• Glossary • Insults, Curses, and Interjections Hag is an insulting name used for a particularly unpleasant or cruel woman. Read More
• Food and drinks • Glossary A large basket or wickerwork packing-case with a cover used to pack or transport food and/or drink (what in the U.S. would be called a picnic basket). By extension, the term is also used to refer to a present of a consignment of food in any type of case or… Read More
• Glossary Equivalent to “merry Christmas”, of course. Worthy of mention because “happy Christmas”, while perfectly understandable, is not the form commonly used in the U.S. Read More
• Glossary Archaic term referring to a person who takes more than five minutes to be sorted by the Sorting Hat (Pm). Read More
• Glossary A bag or backpack for carrying food on an outdoor trip.  … Read More
• Glossary A helter-skelter is an amusement park ride, often in the form of a lighthouse, which consists of a spiral slide running around the outside of a whimsical structure. Riders sit on burlap sacks or other simple things like that and slide down. Read More
• Glossary • Titles, nicknames, and honorifics Term for residents of Hogsmeade (OP25). Read More
• Glossary • Titles, nicknames, and honorifics Term for the students and staff of Hogwarts (DH32). 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 In Britain, “holiday” can refer to any day or time off (as in leave from work) rather than just a vacation or official holiday. National holidays are usually called Bank Holidays, because the banks are closed. Read More
• Glossary Hard candy pieces, usually flavoured with peppermint and recognisable by their black and white stripes. They are often round-ended but can be seen as angular lumps. Read More