Percival Pratt

"I'm a man of few words; I barely speak! Find someone else if discourse you seek."

- Percival Pratt's portrait

Percival Pratt was a wizard poet. He has a portrait hung in Hogwarts Castle's Grand Staircase. He is portrayed as a man in a red robe, writing on his desk, with a starry sky and a full moon behind him. He is often heard saying rhymes and riddles to students who walk by. He often encourages students to "take time every day to rhyme what [they] say." Mr. Pratt's portrait guards a shortcut between the Grand Staircase and the Boathouse. The password of this shortcut brings out the absurd character: "This password is absurd". . However, in the next school year he did not guard any secret passageway anymore.

Behind the scenes

 * Pratt may have died sometime prior to 1993, as many portraits hung at Hogwarts Castle depict deceased individuals. Some art historians have assingned it to the latter half of the sixteenth century or the first decade of the seventneeth century on stylistic grounds.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
 * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)