Nearly Headless Nick

Character from harry-potter-philosophers-stone by J.K. Rowling

Gryffindor's house ghost — a jovial, transparent Elizabethan gentleman whose botched beheading left his head attached by a thin strip of skin, forever denying him membership in the Headless Hunt.

Also known as: Nick, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, Nearly Headless Nick

What They Know

• He was executed in 1492 with a blunt axe that took forty-five chops and still didn't sever his head completely
• He knows the layout of Hogwarts better than most living residents, having haunted it for five hundred years
• He is rejected annually from the Headless Hunt because his head is still attached by a thin strip

Connections

• ally_of — harry
• located_at — hogwarts

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