• Creature The kappa is a water dweller resembling a scaly monkey with webbed hands. Read More
• Character Karkus was the Gurg of the Giants, first contacted by Hagrid and Maxime in the summer of 1995. He was killed two days later by Golgomath, who tore off Karkus’s head and threw it into the lake (OP20). Read More
• Creature The Kelpie is a carnivorous, shape-shifting water creature, which often takes the shape of a horse (FB)… Read More
• Character Silvanus Kettleburn was the Hogwarts Care of Magical Creatures Professor before Hagrid (PA6).  He was a reckless and eccentric wizard, who loved dangerous creatures (and often underestimated them) (Pm). This led him to lose most of his limbs, and by the time he retired in 1993, he only… Read More
• Event As the new Minister for Magic, Shacklebolt takes on the dangerous task of removing the Dementors from the ancient, evil fortress of Azkaban (BLC). They had been serving as guards there for hundreds of years, a function which allowed the Ministry to maintain some measure of control… Read More
• Creature A knarl is very similar to a hedgehog, except for behavioral differences:  the distrustful knarl takes offense if food is left out, and will take revenge by wreaking havoc on garden plants and ornaments (FB). Read More
• Magical objects The quills of a Knarl (a creature resembling a hedgehog) that have many magical properties (OP31). Read More
• Creature The Kneazle is a very intelligent cat-like creature which can detect unsavory or suspicious persons very well and will react badly to them. However, if a kneazle takes a liking to a witch or wizard, it makes an excellent pet. The Kneazle has spotted fur, large ears, and… Read More
• Character Irene Kneedander was Head of the Body for Protection of Magical Species (Humanoid) for MACUSA is 1892. In this role, she seriously cracked down on Sasquatches who “stepped out of line.” She and her treatment of Sasquatches are considered responsible for the Great Sasquatch Rebellion of 1892 (Pm). Read More
• Hogwarts Hermione started out her fifth year by magically knitting hats and socks for the Hogwarts house-elves, believing she could free them with clothes (OP13). Harry could tell Hermione was getting better with her knitting charms since he could soon distinguish the socks from the hats (OP16). However, Dobby… Read More
• Businesses, merchants, and shops The Kowalski Bakery was started in 1926 New York by No-Maj Jacob Kowalski on the Lower East Side of Manhatten (WFT). Read More
• Character Jacob Kowalski was a good-natured No-Maj factory worker in 1920s New York whose dream was to own a bakery. He fought for America in World War One (WFT). In 1926 Jacob went to a bank in New York City to get a loan for a proposed bakery based on recipes… Read More
• Character Kreacher was an aged House-Elf whose family served the Black family for generations. He was devoted to Sirius Black’s mother, who died in 1985 but whose portrait still shrieks orders from the wall of the front hall of the Black family home, number twelve, Grimmauld Place. Kreacher continued to live there… Read More
• Event Dung informs them that the locket went to Umbridge, who wears it at the Ministry of Magic. Mundungus Fletcher is not happy about being abducted by Kreacher, and there is a brief struggle upon their arrival – with Mundungus getting disarmed by Hermione and tackled by Ron. Before Harry or his friends… Read More
• Event In 1979, Voldemort demanded the use of a house-elf, and Regulus sent Kreacher, a family elf that he was very fond of. However, the elf was left behind to die by Voldemort on the secret island in the sea cave where he’d hidden the locket Horcrux. Regulus had commanded Kreacher… Read More
• Event Voldemort announces that he requires the services of a house-elf. Regulus Black volunteers Kreacher, the old house-elf who serves his family in Grimmauld Place, ordering him to do whatever the Dark Lord demands, then to come home. Voldemort takes Kreacher to the sea cave where he has prepared an island… Read More