Master Froggy's
Encyclopaedia
McGuffin to Montague --- Moody to Murtlap
MacDougal Morag
Sorted
into an unknown house. Morag from Gaelic, a diminutive of mor'a, meaning
the sun, MacDougal from the Gaelic for Dark stranger.
Mackled Malaclaw
A bad luck-bringing lobster-like creature Mackled means blurred. Malaclaw, comes
from Mal or bad, and claw. Therefore a creature whose claws bring bad luck.
Macmillan
Ernie
Hufflepuff
student who was petrified when the
Chamber of Secrets was opened for the second time , Ernie is a pureblood wizard, in the second book 'Chamber
of Secrets', when the Hufflepuffs all suspected Harry
of being Slytherin's heir, he told
Harry "I might tell you that you can trace my family back through nine
generations of witches and warlocks and my blood's as pure as anyone's”
Macnair,
Walden
The
executioner for the Committee for the
Disposal of Dangerous creatures. He is now known to be a Death
Eater. And was part of the team Malfoy took with him to attack Harry Potter and his friends whom they had lured to the Ministry of Magic. Anglicisation of Mac an Mhaoir, son of the steward, keeper. The principal Irish family of this name held
the hereditary post of Keeper of the Book of Armagh at Ballymoyer (Gaelic
Baile an Mhaoir) Walden: (English) Wooded valley.
Mad-Eye
Moody
See Moody Alastor
Madam
Malkin
Owner
of the shop Robes for all Occasions in Diagon Alley. A malkin is an unclean
or lewd woman, or a scarecrow.
Madam Pomfrey
See Pomfrey Poppy (Madam)
Madam Rosmerta
See Rosmerta (Madam)
Madame Maxime
See Maxime Madame
Madcap Magic for Wacky Warlocks
A book
in the Hogwarts library.
Madley, Laura
A Hufflepuff, 3 years behind Harry. Name of several
places in Britain, from the Old English words mada probably a derivative
of maad, foolish and leeah wood, clearing. Laura means laurel.
Magick Moste Evile
A book in the Hogwarts library which does not include details about Horcruxes.
Magical
Drafts and Potions
A first-year textbook for Hogwarts students
Magical
Hieroglyphs and Logograms
A textbook
from Hermione's ancient
runes class. Hieroglyphs were a system of writing mainly in pictorial
characters. A logogram is a letter symbol or sign used to represent an entire
word.
Magical Law Enforcement Patrol
Alternate name for the Magical Law Enforcement Squad.
Magical Law Enforcement Squad
The
ordinary police of the wizard world, as opposed to Aurors.
Magical Maintenance
The department at the Ministry of Magic that decides what kind of illusory weather
is visible out of the enchanted windows.
Magical Me
Autobiography of Gilderoy Lockhart
Magical Menagerie
The general pet store in Diagon Alley.
Magical Mess Remover
A cleaning
potion that does what it says on the box
Magic studies and Magical Theory
A first-year textbook for Hogwarts students.
Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean
A book
lent to Neville by the fake
Alastor Moody.
Magical quill
In Hogwarts
there's a magical quill, which detects the birth of every magical child, and
writes his or her name down in a large parchment book. Every year Professor
McGonagall checks the book, and sends owls to the people who are turning eleven .
(Jo Rowling chat room conversation)
Magnolia Crescent
A Street near the Dursleys' home. Harry caught the knight bus from there in the Third book Prisoner
of Azkaban
Magnolia Road
Another
street near the Dursleys' home.
Magorian
A
centaur living in the Forbidden Forest. The meaning of his name, is either "Fear from every side". Taken from a symbolic name for the Priest- Prophet Pashue mentioned in the bible, or from the legendary name given to the mythical ancestors of the Hungarian Nation
Mahogany
A tropical hardwood (swietenia mahogoni) from several trees of the family Meliaceae,
most often the West Indies mahogany, used mainly in furniture and panelling.
Malcolm Baddock
See Baddock Malcolm
Malfoy
In Jo Rowliongs world Mal
foi means bad faith in French.
Malfoy, Abraxas
Lucius Malfoy's father, known to Slughorn. Died of the Dragon Pox. Abraxas was a leader or ruler with a somewhat Chimera-like appearance, resembling a basilisk: he had the head of a rooster or sometimes a king, the body of a man, and legs fashioned like snakes and sometimes depicted with a whip in his hand - a form referred to as the Anguipede. There are references to Abraxas in several Gnostic writings Abrasax is the name given by the Gnostics to the Supreme Deity.
Malfoy Draco
Birthday: 5 June
Only child of Lucius and Narcissa, A Slytherin rival of Harry Ron
and Hermione. Draco means dragon in Latin. Also Draco was the name of a cruel Athenian lawmaker.
His harsh legal code punished both trivial and serious crimes with death.
From this we get our expression draconian laws meaning unnecessarily harsh
laws.
Malfoy
Lucius
Draco
Malfoy's father. Death eater. The name
Lucius might be a nod to Lucifer the devil. More likely however is the connection
with Saint Lucius who succeeded Saint Cornelius as pope. Another interesting
connection is that both Draco and Lucius (another Lucius not the pope!) were
overly harsh Roman lawmakers.
Malfoy Narcissa
Self-absorbed
mother of Draco Malfoy. Narcissus was the son of the river god Cephissus and
the nymph Liriope. Tiresias the seer told his parents that the child would
live to an old age if he did not look at itself. Many nymphs and girls fell
in love with him but he rejected them. The goddess Nemesis heard the rejected
girls prayers for vengeance and arranged for Narcissus to fall in love with
his own reflection. He stayed watching his reflection and let himself die.
This gives the origin of the narcissus flower, which grew where he died.
Malkin's Robes for all Occasions
The Shop where
Harry Potter bought his first set of Robes and met Draco
Malfoy for the first time
Mallowsweet
A herb most likely to be Abutilon indicum or the sweet Mallow (monkeybush). Used by herbalist to help to treat dysentery and as a poultice for cleaning wounds.The herb is burnt by centaurs to aid them to divine
the future by examining the shape of the flames
Mandrake Restorative Draught
A potion
that Gilderoy Lockhart was willing
to make when he found Mrs Norris the cat
petrified.
Mandrake
Restorative
used to return people who have been transfigured or cursed back to their original
state. Regarded as a plant with special powers because the root roughly resembles
the human figure. It was supposed to grow under the feet of a hanged man and
could only be pulled from the ground after performing the necessary rituals.
It was advisable to put wax in the ears before one attempted to do this: the
mandrake would scream when pulled free and this could cause deafness. The
mandrake root was used for invulnerability, a love potion, for discovering
treasures, and as a charm for pregnancy.
Manky or Mouldy old boot
The Portkey that Harry
Potter and the Weasleys use to
travel to see the International Quidditch
World cup.
Manticore
A Greek
beast with the head of a man the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion.
The Manticore is a monstrous creature that inhabits the forests in Asia especially
in Indonesia Malaysia and India. The manticore considered to be the most dangerous
predator in these regions has the body of a lion and a head with human resemblance.
The mouth is filled with three rows of razor-sharp teeth and the scaled tail
ends in a ball with poisonous darts. The monster stalks through the forest
in search of humans. Upon an encounter with a human the manticore fires a
volley of darts at the victim who dies immediately. This unfortunate person
is devoured completely even the bones and clothing as well as the possessions
this person carried vanish. When a villager has completely disappeared this
is considered proof of the presence of a manticore. (Encyclopaedia Mythica)
Marauders
The
rather romantic name used by what sounds like a small group
of bullies. Going by the names of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs To 'maraud' means to make a plundering raid, pilfer systematically, or to
plunder a place. A Marauder was a rogue.
Marauders
Map
A secret
map given to Harry by the twins, Fred and George Weasley, that shows all the passageways at Hogwarts,
created by Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs,
which show all of Hogwarts, the locations of all people therein, and instructions
for opening the various secret passages out of the school. Harry managed to recover the map from Mad eye Moody's office, after the events told in the fourth book Goblet of Fire .
Marchbanks,
Griselda
The
head of the Wizarding Examinations Authority,
and an elder of the Wizengamot until
resigning in protest at the introduction of the High Inquisitor.
Marcus Flint
See Flint Marcus
Marge
See Aunt Marge
Mars
The Red planet and the name of
the Roman god of war, Mars is often associated with conflict and death in
astrology. Hagrid
met the centaurs in the Forbidden
forest in book one they commented that Mars looked unusually bright, Jo Rowling
missed the date by a few years as it was not until August 2003 that Mars passed
closest to the Earth it will not pass as close as that again for another sixty three thousand years
Marvolo Gaunt:
See Gaunt Marvolo
Mason
Mr. and Mrs.
A rich
builder and wife who come to a dinner party at the Dursley's on Harry's twelfth birthday. Vernon Dursley wass hoping to secure a large order from them, he failed to take into account Mrs Mason
a terrific fear of owls
Marsh
Madam
A witch who lives in Wales and uses the Knight bus to travel, a lot.
Maxime
Madame Olympia
Half-giant
headmistress at Beauxbatons. Olympian
can mean surpassing all others in scope. Mount Olympus is the largest mountain
in Greece and supposedly the home of the gods. Maxime is Latin for
greatest. There's also a bilingual pun in her name. Maxime is French
for principle and Madame Maxime is the principal of Beauxbatons. Hagrid mispronounces her name, as he does with most words, calling her ‘Olympe’
McDonald Natalie
A student
sorted into Gryffindor in Goblet of
Fire: From Latin natale (domini), i.e. Christmas Day. Natalie was a
9-year-old Harry Potter fan diagnosed with a fatal case of acute lymphoblastic
leukaemia. Her Mother knew she wouldn't live to see book 4 so she wrote to Jo Rowling and
asked her to tell her what would happen in the next four books. Jo responded
with a very lengthy letter but it arrived two days after Natalie died. Natalie
now lives on immortalized as a student brave enough to be sorted into Gryffindor.
McGonagall
Minerva
A strict
leader of Gryffindor house Professor
of Transfiguration at Hogwarts and at seventy years of age she is quite
young to be the assistant Headmistress. She is also an Animagus,
of the cat variety. Minerva is the Roman goddess of
wisdom, medicine, the arts, dyeing, science, and trade and war. As Minerva
Medica she is the patroness of physicians. Minerva is believed to be the inventor
of numbers and musical instruments. She was equated with the Greek Athena.
(From Encyclopaedia Mythica)
McGuffin to Montgomery --- Moody to Murtlap
