Blaise Zabini

**Blaise Zabini** is a canonical wizard and Hogwarts student in the same year as Harry Potter. He was sorted into Slytherin, and in the films (but not the books) he played chaser in his sixth year.

Since *Blaise* is a gender-neutral name and for a long time he wasn't mentioned enough for pronoun use to be needed, there are stories where Blaise Zabini is a girl (see Category:Female Blaise).

## Canonical information

Main article: **Blaise Zabini** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Blaise was among the students that Horace Slughorn invited to his Slug Club, which implies that he was or was likely to become influential in some way. This was probably connected to the wealth of the Zabini family – his mother is said to be a very beautiful witch, who had married seven times and each time become an even richer widow. No details are given as to his father.

Blaise is described as tall and dark-skinned, with high cheekbones and long slanting eyes. Personality-wise, he seems vain and arrogant. While Blaise himself, as a Hogwarts student, must be either British or Irish, the name *Zabini* is Italian or Portuguese; he may have ancestry in Mozambique, which was a Portuguese colony for about 500 years.

In his sixth year, Blaise took the N.E.W.T.-level Potions class, meaning he received either Exceeds expectations or Outstanding on his O.W.L. exam.

## Non-canonical information

### *The Code*

Here, the Zabinis are said to be a "neutral" family, without ties to either the death eaters or the Order, and Blaise has chosen to support muggle-born equality. He is friends with Draco but the latter, feeling jealous of Blaise's ability to make such a choice on his own – and astonishment at his naivete to do so without first securing support outside Slytherin – makes a show of attacking him publicly; however, he moves slowly enough that Harry can stop him before anything happens, and later fights Cassius Warrington and Theodore Nott when they in turn attack Blaise in a less public place. Even though Draco removes the memories of the incident from everybody involved, and thus becomes the prime suspect of the attack himself, Blaise is not afraid of him, knowing that if Draco had wanted to hex him for real he would have succeeded in his first attack.

### *Isolation*

In this story, Blaise 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. After he saw the effect of the Dark Mark on Draco during the 1996/97 school year, he decided that was not something he wanted for himself. However, in the early summer of 1997 his mother married the father of Theodore Nott, who 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. Over the following half year he got to know Luna Lovegood, who helped keep them hidden, and eventually they became a couple. Blaise, being the most mature of the group, became the unofficial leader of the Enlightened and was the one to interrogate Draco Malfoy when he joined them in February of 1998. After the war, he and Luna married and had a daughter, Nova; he was also named godfather of Theo Malfoy.

Blaise claims that he never hated muggle-borns the way Draco and his friends did, he merely repeated what they said (and didn't even know what "mudblood" meant until Draco called Hermione that during the 1992/93 school year). In fact, "the only step-dad who didn't treat [him] like shit" had a muggle mother, whom he met during the 1995/96 school year and quite liked.

It is hinted that he likes liquorice wands, since Luna asks Hermione to buy some for her even though she doesn't like them herself.

### Minor appearances

* In *A Godfather's Promise*, Blaise is said to have Italian ancestry, with tanned skin and dark brown hair and eyes. He is one of only three Slytherin students in his year who did not wear Draco's "Potter stinks" badges (the other two being Daphne Greengrass and Tracey Davis).

* In *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Blaise is said to have had very strong beliefs about blood purity and to have been "only days away from being Marked" before the war.

## References

1. ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," *South West News Service*, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
2. ↑ The Code, Chapter 2
3. ↑ The Code, Chapter 3
4. ↑ The Code*, Chapter 4*
5. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 6
6. ↑ *Isolation*, Chapter 26
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *Isolation*, Chapter 27
8. ↑ *Isolation*, Chapter 49
9. ↑ *Isolation*, Chapter 12
10. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 5
11. ↑ *Breath Mints / Battle Scars*, Chapter 28