is a
Gryffindor
Gryffindor student in Harry's year, and is Seamus
Finnigan's best friend. He is a Half-blood: his mother is a
Muggle and
his father was a pure blood wizard who kept his blood status a secret.
Dean's father left his family when Dean was very young in an attempt
to protect them against the Death Eaters, and was slain when he
refused to join them. Dean originally prefers soccer over Quidditch,
and has a poster of the West Ham soccer team in his and Harry's
dormitory. Dean was subsequently raised by his mother and stepfather,
and has several half-brothers and sisters.[22] Dean was named "Gary"
in the original drafts of Philosopher's Stone.[23] Rowling omitted his
physical description ("a Black boy taller than Ron") from the British
version of the book at her editor's request, but it was included in
the American edition. His backstory was originally expanded in Chamber
of Secrets, but she ultimately cut it due to her inability to work it
into the storyline.[24]
In Order of the Phoenix, Dean joins the D.A. and also believes Harry
and Dumbledore when they insist that
Voldemort
Voldemort has returned; but, when
Harry and Seamus engage in a heated row over the Daily Prophet's
allegations that Harry had merely fabricated the story, Dean refuses
to take sides. At the end of the term, he begins seeing Ginny Weasley.
The two of them are still dating in Half-Blood Prince, but Ginny
thinks that Dean is being pushy and overprotective, which leads to the
fight that ends their relationship. Dean temporarily fills in for
Katie Bell on the
Gryffindor
Gryffindor
Quidditch
Quidditch team after she is hospitalised.
Dean's role is expanded in Deathly Hallows. Unable to prove that he is
actually a Half-blood, he does not return to
Hogwarts
Hogwarts and goes on the
run from the Ministry, who are rounding up Muggle-borns upon
Voldemort's orders. Harry, Ron, and Hermione first come across him
during their mission as they eavesdrop on his conversation with fellow
runaways Ted Tonks, Dirk Cresswell, and the goblins
Griphook
Griphook and
Gornuk. Snatchers soon viciously attack the group; Dean and Griphook
are the lone survivors but are captured along with Harry, Ron, and
Hermione and taken to Malfoy Manor. They are all rescued by Dobby, who
transports them to Bill and Fleur's
Shell Cottage
Shell Cottage for protection. Dean
returns to
Hogwarts
Hogwarts towards the end of the book and fights in the
Battle of Hogwarts.
Alfred Enoch
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Alfred Enoch played Dean in the
Harry Potter
Harry Potter film series and voiced
the character in the Order of the Phoenix and Deathly Hallows: Part 1
video game.
Fred and George Weasley[edit]
Fred Weasley and George Weasley are the fun-loving, troublemaking
twins of the Weasley family. Born on April Fools' Day, the two work
together making pranks and are addressed as a single unit as opposed
to two individual people. They are so similar that even their parents
often have a difficult time telling the two apart. They first appear
in Philosopher's Stone as third years and are the school clowns.
Despite their poor results in their
O.W.L.
O.W.L. exams, the twins are
intelligent and proficient wizards capable of sophisticated magic. In
addition, they serve as Beaters for the
Gryffindor
Gryffindor
Quidditch
Quidditch team.
The pair often come to Harry's assistance throughout the series; in
Chamber of Secrets, they and Ron help him escape his house arrest from
Privet Drive in a flying
Muggle car, and give Harry the Marauder's Map
during his third year. In Goblet of Fire, they begin selling novelties
under the name "Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes". Though their mother wants
them to work for the Ministry of Magic, the twins aspire to own a joke
shop, and Harry provides their start-up capital by donating his
winnings from the Triwizard Tournament. In Order of the Phoenix, the
twins, like Harry, are permanently banned from
Quidditch
Quidditch after a
postmatch brawl with Malfoy. They join the D.A. and lead a student
uprising against
Umbridge
Umbridge towards the end of the book, leaving the
Hogwarts
Hogwarts before the term ends. In Half-Blood Prince, Fred and George
continue to run their joke shop despite the unrest in Diagon Alley.
In Deathly Hallows, the twins serve as two of Harry's six decoys when
he escapes Privet Drive. George's ear is permanently severed by a
stray Sectumsempra curse from Severus Snape, who was actually aiming
at a Death Eater. Meanwhile, the twins are forced to abandon their
shop due to the Death Eater-controlled Ministry of Magic's
surveillance of the Weasley family, and instead operate another
owl-order business out of their Great-Aunt Muriel's house. During this
time, one of the twins, speculated to be Fred,[25] shows up in the
pirate radio station Potterwatch as "Rapier".[26] The twins return to
participate in the Battle of Hogwarts, during which Fred is killed in
an explosion. Rowling said in an
MSNBC
MSNBC interview that she always knew
Fred would be the twin who would die, though she could not specify a
particular reason.[27] She stated in a web chat after the release of
Deathly Hallows that George never fully gets over Fred's death, but
succeeds in turning Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes into a "money spinner"
with Ron, who eventually quits to become an Auror.[28][29] Rowling
also revealed that, by the time of the epilogue of Deathly Hallows,
George is married to Angelina Johnson and has two children, Fred and
Roxanne.[30]
Identical twin actors
James and Oliver Phelps
James and Oliver Phelps played Fred and George
respectively in the
Harry Potter
Harry Potter film series.
Fred and George were listed by
IGN
IGN as eleventh top Harry Potter
characters, saying that "taking umbrage at
Umbridge
Umbridge and leaving
Hogwarts
Hogwarts with a bang in Order of the Phoenix showed us that these two
weren't just goofy side splitters; they were brave and valiant freedom
fighters".[12]
Impact in the real world[edit]
The goal of
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army inspired actor/comedian Andrew Slack, a
Harry Potter
Harry Potter fan, to create a group called
Harry Potter
Harry Potter Alliance to
highlight the crisis in
Sudan
Sudan and social inequalities.[31] In an
interview, Slack compared Harry and the D.A. to Darfur, claiming,
"With both the
Ministry of Magic
Ministry of Magic and the Daily Prophet (the Wizarding
World's mainstream news source) in denial that
Voldemort
Voldemort has returned
and evil is afoot, Harry and his underground rebel group,
'Dumbledore's Army,' work with the adult group, 'The Order of the
Phoenix,' to awake the world."[32]
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