Welcome to the The Harry Potter Lexicon
The most compleat and amazing reference to the wonderful world of Harry Potter
est. 2000 A.D.
Phase of the Moon: Waxing Gibbous
5 GBP = 1 Galleon 
Snargaluff tree
The Snargaluff tree is a rather vicious plant which looks like a gnarled stump until it is disturbed, at which its spiky branches attack. Inside the snargaluff are a number of small pods which, when stabbed, emit wriggling tubers. The correct way to juice the tubers is found in the book Flesh-Eating Trees of the World (HBP14). Read More
Descriptive Words in the Harry Potter Books
Most authors expend substantial effort on description, describing scenes, events or characters so that readers will be able to visualise them. The best descriptions often offer no more than hints, keywords, a trained butler’s unobtrusive opening of a particular door. The reader goes through that door himself or herself. Rowling, apparently, is a master of this form of butling. I… Read More
Nundu
The Nundu is a gigantic magical leopard, native to East Africa, which is considered by many to be the most dangerous beast in existence. Nundu’s breath carries disease and death and can swallow a group of people in one gulp (BoS). Whole villages have been wiped out by the creature, and it takes a hundred wizards working together to overcome… Read More
Quidditch Through the Ages is published by WhizzHard Books
Quidditch Through the Ages, the extremely popular book by Kennilworthy Whisp, has since gone through many revisions — the current edition which contains information into the 1990s. However, the original edition was published in 1952 by Whizz Hard Books, Diagon Alley, London. Read More
Exterminators sent to reduce the number of Peruvian Vipertooth dragons
Peruvian Vipertooth dragons are particularly dangerous. They are very fast flyers, they are very venomous, and humans are their preferred food. By the end of the 1800s, the Vipertooths had become such a problem that the International Confederation of Wizards sends a team of exterminators to Peru to reduce the number. Read More
Harry escapes the Little Hangleton graveyard by portkey
As Voldemort and Harry duel in front of the Death Eaters, the twin phoenix feather cores of their wands create a “Reverse Spell Effect” known as Priori Incantatem, and shades of Voldemort’s previous victims come out of his yew wand and protect Harry, including Cedric, Bertha Jorkins, Frank Bryce, and Harry’s parents,… Read More
The real village of Stinchcombe, where the Potter family originated according to the new information on Pottermore, is just over the hill from the town of Dursley in Gloucestershire. Read More
QUIDDITCH THROUGH THE AGES is one of the most popular titles in the Hogwarts school library. Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is “pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated” nearly every day – a high compliment… Read More
The Harry Potter Minute
🎙️ She Never Had Your Mother's Courage
Lexicon Podcast
🎙️ Episode 31: The Crimes of Grindelwald Trailer
Latest from the Lexicon Blog
How Much is the Wand Again? I mean in Dollars ...
• Article
MuggleNet's "Ten Amazing Facts" and How To Find Them
• Article
Exploring The Most Enigmatic Character in Canon
• Article
Seven Things you REALLY Didn't Know About J.K. Rowling
• Article
Recently, a website called Alux.com published a video called “15 Things You Didn’t Know About J. K. Rowling.” Of the fifteen points covered in the video, I didn’t know that Rowling had reconciled with her father, that she had bought a sprawling estate in Tasmania, that she plays Minecraft,… Read More
Pre-order your copy of Crimes of Grindelwald and support the Lexicon!
• Article