Hannah Abbott

Families

Married

• Spouse: Neville Longbottom

Analysis

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

One of the curious things is how few works pair Harry with Hannah Abbott. It seems that most authors hold either the fact that she is unable to stand up to peer pressure for a boy she's never even spoken to, or the fact that she values loyalty to her own house (we have no proof she knows about, uses, or approves of the badges' second message) against her.

[Riddle]: </Harrypedia/people/Riddle/Tom Marvolo/>/