Malodora Grymm

Malodora Grymm was a medieval hag and witch featured on a Famous Witches and Wizards Card. She is known for using a Beautification Potion to disguise her appearance, allowing her to marry a king. She subsequently used a charmed mirror to imprison him and his court, seizing control of the kingdom. Her story, which serves as a cautionary fairytale, originates from supplementary materials and she is not mentioned in the original seven Harry Potter novels.

Living during the medieval era, Malodora, a hag, devised a plan to marry a king. She used a powerful Beautification Potion to transform her hag-like features into those of a beautiful young maiden. In this disguise, she successfully wooed and married the unsuspecting monarch. After the wedding, she revealed her deceitful nature. Malodora used a specially charmed mirror to trap not only the king but his entire court within its reflection, effectively removing all opposition. With the kingdom's rightful rulers imprisoned, she declared herself the new queen and ruled alone. As a symbol of her triumph and true identity, she replaced the kingdom's banners with ones bearing her own, undisguised hag's face (video game, Pottermore).

In her true form, Malodora Grymm was a hag, a creature known for its grotesque and ugly appearance. However, through the use of a Beautification Potion, she was able to assume the guise of a beautiful and charming maiden, which was convincing enough to fool a king and his court. Malodora's actions reveal a personality that was highly ambitious, cruel, vain, and exceptionally deceitful. She possessed a strong lust for power and was willing to use powerful magic and deception to achieve her goals, showing no remorse for imprisoning those she tricked.

• Potions: Malodora was skilled in potion-making, specifically in the creation or use of a Beautification Potion potent enough to maintain a complete physical disguise for an extended period.
• Charms: She was proficient with complex Charms, as demonstrated by her ability to enchant a mirror to act as a magical prison for a large number of people simultaneously.

• Beautification Potion: The key instrument of her deception, allowing her to hide her true form.
• Charmed Mirror: A powerful magical object she used to imprison the king and his court after her marriage.

Malodora's only known significant relationship was with the unnamed king she married. This relationship was built entirely on her deception and was merely a means to an end for her to seize power. She viewed him not as a husband but as an obstacle to be removed once he had served his purpose.

• Malodora: The name is a portmanteau of the Latin prefix mal-, meaning “bad” or “evil,” and “odor.” The resulting name sounds very similar to the word “malodorous,” which means “foul-smelling,” a fitting description for a hag.
• Grymm: Her surname is a clear and direct allusion to the Brothers Grimm, German academics who collected and published European folktales in the 19th century. Many of their stories, such as Snow White, feature wicked queens, magic mirrors, and deceptive witches, and Malodora's entire story is structured like a classic Grimm fairytale.

Malodora Grymm does not appear, nor is she mentioned, in any of the seven original Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling. Her character and backstory were created for the Famous Witches and Wizards Card series, specifically as a collectible found in the video game adaptations of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The information was later presented on the Pottermore website (video game, Pottermore).