Food and Drink

Satsuma • Glossary A variety of tangerine with a sharp taste, originally from Japan (NSOED). Read More

Sausages • Food and drinks Sausages are cylinders of minced meat eaten by Muggles and wizards alike. Read More

Setting up camp at the Quidditch World Cup • Event Harry and friends set up camp and meet old friends and new acquaintances before the World Cup game. They set up a couple of old two-man tent belonging to a co-worker of Arthur… Read More

Sherbet Lemon • Food and drinks • Glossary A hard lemon-flavoured candy shell filled with effervescent sherbet powder. Also known as sherbet lemons. Not the same thing as Lemonheads or lemon drops! Sherbet powder is not the same thing as an iced sherbet. Read More

Sherry • Food and drinks Sherry is a fortified wine from Spain. Appearances When Harry first visited the Leaky Cauldron, a handful of older women in a corner were drinking small glasses of sherry (PS5). After drinking her fourth glass of sherry, the Riddle family’s cook gave her opinion of Frank… Read More

Shock-O-Choc • Thing A type of wizarding sweet (CC1.3). Read More

🎙️ The Significance of Halloween • Article

Posted October 31, 2018 by Rosie Payne in Harry Potter Lexicon Minute

Halloween has always had a significance in the Harry Potter series. To start with, it’s the date of James’ and Lily’s deaths and Voldemort’s downfall in 1981. Then, in Philosopher’s Stone Quirrell tries to take the Stone for the first time by letting the troll in;… Read More

Skiving Snackbox • Games, toys, and jokes A range of sweets to make the eater ill; each different category looks like a different type of sweet and causes a different kind of illness. Each sweet is colour-coded so that one end causes the illness and the other makes the effect lift (OP6). Read More

Slughorn's office • Hogwarts castle and grounds • Rooms, chambers, and floors Horace Slughorn takes up the Potions job in Harry’s sixth year. His office is described as being a very nice office, much larger than the usual teacher’s study (HBP15). He holds an exclusive and very posh Christmas party there in December 1995 (HBP15). Read More

Hepzibah Smith • Character Hepzibah Smith was an immense, “very old, very rich witch” who collected magical antiques antiques and befriended Tom Marvolo Riddle in his role with Borgin and Burkes. She was distantly related to Helga Hufflepuff. Hepzibah lived in a grand house filled with so many possessions that it was difficult to walk… Read More

Spotted Dick • Glossary A suet pudding made with currants or raisins (NSOED). The name is thought to come from a corruption of the word “pudding”.  … Read More

steak-and-kidney pie • Glossary These two ingredients represent a popular British filling for a pie (normally encased in pastry). Steak and kidney pies are often served with chips and appear on the menu of most British fish and chip shops. Read More

Self-stirring cocoa mugs • Food and drinks Hot chocolate which stirs itself. Read More

stoat sandwiches • Glossary Definitely not a British delicacy. JKR made this up. A stoat is a small mammal similar to a weasel which is found in Britain and Ireland. It is not usually eaten by humans, in sandwiches or any other form. [The Mammal Society]… Read More

Sugared • Glossary Covered or otherwise sweetened with sugar. For the “covered in sugar” sense, in the U.S. we’d say “glazed”… Read More

Sugar Quills • Food and drinks Sweets that look like quills. Read More

Sweets • Food and drinks • Glossary Candy.  … Read More

Sweetshop • Businesses The most famous sweetshop in the wizarding world would seem to be Honeydukes, which is located in Hogsmeade and owned by Ambrosius Flume (HBP4) and his wife. The shop is filled with “shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable” (PA10). Read More