Master Froggy's
Encyclopaedia
Ice Mice
Sweets bought at Honeydukes in Hogsmeade
that make your teeth squeak and chatter
Ickle Duddeykins
A baby-talk
name that Mrs. Dursley uses to dote on
Dudley. Ickle is baby talk for little.
Ickle Firsties
A name
Peeves uses to mock first year students
meaning little first years
Igor Karkaroff
See Karkaroff Igor
Imago Inigo
Author
of The Dream Oracle. An Imago is an
idealized mental image of another person or your self, it also is a phantom or apparition. Inigo is Latin for, to drive or to throw
Imp
Pixie-like
creature straight from folklore. A more popular name for this entity is genie.
Historically the imp was thought to be a small demon kept in a bottle or ring.
When released or awaken the entity served its master in magical alchemical
or healing purposes. Supposedly there are both good and bad imps. Magicians
evoke them in rituals of ceremonial magic and command them with incantations
words and names of power. During the trails of the witch-hunts in the Middle
Ages imps became confused with familiars and both terms were used interchangeably
in the tales Supposedly witches sent imps to do evil deeds against innocence
people in return the witches allowed the imps to suckle their blood through
their fingers or protuberances on their bodies, warts and the like. (Encyclopaedia
Mythica)
Impedimenta
A spell or incantation used
to slow down attackers - Impedire is Latin for to hinder. it's two words in, in or into and pedis, foot Impedimenta is also the Latin word for an army baggage train or the baggage itself.
Imperio
The
Incantation for a curse that forces you to do things against you will. One
of the unforgivable curses the latin word Imperiosus means possessed of command mightly and powerful.
Imperius
Curse
Imperare, is Latin for 'to command', and imperium is Latin for absolute
sovereignty or surpreme control.
Imperturbable Charm
A charm
that makes a room un-disturbable, imperturbable means that can not be disturbed
or agitated, something that is permanently quiet, from Latin imperturbabilis, in, not perturbabilis, to disturb. Also the root word of perturb
Impervius
A spell
used by Hermione to repel water from Harry's
glasses in Prisoner of Azkaban. Impervius means incapable of being
penetrated or affected.
Important Modern Magical Discoveries
A book in the Hogwarts library.
Improper
Use of Magic Office
The
arm of the Ministry of Magic that, among other things, keeps tabs on any students
who try to use magic outside of school.
Inanimus Conjurus
A project
assigned by Professor McGonagall, a
spell that conjures an inanimate object. Inaimate is an object with out life,
from the Latin anima life or soul, inanima, without soul. To
conjure is to practice magical arts. To incant or make an invocation. From
the Latin con together, and jurare to swear
Incantatem Finite
A spell to put and end to other spells or incantations. Finite is from the Latin finitus, the past participle of finire, which means, to limit
Incantations
The
verbal components of spells.To incant is to repeat a formula of words said
or sung for the purpose of an enchantment. From the Latin incantare meaning
to sing words over and over again. Jo Rowling's Incantations come in a variety of
languages. as noted elsewhere an oddity of Jo's spells is that modern-language
spells that contain verbs are in the imperative, the command form. But the
Latin ones are in the indicative form, that is, descriptive of an action
Incantato
See Prior Incantatem
Incarcerous
A spell
used by Umbridge to bind the centaur Magorian .A non-verbal version of this spell may have been used to tie up Peter Pettigrew Incarcerate means to put
in prison or subject to confinement. From the Latin In, in carcer,
prison or an enclosed space, it was the name of the Roman state prison.
Incendio
A spell to start a fire, From the Latin incendo, to set on fire.
Inferius
A reanimated corpse. From a Latin word, inferous, meaning, lower, underneath, the dead shades, inhabitants of the lower worlds. It is also from this root word that the term inferior comes from, meaning lower in rank. To raise the dead is inferis excitandus.
Inflation Charm
A charm or involuntary magical occurrence that causes someone to blow up like a balloon and fly away. Harry inadvertently uses this spell to make his Aunt Marge blow up and float to the ceiling.
Inner Eye
A term
for clairvoyant ability.
Inquisitorial Squad
Umbridge's own little nasty group of bullies
Instant Darkness Powder A product imported by Weasley's Wizard Wheezes from Peru, proof against all light spells.
InterCity 125
A train
engine widely used on Britain's commuter railways so called because in theory
it should travel at 125 miles per hour between cities (never did, never will)
Inter-House Championship
The
competition between the Hogwarts houses to see which can accumulate the most points by the end of the year.
Intermediate Transfiguration
Textbook
for third year Transfiguration course at Hogwarts
International Association of Quidditch
The
organization that sanctions the Quidditch World Cup, akin to FIFA.
International Ban on Duelling
The
exact nature of the ban has not been explained, but since Gilderoy Lockhart was allowed to have a go at starting a duelling
club, it's either very recent, or not a total ban, or the UK is not a
signatory to it. Transylvania has
yet to sign. It might be similar to fencing is as much it is a popular
sport today but no one gets killed unlike a few hundred years ago, when, according
to popular beliefs, in the park lands and the misty dawn of civilised cities
of France, Germany, and England (and of course the colonies) dead bodies covered
with duelling wounds were as common as litter and drunken revellers are today.
International Confederation of Warlocks
Section 13 of the International Confederation of Warlocks covers the Statute of Secrecy,
and any magical activity that risks notice by members of the non-magical community
Muggles is a serious offence
International
Confederation of Wizards
Another
variation on the International Confederation of Warlocks.
International
Federation of Warlocks
Probably
a typo for the International Confederation of Warlocks, or vice versa
Or it
might be a nod in the direction of a Monty python sketch in the film ‘The
life of Brian’ where there are so many anti-roman terrorists groups that
their names are easy to mix up, and most have just a few members, as no one
can agree what to call themselves so they splinter into yet another group
with a very similar name
International
Magical Office of Law
A division
of the Ministry of Magic.
International
Magical Trading Standards Body
Another
division of the Ministry of Magic.
Invigoration Draught
Something Harry had to make in Potions class. To invigorate means, to strengthen, or to animate, to give life to. From the Latin Vigoro to become strong, and lusty
Invisibility Booster
Something
that can make a flying car invisible,
at least to Muggles. Invisibly from the
latin words in, short form of the Latin prefix inter, between
and visionis, sight, meaning, in the way of sight.
Invisibility
Cloak
Shiny silvery grey cloth that makes everything it covers invisible though it is penetrable with any kind of magical sight. Harry's father left one to him.
Invisible Book of Invisibility
Available
at any good Whizarding bookshop in Diagon
Alley... if you can find it
Io
One of the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
Irish National Quidditch Team
The teams uniform colour green, and
team mascot are Leprechauns who fly in complicate patterns above the pitch and shower the crowd with magic gold coins
Connolly, Beater
Ryan, Keeper
Troy, Chaser
Mullet, Chaser
Moran, Chaser
Quigley, Beater
Lynch,Seeker
Isle
of Wight
Harry’s Uncle Vernon, sister Marge,
went there on holiday and was affected by food poisoning from eating 'foreign
food', basically any food that was not a fry up, or washed down with
a large glass or three of someone else's brandy.
Ivanova
A Chaser
on the Bulgarian national
Quidditch team.
Patronymic from Ivan, another form of John.
