Talk:List of Harry Potter characters

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Patil Twins

Somehow Sally-Anne Perks is on here but not the Patil twins.

How does that happen? ~2026-13224-46 (talk) 04:20, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 March 2026

~2026-13680-69 (talk) 12:51, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Y- Corban Yaxley.

  (b. 7 December, 1956) was a pure-blood wizard, the son of Dionysus Yaxley and his wife Ferula Yaxley (née Abbot). He was a member of the Noble and Ancient House of Yaxley. He had three sisters, each older than him: Florinda, Serafina, and Eugenie. The fourth sister, Lucinda, was a suspected Squib, and subsequently erased from most records from the House of Yaxley when he was an infant. He was significantly younger than his sisters and attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from September 1968 to June 1975. Corban Yaxley was Death Eater who fought during the First Wizarding War. Yaxley did not search for Voldemort after his first downfall, but this was forgiven after Voldemort's

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want made. {{GearsDatapack|talk|contribs}} 15:26, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Other Harry Potter media

Should this list include characters from other Harry Potter games, movies etc.? GoldenBootWizard276 (talk) 21:31, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

It's a fair question. I just added the other two Fantastic Beasts films to the list at the top of the page, because they were written or co-written by Rowling. You can go ahead and add any missing major characters from the Rowling works listed at the top—a good test would be that if you can find the character discussed in reliable secondary sources, chances are they're important enough to be on this list. In terms of games, I would start by locating characters that are mentioned in secondary sources, and then making another post here with suggested inclusions. Since games aren't authored directly by Rowling, we'd have to adjust the criteria of the list, which might need discussion. OrdinaryOtter (talk) 04:24, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Merge proposal

Hello! I have just finished merging content from Order of the Phoenix (fictional organisation) into this page following a discussion and approval.

I would like us to now consider whether to merge the content from List of Hogwarts staff into this page in a similar fashion. The Hogwarts staff page is even more similar to this page than the Order page was, in that it's simply a list of characters. In my view, some supporting characters are described in far more detail on the Hogwarts staff page than is appropriate (see Quirinus Quirrell for an example). My belief is that every character who doesn't have their own page can fit comfortably on this page.

For the sake of transparency, in 2024 I performed the proposed merge with my old account (Wafflewombat) without going through the proper channels of discussion. My overly bold merge was reverted here.

Please offer your thoughts! OrdinaryOtter (talk) 04:59, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

I support the merge. It's just a sublist with a dubious stand-alone notability - only two sources cited mention "Hogwarts" in their headings. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:03, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Since some of these Harry Potter pages get very little traffic, I'm pinging some editors who've been involved in discussions about merging Harry Potter pages in the past (some have supported, some have opposed, some have been neutral). Pinging Kelob2678, Daranios, Rtkat3, Pokelego999, Shooterwalker, Svartner, Klbrain, LoЯd ۞pεth OrdinaryOtter (talk) 08:24, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

@OrdinaryOtter: Thanks for performing the merge from Order of the Phoenix (fictional organisation)! Basically I am fine either way and have no specific objection to a merge of Hogwarts staff here. But what has been lost in the merge from Order of the Phoenix (fictional organisation) is a quick overview of the Order itself as well as a list of members at a glance. I advocate for having something like this, as I had suggested in the Oder's deletion discussion. I am not sure how to best implement that, but I think it would be something of interest to the readers. Daranios (talk) 11:36, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. Here's my plan: after this discussion is complete (whatever the outcome), I'm going to create a discussion about Fictional universe of Harry Potter. There are multiple pages that could possibly be merged into it, including Hogwarts, Magical objects in Harry Potter, Magical creatures in Harry Potter and Places in Harry Potter. These pages are mountains of unsourced content, fan cruft, and original research. Wikipedia may be better served if we form just one "Fictional universe" page, slim it down to the content and categories of content that are actually notable, and get it ready to be a well-sourced article grounded in real-world notability. There would definitely be a home for a section about the Order on such a page. Or, we can decide to put an Order section somewhere else. Stay tuned! OrdinaryOtter (talk) 18:00, 16 March 2026 (UTC)