Master Froggy's
Encyclopaedia

Lachlan the Lanky
A statue at the top of the stairs on the seventh floor of the Gryffindor tower

Lacewing flies
An ingredient for the Polyjuice Potion. This could refer to anything in the order Neuroptera, particularly in the family Chrysopidae (green lacewings) or Hemerobiidae (brown lacewings).

Ladislaw, Zamojski
Poland's top international level Chaser at Quidditch

Langlock
Glues the subject's tongue to the roof of their mouth. Created by the Half-Blood Prince. Used by Harry to shut up Peeves the poltergeist. From the French langue meaning tongue and the English lock, from the old English word Lucan meaning to close. Jo Rowling has said that Peeves is a Poltergeist, and as such he is corporeal, in her own words: "how else could he chew gum or cause mischief?"

Lavender, Brown
See Brown Lavender

Leaky Cauldron
A shabby old pub and inn and the entrance to Diagon Alley, It is hidden in plain site between a book shop and a record shop, Muggles never notice it, as their eyes sort of slide past it. Harry stayed in room eleven for two weeks just after he had blown up his uncle’s sister.

Leanne
A friend of Katie Bell. Compounded from the names Lee and Anne.

Leaving Feast
The traditional end-of-school-year feast, held the night before everyone goes home on the Hogwarts Express.

Leeches
An ingredient for the Polyjuice Potion. The type of leech needed for magic is probably the European medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis.

Leech Juice
One of the Basics of the Potion Kit that all students must have, used in the Shrinking Solution.

Legilimency
The method of reading around in another's mind. Blockable only through Occlumency . From Latin legere, to read and mens, the mind, and or soul, (that part of a person that make them who they are.

Legilimens
The incantation for Legilimency; also someone who practices it.

Lemon Drops (or Sherbet lemons)
A Muggle treat Dumbledore admits to being fond of, as is Jo Rowling

Leprechaun
Mischievous Irish creatures From Irish legend. Leprechauns are very small sprites who sometimes live in farmhouses or wine cellars. They are known to aid humans and perform small labours for them. Sometimes they ask humans for supplies and furniture for which in return they give objects that bring luck and fortune. According to popular belief a leprechaun possesses a treasure (usually a pot of gold) that a human may obtain if he succeeds in capturing one which is extremely difficult. Even after capture a person may not take his eyes off of him for an instant for then he will vanish. (Encyclopaedia Mythica)

Lestrange Bellatrix(Black)
Death Eater. She had long, dark hair that looked unkempt and straggly, She had heavily lidded eyes, an arrogant, disdainful smile and a thin mouth. She was convicted of the torture and permanent incapacitation of Frank and Alice Longbottom. Bellatrix is the 22nd brightest star in the sky. Her name means warrioress (west shoulder). Also called The Amazon Star and Gamma Orionis. -trix indicates a female. The Italian word for female is donna. Therefore her name punwise is Belladonna, which is the name of a poison. See Belladonna

Lestrange Rodolphus
Death eater he was at the final battle against Harry Potter and His friends at the Ministry of Magic he is the Husband of Bellatrix. They both spent time in Azkaban before escaping to rejoin the Dark Lord

Lethifold
A cloak like creature that envelops and eats humans possibly lethal from the Latin letalis fatal or deadly and fold from the Saxon word Fealden, to bend cloth . Thus a creature with lethal folds.

Levicorpus
Another incantation to float a body (also see Mobilicorpus). Corpus is Latin for any material that can be sensed, a body something of substance, levi meaning light or weightless

Levski
Bulgarian Quidditch player, a Chaser

Libatius Borage:
See borage Libatius.

Liberacorpus
The counter-incantation to Levicorpus. Libera- is the Latin root for freeing or to become free. Corpus is Latin for any material that can be sensed a body, something of substance

Lily Evans Potter
See Potter Lily Evans

Lion
The mascot for Gryffindor

Lionfish
Several species of fish of the family Scorpaenidae. The spines, which contain a mild venom, are a basic potion-making supply

Liquorice Wands
A treat on the Hogwarts Express cart

Little Hangleron
Tom Riddles family house is in this village. The Riddle house was mostly empty after the strange death of three of its inhabitants. It appear that the Dark Lord used it as a base before he was reborn into a new body.

Little Norton
The village where Mrs Purkiss lives. She believed that Stubby Boardman (this she claimed was the real name of Sirius Black) held his last public concert and later on shared a romantic candlelit dinner with her.

Little Whinging
Little Whinging is the home of the Dursleys, somewhere in the suburbs of Surrey. Whinging is the act of crying frettfully to complain peevishly to whine, from the old english word hwinan, to whine

Locket
Belonging to Salazar Slytherin emblazoned with the letter S, it was passed down to the last surviving descendents, The Gaunts. Tom Riddle’s mother was the last of the Gaunt’s. All inherited the ability to speak to snakes, a talent know as Parsletongue The locket was sold to Cractacus Burke by Merope Gaunt. Hepzibah Smith owned it before she was killed by Lord Voldemort

Lockhart
Town in Australia near Wagga Wagga. Gilderoy Lockhart asked his class to compose a poem about his defeat of the Wagga Wagga Werewolf.

Lockhart Gilderoy
Defense Against the Dark Arts in Harry's second year and five-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most-Charming Smile Award, author of self-glorifying autobiographies that consist of him taking the credit for great actions and glories that others have archived. His books make good reading but bare no resemblance to the truth.
Break with a Banshee
Gadding with Ghouls
Holidays with Hags
Magical Me
Travels with Trolls
Voyages with Vampires
Wanderings with Werewolves
Year with the Yeti

Gilderoys was the name of a famous highwayman of ballad fame who was reputedly handsome. Lockhart is an Australian town near Wagga Wagga Gilderoy Lockhart is now confined to a closed ward on the fourth floor of St' Mungo's Hospital, in the same wards as Neville Longbottoms parents, his mind even more of a complete blank then before, as when he tried to wipe Ron and Harry's memory foolishly using Rons broken wand, the back lash from the spell wiped what little intelligence he had from his vapid head, leaving him with the mind of a vain and foolish three year old.

Locomotor Mortis
Leg-locker curse Locomotion is the act of moving from place to place. From the Latin locus, a place, and motum, to move, or remove. And mors, death Mortis.is the fem acc pl of the word mors

Longbottom Algie
Neville's great-uncle who was forever trying to get Neville's magic to manifest itself. Algie is of Norman-French origin, meaning with whiskers, or moustaches

Longbottom Alice
Neville's mother who was tortured by Bartemius Crouch Jr in front of her husband in the hope he would tell them what the Death Eaters wanted to know. She went insane when Bellatrix Lestrange used the Cruciatus Curse on her. From Old German athal meaning noble.

Longbottom Frank
Neville's father, an Auror who was tortured by Bartemius Crouch Jr. and went insane when Bellatrix Lestrange used the Cruciatus Curse on him.

Longbottom Neville
Forgetful and clumsy classmate of Harry's; A Gryffindor; his gran a powerful witch raised him, after his parents were confined to St Mungo's, when he was a small child. After the battle at the Ministry of magic where his old wand was broken Neville received a new wand of cherry and unicorn hair

Longbottom Augusta "Gran"
Neville's grandmother. She spend much of her time and effort raising her Grandson as both his parents are locked up in St Mungos after been driven insane by death eaters. Gran has a dominent personality and browbeats Neville, the kindest thing to say about her is she thinks she has his best wishes at heart. She is often seen wearing old fashioned clothes and hats in bad taste. Mother to Frank Longbottom. According to professor McGonagall Augusta is not very good at charms and failed her Charms OWL

Longbottom Harfang
Harfang Longbottom married Callidora Black, daughter of Arturus Black. Callidora was born in 1915 and appears to still be alive. In French, an 'Harfang des neiges' is a snowy owl

Longbottom ?
Neville's Grandfather Under interrogation, Neville tells Umbridge that he can see Threstrals because he saw his Granddad die

Longbottom, Great Aunt Enid
Possibly married to Uncle Algie

Lord Voldemort
See Voldemort

Loser's Lurgy
An unspecified illness or affliction that Luna Lovegood asserted Zacharias Smith to be suffering from on the Quidditch pitch. The invention of the word Lurgy is credited to The goon show a 1950’s radio program (Radio is like Television but without the pictures) is was an unstoppable highly contagious disease or illness known as “the Dreaded lurgie”

Love potions
Gilderoy Lockhart suggested that Professor Snape would willing help any second year student make love potions for a valentines day treat. Pansy Parkinson a Slytherin girl, said that although Hermione was very ugly, she was quite brainy and up to making a Love Potion, Love Potions are, of course, banned at Hogwarts

Lovage
A plant Harry studies in Herbology Lovage is any of several aromatic perennial herbs of the carrot family; especially: a European herb (Levisticum officinale) sometimes cultivated as a domestic remedy, flavouring agent or potherb, it’s leaves are used in salads.

Lovegood Luna
Friend of Ginny Weasley but in Ravenclaw house. Her father publishes The Quibbler, a newspaper. Her mother died when Luna was nine Her name is the Latin word Luna, meaning moon

Lucius
Similar to Lucifer or Satan, the name Lucifer comes from the Latin Lucisator, from Lux sator bringer of light and fero, to bring or carry off . Meaning 'Light Bringer'

Lucius Malfoy
See Malfoy Lucius

Lumos
A spell to send a beam of light from the end of a wand like a torch or flashlight. The counter spell is Nox.Lumin is also Latin for light and luminous comes from the word Latin lumen, light and lucere, to shine, which means to show light.

Lunascope
A device for plotting the phases and aspects of the moon without using charts. From the Latin word Luna, meaning moon and scope an instrument for viewing, from the Greek word skopeein, to view

Lupin Remus John
A werewolf. Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher during Harry's third year and best friend to James Sirius and Peter. According to Jo Rowling he is a half blood meaning one of his parents was a muggle. As a child Remuswas bitten by a werewolf and contracted the illness that turns him in to a wolf, during the Full moon. According to legend Remus and his brother Romulus were twins raised by wolves that supposedly founded Rome. (Roman mythology) The people of Normandy and France call werewolves Lupin (or Loup-Garou). Lupine means wolf-like. Lupus the wolf is a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere.

Lupin's Light
A small, handheld flame, created without wand or incantation

Luxembourg International.
A Quidditch team that knocked Scotland out of the Quidditch world cup

Lynch, Aidan
The seeker on the Irish National Quidditch team. Lynch from the Irish name O’ Loingsigh a name given to mariners. He was also at the Quidditch World cup. Aidan a diminutive of Old Irish ‘aid' or fire.

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