Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Amycus Carrow
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Character | |
| Amycus Carrow | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Hair color | Unknown |
| Eye color | Unknown |
| Related Family | sister Alecto Carrow |
| Loyalty | Lord Voldemort |
Contents |
[edit] Overview
Amycus Carrow, brother of Alecto Carrow, is a Death Eater.
[edit] Role in the Books
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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. Amycus Carrow is given the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, and supervises its change of focus to remove the Defence aspects of the course. According to Neville Longbottom, under the supervision of Amycus Carrow the students were forced to perform horrible acts such as practicing the Cruciatus Curse on people who had earned detentions.
Amycus' sister Alecto, told by Lord Voldemort to expect Harry to visit Ravenclaw Tower, has herself let into the Ravenclaw common room before Harry's arrival. She is then Stunned by Luna Lovegood, who was accompanying Harry under the Invisibility Cloak. Amycus, responding to her summons (Alecto has pressed her Dark Mark, to summon Voldemort), demands to be let in, but is unable to answer the riddle posed by the raven statue guarding the door. Having been let in by Minerva McGonagall, he finds his sister Stunned, and proposes to blame it on the students of Ravenclaw. McGonagall refuses to countenance this, Amycus spits at her, and Harry, outraged, hits Amycus with the Cruciatus curse. When he regains consciousness, McGonagall places him briefly under the Imperius curse, forcing him to give her his and his sister's wands, then lie down beside his sister, whereupon McGonagall binds them both. He takes no further part in the story.
