FILIUS FLITWICK, CHARMS MASTER & CHORUS DIRECTOR

Professor Filius Flitwick

Today, The Stones and The Grandma have received the visit of one of the nicest people of Hogwarts, Professor Filius Flitwick, a British Half-goblin wizard sorted into Ravenclaw House. 

He is the Charms Master, the Head of Ravenclaw House, the director of the chorus and a Duelling Champion.

Professor Filius Flitwick is a British Half-goblin wizard who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Ravenclaw House, being an intelligent young man and a model student. Some time after his graduation, Flitwick returned to Hogwarts and became the Charms Master, as well as the Head of Ravenclaw House.

During the First and Second Wizarding Wars, Flitwick opposed Lord Voldemort. He also opposed Dolores Umbridge, the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, and fought at the Battle of the Astronomy Tower. He also protected the students from the Carrows. He partook in the Battle of Hogwarts and defeated many Death Eaters.

He survived the war, and likely continued to teach Charms at Hogwarts to future generations of students.

Filius Flitwick was born somewhere in the British Isles into a wizarding family with the distant descent of a goblin, which accounted for his short stature. 

Prejudged and foredoomed from an early age because of his ancestral connection to a different breed of being that was both regarded and treated as second-class citizens by much of the wizarding community, by the time young Filius began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he was already used to being judged by strangers.

Brave in the face of adversity, however, whilst Flitwick once admitted to having been subjected to scrutiny from those around him from the minute he set his foot inside the castle, the future professor carried his burden remarkably well.

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Wise beyond his years and rather thick-skinned, he eventually came to regard those who judged him as ignorant rather than malevolent, reasoning that most people simply want those around them to be simple so that they would be easier to understand, as opposed to simply acknowledge the fact that people are complex.

In this, he indirectly proved himself to be correct. During his sorting ceremony, when the Sorting Hat wavered between putting him in Ravenclaw or Gryffindor before it ultimately chose the former, though, as the decision took less than five minutes, Flitwick was not a true Hatstall.

At some point, he asked the Grey Lady about the whereabouts of Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, which was rumoured to grant the wearer wisdom. However, she denied revealing the information.

Professor Filius Flitwick

Professor Filius Flitwick

To his unknowing that she had already revealed it to a teenage Tom Riddle and later went on to tell Harry Potter during the Battle of Hogwarts. 

It was also mentioned that Flitwick, being a model student with nothing to hide, never entered or used the Room of Hidden Things in the Room of Requirement. It is likely that he achieved a high graded O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. in Charms, as later in his life he went on to teach this subject for over thirty years.

He also may have taken exams in Defence Against the Dark Arts, as he became a Master Duellist sometime after leaving the school.

After completing his Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests in his seventh year, Flitwick graduated from Hogwarts and then proceeded to become a Master Duellist and earned the title of Duelling Champion at some point, and has a shelf full of trophies to prove it. It is also likely Flitwick studied further into magic, becoming an accomplished wizard, masterful in spells, charms, and defensive magic, and even possibly earning the title of Doctor, and becoming a fully-fledged and educated sorcerer before beginning his teaching career back at Hogwarts.

Flitwick taught charms to Lily Evans, Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and Severus Snape. He also taught many others during this time as well.

Flitwick administered the Theory of Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L. He walked between the hundreds of small desks in the Great Hall during the exam and, once their time was up, ordered the students to put down their quills, but had to tell a pupil named Stebbins twice before they put their down. 

Flitwick then used a Summoning Charm to collect in the papers, but was knocked over onto the floor when the hundred scrolls of parchments zoomed into his outstretched arms.

Flitwick, due to his goblin blood, was particularly short and frequently described as tiny little Professor Flitwick. He had a shock of white hair in his elderly years and brown when he was younger. Also when he was young, he usually wore black clothes and suits as opposed to the green robes that he wore in his later years.

Filius is Latin for son, and the filius philosophorum, meaning the philosophers' son is a symbol in alchemy, sometimes associated with the philosopher's stone.

The surname Flitwick may come from the Charms professor's own advice for wand movement swish and flick.

Flitwick is also the name of an English town, pronounced Flittick. To flit is to move quickly from location to another. A wick is a loosely woven strand of fabric or fibres, often used in a candle or oil lamp.

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No! You'll do no more murder at Hogwarts!

Filius Flitwick