To experience Harry’s story is to immerse yourself in the richness of a magical universe filled with wizarding history, culture and lore. A world of witches, wizards, owls, elves, non-magical people, anti-non-magical-people people, folks who can talk to snakes and snakes who used to be folks. There are mind-readers, shape-shifters, centaurs, giants and ghosts (nearly headless and fully formed), and in the following pages, we’ve collected some of the most lovable, hateable or otherwise noteworthy. Did your favorites make the list?