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During Michael's seventh year at Hogwarts, the school was under the indirect control of [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]], who had taken over the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]]. Michael joined the reconstituted [[Dumbledore's Army]] in defying the [[Death Eaters|Death Eater]] professors [[Alecto Carrow|Alecto]] and [[Amycus Carrow]]. On one occasion, he tried to free a first-year from imprisonment and was [[Cruciatus Curse|tortured]] by the Carrows for it.
 
During Michael's seventh year at Hogwarts, the school was under the indirect control of [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]], who had taken over the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]]. Michael joined the reconstituted [[Dumbledore's Army]] in defying the [[Death Eaters|Death Eater]] professors [[Alecto Carrow|Alecto]] and [[Amycus Carrow]]. On one occasion, he tried to free a first-year from imprisonment and was [[Cruciatus Curse|tortured]] by the Carrows for it.
   
By the end of the school year, Michael was one of the many D.A. members holed up in the [[Room of Requirement]]. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione returned to the school in May of [[1998]], Michael was one of the students who spoke up in favour of overthrowing the Death Eater professors, and participated in the discussion of the [[Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem|lost diadem]] of [[Rowena Ravenclaw]]. Michael then fought in the [[Battle of Hogwarts]]; it is unknown if he survived the [[Second Wizarding War]], or if he was among the fifty casualties.<ref name="DH">''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]''</ref>
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By the end of the school year, Michael was one of the many D.A. members holed up in the [[Room of Requirement]]. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione returned to the school in May of [[1998]], Michael was one of the students who spoke up in favour of overthrowing the Death Eater professors, and participated in the discussion of the [[Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem|lost diadem]] of [[Rowena Ravenclaw]]. Michael then fought in the [[Battle of Hogwarts]], and presumably survived as he wasn't mentioned among the fifty casualties. <ref name="DH">''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]''</ref>
   
 
==Magical abilities and skills==
 
==Magical abilities and skills==

Revision as of 17:18, 15 December 2009

Ron: "Which one was Michael Corner?"
Hermione: "The dark one."
Ron: "I didn't like him."
Hermione: "Big surprise."
Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger[src]

Michael Corner was a Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Harry Potter's year. He was friends with housemates Terry Boot and Anthony Goldstein, and with them, joined Dumbledore's Army in his fifth year. That year, Michael also dated Ginny Weasley, though she dumped him by the end of the school year, after which Michael dated Cho Chang. In his seventh year, Michael rejoined the D.A. and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts.

Biography

Fourth Year

Michael attended the 1994 Yule Ball, where he met Ginny Weasley, a Gryffindor student a year below him. The two began dating at the end of July 1995. Ginny's brother Ron only found out about the relationship later in the year, though it appears that Ginny's friend Hermione Granger was already aware of it. Ron disapproved, and often questioned Michael's intelligence.[2]

Fifth and Sixth Years

Ron: "Michael - but - but you were going out with him!"
Ginny: "Not any more. He didn't like Gryffindor beating Ravenclaw at Quidditch and got really sulky, so I ditched him and he ran off to comfort Cho instead."
Ginny Weasley on her break-up with Michael in 1996[src]

It was perhaps because of his relationship with Ginny that Michael joined Dumbledore's Army in his fifth year. He initially thought Hermione only wanted to form the group so she would pass her Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L. later that year. When Michael was duelling with Ginny during a D.A. meeting, he did not hit her, though it is unclear whether he did this because he did not know the spell or simply because he wanted to avoid cursing his girlfriend. Ginny later referred to Michael as a "fool", though not in his presence, when he nearly drew unnecessary attention to the D.A. during Dolores Umbridge's reign of terror.

That year, Ginny replaced Harry on the Gryffindor Quidditch team when he was permanently banned by Umbridge. After Gryffindor beat Ravenclaw in the Quidditch Final, Michael expressed his displeasure of the result and the relationship ended; she later called him a "bad loser". Michael soon began dating Harry's recent ex-girlfriend, the Seeker from his own team, Cho Chang.[2]

However, Michael was intelligent enough to achieve a high score on his Potions O.W.L., and was one of the few students (along with housemate Terry Boot) in Harry's year to matriculate in Professor Slughorn's Advanced Potions class.[3]

Seventh Year

Harry: "There’s something we need to find. Something – something that’ll help us overthrow You-Know-Who. It’s here at Hogwarts, but we don’t know where. It might have belonged to Ravenclaw. Has anyone heard of an object like that?"
Luna: "Well, there’s her lost diadem. I told you about it, remember, Harry? The lost diadem of Ravenclaw? Daddy’s trying to duplicate it."
Michael: "Yeah, but the lost diadem is lost, Luna. That’s sort of the point."
— Michael, Harry Potter, and Luna Lovegood on Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem[src]

During Michael's seventh year at Hogwarts, the school was under the indirect control of Lord Voldemort, who had taken over the Ministry of Magic. Michael joined the reconstituted Dumbledore's Army in defying the Death Eater professors Alecto and Amycus Carrow. On one occasion, he tried to free a first-year from imprisonment and was tortured by the Carrows for it.

By the end of the school year, Michael was one of the many D.A. members holed up in the Room of Requirement. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione returned to the school in May of 1998, Michael was one of the students who spoke up in favour of overthrowing the Death Eater professors, and participated in the discussion of the lost diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw. Michael then fought in the Battle of Hogwarts, and presumably survived as he wasn't mentioned among the fifty casualties. [4]

Magical abilities and skills

Potioneer: Michael Corner was a capable Potioneer as he was one of four Ravenclaw students in his year to continue onto N.E.W.T. Potions. He must have earned either an Outstanding or an Exceeds Expectations in his Potions O.W.L.

Behind the scenes

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. In Deathly Hallows, Ch. 39, Michael was hiding out in the Room of Requirement with Dumbledore's Army before the members Neville summoned from outside the school began to arrive. This means he attended Hogwarts during the 1997-1998 school year, and must have been either half-blood or pure-blood, as Muggle-borns were banned from the school under the Voldemort regime. His blood status is given as half-blood on the student list shown by J.K. Rowling on Harry Potter and Me.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  5. Despite this character not actually being identified in the film, they were sorted in 1991 and therefore were present in the films adaptation of the sorting amongst the crowd of first years, as they had to be sorted and even though they weren't mentioned they'd still be one of the students in that crowd.