A Harry Potter Lexicon
By: AYMAN NAQUVI
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HARRY Potter lingo knowledge is a "must" for those who enjoy reading J.K. Rowlings popular fiction.
Muggles: "non-magic folk," normal people, humans
Put-outer: mechanism which resembles a lighter, turns street lamps on and off
Hogwarts: school of witchcraft and wizardry (in Britain where Harry attends school)
Diagon Alley: a witch/wizard shopping street
Knuts: bronze currency; Sickles: silver; Galleons: gold; 29 knuts equals 1 sickle, 17 sickles equals 1 galleon
Gringotts: the wizards bank (run by goblins)
Ministry of Magic: council whose main purpose is to keep their powers hidden from Muggles
Leaky Cauldron: a tavern in Diagon Alley
Black Forest: forbidden grounds that lie near Hogwarts
Quidditch: the wizards sport
Seeker, Beater, Chaser, Keeper: positions on a Quidditch team
Quaffle, Bludger, Golden Snitch: different types of balls used when playing Quidditch
Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw: houses to which each wizard or witch belongs at Hogwarts school
Platform Nine and Three Quarters: the train platform used to board the Hogwarts Express
Sorting ceremony: when the magical hat chooses to which house a student should belong
High Table: where the professors sit in the dining hall (at Hogwarts)
Transfiguration: changing an object into another object
Remembrall: crystal ball that tells a person if they have forgotten something, by turning scarlet
Second: someone who takes a persons place in case they die in a wizards duel
Nimbus Two Thousand, Comet Two Sixty, Cleansweep Seven: types of broomsticks
Devils Snare: a type of plant used as a trap
Wizard chess: like regular chess, but the figures are alive
The Mirror of Erised: a mirror that shows someone his/her greatest desire
Sorcerers Stone: the stone which can turn anything to gold and can also give eternal life
Common Welsh Green, Hebridean Black, Norwegian Ridgeback: types of dragons
Invisibility cloak: a cloak which, when worn, turns a person invisible
Ayman Naquvi is a participant in The Princeton Packets Newspapers in Education Journalism Camp.