Percival Graves — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Character Profile

Percival Graves — Character Profile

Alignment

Villain

Species

Human

Abilities

Dark arts, Wand magic, Espionage, Manipulation, Combat

• Strength: 7.5/10
• Intelligence: 8.5/10
• Charisma: 8/10
• Morality: 2/10
• Influence: 8.5/10

Affiliations

• Harry Potter universe

Quick Facts about Percival Graves

Education

Durmstrang

Occupation

murderer, leader, seers

Hair Color

Blond hair

First Appearance

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Manner of Death

Homicide

Percival Graves's Known Relations

• Bathilda Bagshot — Relative
• Albus Dumbledore — Enemy
• Newt Scamander — Enemy
• Theseus Scamander — Enemy

Percival Graves appears in 5 titles

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) — character page
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) — character page
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) — character page
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) — character page

Character Facts

Played by

Colin Farrell

Appears in

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (3)

• Percival Graves — Meta Disguised Identity — Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp)

  Graves serves as the public facade while Grindelwald secretly inhabits his form.

• Percival Graves — Conflict Accuser — Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne)

  Graves uses his authority to falsely implicate Newt in a grand conspiracy.

• Percival Graves — Conflict Memory Target — Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler)

  Graves plans to erase Jacob's mind to maintain magical secrecy.

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