Charity Burbage

"Not content with corrupting and polluting the minds of Wizarding children, last week Professor Burbage wrote an impassioned defence of Mudbloods in the Daily Prophet. Wizards, she says, must accept these thieves of their knowledge and magic. The dwindling of the purebloods is, says Professor Burbage, a most desirable circumstance... She would have us all mate with Muggles..."

- Lord Voldemort ridiculing Charity Burbage to his followers before killing her.

Charity Burbage was the Professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and one of the first casualties of the Second Wizarding War. Professor Burbage was in Ravenclaw house.

Biography
Because she taught and advocated the equality of Muggle-born and half-blood wizards and witches, she was in direct opposition to the ideology of Lord Voldemort and his followers. In July 1997, she was abducted and brought to Malfoy Manor, where she was magically suspended above a table during a Death Eater meeting. She begged for fellow Hogwarts professor Severus Snape to help her, but he did not, as to maintain his position as spy in Voldemort's ranks and trying to help her would accomplish nothing but get both of them killed. At the end of the meeting, Voldemort killed her using the Killing Curse and then fed her to his snake familiar Nagini, making an example of her.

1992/1993
During the 1993-1994 school year, Hermione Granger took Muggle Studies and was taught by Charity Burbage.

Behind the scenes

 * Charity Burbage was preceded and succeeded by professors who served Lord Voldemort, though Professor Quirrell only fell to Voldemort during his year off after leaving the job; she herself was murdered by Lord Voldemort.
 * It is rumoured that she will be played by Carolyn Pickles in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (film)