• Glossary U.S.: cot. The prefix “camp” used in this way means “folding and portable” (NSOED). Read More
• Glossary “Cheek” means “insolence”, so “cheeked” is “sassed, bad-mouthed”. Read More
• Glossary A small ornamental box or chest for holding jewels, letters, or other valuable objects. Read More
• Glossary A religious or secular winter holiday celebrated by Muggles and Wizards alike on December 25. Christmas celebrations at Hogwarts are very memorable. Read More
• Glossary A Christmas Pudding (Plum Pudding) is a rich dried fruit, suet/cake mixture that is steamed and traditionally served at Christmas. Read More
• Furniture and household items • Glossary In general, this means any artificial reservoir for storing water, but the books use it mainly to refer to what in the U.S. would be called a toilet tank. Read More
• Glossary Short for “comprehensive school”, what in the U.S. would be called a public school.  … Read More
• Glossary “Constant vigilance” was a favorite saying of Mad-Eye Moody, the ex-Auror who was famous for never letting his guard down. Some thought that his exaggerated caution was an overreaction, but Moody would say that it kept him alive. Read More
• Glossary U.S.: cooking. What in the U.S. is called a “cookbook” is referred to in the U.K. as a “cookery book”.  … Read More
• Glossary A small stand of trees and undergrowth, particularly if it is grown for periodic cutting (NSOED).  … Read More
• Glossary U.S. readers may get a somewhat mistaken impression from this word. It can refer to any moderate-sized detached house in the suburbs or the country, though it tends to be used to suggest a small, modest place. It may specifically mean a rather old-fashioned building of this type, but that… Read More
• Glossary As in Wizard Crackers or Christmas Crackers: A tube of cardboard wrapped in fancy paper and twisted at both ends. Inside the tube is a strip of paper coated in gunpowder, which snaps (cracks) when two people pull the cracker apart. Inside the tube, there would be a paper party… Read More
• Food and drinks • Glossary U.S.: potato chip.  … Read More
• Glossary • Plants A small plant typically found in the southern United States. Rowling saw hogwort at Kew Gardens circa 1992 and the name stuck in her mind. Read More
• Glossary Broadly speaking, this word means roughly what it does in the U.S. – any small partitioned space to accommodate one or two people – but where in the U.S. it has come to have an office-related context, in the U.K. editions of the books it is also used to refer… Read More
• Glossary U.K.: closet (Not the same meaning in the U.S., which is a wall cabinet, such as to hold dishes.)… Read More