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A

Animagi - Ability to turn yourself into an animal

Animagus - (n)- A person who can turn themselves into an animal

Apparate- (v)- Ability to make yourself move from place to place almost instantly

Azkaban -(n)- A wizard prison

B

Basilisk - (n)- Known as the King of Serpents, this snake may reach a gigantic size, and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken's egg, hatched beneath a toad. Its methods of killing are most wondrous, for aside for its deadly and venomous fangs, the Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are fixed with the beam of its eye shall suffer instant death. Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it.

Beater - (n)- A Quidditch player that must hit the Bludger with a wooden stick

Bezoar -(n)- A stone taken from the stomach of a goat that will act as an antidote for most poisons

Bludger - (n)- A large jet black ball, hurts a lot if you get hit with it. See Quidditch.

Boggart - (n)- Creature that turns into whatever you fear the most. Its weakness is laughter. The encantation against a boggart is Riddikulus.

C

Chaser -(n)- A Quidditch player that must score using the Quaffle

Codswallop - Not true, a lie

Cornish Pixies -(n)- Electric blue, about eight inches high with pointy faces and a shrill voice

D

Dementor - (n)- A tall, black, cloaked creature; Can determine if you are evil or up to no good. Its kiss sucks the good out of the recipient.

Disapparate- (v) - Ability to remove yourself from somewhere

Droobles Best Blowing Gum - (n)- Can fill a room with bluebell-colored bubbles that refuse to pop for days

Dungbomb - (n)- When one of these is set off it stinks up a large area around it

E

Erised, The Mirror of - (n)- A mirror that shows what you desire most, Erised spelt backwards is desire

F

Floo Powder - (n)- When thrown into a fire it can transport a witch or wizard anywhere connected on the Floo network using fireplaces.

G

Galleon - A gold piece of wizard money

Gnome - Small, leathery looking creature with a large knobby, bald head exactly like a potato

Gillyweed - Plant that allows you to breath underwater

Gryffindor - (1) One of the four greatest wizards of all times, helped construct Hogwarts

(2) A Hogwarts house section

Grim - A giant spectral dog that haunts graveyards

Gringotts - The wizard bank.

Grunnings - A muggle company that makes drills; Mr. Dursley works for this company

H

Hippogriff - Half horse, half bird with gleaming coats of different colors

Hinkypunk - A little one-legged creature that looks like it is made of wisps of smoke; holds a lantern in it's hand and lures travelers into bogs

Hogwarts - School for witches and wizards

Hogwarts Express - The train that brings Hogwarts students to Hogwarts

Howler - A letter that lets out yells one-hundred times louder than usual

Hufflepuff - (1) One of the four greatest wizards of all times, helped construct Hogwarts

(2) A Hogwarts house section

Hungarian Horntail - A type of dragon

I

Invisibility Cloak - A cloak that makes anything beneath it invisible

J

K

Kappa - Creepy water-dwellers that look like scaly monkeys with webbed hands

Knut - A bronze piece of wizard money; 29 Knuts to a Sickle

Kwikspell - A course for squibs and others with poor magical power that helps improve magical power

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M

Mandragora - See Mandrake

Marauders Map - A map that shows every detail of the Hogwarts castle

Mandrake - Is a powerful restorative, they form an essential part of most antidotes; The cry of a full grown Mandrake is fatal to anyone who hears it

Mudblood - Foul name for someone who is Muggle born

Muggle - A person with absolutely no magical powers

N

N.E.W.T. - Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests

O

O.W.L.s - Ordinary Wizarding Levels, a test to test magical skills

P

Parseltounge - Someone who can speak to and understand snakes

Patronus - A spell that can ward of dementors; Every wizard's Patronus has a different shape

Pepper Imps - Breath fire on your friends

Q

Quaffle - A large red ball, about the size of a soccer ball

Quidditch - A wizard game played on broomsticks

R

Ravenclaw - (1) One of the four greatest wizards of all times, helped construct Hogwarts

(2) A Hogwarts house section

Red Caps - Nasty goblin like creatures that lurk wherever there had been bloodshed

Remembrall - Tells you if you have forgotten something to do

S

Seeker - The most important Quidditch player, has to catch the Snitch

Sickle - A silver piece of wizard money; 17 Sickles to a Galleon

Slytherin - (1) One of the four greatest wizards of all times, helped construct Hogwarts

(2) A Hogwarts house section

Snitch - A small golden ball with silver wings

Squib - Born to a wizard family, but has no magical powers

T

Toothflossing Stringmints - Cleans your teeth like floss

U

V

Venemous Tentacula - Spiky, dark red plant with long feelers

W

Whomping Willow - A very violent tree that stood alone in the middle of the school grounds

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