Bathilda

It was pitch-black and smelled horrible: Harry had just made out a chamber pot protruding from under the bed before Bathilda closed the door and even that was swallowed by the darkness.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Any one of them might have been the one in which James and Lily had once lived or where Bathilda lived now.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

At the time of Kendra's death, Bathilda was the only person in Godric's Hollow who was on speaking terms with Dumbledore's mother.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Bathilda shows me a letter, kept by her that Albus Dumbledore sent Gellert Grindelwald in the dead of night.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Like the rest of the Wizarding world, Bathilda puts Kendra's premature death down to a backfiring charm, a story repeated by Albus and Aberforth in later years.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

As Harry walked out of the room, unseen by both Hermione and Bathilda, he slipped the silver-framed photograph of the unknown thief inside his jacket.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Bathilda would be an extremely old woman by now, and according to Muriel, she was -gaga.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

"If that is so, it is even more dishonorable for Skeeter to have taken advantage of her, " said Doge, -and no reliance can be placed on anything Bathilda may have said!

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

Bathilda was tottering around the place lighting candles, but it was still very dark, not to mention extremely dirty.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

I know Bathilda thought it was all just talk, but "For the Greater Good" became Grindelwald's slogan, his justification for all the atrocities he committed later.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007