Antoine Grimalkin

Antoine Grimalkin
Biographical information
Blood status	Pure-blood or half-blood
Marital status	Married
Physical information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Relationship information
Family members	Bedilia Grimalkin (wife)
Romances	Bedilia Grimalkin
Magical characteristics
Wand	Unknown length, wood, and core
Affiliation
Loyalty	Grimalkin family British Ministry of Magic (formerly) Lord Voldemort Death Eaters (formerly)

"[Antoine] was a rare genius. Able to understand the ways of wizards and Muggles."

— Bedilia Grimalkin speaking about her husband

Antoine Grimalkin was a powerful Dark wizard and Death Eater who fought during the First Wizarding War alongside his wife, Bedilia Grimalkin. He was the inventor of a powerful curse, the Frequensting.

Biography

Antoine lived in Godric's Hollow with his wife, Bedilia. He briefly worked for the British Ministry of Magic, but left when they wouldn't allow him to purse his research. During the First Wizarding War he and his wife announced their support of Lord Voldemort and joined the Death Eaters. At some point during the war, Antoine invented the Frequensting, a variation of the Stinging Jinx which caused everyone affected by it to be constantly afflicted with an ever more painful stinging in their mind. During the war, the couple, based in Godric's Hollow, would travel to wizarding settlements and cast the curse over all the inhabitants, rendering them almost incapable of fighting. The curse was so widespread that almost everyone who survived the war had been affected by it. Despite their success with using the curse, Voldemort and the other Death Eaters didn't approve of the curse due to its use of the gramophone, a Muggle invention, as one of the key parts to casting it. The pair were ostracised from the Death Eaters, barely escaping with their lives. At the end of the war, Antoine was captured by the British Ministry of Magic, with the help of information given to them by Albus Dumbledore, and placed into Azkaban. Although Bedilia believed her husband might have died in Azkaban, by the late 1980s, he was still alive.

Appearances

• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (First appearance)