Master Froggy's
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Gadding With Ghouls
A book by Gilderoy Lockhart, gadding comes from gad, which is to wander aimlessly for pleasure or restless wanderings in an uncontrolled manner,

Galatea Merrythought:
See Merrythought Galatea

Galleons
Gold wizard coin that equals 17 Sickles or 493 knuts

Gambol & Japes Wizarding Joke Shop
Shop on Diagon Alley, gambol is to leap and frolic, Jape is to joke, or mock, and to seduce

Ganymede
One of the Galilean moons of Jupiter.

Gargoyles
Apparently there is a pair of them guarding the staff room. (Technically, unless they're channelling water, they're actually grotesques.)

Garlic (Allium sativum) a bulbous liliaceous plant having a strong taste and a pungent smell. Rumoured to be the source of the smell coming from Professor Quirrell's turban. Garlic has been credited with numerous medical powers, and the ability to ward off vampires, but not mother-in-laws,

Garrotting Gas
Apparently a gas that strangles its victim, the garrote was invented by the Spanish to put their criminals to death, using a strong thin cord twisted around a persons neck and tightened using a stick.

Gaunt, Marvolo
Voldemort's maternal grandfather.
Gaunt meaning thin or bony, emaciated, haggard. Possible from Old French gant, meaning Glove, or from high German gante meaning goose
Marvolo might have its roots in the Italian word Malvoilio which means ill will. It is also a term/name invented by another author, William Shakespeare in his play Twelfth night. One apt quote is
“Be not afraid of greatness, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them”
It is possible that Jo Rowling adjust the name so make her Tom Marvolo Riddle= I am lord Voldemort anagram work

Gaunt, Merope ( Riddle)
Voldemort's mother married albeit briefly to Tom Riddle senior, thanks to her skill with love potions.
In Greek mythology, several unrelated women went by the name Merope meaning Bee-mask. Later reinterpreted as honey-like or eloquent. The name may have merely been a traditional position in the cult of the Great Mother rather than a mere individual's name
My personal favourite story features Merope as one of the Pleiades, she married a mortal, Sisyphus, and was thus the faintest star in the star cluster that bears their name. With Sisyphus, she had one son: Glaucus, who was a sea-god. In the Roman myth Glaucus was the son of Anthedon and Alcyone, and he began life as a mortal fisherman living in the Boeotian city of Anthedon and one day he caught and landed some fish at a place where there grew an herb with the magic property of resuscitating fish and allowing them to return to the water. Seeing this effect the herb had on the fish, Glaucus ate some of it too. The herb made him immortal, but it also gave him fins and caused his legs to transform into a fish's tail, forcing him to dwell forever in the sea. Jo Rowling may have used the magic sea herb to great effect in Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire

Gaunt, Morfin
Marvolo's son, Merope's brother who spent some time in Azkaban for hexing Tom Riddle senior. Morfin found in both old English and old French. It comes possible from the Latin word Malfatuse. It is an unflattering nickname meaning cursed or ill fated. Similar to Morfey.

Geoffrey Hooper:
See Hooper Geoffrey

Ghosts
Dead wizards who have chosen to remain in the mortal plane, rather than move on. Hogwarts has about 20 ghosts in residence, including the Bloody Baron, the Fat Friar, the Grey Lady, Nearly Headless Nick, Moaning Myrtle, Peeves, and Professor Binns.

Ghoul
A creature that lives in attics and bangs on pipes while groaning

Gibbon
A Death Eater, who may have been one of the ones recently sprung from Azkaban, captured in the fight at Hogwarts.

Ginger Newt
A kind of biscuit that Professor McGonagall has a supply of in her office. Play on words with the favourite of a certain generation of English people the ginger nut biscuit

Gilderoy
A highwayman known for being handsome. May also come from the word gilded, which is defined as having a pleasing showy appearance that covers something of little worth.

Gilderoy Lockhart
See Lockhart Gilderoy

Gilderoy Lockhart's Guide to Household Pests
A book owned by Mrs. Weasley

Gillywater
A drink served in the Three Broomsticks (Preferred by Professor McGonagall)

Gillyweed
A plant that when eaten grows gill on the side of your neck and allows you to breath underwater for about an hour and twenty minutes, your fingers and toes become webbed enabling you to swim better.

Git
A fool or a brat. Fred and George favourite name for Draco Malfoy

Gladrags Wizardwear
A clothes shop in Hogsmeade

Glumbumble
An insect that produces melancholy-inducing treacle. It infests beehives. Glum (gloomy) and bumble (bumble bee)

Gnome
A garden pest right from folklore. Gnomes are small misshapen dwarf-like creatures that dwell in the earth. The name 'gnome' was given to them by the medieval scholar Paracelcus in an attempt to describe the most important of the earth spirits. Gnomes live under the earth where they guard treasures. (Encyclopaedia Mythica)

Goalhoop
Through which a goal is scored in Quidditch there are three at each end of the pitch

Goblin Liaison Office
A department of the Ministry of Magic

Goblins
Creatures who run Gringotts the wizards' bank, as a species that specializes in handling money, they are short, ugly, and unpleasant. They are also more than a match for anyone who cross their paths, including wizards, as before they became civilised they rebelled at the drop of a small pointy hat

Goblet of Fire
A large, roughly hewn wooden cup.It would have been entirely unremarkable had it not been full to the brim with dancing blue-white flames. Anybody wishing to submit themselves as champion had to write their name and school clearly upon a slip of parchment and drop it into the goblet. Once the Goblet of Fire has selected a champion, he or she was obliged to see the tournament through to the end.The placing of a name in the goblet constitutes a binding, magical contract once selection has finished the flames go out until the next contest.

Gobstones
A wizard variation of marbles, in which the marbles can spit a foul-smelling liquid in a player's face. To Gob is English slang for “to spit” or mouth, as in “shut your gob” Heard quite a lot in reruns of old (from the 1970’s) English TV police drama’s.

Godric
From Old English god, which may mean "good", and ric "ruler" an English saint who though a rich man and favoured by the then king, gave his wealth to the poor and lived as a hermit. Also mentioned in the Doomsday book, a person called Godric held or owned a church dedicated to St Stephen, in the town of Ipswich.

Godric's Hollow
A village where Lily and James Potter lived before they were killed.Not in Wales, there is a place called St Godric’s near the River Wear in Co. Durham

Golden Snitch (or Snitch)
Golden Quidditch ball about the size of a large walnut with tiny silver wings. Quidditch match ends only after the elusive Snitch is caught

Goldstein, Anthony
A Hufflepuff prefect in Harry's year and a member of Dumbledore's Army.

Golden cup
Once owned by Helga Hupplepuff, now believed to be a Horcrux containing part of Tom Riddles soul

Golgomath
Second Gurg of the giants. Possibly from the Hebrew gulgoleth meaning skull.

Golpalott's Third Law:
The antidote for a blended poison will be equal to more than the sum of the antidotes for each of the separate components.
It might be an anagram, who or what of I don’t know yet, or it might be a play on words. Change the first O to a U and you have Gulpalotts. If you were poisoned and had an antidote you to would “gulp a lot “

Gordon
Friend of Dudley

Goshawk Miranda
Wrote The Standard Book of Spells (from grade 1 to grade 5) a goshawk is a short-winged hawk, used for chasing wild geese (a wild goose chase) it does not have a toothed bill, unlike other hawks. Miranda(m) means to gaze at in wonder to marvel to admire

Goyle Senior
A Death Eater, and underling to Lucius Malfoy

Gramatica
A book on numerology the word is should really have two 'm' and it means, the treasure of literture

Gran
Neville's grandmother with whom he lives.

Granger Jane Hermione
Bushy-haired buck-toothed bossy she has brown eyes and the smartest pupil at Hogwarts a Gryffindor Bookish friend of Harry and Ron. She is an only child. Her birthday is September 19th. There are several famous women named Hermione but Jo. named her after a character in the Shakespearean tragedy The Winter's Tale probably written in 1611. The Frigate Hermione (a ship) was lent to the Americans by the French in the War for Independence, it arrived in Boston after 38 day navigation on the 19th of September 1793 it was sent by the French to aid General Washington. Granger is a person who looks after a grange, either a farmhouse with it’s stables and out buildings, or a granary.

Grant, Miss
The name that Professor Binns called Hermione in his History of Magic class class

Granger Mr and Mrs
Hermoine's parents both are Muggles, and dentists, they like to go to France on Holiday and ski in the wintertime. They also wanted Hermione to wear braces on her teeth, and they approve of stringmints, a type of wizarding sweet and tooth flossing combination.

Grawp
Hagrid's Half brother. A giant, all be it a runt, standing as he does only twenty foot tall

Graham Pritchard
See Pritchard Graham

Great Auntie Enid
Neville's ancestor

Great Hall
Main gathering point at Hogwarts

Great Hangleton
A town next to Little Hangleton.

Great Humberto
A television show airing Monday nights which Dudley enjoys

Great Uncle Algie
Neville's relative who tried to force magic out of him, possible married to great Auntie Enid also see Assyria

Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century
A book Hermione read to catch up on wizard culture. One of many books that tell about the events leading up to the death of Harry Potters parents and his survival against Voldemort

Great Wizards of the Twentieth Century
One of the books in the Hogwarts library.

Greengrass Daphne
A fifth year that took her Practical charms O.W.L.s exam before Harry. Daphne means, laurel. The Greek myth about Daphne is that she was transfigured into a laurel bush in order to escape the amorous advances of the god Apollo

Greenhouse one
The only greenhouse first-year Herbology students are allowed into.

Greenhouse three
A place with much more interesting plants than greenhouse one.

Gregorovitch
European wand maker

Gregory Goyle
See Goyle Gregory  

Gregory the Smarmy
A statue at Hogwarts, Gregory from a Greek word gregoros meaning to be watchful

Greyback, Fenrir
A werewolf working on behalf of Lord Voldemort, he was captured after the fight at Hogwarts.
The name Fenrir comes from Norse legend Fenrir (or Fenris) is a gigantic and terrible monster in the shape of a wolf. He is the eldest child of Loki and the giantess Angrboda. The gods learned of a prophecy which stated that the wolf and his family would one day be responsible for the destruction of the world. Fenrir is according to legend chained to a rock (called Gioll) a mile down into the earth. Trapped with a sword between his jaws to prevent him from biting. On the day of Ragnarok, or the end of the world, Fenrir will break his chains and join the giants in their battle against the gods. He will seek out Odin and devour him. Vidar, Odin's son, will avenge his father by killing the wolf.

Grey Lady
The ghost of Ravenclaw unnamed in books 1-3

Griffin
Half lion half eagle Straight from Greek myth. The Griffin was a legendary creature with the head beak and wings of an eagle the body of a lion and occasionally the tail of a serpent or scorpion. Its origin lies somewhere in the Middle East where it is found in the paintings and sculptures of the ancient Babylonians Assyrians and Persians. In Greek mythology they took gold from the stream Arimaspias and neighbours of the Hyperborean In more recent times the Griffin only appears in literature and heraldry. (Encyclopaedia Mythica)

Grim
A spectral dog that haunts churchyards. An omen of death based on the Barghest a monstrous dog with huge teeth and claws from the area around Yorkshire northern England. It only appears at night. People believe that anyone who sees the dog clearly will die soon after the encounter. In Wales they have the red-eyed Gwyllgi the Dog of Darkness. On the Isle of Man it is called Mauthe Doog.

Grimmauld Place
Sirius' home in London Grim is appropriate as it reflects the atmosphere of the house and references Sirius' dog form. Auld is old Scottish for old.

Grindlewald
A dark wizard defeated by Dumbledore in 1945. Grindlewald is the name of a town in Switzerland near the Eiger.

Grindylow
A water demon

Gringotts
The wizards' bank hundreds of miles under London run by Goblins and protected by Dragons

Griphook
A goblin at Gringotts

Grow-Your-Own-Warts kit
Harry’s gift from his Christmas cracker, along with a set of Non-explodable, luminous balloons and a new wizard chess set

Grubbly-Plank Wilhelmina Prof
The professor takes over the Care of Magical creatures when Hagrid is indisposed, for Harry’s first lesson after the Yule ball, she presents them with a unicorn, and told them that unicorns prefer a woman’s touch, Unicorns can only be handled “easily” by ‘innocent’ girls

Grunnion Alberic
Featured on a chocolate frog card Alberic was a common name in the Medieval Europe including two saints. One was a bishop and missionary. The other was a hermit and co-founder of the Cistercian order. Alberic is also the name of the dwarf in Wagner's Ring Cycle. Grunion is a type of fish native to southern California related to the mullet.

Grunnings
A drill company run by Harry's Uncle Vernon from his ninth floor office

Gryffindor
One of the four Hogwarts houses; noted for bravery. Named for Godric Gryffindor. Gryffindor comes from French gryffin d'or which means golden griffin. Griffins are half-lion half-eagle.

Gubraithian Fire Unquenchable fire.
Gu braith is Celtic (lowland Scottish) for 'long depend on' or 'long live', In Irish Celtic it would be Go Braith,

Gudgeon Davey
Former Hogwarts student nearly lost an eye trying to touch the Whomping Willow, as well as being an easily caught fresh water fish, it also means a person who is easy to cheat, a foolish person.

Gudgeon Gladys
A big fan of Lockhart's, still writing to him even during his rehabilitation. Gladys means Lame in welsh

Guide to Advanced Transfiguration
Harry's fourth-year Transfiguration textbook.

Guide to Medieval Sorcery
A book in the Hogwarts library.

Guidelines for the Treatment of Non-Wizard Part-Humans
A directive of the Ministry of Magic, which covers vampires, among others

Gulping Plimpies
A water creature known as a pest, Merfolk tie their legs together and let them float to the surface, as there are no bones to speak of it does not hurt them, but it can take several hours for the plimplies to un-knot their legs Something to be warded off with a Gurdyroot.

Gurdyroot
A root bearing a suspicious resemblance to a green onion. It supposedly wards of Gulping Plimpies. In south west England Cornwell to be precise, a Gurdt or Gurty was a dish made with the soft (small) entrails of a pig baked in blood

Gwenog Jones
See Jones Gwenog

Gurg
Leader of the giants

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