Graham Montague

**Graham Montague** is a canonical wizard and Hogwarts student sorted into Slytherin. He played chaser on the House Quidditch team from at least the end of the 1993/94 school year, and was its captain in 1995/96 (in 1994/95 the Quidditch cup was canceled due to the Triwizard Tournament). He was a member of the Inquisitorial Squad, and the one whose non-voluntary use of the vanishing cabinet in Hogwarts led Draco Malfoy to deduce its connection to the one in Borgin and Burkes.

## Canonical information

Main article: **Graham Montague** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Montague is heavily built and has large, hairy forearms. According to a source of low but non-zero canonicity, he has brown hair and eyes, and light skin; this is also the source of his first name, which is not mentioned in the books or films. Since he played Quidditch in 1993/94, he must have been at least in his second year then (and thus born in or before 1980/81), but since he was still in school in 1995/96 he must have been born in or after 1977/78.

In the final match between Slytherin and Gryffindor in the Spring term of 1994, Montague flew in front of Katie Bell and grabbed her head, making her drop the quaffle and nearly fall off her broom; for this foul she was awarded a penalty.

## Non-canonical information

### *Ignore the Dementor*

In this creature!fic, he is two years older than Harry, has dark skin and is a member of the Hogwarts Society of Magical Creatures because he is secretly a gargoyle (although his "creature genes come from several generations ago" and "completely skipped over" his father, who is a death eater and doesn't accept this part of his son's life); as part of the "remedial potions" cover, he is assigned as Harry's tutor. He is said to be "known for his violent fouls on the Quidditch pitch", but joins the Inquisitorial Squad only because his father insists.

When Fred and George push him into the broken vanishing cabinet, Harry manages to push him through to the other side with just a broken leg and a few cracked ribs, but states that if Graham had been anything but a gargoyle he likely would have died. Around the same time he and Hestia Talon become a couple, but manage to keep it secret even from most of their friends; as the end of the 1995/96 school year draws near, in order to protect him from his father's associates, she gets *her* father to hire him as an assistant in his law firm, sending him to China as soon as school ends to work on a deal between their Ministry and Gringotts. However, this doesn't prevent him from responding to Draco's distress call during the summer.

Eventually, it is hinted, he and Hestia marry – or at least have a child, "an extra-large gargoyle that had feathers", who also goes to Hogwarts.

### Minor appearances

* In *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, aurors led by John Dawlish of the Crusaders For Justice raid the Slytherin dormitories in February 1999, arresting a number of students for "retrial"; one of them is named Montague. If this is Graham, it would imply he was born in 1979/80 or later (since the seventh-year students of 1997/98 are retaking their last year.)

## 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 *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 7
3. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 8
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 20
5. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 14
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 24
7. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 22
8. ↑ *Ignore the Dementor*, Chapter 25 (Epilogue)
9. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 35
10. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 36
11. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 1