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est. 2000 A.D.
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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
When were Frank and Alice Longbottom attacked?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Neville and the attack on his parents. I’ve always had trouble with the timing of this event and others surrounding it, and rereading the Pensieve scenes in Goblet of Fire leads me to think that it didn’t occur straight after Voldemort’s defeat at the end of 1981, but several years… Read More
Animagus
An Animagus is a witch or wizard who is capable of transforming him- or herself into the form of an animal. Ordinary Transfiguration of a human into an animal’s shape results in the human having an animal’s brain (QA1) (although Draco Malfoy‘s experience in GF13 is worth considering since he was apparently able to retain enough of… Read More
Sorting Hat
Originally the pointed wizard’s hat of Godric Gryffindor, the Sorting Hat was bewitched by all four of the founders of Hogwarts with brains and some amount of personality. Its function is to determine which of the four Houses each new student will enter. It does so at the beginning of the start-of-term feast, when it is placed on a three-legged… Read More
Buckbeak
Buckbeak is a grey hippogriff, one of the group of the creatures Hagrid brought to his first Care of Magical Creatures lesson with the third year students in the fall of 1993. Harry Potter was the first student to attempt to befriend a hippogriff in that class, and Buckbeak was the animal he approached. Buckbeak acceptedHarry’s advance and allowed Harry to… Read More
Charing Cross Road
Located in central London, Charing Cross Road is the site of the Muggle side of the Leaky Cauldron, and therefore borders Diagon Alley as well. Harry walked down Charing Cross Road with Hagrid (PS5), and later rode down it on the Knight Bus (PA3) and in Ministry cars (HBP6). Read More
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Albus, Aberforth, and Grindelwald duel; Ariana is killed
Angry that his brother is neglecting their fragile sister for his new friend, Aberforth confronts Albus… Read More
“He took your blood believing it would strengthen him. He took into his body a tiny part of the enchantment your mother laid upon you when she died for you. His body keeps her sacrifice alive, and while… Read More
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