- Leta Lestrange: "Oh, no, Yaxley. I hate the way he makes a beeline for me every time."
- Theseus Scamander: "Well, if you insist on being the most beautiful woman in the room."
- Leta Lestrange: "It's not that, and you know it. It's all blood with Yaxley."
- — Leta Lestrange and Theseus Scamander[src]
Yaxley was a British wizard born into the prominent pure-blood Yaxley family, and a proponent of pure-blood values.[2]
Biography[]
- "Return, great avenger, with wings, from the water. Congratulations, Leta. Your brother lives. We all truly believe it."
- — Yaxley in Leta's ear[src]
Yaxley with Shafiq, his wife, and Theseus
In 1927, Yaxley attended a wizarding ball and was busy socialising with Shafiq when the pair was greeted by Theseus Scamander. Scamander embraced Shafiq and then shook hands with Yaxley as he introduced him to his wife. Scamander's fiancée Leta Lestrange kept her distance from Yaxley as she disliked his behaviour of bee-lining towards her due to her blood status as a pure-blood. A short while later, as Leta was wandering the party alone, Yaxley came up to her and quoted from The Predictions of Tycho Dodonus, expressing his belief that her brother had indeed survived the sinking of the ship.[2]
Around a decade later, he and his kinsmen became proud members of the Sacred Twenty-Eight in the Pure-Blood Directory.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
- Yaxley is played by Adam Ewan in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
- By an apparent transcription mistake, some sources, including Ewan's IMDb profile, list the character's name as "Yarwood".[3]
- Following this, according to the French Harry Potter Wiki whom interviewed Adam Ewan, eventually finding out that during filming the name used was Yarwood but was Yaxley during release.[4]
- It is likely that Yaxley was related to Lysandra Yaxley . He may have even been her brother.
Appearances[]
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (First appearance) (Appears in deleted scene(s))
