British author J. K. Rowling is the author of the Harry Potter series, which comprises seven fantasy books. Harry Potter, a young wizard, and his classmates Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, also Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry students, are the focus of the novels. The primary plot line revolves around Harry's battle with Lord Voldemort, a wicked wizard who seeks to control all wizards and Muggles, become immortal, and topple the Ministry of Magic, the organization that oversees wizards.
The books were adapted into a film series in which author J.K. Rowling worked closely with the production team. The film series consists of eight films with the same titles as the novels, with the last book split into two parts.
List of deaths in the Harry Potter series
Deaths in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Character
Killed by
Cause of Death
Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (Nearly-Headless Nick)
Muggle executioner
Botched beheading
Cuthbert Binns
-
Natural causes
Marlene McKinnon and her family
Multiple Death Eaters (including Travers)
Possibly murdered by unknown means on Lord Voldemort's orders
Edgar Bones (and his wife and children)
Death Eaters
Gideon Prewett
5 Death Eaters (including Antonin Dolohov)
Fabian Prewett
James Potter
Lord Voldemort
Killing Curse
Lily Potter
2 Unicorns
Quirinus Quirrell (influenced by Lord Voldemort's soul)
Mauling
Quirinus Quirrell
Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort
Lily's selfless defense of Harry and Voldemort's soul's abandonment of Quirrell.
Deaths in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Character
Killed by
Cause of Death
Merope Riddle
Natural causes
Childbirth
Myrtle Warren
Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk
Straight eye contact with the Basilisk.
Armando Dippet
-
Old Age
Rubeus Hagrid's chickens
Ginevra Weasley (influenced by Tom Riddle's Diary)
Strangulation
The Serpent of Slytherin
Harry Potter
Stabbed with Godric Gryffindor's Sword
Tom Riddle's Diary (Voldemort's 1st Horcrux)
Harry Potter
Impaled with Basilisk's fang
Deaths in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Character
Killed by
Cause of Death
12 Muggles
Peter Pettigrew
Blasting Curse
Bilius
Not Specified
Not Specified
Binky (a pet rabbit)
Fox
Mauling
Hagrid's Flobberworms
Hagrid's third-year class
Overfeeding
Unknown bluebird
Whomping Willow
Flying too close
Deaths in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Character
Killed by
Cause of Death
Rubeus Hagrid's father
Unknown
Unknown
Tom Riddle Snr
Tom Riddle
Killing curse
Thomas Riddle
Mary Riddle
Mrs Crouch
-
Unknown Illness
Evan Rosier
Alastor Moody
Unknown
Wilkes
Unspecified Aurors
Bertha Jorkins
Lord Voldemort
Killing curse
Frank Bryce
Spider
Barty Crouch Jnr (posing as Alastor Moody)
Barty Crouch Snr
Cedric Diggory
Peter Pettigrew (as per Lord Voldemort's orders)
Deaths in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Character
Killed by
Cause of Death
Dean Thomas' father
Death Eaters
Slain by unknown means
Benjy Fenwick
Blasted into fragments by a curse.
Dorcas Meadowes
Lord Voldemort
Unknown
Pandora Lovegood
Herself (by accident)
Spell backfired
Karkus
Another giant, Golgomath
Decapitation
Broderick Bode
Walden Macnair
Strangled with Devil's Snare
Sirius Black
Bellatrix Lestrange
Fell through the Veil after a spell by Bellatrix
Deaths in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Character
Killed by
Cause of Death
Marvolo Gaunt
-
Inability to look after himself
Morfin Gaunt
-
Azkaban
Muggle tramp
Tom Riddle
Unspecified, possibly killing curse
Hepzibah Smith
Poison
Albanian peasant
Unspecified, possibly killing curse
Amelia Bones
Lord Voldemort
Unknown means
Emmeline Vance
Death Eaters
Florean Fortescue
Igor Karkaroff
Mrs Abbott
A fly
Cormac McLaggen
Crumbled by hand
Montgomery
Fenrir Greyback
Mauling
Aragog
-
Old age, sickness
Gibbon
Fellow Death Eater, Thorfinn Rowle (by accident)
Killing curse
Albus Dumbledore
Severus Snape (secretly under Albus' orders)
Deaths in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Character
Killed by
Cause of Death
Helena Ravenclaw (The Grey Lady)
Bloody Baron
Stabbed
Bloody Baron
Himself
Antioch Peverell's enemy
Antioch Peverell
Unspecified, possibly Killing Curse
Antioch Peverell
Antioch Peverell's killer
Slit throat
Cadmus Peverell's fiancée
-
Unspecified
Cadmus Peverell
Himself
Hanging
Ignotus Peverell
-
Natural causes
Percival Dumbledore
Azkaban
Unspecified
Kendra Dumbledore
Ariana Dumbledore (by accident)
Killed when her daughter's magic became unchecked.
Ariana Dumbledore
Unspecified; either Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, or Aberforth Dumbledore
Unknown spell, probably a Killing Curse
Regulus Black
Inferi
Drowned
Octavius Pepper
Death Eaters
Unknown
Charity Burbage
Lord Voldemort
Killing curse
Hedwig
Death Eater
Alastor Moody
Lord Voldemort
Rufus Scrimgeour
Unnamed German-speaking family: a woman and two children
Mykew Gregorovitch
Bathilda Bagshot
Nagini
Mauling
Gellert Grindelwald
Lord Voldemort
Killing curse
Ted Tonks
Snatchers
Unknown / Various
Dirk Cresswell
Gornuk
Peter Pettigrew
Killed by his magical prosthetic hand (thus Lord Voldemort, indirectly).
Strangulation
Dobby
Bellatrix Lestrange
Deep wound by Bellatrix's thrown knife
Bogrod
Ukrainian Ironbelly at Gringotts
Burnt to death
Unnamed Goblin
Lord Voldemort
Killing curse
Many goblins, including Griphook, Gringotts Guards, and Death Eaters
Many Snatchers
Staff of Hogwarts who use the castle's defensive shielding charms
Defensive shielding spells including Protego horribilis
Scabior and more Snatchers
Neville Longbottom
The crumbling of the Wooden Bridge
Vincent Crabbe
Himself (by accident)
Fiendfyre
Fred Weasley
Unknown
Explosion
Remus Lupin
Antonin Dolohov
Unspecified / probably Killing Curses
Nymphadora Tonks
Bellatrix Lestrange
Lavender Brown
Fenrir Greyback
Werewolf Attack, Later succumbed to wounds.
Unidentified female Hogwarts teacher
Unknown death eaters
Unspecified / probably Killing Curses
Colin Creevey
Severus Snape
Nagini (Lord Voldemort's order)
Exsanguination
Nagini
Neville Longbottom
Decapitated with Godric Gryffindor's sword
Bellatrix Lestrange
Molly Weasley
An unknown curse struck directly over her heart
Tom Riddle aka Lord Voldemort
Harry Potter/Himself/The Elder Wand which acknowledged Harry as its true master
His own rebounding Killing Curse, Harry's skill with the Elder Wand, and the destruction of his Horcruxes.
Several Death Eaters
Unknown / Various
Unknown / Various
Unidentified fallen fifty of the Battle of Hogwarts
