Chiyo Kogawa is the flying instructor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Description[]
- Madam Kogawa attended school at Mahoutokoro and eventually worked for the Japanese Ministry of Magic, which is how she met Professor Weasley and was recruited to join Hogwarts. Madam Kogawa is the sort of person who doesn't realise that her talking voice has the volume of a yell, as she's normalised projecting her voice across the Quidditch pitch. Thought to be generally affable, Chiyo becomes another person entirely when it comes to flying and when disciplining students. A bad experience in her try-outs for the Toyohashi Tengu taught her a valuable lesson about honour and trust, both of which she values highly. Any foul sportsmanship on a student's part - blatching, blurting, bumphing, Quaffle-pocking, etc - will have them banned from the pitch quicker than you can say 'Quidditch.'[1]
Biography[]
Unlike most of the other staff at Hogwarts, Chiyo did not attend Hogwarts as a student, having instead grown up and attended Mahoutokoro, a magical school in Japan.
She had plans with her best friend, Asuka, to make it onto the Toyohashi Tengu quidditch team and they trained rigorously, with Chiyo aiming to become Keeper and her friend a Chaser. On the day of their tryouts, Asuka served them both tea and they went to show off their skills. However, within minutes Chiyo immediately noticed something was off: she'd never played so well nor seen her friend perform so amazingly. Chiyo confronted Asuka afterwards, who admitted she'd been panicking so much and wanted them both to make it onto the team together that she'd slipped Felix Felicis into their teas before their tryouts, a potion banned from all competitive events for giving the drinker success in every endeavor they undertook until the potion wore off.
Upset at both this betrayal of trust and having not seen the warning signs beforehand, Chiyo immediately withdrew her name from consideration, explaining she'd been given Felix Felicis but didn't reveal it'd been Asuka that did it, and burned her broom in disgrace. She eventually went on to work for the Japanese Ministry of Magic and met Matilda Weasley during this period near Yokohama harbor. Eventually, Matilda recruited Chiyo to become Hogwarts' flying instructor.
In 1890, when Headmaster Phineas Nigellus Black cancelled Quidditch that year due to an accident the previous school year, Chiyo constantly pestered him and his house-elf, Scrope, to try and reinstate the sport.
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Notes[]
- In The Art and Making of Hogwarts Legacy, Chiyo's house is said to be 'Slytherin,' even though she did not attend Hogwarts.
References[]
- ↑ The Art and Making of Hogwarts Legacy
External links[]
Chiyo Kogawa on Harry Potter Wiki