Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Characters

(Click the character infographic to download.)Like most of the greatest heroes in the world, Harry is both ordinary and extraordinary. He's an eleven-year-old skinny kid, with unruly black hair and...

(Click the character infographic to download.)Ron is Harry's first and best friend at Hogwarts (not counting Hagrid). They are BFFs from the get-go. Ron spends much of his time being overshadowed b...

(Click the character infographic to download.)When we first meet Hermione, Harry and Ron think she's super annoying. She's loud and bossy and butts in all the time. She's your typical know-it-all,...

(Click the character infographic to download.)Dumbledore is the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and pretty much the coolest wizard around. In this first book of the series,...

(Click the character infographic to download.)At the beginning of the book, wizards all over the land are celebrating because Voldemort has been defeated. So, we learn from the start that he is one...

(Click the character infographic to download.)Hagrid is the groundskeeper at Hogwarts, but, man, he's so much more than that. He's pretty much the friendliest, most trustworthy, and most loving aut...

(Click the character infographic to download.)McGonagall welcomes students to Hogwarts both literally and figuratively – she writes the admission letters and also greets them when they enter to b...

(Click the character infographic to download.)Snape. It rhymes with grape, tape, scrape, and drape. And it sounds a bit like "snake." Professor Snape teaches Potions at Hogwarts. He doesn't like Ha...

Quirrell is new to Hogwarts. He's the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. And he seems like kind of an oddball. He always wears a turban, he smells funny, and he stutters. He seems too weak...

(Click the character infographic to download.)Like Dudley Dursley, Malfoy is a bully – except Malfoy is way more dangerous. He's your typical Slytherin – cunning and devious, with a tendency to...

(Click the character infographic to download.)Harry's Muggle uncle, Mr. Dursley, is described right out of the gate as "a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large must...

(Click the character infographic to download.) Harry's Muggle aunt, Mrs. Dursley, is "thin and blonde and ha[s] nearly twice the usual amount of neck" (1.2). Her first name is Petunia, which seems...

(Click the character infographic to download.)Dudley is the annoying, spoiled son of Mr. and Mrs. Dursley. He's Harry's cousin, but the two couldn't be more different:Dudley was very fat and hated...

The Bloody Baron is one of the ghosts who live at Hogwarts. He's associated with Slytherin. The other ghosts, including Peeves, are scared of him.

Crabbe and Goyle are Malfoy's two Slytherin henchmen and definitely not the sharpest first-years at Hogwarts. They're virtually indistinguishable, always acting as a pair, and notable mainly for th...

Mrs. Figg is the Dursleys' next-door neighbor. She babysits Harry every time the Dursleys want to go out. She keeps cats and smells weird.

Filch is the caretaker of Hogwarts. Most of the students, including the Gryffindors, don't like him because he's weird and creepy. He's always looking to catch kids breaking the rules and get them...

Seamus is a first-year Gryffindor from a mixed-blood (that is, half-Muggle) family.

Nicolas Flamel and his wife Perenelle are the keepers of the Sorcerer's Stone and the only makers of the Elixir of Life. They are really, really old – like, in their six hundreds. Flamel is a...

Marcus is an older student at Hogwarts who's one of the Slytherin Quidditch players.

Prof. Flitwick teaches Charms at Hogwarts.

Fluffy is the three-headed monster dog that Hagrid uses to guard the trapdoor hiding the mysterious package Dumbledore so wants to protect. Fluffy is extremely ferocious, but will fall asleep if yo...

Griphook is a goblin who works at Gringotts bank.

Hedwig is Harry's owl. Hagrid buys her for Harry as an eleventh birthday present – the first and best present Harry's ever had. She's a white snowy owl, and one of her tasks is to fetch and carry...

Madam Hooch is the professor of Flying (on broomsticks) at Hogwarts.

Lee is an older Hogwarts student, a member of Gryffindor, and friends with the Weasley twins. He's also the Quidditch commentator.

(Click the character infographic to download.) At first it seems like Neville is an unlikely candidate for Gryffindor even though, like Harry, he's a lonely orphan who's excited to make friends at...

Madame Malkin owns the robe shop where Harry gets his clothes for Hogwarts.(Click the map infographic to download.)

Nearly Headless Nick is one of the ghosts who live at Hogwarts; he is affiliated with Gryffindor.

Norbert is a baby Norwegian Ridgeback dragon. He's also illegal in England. A mysterious stranger trades him (as an egg) to Hagrid for some very important information. Hagrid falls in love with Nor...

Mrs. Norris is Filch the caretaker's creepy cat. The students regard her with dread and disdain. Harry wonders, for example, if she can see through his invisibility cloak when he's trying to travel...

Mr. Ollivander is the owner of the wand store, Ollivanders, in Diagon Alley. It's not clear how old Mr. Ollivander is; his shop's been open since 382 B.C. He's described as "an old man… [whose] w...

Peeves is one of the ghosts who reside at Hogwarts. This annoying poltergeist is a destructive tattletale and gets on pretty much everybody's nerves.

Piers is Dudley's equally horrible friend who accompanies the Dursleys to the zoo.

Madam Pomfrey is the head nurse at the Hogwarts infirmary. She takes care of Ron when he's bitten by Fang, for example. She also takes care of Harry after Quirrell attacks him.

The Potters are Harry's deceased parents. When they were young, both attended Hogwarts and were Gryffindors. Voldemort killed them when Harry was a baby, but Harry grows up thinking they died in a...

These three figures are centaurs who Harry meets in the forest during detention. Centaurs can foresee the future in the stars and they know of Voldemort's planned return. But while Ronan and Bane w...

Scabbers is Ron's hand-me-down pet rat.(Click the infographic to download.)

(Click the character infographic to download.) Dean is another first-year Gryffindor. Like Hermione, he's from a Muggle family and has never heard of Quidditch either. He's a big soccer fan, though.

(Click the character infographic to download.)Mrs. Weasley is the mother of the Weasley children and also acts motherly towards Harry. She helps him find platform nine and three-quarters when he's...

Charlie is the older brother of Percy, Fred, George, and Ron. He's out of school and lives in Romania, where he works with wild dragons.

(Click the character infographic to download.)(Click the character infographic to download.) Fred and George are the youngest of Ron Weasley's older brothers. They are Gryffindors and both play on...

(Click the character infographic to download.)Ginny is the youngest Weasley child and the only girl. In this book she is still too young to attend Hogwarts.

In book one, Percy is the oldest of the Weasley children still attending Hogwarts. More stuck up than Fred and George and more established at Hogwarts than Ron, he enjoys being a Prefect and rubs h...

Wood is the Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. He teaches Harry the rudiments of the game.