Glanmore Peakes

Glanmore Peakes (1677-1761) was a Scottish wizard notorious for having slain the Sea Serpent of Cromer.

Biography
Peakes was born in 1677, in Scotland, Great Britain. It is likely that he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1688 to 1695.

Sometime after graduating, Peakes killed the Sea Serpent of Cromer, a sea serpent that lived off the shores of Cromer, Norfolk. This led to his having a Famous Wizard Card fashioned depicting him.

There was a corridor named after him on the sixth floor of Hogwarts Castle. There was also a bust of Glanmore by the door to his corridor, as well as a portrait of him inside said corridor. . There was also a set of portraits of Peakes hiding a secret passage between the sixth-floor landing of the Grand Staircase and the Entrance Hall side room. The password to said passage was "Sea Serpent".

Behind the scenes

 * In the PS2/XBOX version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Glanmore Peakes's portrait speaks in a pronounced Scottish accent.
 * Glanmore may be related to Jimmy Peakes, a student who attended Hogwarts from 1994 to 2001.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)