Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Alecto Carrow

Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Character
Alecto Carrow
Gender	Female
Hair color	Unknown
Eye color	Unknown
Related Family	brother Amycus Carrow
Loyalty	Lord Voldemort

Overview

Alecto Carrow, sister of Amycus Carrow, is a Death Eater. When she is initially described, all Harry seems to notice about her is her repeated, almost-nervous giggle.

Role in the Books

Order of the Phoenix

Alecto and Amycus are two of the Death Eaters who break out of Azkaban Prison in about March. While their names are not mentioned at the time of the breakout, their membership in that group is strongly implied by Snape's comments in the early chapters of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Half-Blood Prince

Severus Snape mentions the Carrows when he is talking to Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange.

The Carrows take part in the attack on Hogwarts. Both of them are at the top of the tower when Snape kills Albus Dumbledore. As Harry chases Snape through the battle and out the front door, he sees Alecto dueling with Ginny Weasley.

Deathly Hallows

With Snape being appointed Headmaster, and Charity Burbage having been killed, there are vacancies for Defence Against the Dark Arts and Muggle Studies teachers. Alecto Carrow is given the post of Muggle Studies teacher. Neville Longbottom tells us that, under Alecto, the course seems to have become a diatribe against Muggles, in the best propaganda tradition, teaching how non-Magical people are dirty and behave like animals.

Alecto, told by Lord Voldemort to expect Harry to visit Ravenclaw Tower, has herself let into the Ravenclaw common room before Harry's arrival. When Harry steps out from under the Invisibility Cloak to examine the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw, Alecto sees him and summons Lord Voldemort by touching her Dark Mark. She is then Stunned by Luna Lovegood, who was accompanying Harry, and had remained under the Invisibility Cloak. Bound by Professor McGonagall, she takes no further part in the story.

Weaknesses

Alecto is not particularly intelligent. When her brother Amycus is unable to enter Ravenclaw tower, eventually he forces Professor McGonagall to open the door for him. Professor McGonagall at that time says that she had earlier opened the door for Alecto, leading us to understand that she also was unable to answer the raven's query.

Relationships with Other Characters

While there is apparently some closeness between herself and her brother, Amycus Carrow, the only dealings we see her having with other people are situations in which she is operating from a position of power, or dueling. Her usual mode of interpersonal relationship seems to be taunting.