Elizabeth Burke

"*Seen and not heard; that's what children should be.*"
—Elizabeth Burke's portrait

**Professor Elizabeth Burke** (d. before 1925) was a witch and headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry prior to 1925. She had several portraits hung in the castle. She held and encouraged pure-blood supremacy, telling Slytherin students to be "*nasty to Mudbloods*."

## Biography

### Early life

Elizabeth probably attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was Sorted into Slytherin. She was appointed Headmistress of Hogwarts School at an unknown point. Burke had a portrait painted of herself when she was thirty-five years old.

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Chamber of Secrets ·
Conical Crypt ·
Dark Hall ·
Deathday Party Hall ·
Defence Against the Dark Arts dungeon ·
Detention escape route ·
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Dungeon cave ·
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Dungeon Five ·
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Dungeon Pit ·
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Entrance Dungeon ·
Forgotten Cavern ·
Hieroglyphic Hall ·
Hogwarts Basement ·
Hufflepuff Basement ·
Kitchens ·
Lever Rooms ·
Lost Tunnel ·
Lower Chambers Corridor North-East ·
Lower Chambers Corridor West ·
Lower Chambers Portrait Corridor ·
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Porticus Circumscriptus ·
Porticus Periculum ·
Porticus Imago ·
Porticus Medius ·
Potion-Mixing Room ·
Potions basement ·
Potions Classroom ·
Prowling Passage ·
Quidditch cave ·
Room of Doom ·
Room of Runes ·
Severus Snape's office ·
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Slughorn's Stairs ·
Slytherin Boys' Dormitory ·
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Slytherin Dungeon ·
Slytherin Girls' Dormitory ·
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Underground Chambers ·
Vestibule of Mischief ·
Way to Courtyard
Basil Fronsac ·
Bloody Baron ·
Cecilia Gallerani ·
**Elizabeth Burke** ·
Hooky ·
Mad old man ·
Mopsus ·
Old man ·
Percival Pratt ·
Salazar Slytherin ·
Sleeping hermit ·
Bearded man with book

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Bean Challenge rooms ·
Classroom 7A ·
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Classroom 7C ·
Dark Tower topmost cell ·
Disused bathroom ·
Divination Classroom ·
Fat Lady's Corridor ·
Filius Flitwick's office ·
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Gryffindor Tower reading room ·
Gryffindor girls' staircase ·
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Hall of Hexes ·
Knights' Room ·
North Wing ·
Porticus Olidus ·
Pungent Passage ·
Room of Requirement ·
Runic Corridor ·
Seventh Floor Corridor ·
Sybill Trelawney's office ·
Divination corridor ·
Staircase to the seventh-floor corridor
Barnabas the Barmy ·
Bridget Wenlock ·
Sir Cadogan ·
Caged monkey ·
Edward Rabnott ·
Elephant ·
**Elizabeth Burke** ·
Fat Lady ·
Flowering almond trees ·
George von Rheticus ·
Giraffe ·
Godric Gryffindor ·
Healers ·
Hippopotamus ·
Journeying wizards ·
Lachlan the Lanky ·
Mother and baby ·
Oraclitus Spheer ·
Staring Portrait ·
Three young ladies ·
Tiger ·
Two lovers in a graveyard ·
Valeria Myriadd ·
Wailing Egyptians ·
Witch flying to the moon ·
Wizard in black flowing robes ·
Wizard in blue ·
Wizard with a broomstick ·
Wolfhound

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Portraits of Headermasters and Headmistresses are hung in the Headmaster's office after they die. Professor Burke's could not have held the position after 1925 given that Phineas Nigellus Black was the last Slytherin headmaster and died in that year.
2. ↑ Pottermore - Writing by J.K. Rowling: "The Malfoy Family" - The pure-blood Malfoy family are "not against marrying half-bloods"; as a member of the Sacred-Twenty-Eight pure-blood Burke family, she similarly may have been pure-blood or half-blood.
3. ↑ *Harry Potter for Kinect* is the only time Burke's portrait is seen in the Headmaster's Office
4. ↑ The portrait was hung in Malfoy Manor, so it is possible that she was related to the Malfoys.