Character directory
Harry Potter character profiles
Six of the wizarding world's most quoted minds, with the details that make each one unmistakable — then find out which one you match.
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Harry Potter
The Boy Who Lived
You never asked for the spotlight, but you refuse to stand aside. When the corridor goes quiet and everyone looks around, you're already moving — usually without a plan, always with your friends behind you.
- Brave
- Impulsive
- Loyal
- Instinctive
- House
- Gryffindor
- Best subject
- Defence Against the Dark Arts
- Signature spell
- Expelliarmus
- Wand
- Holly and phoenix feather, 11 inches
- Weakness
- Charging in alone
- Patronus
- Stag
Hermione Granger
The brightest witch of her age
You've read ahead, annotated it and packed the exact obscure item the crisis will require. Your friends survive largely because you refuse to wing anything.
- Brilliant
- Precise
- Principled
- Relentless
- House
- Gryffindor
- Best subject
- Charms & Ancient Runes
- Signature spell
- Protego
- Wand
- Vine wood and dragon heartstring
- Weakness
- Needing to be right
- Patronus
- Otter
Ron Weasley
The one who stays
Funny, warm and quietly the reason the group holds together. You underrate yourself constantly, which is the only bad call you regularly make.
- Warm
- Funny
- Steadfast
- Self-doubting
- House
- Gryffindor
- Best subject
- Wizard's chess (unofficially)
- Signature spell
- Wingardium Leviosa
- Wand
- Willow and unicorn hair, 14 inches
- Weakness
- Comparing yourself to everyone
- Patronus
- Jack Russell terrier
Albus Dumbledore
Playing a board no one else can see
You think in decades. People trust your calm, and you carry more than you tell them — which is both your gift and your fault line.
- Wise
- Strategic
- Compassionate
- Secretive
- House
- Gryffindor
- Best subject
- Transfiguration & Alchemy
- Signature spell
- Non-verbal, naturally
- Wand
- The Elder Wand
- Weakness
- Withholding the truth too long
- Patronus
- Phoenix
Severus Snape
Cold surface, buried devotion
You are difficult on purpose and precise by nature. Beneath the sharp edges sits a loyalty so old and stubborn that nobody guesses it exists.
- Exacting
- Guarded
- Brave
- Devoted
- House
- Slytherin
- Best subject
- Potions & Occlumency
- Signature spell
- Legilimens
- Wand
- Unknown — closely guarded
- Weakness
- Old wounds, kept open
- Patronus
- Doe
Luna Lovegood
Unbothered, luminous, oddly always right
You believe six impossible things before breakfast and stay entirely yourself in every room. Your kindness reads as strange until the moment people need it.
- Imaginative
- Kind
- Unshakeable
- Perceptive
- House
- Ravenclaw
- Best subject
- Care of Magical Creatures
- Signature spell
- Reducto
- Wand
- Unknown — lost and found often
- Weakness
- Mistaken for unserious
- Patronus
- Hare