History Characters / HarryPotterHogwartsStaff

* DisproportionateRetribution: While he has a fair point about the messes caused by the students as he's a MuggleBornOfMages who has to clean it all manually, his idea of how they should be punished for it is not exactly fair. His desired methods so line up with Dolores Umbridge, that he was the only one on her side as it meant he could use a horsewhip on rule-breakers.

* FauxAffablyEvil: On the outside, he is a kind mannered, thoughtful and helpful teacher who does everything to help his students. In reality he is cold, sadistic and evil, with Lord Voldemort residing inside him. After he is revealed, he reveals his plans to kill Harry with "No dear boy, I TRIED TO KILL YOU" showing that beneath his façade he is very cold.

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* CrazyPrepared: Despite being skilled in the art of Occlumency, Slughorn carries around an antidote for Veritiserum, which can be resisted through Occlumency too.

** It's worth noting that certain lessons demonstrate that Hagrid is capable of being this when he splits the difference between having enough confidence to teach about interesting creatures and stopping short of teaching about flat out dangerous creatures (like Blast-Ended Skrewts). Everyone has fun when he teaches everyone about Nifflers and baby unicorns, and even the hippogriff lesson goes well until Malfoy is injured, mostly by BullyingADragon.

* BadassTeacher: DeconstructedTrope; Hagrid's ruggedness and love for dangerous monsters make him ignorant to the fact that his classes terrify his students and do little to educate them about anything practical. Subverted in that he actually ''can'' teach a class "properly"; when Umbridge puts him on probation, he tones down the danger and lectures his students extremely knowledgably about several different creatures, even though Harry notes that it's clear he finds the animals normality boring.

* WouldHurtAChild: While it's staged as a KickTheSonOfABitch moment, he vents his rage at Vernon Dursley's insulting the name of Albus Dumbledore by attempting to turn Dudley into a pig. The resultant instantaneous growth of a pig's tail causes Dudley to "howl with pain." Dudley is eleven at the time. The movie tries to make this a bit more justified by having Dudley start eating the birthday cake Hagrid had made for Harry while no one is paying attention, and Hagrid casts the spell after catching him in the act while threatening Vernon, but it's still pretty harsh.

'''[[Characters/HarryPotterDeathEaters Death Eaters]]''' ([[Characters/HarryPotterLordVoldemort Lord Voldemort]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterDeathEatersInnerCircle Death Eaters (Inner Circle)]])\\

'''[[Characters/HarryPotterOrderOfThePhoenixMembers Order of the Phoenix Members]]''' ([[Characters/HarryPotterMarauders Marauders]] [[[Characters/HarryPotterSiriusBlack Sirius Black]]])\\

[[Characters/HarryPotterTheWeasleyFamily The Weasley Family]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterMinistryOfMagic Ministry of Magic]] ([[Characters/HarryPotterDoloresUmbridge Dolores Umbridge]])\\

'''[[Characters/HarryPotterHogwartsStudents Hogwarts Students]]''' ([[Characters/HarryPotterGryffindor Gryffindor]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterSlytherin Slytherin]] [[[Characters/HarryPotterDracoMalfoy Draco Malfoy]]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterRavenclaw Ravenclaw]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterHufflepuff Hufflepuff]])\\

* BraveScot: She was born in the Scottish Highlands and is the head of the Hogwarts House known for its bravery. In the face of deadly situations, she never shows anything but utmost courage and strength.

'''[[Characters/HarryPotterTheTrio The Trio]]''' ([[Characters/HarryPotterHarryJamesPotter Harry James Potter]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterRonBiliusWeasley Ron Bilius Weasley]] | [[Characters/HarryPotterHermioneJeanGranger Hermione Jean Granger]])\\

* SpoiledBrat: In his youth, his mother spoiled him rotten because he was the only child who could perform magic.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He was very taken by Tom Riddle's charms, even after school when he'd begun going of the deep end, and had to be talked out of giving him a job.

* SternTeacher: Seems to have been more of a disciplinarian than Dumbledore. For starters, he expelled Hagrid and perhaps Newt Scamander, while Dumbledore isn't fond of expulsion and argued against it happening to them. Slughorn half-jokingly says that Headmaster Dippet will give him detention too if Riddle and co. are caught out of bed.

* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Is the product of such a union.

A portrait depicting an unnamed witch which has the task of guarding the entrance of the Gryffindor Tower.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first film her portait is located at the end of a corridor, she depicted by a different actress wearing a 16th century inspired dress with her personality being very subdued. This depiction carried over for the games based on the first and second films. Then in the third films her portrait is located directly in the Grand Staircase her outfit is more inline with the the Classical period and is given more humorous traits. This depiction stuck for supsequent appearances of her in video games.
* GlassShatteringSound: In the movies, she's seen trying to shatter a glass with her signing. When unable to do so, she surreptitiously smashes it against a wall and insists she did it with just her voice

** She claimed to be seeing a Grim a lot in ''POA'', but was really seeing Sirius Black in his Animagus form (a large black dog, which is what a Grim looks like). The problem is that she believed the Grim was a sign of death, and that it meant Harry's days were numbered. In actual fact, Sirius Black is Harry's godfather and innocent all along, and the Grim by the end of the book is someone who Harry goes out of his way to save.