Master Froggy's
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Cadogan to Chudley Cannons --- Corner to Cuthbert
Circe
A wizard depicted on the Chocolate Frogs trading card series; traditionally a figure from Greek mythology best known for her tendency to turn men into the animals they are most like (mostly pigs and dogs). She appears in two sets of stories that of Jason and the Argonauts (she helps her niece Medea escape with Jason) and that of the Odyssey. She temporarily turns most of Odysseus's men into swine before she gives them directions home.
Ciceron Harkiss
See Harkiss, Ciceron
Clapham (London SW4)
Sturgis Podmore's hometown.
Class C Non-Tradeable Substance
Venemous Tentacula seeds are included in this category.
Clause three of the Code of Wand
Use states that: No non-human creature is permitted to carry or use a wand. This is this clause that Winky is accused of breaking when she was found with Harry's wand in The Goblet of Fire, it was the reason given for her owner to give her clothes
Cleansweep Five
A type of flying broom.
Cleansweep Six
Yet another variety of flying broom
Cleansweep Seven
A respected type of broomstick for flying a little bit faster then the others, going from nought to seventy in ten seconds,
the handle's made of Spanish oak with anti-jinx varnish and in-built vibration control
Clearwater Penelope
Percy Weasley's girlfriend, a Ravenclaw prefect. Penelope was the wife of Odysseus, their home in Ithaca was mentioned as being close to a place called Clearwater
Cliodna
Depicted on a Chocolate Frog Famous wizard card, A fairy queen and banshee of the families of South Munster (the Maccarthys). Also the Celtic goddess of beauty and the other world a minor sea goddess who was drowned by her father the sea god Manaanan Mac Lir and the daughter of the last High Druid before St Patrick. Quite a popular name. People have even named children after her.
Cobbing
Illegal use of elbows when playing Quidditch, from the verb cob, to strike, to thump, (on the buttocks)
Cockatrice
In antiquity, originally another name for a basilisk. Later on, meaning a creature with the head, wings, and feet of a rooster, a serpentine body, and a barbed tail.
Cockroach Clusters
A rather nasty sweet made of cockroaches sold in Honeydukes
Codswallop
Nonsense baloney malarkey etc, probably of US origin. It is thought to come from the inventor of a new kind of bottle in the late 19th century. The inventor's name was Hiram Codd, the term come from the little glass ball that was in the neck of glass bottles of fizzy drinks, and used in the children's game of marbles, but the glass was very poor quality and prone to being smashed and therefore of little real value
Cole, Mrs.
The head of the orphanage that took in Tom Riddle. Cole is a member of the cabbage family, cabbage was a staple food item served in work houses and orphanages as it was cheap and plentiful, with little waste
Cokeworth
Location of the Railview Hotel, the hotel where Vernon Dursley to the whole family, and Harry, to escape the letters and owls from "no-one"
Colloportus
Spell used by Hermione to seal a door From the Latin word colligo, to bind,
portus, means gate.
Comet
A brand of flying brooms.
Comet Two Sixty
A brand of flying brooms. Favoured by Tonk's she is pleased that her broom was featured in Which Broomstick as being capable of
nought to sixty in ten seconds, with a decent tailwind of course
Common Apparition Mistakes and How to Avoid Them.
A leaflet available from the Ministry of Magic.
Committee on Experimental Charms
Part of the Ministry of Magic.
Common Magical Ailments and Affliction
A book available in the wizarding world.
Common Room
A general meeting room of each Hogwarts house From the Latin com, together munis, serving obliging.
Common Welsh Green
A type of dragon native to the British Isles.
Compendium of Common Curses and Their Counter-Actions
A book that Dumbledore's Army found in the Room of Requirement.
Concealment and Disguise
Part of the training that Aurors are given, Tonks passed hers without studying for it as she is a Metamorphmagus, and can change her appearance at will
Confronting the Faceless
A book Hermione had to read for her Ancient Runes class.
Confundus
A charm to bewitch a subject into believing what they are told, probably from the Latin word confabulari, which is to make up or imagine things to compensate for loss of memory
Confusing Concoction
A type of potion Harry had to make for his final exam in his third year
Confusing Draught
Probably the same thing as the Confusing Concoction.
Conjuring Spells
Does what it says on the box. To conjure is to practice magical arts. To incant or make an invocation. From the Latin con together, and jurare to swear
Conk
From the word Conk'y Very old-fashioned British slang for a person with a big nose, say it now and you would get very funny looks. It can be used to describe a blow to the head, or when something fails to work i.e. ‘conked out' meaning stops working
Connolly
A Beater on the Irish national Quidditch team. Anglicised form of Ó' Conghalaigh, from a name meaning valiant.
Coote, Ritchie
One of Fred and George's replacements as Beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Coote From the welsh word, Coed, meaning a wood;
Cormac McLaggen:
See McLaggen. Cormac
Cornelius Fudge
See Fudge Cornelius
