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Captain


"This gives you equal status with prefects! You can use our special bathroom now and everything."
— Hermione Granger to Harry Potter regarding his awarding of Quidditch Captaincy.[src]
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Captain is a rank and title used to signify the leader of various positions and groups in both the Muggle and wizarding worlds.

History

The Tales of Beedle the Bard was written in the 15th century and featured a character called the Captain of the Brigade of Witch-Hunters.[1]

The wizard Abraham Leslie McCracken was captain of his own ship during the 16th century when he sailed from the New World to Europe.[2]

The title of Quidditch Captain was in use at Hogwarts during at least the 17th century, as Astrix Alixan was the Quidditch Captain of Gryffindor Quidditch team in 1688.[3] In the 20th century, both the Hogwarts Duelling Club and the Hogwarts Gobstones Team also had captains, the latter position of which was held by Eileen Prince in the 1940s.[4][5]

By the 1920s there was a position in the Magical Congress of the United States of America called the Captain of Aurors, which was held by M. P. Carneirus.[6]

Known Captains

Appearances

Notes and References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Tales of Beedle the Bard, "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, Season 7: Black Lake Lullaby
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Harry Potter: The Exhibition (see this image and this image)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 25 (The Seer Overheard)
  5. ↑ Eileen's sixth-year Potions book was published "around" fifty years prior to 1996 (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 16 (A Very Frosty Christmas)). Assuming she purchased it new in 1946 and assuming she was sixteen at the time, she would have been born around 1930, although she may have bought a used copy or purchased it earlier.
  6. ↑ The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (see this image)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey, p. 349 (see this image)
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Pottermore for Playstation Home (see this image)
  10. ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Side Quest "Nearly Headless Nick"
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 See this image of a prop used in the films on display as part of Harry Potter: The Exhibition.
  12. ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 13 (Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw)
  13. ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  14. ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 11 (Quidditch)
  15. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 12 (Professor Umbridge) - "And without waiting for an answer, 'Listen, I've been made Gryffindor Quidditch Captain.'"
  16. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 19 (The Lion and the Serpent)
  17. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Quidditch Season 3, Chapter 10 (Fair Game)
  19. ↑ Hogwarts Legacy (see this video)
  20. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 14 (Felix Felicis)
  21. ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  22. ↑ "Wizards, Witches and Beings: B" on the Harry Potter Lexicon
  23. ↑ Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter 7 (Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireland)
  24. ↑ Quidditch Through the Ages
  25. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Castelobruxo" at Harry Potter (website)
  26. ↑ 26.00 26.01 26.02 26.03 26.04 26.05 26.06 26.07 26.08 26.09 26.10 26.11 Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup
  27. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 4 (Horace Slughorn)
  28. ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Side Quest "More Than Just a Mascot"
  29. ↑ Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Professor McGonagall" at Harry Potter (website)
  30. ↑ Pottermore - Quidditch World Cup 1990 - 2014 (Archived)
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
  32. ↑ Harry Potter: Wizards Unite - "Brilliant Event: Into the Fire"
  33. ↑ J. K. Rowling's official site
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
  35. ↑ The Case of Beasts: Explore the Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (see this image)
  36. ↑ Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World, Case 12: Lost at Sea

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