Tari_Sue's Great Big List of HP Canon Spellings
THINGS TO REMEMBER
HP CANON SPELLINGS
General:
Animagi/Animagus
Apparate/Disapparate - Destination, Determination, Deliberation
Apparition/Disapparition (Side-Along)
Aragog
Arithmancy
Auror - elite Magical Law Enforcement. Dark Wizard catchers.
Auto-Answer Quills
Buckbeak (Witherwings)
Care of Magical Creatures
counter-jinx, -curse
Crookshanks
Daily Prophet, the - also the Evening Prophet
Death Eaters
Deathly Hallows
The Elder Wand/The Deathstick/The Wand of Destiny
The Resurrection Stone
The Cloak of InvisibilityDecoy Detonators [WWW product]
Defence Against the Dark Arts
Deluminator/Put-Outer
Dementors' Kiss
Detachable Cribbing Cuffs
Diadem - the lost diadem of Ravenclaw
Divination
Dungbombs
Evening Prophet, the, presumably a later edition of the Daily Prophet
Extendable Ears [WWW]
Fanged Frisbee
Fawkes
Filibuster Fireworks
Foe-Glass
Forbidden Forest, the
Gobbledegook [Goblin language]
Gryffindor
Gubraithian Fire - everlasting fire
half-blood
Headless Hats - WWW product
Hogwarts, a history
Horcrux(es) - an object in which a person has concealed part of their soul
Hufflepuff
Inferi/Inferius (s/p) - animated corpses
International Warlock Convention
Invisibility Cloaks:
Travelling cloaks imbued with a Disillusionment Charm or Bedazzling Hex
Or woven from Demiguise hair - turns opaque over time
Knight Bus
Legilimency
Magical Law Enforcement Patrol/Squad [note:not necessarily Aurors]
Marauder's Map
Merchieftainess
Mermish
Merpeople
Metamorphmagus - ability to change appearance, like Tonks
Metamorphosing
Ministry of Magic
Mudblood
Muggle
Muggle-born
Muggle Studies
Nagini
Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, the. 'Toujours pur'
non-verbal spells
Occlumency/Occlumens
Omnioculars
Owlery
Order of Merlin, First Class
Order of the Phoenix, the
O.W.Ls/OWLs (Ordinary Wizarding Levels)
O=Outstanding [pass]
E=Exceeds Expectations [pass]
A=Acceptable [pass]
P=Poor [fail]
D=Dreadful [fail]
T=Troll [fail]
N.E.W.Ts/NEWTs (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests) as above
Parselmouth - a speaker of Parseltongue
Parseltongue - the language of snakes
Patented Daydream Charms [WWW product]
Pensieve
Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder [Imported WWW product]
Pigwidgeon [Ron's Owl]
Portkey
Potterwatch - pirate radio broadcast run by Lee Jordan during the war
Lee = River
Remus = Romulus
Kingsley = Royal
Fred = Rodant/RapierProbity Probes
pure-blood
Put-Outer/Deluminator
Quibbler, The - odd magazine run by Luna's dad
Quick-Quotes Quill
Quidditch
Ravenclaw
Remembrall
Secrecy Sensor
Self Correcting Ink
Shield Hats, Cloaks, Gloves [WWW products]
Side-Along Apparition
Slytherin
Sneakoscope
Snatchers
spattergroit - skin infection
Spectrespecs
Spellotape
S.P.E.W./SPEW - Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare
Splinching - leaving part of yourself behind when you Apparate
Squib - a magical person with low or zero magic levels
Time-Turner
Trace, the - what lets the Ministry know if an underaged Wizard is performing magic
Transfiguration
Triwizard Tournament
Unbreakable Vow, the
Wartcap Powder [turned Sirius's Hand brown]
Weasley's Wildfire Whizbangs [fireworks]
Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
Witch Weekly
wizard
Wizengamot
WonderWitch [24hr love potions sold by Fred & George]
WWN - Wizard Wireless Network
Creatures:
Abraxan Horses - big and winged, like Madame Maxime's
Acromantula
basilisk
Blast-Ended Skrewts
Blibbering Humdinger [one of Luna's]
Boggarts
Bowtruckles [tree guardian, especially of wand trees. Stick-like pixies. Eat woodlice and fairy eggs]
Centaurs
Chimaera
Crumple-Horned-Snorkack [one of Luna's]
Crups - Jack Russell-like dogs with forked tails
Dementors
Doxys - fairy like but covered in black hair and with beetle wings. They have poison in their teeth and lay black eggs. Killed with Doxycide
dragons
Chinese Fireball [red]
Common Welsh Green [smaller]
Hebridean Blacks
Hungarian Horntail [black]
Nowegian Ridgeback [black, rare]
Swedish Short-Snout [blue/grey]
Erumpent - Erumpent horn is highly combustible
house-elf
Chameleon Ghouls
Fire Crab
Flobberworms
Freshwater Plimpies
Gernumbli gardensi (Gernumblies) - garden gnomes
Grindylow [water demon]
Heliopaths [spirits of fire, one of Luna's]
Hinkypunks [one-legged creature made of smoke that lures travellers into bogs]
Hippogriffs
Kappas [creepy water-dwellers that look like scaly monkeys]
Knarls [Hedgehog-like creatures. Highly suspicious and their quills have magical properties]
Kneazles
merpeople
Murtlap [essence of pickled Murtlap tentacles can help ease the pain of injuries]
Nargles [one of Luna's. Infest mistletoe.]
Nifflers [mole-like creatures that find gold and sparkly stuff]
Porlocks
puffskiens
Pygmy Puff [miniture puffskiens]
Red Caps [blood-loving goblins]
sphinx
Thestral
Veela
Wrackspurt [one of Luna's. Invisible creatures that float through your ears and make your brain fuzzy]
Food and Drink:
Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
Butterbeer [can be served hot]
Canary Creams [WWW prank biscuit, like a custard cream, that turns the eater into a giant canary]
Cauldron Cakes
Chocolate Frogs
Cribbages Wizarding Crackers
Drooble's Best Blowing Gum
Firewhisky, Ogden's Old [note: Scotch Whisky, spelt without the 'e']
Gillywater
Ginger Newts [biscuits]
Liquorice Wands
oak-matured mead
Pumpkin juice
Pumpkin Pasties
Skiving Snackboxes [WWW trick sweets to get you out of class]
Fainting Fancies
Nosebleed Nougat
Puking PastillesTon-Tongue Toffee [WWW, makes your tongue grow]
( People:
Harry's Classmates
Other years
Teachers
Ghosts
Random People
Famous Witches and Wizards
Named Death Eaters
Places:
Wizarding
Azkaban
Beauxbatons Academy of Magic
Diagon Alley:
Eeylops Owl Emporium
Flourish and Blotts
Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour
Gringotts Wizarding Bank
Leaky Cauldron
Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions
Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands
Quality Quidditch Supplies
Twilfitt and Tattings
Weasleys' Wizard WheezesDurmstrang
Godric's Hollow
Grimmauld Place, number twelve
Hogsmeade:
Dervish and Banges [wizarding equipment shop]
Honeydukes [sweet shop]
Gladrags Wizardwear - London, Paris, Hogsmeade
Hog's Head, the
Madam Puddifoot's
Post Office, the
Scrivenshaft's
Shrieking Shack, the
Three Broomsticks, the
Zonko's Joke Shop
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Room of Requirement/Come and Go Room
Knockturn Alley:
Borgin and Burkes
Ministry of Magic:
Level 1 - Minister for Magic and Support Staff
Level 2 - Department of Magical Law Enforcement, including the Improper Use of Magic Office (this is where you register as Animagi), Auror HQ, Wizengamot Administration Services, Misuse of Muggle Artefacts, Magical Law Enforcement Patrol
Level 3 - Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes, including the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad, Obliviator HQ, the Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee
Level 4 - Department of Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, incorprating Beast, Being and Spirit Divisions, Goblin Liason Office and Pest Advisory Bureau
Level 5 - Department of International Magical Co-operation, incorporating International Magical Trading Standards Body, The International Magical Office of Law and the International Confederation of Wizards, British Seats
Level 6 - the Department of Magical Transportation, incorporating the Floo Network Authority, Broom Regulatory Control, the Portkey Office and the Apparition Test Centre
Level 7 - the Department of Magical Games and Sports, incorporating British and Irish Quidditch League HQ, the Official Gobstones Club and the Ludicrous Patents Office
Level 8 - The Atrium
Level 9 - Department of Mysteries [Unspeakables]
Level 10 - Law Courts. The lift doesn't go down this far
Other:
Committee on Experimental Charms
Magical Maintenance
Office of Misinformation
Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Conterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects (Arthur Weasley's promotion in HBP)
Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery
Statute of Secrecy
Mould-on-the-Wold - where the Dumbledores originally lived before Godric's Hollow
Nurmengard - wizard's prison built by Grindelwald and where he was imprisoned
Ottery St Catchpole - wizarding town on the South Coast of England
Burrow, the - Ottery St Catchpole
Spinner's End
St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
Ground Floor - Artefact Accidents (cauldron explosions, wand backfiring, broom crashes etc.)
First Floor - Creature Induced Injuries (bites, stings, burns, embedded spines etc.) inc. 'Dangerous' Dai Llewellyn Ward: Serious Bites
Second Floor - Magical Bugs (contagious maladies, e.g. Dragon Pox, vanishing sickness, scrofungulus etc.)
Third Floor - Potion and Plant Poisoning (rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable giggling etc.)
Fourth Floor - Spell Damage (unliftable jinxes, hexes, incorrectly applied charms etc.) inc. Janus Thickey Ward for long-term patients.
Fifth Floor - Visitor's tearoom/Hospital Shop
Tinworth - wizarding town in Cornwall
Shell Cottage - Bill and Fleur's
Upper Flagley - wizarding town in Yorkshire
Muggle
Budleigh Babberton
Little Whinging:
4 Privet Drive (the Dursleys')
Magnolia Crescent
Wisteria Walk (where Mrs Figg lives)
Little Hangleton - home of the Riddle House
Smeltings
St Brutus's Secure Centre For Incurably Criminal Boys
plants:
bubotubers [the pus is used in a remedy for acne]
Chinese Chomping Cabbage
Devil's Snare
Dirigble Plums
Fanged Geranium
Flitterbloom
Flutterby Bush
Gurdyroot - looks like a green onion. According to Luna, excellent for warding off Gulping Plimpies
Mandrake/Mandragora
Mimbulus Mimbletonia - rare plant from Assyria. Shoots out Stinksap when prodded
Screechsnap
scurvy grass - inflames the brain, used in confusing and beffudlement draughts
Snargaluff - flesh-eating tree stumps that contain pods
sneezewort - inflames the brain, used in confusing and beffudlement draughts
Venomous Tentacula
Whomping Willow
Potions:
Amortentia
Baruffio's Brain Elixir
Calming Draught
Dr Ubbly's Oblivious Unction - eases scars
Draught of Living Death [contains Sopophorous bean]
Draught of Peace, The [contains powdered moonstone and syrup of hellebore]
Dreamless Sleep
Felix Felicis
Polyjuice - only works on humans
Powdered Dragon claw - gives your brain a boost
Skelegrow
Sleekeazy's Hair Potion
Veritaserum
Wolfsbane
Spells:
Accio - summoning charm
Aguamenti - shoots water from the wand
Alohomora - opens locked things
Anapneo - clears windpipe to stop choking
Aparecium tap wand three times - to make invisible ink appear
Avada Kedavra - Killing curse
Avis - conjures small birds
Babbling curse. [Spoken about by Lockheart, he possibly made it up]
Banishing Charm
Bat Bogey Hex
Bubble Head Charm - creates a bubble of air around the head so you can breathe
Cave inimicum - wards?
Colloportus - door locking
Confundus Charm
Crucio - Cruciatus
Deletrius - erases [e.g. getting rid of the Dark Mark in the sky]
Densaugeo - tooth growing hex
Deprimo - blasts a hole
Descendo - lowers
Diffindo - slicing/severing hex
Dissendium - opens the one-eyed witch passage to Honeydukes
Disillusionment Charm - make the person or object take on the colour and texture of their surroundings. Disillusion.
Duro - turns to stone
Enervate - revives from stun - NOTE: in later books and newer versions, this spell has apparently been changed to Rennervate by JKR
Engorgio - enlarges
Episkey - healing spell for broken noses etc.
Erecto - for tents, you dirty minded people
Evanesco - Banishing spell - presumably putting away and they know where it's gone?
Expecto Patronum - Patronus Charm
Expelliarmus - disarming charm
Expulso - blows things up
Ferula - conjures a stick? Used by Lupin to bandage Ron's leg to a splint.
Fidelius Charm
Fiendfyre - cursed fire
Finite Incantatum - ends a spell
Flagrate - leaves a firey mark according to wand movement. Burns.
Furnunculus - boils hex
Geminio - creates a look-a-like or an object
Glisseo - flattens stairs into a ramp
Homenum revelio - reveals human presence
Homorphus Charm - for turning werewolves back into people. [Spoken about by Lockheart, he probably made it up]
Impedimenta - stops/halts or slows someone or something
Imperio - Imperius
Imperturbable Charm - creates a barrier against sound. Imperturbed
Impervius - repells water
Inanimatus Conjurus Spell
Incarcerous - binds someone/thing with ropes
Incendio - creates flames
Langlock - sticks the tongue to the roof of the mouth
Legilimens - mind reading
Levicorpus (n-vbl) - levitates someone by their leg. Counter-curse, Libracorpus
Libracorpus (n-vbl) - counter-curse to Levicorpus
Locomotor trunk - used by Tonks to float Harry's trunk
Lumos - light
meteolojinx recanto - takes off weather spells
Mobiliarbus - moves trees
Mobilicorpus - moves bodies about (dead or alive) in an upright position
Morsmordre - conjures the Dark Mark
Muffliato - muffles sound
Nox - puts out the light
Obliteration Charm
Obliviate - wipes a memory
Occlumency - the defensive counter to Legilimency
Obscuro - blocks vision/blindfolds
Oppugno - causes conjured birds to attack (Hermione uses this on Ron in HBP)
Orchideous - conjures a bunch of flowers from the tip of the wand
pack - used by Tonks to pack Harry's trunk
Piertotum locomotor - used by McGonagall to bring suits of armour and statues to life in DH
Peskipiksi Pesternomi - getting rid of Piskies. Lockheart.
Petrificus Totalus - full body bind
point me - four-point spell, turns wand into a sort of compass
Portus - turns an object into a port key
Priory Incantato - checks what spells a wand last performed
Protean Charm - makes objects mimick another, as in DA galleons or the Dark Mark.
Protego - shield charm
Protego horriblis - shield with extreme prejudice
protego totalum - wards
Quietus - opposite of sonorus
Reducio - makes smaller
Reducto - explodes
Relashio - releases sparks, boiling water when used in water. Removes chains from prisoners in DH
Rennervate - revives from stun. See Enervate
Reparo - repairs
Repello Muggletum
Rictusempra - hits with silver light, causes laughter
Riddikulus - for getting rid of Boggarts
Salvio hexia - wards?
Scourgify - cleans/scours
Sectumsempra - severing charm
Serpensortia - conjures a snake
Silencio
Sonorus - like a microphone when pointd at throat
Specialis revelio - used to reveal contents e.g. potion ingredients or hidden spells
Stupefy stuns
Tarantallegra - makes your legs dance
Tergeo - wipes clean
Undetectable Extension Charm
Waddiwasi - sends chewing gum out of keyhole. Lupin uses this for getting rid of Peeves (PoA)
Wingardium Leviosa - levitates
Quidditch:
Broomsticks
Silver Arrow
Bluebottle: A broom for all the family
Cleansweep
Comet Two Sixty
Comet Two Ninety
Nimbus 2000/2001
FireboltMoves
Hawkshead Attacking Formation
Porskoff Ploy
Sloth Grip Roll
Wronski FeintTeams
Ballycastle Bats [Northern Ireland]
Chudley Cannons [Ron's favourite Quidditch team] [Chudleigh Devon?]
Holyhead Harpies [Anglesey, North Wales]
Kenmare Kestrels [Seamus's favourite Quidditch team, Co. Kerry, Ireland]
Pride of Portree [Isle of Skye]
Puddlemere United [Oliver Wood's team when he leaves Hogwarts]
Tutshill Tornados [League Champions in OotP. Cho's favourite Quidditch team. Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England]
Wimbourne Wasps [Dorset, England]
Other stuff:
Other notes:
Food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp's law of Elemental Transfiguration
To get into the kitchens, tickle the pear on the painting of the bowl of fruit.
The Prefects' Bathroom is on the fifth floor, fourth door to the left behind the statue of Boris the Bewildered. The password in Harry's fourth year is Pine Fresh.
The Marauders managed to become Animagus in fifth year.
Mrs Figg lives on Wisteria Walk and has a cat (or kneezle?) called Mr Tibbles
The Ministry send telling offs by screech owl
12 Grimmauld Place has a black door with no keyhole or letter box and a silver serpent knocker.
St Mungo's Healers wear lime-green robes with an emblem showing a crossed wand and bone.
Azkaban is in the middle of the North Sea
The Minitry's Magical Maintenance dept wear navy blue robes
NEWTs needed for Healing: Exceeds Expectations or above in Potions, Herbology, Transfiguration, Charms, DADA
NEWTs needed for Auror training: Exceeds Expectations or above in Potions, Transfiguration, Charms, DADA and one other
Harry' OWLs:
Astronomy - A
Care of Magical Creatures - E
Charms - E
DADA - O
Divination - P
Herbology - E
History of Magic - D
Potions - E
Transfiguration - E
Ron got pretty much the same, but no O in DADA. Hermione got 10 Os and an E in DADA.
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches… born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies… and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not… and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives… the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…" J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Wizarding money and how much it is worth.
Per Hagrid: "The gold ones are Galleons. Seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Knuts to a Sickle, it's easy enough." Therefore 1 Galleon = 17 Sickles = 493 Knuts.
(thanks to golden_snitch12 for this info!)
Confusables
affect - verb
effect - noun
a lot - many
allot - assign
Blonde - a woman with blonde hair.
Blond - a man with blond hair, not commonly used.
Brunette - a woman with dark or dark brown hair.
Brunet - a man with dark or dark brown hair, rarely used. Also, according to J.K. Rowling Harry Potter has black hair, not brown.
Lie - to tell an untruth. Past tense, lied. You lie, you are lying, you lied, you are a fibbing bastard.
Lie - to lie down. Past tense, lay. Present perfect, lain. So, basically you lie down now, you are lying down, you have lain down, you did lay down yesterday.
Lay - to place something down. Past tense, laid. You lay an egg, you are laying an egg, you laid an egg yesterday.
How to remember? Hens lay, Men lie! More in depth here: http://tari-sue.livejournal.com/65218.html
Loose - (adj) not firmly or tightly fixed in place. Set free. Discharge/fire.
Lose - (verb) to be deprived of or cease to have, to misplace. To fail to win.
muscle - enables you to move
mussel - a mollusc
prostate - a gland surrounding the neck of the bladder in males which releases part of the fluid in semen]
prostrate - lying face down, esp in submission
rain - precipitation, or water falling from the sky.
rein - a strap to hold something back or the actual act of holding back, as in to rein in.
reign - ruling a country
taut - pulled tight, as in taut ropes, muscles etc.
taught - past tense (and past participle) of teach
taunt - to mock
throw - to propel with force
thrown - past participle of throw
threw - past tense of throw
throe - a violent pang e.g. throes of ecstasy/labour/death
throne - what a monarch sits on
through - going in one end and out the other
thru - US variant of through
thorough - complete
though - despite
vile - disgusting
vial - a small glass vessel for holding liquid medicines. Usually cylindrical
phial - a vial.
Whisky - Scotch whisky only, made in Scotland, never to be refered to as Whiskey
Whiskey - Non-Scotch whiskey. If your whisky is made in Ireland or America or pretty much anywhere that isn't Scotland, you can call it Whiskey. Please note, the spelling of whisky/whiskey does not depend on where the writer comes from, it depends on where the whisky/whiskey comes from!
Other:
Publication titles should be italicised.
"You're nutters, both of you." PoA, C18, P257.
'Nutters' is the plural form of 'nutter', you cannot be 'nutters' unless there are several of you and you are all a bit insane. When Ron says, 'You're nutters', he is speaking to two people. If he had just been talking to Sirius he would have said 'You're a nutter.'
Snakes are rarely poisonous, but many are venomous! Poisonous means it will harm you if you bite it, venomous means it will harm you if it bites you.
Potions and medicines should be ingested, salves are applied to the skin.
Plebeian has an e before the i and should not be spelt 'plebian', 'pleb' is acceptable.
All canon spellings are taken from the original UK editions of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series of books only.
Other places to try:
http://www.jkrowling.com/
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/
http://mugglenet.com/
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/
http://sites.google.com/site/faith2wood/Home/essay1 - Faithwood's beginner's guide to fanfiction
http://doomcanary.livejournal.com/32826.html - on the finer points of English swearing
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe
phoenixacid's N00bs Guide to html - best list ever!
fandom_grammar
http://community.livejournal.com/fandom_grammar/44227.html
potterwords
hp_britglish
little_details
hd_writers
HP CANON SPELLINGS
General:
Animagi/Animagus
Apparate/Disapparate - Destination, Determination, Deliberation
Apparition/Disapparition (Side-Along)
Aragog
Arithmancy
Auror - elite Magical Law Enforcement. Dark Wizard catchers.
Auto-Answer Quills
Buckbeak (Witherwings)
Care of Magical Creatures
counter-jinx, -curse
Crookshanks
Daily Prophet, the - also the Evening Prophet
Death Eaters
Deathly Hallows
The Elder Wand/The Deathstick/The Wand of Destiny
The Resurrection Stone
The Cloak of InvisibilityDecoy Detonators [WWW product]
Defence Against the Dark Arts
Deluminator/Put-Outer
Dementors' Kiss
Detachable Cribbing Cuffs
Diadem - the lost diadem of Ravenclaw
Divination
Dungbombs
Evening Prophet, the, presumably a later edition of the Daily Prophet
Extendable Ears [WWW]
Fanged Frisbee
Fawkes
Filibuster Fireworks
Foe-Glass
Forbidden Forest, the
Gobbledegook [Goblin language]
Gryffindor
Gubraithian Fire - everlasting fire
half-blood
Headless Hats - WWW product
Hogwarts, a history
Horcrux(es) - an object in which a person has concealed part of their soul
Hufflepuff
Inferi/Inferius (s/p) - animated corpses
International Warlock Convention
Invisibility Cloaks:
Travelling cloaks imbued with a Disillusionment Charm or Bedazzling Hex
Or woven from Demiguise hair - turns opaque over time
Knight Bus
Legilimency
Magical Law Enforcement Patrol/Squad [note:not necessarily Aurors]
Marauder's Map
Merchieftainess
Mermish
Merpeople
Metamorphmagus - ability to change appearance, like Tonks
Metamorphosing
Ministry of Magic
Mudblood
Muggle
Muggle-born
Muggle Studies
Nagini
Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, the. 'Toujours pur'
non-verbal spells
Occlumency/Occlumens
Omnioculars
Owlery
Order of Merlin, First Class
Order of the Phoenix, the
O.W.Ls/OWLs (Ordinary Wizarding Levels)
O=Outstanding [pass]
E=Exceeds Expectations [pass]
A=Acceptable [pass]
P=Poor [fail]
D=Dreadful [fail]
T=Troll [fail]
N.E.W.Ts/NEWTs (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests) as above
Parselmouth - a speaker of Parseltongue
Parseltongue - the language of snakes
Patented Daydream Charms [WWW product]
Pensieve
Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder [Imported WWW product]
Pigwidgeon [Ron's Owl]
Portkey
Potterwatch - pirate radio broadcast run by Lee Jordan during the war
Lee = River
Remus = Romulus
Kingsley = Royal
Fred = Rodant/RapierProbity Probes
pure-blood
Put-Outer/Deluminator
Quibbler, The - odd magazine run by Luna's dad
Quick-Quotes Quill
Quidditch
Ravenclaw
Remembrall
Secrecy Sensor
Self Correcting Ink
Shield Hats, Cloaks, Gloves [WWW products]
Side-Along Apparition
Slytherin
Sneakoscope
Snatchers
spattergroit - skin infection
Spectrespecs
Spellotape
S.P.E.W./SPEW - Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare
Splinching - leaving part of yourself behind when you Apparate
Squib - a magical person with low or zero magic levels
Time-Turner
Trace, the - what lets the Ministry know if an underaged Wizard is performing magic
Transfiguration
Triwizard Tournament
Unbreakable Vow, the
Wartcap Powder [turned Sirius's Hand brown]
Weasley's Wildfire Whizbangs [fireworks]
Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
Witch Weekly
wizard
Wizengamot
WonderWitch [24hr love potions sold by Fred & George]
WWN - Wizard Wireless Network
Creatures:
Abraxan Horses - big and winged, like Madame Maxime's
Acromantula
basilisk
Blast-Ended Skrewts
Blibbering Humdinger [one of Luna's]
Boggarts
Bowtruckles [tree guardian, especially of wand trees. Stick-like pixies. Eat woodlice and fairy eggs]
Centaurs
Chimaera
Crumple-Horned-Snorkack [one of Luna's]
Crups - Jack Russell-like dogs with forked tails
Dementors
Doxys - fairy like but covered in black hair and with beetle wings. They have poison in their teeth and lay black eggs. Killed with Doxycide
dragons
Chinese Fireball [red]
Common Welsh Green [smaller]
Hebridean Blacks
Hungarian Horntail [black]
Nowegian Ridgeback [black, rare]
Swedish Short-Snout [blue/grey]
Erumpent - Erumpent horn is highly combustible
house-elf
Chameleon Ghouls
Fire Crab
Flobberworms
Freshwater Plimpies
Gernumbli gardensi (Gernumblies) - garden gnomes
Grindylow [water demon]
Heliopaths [spirits of fire, one of Luna's]
Hinkypunks [one-legged creature made of smoke that lures travellers into bogs]
Hippogriffs
Kappas [creepy water-dwellers that look like scaly monkeys]
Knarls [Hedgehog-like creatures. Highly suspicious and their quills have magical properties]
Kneazles
merpeople
Murtlap [essence of pickled Murtlap tentacles can help ease the pain of injuries]
Nargles [one of Luna's. Infest mistletoe.]
Nifflers [mole-like creatures that find gold and sparkly stuff]
Porlocks
puffskiens
Pygmy Puff [miniture puffskiens]
Red Caps [blood-loving goblins]
sphinx
Thestral
Veela
Wrackspurt [one of Luna's. Invisible creatures that float through your ears and make your brain fuzzy]
Food and Drink:
Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
Butterbeer [can be served hot]
Canary Creams [WWW prank biscuit, like a custard cream, that turns the eater into a giant canary]
Cauldron Cakes
Chocolate Frogs
Cribbages Wizarding Crackers
Drooble's Best Blowing Gum
Firewhisky, Ogden's Old [note: Scotch Whisky, spelt without the 'e']
Gillywater
Ginger Newts [biscuits]
Liquorice Wands
oak-matured mead
Pumpkin juice
Pumpkin Pasties
Skiving Snackboxes [WWW trick sweets to get you out of class]
Fainting Fancies
Nosebleed Nougat
Puking PastillesTon-Tongue Toffee [WWW, makes your tongue grow]
( People:
Harry's Classmates
Other years
Teachers
Ghosts
Random People
Famous Witches and Wizards
Named Death Eaters
Places:
Wizarding
Azkaban
Beauxbatons Academy of Magic
Diagon Alley:
Eeylops Owl Emporium
Flourish and Blotts
Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour
Gringotts Wizarding Bank
Leaky Cauldron
Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions
Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands
Quality Quidditch Supplies
Twilfitt and Tattings
Weasleys' Wizard WheezesDurmstrang
Godric's Hollow
Grimmauld Place, number twelve
Hogsmeade:
Dervish and Banges [wizarding equipment shop]
Honeydukes [sweet shop]
Gladrags Wizardwear - London, Paris, Hogsmeade
Hog's Head, the
Madam Puddifoot's
Post Office, the
Scrivenshaft's
Shrieking Shack, the
Three Broomsticks, the
Zonko's Joke Shop
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Room of Requirement/Come and Go Room
Knockturn Alley:
Borgin and Burkes
Ministry of Magic:
Level 1 - Minister for Magic and Support Staff
Level 2 - Department of Magical Law Enforcement, including the Improper Use of Magic Office (this is where you register as Animagi), Auror HQ, Wizengamot Administration Services, Misuse of Muggle Artefacts, Magical Law Enforcement Patrol
Level 3 - Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes, including the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad, Obliviator HQ, the Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee
Level 4 - Department of Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, incorprating Beast, Being and Spirit Divisions, Goblin Liason Office and Pest Advisory Bureau
Level 5 - Department of International Magical Co-operation, incorporating International Magical Trading Standards Body, The International Magical Office of Law and the International Confederation of Wizards, British Seats
Level 6 - the Department of Magical Transportation, incorporating the Floo Network Authority, Broom Regulatory Control, the Portkey Office and the Apparition Test Centre
Level 7 - the Department of Magical Games and Sports, incorporating British and Irish Quidditch League HQ, the Official Gobstones Club and the Ludicrous Patents Office
Level 8 - The Atrium
Level 9 - Department of Mysteries [Unspeakables]
Level 10 - Law Courts. The lift doesn't go down this far
Other:
Committee on Experimental Charms
Magical Maintenance
Office of Misinformation
Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Conterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects (Arthur Weasley's promotion in HBP)
Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery
Statute of Secrecy
Mould-on-the-Wold - where the Dumbledores originally lived before Godric's Hollow
Nurmengard - wizard's prison built by Grindelwald and where he was imprisoned
Ottery St Catchpole - wizarding town on the South Coast of England
Burrow, the - Ottery St Catchpole
Spinner's End
St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
Ground Floor - Artefact Accidents (cauldron explosions, wand backfiring, broom crashes etc.)
First Floor - Creature Induced Injuries (bites, stings, burns, embedded spines etc.) inc. 'Dangerous' Dai Llewellyn Ward: Serious Bites
Second Floor - Magical Bugs (contagious maladies, e.g. Dragon Pox, vanishing sickness, scrofungulus etc.)
Third Floor - Potion and Plant Poisoning (rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable giggling etc.)
Fourth Floor - Spell Damage (unliftable jinxes, hexes, incorrectly applied charms etc.) inc. Janus Thickey Ward for long-term patients.
Fifth Floor - Visitor's tearoom/Hospital Shop
Tinworth - wizarding town in Cornwall
Shell Cottage - Bill and Fleur's
Upper Flagley - wizarding town in Yorkshire
Muggle
Budleigh Babberton
Little Whinging:
4 Privet Drive (the Dursleys')
Magnolia Crescent
Wisteria Walk (where Mrs Figg lives)
Little Hangleton - home of the Riddle House
Smeltings
St Brutus's Secure Centre For Incurably Criminal Boys
plants:
bubotubers [the pus is used in a remedy for acne]
Chinese Chomping Cabbage
Devil's Snare
Dirigble Plums
Fanged Geranium
Flitterbloom
Flutterby Bush
Gurdyroot - looks like a green onion. According to Luna, excellent for warding off Gulping Plimpies
Mandrake/Mandragora
Mimbulus Mimbletonia - rare plant from Assyria. Shoots out Stinksap when prodded
Screechsnap
scurvy grass - inflames the brain, used in confusing and beffudlement draughts
Snargaluff - flesh-eating tree stumps that contain pods
sneezewort - inflames the brain, used in confusing and beffudlement draughts
Venomous Tentacula
Whomping Willow
Potions:
Amortentia
Baruffio's Brain Elixir
Calming Draught
Dr Ubbly's Oblivious Unction - eases scars
Draught of Living Death [contains Sopophorous bean]
Draught of Peace, The [contains powdered moonstone and syrup of hellebore]
Dreamless Sleep
Felix Felicis
Polyjuice - only works on humans
Powdered Dragon claw - gives your brain a boost
Skelegrow
Sleekeazy's Hair Potion
Veritaserum
Wolfsbane
Spells:
Accio - summoning charm
Aguamenti - shoots water from the wand
Alohomora - opens locked things
Anapneo - clears windpipe to stop choking
Aparecium tap wand three times - to make invisible ink appear
Avada Kedavra - Killing curse
Avis - conjures small birds
Babbling curse. [Spoken about by Lockheart, he possibly made it up]
Banishing Charm
Bat Bogey Hex
Bubble Head Charm - creates a bubble of air around the head so you can breathe
Cave inimicum - wards?
Colloportus - door locking
Confundus Charm
Crucio - Cruciatus
Deletrius - erases [e.g. getting rid of the Dark Mark in the sky]
Densaugeo - tooth growing hex
Deprimo - blasts a hole
Descendo - lowers
Diffindo - slicing/severing hex
Dissendium - opens the one-eyed witch passage to Honeydukes
Disillusionment Charm - make the person or object take on the colour and texture of their surroundings. Disillusion.
Duro - turns to stone
Enervate - revives from stun - NOTE: in later books and newer versions, this spell has apparently been changed to Rennervate by JKR
Engorgio - enlarges
Episkey - healing spell for broken noses etc.
Erecto - for tents, you dirty minded people
Evanesco - Banishing spell - presumably putting away and they know where it's gone?
Expecto Patronum - Patronus Charm
Expelliarmus - disarming charm
Expulso - blows things up
Ferula - conjures a stick? Used by Lupin to bandage Ron's leg to a splint.
Fidelius Charm
Fiendfyre - cursed fire
Finite Incantatum - ends a spell
Flagrate - leaves a firey mark according to wand movement. Burns.
Furnunculus - boils hex
Geminio - creates a look-a-like or an object
Glisseo - flattens stairs into a ramp
Homenum revelio - reveals human presence
Homorphus Charm - for turning werewolves back into people. [Spoken about by Lockheart, he probably made it up]
Impedimenta - stops/halts or slows someone or something
Imperio - Imperius
Imperturbable Charm - creates a barrier against sound. Imperturbed
Impervius - repells water
Inanimatus Conjurus Spell
Incarcerous - binds someone/thing with ropes
Incendio - creates flames
Langlock - sticks the tongue to the roof of the mouth
Legilimens - mind reading
Levicorpus (n-vbl) - levitates someone by their leg. Counter-curse, Libracorpus
Libracorpus (n-vbl) - counter-curse to Levicorpus
Locomotor trunk - used by Tonks to float Harry's trunk
Lumos - light
meteolojinx recanto - takes off weather spells
Mobiliarbus - moves trees
Mobilicorpus - moves bodies about (dead or alive) in an upright position
Morsmordre - conjures the Dark Mark
Muffliato - muffles sound
Nox - puts out the light
Obliteration Charm
Obliviate - wipes a memory
Occlumency - the defensive counter to Legilimency
Obscuro - blocks vision/blindfolds
Oppugno - causes conjured birds to attack (Hermione uses this on Ron in HBP)
Orchideous - conjures a bunch of flowers from the tip of the wand
pack - used by Tonks to pack Harry's trunk
Piertotum locomotor - used by McGonagall to bring suits of armour and statues to life in DH
Peskipiksi Pesternomi - getting rid of Piskies. Lockheart.
Petrificus Totalus - full body bind
point me - four-point spell, turns wand into a sort of compass
Portus - turns an object into a port key
Priory Incantato - checks what spells a wand last performed
Protean Charm - makes objects mimick another, as in DA galleons or the Dark Mark.
Protego - shield charm
Protego horriblis - shield with extreme prejudice
protego totalum - wards
Quietus - opposite of sonorus
Reducio - makes smaller
Reducto - explodes
Relashio - releases sparks, boiling water when used in water. Removes chains from prisoners in DH
Rennervate - revives from stun. See Enervate
Reparo - repairs
Repello Muggletum
Rictusempra - hits with silver light, causes laughter
Riddikulus - for getting rid of Boggarts
Salvio hexia - wards?
Scourgify - cleans/scours
Sectumsempra - severing charm
Serpensortia - conjures a snake
Silencio
Sonorus - like a microphone when pointd at throat
Specialis revelio - used to reveal contents e.g. potion ingredients or hidden spells
Stupefy stuns
Tarantallegra - makes your legs dance
Tergeo - wipes clean
Undetectable Extension Charm
Waddiwasi - sends chewing gum out of keyhole. Lupin uses this for getting rid of Peeves (PoA)
Wingardium Leviosa - levitates
Quidditch:
Broomsticks
Silver Arrow
Bluebottle: A broom for all the family
Cleansweep
Comet Two Sixty
Comet Two Ninety
Nimbus 2000/2001
FireboltMoves
Hawkshead Attacking Formation
Porskoff Ploy
Sloth Grip Roll
Wronski FeintTeams
Ballycastle Bats [Northern Ireland]
Chudley Cannons [Ron's favourite Quidditch team] [Chudleigh Devon?]
Holyhead Harpies [Anglesey, North Wales]
Kenmare Kestrels [Seamus's favourite Quidditch team, Co. Kerry, Ireland]
Pride of Portree [Isle of Skye]
Puddlemere United [Oliver Wood's team when he leaves Hogwarts]
Tutshill Tornados [League Champions in OotP. Cho's favourite Quidditch team. Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England]
Wimbourne Wasps [Dorset, England]
Other stuff:
Other notes:
Food is the first of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp's law of Elemental Transfiguration
To get into the kitchens, tickle the pear on the painting of the bowl of fruit.
The Prefects' Bathroom is on the fifth floor, fourth door to the left behind the statue of Boris the Bewildered. The password in Harry's fourth year is Pine Fresh.
The Marauders managed to become Animagus in fifth year.
Mrs Figg lives on Wisteria Walk and has a cat (or kneezle?) called Mr Tibbles
The Ministry send telling offs by screech owl
12 Grimmauld Place has a black door with no keyhole or letter box and a silver serpent knocker.
St Mungo's Healers wear lime-green robes with an emblem showing a crossed wand and bone.
Azkaban is in the middle of the North Sea
The Minitry's Magical Maintenance dept wear navy blue robes
NEWTs needed for Healing: Exceeds Expectations or above in Potions, Herbology, Transfiguration, Charms, DADA
NEWTs needed for Auror training: Exceeds Expectations or above in Potions, Transfiguration, Charms, DADA and one other
Harry' OWLs:
Astronomy - A
Care of Magical Creatures - E
Charms - E
DADA - O
Divination - P
Herbology - E
History of Magic - D
Potions - E
Transfiguration - E
Ron got pretty much the same, but no O in DADA. Hermione got 10 Os and an E in DADA.
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches… born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies… and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not… and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives… the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…" J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Wizarding money and how much it is worth.
Per Hagrid: "The gold ones are Galleons. Seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Knuts to a Sickle, it's easy enough." Therefore 1 Galleon = 17 Sickles = 493 Knuts.
(thanks to golden_snitch12 for this info!)
Confusables
affect - verb
effect - noun
a lot - many
allot - assign
Blonde - a woman with blonde hair.
Blond - a man with blond hair, not commonly used.
Brunette - a woman with dark or dark brown hair.
Brunet - a man with dark or dark brown hair, rarely used. Also, according to J.K. Rowling Harry Potter has black hair, not brown.
Lie - to tell an untruth. Past tense, lied. You lie, you are lying, you lied, you are a fibbing bastard.
Lie - to lie down. Past tense, lay. Present perfect, lain. So, basically you lie down now, you are lying down, you have lain down, you did lay down yesterday.
Lay - to place something down. Past tense, laid. You lay an egg, you are laying an egg, you laid an egg yesterday.
How to remember? Hens lay, Men lie! More in depth here: http://tari-sue.livejournal.com/65218.html
Loose - (adj) not firmly or tightly fixed in place. Set free. Discharge/fire.
Lose - (verb) to be deprived of or cease to have, to misplace. To fail to win.
muscle - enables you to move
mussel - a mollusc
prostate - a gland surrounding the neck of the bladder in males which releases part of the fluid in semen]
prostrate - lying face down, esp in submission
rain - precipitation, or water falling from the sky.
rein - a strap to hold something back or the actual act of holding back, as in to rein in.
reign - ruling a country
taut - pulled tight, as in taut ropes, muscles etc.
taught - past tense (and past participle) of teach
taunt - to mock
throw - to propel with force
thrown - past participle of throw
threw - past tense of throw
throe - a violent pang e.g. throes of ecstasy/labour/death
throne - what a monarch sits on
through - going in one end and out the other
thru - US variant of through
thorough - complete
though - despite
vile - disgusting
vial - a small glass vessel for holding liquid medicines. Usually cylindrical
phial - a vial.
Whisky - Scotch whisky only, made in Scotland, never to be refered to as Whiskey
Whiskey - Non-Scotch whiskey. If your whisky is made in Ireland or America or pretty much anywhere that isn't Scotland, you can call it Whiskey. Please note, the spelling of whisky/whiskey does not depend on where the writer comes from, it depends on where the whisky/whiskey comes from!
Other:
Publication titles should be italicised.
"You're nutters, both of you." PoA, C18, P257.
'Nutters' is the plural form of 'nutter', you cannot be 'nutters' unless there are several of you and you are all a bit insane. When Ron says, 'You're nutters', he is speaking to two people. If he had just been talking to Sirius he would have said 'You're a nutter.'
Snakes are rarely poisonous, but many are venomous! Poisonous means it will harm you if you bite it, venomous means it will harm you if it bites you.
Potions and medicines should be ingested, salves are applied to the skin.
Plebeian has an e before the i and should not be spelt 'plebian', 'pleb' is acceptable.
All canon spellings are taken from the original UK editions of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series of books only.
Other places to try:
http://www.jkrowling.com/
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/
http://mugglenet.com/
http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/
http://sites.google.com/site/faith2wood/Home/essay1 - Faithwood's beginner's guide to fanfiction
http://doomcanary.livejournal.com/32826.html - on the finer points of English swearing
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apostrophe
phoenixacid's N00bs Guide to html - best list ever!
fandom_grammar
http://community.livejournal.com/fandom_grammar/44227.html
potterwords
hp_britglish
little_details
hd_writers