Magical Devices and Items

Tebo Hide • Magizoology Tebo hide is a valuable commodity because is can be used effectively for protective shielding (FB). Read More

Thief's Downfall • Security A waterfall that can be released over the track at Gringotts that has the effect of washing away all enchantment, all magical concealment. Read More

Thoughts on Socks • Article

Posted September 7, 2003 by Sandra L. Diersing in Essays

What he’d like the most is a pair of warm socks, Dumbledore told Harry (PS12). Is he joking? Is this just another example of his droll wit? I think Professor Dumbledore told the truth, that Harry surprised it out of him, although it wasn’t very clear. Fans have suggested that socks represent include freedom (Dobby), love (Molly… Read More

Thoughts About Wands • Article

Posted March 3, 2001 by Amy Z. in Essays

Witches and wizards can identify their own wands very easily, so easily that it seems to be done by a sense other than sight: Harry knew his immediately when Amos Diggory held it up in GF9. . They can also easily match up another witch/wizard and her/his wand, or at least Lupin did in the Shrieking Shack (he threw Harry, Ron, and Hermione their wands,… Read More

Timeline: Events of the evening of June 9, 1994 • Timelines and calendars Timeline: Events of the evening of June 9, 1994 is a chart showing the timeline/timetable for the events of 6 June 1994 (PA16, PA17, PA18, PA19, PA20, PA21, PA22). The date shown on the chart of 9 June is a mistake, since the… Read More

Timepieces • Furniture and household items There are a number of different timepieces within the Harry Potter series: The Time-Turner is a small silver hourglass worn on a chain around the neck. It’s a very powerful and dangerous magical item which literally turns back time for the user, one hour per inversion of the glass. A… Read More

Time Room • Ministry of Magic The Time Room is located in the Department of Mysteries on Level Nine of the Ministry of Magic (OP34). This room is filled with beautiful, dancing, diamond-sparkling light. Clocks can be found on every surface, “large and small, grandfather and carriage, hanging in spaces between the bookcases or… Read More

Time Room Bell Jar • Magical artifacts The glass jar inside The Time Room of the Department of Mysteries, which gives off a “dancing, diamond-bright light” (OP34, OP35)… Read More

Time Travel • Magical discipline Time travel is an extremely dangerous magical effect which allows a person to travel back in time. Because of the potential for catastrophe should history be altered, time travel is all but forbidden in wizarding society. Certain magical devices can be used for time travel, but access to them is… Read More

Time-Turner • Magical artifacts The Time-Turner is a small silver hourglass worn on a chain around the neck. It is a very powerful and dangerous magical item which literally turns back time for the user, one hour per inversion of the glass, thanks to the Hour-Reversal Charm contained within it (MagSp,… Read More

Tincture of Demiguise • Potion ingredients Tincture of Demiguise is an invisible liquid made from Demiguise hair (CC4.5). Read More

Today2 • Source Second part of the post-DH interview on the Today Show (NBC) Source: MSNBC Interviewer: Meredith Vieira Context: This was one of the first interviews after the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, so Jo could finally answer some questions she was reluctant to… Read More

Tom Marvolo Riddle turns the diary into a Horcrux • Event He uses murder of Myrtle in June (BLC) and the knowledge he gained from Slughorn to work the Dark Magic required to turn the diary into a Horcrux (HBP23). Read More

Tom Marvolo Riddle • Character Tom Marvolo Riddle was a gifted young wizard born of a witch mother (Merope Gaunt) and a Muggle father (Tom Riddle, Sr.) on December 31, 1926. His mother had fallen in love with his father, who was a Muggle, and tricked him into marrying her with a… Read More

Tom Riddle creates a Horcrux from Hufflepuff's cup, this time using the murder of Hepzibah Smith • Event After murdering Smith, Riddle steals Hufflepuff’s cup and Slytherin’s locket. He uses the murder of Smith to create a Horcrux from the cup. Read More

Tom Riddle kills Hepzibah Smith, framing her house-elf, Hokey • Event After doing so, he steals Slytherin’s locket and Hufflepuff’s cup – items he later uses to make Horcruxes. Read More

Tom Riddle murders a Muggle tramp and creates the Locket Horcrux • Event After stealing Salazar Slytherin’s locket from Hepzibah Smith, Tom Riddle uses the murder of “a Muggle tramp” to turn the locket into a Horcrux with part of his soul inside (BLC). Read More

Tom Riddle turns Marvolo's ring into his first Horcrux • Event Shortly after murdering his father and grandparents, Tom Marvolo Riddle uses those murders to create a Horcrux from Marvolo Gaunt’s heirloom ring. The ring had once belonged to the Peverell family. Read More

Ton-Tongue Toffee • Games, toys, and jokes A magical joke candy. Read More

The Trio recover Hufflepuff's Cup, a Horcrux, from the Lestrange Family Vault • Event They discover the Cup when they break into Gringotts with the help of Polyjuice Potion and some well-placed Imperious Curses. Read More

Triwizard Cup • Awards The champion of the Triwizard Tournament wins the Triwizard Cup. When the tournament was held at Hogwarts in 1994-95, the grand finale was a Maze with the Triwizard Cup placed at the center. Read More

Triwizard Tournament • Sports and competitions The Triwizard Tournament is a famous contest between three schools: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Durmstrang Institute, and Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. History It originated some 700 years ago as a friendly competition between the three schools. Each school took turns hosting the Tournament, which took… Read More

Troll Whisker • Wandmaking A rather unusual wand core, which according to legend was used in Sir Cadogan’s blackthorn wand (Pm). Read More

TTB: The Tale of the Three Brothers (fairy tale) • Source “The Tale of the Three Brothers” is a wizarding world fairy tale, part of the collection The Tales of Beedle the Bard. In the tale, three brothers use magic to cheat death. Death himself appears and offers them each one magical item. The choices of the older two brothers… Read More

Twigger 90 • Broomsticks The Twigger was developed by Flyte and Barker in 1990 as an alternative to the popular and technically advanced Nimbus series of brooms. The Twigger was an expensive and good-looking product but ultimately its defects meant that it was only bought by wizards who wanted to flash their money… Read More

Twin Wand Cores • Wandmaking Two wands that have the same magical substance at the core are said to be twins or brother wands. Read More