Bane
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Bane is an intelligent centaur, who can read the stars and predict the future, and who despises and distrusts humans. He is described as 'black haired and black bodied' and 'wild looking' with a black beard. He is against humans riding on centaur's backs, and against intervening in fate. He is also against Firenze's decision to teach at Hogwarts.
Bane and Firenze foretell Harry Potter's future in 1992 by reading the stars; “Remember, Firenze we are sworn not to set ourselves against the heavens. Have you not read what is to come in the movement of the planets?”.
Bane was included in the centaur mobs that forced Harry, Hermione Granger, and Rubeus Hagrid out of the Forbidden Forest after they visited Grawp; he was also present when the centaurs attacked Umbridge, after she called them "filthy half-breeds".
During the Battle of Hogwarts, Bane and the other centaurs didn't join the battle. When it looked like Harry had sacrificed himself, Hagrid called him a coward. This shamed him and the other centaurs so much that they decided to join the battle, breaking through the Death Eater ranks into the Hall. It is likely that he witnessed the final battle between Lord Voldemort and Harry Potter.
[edit] Behind the scenes
The centaur Bane is voiced and portrayed by the British actor Jason Piper in the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix film adaptation from the book with the same title.
