We asked, you voted. The polls have closed, the ballots are in, the Sorting Hat has tallied things up for us – now we can present, definitively and categorically, the greatest Harry Potter characters ever.
With Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them on Empire’s latest cover, we invited Potter fans around the world to vote, and we’ve now whittled down the many and various wizards, muggles, creatures and beasties from J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world to a list of 30.
Here’s 30-11...
30 – The Sorting Hat
29 – Lily Potter
28 – Cedric Diggory
27 – Buckbeak
26 – Lucius Malfoy
25 – Dolores Umbridge
24 – Arthur Weasley
23 – Gilderoy Lockhart
22 – Hedwig
21 – Nymphadora Tonks
20 – Ginny Weasley
19 – Alastor ‘Mad-Eye’ Moody
18 – Draco Malfoy
17 - Molly Weasley
16 – Voldemort
15 – George Weasley
14 – Bellatrix Lestrange
13 – Fred Weasley
12 – Dobby
11 – Neville Longbottom
And here's the top 10:
10 – Minerva McGonagall
9 – Hagrid
8 – Luna Lovegood
7 – Ron Weasley
6 – Albus Dumbledore
5 – Harry Potter
4 – Remus Lupin
3 – Sirius Black
2 – Hermione Granger
1 – Severus Snape
Yep, Harry Potter, the guy whose name is in the title, only just scrapes the top 5 of the greatest Harry Potter characters. When we put this surprising outcome to the boy wizard himself, Daniel Radcliffe, he jokingly called it an "outrage", before magnanimously admitting: "I don't mind getting beaten by Snape... I'm very happy coming behind Alan Rickman."
Read the full feature – including more from Radcliffe and some tremendous Potter trivia – in the new issue of Empire. There's three Fantastic Beasts covers of the new issue available, including aworld-first moving cover. The issue goes on sale this Thursday, 27 October, but subscribers will have recieved their copies already.
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