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64 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.
Characters
- Albus Dumbledore — The greatest wizard of the age, dying from a cursed ring, racing to teach Harry everything about Voldemort's Horcruxes before time runs out.
- Argus Filch — The caretaker, still patrolling corridors and checking students for contraband.
- Arthur Weasley — Recovered from the snake attack, working at the Ministry while the war intensifies around his family.
- Bellatrix Lestrange — Voldemort's most devoted servant, suspicious of Snape's loyalty and fighting in the invasion of Hogwarts.
- Bill Weasley — The eldest Weasley son — handsome, cool, working as a curse-breaker for Gringotts and engaged to Fleur. Scarred by Fenrir Greyback in the Battle of th
- Dean Thomas — Ginny's ex-boyfriend this year — their breakup clears the path for Harry.
- Dobby — Still working in the Hogwarts kitchens, still devoted to Harry. This year Harry uses Dobby (and Kreacher) to tail Draco.
- Draco Malfoy — Sixteen years old, tasked by Voldemort to kill Dumbledore, and slowly being destroyed by an assignment that was always meant to punish his family rath
- Fenrir Greyback — The most savage werewolf alive — he bites children for fun and attacks Bill Weasley during the Hogwarts battle.
- Filius Flitwick — Charms professor and Head of Ravenclaw, fighting in the battle when Death Eaters invade.
- Fleur Delacour — Bill Weasley's fiancee, proving she's more than a pretty face when she refuses to leave Bill after Greyback scars him.
- Fred Weasley — Running Weasley's Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley — the joke shop is booming even in wartime.
- George Weasley — Co-proprietor of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, providing laughter in wartime.
- Ginny Weasley — The girl Harry finally sees — fierce, funny, and formidable. Their relationship is the brightest thing in his darkest year, and he ends it to protect
- Harry Potter — Sixteen, grieving Sirius, and chosen by Dumbledore to learn Voldemort's past. He follows a secondhand Potions textbook belonging to the Half-Blood Pri
- Hedwig — Harry's snowy owl, still faithfully carrying messages.
- Hermione Granger — Brilliant, jealous of Harry's sudden Potions success, and navigating the most emotionally turbulent year of her life — Ron is dating Lavender and Herm
- Horace Slughorn — Retired Potions professor lured back to Hogwarts by Dumbledore — the man who gave Tom Riddle the information he needed to create Horcruxes and has bee
- Kreacher — The Black family house-elf, now inherited by Harry. Bitter, resentful, and assigned to tail Draco alongside Dobby.
- Lavender Brown — Ron's girlfriend — enthusiastic, clingy, and doomed to be dumped when Ron mumbles Hermione's name in a hospital bed.
- Lord Voldemort — The Dark Lord at the height of his power, operating openly, assigning Draco Malfoy an impossible task as punishment for Lucius's failure.
- Lucius Malfoy — In Azkaban, disgraced. His failure at the Ministry cost his family everything — Voldemort punishes the Malfoys through Draco.
- Luna Lovegood — Still strange, still honest, still brave. She commentates Quidditch matches with surreal observations about cloud shapes.
- Madam Pomfrey — The matron, treating Ron's poisoning and Bill's werewolf scars.
- Minerva McGonagall — Deputy Headmistress who takes command of Hogwarts after Dumbledore's death with the steel spine the role demands.
- Molly Weasley — Weasley matriarch, terrified of losing her family in a war that keeps escalating.
- Narcissa Malfoy — A mother desperate to save her son. She goes to Snape and begs him to protect Draco, extracting an Unbreakable Vow.
- Nearly Headless Nick — Gryffindor's ghost, watching the darkest year unfold.
- Neville Longbottom — A sixth-year growing steadily into the warrior he'll become. Continues DA practice and remains Harry's loyal ally.
- Nymphadora Tonks — An Auror whose hair has gone mousy brown because the man she loves won't love her back. She refuses to give up.
- Peeves — The poltergeist, causing his usual chaos.
- Remus Lupin — A werewolf coming to terms with the possibility that someone could love him. Tonks has been pursuing him and he keeps pushing her away.
- Ron Weasley — Gryffindor Keeper, Lavender Brown's boyfriend, and the boy who ate love-potion-spiked chocolate and then drank poisoned mead in the same afternoon.
- Rubeus Hagrid — The gamekeeper who buries Aragog the Acromantula and doesn't understand why his friends have stopped taking his classes.
- Seamus Finnigan — A loyal Gryffindor, now firmly on Harry's side.
- Severus Snape — The Half-Blood Prince — finally teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, bound by an Unbreakable Vow, and destined to kill the only person who ever tru
- Sybill Trelawney — The Divination professor, now sharing the subject with Firenze the centaur and drinking in empty classrooms.
Locations
- 4 Privet Drive — Harry's summer starting point — this year Dumbledore picks him up personally.
- Diagon Alley — The wizarding shopping street — now half-boarded up, with Weasley's Wizard Wheezes as the brightest spot.
- Dumbledore's Office — Where Harry learns Voldemort's history through Pensieve memories — and where Dumbledore's portrait will hang after his death.
- Gryffindor Tower — Common room where Harry and Ginny's first kiss happens and Ron and Lavender's relationship provides unwanted entertainment.
- Hagrid's Hut — Hagrid's home where Aragog's funeral takes place and where Slughorn gets drunk enough to surrender his memory.
- Hogsmeade Village — The village where Katie Bell touches the cursed necklace.
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry — The castle under shadow — security is tighter, Dumbledore is absent on mysterious errands, and Death Eaters invade through a Vanishing Cabinet.
- King's Cross Station — Where the Hogwarts Express departs and arrives.
- Quidditch Pitch — The Hogwarts Quidditch field — where Harry captains Gryffindor, Ron proves himself as Keeper, and Ginny Weasley flies like someone who was born in the
- Slughorn's Office — The Potions master's lavishly appointed office in the dungeons — where the Slug Club meets for exclusive dinners, where Ron is nearly killed by poison
- The Astronomy Tower — The tallest tower in Hogwarts — where Dumbledore dies.
- The Burrow — The Weasley home — now under increased security, hosting Fleur and Bill's engagement, and preparing for a war wedding.
- The Forbidden Forest — Ancient woodland where Aragog's funeral is held and danger lurks.
- The Great Hall — The grand dining hall, site of Slughorn's return and increasingly tense meals.
- The Hogwarts Library — Where Hermione researches Horcruxes — or tries to, since Dumbledore has removed the relevant books.
- The Hospital Wing — Where Ron recovers from poisoning and Bill recovers from Greyback.
- The Room of Requirement — This year: Draco's secret workshop, where he repairs the Vanishing Cabinet that lets Death Eaters into Hogwarts.
Items
- Hufflepuff's Cup — A Horcrux — a small golden cup that once belonged to Helga Hufflepuff, stolen by Voldemort from Hepzibah Smith.
- Invisibility Cloak — Harry's cloak — he wears it on the Astronomy Tower while Dumbledore dies.
- Marvolo Gaunt's Ring — A Horcrux — destroyed by Dumbledore, but the curse on it is killing him.
- Slytherin's Locket — A Horcrux — or so Dumbledore and Harry thought. The one they retrieved from the cave is a fake. The real one was taken by R.A.B.
- Sword of Gryffindor — A goblin-wrought sword that Dumbledore used to destroy the ring Horcrux — it absorbs what strengthens it.
- The Elder Wand — The most powerful wand ever made — its allegiance passes from Dumbledore to Draco when Draco disarms him, though no one realizes it yet.
- The Marauder's Map — Harry obsesses over the Map this year, watching Draco disappear into the Room of Requirement.
- The Pensieve — The memory basin — central to this year's plot as Harry and Dumbledore explore Voldemort's past.
- The Sorting Hat — The ancient hat, resting in Dumbledore's office.
- Tom Riddle's Diary — The first Horcrux destroyed — by Harry in the Chamber of Secrets. Now understood as proof that Voldemort split his soul.
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