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Professor Binns

History of Magic professor

*He is the only professor at Hogwarts that is a ghost
*He enters the classroom through the blackboard
*He is the semi-transparent, pearly-white color of a typical ghost
*He died because he was so old that one morning, upon waking up in front of the staff room fire, he simply went off to class, leaving his body behind
*Some think he doesn't even realize he's dead
` *His classes are very boring
*He reads through endless details of goblin uprisings in a very flat tone

Professor Binns has not yet been introduced in the films

Fan art of Professor Binns.

Fan art of Professor Dumbledore.
Professor Dumbledore

Born: 1840
Died: June 1997
Gryffindor, 1851 - 1857
Transfiguration 1938 - 1955
Head of Gryffindor house 1938 - 1955
Hogwarts School Headmaster 1955 - death


*His full name was Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
*He had a brother name Aberforth
*He had a pet phoenix named Fawkes
*He had blue eyes and white (originally auburn) hair
*He had a scar on his knee in the shape of the London Underground
*His right hand was withered and blackened in the summer of 1996
*He was tall, thin, and very old
*He had a silver beard that was long enough to tuck into his belt
*He wore half-moon spectacles
*He was very good with a wand
*His office was located, according to book 4, on the second floor, but according to book 6, it's located on the seventh floor in one of the towers
*The entrance to his office is behind a statue of a gargoyle, with the password usually being some kind of sweet
*In his office was a golden perch for Fawkes, the Sorting Hat, Gryffindor's sword, cupboard with a Pensieve in it, portraits of previous Headmasters and Headmistresses, a claw footed desk and chairs, and silver instruments that stood on spindle legged tables and whirred and emitted little puffs of smoke
*He owned several magical devices, including a pensieve (thought storer), the mirror of erised (allows you to see your hearts deepest desires), a put-outer (steals light from lamps), time-turner (allows you to go back in time), and a gold ring with a heavy black stone cracked down the middle
*He could speak Mermish and could understand Parseltongue
*His favorite foods were sherbet lemon drops, cockroach clusters, hot cocoa, raspberry jam, and acid pops
*The organizations he was involved in were Order of Merlin, First Class, Order of the Phoenix, Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot
*He defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald
*He discovered 12 uses for dragon blood
*His skills consisted of alchemy, transfiguration, legilimency, wandless magic, invisibility, can see through invisibility cloaks, and can send messages with his Patronus
*His patronus is a phoenix
*He has predited the end of Hogwarts

Professor Dumbledore was played by Richard Harris in Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secret
He is now played by Michael Gambon in Prisoner of Azkaban and Goblet of Fire

Argus Filch

Caretaker

*He destests the students
*He has a pet cat named Mrs. Norris
*He knows the secret passageways and hidden doors of Hogwarts better than anyone except Fred and George Weasley
*He is a squib, which means he was born of a pureblood family but cannot do magic
*In his office are chains and manacles in case he's ever given permission to use them on students
*His office is a small room with one oil lamp hanging from the ceiling and smells like fried fish
*He has filing cabinets with details of the misdeeds of students (Fred and George have an entire drawer to themselves)

Argus Filch is played by David Bradley in Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire

Fan art of Argus Filch.
Fan art of Firenze.

Firenze

Divination

*He is a centaur
*He has white-blonde hair, a palomino body, and blue eyes
*He trust humans more than the rest of the centaurs
*He replaced Professor Trelawney as Divination teacher
*The other centaurs consider him a traitor and banished him from their herd
*Hagrid stopped the centaurs from killing Firenze

Firenze was computer animated, but Ray Fearon did his voice in the Sorcerer's Stone

Professor Flitwick

Charms professor
Head of Ravenclaw House


*His first name is Filius
*He is Human with a bit of Goblin blood
*He is very short
*He is very emotional
*He has white hair
*He was in Ravenclaw during his Hogwarts years
*His office is on the seventh floor, near the base of the West Tower
*He favorite drink is cherry syrup and soda with ice and an umbrella

Professor Flitwick is played by Warwick Davis in Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire

Fan art of Professor Flitwick.

Fan art of Professor Grubbly-Plank.
Professor Grubbly-Plank

Care of Magical Creatues professor

*She is an elderly witch with gray hair and a prominent chin
*She substituted for Hagrid after Christmas break in January 1995
*She knows a lot about unicorns
*She was considered a better teacher than Hagrid by others in Harry's year
*She smokes a pipe
*She nursed Hedwig (Harry's owl) back to health after being attacked while delivering mail to Harry

Professor Grubbly-Plank has not yet been introduced in the films

Rubeus Hagrid

Gamekeeper
Keeper of the Keys and the Grounds
Care of Magical Creatures professor 1993-present


*He is a half-blood
*His mother, Fridwulfa, is one of the last British giants left
*His mother left him when he was 3 years old
*His father was a wizard; he died when Hagrid was in his second year at Hogwarts
*He has a giant half-brother named Grawp
*He was raised by his father and when he became orphaned, Dumbledore looked out for him
*He's had many pets including, Fang (boarhound), Aragog (Acromantula), Buckbeak (Hippogriff), Norbert (Dragon), and Fluffy (Hellhound)
*He has black eyes and long, wild tangled black hair and beard
*He is almost twice as tall as a normal man and at least five times as wide
*He started Hogwarts in 1940
*He was expelled from Hogwarts during his third year because he was framed by Tom Riddle for opening the Chamber of Secrets and causing Moaning Myrtle's death
*He escorts the first years acroos the lake to Hogwarts
*He lives in a hut on Hogwarts' grounds near the Forbidden Forest
*His wand is oak, sixteen inches, but was broken when he was expelled
*He has embedded his wand into his pink umbrella
*He is involved in the Order of the Phoenix
*He respects and loves magical animals, especially the dangerous ones
*His worst memory is his father's death
*He was in Azkaban for a few weeks during May 1993, after the Chamber of Secrets re-opened

Rubeus Hagrid is played by Robbie Coltrane in Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire

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Fan art of Hagrid.
Fan art of Madam Hooch.

Madam Hooch

Quidditch coach and referee
Flying Instructor


*Her first name on the Trading Card Game is Rolanda
*Her first name on the Internet Movie Database is Xiomara
*She has gray, short cut hair and yellow, hawk-like eyes

Madam Hooch was played by Zoe Wanamaker in the Sorcerer's Stone

Professor Kettleburn

Care of Magical Creatures until Sept 1993

*He retired because he wanted to spend time with his remaining limbs
*Hagrid took over for him

Professor Kettleburn was not introduced in the films

 

Fan art of Professor Lockhart.
Professor Lockhart

Defense Against the Dark Arts professor

*His first name is Gilderoy
*He has golden, wavy hair and forget-me-not blue eyes
*His favorite color is lilac
*His ideal birthday gift is harmony between all magical and non-magical peoples or, alternatively, a case of Ogden's Old Firewhisky
*His secret ambition is the rid the world of evil and market his own line of hair-care products
*He's only interested in himself
*His office is filled pictures of himself
*He always carries around a peacock feather quill to sign autographs
*He is an expert in Memory Charms
*He is currently at St. Mungo's Hospital in a long-term ward called Janus Thickey ward for spell damage
*He has written 9 books

  1. Break with a Banshee
  2. Gadding with Ghouls
  3. Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pests
  4. Holidays with Hags
  5. Magical Me
  6. Travel with Trolls
  7. Voyages with Vampires
  8. Wandering with Werewolves
  9. Year with the Yeti
*His books are about his various adventures fighting different types of magical creatures, but the truth is that he simply interviewed the people who really dealt with the creatures, then performed Memory Charms on them

Professor Lockhart was played by Kenneth Branagh in the Chamber of Secrets

Professor Lupin

Born: March 10, 1959
Defense Against the Dark Arts professor 1993


*His full name is Remus John Lupin
*His nickname is Moony because of the full moon's effect on him
*He is a half-blood
*He is a werewolf
*He was very small when he was bitten by a werewold named Fenrir Greyback
*He transforms at each full moon
*He often looks sickly and tired
*He started Hogwarts in 1971
*He was in Gryffindor and a Prefect from 1975 to 1978
*He created the Marauder's Map with James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew
*The Shrieking Shack and the Whomping Willow were created by Dumbledore in Lupin's first year to protect him on nights that he is a werewolf
*His office was located on the second floot of Hogwarts
*He was one of the four Marauders
*He is involved in the Order of the Phoenix
*His worst fear is a full moon
*He is attracted to Nymphadora Tonks
Professor Lupin was played by David Thewlis in Prisoner of Azkaban

Fan art of Professor Lupin.

Fan art of Professor McGonagall.
Professor McGonagall

Born: October 4 1925
Headmistress
Transfiguration professor
Head of Gryffindor House


*Her first name is Minerva
*She has black hair that is always pulled back into a bun
*She is an Animagus (she can turn into a tabby cat)
*She began teaching in December of 1956
*She was in Gryffindor when she was in Hogwarts
*Her office is on the first floor
*Involved in the Order of the Phoenix

Professor McGonagall is played by Dame Maggie Smith in Sorceror's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire

Professor Moody

Auror
Defense Against the Dark Arts professor 1994


*He wasn't actually the professor teaching the Dark Arts, just his body
*The class was actually taught by a Death Eater named Barty Crouch Jr. (He took Polyjuice Potion to make him look like Moody)
*Moody has one normal eye and one magical
*His magical eye is vivid blue and moves independently
*He can see invisible things and through solid objects (including the back of his head)

Professor Moody was played by Brendan Gleeson in Goblet of Fire

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Fan art of Professor Moody.

Fan art of Madam Pince.
Madam Pince

Librarian

*Her first name is Irma
*She is thin and irritable
*She is very strict and suspicious
*She will brandish a feather duster at you for being to loud
*She places nasty spells on books to make sure they're returned on time
*She is attracted to Argus Filch

Madam Pince was played by Sally Mortemore in the Chamber of Secrets

Madam Pomfrey

School Nurse

*Her first name is Poppy
*She is adept with curing spells, potions, herbs, and other remedies
*She is stern, but kind to patients
*She middle-aged
*Some injuries she has cured are:

*She has the ultimate authority in the Hospital Wing
*She was nurse when Lupin was at Hogwarts and used to walk him out to the Whomping Willow when he was about to transform

Madam Pomfrey was played by Gemma Jones in Chamber of Secrets

 

Fan art of Professor Quirrell.
Professor Quirrell

Defense Against the Dark Arts 1991

*His first name is Quirinus
*His hair is hidden under his purple turban most of the time, but it's missing in the back where Voldemort's face is
*He is pale, nervous, and prone to fainting
*He stutters, but later we found out he was faking in order to appear harmless *He took a school year off and went to Albania to get first hand experience dealing with Dark creatures and Dark Magic
*He was afraid of everything after he returned
*When he failed to get the Sorcerer's Stone, Voldemort decided to possess him physically in order to keep a more strict control over him.

Professor Quirrell was played by Ian Hart in the Sorceror's Stone

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Professor Sinistra

Astronomy professor

*She is a witch
*Her classes are held in the Astronomy tower

Professor Sinistra has not yet been introduced in the films

Fan art of Professor Sinistra.
Fan art of Professor Slughorn. Professor Slughorn

Potions professor 1996
Head of Slytherin House 1996


*His first name is Horace
*He is short in stature
*He has a shiny, bald head, but when he was younger he had thick, shiny, straw-colored hair
*He has a large belly
*He is between the ages of 80 and 150
*He began teaching about the same time as Dumbledore, but retired at the end of the 1980-1981 school year
*Dumbledore and Harry talked him into returning to teach Potions again in the summer of 1996
*He created the Slug Club for his favored students
*His interests include rich food, crystallized pineapple, chocolates, and fine wine
*He is the first Slytherin that Harry has met that doesn't have prejudices against muggle-born or half-blood wizards
*Lily Evans was one of his favorite students
*He is the one that told Tom Riddle about Horcruxes

Professor Slughorn has not yet been introduced in the films

Professor Snape

Born: January 9, 1959
Potions professor 1981 - Spring 1996
Defense Against the Dark Arts professor 1996 - 1997
Head of Slytherin House 1981 - Spring 1996


*His first name is Serverus
*James Potter and Sirius Black used to call him Snivellus
*He is the Half-Blooded Prince
*He is a half-blood
*His mother was Eileen Prince
*His father was Tobias Snape
*He lives in a brick row house on Spinner's End
*He has black, greasy, shoulder length hair
*He has the Dark Mark on his left forearm
*His first year at Hogwarts was in 1971
*His office was located adjacent to the dungeon classroom where he teaches potions
*He is involved in the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix
*His worst memory is the episode when James Potter hung with upside down so his graying underwear showed
*He killed Professor Dumbledore

Professor Snape is played by Alan Rickman in Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire

Fan art of Professor Snape.
Fan art of Professor Sprout. Professor Sprout

Herbology professor
Head of Hufflepuff House


*Her first name is Pomona
*She has gray, flyaway hair
*She is very interested in gardening
*Her favorite brand of fertilizer is dragon dung compost
*She helps a lot with contributing her magical plants to make potions for Madam Pomfrey

Professor Sprout was played by Miriam Margolyes in the Chamber of Secrets

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Professor Trelawney

Divination professor 1979 - present

*Her full name is Sibyll Patricia Trelawney
*She has huge galsses that enlarge her eyes
*Her voice is soft and misty
*She is the great-great-granddaughter of the very famous and gifted seer, Cassandra Trelawney
*She lives and has her classroom at the top of the North Tower
*Her favorite drink is sherry

Professor Trelawney was played by Emma Thompson in the Prisoner of Azkaban

Fan art of Professor Trelawney.

Fan art of Professor Umbridge.
Professor Umbridge

Defense Against the Dark Arts professor 1995

*Her full name is Dolores Jane Umbridge
*She also works at the Ministry of Magic as the Special Assistant to the Minister
*She took over Hogwarts by making herself the Hogwarts High Inquisitor and eventually became Headmistress
*She was attacked by a herd of centaurs and rescued by Dumbledore

Professor Umbridge has not yet been introduced in the films

Professor Vector

Arithmancy professor

*The only thing we know about her is that she's a witch

Professor Vector has not yet been introduced in the films

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