Viktor Krum

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Harry Potter character
Image:Viktor krum hpgf.jpg Stanislav Ianevski as Viktor Krum in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Viktor Krum
Gender	Male
Hair Colour	Black
Eye Colour	Brown
School	Durmstrang
Parentage	Pure Blood
Allegiance	{{{allegiance\|Unknown}}}}}}
Film Portrayer	Stanislav Ianevski
First Appearance	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Viktor Krum is a fictional character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In the movie adaptation of the book, he is played by actor Stanislav Ianevski from Bulgaria.

His surname may be derived from Krum, a Khan that ruled Bulgaria in the 9th century.

Krum is a Seeker for the Bulgarian Quidditch team. He is considered a genius by many, having entered the International Quidditch League while still being a youth attending wizarding school at Durmstrang.

Krum and some of his fellow students travel to Hogwarts to enter themselves as candidates in the Triwizard Tournament. Krum becomes the Durmstrang champion. He is often viewed both with suspicion, due to Durmstrang's reputation for teaching the Dark Arts, as well as with admiration for his feats (mostly from giggling girls).

In the movie, Rita Skeeter refers to him as the "Bulgarian Bon-Bon"; Victor means winner or conqueror.

Krum's wand is made of hornbeam and has a dragon heartstring core. It is ten and a quarter inches long. Mr. Ollivander pronounces it 'a Gregorovitch creation,' and 'rather thicker than one usually sees . . . quite rigid'.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In the Quidditch World Cup title game between Bulgaria and Ireland, he catches the snitch, ending the game while Ireland wins the cup.

Whilst competing the Triwizard Tournament, he finds himself falling for studious Hermione Granger. He takes to visiting the Hogwarts library frequently just to watch her. Hermione later reveals that he told her "...he'd been coming up to the library every day to try and talk to me, but he hadn't been able to pluck up the courage!" In the Second Task, Krum has to retrieve Hermione, chosen as the most valuable person to him. Krum's relationship with Hermione provokes jealousy from Ron Weasley.

Rita Skeeter, looking for revenge on Hermione, makes up a story for Witch Weekly, claiming she was toying with both Krum and Harry's affections. Harry became sick of telling people that Hermione wasn't his girlfriend and, when questioned, he told Krum that "We're friends. She's not my girlfriend and she never has been. It's just that Skeeter woman making things up."

At the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire he returns to Durmstrang on their ship which rises out of the lake beside Hogwarts. He does not make appearance in the fifth book, but Hermione writes at least one long letter to him that year, showing that they maintain contact.

Krum's first name is a homonym of victor, meaning winner or conqueror, in Latin; it is a common name in Russia and other slavic nations.

His last name is shared with the early Bulgarian khan Krum; this is shown in the movie spelled in Faux Cyrillic as "КЯЦМ" (actually something like "kyatsm"), on a card mosaic held by a cheering crowd at the Quidditch World Cup.

It was once believed that Hermione and Krum would kiss in the film version of the fourth book. No kiss between the two is ever shown in the film or the book, but Ginny Weasley mentions in passing in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince that they had kissed, allegedly in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Hermione, however, does not end up visiting him in Bulgaria. Subsequently, Ron asks Harry if Hermione had ever kissed Krum. Harry believes she had but did not want to tell Ron who nonetheless "gather[ed] the worst from the look on Harry's face."

We also meet, briefly, Viktor Krum's parents in the chapter "The Third Task" in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He seems to have inherited his mother's dark hair, and his father's large nose.

J. K. Rowling has stated that Krum will make an appearance in Book 7.

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