Harry Potter · Character

Vincent Crabbe

Also known as Crabbe

  • Minor
  • First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 5

Vincent Crabbe is a minor character in Harry Potter (Book 1).

Gender
male
Age
11
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 5
Books
4

Vincent Crabbe is a hulking Slytherin student who spends his early Hogwarts years as one of Draco Malfoy's two ever-present bodyguards, alongside Gregory Goyle, relying on bulk and menace rather than wit. Through his first four years he grows from a thickset, knuckle-cracking eleven-year-old into an enormous, thuggish teenager whose vacant expression hides little beyond a readiness to follow orders. His bullying of Harry, Ron and Hermione rarely ends well for him: he is tricked, frightened and finally hexed unconscious on the Hogwarts Express. Later in the series his loyalty curdles into genuine malice, and he dies in the Fiendfyre he conjures in the Room of Requirement during the Battle of Hogwarts.

Description

Vincent Crabbe is a bulky thickset young wizard with broad shoulders and a heavy muscular build that gives him the look of an imposing bodyguard. His face carries an extremely mean expression often fixed in a scowl while cracking his knuckles or breaking into triumphant glee that emphasizes his brutish aggressive nature. A Hogwarts first-year student in the 1990s he wears black school robes over his solid frame has short dark hair fair skin and a heavy jaw that makes the eleven-year-old appear older and more menacing alongside his fellow Slytherins. A bulky teenage boy with a thick neck and broad shoulders stands heavily on oversized feet, his pudding bowl haircut sitting like a dark helmet above a broad face. A flat nose centers his features while a large mouth often hangs slightly open in a vacant look, his small dark eyes peering out from beneath a low brow. Long gorilla-like arms swing from his wide frame ending in gigantic fists, the whole form draped in the green and silver trimmed black robes of a Slytherin student with a white shirt and tie visible beneath, presenting a pale-skinned, brutish thirteen-year-old wizard who looks ready to follow orders without much thought. A tall, wide and muscly teenage boy with a pudding-bowl haircut and very thick neck stands heavily on huge flat feet. His long arms hang gorilla-like, ready to blunder forward with zombie-like outstretched reaches when advancing. Fair-skinned with a brutish build suited to intimidation, he wears the black Hogwarts school robes of a Slytherin student and projects a lumbering, muscle-bound presence that makes his bulging arms and thick frame unmistakable even in fear. An enormous, heavily built teenage boy with a thuggish presence. In the Yule Ball scene he wears green dress robes; in other school scenes he wears Hogwarts robes or regular school attire. In the final compartment scene he is unconscious and covered in hex marks.

Connections

  • Draco MalfoyLeader / bodyguard

    Crabbe serves as Malfoy's loyal enforcer from their first day, following his lead in every taunt and scheme; in later years he grows resentful and independent, ultimately defying Malfoy in the Room of Requirement.

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    Gregory GoyleCompanion

    His inseparable fellow henchman; the two act as a matched pair of hulking bodyguards throughout their school years.

  • Harry PotterEnemy

    A consistent antagonist who bullies Harry on Malfoy's behalf, though he is repeatedly outwitted, impersonated and humiliated by Harry and his friends.

  • Ron WeasleyEnemy

    Clashes with Ron from the train in Book 1; Ron later impersonates him via Polyjuice Potion.

Story so far

  1. BOOK 1Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    • Appears with Draco Malfoy and Goyle on the Hogwarts Express, where he tries to take Ron's sweets and is bitten by Scabbers
    • Sorted into Slytherin and becomes one of Malfoy's bodyguards
    • Backs Malfoy in taunting Harry, Ron and Neville throughout the year
  2. BOOK 2Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    • Is knocked out by Hermione's Draught of Sleep hidden in a chocolate cake
    • Ron takes on his appearance with Polyjuice Potion to question Malfoy in the Slytherin common room
    • Continues as Malfoy's muscle in confrontations with Harry and his friends
  3. BOOK 3Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    • Joins Malfoy and Goyle in dressing up as a Dementor to sabotage Harry's Quidditch match, ending up humiliated
    • Is pelted with mud by an invisible Harry near the Shrieking Shack in Hogsmeade
    • Flanks Malfoy in mocking Hagrid and Buckbeak
  4. BOOK 4Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    • Attends the Yule Ball in green dress robes
    • Supports Malfoy's 'Potter Stinks' badge campaign and taunts about Cedric and Harry
    • Is hexed unconscious by multiple students in a train compartment after Malfoy goads Harry on the journey home

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