Long before the Fantastic Beasts, there was Harry Potter, the franchise where young children enchanted and dreaming of the prospect of becoming witches or wizards attended a castle of a school. The final installment of the series entitled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, was released a staggering nine years ago and brought JK Rowling’s epic story to a satisfying and action-packed conclusion.
The movie does a brilliant job of bringing the book to life but, despite that, Warner Bros were unable to cram in every little detail and individual. We now take a look at 10 characters who didn’t appear, despite them being present for the action in the source material.
Augusta Longbottom
Despite never seeing her in the movies (barring a brief glimpse of her in the Sorcerer’s Stone), we learn that Neville Longbottom’s grandmother, Augusta, is not a woman to be trifled with. She’s stern and a little harsh on the boy who, in the books, she takes aim at over the fact that he’s nothing like his parents.
She eventually changes her mind, however, after Neville helps Harry and the others protect the prophecy in the Order of the Phoenix novel. Augusta fights in the Battle of Hogwarts in the books, noting how courageous her grandson is, but this scene never made it into the movie.
Colin Creevey
Colin Creevey pops up in the Chamber of Secrets movie, as a huge Potter fan. He’s petrified in that blockbuster and he doesn’t ever appear again, with Warner Bros making the choice to replace him with a character called Nigel instead.
And that means we don’t get to see Colin’s body lying among the fallen at the Battle of Hogwarts. He perishes in the book having snuck into the castle after Professor McGonagall had ordered all underage witches and wizards to leave for their own safety.
Grawp
Grawp is Hagrid’s half-giant brother who only appears in one movie - 2007’s Order of the Phoenix. He was never exactly a central character in the source material and, after popping up in that blockbuster, he’s another character we never get to see again.
Consequently, we don’t get to see Grawp on the Hogwarts battlefield. In the book he helps battle giants loyal to Lord Voldemort, popping his head through an open window and laughing as students throw food into his open mouth right at the very end. While this scene wasn’t needed, it would have been a sweet moment in a movie so dark and dreary.
Sybill Trelawney
Oh how we love Sybill Trelawney, the eccentric Divination Professor who spends Harry’s whole third year at Hogwarts tipping him to die at increasingly frequent moments. We thought that Trelawney would be a regular after that blockbuster, particularly given how she’s the one responsible for the creation of harry and Voldemort’s prophecy in the first place.
Yet Trelawney is another character seemingly forgotten about as the series goes on. Unfortunately, this means audiences were robbed of a scene in the Deathly Hallows when she uses her wand to send crystal balls soaring at Death Eaters like Roger Federer at his peak. Now THAT would have been something.
Lee Jordan
Lee Jordan is the happy Quidditch commentator in the first two Harry Potter movies and, in the books, is known to be close to Fred and George Weasley.
Yet Jordan doesn’t make a single cameo in any blockbusters after the Chamber of Secrets, meaning we don’t get to see the close bond he shares with the Weasley twins played out in front of us. Had they done this, then had Lee by Fred’s lifeless body in the Great Hall amid the battle of Hogwarts, it would have made the latter’s death that bit more emotional.
Peeves
Peeves the Poltergeist is nothing but a nuisance throughout the Harry Potter books, infuriating both teachers and students alike due to his fondness for getting up to no good.
But Warner Bros’ decision to leave him out of the movies altogether means we never get to see him defending the castle in the Battle of Hogwarts. The mischief-maker hilariously attacks Death Eaters full-on by dropping Snargaluff pods on their heads - then crackling menacingly as the villains suffer the consequences of his cheeky, albeit well-intentioned actions.
Kreacher The House Elf
Kreacher the House Elf appears in the first Deathly Hallows blockbuster, helping Harry, Ron and Hermione track down Mundungus Fletcher amid their determination to break into the Ministry of Magic. However, rather surprisingly, he doesn’t pop up in the sequel.
In the book, the House Elf is seen rallying other members of his species in their fight against Lord Voldemort and his equally-villainous Death Eaters. Had this scene been included it would have been great to see just how transformed he is with just a little TLC…
Winky The House Elf
Fighting alongside Kreacher at the Battle of Hogwarts is Winky the House Elf, who doesn’t make an appearance in any Harry Potter movie despite being a central figure in the Goblet of Fire book.
She, like Kreacher, is a House Elf who doesn’t care a jot about the battle between good vs evil - for the most part. However, Winky puts his feelings to bed by fighting against Death Eaters, ones whose cruel and heinous actions robbed her of her beloved Barty Crouch Sr and Barty Crouch Jr. Given she didn’t appear in anything previously, though, we understand why this wasn’t included.
Charlie Weasley
Throughout the course of the Harry Potter movies, we meet every single member of the Weasley family - bar one. In the Sorcerer’s Stone, we’re introduced to Ron, Fred, George, Ginny and Molly Weasley. In the Chamber of Secrets, we see Arthur Weasley for the first time. And Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is when Billy Weasley makes his on-screen debut.
However, Charlie Weasley doesn’t ever appear. He’s not a significant character but the decision not to include him means we never got to see him and his friends turning up at the Battle of Hogwarts to save the day, fighting alongside Horace Slughorn on the battlefield.
Teddy Lupin
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 really is a sad and somber movie. Even when Harry eventually reigns supreme by defeating Lord Voldemort there’s a feeling of sorrow at the loss of the likes of Fred Weasley, Nymphadora Tonks, and Remus Lupin.
It’s pretty much the same in the book but there’s one ray of small sunshine in the form of Teddy Lupin. Remus and Tonks’ son is born near the end of the novel and Harry is named godfather. None of this is shown, though, and no mention of Remus and Tonks have a child is ever made.
