Every State’s Favorite Harry Potter Character

The cast of Harry Potter reunited for the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts on New Year’s Day. This beloved cast represents our favorite characters from our favorite series and took us back to when it all started 20 years ago with the first movie.

If Hogwarts were a real school, we would have loved to give out a scholarship to a new wizard student. But since that’s not the case, to commemorate this incredible anniversary, Scholarship Institute found out which Harry Potter character is the favorite in every state. Check out our map below to see which is your state’s favorite!

Favorite Harry Potter characters in each state
Favorite Harry Potter characters

Interesting Findings and Facts

  • Dumbledore is the favorite in 18 states, making him the most popular character in the nation
  • J.K. Rowling herself chose Alan Rickman to play Professor Snape. She gave him exclusive details of Snape’s background that weren’t known until the last book so that he could properly play the character.
  • Danielle Radcliffe went through 160 pairs of glasses throughout the filming of all Harry Potter movies
  • Only one character was the favorite in a single state—and it was Harry Potter himself
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was the highest-grossing movie of 2001
  • Utah had a five-way tie between Harry, Hermione, Dumbledore, Snape, and Voldemort

Methodology

We looked at Google Trends for 13 Harry Potter characters over the course of 2021 and analyzed the search trends for each state to find out which is every state’s favorite.

StateCharacter
AlabamaDumbledore
AlaskaHagrid/McGonagall
ArizonaDobby
ArkansasRon/Malfoy
CaliforniaHermione
ColoradoDumbledore
ConnecticutDobby
DelawareDobby
District of ColumbiaDumbledore
FloridaDumbledore/Hagrid
GeorgiaDobby
HawaiiMcGonagall
IdahoHermione
IllinoisDumbledore
IndianaHermione
IowaHermione
KansasHermione
KentuckyDobby
LouisianaDobby
MaineNeville
MarylandHermione
MassachusettsDumbledore
MichiganDumbledore
MinnesotaHermione
MississippiDobby
MissouriDumbledore
MontanaDumbledore
NebraskaNeville
NevadaDobby
New HampshireVoldemort
New JerseyHermione
New MexicoDumbledore
New YorkDumbledore
North CarolinaDumbledore
North DakotaSnape
OhioDobby
OklahomaHermione
OregonDumbledore
PennsylvaniaHermione
Rhode IslandDobby
South CarolinaSnape
South DakotaHagrid
TennesseeDobby
TexasDumbledore
UtahHarry/Hermione/Dumbledore/Snape/Voldemort
VermontRon/Sirius
VirginiaDumbledore
WashingtonDumbledore
West VirginiaSirius
WisconsinDumbledore
WyomingMalfoy