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=Frank Bryce=

Frank Bryce was a Muggle who lived in the village of Little Hangleton, England. After serving in the Second World War, he returned to Little Hangleton and became the gardener for the Riddle family.

After Voldemort murdered the Riddles, the local villagers suspected Bryce, and he was taken by the police in the neighboring Great Hangleton to be questioned. However, the report on the Riddles' bodies was unable to determine the cause of their death, and Frank was released due to lack of evidence, although he was still widely suspected by his neighbors.

Frank had no family, and continued to live a solitary, disconnected life in his small cottage on the Riddle House grounds. He continued to be paid as the gardener by the house's succession of owners. As he aged, he was plagued by the pain in his leg, which had been injured during the war, and by the vandalism of local boys, which he suspected was motivated by the belief that he was a murderer.

In the summer of 1994, he woke up from the pain in his leg, and saw a light in the Riddle House, believing the local boys broke in and set fire. Not having a telephone, nor trusting the police since his arrest, Frank went to investigate and was surprised to see not vandals, but Lord Voldemort and his servant Wormtail, discussing on taking Harry Potter's life. When Nagini discovered Frank and reported to Voldemort, the Dark Lord welcomed the gardener into the room. In a failed attempt to bluff his way out, Frank's deception about his wife would notice his disappearance was saw through by Voldemort, and that nobody knows he is in here. After challenging Voldemort to show his face "like a man", Frank was horrified to see a mutilated body in the chair, and was screaming so loud that he never heard the incantation of the Killing Curse that took his life.

Roughly a year later, after Voldemort's rebirth, Frank's shadow reappeared in the Priori Incantatem caused by the duel between Harry and Voldemort. Frank then realized that Voldemort is indeed a wizard, and supported Harry to defeat the Dark Lord in revenge for his demise.

Behind the scenes
Frank was portrayed by Eric Sykes in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)