Talk:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters

Why not copy from "List of characters in the Harry Potter books" in Wikipedia?
 * Our book may be able to use that list as a reference, but our purpose is different from Wikipedia. Each character needs time to be worked on. I think in the style of a book, we will expand over time, not just start with some huge list. -Matt 00:41, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Alphabetical Order
We should group characters alphabetically because otherwise, an "overlap" of characters occurs. Lucius Malfoy is a member of the Malfoy family, a member of the Ministry of Magic and also a Death Eater. This can make finding characters easier. --Roonil Wazlib 15:19, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * If people need to find characters, then they should be using the Index. The list now can always be reorganized some but its purpose is to put characters into groups. The character should go into the group he/she/it is most importantly featured in. Families will always get the character under their listing. I'm adding a message at the top of the page. Your issue should really be solved by using the Index. The purpose of the Characters page is groups. Also, I understand that some clashing may occur (i.e. I think the Black family members shouldn't be listed under "Black Family" or at least not until we can write up info on some of the main members first), but we have to work with the groups as best as possible. -Matt 00:42, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree to a certain point. I think that the characters should be listed in some type of order such as alphabetical order within the specific sections. This is just needed for the teachers section which has no seen organization. --User:Luckrider7


 * Teachers' section is alphabetical by last name, no? Chazz 00:56, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Multiple Groups, Family Info
I am personally wondering why characters can not be put under several different groups. It could effectively show that these groups are in this family, in this House at Hogwarts, etc. If someone could explain why they need to be/should be in the group that they are most importantly featured in, then I will be quiet and move onto other thoughts. Also, I was wondering if somewhere else in the Muggle's Guide that would do a short summation of the family? It could even be on this page, just a short explanation of the family/group. Of course, if someone could point me in the direction where they are, again I'll just move on. Thank you for your help. ~Peter 03:16, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I do a lot of the oversight here, and you've brought up some valid points. If you can do a good job with it, then add multiple references to a character on the page. If it's done professionally, then it could work. Having small paragraphs about a group would not be a bad idea either. Stay away from descriptive sentences however; the Guide is about analysis, not description. -Matt 04:51, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * A thing has occurred to me, thinking about groups. In the students, would it not be useful to group students by year, as well as by house? We have a list of students by house now, but if I wanted to look up who was in Harry's year in each house, I would have no place to do that. Is that worth adding? Chazz 20:36, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I personally find that confusing and difficult to manage across all 7+ years of the book (since there were others ahead of Harry). Marking a character with something in the template might work, but I don't know if there's value in separating by year. -within focus 23:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No argument about complexity; it would be 13 separate years ranging from those who are 7th year as Harry is entering, up to those who are first-years in the seventh book. It's just that I think it might be useful to have an easy way to look up that the Slytherins in Harry's year are Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, Nott, one other unnamed boy, Pansy Parkinson, Millicent Bulstrode, and three unnamed girls... just for instance. Chazz 00:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Minor descriptions/explanations
I don't know whether it actually looks any good, however I have added bullet descriptions of what the staff memebers do at Hogwarts. It looks a bit strange and hard to follow, but I thought this information should be included. Thoughts? --DanielBC 23:39, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I like the idea, but I think it could be added upon. Would you be interested in creating pages under the Magic section regarding those professors' subject areas and then linking to them? Having pages to explain the subjects the professors teach seems like it would be quite helpful. -Matt 00:37, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure, I would but I'm just coming into exams right now, so it will have to wait until after then. But I like your idea. I will work on it when I can.  --DanielBC 00:11, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Contradictions in sub-pages
There are some contradictory statements that the Longbottoms were tortured by either Barty Crouch Jr or by Bellatrix Lestrange. -- Jokes Free4Me 13:31, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * In our current state of development, I think the best technique for this is to remove the content and let it be formed later. With a book so large, inspecting existing information can be much more difficult than starting new content from scratch. -Matt 13:41, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * This particular issue could easily be dealt with once the truth is established. I was not 'inspecting' pages looking for contradictions, but i had stumbled across one by accident. Since i don't have time to check the books right now to see which statement is right, i've just made a note of it, and will hopefully get it done in a while. -- Jokes Free4Me 13:58, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
 * This first issue has been solved (a while ago). I've made about five pages have decent text and layout on this occasion. :-) -- Jokes Free4Me 19:21, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Character Page Locking
I've placed this section above the status section so that people will hopefully notice it. Since the Characters page is insanely long, and even though I placed a warning on the page to ask people to stop adding characters, I'm considering protecting the page from editing to avoid junk three-word additions by anonymous editors. Does anyone else support this action, and are there other pages that anyone would like protected? With all the recent activity here, it's becoming a task to manage pages within the namespace. -within focus 15:36, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I am slightly concerned about this. As I go through the chapter summary, I do keep finding characters which are not mentioned here, but have a role in the books, and I have to take the time to add them. For instance,a while back I found that we had no entry for Bartemius Crouch Senior, and I haven't yet needed to check if there is an entry for Ludo Bagman. If you're OK with me asking periodically to have a character added, then fine, lock it up. I'm doing a lot of adding to the Magic page as well; I'd prefer that one not be locked. Chazz 08:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I won't lock anything for now then. We can let some time pass to get final characters in, but in the future I'd like to lock it once we think we have a sufficient set. -within focus 15:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Case in point: I just had to add Armando Dippet. He's still a stub, but I'll template and fill him in over the next couple of days. He appears in CoS and HBP for sure that I can recall, and he may have a cameo in OotP as well -- one of the portraits in Dumbledore's office. Chazz 08:22, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Current Status
I notice that we have a Rosier Evans, a Rosier, and an Evan Rosier on the Characters page. I suspect that Rosier (a Death Eater, probably mentioned in either the Pensieve scenes or in the return of Voldemort) is not the same as Evan Rosier (listed as a Slytherin), but I think Rosier Evans is incorrect. I think we may have to combine these into one or two over time. I am not suggesting we do anything immediately; but I would like to keep a note here so that when we see "Rosier"s in the chapters, we can then decide how to correct it. Chazz 23:44, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Aberforth Dumbledore
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Adrian Pucey
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Alastor Moody
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albert Runcorn
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Alecto Carrow
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Alice Longbottom
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Alicia Spinnet
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ambrosius Flume
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Amelia Bones
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Amos Diggory
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Amycus Carrow
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Andromeda Tonks
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Angelina Johnson
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Anthony Goldstein
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Antonin Dolohov
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Arabella Figg
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Aragog
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Argus Filch
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ariana Dumbledore
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Armando Dippet
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Arthur Weasley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Augusta Longbottom
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Augustus Rookwood
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Auntie Muriel
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Avery
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bane
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bartemius Crouch Sr.
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Barty Crouch Jr.
 * Bathilda Bagshot
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bellatrix Lestrange
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Benjy Fenwick
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bertha Jorkins
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bill Weasley
 * (Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Black Family)
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Blaise Zabini
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bob Ogden
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bogrod
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Bole
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Borgin
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Broderick Bode
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Buckbeak
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cadwallader
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Caractacus Burke
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Caradoc Dearborn
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cedric Diggory
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Charlie Weasley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cho Chang
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Colin Creevey
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cormac McLaggen
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cornelius Fudge
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Crabbe, Sr.
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Crookshanks
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dawlish
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dean Thomas
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dedalus Diggle
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Demelza Robins
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dennis Creevey
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Derrick
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dexter Fortescue
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dilys Derwent
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dirk Cresswell
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dobby
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dolores Umbridge
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dorcas Meadowes
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Draco Malfoy
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dudley Dursley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Edgar Bones
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Eleanor Branstone
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Eloise Midgeon
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Elphias Doge
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Emmeline Vance
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ernie Macmillan
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ernie Prang
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Errol
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Evan Rosier
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Everard
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Fabian Prewett
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Fawcett
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Fawkes
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Fenrir Greyback
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Filius Flitwick
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Firenze
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Fleur Delacour
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Florean Fortescue
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Frank Longbottom
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Frank Bryce
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Fred and George Weasley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Fred Weasley (redirect)
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/George Weasley (redirect)
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gabrielle Delacour
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gawain Robards
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gellert Grindelwald
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gibbon
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gideon Prewett
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gilderoy Lockhart
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ginny Weasley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Godric Gryffindor
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Goyle, Sr.
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Graham Pritchard
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Grawp
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gregorovitch
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gregory Goyle
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Griphook
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hannah Abbott
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harper
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hedwig
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Helga Hufflepuff
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hepzibah Smith
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermes
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hestia Jones
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Horace Slughorn
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Igor Karkaroff
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Irma Pince
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Jack Sloper
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/James Potter
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Jimmy Peakes
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Jugson
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Justin Finch-Fletchley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Katie Bell
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Kendra Dumbledore
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Kevin Whitby
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Kingsley Shacklebolt
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Kreacher
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Laura Madley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lavender Brown
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lee Jordan
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lily Potter
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lisa Turpin
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lord Voldemort
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lucius Malfoy
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ludovic Bagman
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Luna Lovegood
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Madam Rosmerta
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Mafalda Hopkirk
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Magorian
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Malcolm Baddock
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Mandy Brocklehurst
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marcus Belby
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marcus Flint
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marge Dursley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marietta Edgecombe
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marlene McKinnon
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marvolo Gaunt
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Merope Gaunt
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Michael Corner
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Miles Bletchley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Millicent Bullstrode
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Minerva McGonagall
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Miriam Strout
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Moaning Myrtle
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Molly Weasley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Montague
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Morfin Gaunt
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Mulciber
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Mundungus Fletcher
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Nagini
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Narcissa Malfoy
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Natalie McDonald
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Nearly Headless Nick
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Neville Longbottom
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Nott
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Nymphadora Tonks
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Oliver Wood
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ollivander
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Olympe Maxime
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Orla Quirke
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Owen Cauldwell
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Padma Patil
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Pansy Parkinson
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Parvati Patil
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Peeves
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Penelope Clearwater
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Percival Dumbledore
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Percy Weasley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Peter Pettigrew
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Petunia Dursley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Phineas Nigellus Black
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Pigwidgeon
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Pius Thicknesse
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Pomona Sprout
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Poppy Pomfrey
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Professor Binns
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Professor Quirrell
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Professor Sinistra
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Professor Vector
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rabastan Lestrange
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Regulus Black
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Remus Lupin
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rita Skeeter
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ritchie Coote
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rodolphus Lestrange
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Roger Davies
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rolanda Hooch
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Romilda Vane
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ron Weasley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ronan
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rose Zeller
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rosier Evans see Evan Rosier
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rosier see Evan Rosier
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rowena Ravenclaw
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rubeus Hagrid
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rufus Scrimgeour
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Salazar Slytherin
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Scabbers
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Seamus Finnigan
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Selwyn
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sybill Trelawney
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sir Cadogan
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sirius Black
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sorting Hat
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Stan Shunpike
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Stewart Ackerley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sturgis Podmore
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Summerby
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Summers
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Susan Bones
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Terence Higgs
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Terry Boot
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/The Bloody Baron
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/The Fat Friar
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/The Fat Lady
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/The Grey Lady
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Theodore Nott
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Thorfinn Rowle
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Tom Marvolo Riddle
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Travers
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Trevor
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Urquhart
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Vaisey
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Vernon Dursley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Viktor Krum
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Vincent Crabbe
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Walburga Black
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Walden Macnair
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Warrington
 * (Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Weasley Family)
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Wilkes
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Wilkie Twycross
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Willy Widdershins
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Winky
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Witherwings
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Xenophilius Lovegood
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Yaxley
 * Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Zacharias Smith

Minor characters
I propose either deleting each or merging minor characters in one article which is redirected to by the individual pages. John Reaves 06:35, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * This discussion is now at Talk:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter. -within focus 23:26, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Characters not added
An anonymous editor recently added a number of characters and items to the Staff section. Some I have retained, but others I have had to back out. The standard edit line is not long enough to include my rationale, so I have put that information here.


 * Bathsheba Babbling (Ancient Runes): While we know that Bathsheba did write the Ancient Runes text, we don't know that she is actually teaching the course; the name never comes up in the context of her being the teacher.


 * Alecto and Amycus Carrow - The fact that these two are Death Eaters is something of a spoiler.


 * Neville Longbottom. The fact that he survives to become Herbology master is more than a bit of a spoiler.

I am not entirely happy about leaving Professor Kettleburn or Wilkie Twycross in, as Kettleburn is mentioned only once in passing, and Twycross is actually a Ministry employee. However, I don't have sufficient reason to remove Twycross from the list, as he does teach at Hogwarts, and Kettleburn is saved by his more extensive appearances in The Tales of Beedle the Bard. Chazz (talk) 20:43, 9 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Another editor has added Professor Tofty, Griselda Marchbanks, Tiberius Ogden, and Eddie Carmichael. While all of these characters are very minor, Marchbanks in particular has a large enough role to warrant keeping her, even if only just; and all of them are at least as much present as Wilkie Twycross, mentioned above, and so I can't justify removing them. Chazz (talk) 18:55, 16 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Twice now anonymous editors have added Astoria Greengrass. I have reverted both times. Reasoning is this: The only mention of Astoria is in a family tree drawn up by Rowling after completion of the final book. We quite literally know nothing about her apart from the fact that she married Draco Malfoy at some time after the close of the seventh book: was she a member of Slytherin House? Did she even attend Hogwarts? We don't know. Anything we were to write about her would perforce be speculation, and not something that would enhance our understanding of the Potter literature. Chazz (talk) 21:35, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

"Next Generation" characters
I noticed that no one has contributed to this topic lately, and I was wondering if we should add any of the "next generation" characters mentioned in the Epilogue of Deathly Hallows - particularly Harry, Ron, and Hermione's children. Mollyingdc (discuss • contribs) 15:21, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * While there hadn't been any plan to add them, because of the minor role they had, on reflection we do have characters with smaller roles even than them -- someone mentioned who was simply seen at the Sorting and never again, for instance. If you want to add them, please feel free; there is information and guidelines at Talk:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter, and there's a link on that page to the prepared frameworks. If you do choose to add them, I'd greatly appreciate it if you would put links to the new pages in one spot, e.g. under a "Next Generation" header of the Characters page, so that I (or someone) can properly include them in the print version and various watch lists. Chazz (talk) 16:02, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Consistency of "nee" vs "née"
I notice that there seem to be some inconsistency of the use of "nee" vs "née" in the character list. These seem to both be valid English, though I think there should be some consistency through the article. Which is preferred? CanaDavid1 (discuss • contribs) 17:50, 6 May 2023 (UTC)