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Hermione Granger – Harry Potter1382

The worldwide ranking generated by 925 votes

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Hermione Granger – Harry Potter1382

Maleficent – Sleeping Beauty1319

Galadriel – The Lord of the Rings1268

Wanda Maximoff – The Scarlet Witch – MCU1253

The Halliwell Sisters – Charmed1250

Princess Zelda1221

The White Witch – The Chronicles of Narnia1215

Karaba the Sorceress – Kirikou1215

Elphaba / The Wicked Witch of the West – Wicked / The Wizard of Oz1197

#10

Sabrina Spellman – Sabrina the Teenage Witch1190

#11

The Evil Queen – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs1188

#12

Magica De Spell – DuckTales1183

#13

Glinda / The Good Witch of the South – Wicked / The Wizard of Oz1183

#14

Mary Poppins1178

#15

Kiki – Kiki's Delivery Service1177

#16

Yennefer of Vengerberg – The Witcher1162

#17

Melisandre – Game of Thrones1147

#18

Willow Rosenberg – Buffy1132

#19

Samantha – Bewitched1102

#20

The Sanderson Sisters – Hocus Pocus1038

What the community says

Hermione Granger – Harry Potter leads with an ELO of 1,382, ahead of Maleficent – Sleeping Beauty (1,319) and Galadriel – The Lord of the Rings (1,268). Ranked over 925 duels between 20 contenders, last updated October 6, 2026.

Discover and vote for your favorite witch or sorceress among 20 pop culture icons: Hermione, Maleficent, Yennefer, Elphaba, and more…

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.