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Names
Verbs
Adjectives
Names
To start with the obvious, names of people and individual animals (e.g. Crookshanks) are always capitalised. So are names of places (e.g. Godric’s Hollow).
NB Colin’s surname is usually spelt ‘Creevey’ but is also ‘Creevy’ in early editions of CoS.
Ernie the Hufflepuff is both Macmillan (CoS, OotP) and McMillan (PoA).
Verbs
These are usually lower-case. Most of the exceptions are related to spells:
Charmed
Dark (particularly in HBP - usually ‘dark’ in the earlier books and sometimes in HBP, too)
Imperturbable
Imperiused
Petrified
Stupefied/Stunned
Transfigured
Unplottable
Vanished
(See also The wizarding world)
Verbs
Adjectives
Names
To start with the obvious, names of people and individual animals (e.g. Crookshanks) are always capitalised. So are names of places (e.g. Godric’s Hollow).
NB Colin’s surname is usually spelt ‘Creevey’ but is also ‘Creevy’ in early editions of CoS.
Ernie the Hufflepuff is both Macmillan (CoS, OotP) and McMillan (PoA).
Verbs
These are usually lower-case. Most of the exceptions are related to spells:
- Banish or banish (in earlier editions)
Confund
Cruciate
Disarm
Disillusion
Imperturb (transitive - i.e. it needs an object)
Imperius
Metamorphose
Petrify
Sort (HBP) or sort (earlier books)
Stun/Stupefy
Summon
Switch
Taboo (transitive - also a noun)
Transfigure
Untransfigure
Vanish or vanish (also the derived nouns Vanishment, Partial Vanishment)
- Keep (in Quidditch)
Know and See (in the Trelawney sense)
Spellotape, like its Muggle equivalent Sellotape, functions as a verb as well as a noun.
Apparate
Disapparate
Splinch or splinch (Splinching is also used as a noun)
Charmed
Dark (particularly in HBP - usually ‘dark’ in the earlier books and sometimes in HBP, too)
Imperturbable
Imperiused
Petrified
Stupefied/Stunned
Transfigured
Unplottable
Vanished
(See also The wizarding world)