Abbott Family

• Hannah Abbott

One of the curious things is how few works pair Harry with Hannah Abbott. The Abbott family is listed as one of the so-called "Sacred Twenty-Eight",¹ and yet Mrs. Rowling seems to have had a fair amount of trouble settling on Hannah's blood status.² Hannah appears in the books only a few times, the first is a very ineffectual defence of Harry where she initially states he cannot be the heir of Slytherin, but backs down in the face of Ernie Macmillan's assured intransigence.³ The next, we see her wearing a "Support Cedric" badge, but it does not say anything about her interacting with Harry directly.⁴ We then hear that she is pulled from school because her mother is killed in an attack by either Riddle or his Death Eaters.⁵ Lastly, we know she fought in the last battle.⁶