Pansy Parkinson

Pansy Parkinson is a girl in Harry's year of Hogwarts, sorted into Slytherin House. She is described as 'pug-faced' and appears as the head of a gang of Slytherin girls and is notable for her sarcastic and cutting remarks aimed cunningly at Gryffindor students such as Hermione Granger.

Pansy was at Harry's first broom flying class in 1991. During it, she teased Parvati Patil who defended Neville Longbottom when Draco Malfoy threw away his Remembrall. In 1993 she started crying after Draco was attacked by the hippogriff Buckbeak, and was concerned enough to follow him to the hospital wing. She accompanied Draco to the Yule Ball during the 1994 Triwizard Tournament.

Pansy often foiled Hermione Granger, whom she often taunted. In 1994, Pansy was among the students who fed Rita Skeeter false information on Harry, Hermione and Hagrid. A year later she crudely remarked to Dolores Umbridge that it is difficult to understand Hagrid when he speaks and that everyone hated his subject right in front of him. In 1995 she was appointed as a Slytherin prefect along with Draco, and joined the Inquisitorial Squad. She used her power and influence as prefect to direct the Slytherin students in a choir to sing Weasley is our King at the Quidditch matches. When Dumbledore's Army members attempted to escape from the Room of Requirement, Pansy searched for female D.A. members in the girls' lavatory and grabed the list of names as evidence. Later in the year, Pansy and other Squad members were jinxed during a student rebellion after Fred and George Weasley's departure from Hogwarts.

In 1996 she was on the train ride to Hogwarts with Draco and a few other Slytherins.

In 1998 she urged Minerva McGonagall to give Harry to Voldemort during the Battle of Hogwarts. However, the other three houses rallied, taking out their wands and McGonagall dismissed the Slytherin House first.