Theodore Nott is a "weedy-looking boy" in Slytherin House, but is not friends with Malfoy and other Slytherin students. His father, Nott Sr., is a very elderly widower and was once a Death Eater. Following the events of the 1994 Triwizard Tournament, Theodore can be seen in the library with Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle and Draco Malfoy, looking very angry at Harry as he walked by because Harry had named all of their fathers as Death Eaters in The Quibbler. Theodore is considered a "a clever loner who does not feel the need to join any gang, including Malfoy's." Nott, however, has been seen sitting and talking with Malfoy in the Library and sniggering with him in Horace Slughorn's Potions class in his sixth year.
Nott is the only known Slytherin of Harry Potter's year who can see Thestrals, meaning he has seen someone die, namely his mother. His father and Horace Slughorn are old friends, and while on the Hogwarts Express, Slughorn waylays Blaise Zabini and inquires after Theodore and Mr. Nott. Zabini answers that Nott Sr. is a Death Eater currently imprisoned in Azkaban for breaking into the Department of Mysteries the previous June. Slughorn, not wanting any association with Death Eaters, is not pleased and thus invites Blaise instead of Nott into his "Slug Club."
Cut Subplot
A subplot that Rowling eventually cut from the series storyline was to have featured Malfoy and Nott talking in the garden of Malfoy Manor, which would have been one of the few times that Malfoy would be seen conversing with someone he considered an equal, as Rowling has said that Nott is just as pureblooded as Malfoy and somewhat cleverer[1]
Appearences
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince