Harry Potter · Character

Sybill Trelawney

Also known as Professor Trelawney

• Supporting
• First seen · Book 3 · Ch. 5

A fair-skinned, very thin woman with a spindly neck and build reminiscent of a large glittering insect or oversized dragonfly. Her most striking feature is a pair of enormous eyes magnified dramatically to several times their natural size by her large glasses, which gleam in firelight and give her an intense, otherworldly stare. She is draped in a gauzy spangled shawl, adorned with innumerable chains and beads around her neck and long emerald earrings, while her arms and hands are encrusted with clinking bangles and rings; she moves with a smooth gliding step and frequently gestures theatrically with glittering hands at her heart or while lowering her face in dramatic poses.