Character:Amycus Carrow
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Amycus Carrow is a Death Eater and the brother of Alecto Carrow. They were not sent to Azkaban for their crimes after the First War (HBP2). Amycus is hunched, squat, pale, and has tiny eyes; he has the Dark Mark (DH30).
Amycus took part in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower. He witnessed Albus Dumbledore's death (HBP27). After the murder, he Disapparated from outside the Hogwarts grounds along with Alecto, Severus, Draco and Rowle (HBP28).
After the Fall of the Ministry, Amycus took the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts (DH11). He and Alecto, who taught Muggle Studies, were placed in charge of discipline. Amycus taught his students the Dark Arts; regular activities included practicing the Cruciatus Curse on students placed in detention (DH28).
In May, 1998, Voldemort found out that Harry Potter was searching for Horcruxes (DH27), and ordered Alecto and Amycus to watch over Ravenclaw Tower, which would certainly be Harry's first destination when searching for Ravenclaw's diadem. Alecto was patrolling the common room on the night that Harry arrived. She summoned the Dark Lord with the use of her Dark Mark (DH29), which frightened Amycus (DH30); they both knew what had happened to the Malfoys after Harry escaped from Malfoy Manor (DH24).
Amycus sought frantically to enter the common room, but he was unable to do so until Minerva McGonagall arrived and answered the knocker's question—"Where do Vanished objects go?" for him. Inside, he saw his sister Stunned, and planned to blame the summoning of Voldemort on wayward Ravenclaws, who hypothetically had forced Alecto to touch her forearm.
McGonagall protested, and claimed that she would not allow Amycus to have students punished for his incompetence. He sneered and spat at her, which provoked Harry's anger enough for his presence to be known at last: Harry cast the Cruciatus Curse on Amycus, causing great pain on the Death Eater. He was unconscious for a few moments; when he came around, McGonagall used Imperio against him. Amycus handed both his and his sister's wands to Minerva, and lay on the ground beside Alecto. McGonagall conjured ropes to bind them together, and a net to cover them; they were left dangling from the ceiling (DH30).
