Rolanda Hooch

Rolanda Hooch is the Flying Instructor, Quidditch Coach and Referee Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She is described as having short, grey hair and yellow, hawk-like eyes.

Madam Hooch once remarked that she learned to fly on one of the old Silver Arrows, considered the true forerunner of the racing broom, but which are now no longer made. The Quidditch balls are stored in her office between games. Madam Hooch is known to have fair games in Quidditch, preferring clean play and is strict about recognizing fouls.

Trivia

 * Madam Hooch was played by Zoe Wanamaker in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Madam Hooch didn't reappear in the film for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Wanamaker had only signed up for one film.
 * Like Professor Quirrell, Madam Hooch doesn't have an official first name. The Trading Card Game lists it as Rolanda. The Internet Movie Database lists her first name as Xiomara. Neither of these names have been corraborated in canon.
 * In the Harry Potter movie, Madam Hooch is made the Ravenclaw Headmistress, where the books state that Filius Flitwick is Ravenclaws head.
 * In an episode of the Britcom series My Family, in which Wanamaker plays the family matriarch, one of her sons pulls a trading card from a box of cereal and exclaims "Hey look, Madam Hooch!"
 * On an episode of The Paul O'Grady Show Zoe Wanamaker said in an interview that she was disapointed that she was never asked to return and wouldn't mind doing so for the last two movies.
 * Zoe Wanamaker was one of two American actors who appeared in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film). While she has made a name for herself as an English actress, she was born in New York.