Who has an Order of Merlin?
10 July 2022 05:39 pmI was wondering in my time travel fic who should receive an O.M. for helping defeat Voldemort, and reviewed canon for the existing recipients. Here are my findings:
- Damocles Belby: for inventing the Wolfsbane Potion
- Arcturus Black: First Class, for ‘services to the Ministry’, according to Sirius he gave them a ‘load of gold’, according to Pottermore ‘loaning the Ministry a large amount of gold’
- Albus Dumbledore: First Class for his defeat of Grindelwald
- Cornelius Fudge: First Class (according to Pottermore this was ‘self-awarded’)
- Gilderoy Lockhart: Third Class
- Peter Pettigrew: First Class
- Newt Scamander: Second Class (Fantastic Beasts Comic Relief textbook)
- (Severus Snape is offered a Second or First Class Order of Merlin for helping save the trio and aiding in Sirius’s arrest)
Recipients According to Secondary Canon
- Remus Lupin: First Class (Pottermore canon)
- Minerva McGonagall: First Class (Short Stories From Hogwarts canon)