Master Froggy's
Encyclopaedia
N.E.W.T.s
Nearly
Exhausting Wizarding Tests a standardized test for wizards. Equivalent to
the British A-levels and the American SAT. The Grades are the same as
O.W.L.s but much, much, harder
O
(upstanding),
E (exceeds
Expectations),
A (acceptable)
for passing
P (poor)
D (dreadful)
for failure. The twins Fred and George Weasley tried to convince Harry that there was a T grade, T for troll
Nagini
Voldemort's pet snake Nagini is the female form of Naga; Naga is snake in Sanskrit. The
Naga are a group of half-human and half-snake deities that live in Malaysia
and India. They had the power to turn humans invisible in water and would
often marry mortals. Vishnu slept on a Naga when creating the world and it
was said that the Nagas would ultimately destroy the world with fire.
Narcissa
Malfoy
See Malfoy Narcissa
Nargles
A creature which Luna
Lovegood believes can infest mistletoe.
Nature's
Nobility: A Wizarding Genealogy
A book
belonging to Sirius Black's Family, found in the House at Number 12 Grimmauld Place
Nearly-Headless Nick
Sir
Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, resident ghost of Gryffindor
tower who died from near beheading on the 31st October 1492. Mimsy is
a word coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass for the poem Jabberwocky.
It's a combination of miserable and flimsy.
Neffy-poo
Aunt
Marge pet name for her nephew Dudley
Nettles, Dried
A basic potion ingrediant, used in simple potions as taught by Professor Snape to his
First year students
Nettles,
Madam Z.of Topsham
A witch
quoted by the Kwikspell advert.
Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon
The
translation of the Hogwarts motto
New Theory of Numerology
A book Harry gave Hermione for Christmas.
Newton Artemis Fido Scamander
Author
of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find
Them. A newt is a type of small salamander. Scamander is the name of a
Greek river god but the name was probably derived from salamander a lizard
like tailed four -legged amphibians.
Newts,
double-ended
Creatures
available at the Magical Menagerie.
Let’s not speculate on which end they have two of.
Nicholas Flamel.
See Flamel Nicholas
Niffler
Furry
black creatures with long snouts. Their
front paws are flat like spades they are found down mines and are attracted
to things that shine and sparkle, if let loose in a room they tend to destroy
everything in an effort to find bright shinny things
Nigellus Phineas
Sirius
Black's great-great-grandfather and the least popular Headmaster Hogwarts
of all time. He attended Hogwarts in his youth he was in Slytherin. Nigellus
is a plant Nigella damascena, common name is 'love in the mist', or 'devil in
the bush'. From the female form of the Latin word niger, meaning black. Phineas means serpent's mouth in Hebrew
Nimbus
Nimbus
means cloud. Nimbus was also a god in Greek Mythology
Nimbus 2000
A well-respected type of broomstick for flying
Nimbus 2001
An upgrade on the Nimbus 2000.
Nitwit! Oddment! Blubber! Tweak!
Dumbledore's speech from Philosophers Stone
Nitwit
- slang for a very stupid person
Oddment - something left over
Blubber - (def. 1) excessive body fat especially in marine animals. (def. 2) to cry noisily
Tweak
- to adjust slightly
No-Heat Fireworks
The
favourite Fireworks of the Weasley
twins they fill the room with red & blue stars that bounce around
for at least a half an hour
Nogtail
A beast found in Norfolk and hunted by wizards. It appears to look a lot like a pig. It suckles from a sow, and the longer it goes unnoticed the deeper and more powerful the curse is. Mythical shapeshifters of evil intent found in various folklores throughout Europe.
Norwegian
Ridgeback
A rare
type of dragon like Norbert
Norbert
Hagrid's pet baby dragon, he won him playing card
with a strange hooded man in the Hog's
Head he was
only an egg at the time but Hagrid owned and had read a lot of books on Dragons,
after a week feeding the baby dragon a bucket of brandy mixed with chicken
blood every half hour he had tripled his size. Sadly he out grew the wooden
hut he shared with Hagrid, Ron asked
his brother Charlie to help, so
a few weeks later Charlie's friends met Harry,
and Hermione, at Hogwarts tallest tower,
and they return him to the wilds of Romania
Nose-Biting Teacup
A joke or gag item from Zonko's Joke Shop.
Nosebleed
Nougat
See Skiving Snackbox
Notable
Magical Names of Our Time
A book
in the Hogwarts library
Nott senior
A Death
Eater, still at large.
Nott Theodore
A student in Harry's year; sorted in to Slytherin. A weedy-looking boy who has an interest in Quidditch. The son of a Death Eater, in Care of Magical creatures, when Hagrid takes the class to see the Thestrals, Theodore saw them feeding. Nott is the Norse goddess of night. Also a name for a very close-cropped hair.
Nox
Turns
off the beam of light from a wand from the Lumos spell. Nox is Latin for darkness or night.
Nutter
Ron Weasley thinks that most of the time Hermione is one, as are all Muggle doctors
Nymphadora
Nymph
is listed in my Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (1983) as coming from the
Latin word nympha, it has all the normal descriptive meanings from
myths, but it also give the another obscure meaning, Bride. -dora as a name
element usually means, gift; this could be "nymph's gift" or "girl
who is a gift". The mythical Andromeda had six sons and a daughter; if that's the case with Mother Tonks, the latter
meaning could be it. Dora is an old English word for a female bumblebee, not
the queen but a female drone.
