
Lucius Malfoy
Name comes from the root of Lucifer

Bellatrix LeStrange
Name means female warrior

Draco Malfoy
Name comes from the word for dragon

Luna Lovegood
Name comes from the Latin word for moon

Sirius Black
Name comes from the “Dog Star”

Narcissa Malfoy
Name comes from a youth in love with his own face

Andromeda Tonks
Name comes the princess saved by Perseus

Nymphadora Tonks
Name comes from the Greek wood sprites

Regulus Black
Name comes from another star

Xenophilius Lovegood
Name means lover of the strange in Greek

Cornelius Fudge
Ministry of Magic head whose name comes from a famous Roman clan name

Voldemort
Name comes from the Latin roots “flight from death”

Victor Krum
Name comes from the Latin American root for winner

Albus Dumbledore
Name comes from the Latin word for white

Severus Snape
Name comes from the Latin word for strict

Minerva McGonigall
Name derives from the Roman goddess of wisdom

Pomona Sprout
Name comes from the Roman goddess of fruit

Filius Flitwick
Name comes from the Latin word for son

Sibyll Trelawney
Name comes from the prophet at the Delphic Oracle

Rubeus Hagrid
Name comes from the Latin word for red

Argus Filch
Name comes from the Greek monster with one hundred eyes

Quirinius Quirrell
Name comes from the alternative name for the Roman god Janus

Aurora Sinistra
Name comes from the Roman goddess of dawn

Septima Vector
Name comes from the Latin word for seventh

Horace Slughorn
Name derives from a famous Latin poet

Remus Lupin
Name derived from that of Romulus’s brother

Poppy Pomfrey
Name derived from the Latin word papaver

Alecto Carrow
Name derived from one of the Greek Furies

Amycus Carrow
Name derived from a centaur who was a glutton for punishment

Dolores Umbridge
Name derived from the Latin word for sorrows

Charity Burbage
Name derived from the Latin word for love of humanity

Severus Snape
Professor of Potions (first through fifth years); Defense against Dark Arts (sixth year); Headmaster (seventh year)

Minerva McGonigall
Professor of Transfiguration

Albus Dumbledore
Headmaster (first through beginning of fifth year)

Rubeus Hagrid
Professor of Care of Magical Creatures

Quirinius Quirrell
Professor of Defense against Dark Arts (first year)

Sibyll Trelawney
Professor of Divination

Argus Filch
Caretaker

Remus Lupin
Professor of Defense against the Dark Arts (third year)

Filius Flitwick
Professor of Charms

Pomona Sprout
Professor of Herbology

Gilderoy Lockhart
Professor of Defense against the Dark Arts (second year)

Aurora Sinistra
Professor of Astronomy

Poppy Pomfrey
Matron/Healing Magic

Horace Slughorn
Professor of Potions (sixth year)

Septima Vector
Professor of Arithmancy

Alastair Moody
Professor of Defense against the Dark Arts (fourth year)

Charity Burbage
Professor of Muggle Studies (first through sixth years)

Dolores Umbridge
Professor of Defense against the Dark Arts (fifth year); Headmistress (sixth year)

Amycus Carrow
Professor of Defense against the Dark Arts (seventh year)

Alecto Carrew
Professor of Muggle Studies