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The Order of the Phoenix is a fictional organisation in the ''
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. Founded by
Albus Dumbledore Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. For most of the series, he is the headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts. He is also the founder and ...
to fight
Lord Voldemort Lord Voldemort ( , in the films) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. He first appears in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (1997) and returns either in pers ...
and his
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s, the Order lends its name to the fifth book of the series, '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''. The original members of the Order of the Phoenix include: Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Alastor Moody, Kingsley Shacklebolt, James Potter, Lily Evans/Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Emmeline Vance, Marlene McKinnon, Mary MacDonald, Frank Longbottom, Alice Fortescue/Longbottom, Benjy Fenwick, Edgar Bones, Sturgis Podmore, Caradoc Dearborn, Hestia Jones, Rubeus Hagrid, Fabian Prewett and his twin Gideon Prewett, Dorcas Meadowes, Severus Snape, Aberforth Dumbledore, Elphias Doge, Arabella Figg, Mundungus Fletcher and Dedalus Diggle.


Synopsis

Before the chronology of the ''Harry Potter'' novel series starts, the character Lord Voldemort declared war on the Wizarding World. Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of the wizarding school
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, attempted to stop Voldemort by founding the Order of the Phoenix. Several characters joined the organisation, seeking to prevent Voldemort from taking over the Wizarding World and establishing a tyrannical new world order. During this period, before the events of the ''
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'', the Order sustained heavy losses, including the murders of minor characters such as the Prewetts, the Bones and the McKinnons. The Longbottoms were also tortured to insanity at the hands of
Bellatrix Lestrange Bellatrix Lestrange () is a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' book series written by J. K. Rowling. She evolved from an unnamed peripheral character in ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' into a major antagonist in subsequent novel ...
. Voldemort's first reign of terror ended after the murders of James and Lily Potter, and the unsuccessful attempt to murder their son,
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, at the beginning of the series. The spell rebounded on to him and severely diminished Voldemort's powers and, as a result, the Order was temporarily disbanded due to the lack of any further threat. When Harry reported that Voldemort had returned, towards the end of ''
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'', Dumbledore reactivated the Order. Many of the original members returned and were soon joined by recruits who effectively replaced those who had died in service during the first conflict. The Order established their headquarters at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place,
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's family home, during the interval between the fourth and fifth books in the series. Dumbledore was the Secret-Keeper for the Order, meaning that only he could reveal the location of the Order's headquarters to others. Dumbledore's death in book six made the location vulnerable and it was abandoned in favour of The Burrow as a result. The Order led the fight against Voldemort in the fifth instalment while
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refused to accept the return of Voldemort. In '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', some Order members take turns guarding
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's prophecy, which referred to Voldemort's downfall and Harry's role in defeating him.
Rubeus Hagrid Rubeus Hagrid () is a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. He was introduced in '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (2001) as a half-giant who is the gamekeeper and groundskeeper at the wi ...
, the Hogwarts Grounds Keeper and an original Member of the Order, was accompanied by
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in an attempt to recruit the
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to the Order's cause. Some members also participated in a battle at the
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near the end of the fifth book. Order members patrolled
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, the Wizarding school, on the night of Dumbledore's death in '' Half-Blood Prince'', fighting the Death Eaters who managed to enter the castle. In the series finale, attention turns to escorting the Death Eaters' main target, Harry Potter, from his summer home with the Dursleys to the Weasleys' Burrow. Later in the novel, after Voldemort's takeover of the Ministry had succeeded, some Order members hosted ''"Potterwatch"'', a secret
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programme providing news on the Wizarding World that Voldemort's regime did not want the general population to know. During the climax of the book, most of the Order, aided by Dumbledore's Army, the Hogwarts staff and the older students, Slytherin house members included, fought against the Death Eaters in the Battle of Hogwarts, in which several Order members and other allies lost their lives.


Members


Original Order

The following characters were members of the Order of the Phoenix during Voldemort's initial rise to power and several years prior to the events of the ''Harry Potter'' series. Many of these characters later serve as members of the revived Order.


Revived Order

These characters joined the Order when Dumbledore revived it after
Lord Voldemort Lord Voldemort ( , in the films) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. He first appears in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (1997) and returns either in pers ...
's return at the end of ''
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. It is the fourth novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series. It follows Harry Potter (character), Harry Potter, a wizard in his fourth year at Hogwar ...
''.


Order members

This is a list of notable members of the Order of the Phoenix.
Albus Dumbledore Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. For most of the series, he is the headmaster of the wizarding school Hogwarts. He is also the founder and ...
, Severus Snape,
Minerva McGonagall Professor Minerva McGonagall is a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. McGonagall is a professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she is also the head of Gryffindor House and the d ...
,
Rubeus Hagrid Rubeus Hagrid () is a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. He was introduced in '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (2001) as a half-giant who is the gamekeeper and groundskeeper at the wi ...
,
Sirius Black Sirius Black is a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' series of novels by J. K. Rowling. Sirius was first mentioned briefly in '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' as a wizard who lent Rubeus Hagrid a flying motorbike shortly a ...
,
Remus Lupin Remus John Lupin is a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' book series written by J. K. Rowling. He first appears in '' Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'' as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. Lupin remains in the s ...
, and
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have their own pages, and Peter Pettigrew is listed under
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.


Fleur Delacour

Fleur Isabelle Weasley (née Delacour) is a student of Beauxbatons Academy in France, and is selected as a champion of the Triwizard Tournament. Her maternal grandmother is a Veela, from whom Fleur inherited her silvery-blonde hair, pale eyes, good looks, and ability to enchant men. Fleur finishes in 4th place in the Triwizard Tournament due to being Stunned during the last task. In the following year, Fleur works at Gringotts with Bill Weasley, and the pair become engaged. In ''
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'', Fleur and Bill have their wedding and reception at the Burrow, but the event is interrupted when Death Eaters attack. They begin married life in a house on a beach in Wales called Shell Cottage. Fleur and Bill allow Ron to stay with them after he walks out on Harry and Hermione during their hunt for Horcruxes. The newlyweds later provide a safe haven for the trio and others rescued from Malfoy Manor at Shell Cottage. Both Bill and Fleur are combatants for the Order during the Battle of Hogwarts and manage to survive it. The couple go on to have three children: Victoire, Dominique and Louis.''J.K.Rowling – A Year in the Life''; James Runcie; Independent6 Television ( ITV); 2007 French actress and model Clémence Poésy portrays Fleur in the film adaptation of ''
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'' and both parts of the ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' film adaptation.


Aberforth Dumbledore

Aberforth Dumbledore is Albus Dumbledore's younger brother. His first appearance is in ''Goblet of Fire''. After his parents' deaths and Albus' return home to look after their unstable sister Ariana, Aberforth quarrels with his brother and his brother's friend, Gellert Grindelwald, over their plans to start a new order, neglecting Ariana. Grindelwald began torturing him, leading to the three dueling. This argument results in Ariana's accidental death at the hands of one of them. At Ariana's funeral, Aberforth publicly confronts Albus and strikes him, breaking his nose. Eventually, Aberforth becomes the owner and barman of the Hog's Head inn. He is known for his strong affinity with goats. His Patronus takes the form of a goat, and he recounts to the trio that as a boy he fed the goats in company with his sister, Ariana. Aberforth was also tried before the Wizengamot (the Wizard High Court), for performing inappropriate charms on a goat. His tavern also, according to Harry's description in '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', has a faint smell of goats. In the film adaptation, a bleating goat can be seen shuffling about in the back of the pub. It is not until ''Deathly Hallows'' that Aberforth plays an important role in the series by taking Harry, Ron, and Hermione into his bar before the Death Eaters can capture them. Aberforth later reveals to the trio some facts they did not know about the history of the Dumbledore family. While being held prisoner in Malfoy Manor, Harry briefly glimpses Aberforth's eye in the remaining shard of the two-way mirror he was given by Sirius and calls for Aberforth's help. Aberforth bought its counterpart from Mundungus Fletcher. Using the mirror to watch over the trio, Aberforth sends Dobby to rescue them and the other prisoners from the Manor. He liked Dobby and was upset to hear Bellatrix Lestrange killed him. Aberforth allows the resistance fighters to use a secure passageway from the Hog's Head to the Room of Requirement through Ariana's portrait, it being the only unguarded entrance into Hogwarts. This passage is used to evacuate underage students from Hogwarts and, according to Neville, it was also used by members of Dumbledore's Army to get food when they were living in the Room of Requirement because that is one thing the Room of Requirement would not do. Aberforth leaves the Order, believing the war against Voldemort is lost. However, he quickly joins the Battle of Hogwarts and is last seen Stunning Augustus Rookwood. According to Rowling, Aberforth survives the battle, and is still "at the Hog's Head, playing with his goats". He also appears in '' Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore'' in which it is revealed that he has an illegitimate son named Aurelius Dumbledore as he had an affair with a woman who also lived in Godric's Hollow. She gave birth to Aurelius but, after sailing on a ship, the child was switched with Corvus Lestrange V by Leta Lestrange. Corvus and Aurelius's mother drowned, but Aurelius was adopted by Mary Lou Barebone who named him Credence Barebone. Years later, Credence transforms into an Obscurus and joins Gellert Grindelwald as he reveals his true identity to him. Credence returns to home with Aberforth when Grindelwald tried to kill him as he foils the latter's plan. Jim McManus appeared briefly as Aberforth in the film adaptation of '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''.
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plays Aberforth in a larger role in ''
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plays the middle-aged version of the character in the third ''
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'' film, '' Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore''.


Arabella Figg

Arabella Doreen Figg, better known simply as Mrs. Figg, is a Squib living undercover as a
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and on Dumbledore's orders surreptitiously watches over Harry while he is at home with the Dursleys. She is a Chekhov gun, first mentioned as a seemingly insignificant neighbour in ''
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'' and not revealed as a member of the magical community until ''Order of the Phoenix''. She has a lifelong love of cats and does "a roaring trade" in crossbred cats and Kneazles, their magical variant. Within the Order of the Phoenix, she functions as one of Dumbledore's liaisons between the magical and Muggle worlds. In ''Order of the Phoenix'', she aids Harry after he and his cousin Dudley Dursley are attacked by two Dementors, and chooses to reveal herself to him. She explains to Harry that she deliberately made Harry's stays with her unpleasant so that the Dursleys would continue to send him to her, though she would have preferred to do otherwise. When the
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tries to have Harry expelled from Hogwarts for underage use of magic (after he cast a Patronus charm to protect himself and his cousin), her testimony before the Wizengamot is crucial in allowing Harry to stay at Hogwarts. However, according to Rowling, Squibs are incapable of seeing Dementors, and it is suggested by her manner during the trial that she has been prompted what to say with regard to the Dementors. In ''
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'', she attends Dumbledore's funeral at Hogwarts. Mrs. Figg is portrayed by Kathryn Hunter in the film adaptation of ''Order of the Phoenix''.


Mundungus Fletcher

Mundungus Fletcher is mentioned in passing in some of the earlier books in the series, but it is not until the second chapter of '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' that he makes his first appearance. The text describes Mundungus as a "squat, unshaven man" with "short, bandy legs", "long, straggly ginger hair", and "bloodshot, baggy eyes that gave him the doleful look of a
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". He is involved in many illegal activities, yet he seems confined to relatively minor crimes, such as theft and trading stolen goods on the black market. Many members of the Order have mixed feelings about him, but he is very loyal to Dumbledore, who once got him out of serious trouble. His connections enable him to hear rumours and information circulating in the shadier segments of the Wizarding population - data with the potential to prove instrumental in the fight against Voldemort. In ''
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'', Mundungus has managed to get out of prison, but the circumstances are unclear. He is confunded by Snape, and gives the idea of using the Polyjuice Potion and six Potter decoys to the Order and helps with the escort of Harry from Privet Drive. He travels with
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on a broomstick as one of the Potter decoys. During the flight from Privet Drive, he flees when Voldemort himself shows up. Kreacher later reveals that the property which Mundungus stole from 12 Grimmauld Place in the previous book included a heavy locket from the drawing room. That locket was Slytherin's locket Horcrux. Harry sends Kreacher to capture Mundungus, who reveals that Umbridge took the locket from him under threat of arrest. Andy Linden plays Mundungus Fletcher in ''
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''.


Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody

Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody is perhaps the most famous Auror in the modern times of the Wizarding World, single-handedly responsible for capturing numerous wizard criminals. Moody's face is badly scarred; he has lost several body parts while fighting Dark wizards, including his left eye, lower left leg, and part of his nose. He has replaced his missing eye with a magical one that can rotate 360 degrees and see through almost everything (including walls, doors, Invisibility Cloaks, and the back of his own head). He walks with a pronounced limp due to his prosthetic leg and uses a walking staff. He frequently exclaims "Constant vigilance!" to encourage wizards to be on their guard against the dark arts, and keeps a number of devices in his office to alert him to the presence of potential enemies. Before his retirement from the Aurors' Office, he was Nymphadora Tonks' mentor. In ''
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'', Moody is appointed as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, coming out of retirement as a favour to Dumbledore. Shortly before the school year begins, however, Moody is attacked by Barty Crouch, Jr., who subdues him with the Imperius Curse and takes Polyjuice Potion to assume his appearance. He keeps the real Moody alive as a source both of Polyjuice potion ingredients and of personal information helpful in putting the impersonation over and takes Moody's place at Hogwarts. Moody's well-known habit of carrying around his own drinks in a private hip flask allows Crouch to take the Polyjuice Potion as needed to sustain the masquerade without raising suspicion. After Harry unexpectedly returns alive from the graveyard battle with Voldemort, Crouch/Moody takes Harry back to his office, questions him about Voldemort and what happened in the graveyard, and reveals that he is working for Voldemort. He then prepares to kill Harry, but Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape stop him. Having neglected to take his hourly dose of Polyjuice potion, Crouch transforms back to his own appearance and, under the influence of Veritaserum, confesses everything. Dumbledore then rescues the real Moody from his magic trunk. In ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', the real Moody has joined the newly re-formed Order and leads the party transferring Harry from 4 Privet Drive to Number 12 Grimmauld Place. He appears at the climax of that book, arriving at the battle at the
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after being tipped off by Snape. In ''Deathly Hallows'' he is killed by Voldemort. Moody is portrayed by
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in the film series.


James Potter

James Potter, nicknamed Prongs, is the father of Harry Potter and husband of Lily Evans/Potter. James met Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew when they were entering Hogwarts. When James, Sirius, and Peter discovered that Remus is, in fact, a
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, the three of them illegally learned to become Animagi to accompany Remus safely during his transformations. It is during this time that they discovered almost all the secret passageways of Hogwarts and designed the Marauder's Map. At school, James is said to have been a talented player and the captain of the Gryffindor
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team. Rowling describes James and Harry as having similar attributes: the same thin face, the same untidy black hair, and about the same height at school age. Rowling also describes James as having hazel eyes. Like Harry, James is generally described to be a good, loyal friend who "regarded it as the height of dishonour to mistrust his friends"., chapter 5 A popular quote from a fanfiction on
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, written by anonymous MsKingBean89; All The Young Dudes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Young_Dudes_(fan_fiction) ), which has won an award for the best characterisation of James, refers to him: “And it was James who had an ego the size of a lake, but a heart to match it.” Characters in the books sometimes comment negatively on James' personality, about which Rowling comments that "there was a lot of good in James". His popularity was not universal, as a mutual hatred sprang up between him and Snape. Snape constantly tells Harry that James was "exceedingly arrogant",, chapter 14 and on one occasion, Sirius admits that he and James could sometimes be "arrogant little berks" but that "James grew out of it". He became Head Boy in his seventh year, along with Lily Evans as the Head Girl. In '' Order of the Phoenix'', after seeing a scene from Snape's memories within a Pensieve of a fifteen-year-old James and Sirius bullying Snape, Harry momentarily agrees with Snape's assessment of his father's arrogance and doubted if Snape had been correct about his other insults towards James. According to Dumbledore in ''
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'', James and Snape shared a rivalry not unlike that of Draco and Harry. In addition, Lupin tells Harry that Snape "never lost an opportunity to curse James, so you couldn’t really expect James to take that lying down.". According to an interview with Rowling, "James always suspected Snape harboured deeper feelings for Lily, which was a factor in James' behaviour to Snape." In contrast, when Sirius attempts to lure Snape into the Shrieking Shack where Lupin stays during his werewolf transformations, James prevents him from entering the tunnel under the Whomping Willow, thus saving Snape's life. After graduating from Hogwarts, James – along with Lily and his friends – become "full-time fighters" for the Order, and do not hold regular jobs, supporting his family and Lupin, whose status as a werewolf made him unemployable, on family gold. In an interview, Rowling revealed that James and Lily were asked by Voldemort to join the Death Eaters, but refused, making it "one strike against them before they were even out of their teens". When his son Harry becomes Voldemort's target, the Potters go into hiding and name Sirius Black as their secret keeper. However, they all thought that Black was an ovbious choice and Black himself suggested, that they could make Pettigrew as their new secret keeper. This was a deal between the four of them, not even the founder of the Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore, knowing about it. However, on 31 October 1981, the Potters' whereabouts are betrayed by Pettigrew, who turned out to be the spy in the Order for ”You Know Who” and they were attacked by Voldemort without a warning at their home in Godric's Hollow. James urges his wife to take Harry and run while he holds Voldemort off. Wandless, he is killed. James and Sirius are the heroes of the ''Harry Potter'' prequel, an 800-word story set three years before Harry's birth. The two friends are riding Sirius' motorbike and are chased by two Muggle policemen for breaking the speed limit. The policemen attempt to arrest them when three Death Eaters on broomsticks fly down towards them. James and Sirius use the police car as a barrier and the Death Eaters crash into it. In the end, they escape from the policemen by flying away on the motorbike. In the
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, James is portrayed by
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as an adult, Robbie Jarvis as a teenager and Alfie McIlwain as a child.


Lily Potter

Lily J. Potter (née Evans) is the mother of Harry Potter. She is described as being very pretty,, chapter 34 with startlingly green almond-shaped eyes and thick, long, dark auburn hair. She is one of the "all-time favorite students" of star collector
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, who describes her as "vivacious", "charming", "cheeky", and "very funny" and recalls that he "often told her she should have been in Slytherin", although Lily doesn't posess any of the qualities of a typical Slytherin, nor any other characters thought so. In addition, Slughorn says Lily is one of the brightest students he ever taught, with a natural and intuitive ability at
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., chapter 4, chapter 4 Rowling describes Lily as being "a bit of a catch"; she was a popular girl for whom many boys had romantic feelings. Although Lily is Muggle-born, she is an extremely gifted witch at the top of her class. She became Head Girl in her seventh year. Lily's sister Petunia Dursley despised her for being a witch and viewed her as a "freak", although Petunia is later revealed to have been envious of her abilities. Rowling stated that Lily did receive warning letters for testing the limits of the Statute of Secrecy. Lily's Patronus is a doe, presumably to pair with James'
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shape of a stag (also the form of Harry's Patronus). After witnessing a memory from Snape about Lily's and James' time as Hogwarts students, Harry gathers the impression that Lily hated James, but Sirius and Lupin assure him that she did not; they "simply got off on the wrong foot", because Snape and James hated each other, and Snape was Lily's best friend at the time, despite him sorting into Slytherin., chapter 29 Rowling confirmed this view when asked how Lily and James had fallen in love if Lily hated him. Lupin tells Harry that after James matured, Lily started seeing him in their seventh year. Rowling later echoed Lupin's words, describing it as James having to "
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down some of his more 'bombastic' behavior". They married soon after leaving Hogwarts, with Sirius as best man at their wedding. The old, pre-Hogwarts friendship between Lily and Snape is fully revealed in ''
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'', along with the fact that Snape harboured unrequited romantic feelings for Lily from childhood. Rowling states that while Lily loved Snape as a friend, she might have returned those romantic feelings if Snape had not become so seriously involved in the Dark Arts. Their relationship ends in their fifth year at Hogwarts, when Snape, in his anger and humiliation at being jinxed by James and Sirius, unthinkingly calls Lily a "
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" after she defended him. After leaving Hogwarts, Snape becomes a Death Eater and informs Voldemort of half of an overheard prophecy, which Voldemort takes to refer to Lily and her son, Harry. Fearing for Lily's life, Snape joins the Order as a spy for Dumbledore, in exchange for what he hopes will be Dumbledore's protection of Lily. Voldemort offers Lily the chance to step aside before he kills Harry because of Snape's request to spare Lily's life, but Lily refuses and Voldemort kills her., chapter 33 The result of her selfless act of love manifests itself two ways: when Voldemort attempted to kill Harry with the Killing Curse the spell backfired, rendering Voldemort non-corporeal. The lingering protection afforded to Harry by Lily's sacrifice rendered Voldemort unable to touch him physically. The second way in which Harry is protected by Lily's sacrifice occurs when Petunia takes Harry in. Dumbledore tells Harry that Lily's protection was extended to Privet Drive because Lily and Petunia are related by blood. This protection ends when Harry comes of age at 17. Though Harry bears a great resemblance to his father, it is often noted that he has Lily's eyes. Dumbledore has said that Harry's deepest nature is much more similar to his mother's. In a 1999 interview, Rowling stated that "he has his mother's eyes, and that's very important in a future book". That future book was ''Deathly Hallows''. In Snape's death scene in that novel, after having passed on his memories to Harry, he whispers to Harry: "Look... at... me..." In one of Snape's memories, it is revealed that Dumbledore persuades Snape to protect Harry after Lily's death by mentioning the fact that he has "precisely" the same eyes as his mother. His last words to Harry were simply a desire to see Lily's eyes before he died. Harry's dead parents are seen five times in the books (not counting their appearances in numerous magical photographs). Firstly in ''Philosopher's Stone,'' Harry sees James and Lily in the Mirror of Erised. Secondly during Harry's struggle with Voldemort in ''Goblet of Fire,'' they appear momentarily, along with other victims killed by Voldemort's wand. They appear in Snape's memories in both ''Order of the Phoenix'' and ''Deathly Hallows'', and finally in ''Deathly Hallows'' when Harry makes his self-sacrificing walk into the Forbidden Forest, determined to let Voldemort kill him without offering resistance, Harry's parents walk at his side and Lily tells him how proud they are of him. In an interview conducted by
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, Rowling revealed that Lily Potter's maiden name, Evans, was based on the real name of the author
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, Mary Anne Evans. Lily is portrayed by Geraldine Somerville as an adult in the film series, and by Susie Shinner as a teenager and Ellie Darcey-Alden as a child.


Kingsley Shacklebolt

Kingsley Shacklebolt is a senior Auror who acts as informer for the Order within the
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. He is first introduced in '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', when he volunteers to be one of the members of the Advance Guard that escorted Harry from the Dursleys' home to Number 12, Grimmauld Place. Kingsley is in charge of the search for Sirius in the Ministry; however, knowing Sirius is innocent, he is supplying the Ministry false information that Sirius is in
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. He is present in the scene of the fifth book when Harry is confronted about Dumbledore's Army, after Marietta Edgecombe betrays it to Dolores Umbridge. Kingsley swiftly modifies Marietta's memory, but to avoid suspicion from the Ministry, Dumbledore is forced to hex him too as he flees. Kingsley takes part in the battle at the
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and appears to be very skilled at duelling as he is seen fighting two Death Eaters at once. However, after Sirius is killed, he continues the duel with
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, during which Kingsley is hit by a spell that causes a "loud bang" and he hits the ground "yelling in pain". In ''
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'', the new
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, Rufus Scrimgeour, appoints Kingsley to the Muggle Prime Minister's office, posing as a secretary, but being the Prime Minister's guard. It is revealed in ''
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'' that Kingsley is one of the few wizards that the Dursleys seem to like, due to his skill at blending in well with Muggles and his calm, collected demeanour. In that book, Kingsley first appears with other Order members to move Harry from the Dursleys' home to safety in the Burrow. Later in the book, he manages to send a timely warning to Bill and Fleur's wedding using his Patronus, a lynx, when Voldemort overthrows the Ministry of Magic, giving the guests a chance to escape. He continues to guard the Prime Minister but is eventually forced to flee. He later is heard preaching equal rights for Muggles and Wizards on the
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programme ''"Potterwatch"'' under the pseudonym "''Royal''". In the Battle of Hogwarts, he is first seen organising those who remained to fight. He is later seen dueling an unnamed Death Eater, and ends up duelling Voldemort himself, alongside
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and
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, but after Bellatrix's death, Voldemort's anger erupts; Kingsley and the two others are defeated (although not killed). Kingsley is appointed temporary Minister for Magic following the death of Voldemort and the deposition of Voldemort's
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,
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. However, it was later revealed by Rowling in an interview that Kingsley did become the new Minister permanently, revolutionising the Ministry itself. George Harris appeared as Kingsley in the movies ''Order of the Phoenix'' and both parts of ''Deathly Hallows''.


Nymphadora Tonks

Nymphadora Vulpecula Tonks is a
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and an Auror. Her name means "Gift of the
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s". She despises her first name and prefers to be called by her surname alone. She is still referred to as "Tonks" by her peers even after her marriage. She is described as having "a pale heart-shaped face, dark twinkling eyes", and is usually depicted with different hair colours, which she can change at will. Tonks is seen to be notoriously clumsy and unskilled at household spells. Nymphadora is the only daughter of Ted and Andromeda Tonks, the latter being sister to
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and Narcissa Malfoy; Nymphadora is therefore
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's first cousin yet she never addresses him as family, alluding to him simply as "the Malfoy boy". Tonks is sorted into Hufflepuff, and graduates from Hogwarts one year before Harry enters, after which she begins three years of Auror training; under Moody's tutelage, she qualifies as an Auror one year before her first appearance in ''Order of the Phoenix''. Tonks and Kingsley act as spies for the Order in the Ministry. She helps to escort Harry first from the Dursleys' house to Order headquarters, and later to the Hogwarts Express. Tonks later fights the Death Eaters at the Department of Mysteries, in which she is injured by Bellatrix, and has to be taken to St Mungo's. During ''Half-Blood Prince'', Tonks is stationed at
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and assigned to guard Hogwarts. Harry observes she is constantly depressed and rarely smiles. Also, he sees her hair is a mousy brown instead of its usual bright bubble-gum pink. After Dumbledore's death, it is revealed that Tonks has fallen in love with Lupin, and her Patronus has, as a result, changed to the form of a wolf. Lupin is reluctant to return her affections arguing that he is "too old, too poor, and too dangerous" for her. Because of this, she falls into a depression that disturbs her magical abilities including her ability to change her appearance at will. However, early in ''Deathly Hallows'', Tonks announces that she has recently married Remus Lupin. Tonks accompanies twelve Order members to take Harry from the Dursleys' home to The Burrow. She flies with Ron, who impersonates Harry using Polyjuice Potion to throw the Death Eaters off the real Harry's trail. During the aerial battle, Tonks fights Bellatrix again and injures Bellatrix's husband, Rodolphus. Later in the book, Remus reveals Tonks is pregnant. He leaves her for a brief period, believing that he, through their marriage, has caused her to become an outcast and their unborn child would be better off without him, but changes his mind and returns to her side after a heated argument with Harry. In April of the seventh book, Tonks gives birth to Teddy Remus Lupin, named after her father and husband. Towards the end of the book, Tonks and Lupin join the Battle of Hogwarts. During the battle, Tonks is killed by Bellatrix, and Lupin is killed by Antonin Dolohov, leaving Teddy an orphan to be raised by his maternal grandmother, Andromeda. In an interview shortly after the release of ''Deathly Hallows'', Rowling confessed that she had originally intended for Tonks and Lupin to survive the series ending, but felt that she had to kill them after she spared Arthur Weasley in ''Order of the Phoenix''. Natalia Tena played Tonks in the film versions of ''Order of the Phoenix'', ''Half-Blood Prince'' and both parts of ''Deathly Hallows''.


Arthur Weasley

Arthur Weasley is married to
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, with whom he has seven children, including Ron, Harry's best friend. Arthur is described as being tall and thin, and as having a receding hairline and horn-rimmed glasses. An affable, light-hearted man, he tends not to be the authority figure in the family; his wife Molly handles that area. Arthur works for the
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, initially in the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office. He is obsessed with learning about Muggle customs and
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s and owns a large collection of mostly Muggle used items. Mr. Weasley first appears in ''
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'', when Harry stays with the Weasley family at The Burrow during the summer before the first term of Hogwarts begins. In this book, Lucius Malfoy tries to discredit Arthur when Harry and Ron are seen flying his enchanted car and by placing Tom Riddle's diary in Ginny's cauldron so that she can open the Chamber of Secrets and take the blame for the attacks on Muggle-borns. However, Lucius fails to fulfil his objective and the diary is destroyed. In ''
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'', it seems that Arthur does not fully believe the stories of Harry's abuse at the hands of the Dursleys until he witnesses what they think about Harry and the Wizarding World and is stunned to see them so eager to say goodbye to him, before taking him to the Quidditch World Cup. At the beginning of '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', Mr. Weasley is a member of the Order and accompanies Harry to his visit to the Ministry. During one of his shifts in the Ministry guarding
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's prophecy, Voldemort's pet snake Nagini attacks him. Harry, who is mentally connected with Voldemort, manages to see this in a vision and is able to warn the Hogwarts authorities. Arthur is subsequently saved just in time and sent to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, where he fully recovers. Rowling has revealed that in the original draft for ''Order of the Phoenix'' she planned to kill Arthur. She changed her mind, however, saying that she could not kill Arthur as he is one of the few good fathers in the series. In ''
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'', Arthur appears in the Battle of Hogwarts, in which he loses his son Fred, and is joined by Percy Weasley in defeating
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. Arthur Weasley appears in every film except the first and is portrayed by Mark Williams.


Bill Weasley

William Arthur "Bill" Weasley is the eldest born son of Arthur and Molly Weasley. He is described to be "hard-working" and "down-to-earth", but possesses a fondness for "a bit of adventure, a bit of glamour"., chapter 5 During his time at Hogwarts, Bill becomes both a
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and
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. Later, he works for Gringotts Bank in
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as a Curse-Breaker. He makes his first full appearance in ''
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'', where he is described as being a good-looking young man, sporting long red hair tied back in a ponytail and a single fang earring. When he and Mrs Weasley pay a visit to Hogwarts during the Triwizard Tournament, Fleur eyes him with "great interest". Bill returns to Britain to work with the Order in '' Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''. He meets Fleur at Gringotts head office in London where she is employed at the time, giving her lessons to improve her English. After a year-long relationship, the couple gets engaged. Bill fights against the Death Eaters' attack at Hogwarts near the end of ''
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'', where he is attacked by werewolf Fenrir Greyback, who disfigures him. As Greyback was in human form at the time of the attack, Bill suffers only partial
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contamination—permanent scarring of his face, and an acquired liking for very rare beef. In ''
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'' Fleur and Bill take part in getting Harry escorted safely from the Dursleys' house. The couple have their wedding there and later provide a safe haven for the trio and several others in their home, Shell Cottage. Both Bill and Fleur were combatants during the Battle of Hogwarts, and both survived the battle. Bill and Fleur later have three children: Victoire, Dominique and Louis. Richard Fish appeared as Bill briefly in the film adaptation of '' Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban''.
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( Alastor Moody in the series), plays Bill Weasley in ''
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'' and the roller coaster ride '' Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts'' at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley in
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Charlie Weasley

Charlie Weasley is the second son of Arthur and Molly Weasley and is described as having a build like that of his brothers Fred and George: shorter and stockier than Bill, Percy and Ron. He has a broad, good-natured face, which is slightly weather-beaten and very freckly. His arms are muscly, and one of them has a long shiny burn. While at Hogwarts, he was a prefect,, chapter 9 a Quidditch Captain, and a legendary Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team. His skills as a Seeker were so good that it was said, "He could have been capped for England if he hadn't gone off chasing dragons." After school, Charlie chooses to go to
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to work with
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. At Harry, Ron and Hermione's request, he takes Hagrid's baby dragon,
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, an illegally hatched Norwegian Ridgeback, into his care in Harry's first year, and he is part of a team of Dragon Keepers that brings four dragons of different breeds to Hogwarts in ''
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'' for the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament. During the second rise of Voldemort, Charlie's task in the Order is to try to rally support abroad. Charlie returns to the Burrow in ''
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'' to participate in his brother Bill's wedding as best man. He enters the later part of the Battle of Hogwarts, alongside
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, at the head of reinforcements for the defenders, and survives the battle without serious injury. He does not marry or have children, since he "preferred dragons to women", according to Rowling. Alex Crockford appears briefly as Charlie in the film adaptation of ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', when the photograph of Egypt is shown.


Molly Weasley

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, who becomes Harry Potter's best friend. Molly is born into the pure-blood Prewett family, being the sister of Gideon and Fabian Prewett. The character is first introduced in ''
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'', when she kindly tells Harry how to cross the barrier through to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. After the return of Voldemort, Dumbledore asks Molly and Bill to join the Order and fight in the impending Second War. At the beginning of ''
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'', Molly and Arthur offer the Burrow as Order headquarters when Grimmauld Place is no longer safe. She feels immensely uncomfortable with the trio's decision to drop out of Hogwarts and initially attempts to dissuade them from doing so. As the novel progresses, the family is forced to head for safety at Auntie Muriel's home. At the end of the book, Molly and her entire family fight in the Battle of Hogwarts. She is devastated by the death of her son Fred and is pushed to the edge when
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almost strikes Ginny with the Killing Curse. Enraged, she engages Bellatrix in an intense duel, killing her with a curse that hits her in the chest.New Interview with J.K. Rowling for Release of Dutch Edition of 'Deathly Hallows'
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Rowling has stated that the reason she had Molly kill Bellatrix was to show Molly's great powers as a witch and to provide a contrast between Molly's consumption with "maternal love" and Bellatrix's with "obsessive love". ''
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''s Courtney Crowder lists Molly Weasley as her favourite literary mother, describing her as the "original Mama Grizzly", citing her many touching moments with Harry as well as the final book in the series, where "her feelings jumped off the page" as testament to her strong personality. Crowder summarises Molly's character as "levelheaded, yet willing to fight, intelligent, welcoming, and above all, extremely loving". In a Mother's Day article Molly was also voted the third greatest celebrity mother by The Flowers and Plants association who see the character as "formidable, practical, creative and resourceful". Bob Smietana of ''
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'' links Molly's defence of Ginny in the final book into a wider theme in the series about the strength of parental love, which he feels to carry considerable emotional weight. ''Empire'' listed Molly Weasley 24th on their Top 30 ''Harry Potter'' characters. Novelist
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notes that when Molly called Bellatrix a "bitch" after she sees the Death Eater trying to kill Ginny, it was "the most shocking ''bitch'' in recent fiction", and that it shows how adult the books had become.
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portrays Molly Weasley in every film except ''Goblet of Fire'', in which her role in the novel is cut out. In 2003,
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voted her portrayal of Molly as the second-"best screen mother", behind
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as
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. In 2025 Katherine Parkinson was cast as Molly Weasley for the HBO Harry Potter television series.


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