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| Mundungus Fletcher |
Today, The Stones and The Grandma have known the stories of Mundungus Fletcher and Griphook, two controversial characters of Magic World.
Mundungus Fletcher is a half-blood wizard who was involved in many illegal activities and Griphook is a goblin who worked at Gringotts Wizarding Bank in Diagon Alley. Both of them betrayed their friends.
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Mundungus Dung Fletcher is a half-blood wizard who was involved in many illegal activities, having a notoriously disreputable reputation as a petty criminal.
However, despite his illicit dealings, he was one of the original members of the Order of the Phoenix, a group dedicated to fighting Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
Despite this, many members of the Order had mixed feelings about him; however, he was very loyal to the Order's head, Albus Dumbledore, who once got Fletcher out of serious trouble.
Very little is known of Mundungus's early life, although it is known that he was born in Great Britain or Ireland to the Fletcher family.
When he was eleven years old, he received a wand, and attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for seven years. It is unknown even to the Ministry of Magic which House he was Sorted into, for reasons unknown.
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| Mundungus Fletcher |
Mundungus joined the newly-founded Order of the Phoenix.
He was disliked and mistrusted by most of the other members due his very poor reputation as a criminal, but was fiercely loyal to Albus Dumbledore after Dumbledore had helped him out of a bit of trouble. His acquaintances in the figurative underworld proved to be quite useful in gaining information for the Order.
Mundungus offended Aberforth Dumbledore and was subsequently permanently banned from the Hog's Head Inn.
He was disliked and mistrusted by most of the other members due his very poor reputation as a criminal, but was fiercely loyal to Albus Dumbledore after Dumbledore had helped him out of a bit of trouble. His acquaintances in the figurative underworld proved to be quite useful in gaining information for the Order.
Mundungus offended Aberforth Dumbledore and was subsequently permanently banned from the Hog's Head Inn.
Mundungus Fletcher got the Marauder's Map by trading it with someone at Hogwarts. He was later attacked and the map got stolen from him by the attacker. He was also attacked by someone in white robes, although this was a separate attack.
When Professor Albus Dumbledore learned of the Return of the Dark Lord, he demanded of Sirius Black that the old crowd be alerted to the incident, specifically naming Mundungus, Remus Lupin and Arabella Figg.
With the return of Lord Voldemort, Mundungus rejoined the Order of the Phoenix, but preferred to carry out business deals on stolen goods.
Mundungus was supposed to be watching Harry Potter but instead decided to go off to buy some stolen cauldrons. When he returned to his post, he was shouted at and attacked by Arabella Figg for deserting his duties.
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Mundungus stayed for supper that night at 12 Grimmauld Place, the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix, much against the wishes of Molly Weasley, who blamed him for the earlier desertion of his post. Apparently, Mundungus had been clearing valuables out of the headquarters of the Order and selling them.
Harry caught Fletcher
red-handed in Hogsmeade selling Black family silver to the bartender of
the Hog's Head, which had been stolen from Sirius' house; these items
and the entire residence at 12 Grimmauld Place were left to Harry in
Sirius' will.
Harry confronted him
using physical force before Mundungus disapparated and went into hiding.
His exact whereabouts were a mystery, but it was later noted in the
Daily Prophet that he had been arrested and sent to Azkaban for
impersonating an Inferius. He likely escaped during the mass breakout
described by Kingsley Shacklebolt.
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| Ron, Harry, Dobby, Kreacher, Hermione & Mundungus |
Fletcher presumably went into hiding after his encounter with the trio at Grimmauld Place.
He was not known to have taken part in the Battle of Hogwarts, but it is possible that he did, without being noticed by Harry Potter.
If he survived the war, he probably returned to his affairs as a disliked dealer of artefacts.
He was not known to have taken part in the Battle of Hogwarts, but it is possible that he did, without being noticed by Harry Potter.
If he survived the war, he probably returned to his affairs as a disliked dealer of artefacts.
Mundungus was a short wizard with bandy legs and long, straggly ginger hair. He had bloodshot, baggy brown eyes and rarely shaved. His hands were quite grubby, and he was noted to have a particularly strong bodily odour of tobacco and alcohol.
Mundungus was a petty and unscrupulous criminal, specialising in committing petty crimes to make as much profit as he could. He always took valuable things from wherever he went, such as 12 Grimmauld Place. After Sirius Black's death, Mundungus stole his possessions, including Salazar Slytherin's Locket. He was also somewhat cowardly, as he abandoned Alastor Moody during the Battle of the Seven Potters.
Mundungus appeared to be braver than people such as Peter Pettigrew. Though he had a tendency to flee when the situation seemed grim, he never actually turned against the Order of the Phoenix. Also, his crimes mainly included stealing and robbing, never harming or killing others, meaning he was capable of compassion and decency. He was capable of loyalty and repaying debts, if only to Dumbledore.
Mundungus is an obsolete term for a malodorous tobacco.
A fletcher is an arrow-maker; one of his ancestors in the male line may have made arrows.
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The so-called Inferius was nothing but a smelly sneak
thief by the name of Mundungus Fletcher.
Severus Snape
Griphook is a goblin who worked at Gringotts Wizarding Bank in Diagon Alley. He would later go on the run during the height of the Second Wizarding War following the fall of the Ministry of Magic and the raise of Lord Voldemort's new regime. He would later assist Harry Potter in his break-in of Gringotts in order to obtain Helga Hufflepuff's Cup.
However, despite being rescued by them, Griphook's general mistrust of wizardkind resulted in him betraying Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger when he believed they would not hand him the Sword of Gryffindor after destroying the Cup and other Horcruxes.
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| Griphook |
This eventually resulted in his own downfall when the Goblins reported the Cup's theft to Lord Voldemort, who subsequently slaughtered all of them, including Griphook, in a fit of rage.
Griphook worked for Gringotts Wizarding Bank.
Griphook tasked his subordinate, the Curse-Breaker Bill Weasley with retrieving a golden dragon egg forged by the infamous goblin blacksmith Urgruff the Unwary, as it was residing with a mother dragon who had purloined it from him after she mistook it for one of her own eggs.
After the Curse-Breaker managed to successfully procure it with help from his brother and friends, Griphook requested that they regale him with the story of their adventure, and, after learning that one of Bill's accomplices, Jacob's sibling, had single-handedly subdued a Hungarian Horntail, proposed that they join Gringotts as a Curse-Breaker after graduating from Hogwarts.
He took Harry Potter and Rubeus Hagrid to vaults 687 and 713.
Griphook went on the run after the fall of the Ministry of Magic to Lord Voldemort's Death Eaters, because the Ministry of Magic placed wizards in control of the goblins and he refused to acknowledge any wizard as his master.
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However, he had a last laugh when he was assigned to put Godric Gryffindor's Sword in Bellatrix Lestrange's vault. He noticed that the sword was a fake, but decided not to reveal that information to Bellatrix, as not to help the Death Eaters.
Harry soon came to Griphook to ask him to assist them in breaking into Gringotts to steal the Horcrux that was in Bellatrix's vault. Because of his favourable impression of Harry Potter, and Hermione Granger pointing out that all magical beings were united in resisting Lord Voldemort, Griphook agreed to help them -in exchange for the Sword of Gryffindor.
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| Griphook with Harry, Ron & Hermione |
Griphook considered it goblin property, claiming that Godric Gryffindor had stolen it from Ragnuk, the maker of the sword. Harry reluctantly agreed.
However, Griphook's mistrust of wizards in general, and his feelings that goblin-made artefacts should be returned to Goblins once the original purchaser had died, led him to suspect that Harry Potter would not keep his word and relinquish the sword.
During the break-in, he managed to get hold of the sword, then fled into the caves calling for help to deal with thieves. Despite his betrayal, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger escaped with Helga Hufflepuff's Cup, now a Horcrux, flying out on a Ukrainian Ironbelly dragon used to guard high security vaults.
Being a goblin, Griphook severely distrusted wizardkind and hated wizarding arrogance, stemming from the fact that goblins had been treated brutally by wizards in the past.
Griphook had a somewhat barbaric and savage personality as he enjoyed the idea of pain in lesser creatures, was eager to harm wizards and showed pleasure at the idea of checking once every ten years if anyone was trapped inside Vault 713.
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As the Dark Lord becomes ever more powerful,
your race is set still more firmly above mine!
Gringotts falls under Wizarding rule, house-elves are slaughtered,
and who amongst the wand-carriers protests?
Griphook
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