Daily Life at Hogwarts
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Timelines and calendars
Life at Hogwarts revolves around classes, naturally. However, as the castle is also the students’ home for most of the year, daily life consists of far more than just academics. The students arrive at Hogwarts on September 1 by Hogwarts Express. For the next nine or ten months they eat, sleep,… Read MoreDaphne Greengrass• Character
Daphne is a witch in Harry’s year at Hogwarts. She took her O.W.L.s at the same time as Hermione (OP31). Read MoreDavey Gudgeon• Character
Davey Gudgeon was a Hogwarts student in the 1970s who almost lost an eye playing a game in which people tried to get close enough to the Whomping Willow to touch its trunk (PA10). Read MoreFirst day of classes for Harry's fourth year, Draco turned into a ferret• Event
After insults about mothers are thrown back and forth Draco Malfoy tries to hex Harry, but he is turned into a ferret by Moody. Moody gets into a bit of trouble with McGonagall as a result. Read MoreA third day of the mysterious letters for Harry• Event
Harry gets up at 6am and creeps downstairs. His plan was to wait for the mail carrier on the corner of Privet Drive to intercept the mail for Number Four. However, Uncle Vernon had positioned himself in front of the door in a sleeping bag to prevent just… Read MoreDean Thomas• Character
Dean Thomas was a “half-blood” Gryffindor boy from London in Harry’s year at Hogwarts. History He was a classmate of Harry’s and best friends with Seamus Finnigan (GF7). He was a black Londoner (JKR) who grew up as a Muggle, and thus had always been a… Read MoreDean Thomas is sorted into Gryffindor• Event
Dean Thomas starts his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor. Read MoreDeathday Party dungeon
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Hogwarts castle and grounds • Rooms, chambers, and floors
Nearly Headless Nick’s deathday party takes place in a roomy dungeon at Hogwarts during Harry Potter’s second year (CS8). Read MoreDeath of Students or Staff
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Hogwarts Debunking Common False Myths You've Assumed About Hogwarts• Article
Harry Potter is, undoubtedly, one of the most well-known series across the world. Even if you’ve never seen a film or read a book, it’s highly likely that you’ve come across something related to it at some point, be it from groups of fans talking about the different Houses and… Read MoreDefence Against the Dark Arts classroom
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Rooms, chambers, and floors
Harry and the other Gryffindors have a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher every year, but the location of the classroom remains the same. The room has windows looking out onto the grounds (out of which the pixies threw Lockhart’s wand). An iron chandelier hangs from the ceiling (… Read MoreDefence Against the Dark Arts teacher's office
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Rooms, chambers, and floors
The office of the Defence against the Darks Arts teacher is located on the second floor of Hogwarts castle. Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom is nearby. The windows of the office face south toward the lake (GF, Moody looked out and saw Durmstrang ship) and also west toward… Read MoreFleur Delacour• Character
Fleur Isabelle Delacour is a talented part-Veela witch who was the Beauxbatons champion for the 1994-1995 Triwizard Tournament (GF16). She married Bill Weasley in August 1997. Triwizard Tournament and Hogwarts Initially, Fleur is a bit haughty and dismissive. She attended the Yule Ball of December 1994 with Roger Davies… Read MoreDelegations from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons arrive at Hogwarts for the Triwizard Tournament• Event
The Durmstrang Institute’s ship appears in the Lake. The people from Beauxbatons arrive in a carriage pulled through the sky by Abraxans. Read MoreDelphi comes to Hogwarts to talk to Scorpius Malfoy about friendship and Albus• Event
Meeting on the staircases, Delphi reveals to Scorpius Malfoy that she hasn’t been to Hogwarts before, having been too sickly as a child to attend. She is nervous and careful not to be seen by anyone else. She talks to Scorpius about his friendship with Albus Potter… Read MoreNearly-Headless Nick• Character
Nearly Headless Nick is the nickname of the ghost of Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington, a wizard who died in a botched execution on October 31, 1492. He was hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe, but a half-inch of skin and sinew remained connecting his head… Read MoreOther Denizens of Hogwarts Castle
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Hogwarts
Hogwarts is a place of many surprises. Not only are the doors and staircases unusual, but also the paintings on the walls and the suits of armor in the corridors act in ways a visitor might not expect. Everything seems to be alive in some fashion. The armor creaks and… Read MoreDennis Creevey falls in the Lake• Event
The First Years cross the Lake in boats, this year in a pouring rainstorm. Dennis falls out of one of the boats. He was lifted out of the water by something or someone (probably the giant squid, according to his brother, Colin) and enters the Great Hall wearing… Read MoreDennis Creevey is sorted into Gryffindor• Event
Dennis Creevey begins his first year at Hogwarts and gets sorted into Gryffindor (GF12). Read MoreDerek• Character
Derek was a Hogwarts student who stayed at school over the Christmas holidays in 1993. Read MoreDerek starts at Hogwarts• Event
Derek starts his first year at Hogwarts (PA11). Read MoreDilys Derwent• Character
Dilys Derwent was a celebrated Headmistress of Hogwarts and a famous Healer. She worked at St Mungo’s Hospital from 1722 until becoming Headmistress of Hogwarts in 1741. She remained Head of the school until 1768 (OP22). Copies of Derwent’s portrait hang not only in Dumbledore’s office but in the main… Read MoreDetentions
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Hogwarts
Detention is a form of punishment at Hogwarts in which the student has to carry out an unpleasant task after school hours. Punishments vary according to the nature of the crime. Some infractions result in points being deducted from the offender’s House. For other more serious offenses, detentions are handed out, or… Read MoreDexter Fortescue• Character
Dexter Fortescue was a red-nosed, corpulent wizard who was at one time a Headmaster of Hogwarts. His portrait hangs in the Headmaster’s office (OP27). Read MoreDH15: The Goblin's Revenge• Source
Harry, Ron and Hermione spend weeks moving from place to place. They fail to either to destroy the locket Horcrux or think of a lead to find the others. They squabble with one another in frustration, aggravated by the Horcrux’s poisonous influence. Eventually they stumble across other fugitives… Read MoreDH18: The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore• Source
Hermione gives Harry the copy of The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore that she picked up in the Bathilda Bagshot’s house. They learn that the young man in the picture was Gellert Grindelwald who, according to Rita Skeeter, was very close to… Read MoreDH2: In Memoriam• Source
Harry is preparing to leave Privet Drive, emptying his school trunk and packing a rucksack with the items most important to him. In the process, he also sorts through the newspapers of the past few weeks to re-read and save Dumbledore’s obituary. At the… Read MoreDH31: The Battle of Hogwarts• Source
Professor McGonagall orders the evacuation of those underage or who do not wish to fight. Lord Voldemort delivers an ultimatum. Harry is told how Voldemort acquired the diadem of Ravenclaw by the Grey Lady, Ravenclaw’s ghost. She reveals that she is Helena Ravenclaw, Rowena’s… Read MoreDH32: The Elder Wand• Source
Percy Weasley and Harry carry Fred’s body to safety, then Percy rushes off to avenge his brother’s murder. Harry looks into Lord Voldemort’s mind, so he can find out his location. Instead of fighting, Voldemort remains with Nagini in the Shrieking Shack, awaiting Harry… Read MoreDH33: The Prince's Tale• Source
Lord Voldemort tells his fighters to return to him. Voldemort asks Harry to meet him in the Forbidden Forest within the next hour or he will join the battle and kill everyone who tries to conceal Harry. While everyone goes to the Great Hall, to mourn… Read MoreDH34: The Forest Again• Source
Having learned that he must die, Harry heads towards in the Forbidden Forest to meet Lord Voldemort. Along the way, he makes sure that Neville Longbottom knows that Nagini has to be killed, in case Hermione and Ron are unable to kill her. When… Read MoreDH35: King's Cross• Source
Harry awakens in what seems to him to be King’s Cross station. Harry encounters what remains of the fragment of Lord Voldemort’s soul (now powerless) that was attached to Harry. Albus Dumbledore appears, celebrating Harry’s bravery. Dumbledore tells Harry that he doesn’t believe that Harry is… Read MoreDH36: The Flaw in the Plan• Source
Both Harry and Lord Voldemort regain consciousness in the Forbidden Forest. Harry pretends to be dead. Narcissa Malfoy is ordered to check on Harry. She sees that he is alive, but quietly asks him if Draco is alive. Harry tells her that her son is… Read MoreDH/e: Epilogue: Nineteen Years Later• Source
Harry and Ginny bring their three children to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters and the Hogwarts Express. They meet up with Ron and Hermione and their two children. Harry and Ginny’s second son, Albus Severus Potter, along with Hermione and Ron’s oldest child, Rose… Read MoreDiamonds
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Hogwarts
The Hufflepuff hourglass in the Hogwarts Entrance Hall for recording House Points is filled with yellow diamonds (JKR:Tw, Pm). Read MoreMrs. Diggory• Character
Mrs. Diggory was Cedric Diggory’s mother and Amos Diggory’s wife. She was not as emotional as her husband. When Cedric died, she was at Hogwarts and met with Professor Sprout, the head of Hufflepuff House, Dumbledore, and then Harry (GF36, GF37). Read MoreDiggory family• Character
The main Diggory family consisted of Cedric (son), Amos (father), and Mrs. (no name given, mother) Diggory. Read MoreDilys Derwent becomes headmistress of Hogwarts School• Event
In doing so she leaves her previous job as a Healer at St. Mungo’s Hospital. Read MoreDilys Derwent retires as headmistress of Hogwarts• EventHarold Dingle• Character
Harold Dingle was a student at Hogwarts in the 1990s. He tried to sell what he claimed was powdered dragon claw to other students as a study aid; Hermione confiscated and destroyed them because they were really dried Doxy droppings (OP31). He also offered to sell Firewhiskey to Seamus… Read MoreDirk Cresswell• Character
Dirk Cresswell was a gifted Muggle-born student who went on to become the Head of the Goblin Liaison Office (HBP4). He attended Hogwarts from 1972 to 1979, a year below Lily and the Marauders, and was one of Slughorn’s favourite students (and so probably a member of the Slug… Read MoreDiscussion of the Legend of the Chamber of Secrets in History of Magic• Event
Professor Binns is perplexed when his students actually start discussing something in his class, particularly because the topic — the Chamber of Secrets — is something which he considers to be purely a legend and therefore not worthy of his time in a facts-based class. Read More"Dissendium"
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Incantations
Incantation – Opens the secret door in the statue of the hump-backed witch which led to a secret passage out of Hogwarts. Read MoreDisused classroom on the third floor
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Rooms, chambers, and floors
This disused classroom is located in the Charms Corridor on the third floor. It is next to the statue of the humpbacked, one-eyed witch which covers the hidden passageway to Honeydukes in Hogsmeade. It is in this classroom that Fred and George give Harry the Marauder’s… Read MoreEmma Dobbs• Character
Emma Dobbs was a Hogwarts student who began her first year in 1994 (GF12). Read MoreDobby• Character
Dobby was a house-elf, for years indentured to the Malfoy family, until his admiration for Harry Potter goaded him into trying to warn Harry against coming to school in his second year because he knew what Lucius was planning with the diary. Dobby interfered with Harry’s life a number of… Read MoreDobby prepares Harry for the second task• Event
Dobby wakes Harry up ten minutes before the second task, tells him that he will have to rescue Ron, and gives him Gillyweed (GF26). Harry had fallen asleep in the library, where he was doing research trying to solve the egg’s riddle. Luckily, the Invisibility Cloak slipped off his… Read MoreDobby visits Harry's dormitory on Christmas morning• Event
Harry wakes up on Christas morning to find Dobby staring at him, eager to give Harry his present. Harry’s startled response wakes up the other boys, and they start opening presents. Pretending he had thought to get Dobby a gift, Harry opens his trunk and gives the elf an ugly… Read MoreDobby visits Harry in the Hospital Wing after breaking his arm• Event
Late at night in the Hospital Wing, Harry awakes to find that his brow is being sponged by Dobby. An emotional Dobby laments that Harry has returned to Hogwarts and accidentally reveals that he was responsible for both the closed gateway at King’s Cross and the rogue bludger. Dobby also… Read MoreDobby and Winky decide to try getting work at Hogwarts• Event
After an unsuccessful two-year search for paid work, Dobby visits Winky and learns that she, too, has been freed. Dobby proposes they team up and ask Professor Dumbledore to let them both work at Hogwarts (GF21). Read MoreDobby and Winky start working at Hogwarts• Event
Professor Dumbledore agrees to let the dismissed house-elves Dobby and Winky work at Hogwarts, and even agrees to pay Dobby. Dobby is thrilled with his new situation, but Winky is deeply ashamed of being a free house-elf (GF21). Dumbledore originally offered Dobby ten Galleons a week plus time off,… Read MoreElphias Doge• Character
Elphias Doge was an old wizard the same age as Dumbledore, with a wheezy voice and silver hair (DH8). Doge was part of the original Order of the Phoenix and at the time wore a “stupid” hat. Part of the Advance Guard that helped Harry in his escape from… Read MoreDolores Umbridge• Character
Dolores Umbridge was Senior Undersecretary to the Minister (OP8) and later highly unpopular teacher of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts (OP11). She forced Dumbledore out and replaced him as Headmaster (OP28). In the Death Eater controlled Ministry of Pius Thicknesse, Umbridge… Read MoreDolores Umbridge becomes Hogwarts' new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher• Event
The Ministry of Magic forces Headteacher Albus Dumbledore to appoint Dolores Umbridge to the staff for the 1995-96 school year (Harry’s fifth year). Due to Lord Voldemort’s “curse” on the Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching post at Hogwarts, there had not been any applicants… Read MoreDoodlings2• Source
The following is a transcription of “Page of doodlings (page 2) “, one of the Potterania extras stored in your Scrapbook. Certificate reads: “This is a page of doodlings from which the Sorting Hat emerged. In the top part of the page are all the possible ways of ‘sorting’ people… Read MoreDoors
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Furniture and household items • Security
Sometimes semi-sentient, doors in the Wizarding World may be more protective of that which lies on the other side than those found in the Muggle world. Read MoreDormitories
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Hogwarts
Hogwarts dormitories, where students sleep and keep their things, are assigned by house and accessed by way of a house common room. Read MoreJ. Dorny• Character
J. Dorny was a Hogwarts student who once borrowed Quidditch Through the Ages from the Hogwarts library (QA). Read MoreDraco dormiens nunquam titillandus
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Hogwarts
The motto of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which translates to “Never tickle a sleeping dragon” (ITV). Read MoreDraco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson are made prefects• Event
They are made Prefects of Slytherin House. Read MoreDraco Malfoy starts Hogwarts and is sorted into Slytherin• Event
Draco Malfoy begins his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Slytherin (PS7). Read MoreDuelling Club
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Organizations
The Duelling Club was a student organization, started by Gilderoy Lockhart, which met during the 1992-1993 school year. Lockhart had received permission from Dumbledore to form the club. He led the group himself, with the assistance of Snape. … Read MoreThe Duelling Club• Event
Harry unwittingly uses Parseltongue to talk to a snake in front of the whole school; the Hufflepuffs in particular are now entirely convinced he’s the heir of Salazar Slytherin. There is a huge turnout for the first and only meeting of Lockhart’s duelling club. Snape is also there to help… Read MoreA duel in the Trophy Room turns into an encounter with Fluffy• Event
Draco challenges Harry to a duel the evening of their first flying lesson. Draco suggests midnight in the Trophy Room. In reality, Draco is setting Harry up to be caught out of bed after hours and has no intention of dueling anyone. Harry, with Ron in tow as his second,… Read MoreAlbus Dumbledore• Character
Albus Dumbledore was the Headmaster of Hogwarts for over thirty years, a time period that encompassed both of Voldemort’s attempts to take over the Wizarding world. Considered to be the most powerful wizard of his time, Dumbledore was awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, and was… Read MoreDumbledore's Army (The D.A.)
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Organizations
The D.A., or Dumbledore’s Army, was a group of students who were trained by Harry Potter in magical combat during the 1995-1996 school year at Hogwarts. The D.A. fought in several battles against the Death Eaters and suffered casualties. The group loosely reformed during the 1997-1998 school year, led… Read MoreDumbledore's funeral• Event
Classes and exams were put off for the funeral, but some parents took their children home soon after learning of Dumbledore’s death. Many witches and wizards come to bid farewell to the “greatest headmaster Hogwarts ever had.” A chorus of merpeople sing a tribute from below the lake’s surface. Dumbledore’s… Read MoreDumbledore interviews Sybill Trelawney for the post of Divination teacher at Hogwarts• Event
Dumbledore meets her at the Hog’s Head about taking the position, although he is disinclined to continue offering Divination at all. Trelawney then makes a prophecy about a baby who will be born at the end of July, a baby who will be able to defeat the Dark Lord –… Read MoreDumbledore is killed by Snape atop the Astronomy Tower• Event
Lured to the Astronomy Tower by the Dark Mark above it upon his and Harry’s return from the sea cave, Dumbledore encounters Draco Malfoy. Dumbledore immobilizes Harry, who is hidden under his invisibility cloak. Draco says he will kills Dumbledore, but keeps stalling. Draco and Dumbledore discuss Draco’s efforts to… Read MoreDumbledore visits Harry in the Hospital Wing• Event
Harry finally wakes up in the Hospital Wing days after his faceoff with Quirrell. Dumbledore fills in some of the ambiguities that still remained for Harry and his friends after all they discovered. Following his talk with Professor Dumbledore, Harry is released from the Hospital Wing and allowed to attend… Read MoreDumbledore visits Tom Riddle in the orphanage and offers him a place at Hogwarts• Event
August, 1938: After charming the skeptical matron with magic, manners, and gin, Dumbledore meets Riddle in his room and reveals that the boy is a wizard and invites him to Hogwarts. Tom Riddle proves himself to be a bossy, hostile, independent, and calculating child who terrifies and torments the other… Read MoreDumbledore's white marble tomb
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Hogwarts grounds
The final resting place of Albus Dumbledore (HBP30) and the Elder Wand (DH36). Located near the Lake on the Hogwarts grounds, it is a tomb of white marble that magically encapsulated Dumbledore’s corpse at his funeral (HBP30). Read MoreB. Dunstan• Character
B. Dunstan was a Hogwarts student who checked Quidditch Through The Ages out of the Hogwarts library (QA). Read MoreDwarfs• Creature
Dwarfs are stocky, humanoid magical creatures, about knee-high. Read More
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Daily Life at Hogwarts
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Timelines and calendars
Life at Hogwarts revolves around classes, naturally. However, as the castle is also the students’ home for most of the year, daily life consists of far more than just academics. The students arrive at Hogwarts on September 1 by Hogwarts Express. For the next nine or ten months they eat, sleep,… Read More
First day of classes for Harry's fourth year, Draco turned into a ferret
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After insults about mothers are thrown back and forth Draco Malfoy tries to hex Harry, but he is turned into a ferret by Moody. Moody gets into a bit of trouble with McGonagall as a result. Read More
A third day of the mysterious letters for Harry
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Harry gets up at 6am and creeps downstairs. His plan was to wait for the mail carrier on the corner of Privet Drive to intercept the mail for Number Four. However, Uncle Vernon had positioned himself in front of the door in a sleeping bag to prevent just… Read More
Dean Thomas
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Dean Thomas was a “half-blood” Gryffindor boy from London in Harry’s year at Hogwarts. History He was a classmate of Harry’s and best friends with Seamus Finnigan (GF7). He was a black Londoner (JKR) who grew up as a Muggle, and thus had always been a… Read More
Dean Thomas is sorted into Gryffindor
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Dean Thomas starts his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Gryffindor. Read More
Deathday Party dungeon
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Hogwarts castle and grounds • Rooms, chambers, and floors
Nearly Headless Nick’s deathday party takes place in a roomy dungeon at Hogwarts during Harry Potter’s second year (CS8). Read More
Debunking Common False Myths You've Assumed About Hogwarts
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Harry Potter is, undoubtedly, one of the most well-known series across the world. Even if you’ve never seen a film or read a book, it’s highly likely that you’ve come across something related to it at some point, be it from groups of fans talking about the different Houses and… Read More
Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom
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Rooms, chambers, and floors
Harry and the other Gryffindors have a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher every year, but the location of the classroom remains the same. The room has windows looking out onto the grounds (out of which the pixies threw Lockhart’s wand). An iron chandelier hangs from the ceiling (… Read More
Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher's office
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Rooms, chambers, and floors
The office of the Defence against the Darks Arts teacher is located on the second floor of Hogwarts castle. Moaning Myrtle’s bathroom is nearby. The windows of the office face south toward the lake (GF, Moody looked out and saw Durmstrang ship) and also west toward… Read More
Fleur Delacour
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Fleur Isabelle Delacour is a talented part-Veela witch who was the Beauxbatons champion for the 1994-1995 Triwizard Tournament (GF16). She married Bill Weasley in August 1997. Triwizard Tournament and Hogwarts Initially, Fleur is a bit haughty and dismissive. She attended the Yule Ball of December 1994 with Roger Davies… Read More
Delegations from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons arrive at Hogwarts for the Triwizard Tournament
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The Durmstrang Institute’s ship appears in the Lake. The people from Beauxbatons arrive in a carriage pulled through the sky by Abraxans. Read More
Nearly-Headless Nick
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Nearly Headless Nick is the nickname of the ghost of Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington, a wizard who died in a botched execution on October 31, 1492. He was hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe, but a half-inch of skin and sinew remained connecting his head… Read More
Other Denizens of Hogwarts Castle
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Hogwarts
Hogwarts is a place of many surprises. Not only are the doors and staircases unusual, but also the paintings on the walls and the suits of armor in the corridors act in ways a visitor might not expect. Everything seems to be alive in some fashion. The armor creaks and… Read More
Dennis Creevey falls in the Lake
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The First Years cross the Lake in boats, this year in a pouring rainstorm. Dennis falls out of one of the boats. He was lifted out of the water by something or someone (probably the giant squid, according to his brother, Colin) and enters the Great Hall wearing… Read More
Detentions
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Hogwarts
Detention is a form of punishment at Hogwarts in which the student has to carry out an unpleasant task after school hours. Punishments vary according to the nature of the crime. Some infractions result in points being deducted from the offender’s House. For other more serious offenses, detentions are handed out, or… Read More
DH15: The Goblin's Revenge
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Harry, Ron and Hermione spend weeks moving from place to place. They fail to either to destroy the locket Horcrux or think of a lead to find the others. They squabble with one another in frustration, aggravated by the Horcrux’s poisonous influence. Eventually they stumble across other fugitives… Read More
DH18: The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore
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Hermione gives Harry the copy of The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore that she picked up in the Bathilda Bagshot’s house. They learn that the young man in the picture was Gellert Grindelwald who, according to Rita Skeeter, was very close to… Read More
DH2: In Memoriam
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Harry is preparing to leave Privet Drive, emptying his school trunk and packing a rucksack with the items most important to him. In the process, he also sorts through the newspapers of the past few weeks to re-read and save Dumbledore’s obituary. At the… Read More
DH31: The Battle of Hogwarts
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Professor McGonagall orders the evacuation of those underage or who do not wish to fight. Lord Voldemort delivers an ultimatum. Harry is told how Voldemort acquired the diadem of Ravenclaw by the Grey Lady, Ravenclaw’s ghost. She reveals that she is Helena Ravenclaw, Rowena’s… Read More
DH32: The Elder Wand
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Percy Weasley and Harry carry Fred’s body to safety, then Percy rushes off to avenge his brother’s murder. Harry looks into Lord Voldemort’s mind, so he can find out his location. Instead of fighting, Voldemort remains with Nagini in the Shrieking Shack, awaiting Harry… Read More
DH33: The Prince's Tale
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Lord Voldemort tells his fighters to return to him. Voldemort asks Harry to meet him in the Forbidden Forest within the next hour or he will join the battle and kill everyone who tries to conceal Harry. While everyone goes to the Great Hall, to mourn… Read More
DH34: The Forest Again
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Having learned that he must die, Harry heads towards in the Forbidden Forest to meet Lord Voldemort. Along the way, he makes sure that Neville Longbottom knows that Nagini has to be killed, in case Hermione and Ron are unable to kill her. When… Read More
DH35: King's Cross
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Harry awakens in what seems to him to be King’s Cross station. Harry encounters what remains of the fragment of Lord Voldemort’s soul (now powerless) that was attached to Harry. Albus Dumbledore appears, celebrating Harry’s bravery. Dumbledore tells Harry that he doesn’t believe that Harry is… Read More
DH36: The Flaw in the Plan
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Both Harry and Lord Voldemort regain consciousness in the Forbidden Forest. Harry pretends to be dead. Narcissa Malfoy is ordered to check on Harry. She sees that he is alive, but quietly asks him if Draco is alive. Harry tells her that her son is… Read More
DH/e: Epilogue: Nineteen Years Later
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Harry and Ginny bring their three children to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters and the Hogwarts Express. They meet up with Ron and Hermione and their two children. Harry and Ginny’s second son, Albus Severus Potter, along with Hermione and Ron’s oldest child, Rose… Read More
Dirk Cresswell
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Dirk Cresswell was a gifted Muggle-born student who went on to become the Head of the Goblin Liaison Office (HBP4). He attended Hogwarts from 1972 to 1979, a year below Lily and the Marauders, and was one of Slughorn’s favourite students (and so probably a member of the Slug… Read More
Discussion of the Legend of the Chamber of Secrets in History of Magic
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Professor Binns is perplexed when his students actually start discussing something in his class, particularly because the topic — the Chamber of Secrets — is something which he considers to be purely a legend and therefore not worthy of his time in a facts-based class. Read More
"Dissendium"
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Incantations
Incantation – Opens the secret door in the statue of the hump-backed witch which led to a secret passage out of Hogwarts. Read More
Disused classroom on the third floor
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Rooms, chambers, and floors
This disused classroom is located in the Charms Corridor on the third floor. It is next to the statue of the humpbacked, one-eyed witch which covers the hidden passageway to Honeydukes in Hogsmeade. It is in this classroom that Fred and George give Harry the Marauder’s… Read More
Dobby
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Dobby was a house-elf, for years indentured to the Malfoy family, until his admiration for Harry Potter goaded him into trying to warn Harry against coming to school in his second year because he knew what Lucius was planning with the diary. Dobby interfered with Harry’s life a number of… Read More
Dobby prepares Harry for the second task
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Dobby wakes Harry up ten minutes before the second task, tells him that he will have to rescue Ron, and gives him Gillyweed (GF26). Harry had fallen asleep in the library, where he was doing research trying to solve the egg’s riddle. Luckily, the Invisibility Cloak slipped off his… Read More
Dobby visits Harry's dormitory on Christmas morning
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Harry wakes up on Christas morning to find Dobby staring at him, eager to give Harry his present. Harry’s startled response wakes up the other boys, and they start opening presents. Pretending he had thought to get Dobby a gift, Harry opens his trunk and gives the elf an ugly… Read More
Dobby visits Harry in the Hospital Wing after breaking his arm
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Late at night in the Hospital Wing, Harry awakes to find that his brow is being sponged by Dobby. An emotional Dobby laments that Harry has returned to Hogwarts and accidentally reveals that he was responsible for both the closed gateway at King’s Cross and the rogue bludger. Dobby also… Read More
Elphias Doge
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Elphias Doge was an old wizard the same age as Dumbledore, with a wheezy voice and silver hair (DH8). Doge was part of the original Order of the Phoenix and at the time wore a “stupid” hat. Part of the Advance Guard that helped Harry in his escape from… Read More
Dolores Umbridge
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Dolores Umbridge was Senior Undersecretary to the Minister (OP8) and later highly unpopular teacher of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts (OP11). She forced Dumbledore out and replaced him as Headmaster (OP28). In the Death Eater controlled Ministry of Pius Thicknesse, Umbridge… Read More
Dolores Umbridge becomes Hogwarts' new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher
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The Ministry of Magic forces Headteacher Albus Dumbledore to appoint Dolores Umbridge to the staff for the 1995-96 school year (Harry’s fifth year). Due to Lord Voldemort’s “curse” on the Defence Against the Dark Arts teaching post at Hogwarts, there had not been any applicants… Read More
Doodlings2
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The following is a transcription of “Page of doodlings (page 2) “, one of the Potterania extras stored in your Scrapbook. Certificate reads: “This is a page of doodlings from which the Sorting Hat emerged. In the top part of the page are all the possible ways of ‘sorting’ people… Read More
Doors
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Furniture and household items • Security
Sometimes semi-sentient, doors in the Wizarding World may be more protective of that which lies on the other side than those found in the Muggle world. Read More
Dormitories
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Hogwarts
Hogwarts dormitories, where students sleep and keep their things, are assigned by house and accessed by way of a house common room. Read More
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
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Hogwarts
The motto of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which translates to “Never tickle a sleeping dragon” (ITV). Read More
Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson are made prefects
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They are made Prefects of Slytherin House. Read More
Draco Malfoy starts Hogwarts and is sorted into Slytherin
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Draco Malfoy begins his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Slytherin (PS7). Read More
Duelling Club
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Organizations
The Duelling Club was a student organization, started by Gilderoy Lockhart, which met during the 1992-1993 school year. Lockhart had received permission from Dumbledore to form the club. He led the group himself, with the assistance of Snape. … Read More
The Duelling Club
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Harry unwittingly uses Parseltongue to talk to a snake in front of the whole school; the Hufflepuffs in particular are now entirely convinced he’s the heir of Salazar Slytherin. There is a huge turnout for the first and only meeting of Lockhart’s duelling club. Snape is also there to help… Read More
A duel in the Trophy Room turns into an encounter with Fluffy
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Draco challenges Harry to a duel the evening of their first flying lesson. Draco suggests midnight in the Trophy Room. In reality, Draco is setting Harry up to be caught out of bed after hours and has no intention of dueling anyone. Harry, with Ron in tow as his second,… Read More
Albus Dumbledore
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Albus Dumbledore was the Headmaster of Hogwarts for over thirty years, a time period that encompassed both of Voldemort’s attempts to take over the Wizarding world. Considered to be the most powerful wizard of his time, Dumbledore was awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, and was… Read More
Dumbledore's Army (The D.A.)
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Organizations
The D.A., or Dumbledore’s Army, was a group of students who were trained by Harry Potter in magical combat during the 1995-1996 school year at Hogwarts. The D.A. fought in several battles against the Death Eaters and suffered casualties. The group loosely reformed during the 1997-1998 school year, led… Read More
Dumbledore's funeral
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Classes and exams were put off for the funeral, but some parents took their children home soon after learning of Dumbledore’s death. Many witches and wizards come to bid farewell to the “greatest headmaster Hogwarts ever had.” A chorus of merpeople sing a tribute from below the lake’s surface. Dumbledore’s… Read More
Dumbledore is killed by Snape atop the Astronomy Tower
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Lured to the Astronomy Tower by the Dark Mark above it upon his and Harry’s return from the sea cave, Dumbledore encounters Draco Malfoy. Dumbledore immobilizes Harry, who is hidden under his invisibility cloak. Draco says he will kills Dumbledore, but keeps stalling. Draco and Dumbledore discuss Draco’s efforts to… Read More
Dumbledore visits Harry in the Hospital Wing
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Harry finally wakes up in the Hospital Wing days after his faceoff with Quirrell. Dumbledore fills in some of the ambiguities that still remained for Harry and his friends after all they discovered. Following his talk with Professor Dumbledore, Harry is released from the Hospital Wing and allowed to attend… Read More
Dumbledore visits Tom Riddle in the orphanage and offers him a place at Hogwarts
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August, 1938: After charming the skeptical matron with magic, manners, and gin, Dumbledore meets Riddle in his room and reveals that the boy is a wizard and invites him to Hogwarts. Tom Riddle proves himself to be a bossy, hostile, independent, and calculating child who terrifies and torments the other… Read More
Dumbledore's white marble tomb
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Hogwarts grounds
The final resting place of Albus Dumbledore (HBP30) and the Elder Wand (DH36). Located near the Lake on the Hogwarts grounds, it is a tomb of white marble that magically encapsulated Dumbledore’s corpse at his funeral (HBP30). Read More
B. Dunstan
• Character
B. Dunstan was a Hogwarts student who checked Quidditch Through The Ages out of the Hogwarts library (QA). Read More
Dwarfs
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Dwarfs are stocky, humanoid magical creatures, about knee-high. Read More
