Master Froggy's
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Beast Division
A section of the Ministry of Magic for dealing with magical creatures.

Beater
Position on Quidditch team; two beaters per team try to protect their team-mates from Bludgers. They try to redirect the balls toward their opponents.

Beauxbatons
French wizarding school led by half-giant headmistress Olympia Maxime. From the French Beaux, handsome and batons, sticks. A together handsome stick, which is, close enough to handsome wands. Handsome wands would be Beaux baguettes which sounds like a French pastry. Their coat of arms is two crossed wands each with three stars shooting from the tips

Beech tree
Various trees of the genus Fagus, all tall, wide-spreading, and preferring temperate climes. The wood is durable under water, and used for cabinetry, tool handles,and shipping containers. Also cultivated as a shade tree.

Befuddlement Draught
A potion that creates hot-headedness or recklessness. To Fuddle is to stupefy with drink, to drink to excess or habitually, to confuse. Befuddle is to reduce some one to a fuddled state.

Beginner's Guide to Transformation,
The first-year textbook for Transfiguration.

Being Division
A section of the Ministry of Magic for dealing with magical sentients.

Belby, Marcus:
A member of the Slug Club because of his uncle Damocles. One year ahead of Harry. Marcus may be related to Flavius Belby from mentioned in Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them.

Belby, Damocles
Uncle of Marcus, an outstanding wizard who received an Order of Merlin. Inventor of the Wolfsbane Potion. He does not see much of his nephew, as he does not get on well with his brother.
Damocles was an attendant in the royal court of the Greek tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse. Damocles talked so incessantly about the happiness of Dionysius that the tyrant decided to teach Damocles a lesson. Dionysius held a grand banquet, and invited Damocles to sit at the place of honour. Just as Damocles was beginning to enjoy himself, he was horrified to discover a sword hanging over his head, suspended by a single hair. In so doing, Damocles learned from Dionysius the perilous nature of his life. In modern language, "the sword of Damocles" has come to mean a dreaded tragedy that may strike at any moment.

Belch Powder
Something that can be gotten in Hogsmeade, probably from Zonko's Joke Shop.

Belcher, Humphrey
A wizard who according to Dumbledore felt it was time for a cauldron made of cheese
From Old French bel "lovely" and chere face, countenance, variation on a name also means "beam". Humphrey from Old English hun "bear-cub, warrior" frit "peace". Also, "to dine with Duke Humphrey" is an Elizabethan phrase meaning to go with out a meal or to not eat.

Bell Katie
A Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, she and her team mates Alicia and Angelina all kissed Harry when he won them their game against the Slytherin team in the book Prisoner of Azkaban, and a member of Dumbledore's Army. St. Katherine or Catherine of Alexandria was a scholarly woman who was imprisoned for converting the wife and soldiers of the emperor Maxentius. He is said to then have dispatched his philosophers to convince her by logical arguments to denounce her faith, only to find that she instead converted them. Later she was martyred, and a particular instrument of torture associated with this is known as St. Katherine's Wheel

Bellatrix Black Lestrange
See Lestrange Bellatrix.

Belladonna
Bella domina Latin for ‘Fair Lady’. A plant extract that forms part of the basic potions kit that every Hogwarts students uses, the plant contains a poison (atropine) and is a narcotic, it comes from the plant Deadly Nightshade (atropa belladonna)

Benson, Amy
A child in the same orphanage as Tom Riddle, somehow harmed by him. Amy From Old French amée, "loved" possible from the Latin word Amata meaning beloved Benson patronymic from the medieval personal name Benne, a pet form of Benedict, also a place in Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
Wizard candy coming in every flavour such as chocolate, peppermint, spinach, liver, tripe, ear wax, and vomit!

Bertie Higgs
See Higgs Bertie

Bertram Aubrey:
See Aubrey Bertram.

Bethnal Green
An area of London, the site of the vomiting toilet.

Bezoar
A stone taken from the stomach of a goat, which will save one from most poisons. Used in many antidotes. Bezoars been reputed in folklore to be a proof against poison.

Bicorn
The powdered horn of a bicorn was an ingredient in the Polyjuice Potion. The bicorn is a mythical beast fabled by the early French romancers to grow very fat through living on good and enduring husbands. It was the anti-type of the Chichevache, which is monster that lives only on good women and was hence all skin and bone because its food was so extremely scarce.

Billius (also Uncle Billius)
Ron's uncle who saw a grim and died 24 hours later. Ron is named after him, well we think he is as Ron's middle name is Bilius. Bilis is pertaining to bile, a thick bitter fluid secreted by the liver in humans; it also refers to a person who is ill humoured or off colour.

Billy Stubbs
See Stubbs Billy

Binky 
Lavender Brown's baby rabbit that was killed by a fox, she received the news on the sixteenth October. Binky is also the name of the horse that Death rode.

Binns Prof
A ghost who teaches History of Magic at Hogwarts, One day he got up from his afternoon nap in the staff room as normal, and carried on teaching not really noticing that he was dead.

Bishop, Dennis
Another of Tom Riddle's fellow orphans, to which in some as yet unknown way Tom Riddle did some harm, other than he was terrorised in a sea cave

Black Alphard
Sirius' uncle who gave him a bit of money when he ran away. Alphard is a star in the constellation Hydra. It's name is derived from Al Fard al Shuja meaning The Solitary One in the Serpent pertaining nicely to his decision to be one of the few in the family to help Sirius.

Black Andromeda Tonks
See Tonks Andromeda Black.

Black Elladora
Elladora sister to Sirius, Phineas Nigellus, and Isla, who is believed to have been disowned
as far as we are aware she not married, nor does she have any children.
Sirius had an "Aunt Elladora" famous for heading house-elves when they got too old to carry tea trays it is unclear if this is the same person as Phineas' sister.
Ella means beautiful fairy woman. Dora means gift or dwelling. In Hebrew it means generation

Black Forest
Where Quirrell was rumoured to have run into vampires and become jumpy

Black Rabastan Rudolphus
Lestrange's brother Rastaban is a star whose name means 'head of the snake' appropriate for a follower of Voldemort. Also called Beta Draconis Alpha Leonis.

Black Sirius Best friend of James and godfather to Harry, a dog Animagus. Sirius is the Dog Star the brightest star in the sky and in the constellation Canis Major (one of Orion's hunting dogs). Sirius is actually a binary star. The more prominent of the two Sirius A is a black star with a small oval orbit around Sirius B the pup a black dwarf that is undetectable to the human eye

Bladvak
Pickaxe in gobbledegook Blad is the phonetic spelling of blade (I found one Shakespearian reference to Vac(k) which means to fade, or to pass away, but the website I found it on is no longer running, it has faded away) In central European languages Vak means the people of the, so it might be taken as the blade of the people, or the people of the blade.

Blaise, Zabini
Sorted in to Slytherin. Blasius, the name of the patron saint of wool-workers and sufferers of throat diseases. Once very popular in England, a major wool producer. The only relic of the trade in Romsey, Hants (once a wool staple), is an inn called the Bishop Blaise. Blaise (Blae) is also an old Scottish term for blackish or dark blue, but it can also mean livid and bleak, an old name for the whortleberry (bilberry)

Blast-Ended Skrewts
A cross between fire-crabs and a manticore used by Hagrid for the Care of Magical Creatures class.

Blaze Box
A unit of Weasleys' Wildfire Whiz-Bangs.

Bletchley, Miles
The Keeper for the Slytherin Quidditch team in Harry's first year.

Blibbering Humdinger
A creature invented by The Quibbler. Blibbering seems to be a cross between several words (blabbering gibbering etc) that mean to talk foolishly or excessively. A humdinger is a striking or extraordinary person or thing.

Blood Blisterpod
Invented by the Weasley twins for their joke shop gives you an unstoppable nosebleed

Blood Brothers: My Life amongst the Vampires
Eldred Worple’s account of vampire life. A road in Wimbledon bears the name Worple. The All England Croquet Club started out there, Wimbledon is the site of one of the vomiting toilets

Blood-flavoured lollipops
A treats for vampires

Blood-Replenishing Potion
Arthur Weasley had to take this hourly after being attacked by a huge snake at the Ministry of Magic

Blood-Sucking Bugbear
Creature Hagrid assumes is killing his chickens, a bear like monster from popular myth said to devour naughty children.

Bloody Baron
The ghost of the Slytherin Tower. Not much is known about him other than he is very wicked and scary looking; his eyes are blank black sockets and his robes are covered in silver blood.  He is the only person who can control Peeves the Poltergeist.

Blotts
Of Flourish and Blotts books shop in Diagon alley

 

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