FACT FICTION and FOLKLORE I in HARRY POTTER'S WORLD AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDE

GEORGE BEAHM With illustrations h\ Tim Kirk and Bntton McDanid

1 IAMPTON ROADS P I • B I. I S H I S (. ( () V P A \ "i i \ ( Contents

Introduction: The Enchanting World of Harry Potter xiii Section 1: Fabulous Beasts and Ferocious Critters, Ghoulies and Ghosties, and Long-Leggety Beasties, and Things That Go Bump in the Night 1 Abominable Snowman • Abraxan • Acromantula • Armadillo • Ashwinder • • • Beetle • Bicorn • Black Dog • Sidebar: "The Black Dog" • Blast- Ended Skrewt • Bloodhound • Boarhound • • Boomslang • Bowtruckle • (Blood-Sucking) • Bundimun • Cat • Sidebar: "Scottish Town Pardons Executed Witches, Cats" • Centaur • Chimaera • Chizpurfle • Clabbert • • Crup • Dementor • Demiguise • Diricawl • Doxy • • Sidebar: "The Komodo Dragon" • Dugbog • - - Erkling • Erumpent • • Ferret • Sidebar: "The Wind in the Willows" • Fire-Crab • Fire Slug • Flesh-Eating Slug • Flobberworm • Fruitbat • Furball • Fwooper • Ghost • Ghoul • Giant • Glumbumble • • • Graphorn • • Grim • • Hag • Hellhound • Hinkypunk • • • Horklump • Horned Toad • • Jarvey • Jobberknoll • • • Knarl • Kneazle • Lacewing Fly • Leech • • Lethifold • Lobalug • Mackled Malaclaw • • Merpeople • Moke • Mooncalf' Mummy • Murtlap • Niffler • Nogtail • Nundu • Occamy • Owl • • • Plimpy • Pogrebin • Poltergeist • Porlock • Puffskein • Quintaped • Ramora • Rat • Raven • Red Cap • Re'em • Runespoor Salamander • Sea • Shrake • • Snidget • • Squid (Giant) • Streeler • Tebo • Thestral • Toad • • • Sidebar: "The Constellation Monoceros" • Vampire • - Sidebar: "HypertrichosisandPorphyria" Zombie Section 2: Wizards through the Ages 77 Falco Aesalon • Cornelius Agnppa • Ludovic "Ludo" Bagman • Musidora Barkwith • Barnabus the Barmy • Oswald Beamish • Professor Binns • Beatrix Bloxam • Broderick Bode • Pierre Bonaccord • Libatius Borage • Mr. Borgin • Barberus Bragge • Mr. Burke • Sir Cadogan • Circe • Cliodna • Vincent Crabbe • Fleur Delacour • Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore • Dedalus Diggle • Professor Albus Dumbledore • Ethelred the Ever-Ready • Argus Filch • Nicholas Flamel • Mundungus "Dung" Fletcher • Cornelius Fudge • Gregory Goyle • Hermione Granger • Gregory the Smarmy • The Grey Lady • Davy, Galvin, and Gladys Gudgeon • Rubeus Hagrid • Hengist of Woodcraft • Madam Hooch • Inigo Imago • Ingolfr the Iambic • Arsenius Jigger • Igor Karkaroff • Montague Knightley • Viktor Krum • Morgan le Fey • Bellatrix Black Lestrange • "Dangerous" Dai Llewellyn • Professor Gilderoy Lockhart • Neville Longbottom • Luna "Loony" Lovegood • Professor Remus J. Lupin • Malecrit • The Malfoy Family: Lucius, Narcissa Black, and Draco • Madam Malkin • Olympe Maxime • Professor Minerva McGonagall • Merlin • Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody • Moaning Myrtle • Paracelsus • Pansy Parkinson • Madam Irma Pince • Madam Poppy Pomfrey • Harry Potter • Ernie Prang • Demetrius J. Prod • Professor Quirrell • Augustus Rookwood • Evan Rosier • Kingsley Shacklebolt • Stan Shunpike • Professor Sinistra • Rita Skeeter • Professor Severus Snape • Phyllida Spore • Professor Sprout • Felix Summerbee • Emeric Switch • Janus Thickey • Nymphadora Tonks • Alberta Toothill • Professor Sibyll Trelawney • Professor Dolores Umbridge • Cassandra Vablatsky • Professor Vindictus Viridian • Lord Voldemort (Tom Marvolo Riddle) • Adalbert Waffling • "Honest Willy" Wagstaff • Celestina Warbeck • Ron Bilius Weasley • Weird Sisters • Sidebar: "Three Weird Sisters: A Muggle Band" • Kennilworthy Whisp • Willy Widdershins • Lord Stoddard Withers • Bowman Wright Section 3: All Things in the Magical World Amulet • Apparating • Arithmancy • Astrology • Astronomical Model: Galaxy • Astronomical Model: Solar System • Bezoar • Broomstick • Cauldron Chocolate • Sidebar: "Chocolate Frogs" • Crystal Ball • Curse • Cursed Opal Necklace • Dark Arts: Defense • Dark Detectors: Foe-Glass, Sneakoscope, Secrecy Sensor • Divination • Sidebar: "Methods of Divination" • Dreams . . • and Nightmares • Evil-Looking Masks • Extendable Ears • Floo Powder • Flying Carpet • Goblet of Fire • Gobstones • Hand of Glory • Hangman's Rope • Herbology • Hogwarts Express • Howler • Human Bones • Invisibility Cloak • Sidebar: "The Real-World Invisibility Cloak" • Knight Bus • Sidebar: "The Magic Bus" • Latin • Lunascope • Magic Camera • Magic Mirror • Magic Wand • Magic Words • Magical Megaphone • Mandrake • Marauder's Map • Mrs. Skower's All-Purpose Magical Mess Remover • Omnioculars • Palmistry • Pensieve • Philosopher's Stone • Portkey • Quill Pen • Sidebar: "In Pen and Ink" • Remem- brall • Rusty, Spiked Instruments • Screaming Yo-Yos • Seven-Lock Trunk • Sorting Hat • Spellotape • Staring Glass Eye • Tasseography: The Art of Reading Tea Leaves • Sidebar: "What's Brewing?" • Tents • Timepiece • Time-Turner • Vanishing Cabinet • Wizard Chess • Sidebar: "The Harry Potter Chessboard" • Wizard's Wireless Section 4: Enchanting Places 207 Apothecary: Slug and Jiggers • Azkaban • Cauldron Shop • The Daily Prophet • Sidebar: "The Daily Prophet" • Eeylops Owl Emporium • Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor • Flourish and Blotts Bookstore • Forbidden Forest • Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop • Gringotts Wizarding Bank • The Hog's Head • Honeydukes Sweetshop • Knockturn Alley • Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions • Madam Puddifoot's • Magical Menagerie • Obscurus Books • Ollivander's: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C. • Sidebar: "Alivan's: Makers of Fine, Handcrafted Wands" • Post Office • Scribbulus Everchanging Inks • Shrieking Shack • Three Broomsticks • Whizz Hard Books • Zonko'sjoke Shop

Recommended Resources 235 Acknowledgments 241 Index 245 About the Author and Illustrators 255