The following terms appear in the
Harry Potter story by J. K. Rowling.
To avoid revealing some of the plot, important details are hidden.
Hold your mouse pointer over the paw print to see the secret.
More information can be found by following the year and page numbers in parentheses.
Riddle: Harry learns the fundamentals of Wizardry at Hogwarts, so surely
after three years there he can
repair broken glasses with his wand and the incantation "Reparo" (Y4P169).
Why then does the cover of Year 4 show Harry with a
wand in his hand, and tape on his glasses?
The Characters Including Ghosts, Elves, and Goblins
Trelawney, Sybill, eccentric divination professor (fortune teller) (Y4P199)
Umbridge, Dolores Jane, not much taller standing than sitting,
says 'Hem, hem' a lot,
Senior Undersecretary to the Minister,
Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher (Y5P139)
Voldemort, Lord (VOLE-de-more), You-Know-Who, powerful, evil wizard
Weasley, Arthur, Ministry of Magic, fascinated by muggle objects (Y2P30)
Weasley children, Bill, Charley, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny are all redheads
Weasley, Fred and George, funny, clever, mischievous twins, want to open a joke shop someday
Weasley, Ginny, youngest in family, likes Harry
Weasley, Molly, Ron's mother, short, plump, very kind face, treats Harry like a son (Y2P30)
Weasley, Ron, Harry's roommate and best friend, flaming red hair and freckles
Merman, Mermaid, part person, part fish, grayish skin, long, wild, dark green hair, yellow eyes, broken teeth,
silver tail, carries spear, lives in lake by Hogwarts (Y4P497)
Metamorphmagus, can change appearance at will (Y5P52)
Mudblood, insulting name for wizard born of Muggle parents
Muggle, non-magical person
Seeker, Quidditch player tries to catch Snitch for 150 points
Squib, non-magical person from a wizard family (Y2P145)
Troll, viscous, stupid creature, 12 feet tall, with small bald head (Y1P174)
Veela, beautiful creatures, moon-bright skin, white-gold hair, bewitch men who hear them (Y4P103)
Animals
Aragog, giant spider in Forbidden Forest raised by Hagrid (Y2P276)
Blast-Ended Skrewt, looks like a cross between a giant scorpion
and elongated crab, has a sting, a blasting end and a sucker. (Y4P294)
Basilisk, large, poisonous serpent with a deadly stare, born from a chicken's egg,
hatched beneath a toad, subdued by crowing rooster (Y2P290)
Buckbeak, Hagrid's pet Hippogriff (Y3P115)
Crookshanks, Hermione's large ginger cat who can sense evil (Y3P60)
Fluffy, Hagrid's vicious, three-headed dog, soothed by music (Y1P160)
Grim, death omen, very big, with wide, gleaming eyes (Y1P33)
Grindylow, green water demon with sharp little horns, pointed fangs (Y3P153, Y4P495)
Hedwig, Harry's snowy owl, gift from Hagrid (Y1P81)
Hippogriff, large creature, half bird, half horse, bow before approaching (Y3P114)
Mrs. Norris, Filch's skeletal, gray cat (Y1P132)
Nagini, large snake provides venom to sustain Voldemort (Y4P7)
Niffler, fluffy and black with long snout, digs in earth for treasure (Y4P542)
Pigwidgeon (Pig), Ron's owl (Y4P56)
Scabbers, Ron's rat (Y3P58)
Thestral, great, black, winged horses with a
dragonish face, neck, and skeletal body.
They pull the carriages taking students from the train to Hogwarts castle (Y5P198)
Unicorn, beautiful, magical creature, horn and tail hair used in Potions,
silver blood can sustain life at terrible price (Y1P250, 258, Y4P484)
Other
Apparate, transport from one place to another (Y4P66)
Avada Kedavra, unforgivable killing curse, sounds like Abra Kadabra (Y4P215)
Azkaban, island prison guarded by Dementors (Y3P188)
Beauxbatons (BO-ba-tons) Academy of Magic, France
Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans
include toast, coconut, strawberry, curry, grass, coffee, sardine, liver, and earwax (Y1P103)
Bludger, jet-black Quidditch ball that tries to knock players off their brooms,
Beaters give protection
Boggart, shape-shifter that appears in the form of what you are imagining
Burrow, The, Weasley family home, many rooms, large garden, village of Ottery St. Catchpole (Y2P32, Y3P70)
Butterbeer, a tasty, foaming, hot drink served in Hogsmeade (Y3P158), also in bottles
Chamber of Secrets, Salazar Slytherin's sealed room to be opened by his true heir (Y2P150)
Chocolate Frogs, include cards of famous witches and wizards (Y1P102)
Common Room, a safe, comfortable, circular room for meeting and study, one for each house (Y1P130)
Monster Book of Monsters, bites and scuttles away, stroke the spine to tame it
N.E.W.T., Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test, for highest Hogwarts qualification
Nimbus 2000, Harry's first broomstick (Y1P164)
Ollivanders, wand shop in Diagon Alley since 382 BC (Y1P82)
Omnioculars, binoculars featuring instant replay and slow-motion (Y4P93)
Order of the Phoenix, a secret society Dumbledore founded with about 20 members
(Y5P67)
O.W.L., Ordinary Wizarding Levels examinations at yearend (Y2P46)
Owlery, cold, drafty, circular stone room, top of West Tower has hundreds of owls (Y4P229)
Parseltongue, how a Parselmouth talks to snakes (Y2P195)
Patronus conjured with incantation "expecto patronum" can provide protection from Dementors (Y3P237)
Pensieve, a basin that holds memories and thoughts (Y4P583)
Polyjuice Potion, transforms you into someone else (Y2P159)
Portkey, ordinary object used for traveling, you just need to touch it (Y4P70)
Quaffle, bright-red, soccer-size Quidditch ball, Chasers throw through hoops to score 10 points (Y1P167)
Quidditch, broomstick soccer;
seven players on each team: three Chasers, two Beaters, a Keeper, a Seeker;
four balls: a Quaffle, two Bludgers, a Snitch; and six tall goal posts (Y1P167, Y3P143)
Quibbler, alternate newspaper edited by Luna Lovegood's father (Y5P193)
Ravenclaw House, flag is bronze eagle on blue field, house of witty and eager learners
Remembrall, marble-sized glass ball glows scarlet if you forget something (Y1P145)
Riddle House, in Little Hangleton, 200 miles from Hogwarts (Y4P15),
where Tom Marvolo's father and grandparents lived
Room of Requirement, is a room that a person can only enter
when they have real need of it. (Y5P386, Y6P452)
Shrieking Shack, Hogsmeade haunted house
Sickle, silver coin, equals 29 knutes
Skele-Gro, drink for regrowing bones (Y2P174)
Slytherin House, flag is silver serpent on green field, cunning and sly students live here
Sneakoscope lights up and spins if an untrustworthy person is near (Y3P10)
Snitch, fast, gold, walnut-sized, silver-winged Quidditch ball, worth 150 points,
game ends when caught by Seeker
Snogging, cuddle and kiss (British informal). (Y6P287)
Sorting Hat, patched, frayed, and dirty, assigns new students to the four houses with a song (Y1P117)
Splinching, the separation of random body parts
when the mind is insufficiently determined during Apparition. (Y6P385)
Three Broomsticks, Hogsmeade pub (Y3P200)
Timeturner necklace for going back in time (Y3P395)
Unforgivable Curses, Avada Kedavra, Imperius, and Cruciatus are cruel and illegal (Y4P217)
Whomping Willow, large, violent tree on the edge of the Forbidden Forest (Y2P74)
WWN, Wizarding Wireless Network (Y4P391)
Zonko’s, a joke shop in Hogsmeade
The Books
by J. K. Rowling
Year 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997)
Year 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1999)
Year 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
Year 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
Year 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
Year 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
Year 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
Quote
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?
You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of
great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself
most plainly when you have need of him. How else could you produce that
particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night. -- Dumbledore,
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, page 427
Some words such as colour and realise were changed
to color and realize for the American version.
Of course Fred and I managed to keep our peckers up somehow was changed to
Fred and I managed to keep our spirits up somehow (page 227).
But why was satsuma changed to walnut (page 506)?
