Mackled Malaclaw• Creature
The Mackled Malaclaw is a creature of the shore and coastline, resembling a lobster. The malaclaw’s bite gives the victim bad luck for up to a week. It has light gray shell with green spots and is around twelve inches long. While it looks edible the Mackled Malaclaw should never… Read MoreMACUSA relocates to Williamsburg• Event
The Magical Congress of the United States was housed in a secret edifice somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains until 1760, when it was relocated to Williamsburg, Virginia, the home of Thornton Harkaway, then President of MACUSA (Pm). Unfortunately for the local No-Maj population, President Harkaway raised Crups, a type of… Read MoreMacy's Department Store
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Businesses, merchants, and shops
Macy’s is a famous department store in New York City. Read MoreMagical Disturbances Risk Wizarding Exposure
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Headlines and advertisements • Security
Magical Disturbances Risk Wizarding Exposure is a headline from a magical newspaper in 1926. It refers to the various events in New York that risk exposure of the magical community. The headline comes from the wizarding newspaper, The New York Ghost (WFT). Read MoreMagical pests• Creature
Magical pests are a variety of destructive and/or mischievous magical creatures who like to inhabit human spaces. Read MoreMagizoologist
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Occupations
A Magizoologist is a witch or wizard who studies magical creatures (FB). Read MoreMajor Investigation Department
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Organizations • Security
Part of the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA), the Major Investigation Department appears as a meeting room in which high-up MACUSA employees discuss ongoing investigations. Read MoreManticore• Creature
The Manticore is a beast with a human-like head, a lion’s body, and the tail of a scorpion. Read MoreMap of Magical Activity
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Magical objects • Security
The metallic Map of Magical Activity used a light display to help Aurors in the MACUSA Major Investigation Department to view magic occurring around New York City (WFT). Read MoreMatagots• Creature
The Matagot is a magical beast that resembles a large, black cat with bulging blue eyes. They are spirit familiars that guard the French Ministry of Magic but will not harm anyone unless they are provoked. When attacked, they multiply and mutate becoming more aggressive. If taken from their… Read MoreMauritius
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Countries
Mauritius is a tiny island nation found east of Madagascar in the southern Indian Ocean, and is famous both in the Muggle world and the wizarding world as the home of the Diricawl, which Muggles refer to as the dodo. Though Muggles believe that the bird died out over a… Read MoreMedieval bestiary
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Thing
A book about fantastic creatures found in Newt Scamander’s shed inside his brown leather suitcase (WFT). Read More
Memory Modifying Charm
— "Obliviate"
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Spells
The Memory Modifying Charm is also called “Memory Charm”. Modifies or erases portions of a person’s memory. A person who has their memory erased can be described as “Obliviated” (WFT). Memory Modifying Charms are often used to uphold the International Code of Wizarding Secrecy and to avoid frightening Muggles. Officials… Read More
Memory Potions
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Potions
Effect unknown, but given the characteristics of the Jobberknoll, presumably enhances the drinker’s memory. Read MoreMermish
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Languages
Merfolk language used above water (FB, DH8); Merfolk speak human languages underwater. It sounds like horrible screeching if heard in air. Dumbledore (GF26, HBP30) and Barty Crouch Sr. (GF7) can speak Mermish. Miranda Goshawk’s original The Book of Spells was translated into Mermish (BoS). Read MoreMerpeople• Creature
Merpeople are sentient beings who live underwater in lakes and seas, although they can breathe air for short periods of time. Read MoreMerrow• Creature
A distinct variety of Merperson from the lakes and seas of Ireland. They live in cooler waters than the selkie of Scotland, and are generally considered less beautiful than their Scottish cousins (FB). Read MoreMinistry Rules and Regulations
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Rules and laws
Ban on Experimental Breeding 1965 written by Newt Scamander (FB) Code of Wand Use clause 3: no non-human creature permitted a wand (GF9) Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery 1875 (CS2, CS5, PA3, OP2, OP8) Violation under paragraph… Read MoreMirrors
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Furniture and household items
Ordinary mirrors are found in bathrooms, dormotories and on corridors in Hogwarts. Read MoreModesty Rabnott Snidget Reservation
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Nature preserves
The Modesty Rabnott Snidget Reservation was established in the fourteenth century in Somerset to protect a dwindling population of Golden Snidgets. Dwindling because they were being hunted for sport as well as killed in Quidditch matches, the Chieftainess of the Wizards’ Council, Elfrida Clagg, made the… Read MoreMoke• Creature
A moke is a small magical lizard of Britain and Ireland which grows up ten inches long. The moke has never been noticed by Muggles thanks to its ability to shrink at will. This habit of shrinking when approached makes the lizard’s silver-green skin prized by wizards and witches for purses and… Read MoreMokeskin Pouch
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Magical objects
A small, slightly furry pouch worn round the neck for holding possessions, made from the skin of the moke. Items stored in a mokeskin pouch can only be retrieved by the owner. Read MoreMooncalf• Creature
A Mooncalf is a strange creature with smooth pale gray skin and narrow legs with large hooves that only comes out of it’s burrow during a full moon. It’s eyes are very large and bulgy, they sit on the top of it’s head. It’s enormous flat hind feet leave intricate… Read MoreMosag• Character
Female acromantula, wife of Aragog (CS15). Read MoreMountain Troll• Creature
The Mountain Troll is the largest and most violent of the various troll species. It stands twelve feet tall, with grey skin, a lumpy body, and flat horny feet. It exudes a powerfully awful smell, “a mixture of old socks and the kind of public toilet no one seems to… Read More
Muggle-Repelling Charm
— "Repello Muggletum"
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Spells
The Muggle-Repelling Charm keeps Muggles away from the target place or object. Read MoreMUGGLEWORTHY
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Magical objects
Newt Scamander’s magical suitcase had a brass dial that could be turned to “MUGGLEWORTHY” so the No-Maj customs inspectors would not see the dangerous magical creatures inside. With a turn of the dial, Muggles would only see common objects such as maps, an alarm clock, and a Hufflepuff scarf (WFT). Read MoreMurcus• Character
Merchiefteness of the Merfolk living in the Hogwarts lake. She is described as “a particularly wild and ferocious-looking female.” (GF26)… Read MoreMurtlap• Creature
The Murtlap is a rat-like creature with a growth on its back resembling a sea anemone, which when pickled can be used to promote resistance to curses. Read MoreMyrtle Warren• Character
Myrtle Elizabeth Warren was a Ravenclaw student in the 1940s who was killed by the basilisk from the Chamber of Secrets. She became the ghost known as Moaning Myrtle. Read More