Grandfather clock

A grandfather clock is a clock in a tall, free-standing wooden case, driven by weights.

History

There was a grandfather clock by the entrance to the Gryffindor Common Room.

In 1993, Remus Lupin told his Defence Against the Dark Arts class that he once found a boggart in a grandfather clock.

In 1994, inside the Riddle House, there was a grandfather clock that was covered in a few cobwebs.

In August 1995, Lupin helped Sirius Black, Harry Potter, and the Weasleys repair a grandfather clock at 12 Grimmauld Place that had developed the habit of shooting heavy bolts at passers-by.

In June 1996, while Dumbledore's Army infiltrated the Department of Mysteries, Harry stunned a Death Eater, who fell back into a grandfather clock (one of many) inside the Time Room. Another Death Eater began to topple grandfather clocks and overturn desks after his head de-aged into a baby's.

In July 1996, when Harry accompanied Albus Dumbledore to Budleigh Babberton, Harry found a splintered grandfather clock with its face cracked. This was part of Horace Slughorn's scheme to evade the Death Eaters by pretending he had already been attacked and carried off, and the clock was presumably repaired alongside the other damage Slughorn did to the squat.

Percival Shacklehorn had a grandfather clock in his tent, in which Laura Thorn hid after a Mountain Troll appeared.

Behind the scenes

• The Weasley Clock is described as a grandfather clock in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but Molly Weasley later begins to carry the clock around with her in Half-Blood Prince, and Harry notes that the clock used to hang on the wall at the Burrow; it therefore cannot be a grandfather clock.
• In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Frank Bryce finds a grandfather clock inside the Riddle House that is covered in cobwebs when he points his torch to it.
• Remus Lupin does not specify where the boggart's grandfather clock was, but it probably wasn't the grandfather clock in 12 Grimmauld Place; Lupin, a half-blood and a werewolf, would not have been welcome in that house until his friend Sirius Black took possession in the summer of 1995. It might have been the grandfather clock outside Gryffindor Tower, or (more likely) it was an otherwise insignificant grandfather clock in another location.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World