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Inferi

Also called: Inferius
BooksUndeadSorcery2000 to 2009

Inferi are the Harry Potter series' version of the zombie: corpses animated by a Dark wizard and used as guards or soldiers. They are puppets with no mind of their own, repelled only by fire and warmth. Their main appearance is in the sixth novel, published in 2005, when Harry and Dumbledore face an army of them in a cave.12

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First appeared
2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, published 16 July 2005
Source work
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
J. K. Rowling
Made in
United Kingdom
What causes it
Sorcery
A Dark wizard reanimates dead bodies by necromancy.
How you become one
A corpse is bewitched by a Dark wizard to serve as his puppet.
Intelligence
Mindless
Weak spots
  • fire
  • light
  • heat

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2005

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, published 16 July 2005

field notes

What the sources say

1

They have no free will and no thought of their own12

2

Gaunt and skeletal, each still resembles the person it was made from12

3

Very strong and most dangerous in numbers; they can drag a person away12

4

They feel no pain and have no blood, so curses that rely on either fail12

5

Voldemort made an army of them from his victims and hid it in the lake of a sea cave guarding one of his Horcruxes12

6

The name comes from Latin words for below and for the dead12

Sources

  1. Inferius - The Harry Potter Compendium (Fandom)
  2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Wikipedia

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