D.H.P.C.C.G. - Gregory Goyle

Name/Aliases: Gregory Goyle

Appearances/Mentions:

Book 1. Pgs 81-82, 114, 164, 222.
Book 2. Pgs 75, 140, 157, 159-163, 166, 168.
Book 3. Pgs 63, 91, 194-195, 206-207, 216, 222.
Also appears in most of Draco Malfoy's scenes.

Summary: male, Slytherin, Harry's age. Described as 'almost as stupid as he was mean', implied he is stupider than Crabbe. Scabbers bites him when he tries to take Ron amd Harry's Chocolate Frog on the train to school. Greedy, always does what Malfoy says. Beats up Neville in Book 1.
Physical Descriptions: thickset and looked extremely mean (Book 1). A lot bigger than Harry or Ron (Book 1). Large and thuggish (Book 2). About a foot taller than Harry, short growth of wiry bristles, low on his forehead, low rasp of a voice, dull, deep-set eyes (Book 2). Wide and muscly; shorter than Crabbe with short, bristly hair and long, gorilla arms (Book 3).
Relatives/Friends: Crabbe and Malfoy are his best friends.

Important Events:

Book 1, Pg 81-82 - (Harry) was looking at the other boys. Both of them were thickset and looked extremely mean. Standing either side of the pale boy they looked like bodyguards. "Oh, this is Crabbe and this is Goyle..."
"Oh, you're going to fight us, are you?" Malfoy sneered.
"Unless you get out now," said Harry, more bravely than he felt, because Crabbe and Goyle were a lot bigger than him or Ron.
"But we don't feel like leaving, do we, boys? We've eaten all our food and you still seem to have some."
Goyle reached towards the Chocolate Frogs next to Ron - Ron leapt forward, but before he'd so much as touched Goyle, Goyle let out a horrible yell. Scabbers the rat was hanging off his finger, sharp little teeth sunk deep into Goyle's knuckle - Crabbe and Malfoy backed away as Goyle swung Scabbers round and round, howling, and when Scabbers finally flew off and hit the window, all three of them disappeared at once.
Book 1, Pg 114 - There was of course nothing little about Crabbe and Goyle, but as the High Table was full of teachers, neither of them could do more than crack their knuckles and scowl.
Book 1, Pg 164 - ... the scuffles and yelps coming from the whirl of fists that was Neville, Crabbe and Goyle. (Crabbe and Goyle put Neville out cold and he has to go to the hospital wing)
Book 1, Pg 222 - They had hoped that Goyle, who was almost as stupid as he was mean, might be thrown out, but he had passed, too.
Book 2, Pg 75 - Malfoy had stopped right behind Colin, flanked, as he always was at Hogwarts, by his large and thuggish cronies, Crabbe and Goyle.
Book 2, Pg 140 - Harry... lobbed (the firework) into the air; it landed right on target in Goyle's cauldron. Goyle's potion exploded, showering the whole class... Goyle blundered around, his hands over his eyes, which had expanded to the size of dinner plates... Snape finds the firework in the cauldron and threatens to expel whoever threw it...
Book 2, Pg 157 - Crabbe and Goyle, who always did whatever Malfoy did, had signed up to stay over the holidays too.
Book 2, Pg 159-163 - "...it'll be best if you can get something of Crabbe and Goyle's; they're Malfoy's best friends, he'll tell them anything..." said Hermione... "I've filled these (chocolate cakes) with a simple Sleeping Draught. All you have to do is make sure Crabbe and Goyle find them. You know how greedy they are, they're bound to eat them..."
Stage one of the operation went just as smootly as Hermione had said. They lurked in the deserted Entrance Hall after Christmas tea, waiting for Crabbe and Goyle, who had remained alone at the Slytherin table, shoveling down 4th helpings of trifle. Harry had perched the chocolate cakes on the end of the banisters. When they spotted Crabbe and Goyle coming out of the Great Hall, Harry and Ron hid...
"How thick can you get?" Ron whispered... as Crabbe gleefully pointed out the cakes to Goyle and grabbed them. Grinning stupidly, the stuffed the cakes whole into their large mouths. For a moment, both of them chewed greedily, looks of triumph on their faces. Then, without the smallest change of expression, they both keeled over backwards onto the floor.
Harry yanked out a couple of the bristles that covered Goyle's forehead...
Polyjuice Potion colour: Goyle's turned the khaki colour of a bogey.
(Harry's) hands began to grow, the fingers thickened, the nails broadened and the knuckles were bulging like bolts. His shoulder's stretched painfully and a prickling on his forehead told him that hair was creeping down towards his eyebrows; his robes ripped as his chest expanded like a barrel bursting its hoops; his feet were agony in shoes four sizes too small... So this was what it felt like, being Goyle. His large hands trembled, he pulled off his old robes, which were hanging a foot above his ankles, pulled on the spare ones and laced up Goyle's boat-like shoes. He reached up to brush hair out of his eyes and met only the short growth of wiry bristles, low on his forehead. Then he realised that his glsses were clouding his eyes, because Goyle obviously didn't need them. He took them off and called, "Are you two OK?" Goyle's low rasp of a voice issued from his mouth.
(Harry) stepped in front of the mirror. Goyle stared back at him out of dull, deep-set eyes.
Harry looked at Ron, bewildered.
"That looks more like Goyle," said Ron. "That's how he looks every time a teacher asks him a question."
Book 2, Pg 166 - "What's the matter with you two?" Malfoy asked.
Far too late, Harry and Ron forced themselves to laugh, but Malfoy seemed satisfied; perhaps Crabbe and Goyle were always slow on the uptake.
"You must have some idea who's behind it all..." said Harry.
"You know I haven't, Goyle, how many times do I have to tell you?" snapped Malfoy.
"Azkaban - the wizard prison, Goyle," said Malfoy, looking at him in disbelief. "Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backwards."
Book 2, Pg 168 - they crashed up the steps into the dark Entrance Hall, which was full of a muffled pounding coming from the cupboard where they'd locked Crabbe and Goyle. Leaving their shoes outside the cupboard door...
Book 3, Pg 63 - Crabbe and Goyle seemed to exist to do Malfoy's bidding. They were both wide and muscly ... Goyle had short, bristly hair and long, gorilla arms.
Crabbe and Goyle chuckled trollishly.
Book 3, Pg 91 - "It was Malfoy's fault!" snapped Dean Thomas (to Pansy).
Crabbe and Goyle flexed their muscles threateningly.
A large group (of Slytherins) including Crabbe and Goyle were huddled together, deep in conversation.
Book 3, Pgs 194-195 - Lying in a crumpled heap on the ground were Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and Marcus Flint, the Slytherin team captain, all struggling to remove themselves from long, black, hooded robes. It looked as though Malfoy had been standing on Goyle's shoulders... McGonagall gives them all detention... they watched Malfoy fighting to extricate himself from the robe, Goyle's head still stuck inside it.
Book 3, Pgs 206-207 - Harry throws mud at them from under the Invisibility Cloak... Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle spun stupidly on the spot, staring wildly around... Crabbe and Goyle were looking scared. Their bulging muscles were no use against ghosts... Splatter! Crabbe and Goyle cauht some this time. Goyle hopped furiously on the spot, trying to rub it out of his small, dull eyes... Malfoy sees Harry's head, yells and runs away, Crabbe and Goyle follow him.
Book 3, Pg 216 - Malfoy laughs at Hagrid crying over Buckbeak. Hermione slaps him... Harry, Ron, Crabbe and Goyle stood flabergasted as Hermione raised her hand again...
Hermione pulled out her wand. Malfoy stepped backwards. Crabbe and Goyle looked at him for instructions, thoroughly bewildered.
Book 3, Pg 222 - (Harry) couldn't walk to class without Slytherins sticking out their legs and trying to trip him up; Crabbe and Goyle kept popping up wherever he went, and slouching away looking disappointed when they saw him surrounded by people.

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