Gondoline Oliphant

Gondoline Oliphant (1720-1799) was a witch made famous for studying the life and habits of trolls. In 1799, she was clubbed to death in the Cotswolds while sketching. ^[1]

There was a bust of her at Hogwarts Castle, on a secret passage leading from the fourth floor to the second floor. ^[2]

Etymology[]

The surname Oliphant is derived from an archaic English word for "elephant." J.R.R. Tolkien included huge, elephant-like creatures known as oliphaunts in his novel The Lord of the Rings.
The name Gondoline is perhaps a further nod to Tolkien: in the Silmarillion, there was an Elven city called Gondolin, which remained hidden for centuries before being destroyed.

Appearances[]

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 on a Famous Wizard Card)
Wizard of the Month
Pottermore

Notes and references[]

↑ Wizard of the Month
↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - PS2 version

Chocolate Frog Cards

Gold cards: Alguff the Awful \| Amarillo Lestoat \| Armando Dippet \| Albus Dumbledore \| Babayaga \| Barberus Bragge \| Bertie Bott \| Billywig \| Blodwyn Bludd \| Bowtruckle \| Bran the Bloodthirsty \| Carlotta Pinkstone \| Carmilla Sanguina \| Common Welsh Green \| Cyclops \| Cordelia Misericordia \| Double-ended Newt \| Doxy \| Dzou Yen \| Eargit the Ugly \| Giant Purple Toad \| Giant Squid \| Goliath \| Gringott \| Godric Gryffindor \| Gytrash \| Hermione Granger \| Hebridean Black \| Hengist of Upper Barnton \| Herbert Varney \| Herpo the Foul \| Helga Hufflepuff \| Harry Potter \| Hungarian Horntail \| Imp \| Kelpie \| Leticia Somnolens \| Montague Knightley \| Malodora Grymm \| Manticore \| Morholt \| Mountain Troll \| Norwegian Ridgeback \| Old Mother Hubbard \| Phillipus von Hohenheim \| Phoenix \| Roderick Plumpton \| Rowena Ravenclaw \| Romanian Longhorn \| Ronald Weasley \| Salazar Slytherin \| Streeler \| Troll \| Ug the Unreliable \| Unicorn \| Urg the Unclean \| Vlad Drakul
Silver cards: Alberic Grunnion \| Alberta Toothill \| Andros the Invincible \| Artemisia Lufkin \| Blenheim Stalk \| Bowman Wright \| Chauncey Oldridge \| Circe \| Cliodna \| Crispin Cronk \| Cyprian Youdle \| Daisy Dodderidge \| Derwent Shimpling \| Donaghan Tremlett \| Dunbar Oglethorpe \| Dymphna Furmage \| Elfrida Clagg \| Felix Summerbee \| Fulbert the Fearful \| Gaspard Shingleton \| Gideon Crumb \| Glenda Chittock \| Gondoline Oliphant \| Gregory the Smarmy \| Gwenog Jones \| Honoria Nutcombe \| Ignatia Wildsmith \| Joscelind Wadcock \| Kirley Duke \| Laverne de Montmorency \| Leopoldina Smethwyck \| Maeve \| Mirabella Plunkett \| Mopsus \| Morgan le Fay \| Oswald Beamish \| Sacharissa Tugwood \| Thaddeus Thurkell \| Thurkell brothers \| Wendelin the Weird \| Xavier Rastrick
Bronze cards: Adalbert Waffling \| Almerick Sawbridge \| Archibald Alderton \| Balfour Blane \| Beatrix Bloxam \| Beaumont Marjoribanks \| Bridget Wenlock \| Burdock Muldoon \| Cassandra Vablatsky \| Celestina Warbeck \| Cornelius Agrippa \| Devlin Whitehorn \| Dorcas Wellbeloved \| Edgar Stroulger \| Elladora Ketteridge \| Ethelred the Ever-Ready \| Flavius Belby \| Gifford Ollerton \| Glanmore Peakes \| Glover Hipworth \| Greta Catchlove \| Grogan Stump \| Gulliver Pokeby \| Gunhilda of Gorsemoor \| Havelock Sweeting \| Hengist of Woodcroft \| Heathcote Barbary \| Herman Wintringham \| Hesper Starkey \| Jocunda Sykes \| Justus Pilliwickle \| Merlin \| Merton Graves \| Merwyn the Malicious \| Miranda Goshawk \| Mungo Bonham \| Musidora Barkwith \| Myron Wagtail \| Newton Scamander \| Norvel Twonk \| Orsino Thruston \| Perpetua Fancourt \| Quong Po \| Roland Kegg \| Stoddard Withers \| Tilly Toke \| Uric the Oddball \| Yardley Platt

[1] Wizard of the Month

[2] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - PS2 version

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Chocolate Frog Cards

Gold cards: Alguff the Awful \| Amarillo Lestoat \| Armando Dippet \| Albus Dumbledore \| Babayaga \| Barberus Bragge \| Bertie Bott \| Billywig \| Blodwyn Bludd \| Bowtruckle \| Bran the Bloodthirsty \| Carlotta Pinkstone \| Carmilla Sanguina \| Common Welsh Green \| Cyclops \| Cordelia Misericordia \| Double-ended Newt \| Doxy \| Dzou Yen \| Eargit the Ugly \| Giant Purple Toad \| Giant Squid \| Goliath \| Gringott \| Godric Gryffindor \| Gytrash \| Hermione Granger \| Hebridean Black \| Hengist of Upper Barnton \| Herbert Varney \| Herpo the Foul \| Helga Hufflepuff \| Harry Potter \| Hungarian Horntail \| Imp \| Kelpie \| Leticia Somnolens \| Montague Knightley \| Malodora Grymm \| Manticore \| Morholt \| Mountain Troll \| Norwegian Ridgeback \| Old Mother Hubbard \| Phillipus von Hohenheim \| Phoenix \| Roderick Plumpton \| Rowena Ravenclaw \| Romanian Longhorn \| Ronald Weasley \| Salazar Slytherin \| Streeler \| Troll \| Ug the Unreliable \| Unicorn \| Urg the Unclean \| Vlad Drakul
Silver cards: Alberic Grunnion \| Alberta Toothill \| Andros the Invincible \| Artemisia Lufkin \| Blenheim Stalk \| Bowman Wright \| Chauncey Oldridge \| Circe \| Cliodna \| Crispin Cronk \| Cyprian Youdle \| Daisy Dodderidge \| Derwent Shimpling \| Donaghan Tremlett \| Dunbar Oglethorpe \| Dymphna Furmage \| Elfrida Clagg \| Felix Summerbee \| Fulbert the Fearful \| Gaspard Shingleton \| Gideon Crumb \| Glenda Chittock \| Gondoline Oliphant \| Gregory the Smarmy \| Gwenog Jones \| Honoria Nutcombe \| Ignatia Wildsmith \| Joscelind Wadcock \| Kirley Duke \| Laverne de Montmorency \| Leopoldina Smethwyck \| Maeve \| Mirabella Plunkett \| Mopsus \| Morgan le Fay \| Oswald Beamish \| Sacharissa Tugwood \| Thaddeus Thurkell \| Thurkell brothers \| Wendelin the Weird \| Xavier Rastrick
Bronze cards: Adalbert Waffling \| Almerick Sawbridge \| Archibald Alderton \| Balfour Blane \| Beatrix Bloxam \| Beaumont Marjoribanks \| Bridget Wenlock \| Burdock Muldoon \| Cassandra Vablatsky \| Celestina Warbeck \| Cornelius Agrippa \| Devlin Whitehorn \| Dorcas Wellbeloved \| Edgar Stroulger \| Elladora Ketteridge \| Ethelred the Ever-Ready \| Flavius Belby \| Gifford Ollerton \| Glanmore Peakes \| Glover Hipworth \| Greta Catchlove \| Grogan Stump \| Gulliver Pokeby \| Gunhilda of Gorsemoor \| Havelock Sweeting \| Hengist of Woodcroft \| Heathcote Barbary \| Herman Wintringham \| Hesper Starkey \| Jocunda Sykes \| Justus Pilliwickle \| Merlin \| Merton Graves \| Merwyn the Malicious \| Miranda Goshawk \| Mungo Bonham \| Musidora Barkwith \| Myron Wagtail \| Newton Scamander \| Norvel Twonk \| Orsino Thruston \| Perpetua Fancourt \| Quong Po \| Roland Kegg \| Stoddard Withers \| Tilly Toke \| Uric the Oddball \| Yardley Platt