Master Froggy's
Encyclopaedia
Fainting Fancies See Skiving Snackbox
Fairy
A tiny winged creature of little intelligence. Taken straight from folklore. The
original fairies or faeries bestowed gifts upon newborn children such as beauty
wealth and kindness. In the subsequent centuries they continued this original
function but expanded their activities into other types of meddling in human
affairs.
False Memory Charm
A spell to Implant a false memory in the mind of the victim.
Famous
Wizard Cards
Trading
cards of famous wizards through the ages; packaged with Chocolate
Frogs
Fang
Hagrid's
pet boarhound, not a very brave dog, slightly less of a coward than Draco
Malfoy
Fanged
Frisbees
A
banned item at Hogwarts.
Fanged Geranium
A plant in the O.W.L. for Herbology.
Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them
A
first-year textbook. Also available in a Muggle edition.
Fat
Friar
The Hufflepuff house resident ghost.
Fat
Lady
Woman
in a pink silk dress who sits in a portrait and protects the entrance to Gryffindor
Fawcett
Miss
Ravenclaw mentioned in the Duelling club where
she ended up with a bloody nose. Also mentioned in Goblet of Fire she was
one of the students to unsuccessfully cross the age
line and was later caught by Professor
Snape embracing and kissing (necking in the USA, Petting in the UK) a Hufflepuff student named Stebbins at the Yule Ball.
Fawcetts
senior
Acquaintances
of the Weasley family who couldn't
get tickets to the Quidditch World
Cup.
Fawkes
Dumbledore's
pet Phoenix (a bird which dies and
is reborn again from the flames) From whose tail came the feathers in Harry
Potters and Lord Voldemorts wands
Featherweight Charm
A charm to make something lightweight or light as a feather.
Fellytone
Ron's Name for the Telephone
Felix Felicis
A potion for creating luck. Latin, for happy luck, or luck of all luck.
Fenwick Benjy
Member of Original Order of the Phoenix, he was killed, and they only found bit of his body.
The literal meaning of Benjamin is "son of my right hand"
It is a Hebrew name.
Fenrir Greyback:
See Greyback Fenrir
Ferula
A
spell to make a splint for a broken bone, Ferule is a wooden stick that can be
used as a splint, it is also an instrument, such as a flat piece of wood or
cane, used to punish children
Fever
Fudge
One
of the items in the Skiving Snackboxes.
Fidelius Charm
An extremely
complex charm in which a secret is concealed within a single living soul.
The information is hidden inside the chosen person or Secret-Keeper and is henceforth impossible to find, unless of course the Secret-Keeper chooses
to divulge it. Fidelity means faithfulness to obligations or duties. From the Latin Fidelis meaning trustworth faithful and true
Figg Mrs, Arabella
A neighbour
with whom Harry stayed every year on Dudley's birthday, Fig means not literal
and a fig leaf is something that conceals or camouflages. Turns out she is
a squib and is there to watch Harry for
Dumbledore
Filch
To steal.
Filch
Argus
Bad-tempered
squib caretaker at Hogwarts. Also see Argus
Filibuster Fireworks
See
Dr. Filibuster's Fabulous No-Heat Wet-Start
Fireworks
Finch-Fletchley
Justin
Sorted
into Hufflepuff
Finite
Incantatem
A charm
used by Professor Snape to end the
chaos at Duelling Club. Combination
of fini stop, reach the limit, end and incantation a ritual recitation of verbal
charms or spells to produce a magic effect. From the Latin incantatio, an enchanting enchantment
Finnigan
Seamus
Sorted
into Gryffindor his dad's a Muggle his
mother a witch
Fire
Crab
A
large tortoise like creature that shoots flames from its rear end when
attacked.
Fire omen
Professor
Trelawney taught Fire omen in the second
term of the third years Divination class
Firebolt
A top-of-the-line broom, the Firebolt has an acceleration of
nought to one hundred and fifty miles per hour in less than ten seconds and
incorporates an unbreakable braking charm. Harry
received one as a gift from an unknown friend
Firenze
A centaur in the Forbidden Forest young with black-blonde
hair and a palomino body - Italian name for the city of Florence. Galileo
Galilei arguably the greatest astronomer who ever
lived was buried in Firenze. This seems fairly appropriate name for a stargazing centaur.
Firewhiskey
A strong
drink that no Hogwarts students is allowed to drink. Gilderoy
Lockhart was partial to a glass or three
Fizzing
Whizbees
Levitating
sherbet balls
Flagrate
A spell Hermione uses to mark used doors with a fiery X From the Latin word Flagrare' to burn, or to blaze. Blaze also means to mark, from the Germanic word blaikjan or to make white, (a deep cut into a tree will expose the white or pale wood underneath the bark.) Tom Riddle who emerged from Riddle's Diary used a non-verbal incantation of this spell to leave his name "Tom Marvolo Riddle" in the air.
Flamel Nicholas
Real life and very noteworthy alchemist, and friend to Dumbledore. Although little factual evidance remains about his life, but what is known with certainty is that despite having a mundane job as a bookseller he suddenly became very rich, giving away lots of gold to found orphanages (many of which still exist today) and help the poor and needy. Legend says that he and is wife faked their deaths and remain forever young to this day. Legend also tell that a hundred years after he had so say died, his tomb was opened revealing only an empty and unused coffin.
Flamel Perenelle
Wife of Nicolas Flamel
Flame freezing charm
As noted in the book called A History of Magic Non-magic people (more commonly known as Muggles) were particularly afraid of magic in medieval times, but not very good at recognizing it. On the rare occasion that they did catch a real witch or wizard, burning had no effect whatsoever. The witch or wizard would perform a basic Flame Freezing Charm and then pretend to shriek with pain while enjoying a gentle, tickling sensation.
Fleur
See Delacour
Flume, Ambrosius.
Current head of Honeydukes
Ambrosius the second son of the Emperor Constantine, Geoffrey of Monmouth, tells us of a King Constantine, who had three sons, Constans, Uther and Ambrosius After the death of his father and the murder of his brother Constans, Ambrosius and his brother Uther was bundled up and taken across the Channel to the safety of the court of his cousin, Budic I of Brittany. Here he grew up, while the evil Vortigern reigned in Britain, but always Ambrosius planned to return and claim his rightful inheritance. His chance arrived some years later. Ambrosius returned to Britain, landed at Totnes (Devon) and it may be at this point in history that he clashed with Vitalinus (probably Vortigern or a supporter) at the Battle of Guoloph (Nether Wallop in Hampshire) as recorded by Nennius.
Flume
A narrow gorge, usually with a stream flowing through it. An open artificial channel or chute carrying a stream of water, as for furnishing power, conveying logs, or as a measuring device .
Fleet,
Angus
A Muggle and resident of the town of Peebles, who spotted Harry and Ron in the flying Ford
Anglia.
Fleetwood's
High-Finish Handle Polish
Part
of Harry's Broomstick service kit. Fleet
can mean fast of foot or perhaps fast of wood
Flesh-Eating Slugs
Pest
that infested the Hogwarts cabbages
Fletcher, Mundungus
Squat, unshaven man in a tattered overcoat he is
thief and wastrel, also member
of the Order of the Phoenix. Tried to curse
Arthur Weasley behind his back in Chamber of Secrets. Mundungus means
a rank smelling tobacco, or Black pudding (Blood sausage). JKR explains that
Mundungus always smells of his pipe and various other unsavoury things so
that's why he's called Mundungus. A Fletcher is a maker of arrows.
Fleur Delacour
See Delacour Fleur
Flibbertigibbet
One
of the passwords for Gryffindor house
it means, a flighty person, an imp, or to chatter meaninglessly (Also see The fat lady)
Flint
Marcus
Slytherin Quidditch captain He was left back during his seventh year at Hogwarts. Like Oliver Wood, Flint's last name is a
raw material. There was another famous Captain Flint the evil ship captain
from the book Treasure Island. Marcus was a prae-nomen or a name that went before the title of a roman leader
Flitterbloom
A plant that someone disguised a Devil's Snare plant as, and then sent it to St
Mungo's for Mr Bode.
Flitwick
A Town in England.
Flitwick, Filius Prof.
Charm's teacher at Hogwarts, a former duelling champion who has since moved on to the
far more exciting and dangerous career of teaching adolescents to handle supernatural
forces.
Filius,
from Filia a Latin word meaning "son" or
"daughter, Flit meaning to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim
along: bees flitting from flower to flower.
Flobberworm,
A harmless worm-like magical creature with no teeth which students must keep alive in order to pass Care of Magical
Creatures class
Floo Powder
Used
by wizards to travel by fire, a flue is a pipe tube or channel for conveying
hot steam or smoke (like a chimney).
Florean
Fortescue's Ice-Cream Parlour
A
shop on Diagon Alley From Latin florianus "flowery, blooming".
Florian is the name of a 4th century saint invoked against fire and drought.
Florence
A student
at Hogwarts at the same time as Bertha
Jorkins. A boy who had been kissing Florence behind the greenhouse,
put a hex on Bertha Jorkins for spying on them.
Flourish & Blotts
A bookshop
in Diagon Alley. A flourish, in penmanship,
is an added decoration. To blot is to dry wet ink by pressing something absorbent
(like a blotting-paper) onto it, to absorb the excess and keep it from smudging.
When writing with a fountain pen or quill, one would sign with a flourish
and then blot it.
Fluffy
A huge three-headed dog that protected a secret chamber at Hogwarts,
Hagrid bought him from a Greek chap he met in a pub the year before Harry started Hogwarts.
Cerberus was a three-headed dog and guardian of the underworld in Greek mythology
Flute
Made
from wood that Hagrid had whittled it and
given it to Harry as a Christmas present, when blown it sounded a bit like
an owl. Very useful against Fluffy the three headed dog
Flutterby
Bush
A magical plant, un-described but possibly a variation of a butterfly bush ( Buddleia globosa).
Fluxweed
An ingredient
of the Polyjuice Potion. If something
is said to be "in flux" it is in between one thing and another,
or in a state of continual change
Flying
with the Cannons
A book on the Chudley Cannons a Quidditch team that Ron favours.
Foe-Glass
A mirror that shows any enemies of the owner who are in the vicinity.
Forbidden
Forest
A
large area of woodland on the Hogwarts grounds off-limits to students; it is
the home to many dangerous animals.
Ford
Anglia
The
Weasley's family car, Ron and Harry "borrowed" it to take them to Hogwarts, when Dobby the house Elf had closed the portal between the Muggle Station at Kings Cross, and the magical Platform9 ¾ The car escaped after crashing in the the Whomping Willow, and stopping only to rescue Harry and Ron from the giant spider Aragog it fled once more into the Forbidden forest . The Weasleys' Anglia is probably the 105E edition
that was popular in the 1960's. The 105E is depicted on the cover of Chamber
of Secrets (UK edition) and Jo arrived in one when she launched Goblet of
Fire at King's Cross Station. It’s a tiny car, and that is important to the
humour, in references to the magically roomy seats and capacious boot, trunk
Forgetfulness Potion
The final exam for Harry's first year of Potions
Fortescue
A previous headmaster of Hogwarts. This might be from the Latin word Fortesco meaning, to become brave
Fortescue, Florean
The proprietor of an ice cream parlour in Diagon
Alley, who for some reason knows an awful lot about the history of witch
burning. Florean is from the Latin word Floreum meaning made of flowers or of flowers.
Fortuna Major
Pass word to the Gryffindor tower at the beginning of Book three. It means great or large, and either Luck or fortune
Fountain of Magical Brethren
An artistic statement of the Ministry of Magic's view of the magic world and the creatures that live in it. now, appropriately enough ,
utterly destroyed.
Four-Point Spell
A spell to make one's wand indicate north. Incantation: Point Me.
Fowl
or Foul? A Study of Hippogriff Brutality
A book Ron consulted in Buckbeak's defence.
Freezing Charm:
A paralysis-inducing spell.
Friar(or Fat Friar)
The resident ghost of Hufflepuff
Fridwulfa
Giantess and Hagrid's mother also the mother of Hagrid's
Half brother Grawp
Frobisher, Vicky
A Gryffindor who tried out to be the Keeper on the Quidditch team.
Frog Spawn Soap
Sold at Zonko’s joke shop.
Fudge Cornelius Oswald
He is the
Minister For Magic he has thinning grey hair, a portly little man, and as
befitting his job he dresses in a pinstriped suit, scarlet tie, long black
cloak, pointed purple boots, lime green bowler hat or in a bottle-green suit,
pinstriped cloak he feels his job is to preserve the status quo, using what
ever means it takes to keep him in power, he has a sycophantic fondness for
pure bloodlines, as always happens with common politicians he is impressed
by money when he mixes with ordinary fold he drinks red currant rum.
He was elected to the post after Millicent Bagnold retired.
He asked advice
of everyone including Dumbledore regularly sending a stream of owls asking
for advice, but over the years he's begun to consider Dumbledore more of a
threat than anything. He remembers how much popular support there was for
Dumbledore, even though Dumbledore didn't want the job. Fudge started to see
a threat to his job, a job he loves so much that he was villing to ignore the mountain
of evidence pointing to the return of Voldemort. It wasn't until Fudge saw the Dark
Lord himself, that he publicity acknowledged that Dark Lord had finally returned.
Furnunculus
Curse that causes boils to break out all over the victim. from furnus Latin meaning oven, used by romans to mean a warming place, also
furunculus Latin meaning a pointed burning sore on the body or a boil and is the basis of the English word furuncle, taken from Pliney the elder.
Harry cast this spell on Malfoy. It missed and and hit Gregory Goyle
