Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Charity Burbage
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Character | |
| Charity Burbage | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Hair color | ginger |
| Eye color | dont know |
| Related Family | Unknown |
| Loyalty | Unknown |
Contents |
[edit] Overview
Charity Burbage is a previous Muggle Studies teacher at Hogwarts.
[edit] Role in the Books
[edit] Prisoner of Azkaban
Although her name is never mentioned, Professor Burbage is apparently teaching Muggle Studies. Hermione Granger takes this course and passes her exam with a mark of three hundred and twenty percent. Hermione, however, decides to drop the course at the end of the year, so that she can get back on to a regular schedule.
[edit] Deathly Hallows
Professor Burbage affronts the Death Eaters by teaching that Muggles are not so different from wizards, and by daring to publish "an impassioned defence of Mudbloods" in the Daily Prophet. As a result, she is kidnapped by the Death Eaters and summarily executed by Voldemort. Voldemort's snake then eats Professor Burbage's dead body. This occurs in Chapter 1 of the novel. A story about her "resignation" from Hogwarts appears in the Prophet, but members of the Order of the Phoenix don't believe it, as they are unable to locate her anywhere after that.
[edit] Strengths
Charity Burbage shows determination not to back down from what is right and decent. As a teacher at Hogwarts and a decent, educated person, she knows that Lord Voldemort and all the other known and unknown dark wizards and creatures are once more at liberty in the world. Yet even during the most trying times, she persists in doing the right and noble thing. Moreover, as she slowly spins above the hearth in the Malfoy's living room, doomed to death, she calls repeatedly upon Professor Snape to help her. There is another person in the room to whom she could have called, but she did not. This shows that Charity Burbage suspected that Snape was on the side of the good.
