Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Pansy Parkinson
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Character | |
| Pansy Parkinson | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Hair color | Black short bob-cut with bangs |
| Eye color | Dark |
| Related Family | Unknown |
| Loyalty | Draco Malfoy(?) |
Contents |
[edit] Overview
Pansy Parkinson is a member of Slytherin House in Harry's year, with a face like a pug (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban). She and Draco Malfoy seem to have a romantic relationship towards the end of the series.
[edit] Role in the Books
[edit] Philosopher's Stone
Pansy is seen at the Sorting, where her name, but not her house, is mentioned.
After Neville's accident in his first Flying lesson, Draco jeers at Neville's expression; Parvati Patil tells him to shut up, and Pansy accuses her of being sweet on Neville. She is here described as a "hard-faced girl"; as flying lessons are shared with the Slytherins, we can infer that she is in Slytherin house.
[edit] Chamber of Secrets
[edit] Prisoner of Azkaban
Pansy, who has been told about Harry's experiences with the Dementor on the Hogwarts Express, calls across the Great Hall at breakfast to taunt him.
[edit] Goblet of Fire
Pansy is apparently Draco Malfoy's date for the Yule Ball.
When Witch Weekly runs a story on Hermione suggesting that she has both Harry and Viktor Krum on a string, it is Pansy who discovers this. She throws a copy of the magazine to Hermione in Potions class.
[edit] Order of the Phoenix
Ron reports that Pansy Parkinson is one of the two prefects for Slytherin house, the other being Draco Malfoy.
It is mentiond that Pansy Parkinson shares one of the horseless carriages up to the school with Draco Malfoy and his cronies Crabbe and Goyle.
On the second day of classes, Draco, Pansy, Crabbe, and Goyle are laughing about something as they arrive at Care of Magical Creatures class. When Professor Grubbly-Plank asks if anyone can identify the creatures she has in front of her, Hermione puts her hand up, and Draco imitates her. Pansy shrieks with laughter, then screams as the little bundles of twigs on the table jump up, revealing themselves to be Bowtruckles.
At Gryffindor's first Quidditch practice, Pansy, Crabbe, and Goyle have accompanied Draco Malfoy to the pitch, and laugh apprecatively at every joke Draco makes about the Gryffindors. Harry in particular finds Pansy's screams of mirth annoying.
As the first Quidditch match aproaches, Pansy tries to upset Harry by telling him that Warrington is going to be trying to knock him off his broom. Harry responds that with Warrington's bad aim, he has nothing to worry about.
In the first Defence Against the Dark Arts class after Hagrid's return, Professor Umbridge is examining Hagrid's teaching. She has clearly already decided that Hagrid is a half-wit, so when she asks Pansy if she has trouble understanding Hagrid, Pansy plays along, saying that often the lessons just sound like grunting. Throughout the examination by Umbridge, Pansy is laughing, as are Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle.
When Dumbledore's Army is betrayed, Pansy is one of the "trusted students" that Umbridge brings to break up the meeting. Pansy is able to get into the Room of Requirement and retrieve the parchment that shows the names of all the people in Dumbledore's Army, which she gives to Umbridge.
After Fred and George depart the school, there are a number of attacks against Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad, of which Pansy is a member. It is mentioned that she misses an entire day's classes because she has suddenly grown antlers.
[edit] Half-Blood Prince
On the Hogwarts Express, Harry, under his Invisibility Cloak, sneaks into Draco Malfoy's compartment to try and find out what Draco is up to. Draco, who has his head in Pansy's lap, is boasting to Pansy that he may not be attending Hogwarts for his seventh year, that he has been given a greater mission. Pansy is stroking his hair as she listens.
Harry later tells Ron what he had overheard, and Ron, twice, says he thinks that Draco was boasting to impress Pansy.
[edit] Deathly Hallows
After Harry's return to the school, when the students are all assembled in the Great Hall, the voice of Lord Voldemort is heard, demanding the surrender of Harry Potter. It is Pansy Parkinson who stands and points her wand at Harry, saying that all they have to do is capture him and Voldemort will leave the school alone. The entire Gryffindor table rises and aims their wands at her, followed almost immediately by the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs. Professor McGonagall dismisses her comment and evacuates all of Slytherin house, although the over-age wizards in the other three houses are allowed to remain if they choose.
[edit] Strengths
[edit] Weaknesses
[edit] Relationships with Other Characters
She is always picking on other students, mainly Gryffindors like Parvati Patil, Neville Longbottom, Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and Hermione Granger. Something of a coward, she tends to concentrate her attentions on those less powerful and younger or smaller than her. She has a group of Slytherin girls as her friends and is seen giggling with them the majority of the time. In her sixth year, it seems Pansy likes to fawn over Draco Malfoy, fondling and stroking his hair.
