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Dawlish was the surname of a wizarding family that lived in Great Britain. It is unknown whether they were pure-blood or if they had some Muggle heritage as well.

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Helen Dawlish[]

Helen Dawlish

Helen Dawlish at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Helen Dawlish was a Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the late 1990s. She was a fan of Gilderoy Lockhart, and spent the summer of 1996 reading his books, of which Magical Me was her favourite. After returning to school for the 1996–1997 school year, she ran a Duelling Club in the Transfiguration Courtyard, which also included Shoma Ichikawa and Rhonda Fladbury. She offered sloth brains as a reward to everyone who beat her in a duel.[1]

John Dawlish[]

John Dawlish was an Auror who worked at the Ministry of Magic under Cornelius Fudge, Rufus Scrimgeour and Pius Thicknesse. Albus Dumbledore referred to Dawlish as being an excellent Auror, having achieved Outstanding in all of his Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests,[2] however Dawlish nearly always ended up incapacitated in some way. Nevertheless, he at one point was the personal bodyguard to Fudge, the Minister for Magic.[2]

After Rufus Scrimgeour became the Minister, Dawlish was assigned with the job of following Albus Dumbledore while he left Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[3] Each time, Dumbledore jinxed Dawlish.[2][3] After the Death Eaters took over the Ministry in 1997, Dawlish was assigned to taking Muggle-born wizards and witches to Azkaban by Broomstick; when taking Dirk Cresswell, he stunned Dawlish and escaped with his broomstick.[4] When Neville Longbottom was rebelling against the Carrows at Hogwarts, they sent Dawlish after Neville's grandmother, Augusta Longbottom, and he ended up in St Mungo's after the elderly witch incapacitated him in a duel, and she subsequently went into hiding.[5] Dawlish was likely imprisoned in Azkaban himself after the Second Wizarding War for his assistance of the corrupt Death Eater regime.

Etymology[]

Dawlish is the name of a seaside town in Devon. Its name comes from a nearby stream, once called "Deawlisc", meaning "devil water".

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