Trevor

Warning! At least some content in this article is derived from information featured in: Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions & Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery & Harry Potter: Magic Awakened. As such, spoilers will be present within the article.

Trevor was Neville Longbottom’s pet toad, whom he frequently lost during his first year at Hogwarts. Trevor was a gift from Neville’s Great Uncle Algie in recognition of the first time Neville showed magical ability and thus gaining admission to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.^[1] Eventually, Trevor wandered off and joined the other amphibians in and around the Black Lake.^[2]

Biography

Neville's possession

Neville's great uncle Algie used to own Trevor until he gave him to Neville as a gift from him for receiving permission to go to Hogwarts.^[1]

Neville lost Trevor many times. For example, the first time he came to Hogwarts on the Hogwarts Express, Neville lost Trevor but was soon helped by Hermione Granger who met Harry Potter and Ron Weasley during her search.^[3] Neville eventually found Trevor once reaching Hogwarts in one of the boats after Hagrid asked Neville about Trevor.

Professor Filius Flitwick once made Trevor fly around his Charms classroom to skilfully demonstrate the Levitation Charm.^[4]

During a night in 1992, Harry, Ron, and Hermione went to penetrate the Underground Chambers, the trio left the common room but was confronted by Neville and a croaking Trevor until Hermione froze Neville using the Full Body-Bind Curse.^[5]

In Neville's third year, Trevor was part of the Frog Choir when they performed Double Trouble on 1 September.^[6] Later on the school year, Professor Snape made Neville test his Shrinking Solution on the toad with the warning that if made incorrectly, it would likely be poisonous. After Trevor drank the potion, he successfully transformed into a tadpole, much to Neville's delight. However, Professor Snape was displeased and spitefully deducted five points from Gryffindor because Hermione had helped Neville create the potion.^[7]

Harry used Trevor to practise the Summoning Charm in his and Neville's fourth year.^[8]

When Harry encountered Neville in the last carriage of the Hogwarts Express in their fifth year, Neville had a one-handed grip on a struggling Trevor. Later, Neville dumped the toad into Harry's lap so that he could demonstrate the defensive mechanism of his Mimbulus Mimbletonia. This was to Harry's regret when Cho Chang then visited the compartment, as "he would not have chosen to be sitting with Neville and Luna Lovegood, clutching a toad and dripping in Stinksap."^[9] In 1996, Trevor made a bid for freedom on the Hogwarts Express, but Neville caught him again.^[10]

Later life

At some point, Trevor escaped into the Great Lake. Both the pet and the owner felt a sense of relief.^[2] In 2010, Trevor still lived beneath the lake surface,^[11] and Neville, now a professor, sometimes missed the toad. He had found another toad, which he believed was one of Trevor's grandchildren, and decided to keep it as a pet.^[12]

Behind the scenes

• The species of toad used for Trevor in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a smooth sided toad.
• Trevor also appears briefly in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in front of Neville after Professor McGonagall demonstrates a transfiguration spell on her pet hornbill.
• Matthew Lewis, the actor of Neville Longbottom, said that he's had plenty of experience with frogs and toads while growing up.
• A fan-proposed theory stated Trevor was the Animagus form of Neville's Uncle Algie, but this was said to be false by J. K. Rowling.^[13]
• In the Spanish translations of the books, Trevor has been translated to be a turtle instead of a toad.
• In the scene when the trio leaves the common room to save the Philosopher's Stone, Trevor is mistakenly referred to as a female in the German version. All other times he is mentioned, including all other books, he is male.
  • In the Polish version, Trevor was referred to as a female too.
• In the initial PC release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, when Harry has a broomstick battle with Malfoy to retrieve Neville's Remembrall, Neville, upon Harry's retrieval of the Remembrall, learns that Trevor is in the Herbology greenhouse and runs to find him, due to the greenhouses containing carnivorous plants.
• In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Neville finds Trevor in one of the boats (with a little help from Hagrid). In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Neville finds Trevor on the top stair leading to one of the hallways to the Great Hall while Minerva McGonagall is discussing the Sorting Ceremony with the first years.
• In Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, there are many toads living around the Great Lake, and it is possible that one of them is Trevor.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) (briefly)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (briefly)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) (GBA version)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (Disc 2)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
• LEGO Creator: Harry Potter
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
• Pottermore
• Harry Potter (website)
• Harry Potter Trading Card Game
• Harry Potter: The Creature Vault
• LEGO Dimensions
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Indirectly mentioned only) (Gryffindor House only)
• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened (Mentioned in History of Magic classes) (Possible appearance)
• The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac
• Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions

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