Magical Devices and Items

Vanishing Cabinet • Magical artifacts A black or black and gold magical piece of furniture, very valuable. Read More

Vanishing Magic • Article

Posted August 14, 2003 by Steve VanderArk in Canon discussion / Essays

Various types of spells and items make things vanish, but in different ways. Vanishing The basic form of Vanishing is the Vanishing Spell. Taught in fifth year Transfiguration (OP13), this spell is usually cast using the incantation Evanesco which is Latin for “vanish.” McGonagall starts students out with Vanishing invertebrates—snails—and then works them up to mice… Read More

Vault 713 • Caves and vaults Vault 713 is the “top security” vault underneath Gringotts Bank where Dumbledore kept the Philosopher’s Stone (PS5). Read More

A View of the Map: Understanding How the Marauder's Map Works • Article

Posted November 3, 2003 by Steve Beers in Essays

Let us take a look at the mysterious, amazing Marauder’s Map. But first, let’s look at the castle. If you research castles on the Internet, you will see that Hogwarts is a castle of unprecedented (mammoth, huge, gigantic) size. You might find some castles that have towers that are 7 commercial stories high,… Read More

Vine • Wandmaking A wand wood (Pm). Read More

Violetta Beauvais • Character American wandmaker from New Orleans, Louisiana (Pm). Read More

Re-Visibility Spectacles (Re-Visibility Glasses) • Magical objects Re-Visibility Spectacles (glasses) are required for some match venues in the Quidditch League due to suspicious Muggles. These stadiums are protected by invisibility charms put in place by the Ministry. Spectators going to the match are reminded to collect their Re-Visibility Spectacles from the ticket office in order to… Read More

Voldemort's attempt to kill Harry results in the destruction of the piece of soul Harry had been harboring • Event Harry faces Voldemort in the forest, unarmed and awaiting death. Harry is not a Horcrux, but he is harboring a piece of the Dark Lord’s soul. This piece is destroyed when Voldemort hurls the Killing Curse at Harry, thereby eliminating one more option for immortality for the Dark Lord. Read More

Voldemort's murder of Bertha Jorkins allows him to create a Horcrux using Nagini • Event The ritual to create the Horcrux would have been performed at some point fairly soon after the murder of Jorkins. Read More

Voldemort turns Ravenclaw's diadem into a Horcrux • Event Tom Riddle had wheedled the location of the Horcrux from the Grey Lady while a student at Hogwarts. At some point after leaving school, he traveled to Albania, retrieved the diadem, and used the murder of an Albanian peasant to turn the diadem into a Horcrux (DH31). Read More