Master Froggy's
Encyclopaedia
Kappa
A creature Professor Lupin teaches his students
about. Professor Snape instructed
the class that Kappas are from Mongolia.They are from Japanese mythology.
Kappas are intelligent water spirits who pull little children into the water
and drown them, and they will attack and fight travellers. They cannot live
for long on the land for they must always keep their heads wet. They have
long hair, the body of a tortoise, scaly limbs and an ape like face. The Kappas
feed themselves with cucumbers and blood and use cucumbers to travel on. (Encyclopaedia
Mythica)
Karkaroff
Igor Prof
Karkaroff has
a fruity, unctuous voice; he was tall and thin like Dumbledore,
but his black hair was short, and his goatee (finishing in a small curl) did
not entirely hide his rather weak chin. The Durmstrang Institute headmaster,
a former death eater, now on the run
from Lord Voldemort.
Karkus
The
original Gurg of the giants, it's fitting
that he would be killed so quickly. His name is a homonym of carcass, which
means dead body or corpse. From an Old French word carquois, the root
of the modern French word carcasse meaning skeleton
Keeper
Position
on Quidditch team protector of goal hoops
Kelpie
A shape-changing
water demon In Scottish legend the Kelpie is a treacherous water devil who
lurks in lakes and rivers, usually taking the shape of a horse and rejoicing
in or causing drowning. When a tired traveller stops by a lake to rest or
to have a drink he would see a horse apparently peacefully grazing. When they
mount the horse the Kelpie dives into the water but besides wet clothes the
rider gets away unharmed. (Encyclopaedia Mythica)
Kenmare Kestrels
A Quidditch team that Seamus has a poster of on the wall of their bedroom
Kent
The
home of the Wailing Widow.
Kettleburn
Prof.
Taught Care of Magical Creatures prior
to Hagrid He retired to enjoy more time
with the few limbs that he had left
Kevin
A two year old boy, The son of a wizard attending the
Quidditch World Cup, the little boy managed
to engorge a slug until it was the size of a salami using his fathers wand
King's
Cross
Train
station for catching the Hogwarts Express (at platform nine and three-quarters); an actual train station in London.
Kingsley Shacklebolt
See Shacklebolt Kingsley
Kip
Slang
for nap or short sleep, Old English common slang a Kip or kip house is a lodging
house for ladies with no morals, where gentlemen would stay only for a short
time. From the Danish kippe a low alehouse
Kirke, Andrew
One
of the replacement Beaters on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Andrew from the Greek
for 'manly'; also the name of the patron saint of Scotland and Russia. The
saint's name is probably derived from a Hebrew name. Kirk is a church in Scotland.
Kitchen
Home
to over a hundred House elfs, and no doubt
the heart of the school at Hogwarts. To
get to the kitchens you must first go down the marble staircase by the entrance
hall. Turn left at the bottom of the staircase, down another flight of stairs
into the dungeon, but instead of ending up in a gloomy underground passage
like the one that leads to Snape's classroom dungeon, you will find yourself
in a broad stone corridor, brightly lit with torches, and decorated with cheerful
paintings, mainly of food. To get into the kitchen you have to find the picture
of the giant fruit bowl, and tickle the huge green pear. When it begins to
squirm, and chuckle, keep tickling it and suddenly it will turn into a large
green door handle.
Opening the door will lead into an enormous, high-ceilinged room, large as
the Great Hall above it, with mounds of glittering brass pots and pans heaped
around the stone walls, and a great brick fireplace at the end.
Knarl
A hedgehog-like creature that destroys gardens Knarl would be pronounced the same as gnarl,
which means to snarl or growl. This probably has to do with its destructive
nature.
Kneazle
Something
that was going to be covered in Care
of Magical Creatures.
Knickerbocker glory
An English
ice cream dessert. It consists of a tall glass filled with mixed fruit and
syrup (I, along with many of my generation prefer tinned fruit, as that is
how it was made when we were young), topped with ice cream and more fresh
fruit with whipped cream, a thick fruit sauce is dribbled over the lot, eaten
with a long spoon
Knight bus
Bus
which can be called upon by wizards in distress; summoned by raising the wand
arm. As mentioned in Sean Smith's biography of JKR, her grandfathers names
were Ernie Rowling and Stanley Volant
Knockturn Alley
Home
to many Dark Arts shops. Just as Diagon Alley becomes Diagonally or Diagonal
Ley depending on where and when you put the two words together Knockturn alley becomes Knockturnally
or Nocturnally, which means active in, or pertaining to the night. Noct- from
the Latin Nox or night.
Knotgrass
Or to give it its proper name Polygonum Avicuare. One of the ingredients of The Polyjuice
Potion. The most complicated potion in the book of Moste Portent Potions, a book from
the restricted section of Hogwarts library, other ingredients include
Lacewing flies
Leeches
Fluxweed
Knotgrass
Powdered horn of abicorn
Shredded skin of a Boomslang
Knuts
Little bronze coins wizard currency; 29 Knuts to a Sickle,
with so many Knuts in a Galleon (493) I think they are worth little on their
own, and something worth little, is said to be worth pea(knuts).
Krum Viktor
A thin, dark,
and sallow-skinned youth, he is still attending school, and is therefore quite
young, he has a large curved nose and thick black eyebrows, he was the Bulgarian seeker
and Durmstrang Triwizard
champion. In the second Triwizard test, oddly enough it was Hermione that Viktor would miss the most. He took Hermione to the Yule Ball. Viktor is phonetically
the same as victor and he defeated Lynch in terms of catching the snitch. This was
also the name of a Bulgarian khan who died in 814, who developed the first
rudiments of state organization there, and was able to threaten the Byzantine
Empire toward the end of his reign. Krumm is a German adjective used in phrases
such, as don't slouch, and sit up straight, and literally means crooked or
bent.
Kwikspell
Correspondence
course in beginner's magic.
