Master Froggy's
Encyclopaedia
Babbling Beverage to Bayliss --- Beast Division to Blotts
Bludger
Quidditch
ball slightly smaller than a soccer ball; two Bludgers per game they fly around
trying to knock players from their brooms.Can cause serious injury, to bludgeon means to hit usually with a large
blunt object like a club. The word Bludger began life as London criminal slang for a prostitute's pimp . The word comes from “bludgeoner” (recorded 1856) – meaning a pimp who bludgeons (beats with a stick) troublesome clients (or just any of the prostitutes clients in order to rob them)
Bluebottle
A type of flying broom, advertised as safe, reliable, and with Built-in Anti-Burgler Buzzer
Boardman, Stubby
According
to the Quibbler, Sirius
Black's real name, under which he was the lead singer of The
Hobgoblins. Supposedly he retired from public life after being struck
on the ear by a turnip at a concert in Little
Norton Church Hall nearly fifteen years ago.
Bob
A big
bearded wizard who brought in to the ministry, what he thought was a bog-standard chicken until it
started breathing fire. In serious breach of the Ban on Experimental Breeding
Bob Ogden.
See Ogden Bob
Bobbin, Melinda
A student at Hogwarts whose family owns a large chain of apothecaries.
Bobbin: A spool for holding thread lace cotton, or any flexible material that can be wound. From the French word Bobine meaning reel or coil. Melinda is derived from Greek and means "dark, gentle".
Bode
A
warning or omen.
Bode
Broderick
A sallow-skinned wizard with a very mournful
face, Member of the Ministry's Department
of Mysteries An Unspeakable who
was at the Quidditch World Cup.
Bodrod
the Bearded
May
have been a participant in a historical goblin rebellion.
Body-Bind
A curse
that paralyses the target completely. Incantation: Petrificatus
totalus.
Boggart
It's
a shape-shifter it take the shape of whatever it thinks will frighten us most
they like dark enclosed spaces. Boggarts are dressed in tattered clothes with
meddling hands and clumsy feet. The unusual number of small accidents and
strange noises betrays the presence of a Boggart after dark. They tip over milk
bottles frighten cats pinch little children blow out candles and cause many
other mishaps. (From Encyclopaedia Mythica)
Bogies
Curse
See Curse of the Bogies
Bonaccord
Pierre
The
first Supreme Mugwump of the International
Confederation of Wizards, Bon accord is dog French for a good agreement.
Bonder,
The person who bonds, a caster of the spell to strengthen an Unbreakable Vow.
Bones Susan
A student
sorted into Hufflepuff Susan, Hebrew
name, meaning "lily". The apocryphal character Susannah was a chaste
woman unjustly accused.
Bones
The
One
of four families killed by Voldemor
Bones,
Amelia Susan
A broad, square-jawed witch with very short grey hair; she wore a monocle and looked forbidding. An official at the Wizengamot. Amelia means labour -or a
diligent, dutiful person
Bones, Edgar
A member of the Order of the Phoenix who was killed
by the Death Eaters along with other
members of his family. Edgar is an old English name meaning "happy spear"
Boot
Terry
A student
sorted into Ravenclaw and later a member
of Dumbledore's Army.
Borage, Libatius
Author of Advanced Potion-Making.
Libatius From both the Greek word leibiô meaning to pour forth or to offer of wine, and the Latin word libatio, to pour as an offering to the deity Borage: A group of plants in the genus Boraginaceae. The main British species is used to make cordial, and as a flavouring for alcoholic drinks.
Boris
the Bewildered
A
statue of him is near the prefect’s bathroom.
Bott
Bertie
Invented
Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. A bott is a person who is insufferable or
irritating
Bouillabaisse
A
fish stew or chowder whose characteristic form originated in Provençal areas of
France.
Bouncing
Bulbs
plant
covered in the Herbology class.
Bowtruckle
A tree-guardian Creatures that like to live in wand quality trees. Bow can also be spelled bough, which is a word for a branch of a ee. To Truckle means to behave with servility
(or to sleep in a bed with wheels)
Bozo
Rita Skeeter's photographer.
Branstone Eleanor
Sorted
into Hufflepuff, Eleanor From a Provencal
form of Helen, Greek for "the bright one". The name of several queens.
Break
With A Banshee
A book
by Gilderoy Lockhart that is required
for all 2nd years
Bring-and-Fly Sale
The wizard equivalent of a Muggle “Bring and Buy Sale,” a sort of community market organized in aid of a church, school, or community centre. The modern form is a car-boot or table top sale.
British
and Irish Quidditch League
The
league in which the professional Quidditch teams play; its headquarters are at the Ministry of Magic.
Brocklehurst
Mandy
A student
sorted into Ravenclaw. Brocklehurst means
the wood or grove of the badger
Brockdale Bridge.
A relatively new bridge that collapsed unexpectedly causing dozens of vehicles to plunge into the waters below, killing an unreported number of Muggles. Its collapse is believed to have been the work of an unspecified group of death eater
Broken
Balls When Fortunes Turn Foul
A book
on divination at Flourish
and Blotts.
Brookstanton, Rupert "Axebanger"
A former Hogwarts student. Hermione found his name when she was looking for wizards with the initials R.A.B
Broom
Compass
Presumably
a compass that can be mounted on a broom.
Broom Regulatory Control
An arm
of the Ministry of Magic .
Broomstick Servicing Kit
Hermione’s present to Harry on his birthday
in the third book, in a black leather case there was a large jar of Fleetwood's
High-Finish Handle Polish, a pair of gleaming silver Tail-Twig
Clippers, a tiny brass compass to clip on your broom for long journeys,
and a Handbook of Do-It-Yourself
Broom-care
Bryce
Frank
The
Riddle's gardener who was murdered by Lord
Voldemort. Bryce possibly derived from a French word meaning "speckled” or contraction of Ap Rhys, the son of Rhys or Rhees.
Bubotuber
Plants
that look like thick black giant slugs protruding vertically out of the soil,
whose pus is used for medicinal purposes mainly to cure acne but is dangerous
when undiluted. Bubo is an inflamed swelling of a lymph node. A tuber is a
swollen underground stem.
Bubblehead
charm
Useful
for breathing under water, and also for areas where hundreds of Dungbombs have
been set off as it ensured the wearer a supply of fresh air, even though it gave them all the
peculiar appearance of wearing upside-down goldfish bowls on their heads
Buckbeak
The hippogriff that bit Draco
Malfoy and was to be beheaded for being savage. He was saved by Hermione and Harry when they back in time to save Sirius, who later kept him as a pet
Budleigh Babberton
A small Muggle town with a war memorial in the centre and a church Horace Slughorn's last hiding place before he was lured by Dumbledore to return to Hogwarts.
Budleigh from Bodelie derived from the old English word budda meaning ‘beetle’ or the same word used as a byname + leah ‘woodland clearing’.: There is no such place, although there is a Budleigh Salterton in Devon. Famous for purple pebbles much prized for garden ponds, not far from both Chudleigh and Ottery St. Mary
Bulstrode Millicent
A Slytherin
who duelled Hermione during the Duelling
Club demonstration
Bulgarian National
Quidditch Team
National
Flag black Greens Red, Team colours scarlet, team mascot Veela
Dimitrov,
Chaser
Ivanova,
Chaser
Zograf,
Keeper
Levski, Chaser
Vulchanov, Beater
Volkov, Beater
Krum, Seeker
Bulbadox powder
Substances that will make you come out in boils
Bungs, Rosalind Antigone.
A former Hogwarts student. Hermione found her name when she was looking for wizards with the initials R.A.B. Antigone, was the daughter of Oedipus and his mother Jocasta, who was sentenced to death for giving her brother Polyneices a decent burial. Rosalind from the Spanish for pretty rose. A bung can be a stopper, or the mouth of a cask, or a brewer, pickpocket, or a lie. It was also slang for a bribe.
Bungy
The
water skiing budgerigar, Lived in the Five Feathers public house in Barnsley
Burke, Caractacus:
One of the founders of Borgin and Burkes.
Caractacus also spelt Caratacus was the king of the Catuvellauni at the time of the Roman invasion under their commander, Aulus Plautius. Caractacus emerges from history as one of the few early Britons with a distinct personality, thanks in large part to the accounts of Tacitus and Cassius Dio. He and his brother, Togodumnus, were said to be sons of the British king, Cunobelinus, and, after the king's death, became the leaders of the anti-Roman campaign that managed to resist the invaders for a period of nearly nine years.
Burning Day
The day on which a phoenix renews itself.
Burrow
The
name of the Weasley family home, to
burrow is to dig or live in a hole or nest underground or in a tunnel dug
into stone or wood. It also means to find refuge, or to live in a concealed
place
Butterbeer
Favourite drink of Hogwarts student it is normally
drank hot, it has little affect on humans but is strongly intoxication on house
elves
