Filius Flitwick

Harry Potter character
Warwick Davis as Professor Filius Flitwick in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Filius Flitwick
Gender	Male
Hair colour	White
Eye colour	Blue
House	Ravenclaw
Parentage	Human with a dash of Goblin; implies some amount of wizard ancestry
Loyalty	Albus Dumbledore, Order of the Phoenix
Film portrayer	Warwick Davis
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Filius Flitwick (born October
17, year unknown) is a fictional character in the Harry
Potter books. His character provides some comic
relief in the books. He generally plays small parts in the plot
events of the stories. Probably his most significant role is to
introduce various spells into the story.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or
ending details follow.

Flitwick is the Charms professor and head of Ravenclaw house at Hogwarts. His squeaky voice matches his tiny
stature; he stands on a stack of books in order to see over the top
of his desk and sits on a pile of cushions at the staff table. He
has a distant goblin ancestor which leads him to
empathise with others of mixed ancestry, such as Hagrid

Teaching

Flitwick's teaching style seems to be rather laid back in
comparison to other professors. He has allowed his class to play
games during the last class before the Christmas holidays and seems
resigned to a fair amount of chaos as students practice new Charms.
He is often hit by misaimed or bad spells, often flying around the
room or growing boils. Some of the spells he
teaches include a levitation charm, Wingardium Leviosa,
Cheering Charms, Summoning Charms, the Banishing Charm, and the
Silencing Charm. The Charms classroom is on the third floor of the
school , but Flitwick's office is
on the seventh floor.

Other services to the school

Professor Flitwick serves Hogwarts in
many ways outside of the classroom. He used his magical skills to
help decorate the Great Hall at Christmastime in the first book.
During Harry's second year, Flitwick helped Professor Sinistra carry a petrified
Justin Finch-Fletchley to the hospital
wing. He taught the front doors to recognize a picture of Sirius
Black after his second break-in in Harry Potter and
the Prisoner of Azkaban. He helped patrol the perimeter of the
maze for the third task of the Triwizard Tournament held in Harry's
fourth year. He eventually removed most of the swamp that had been
created within the school by Fred and George Weasley in the
fifth book.
Near the end of Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince, Flitwick is summoned by Minerva McGonagall to ask Professor
Severus Snape to come to the aid of the
Order of the Phoenix against the
Death Eaters (Battle of Hogwarts).
However, he is unable to do so, because of being stupefied by
Snape. It is possible that he will replace Minerva McGonagall as Deputy Head of
Hogwarts.

Loyalty

Flitwick is quietly supportive of both Harry Potter and Dumbledore when Dolores Umbridge attempts to undermine them
both in Harry Potter and
the Order of the Phoenix. He gives Harry a box of squeaking
sugar mice after Harry's interview is published in The
Quibbler. When fireworks are set loose in the castle, Flitwick
calls Umbridge to deal with them rather than extinguishing them
himself.

Notes about his past

It is told that Filius Flitwick was a dueling champion, very
intelligent, and quite handsome when he was younger. He
taught at Hogwarts when James Potter and his contemporaries
were there.

Trivia

The name "Flitwick" could be derived from the name of the town
of Flitwick near London (though that name is pronounced "Flittick"), or
it could be a combination of "flit" (that is, to move quickly and
lightly) and "wick" (a word from Northern England meaning
"lively.") Filius is the Latin word for "son".

Warwick Davis played Flitwick in the first two
films. He also
played the goblin bank teller in the first film. He returned as Flitwick
for the fourth movie, Harry Potter
and the Goblet of Fire.

During the first two films, Flitwick is an old half-goblin with
a big white moustache. In the third film, this character does not
appear, although Warwick Davis plays another character, a short
human with brown hair and moustache, not very similar to the
Flitwick in the previous movies. This character, the chorus
conductor, is identified in the credits only as "Wizard". The
character reappeared in the fourth movie, with the same make-up and
still being the conductor, although in a speaking role. He was not
named in the movie, but was seen eating at the staff table and was
identified in the credits as "Filius Flitwick", suggesting that
Flitwick is also a music conductor.