Selwyn

"You can have your little girl, Lovegood, if you get up those stairs and bring me down Harry Potter. But if this is a plot, if it's a trick, if you've got an accomplice waiting up there to ambush us, we'll see if we can spare a bit of your daughter for you to bury."

- Selwyn to Xenophilius Lovegood

Selwyn was a Death Eater who fought in the Second Wizarding War. He had a rough voice.

Selwyn participated in the Battle over Little Whinging, and chased Rubeus Hagrid and the real Harry Potter. Towards the end of the chase, he was ordered by Lord Voldemort to surrender his wand when Lucius Malfoy's was destroyed by Harry's wand.

Later, along with Travers, Selwyn travelled to Xenophilius Lovegood's house. Lovegood had been printing articles in The Quibbler urging the public to support Harry Potter, and his daughter Luna was taken to control his behaviour. Lovegood called the Death Eaters when Harry, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger came to his home, hoping that they would return his daughter if he handed over Harry. However, as Selwyn and Travers arrived, the Erumpent horn in the residence blew up, giving Harry, Hermione and Ron a chance to hide. Selwyn beat up and tortured Lovegood, suspicious that the wizard had been lying, but Hermione then engineered the trio's escape so that the Death Eaters saw Harry before they Disapparated. Afterwards, Selwyn and Travers arrested Lovegood.

Following Voldemort's defeat during the Battle of Hogwarts, Selwyn was presumably killed or imprisoned in Azkaban.

Behind the scenes

 * When Harry, Ron and Hermione infiltrated the Ministry of Magic in 1997, Dolores Umbridge mentioned that the Selwyns were an old pure-blood family, and claimed to be related to them. However, she may have just been trying to bolster her own pure-blood credentials.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows