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"The girl will eat herself out of house and frame if she keeps on like this..."
Giffard Abbott's portrait[src]

Damara Dodderidge was a witch, whose portrait was hung in the Grand Staircase.

Biography[]

1991-1992[]

By 1991, she had a Portrait hung in Hogwarts Castle's Grand Staircase.[1]

1993-1994[]

By 1993, she had a Portrait hung in Gryffindor Tower.[2]

1995-1996[]

By 1995, she guarded a shortcut, leading from the Grand Staircase to the Clock Tower, she was seen frequently complaining about her hunger or tiredness. By then, her password was "Chops and Gravy".[3]

1996-1997[]

In the next school year, Damara's portrait was moved to another place in the Grand Staircase. Despite this move, she still guarded a passage to the Clock Tower, inaccessible to all, who had not got the new password: "Dashing Cadogan".[4]

1997-1998[]

On 2 May, 1998, the Battle of Hogwarts ensued. Damara appeared to have fled from her portrait.[5]

Personality and traits[]

"Ohhhh, I'm too hungry. If you could ask Giffard Abbott — he's the portrait at the bottom of the Grand Staircase — to send some food along, then maybe I could help. Nothing much, just some chops, and a leg of lamb, some chicken and beef and maybe some cakes as well. Not too much. I'm so hungry."
— Damara Dodderidge.[src]

Damara was known being always very hungry and tired. Many times she would ask fellow portrait Giffard Abbott for food.[3] Her portrait at Hogwarts Castle depicts her like so, but by 1996 she seemed to stop constantly daydreaming about food and complaining about her tiredness. She said to be hungry once at breakfast time, though. Also by this time, she seemed to have developed a crush on fellow portrait Sir Cadogan, calling him "dashing".[4]

Etymology[]

Damara is the Celtic goddess of fertility.

Behind the scenes[]

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]


Third-floor of Hogwarts Castle
Classrooms
Class 34 · Class 72 · Classroom 2E · Classroom 3C · Classroom 3C backrooms · Classroom 3D · Classroom 7A · Classroom off of the Charms corridor · Classroom off of the Gunhilda of Gorsemoor Corridor · Ghoul Studies classroom
Corridors
Charms corridor · Gallery · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor Corridor · One-Eyed Witch Passage · Serpentine Corridor · Third-floor corridor · Trophy Secret Passage
Halls and rooms
Armoury · Clock Tower Entrance · Hesperius Hall · Trophy Room · Vastus Vestibule
Portraits, statues and other artwork
Damara Dodderidge · Dinah Hecat's Hebridean Black skeleton · Drunk Monks · Google Flange · Basil Fronsac · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor · Merwyn the Malicious · Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington · Valeria Myriadd · Helena Ravenclaw · Brutus Scrimgeour · Temeritus Shanks · Shepherdess · Winged horse · Witch in green · Witch in Pompadour hairstyle · Wizard in black · Wizard in red
Staircases
Clock Tower staircase · Grand Staircase · Secret shortcut to the first floor · Staircase to the courtyard corridor · Staircase to the first-floor corridor · Staicase to the fourth-floor landing · Staircase to the ground-floor · Staircase to the second-floor arcade · Turret Stairwell · Turris Magnus staircase
Storerooms
Lost Wands · Storeroom
Sixth-floor of Hogwarts Castle
Bathrooms
Boys' bathroom · Disused Bathroom
Classrooms
Classroom 6A · Classroom 6B · Empty classroom
Corridors
Glanmore Peakes' Corridor · Secret Hallway · Sixth-floor corridor
Halls and rooms
East Wing · Floor 6 Bonus · Frog Choir hall · Room of Rewards · Trophy Room
Offices
Horace Slughorn's office
Portraits, statues and other artwork
Damara Dodderidge · Edessa Sakndenberg · Edgar Stroulger · Glanmore Peakes · Portrait at the Storeroom · Selina Sapworthy · Skeleton in a top hat · Temeritus Shanks · Vindictus Viridian · Wendelin the Weird
Staircases
Grand Staircase · Ravenclaw Tower staircase · Slughorn's Staircase · Staircase to the seventh-floor corridor · Turris Magnus staircase
Storerooms
Storeroom · Writing Supplies Room
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