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Filius Flitwick is the
Charms Master at Hogwarts and the
head of Ravenclaw, and is described as being very short.
He used his magical skills to help decorate the Great Hall at Christmas time in the first book, as well as help
guard the Philosopher's Stone by putting charms on a hundred keys so they can fly, making it difficult to find the
key to the door of the next chamber. During Harry's second year, Flitwick helps Professor Sinistra carry a
petrified Justin Finch-Fletchley to the hospital wing. He teaches the front doors to recognise a picture of Sirius
Black after his second break-in in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. He helps patrol the perimeter of the
maze for the third task of the Triwizard Tournament held in Harry's fourth year. He eventually removes most of the
swamp that had been created within the school by Fred and George Weasley in the fifth book in a couple of seconds,
though he had previously left the swamp untouched to annoy Professor Umbridge. However, he chooses to leave a small
patch of it because he thinks it is "a good bit of magic," and as a tribute to the legendary Weasley twins.
Near the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,
Flitwick is summoned by Professor McGonagall to ask
Snape to come to the aid of the Order of the Phoenix against the intruding Death Eaters. However, he is unable
to do so, since Snape has stunned him. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows he helps to put protective charms
around the castle to hinder Lord Voldemort and his oncoming Death Eaters, and later
fights the intruders in the Battle
of Hogwarts, battling Yaxley and later defeating Antonin Dolohov.
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