• Magical effects When put on a word, anyone who then says that word becomes trackable by the caster; saying the word breaks protective enchantments and causes some kind of magical disturbance. Read More
• Occupations Tea-boy was a job serving tea which Leonard Spencer-Moon held in the Department of Magical Accidents when he first started working at the Ministry of Magic (Pm). Read More
• Wizarding culture W.O.M.B.A.T. stands for Wizards’ Ordinary Magic and Basic Aptitude Test. It is administered by the Wizarding Examinations Authority. The head of this Authority is Griselda Marchbanks, CDMG, APMD, fbBB (JKR). These tests could be taken by Muggles as well as wizards, but the Wizarding Examinations Authority “does… Read More
• Character Theseus Scamander was the older brother of Newt Scamander, a well-known hero of World War One, and an Auror for the Ministry of Magic in the 1920s. When Newt Scamander appeared before MACUSA in 1926 after creatures escaped from his case, the British Envoy recognized his last name, as did… Read More
• Character Pius Thicknesse was the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement (DH1) until the death of Rufus Scrimgeour, after which he became Minister for Magic (DH13). Unfortunately, he had been placed under the Imperius Curse by the Death Eater Yaxley earlier in the summer (DH1), which… Read More
• Character Tiberius Ogden was a Wizengamot elder who (along with Griselda Marchbanks) resigned in protest when Fudge appointed Dolores Umbridge as the first Hogwarts High Inquisitor (OP15). Ogden was a friend of Professor Tofty of the Wizarding Examinations Authority (OP31). Read More
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Source First 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 answer before. Read More
• Event Tonks completes her three years of training and qualifies as an Auror. As a Metamorphmagus, she excelled at Concealment and Disguise training, but she noted that her natural clumsiness made Stealth difficult (OP3). Read More
• Wizarding culture Damocles Rowle used this slogan to get himself elected the second Minister for Magic in 1718, replacing Ulick Gamp. Rowle’s tough stance extended to wizards as well. He favored using the cursed and Dementor-infested fortress of Azkaban as a wizarding prison in spite of the terrible effect it had on… Read More
• Magical effects The Trace is the charm that detects magical ability around under-seventeens. Read More
• Character Travers was a Death Eater who murdered Marlene McKinnon and her family, according to Karkaroff during his own trial. At that point, Travers had already been captured by the Ministry (GF30, OP9). Travers later escaped and partook in the Battle of the Seven Potters, where… Read More
• Character Torquil Travers was Head of Magical Law Enforcement for the Ministry of Magic during the mid-1920s. His swaggering personality was “harsh and mean-spirited” (CG). When Newt Scamander requested to have his international travel restrictions lifted in 1927 after confronting Grindelwald and an Obscurus in New York City, Travers exaggerated his… Read More
• Character A wizarding family. Notable family members of the Tuft include: Wilhelmina and her son Ignatius formed a brief political dynasty as successive Ministers for Magic 1949 – 1962 (Pm)… Read More
• Character Wilkie Twycross is an Apparition Instructor from the Ministry of Magic. An oddly colourless man, Twycross earned some rather unpleasant nicknames during these especially difficult classes, most starting with the letter “D”. He is thin and wispy, almost as if a breath of wind could blow him away (HBP18). Read More