Hokey - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2005)

An elderly house elf in the service of Hepzibah Smith, Hokey performed numerous requests for mistress, serving her loyally and faithfully despite the constant stream of instructions placed upon her. Among many of those tasks, Hokey was to flatter her mistress about how she looked, which some people remarked were all lies she was told to say to fulfil her contract.

During Tom Riddle's time employed at Borgin and Burkes, Hokey witness several meetings between his mistress and the sales assistant.

On the afternoon of their final meeting, Hokey helped Hepzibah into her slippers, before answering his mistress' hurried command to get the door. Showing Tom into the room, she rushed off to bring the young assistant some of Hepzibah's homemade cakes, before lifting the enchantments protecting Helga Hufflepuff's Cup and Salazar Slytherine's Locket and returning with the treasures in presentation boxes. Setting down the boxes on her lap, Hokey stood by and watched Tom examine the Cup, taking it off her mistress when they were done with it.

Arriving for a fourth time, she took the box back to their hiding place, following his mistress' direction to seal them up with the "usual enchantments."

Two days later, Hokey was accused of the murder of Hepzibah Smith and was arrested by the Ministry of Magic. Having had her memories altered by Tom Riddle, Hokey confessed to have put a rare and dangerous poison into her evening hot chocolate, mistaking it to be sugar. She was convicted with charges of manslaughter, not looking further into the events after obtaining a supposed admission of her guilt, placing it on her having lost her faculties in her old age. Nobody on the Wizardgomot realised Hokey or Smith's connection to the two treasures of Hogwarts, which the Smith family discovered were missing by the time she was sentenced.

In an effort to discover the truth behind the early years of Lord Voldermort's rise to power, Dumbledore located Hokey and extracted her memories, in a hope that it could determine how to defeat the Dark Lord and also posthumously pardon her for Voldermort's crimes - for Hokey died shortly after the memory was removed.

However all the memory managed to prove was that Tom Riddle knew about her possession of these two artefacts. It did not prove that he was responsible for killing the descendant of Hufflepuff and stealing her personal treasures.


"Lord Voldermort's Request"

Witnessing Hokey's memories in the pensive, Harry Potter expressed his disgust at the treatment of the House Elf, finding it difficult to admit that he shared the sympathy and values of Hermione Granger's "Society for the Preservation of Elfish Welfare."


Appearances:

1. "Lord Voldermort's Request" (First and Only Appearance/Flashback Only)

Prince Doran Martell - A Game of Thrones (1996)

The current head of House Martell and ruler of the Kingdom of Dorne, Doran Nymeros Martell was the husband of the Lady Mellario, fathering three children Arianne, Quentyn and Trystane. He was the Lord of the Sunspear, living in the Dornish seat of power.

He was the brother of Oberyn and Elia Martell, holding great resentment towards Tywin Lannister and his bannermen for the deaths of his sister, niece and nephew during the Sacking of King's Landing.


"Sansa V"

After Joffrey Barathen is made the King of Westeros, Grand Maester Pycelle reads out a Royal Decree at court, which states that all those named in his list must come to King's Landing and swear fealty to the new monarch or they would be seen as enemy to the crown. Doran's name was on the list as well as all of his sons, ignorantly overlooking the custom of the Dornish that states that the eldest child (Arianne) will next be in line for the title of ruler of the Sunspear.

Sansa Stark internally questioned the number and mused how it would take a lot of Ravens to get the message out, as well as how many enemies that the crown appeared to have.


"Eddard VX"

Whilst visiting the captured Eddard Stark in the black cells, Varys mentioned that Cersei will visit him tomorrow to discuss terms of an allainace - sparing him from the King's Justice if he swore fealty to Joffrey.

When asked why, Varys replied that the Queen Regent knew she had many enemies and did not think that the Martells would ever bend the knee to a Baratheon King when they had any ties to House Lannister.


Appearances: 

1. None

Mentions:

1. "Sansa V" (First Mention)
2. "Eddard VX"
3. "Appendix: House Martell" (Final Mention)

King Argilac Durrandon - The World of Ice and Fire (2014)

Although the power that the Storm Kings of House Durrandon was greatly diminished from what they used to own, King Argilac was a "belligerent" leader, eager to keep the title of the Storm King and challenge any of the other six warring Kingdoms that attempted to undermine the rule of the Stormlands. He was the grandson of Arrec Durrandon and father to his only daughter Argella.

From a young age, Argilac took part in battle, defending his lands from an attack by the Martells of Dorne. He was also driven by the thought of gold and glory, joining forces with an alliance to combat the "imperialist tigers" from Volantis, decided that he would lead an army of his soldiers east and oppose the armies wanting to reclaim the city of Myr (the "Disputed Lands") for themselves.

Twenty years later, Argilac also killed the King of the Reach Garse VII Gardner during the battle of Summerfield. He had a violent enmity with Princess Meria Martell, calling her the "Yellow Toad of Dorne".

As he aged, his fighting technique and body began to get affected and weakened. After hearing that his grandfather had lost the Trident to the forces of House Hoare and it's leader Harren the Black, Argilac began to feel paranoid, seeing it as a threat to his dominance over the Stormlands. In an attempt to cement his power, he offered his daughter Princess Argelle to King Aegon I Targaryen as a bride, promising her an impressive dowry of "all the lands east of the Gods Eye". However Aegon declined the offer, reminding him that not only did he have two wives, but also that the lands he had been offering as a dowry also belonged to the Lord of Harrenhal for many years. He reacted with fury at the counter proposal that King Aegon I had proposed - Argelle's hand and all the promised lands, with the addition of Massey's Hook and the lands "south to the river Wendwater and the headwaters of the Mander," which would be given to Lord Orys Baratheon. Argilac violently refused this, believing that Orys was the bastard brother of Aegon, and declaring that he would not let his daughter marry a bastard. As an act of defiance, he had the hands of Aegon's envoy cut off and sent back to Dragonstone in a box, attaching a note that famously said "These are the only hands your bastard shall have."

Argilac refused the King's royal decree that there would now only be one King of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, whilst also declining the command to bend the knee and ensure the continuation of his lands and title as a vassal - a sign of mercy and good faith on King Aegon's part . He called for his banners, receiving the aid of the full force of the Stormlands and prepared to defend themselves against the Targaryens, who threatened to end all those who opposed Aegon's rule.

King Argilac gathered his forces in Storm's End, his ancestral home and seat of power, where he had heard the news of King Harren's death and the destruction of Harrenhal by dragonfire. Deciding that he would not allow himself to die in a manner similar to that of Harren, King Argilac rode into battle to meet his enemies on the battlefield.

He eventually met with the Targaryen forces (led by Orys, Hand of the King) south of the Bronzegate one stormy day. Believing them to be at a disadvantage from the weather, Argilac called for an attack (in a battle that would become known as the Last Storm), ignoring the council of his commanders to wait for more favourable conditions for all. Although they managed to cut through many of the Baratheon forces, they were met by Queen Rhaenys and Meraxes, who burned Argilac's personal guard. He was thrown from the saddle of his horse, who was so scared at the sight of the dragon. Hower he continued to fight, cutting his way through troops until he came face to face with Orys. He refused to stand down when offered by Lord Barartheon. Managing to wound Orys, he was felled by the younger lord in single combat.

In honour of his valour and his daughter (who the Hand did indeed marry), Orys Baratheon took on the family sigil and words of House Durrandom, as well as the castle of Storm's End.


Appearances:

1. None

Mentions:

1. "The Doom of Valyria (First Mentioned)
2. "The Conquest" 
3. "Andals in the Stormland"
4. "House Baratheon" (Last Mentioned)