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- "...an animal that is often underestimated, because it lives quietly until attacked, but which, when provoked, can fight off animals much larger than itself, including wolves."
- — Hufflepuff Prefect Gabriel Truman on his house mascot.[src]
A badger is a carnivorous mammal of the Mustelidae family, distinguishable by the white stripe that runs down its snout.[1]
It is the mascot of Hufflepuff House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Uric the Oddball once turned up for a presentation before the Wizards' Council wearing nothing but a toupee that turned out to be a dead badger, after listening to a Fwooper's song continuously for three months.
There is a spell that can transfigure a cauldron into a badger. One could turn a human into a bager.
It is a known corporeal form of the Patronus Charm.[2]
Behind the scenes
In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 a badger is sitting in Rubeus Hagrid's hut and reading the Daily Prophet when the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures arrives.
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Statue), (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game) (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Engraving on cup) (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Hufflepuff sign)
- Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book (Hogwarts crest)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
- Pottermore (Appears as a Patronus)
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Hufflepuff sign)
Notes and references
- ↑ "Badger" on Wikipedia
- ↑ Patronus Charm (see this image)