So who did Peter Mullan play in “Harry Potter,” precisely? He performed Corban Yaxley, a member of the Darkish Lord Voldemort’s military of Dying Eaters (Voldemort was performed by a number of actors all through the collection, with Ralph Fiennes reverse Mullan because the villain). Fortunately for Mullan, contemplating that he clearly did not take pleasure in his time within the “Potter” movies, he solely appeared within the first half of the ultimate installment, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Half 1.” (Yaxley’s character does seem extra within the books, but it surely is sensible that lots of his different appearances have been minimize from the movies for brevity).
Yaxley is type of a run-of-the-mill Dying Eater the place the group is anxious; he, like many different Dying Eaters, disavows Voldemort when the Darkish Lord disappears, solely to beg for forgiveness from his grasp upon his return. He most prominently seems in “Deathly Hallows — Half 1” through the sequence the place Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) eat Polyjuice Potion and infiltrate the Ministry of Magic to trace down one among Voldemort’s Horcruxes. It is too dangerous he apparently did not benefit from the expertise.