Circe

Circe
Biographical information
Born	Ancient Greece
Physical information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Brown
Skin color	Tanned

Circe (Greek: Κίρκη) was a witch, who lived in ancient Greece, specifically the island of Aeaea. She enjoyed transfiguring lost sailors into pigs.

Circe was featured on a Chocolate Frog Card. Harry Potter obtained this card from a Chocolate Frog on his first trip to Hogwarts in 1991. There was a portrait of Circe at Hogwarts Castle. It guarded a secret shortcut between the fourth-floor landing of the Grand Staircase and the Entrance Hall side room. The password required to gain access to said shortcut was "Piggywiggy".

Magical ablities and skills

• Transfiguration: Circe was proficient in the human to pig spell.

Behind the scenes

• Circe was a minor goddess in Greek mythology, said to transform sailors lost around her island of Aeaea into animals via the use of enchanted food. She is perhaps most well known as a figure in Homer's Odyssey, where the hero Odysseus spent a year on her island after freeing his shipmates from her spells.
• Circe is also present in the Percy Jackson Series, but instead of turning men into Pigs she turns them in to guinea pigs.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (Appears in portrait(s))
• Pottermore (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)