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This article is about characters in the Harry Potter series who are associated in some way with Quidditch. Characters not listed here include Ludo Bagman, Miles Bletchley, Cedric Diggory, Cho Chang, Roger Davies, Marcus Flint, Gwenog Jones, Luna Lovegood, Viktor Krum, Draco Malfoy, Montague, Harry Potter, James Potter, Adrian Pucey, Zacharias Smith, Dean Thomas, Warrington, Charlie Weasley, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Ginny Weasley and Ron Weasley.
Chasers
From Philosopher's Stone to Order of the Phoenix, the Chasers for the Gryffindor Quidditch team are the same three girls: Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet and Katie Bell. Katie is one year older and Angelina and Alicia are two years older than Harry. The three girls appear to be a close-knit group both on and off the field. Harry sometimes notices them sitting together in the Gryffindor common room, talking quietly or working on homework, and they go to the initial planning meeting for Dumbledore's Army (the DA) in Hogsmeade together.
Angelina Johnson
Angelina Johnson (born late October, 1977) is a tall black girl with long braided hair, two years older than Harry. She has been a Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team since her second year, and became the team captain in her seventh year.
In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, she is among the people who enter their names to the Goblet as possible champions for Hogwarts, but is not selected. In the same book, she goes to the Yule Ball with Fred Weasley.
After Oliver Wood leaves Hogwarts, Angelina becomes Quidditch captain, proving to be at least as demanding of her team as Oliver had been. She attributes this hard-driving attitude to the stress of the job, saying that she regrets having been so hard on Oliver when he was captain.
In the first three films, she is played by Danielle Tabor, though she is miscredited in each film as Danielle Taylor. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, she is played by Tiana Benjamin.
Alicia Spinnet
Alicia Spinnet was on the reserve team the year before Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but she joined the team the next year. Alicia is most often the chaser who attempts penalty shots for Gryffindor when the other team commits a foul. She is played by Leilah Sutherland in the first film, and Rochelle Douglas in the second.
Katie Bell
Katie Bell joins the Gryffindor team in her second year (Harry's first) as a Chaser. She is played by Emily Dale in the films.
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Katie is the only remaining member from the original team. She advises Harry not to discriminate in favour of old players like her but to hold trials for all. She succeeds in remaining one of the three Chasers of the team, along with Ginny Weasley and Demelza Robins.
Later in the year, Draco Malfoy secretly attempts to use Katie to deliver a cursed necklace to Albus Dumbledore and kill him. Madam Rosmerta, whom Draco has placed under the Imperius Curse, gives the necklace to Katie in Hogsmeade, but Katie accidentally touches the necklace and is badly cursed. Fortunately, she only touches it with the smallest amount of skin (through a small hole in her glove), but she spends most of the rest of the year in St Mungo's. Dean Thomas takes over as Chaser, but Katie returns before the final match against Ravenclaw, to help Gryffindor win the Quidditch Cup for the 3rd season running.
Demelza Robins
Demelza Robins joins the Gryffindor Quidditch team as a chaser in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. According to Harry, she is an excellent chaser, and exceptionally good at dodging bludgers.
Keepers
Oliver Wood
Oliver Wood (played by Sean Biggerstaff in the film adaptions) is Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team in the first three books and graduates from Hogwarts at the end of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. A tall boy, Wood is a talented and keen Quidditch player, described as being one of the best Keepers the Gryffindor Quidditch team has ever had. Wood is a born leader and a hard captain who never cancels a Quidditch practice, even in driving rain, and once wakes his team before sunrise for practice.
His enemy is Marcus Flint, captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team. They are well known for trying to break the others fingers during the handshake before all Quidditch matches.
Wood's greatest dream is to win the interhouse Quidditch Cup for Gryffindor before he leaves school. In the third book, The Prisoner of Azkaban, Wood finally captains the Gryffindor team to victory.
Wood appears briefly The Goblet of Fire when Harry and his friends meet him at the Quidditch World Cup. After excitedly introducing Harry to his parents, Wood tells Harry proudly that he has been taken onto the reserve team for Puddlemere United, the oldest team in Britain and Ireland. Wood is eventually succeeded as Gryffindor Keeper by Ron Weasley and as captain by Angelina Johnson.
Although Wood is not seen again after the fourth book, characters such as Fred and George Weasley refer to him occasionally, well into the sixth novel, joking about his obsession with Quidditch.
Beaters
Andrew Kirke and Jack Sloper replace Fred and George Weasley after they are suspended in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry, as the new team captain, replaces Kirke and Sloper with Jimmy Peakes and Ritchie Coote.
Andrew Kirke
Andrew Kirke is a Beater on the Gryffindor team in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, along with Jack Sloper. He takes over for Fred and George Weasley when they are given a life-long ban by Dolores Umbridge. Both he and Sloper are described as relatively incompetent.
Jack Sloper
Jack Sloper is a Beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team from 1995-1996. Along with Kirke, he takes over for Fred and George Weasley. He and Kirke are both described as incompetent; this is particularly evident when Sloper knocks himself unconscious with his own bat.
Jimmy Peakes
Jimmy Peakes joins the Gryffindor team in Harry's sixth year. He is short and broad chested, and although three years younger than Harry he is strong and quite fierce. He manages to hit a Bludger into the back of Harry's head and cause a huge lump during the Beater tryouts, and when Ron reduces Demelza Robins to tears during a Quidditch practice, Jimmy yells at him to "shut up and leave her alone".
Ritchie Coote
Ritchie Coote joins the Gryffindor team in Harry's sixth year. He is described as "weedy looking", but has very good aim.
Miscellaneous
Lee Jordan
Lee Jordan is a close friend of Fred and George Weasley, as witty and fun-loving as the twins, in the same year as the twins were and also a Quidditch enthusiast. Harry first encounters him on the Hogwarts Express platform where, true to his subsequent form, he was attempting to smuggle a giant tarantula onto the train. Lee Jordan is the commentator for all Quidditch matches from Harry's first to fifth years. Lee is a lively and astute commentator, although his commentary is clearly biased towards his own house, Gryffindor. He is quick at following the players' actions in the match - especially at catching fouls - and likes to comment on the advantages of his House team.
His witty commentary turns sarcastic when he talks about the Slytherin team, and he is known for using very colourful language whenever Slytherin fouls Gryffindor in match; once his swearing offends Professor McGonagall so much she tries to pull the microphone away from him. He assists Fred and George with testing "the sweets" on students, coincidentally and primarily, first years. He becomes very sulky in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixafter Fred and George depart school without him After Lee Jordan has left the school in the fifth book, his commentary positions are taken up by Zacharias Smith.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Lee levitates two nifflers through Dolores Umbridge's window as a prank.
Lee wears his hair in dreadlocks.
Lee is played in the films by Luke Youngblood.
Dai Llewellyn
"Dangerous" Dai Llewellyn was a the most famous player on the Welsh Quidditch team the Caerphilly Catapults. Llewellyn was eaten by a Chimaera while on holiday in Mykonos, Greece, which resulted in a day of national mourning for all Welsh witches and wizards.The Dangerous Dai Commemorative Medal is now awarded at the end of each season to the League player who has taken the most exciting and foolhardy risks during a game and the "Dangerous" Dai Llewellyn Ward for serious bites is located on level one of St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
Kennilworthy Whisp
Kennilworthy Whisp is a Quidditch expert and fanatic, and has written many books about Quidditch, including The Wonder of Wigtown Wanderers, He Flew Like a Madman, Beating the Bludgers - A Study of Defensive Strategies in Quidditch and Quidditch Through the Ages.
Kennilworthy Whisp lives in Nottinghamshire, and divides his time between there and "wherever the Wigtown Wanderers are playing this week." His hobbies include backgammon, vegetarian cookery, and collecting vintage broomsticks.
Cormac McLaggen
Cormac McLaggen is a Gryffindor student one year above Harry. He is introduced for the first time during the train journey to Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. An aggressive and arrogant character from the outset, he plays roles both in the fortunes of the Gryffindor Quidditch team and in the love life of Hermione Granger.
Cormac tries out for the position of Keeper when Harry becomes captain, but is jinxed by Hermione Granger using the Confundus Charm, causing him to miss his last save. Ron Weasley makes all of his saves and is chosen instead. McLaggen accuses Ginny Weasley of favouring Ron by giving him shots that were easy to block.
During one game when Ron is unable to play, Cormac is substituted as Keeper, leading to disaster when Cormac orders the team about instead of focusing on his own position, knocking Harry unconscious with the Bludger and causing Gryffindor to lose by a devastating 320 points to 60, making McLaggen universally disliked among the vast majority of students. When Harry came around, he claimed to want to murder McLaggen but this was most likely rage talking.
Cormac is a member of Horace Slughorn's Slug Club.
Aidan Lynch
Aidan Lynch is the seeker for the Irish national Quiddich team. He only appears in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, in which he defeats the Bulgarian team in the Quidditch World Cup. The Seeker on that team is the famed Viktor Krum.
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