Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (character index)

This is an index of characters that were introduced in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

The order that the characters are seen or mentioned is from the American version of the book. In other languages, the order may or may not be different.

Chapter One: The Other Minister

 * President of foreign country
 * Prime Minister's political opponent
 * Herbert Chorley
 * Prime Minister's niece
 * Prime Minister's personal secretary
 * Chancellor of the Exchequer

Chapter Two: Spinner's End

 * Fox near Spinner's End
 * Yaxley
 * Amycus Carrow
 * Alecto Carrow
 * Fenrir Greyback

Chapter Four: Horace Slughorn

 * Horace Slughorn
 * Dirk Cresswell
 * Barnabus Cuffe
 * Ciceron Harkiss
 * Gwenog Jones

Chapter Five: An Excess of Phlegm

 * No new characters are introduced in this chapter.

Chapter Six: Draco's Detour

 * Arkie Philpott
 * Ministry of Magic Car Driver
 * Amulet Salesman
 * Verity
 * Arnold

Chapter Seven: The Slug Club

 * Unidentified Aurors
 * Romilda Vane
 * Unidentified third year girl
 * Cormac McLaggen
 * Marcus Belby
 * Damocles
 * Mr. Belby
 * Tiberius
 * Bertie Higgs
 * Blaise Zabini's mother

Chapter Eight: Snape Victorious

 * Proudfoot
 * Savage

Chapter Nine: The Half-Blood Prince

 * Unidentified Gryffindor fourth year boy
 * Libatius Borage
 * Hector Dagworth-Granger
 * Abraxas Malfoy

Chapter Ten: The House of Gaunt

 * Humphrey Belcher
 * Bob Ogden
 * Marvolo Gaunt
 * Morfin Gaunt
 * Merope Gaunt
 * Tom Riddle Sr.
 * Cecilia
 * Tom Riddle's chestnut horse

Chapter Eleven: Hermione's Helping Hand

 * Mr. Patil
 * Mrs. Patil
 * Mr. Midgen
 * Mrs. Abbott
 * Demelza Robins
 * Jimmy Peakes
 * Ritchie Coote
 * Melinda Bobbin

Chapter Twelve: Silver and Opals

 * Leanne

Chapter Thirteen: The Secret Riddle

 * Caractacus Burke
 * Unidentified Wool's Orphanage girl
 * Mrs. Cole
 * Martha
 * Billy Stubbs
 * Eric Whalley
 * Billy Stubbs's Rabbit
 * Amy Benson
 * Dennis Bishop

Chapter Fourteen: Felix Felicis

 * Muriel
 * Vaisey
 * Urquhart
 * Harper

Chapter Fifteen: The Unbreakable Vow

 * Romilda Vane's grandmother
 * Eldred Worple
 * Sanguini

Chapter Sixteen: A Very Frosty Christmas

 * Gawain Robards

Chapter Seventeen: A Sluggish Memory

 * Fergus
 * Galatea Merrythought
 * Lestrange
 * Avery

Chapter Eighteen: Birthday Surprises

 * Golpalott
 * Scarpin
 * Wilkie Twycross

Chapter Nineteen: Elf Tails

 * Unidentifed Hufflepuff Captain
 * Cadwallader

Chapter Twenty: Lord Voldemort's Request

 * Hokey
 * Hepzibah Smith
 * Hepzibah Smith's Family
 * Rosier
 * Mulciber

Chapter Twenty-one: The Unknowable Room

 * Octavius Pepper
 * Unidentified nine-year old
 * Unidentified nine-year old's grandparents

Chapter Twenty-two: After the Burial

 * Montgomery sisters
 * Montgomery
 * Montgomery sisters' mother
 * Odo

Chapter Twenty-three: Horcruxes

 * No new characters are introduced in this chapter.

Chapter Twenty-four: Sectumsempra

 * Katie Bell's father
 * Katie Bell's mother
 * Bertram Aubrey

Chapter Twenty-five: The Seer Overheard
No new characters appear in this chapter.

Chapter Twenty-six: The Cave

 * Inferi Army of Lord Voldemort

Chapter Twenty-seven: The Lightning Struck Tower

 * No new characters are introduced in this chapter.

Chapter Twenty-eight: Flight of the Prince

 * Thorfinn Rowle

Chapter Twenty-nine: Phoenix Lament

 * Gibbon

Chapter Thirty: The White Tomb

 * Zacharias Smith's father
 * Rosalind Antigone Bungs
 * Rupert Brookstanton
 * Ceremony official