Dark Magic

Taboo • 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

The Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament • Event The third task is a maze of 20 foot high hedges on the quidditch pitch, with the Triwizard cup placed in the center. The first to reach it will be the winner of the Triwizard tournament. Hagrid and Professors McGonagall, Moody and Flitwick are dispatched as patrollers around the edge… Read More

Pius Thicknesse • 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

Thief's Curse • Spells An unspecified bit of nastiness which can be cast on someone who steals something. Read More

Tickling Spell — "Titillando" • Spells On Pottermore Dueling Club, called the “Tickling Hex” A curse which causes the victim to be tickled. 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

toenail-growing hex • Spells Causes the target’s toenails to grow alarmingly fast. Read More

Tom Marvolo Riddle disappears • Event After the death of Hepzibah Smith, Riddle vanishes for ten years. He travels far and wide, sinking deeply into the Dark Arts, consorting with the very worst of wizard-kind. He undergoes so many dangerous, magical transformations that when he resurfaces years later as Lord Voldemort, he is barely recognizable. 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 commits his first murders: his father and grandparents in their Little Hangleton mansion • Event He first visits his uncle, Morfin Gaunt, and uses magic to steal Marvolo’s ring and frame Morfin for the murders of the Muggles in the Riddle house. Tom uses the murders to create his first Horcrux, the ring. The next day, Morfin is taken to Azkaban, where he remains until his… 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 meets with Professor Slughorn and asks him about Horcruxes • Event He is now wearing the ring he stole from his uncle Morfin during the summer, and is accompanied by his group of friends which includes Avery and Lestrange. 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

Tongue-Tying Curse — "Mimble wimble" • Spells Binds the target’s tongue to keep him or her from talking about some specific subject.  … Read More

Transmogrifian Torture • Magical effects Supposedly something which results in a cat being killed. Read More

Travers • 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

Trip Jinx • Spells Trips the target. 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

Trocar • Character J.K. Rowling had notes about a possible vampire teacher at Hogwarts named “Trocar” but the character was discarded fairly early in the writing process. He did not evolve into Snape, in spite of popular fan theories about the Potions Master’s “bat-like” appearance and “unhealthy pallor” (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

Twitchy Ears Hex • Spells The Twitchy Ears Hex causes the ears of the victim to wiggle and twitch uncontrollably. Read More