Theodore Nott

**"Point me!"**

This article is about **the Slytherin student sorted in 1991**. You may be looking for **somebody else named *Theodore* or *Nott***.

## Biographical information

### Born

Between 1 September 1979 and 21 April 1980

## Relationship information

### Relatives

* Unnamed father
* †Unnamed mother
* Cantankerus Nott (possibly)

### (non-canonical)

***The Code**** Theodore Nott senior (father)

### (non-canonical)

***Breath Mints / Battle Scars**** Pansy Parkinson (unrealized)

## Affiliation

### House

Slytherin

**Theodore "Theo" Nott** is a canonical pure-blood wizard and Hogwarts student in the same year as Harry. He was a childhood friend of Draco Malfoy, and like him was sorted into Slytherin. His mother died when he was young, and he was raised by his elderly father, who was a Death Eater.

## Canonical information

Main article: **Theodore Nott** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
In his fifth year Theo could see thestrals, possibly due to having witnessed the death of his mother. In his sixth, he took N.E.W.T.-level Potions. It is not known if he fought in the Battle of Hogwarts.

In 2020, Harry Potter arrested him for illegal possession of an unregistered and advanced Time-turner.

How (or, indeed, if) he is related to Cantankerus Nott is not known.

## Non-canonical information

### Physical description

In canon, he is described as "weedy" and "stringy", implying he was tall and slim without much visible muscle mass.

In *Breath Mints / Battle Scars* he is said to have chestnut brown hair, long enough to sweep out of his face.

### *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*

In this Dramione story, set in the year after the war with everybody having to retake their last year of school, Hermione refers to him in inner monologue as her "nemesis in academic merit", and as "brilliant and tenacious. Second in their class all those years before for a reason"; but also as the object of a crush in her first year and somebody she has never seen lose his cool. He and Draco Malfoy are in a psychiatric treatment program for former Death Eaters together — they are each other's "crutches", making sure the other writes their daily report.

In February 1999, aurors led by John Dawlish of the Crusaders For Justice raid the Slytherin dormitories, arresting a number of students for "retrial" and among them Theo. Hermione takes it upon herself to defend them all in court, and saves Pansy Parkinson from a likely death sentence by revealing her secret love for Theo and explaining that her fear not just for herself but for him was what drove her actions during and before the War. This is news to Theo as well — quite happy news — but since he is still in jail awaiting his own trial he has no chance to talk to her about it, and in the final battle against the crusaders she takes a nasty curse meant for him and dies in his arms. He is utterly crushed and is only brought back to a semblance of a normal life when Hermione asks for his help creating the Seek and Find potion.

### *The Code*

Here, Theo is said to be an inveterate bully admiring Voldemort; highly intelligent but impulsive and reckless, in his sixth year he tires of being held back by the more restrained Draco and instead tries to ingratiate himself with Cassius Warrington. When Blaise Zabini declares his support of equality for the muggle-born, Theo takes Crabbe and Goyle and assaults him until Draco stops them; while he is a reasonably competent duelist, he is not in Draco's class.

His father is referred to as "the elder Theodore Nott"; by the start of the 1996/97 school year he has already brought his son with him to Death Eater dark revels..

### *Isolation*

Here, he is one of the "Enlightened" Slytherin students who managed to avoid being recruited as Death Eaters by defecting to the Order and went into hiding in a safe house run by Andromeda Tonks. In the early summer of 1997, his father married the mother of Blaise Zabini, and then volunteered both boys for the Mark; the two ran away from home and were taken in by McGonagall and Andromeda, together with Tracey Davis, Millicent Bulstrode and Miles Bletchley. Out of the five of them, Theo was the one having most problems adjusting to the new life – acting out, swearing a lot and occasionally mumbling about muggles and muggle-borns – except when Ted Tonks came for a visit. During Theos first week in the safe house, Ted saved him after a suicide attempt, spending six hours healing him, even though Theo had called him *mudblood* the day before. Hearing Ted's death announced on Potterwatch hit Theo hard, and when the Enlightened joined the D.A. in the Battle of Hogwarts, he set off on his own to confront his father. He managed to kill him, but was fatally wounded when a spell from Lucius Malfoy made a wall fall on him. He was found and brought back to the Great Hall, but the potions had long run out and there was nothing that Madam Pomfrey could do. Before dying, he asked to be buried not with his own family but with Ted, a wish that Andromeda was honoured and proud to fulfill. Draco and Hermione named their son, Theo Malfoy, after him.

## References

1. ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," *South West News Service*, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 10
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 50
4. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 11
5. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 35
6. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 39
7. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 40
8. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 48
9. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 1
10. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 4
11. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 6
12. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 5
13. ↑ *Isolation*, Chapter 26
14. ↑ *Isolation*, Chapter 27
15. ↑ Isolation, Chapter 28
16. ↑ *Isolation*, Chapter 29
17. ↑ *Isolation*, Chapter 41
18. ↑ *Isolation*, Chapter 44
19. ↑ *Isolation*, Chapter 48
20. ↑ *Isolation*, Chapter 49