Today we explore which Harry Potter character best fits each of the 16 personality types. Do you influence those around you in a subtle and understated way like Albus Dumbledore, an INFJ? Or do you like to have fun and live in the moment like Ron Weasley, an ESFP?
Take a look below to see which Harry Potter character you are based on your personality type. If you don’t know your personality type, you can take our free 5-minute personality test.
Don’t forget to check out the 16 personality types as Hogwarts Houses to see which House the Sorting Hat would put you in based on your personality type.
16 Personality Types as Harry Potter Characters
INFP: Luna Lovegood
Luna Lovegood is a typical INFP. She lives in her head and is highly imaginative. Moreover, she is adaptable and accepting of people.
ENFP: Nymphadora Tonks
Nymphadora Tonks is an ENFP. She is warm, friendly and full of ideas. In fact, ENFPs are one of the personality types most likely to have purple hair. Professor Lupn, an INTJ, would be Nymphadora’s perfect personality match.
INFJ: Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore is an INFJ. He influences those around him in a subtle and understated way that is highly typical of INFJs.
ENFJ: Lily Potter
Lily Potter is an ENFJ. She is a diligent student and even became Head Girl at Hogwarts. She is empathetic and self-sacricial to a fault.
INTP: Arthur Weasley
Arthur Weasley is an INTP. He is deeply interested in understanding how things work. He is naturally curious and goes to great lengths to understand muggles.
ENTP: Fred & George Weasley
Fred and George Weasley are typical ENTPs. They are quick-witted, inventive and there’s nothing they love more than practical jokes.
INTJ: Severus Snape
Professor Snape is an INTJ. He has hunches and often just knows when Harry is up to no good, even without any concrete evidence.
ENTJ: Lord Voldemort
Voldemort is an unhealthy ENTJ. He enjoys being in the spotlight and is obsessed with power, which is typical of an unhealthy ENTJ.
ISFJ: Neville Longbottom
Neville Longbottom is an ISFJ. He is kind, sensitive and deeply corageous in a way that isn’t obvious until you really get to know him.
ESFJ: Mrs Weasley
Molly Wesley is an ESFJ. She is one of the most caring characters and is an amazing mum who always looks after her family is every way possible.
ISTJ: Hermione Granger
Hermione is an ISTJ. She is the perfect student who prefers to follow the rules, which sometimes causes tension with Harry and Ron.
ESTJ: Professor Umbridge
Professor Umbridge is an unhealthy ESTJ. She is obsessed with maintaining control and has little empathy, which is typical of an unhealthy ESTJ.
ISFP: Harry Potter
Harry Potter is an ISFP. He has a strong sense of what’s right and wrong. Plus, he stays true to those values no matter what happens.
ESFP: Ron Weasley
Ron Weasley is an ESFP. He likes to have fun and lives in the moment. He’s definitely one to put off his studies in favor of an adventure.
ISTP: Viktor Krum
Viktor Krum is an ISTP. He is calm and collected. Moreover, he is one of the best Quidditch players to ever exist and ISTPs are often highly adept at sports.
ESTP: Ginny Weasley
Ginny Weasley is an ESTP. She is logical and dynamic. In addition, she’s a talented Quidditch player and is quick to respond to thing in the moment.
16 Personality Types of Other Harry Potter Characters
There are some other key personalities in Harry Potter missing from the above list. What’s Draco Malfoy’s personality type? Well, he’s an ESTJ, of course, the same as his father, Lucius Malfoy!
Then there is another ESTJ, Mad-Eye Moody, albeit a healthy ESTJ this time. You have the Dursley’s; Vernon and Aunt Petunia are also ESTJs and Dudley Dursley is an ESFP.
The popular and much loved hero Cedric Diggory would naturally be an ESFJ and Cho Chang would be an ISFJ. And last, but by no means least in terms of impact on the whole story, Bellatrix Lestrange has to be an ESFP.
We’ve looked at the personality types of Harry Potter characters but what about perfect personality pairings? Ginny Weasley (ESTP) and Harry Potter (ISFP), Ron (ESFP) and Hermione (ISTJ) and Lupin (INTJ) and Tonks (ENFP) would all be perfect personality type matches on So Syncd.
And it’s no wonder, you can see how the personality types of these Harry Potter characters are compatible! They have just the right amount of differences to create a spark and just the right amount of similarities to really understand each other.
16 Personality Types
Why not check out our post about the 16 personality types as spirit animals. Or, if you are a Pokemon fan like I am, you can find out which of the ORIGINAL Pokemon you would be according to your personality type.
