Master Froggy's
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Pettigrew Peter to Prewett, Gideon --- Pride of Portree to Pye, Augustus
Padfoot
Sirius Black's marauder nickname. The padfoot
is supposed to be similar to a werewolf. It's a giant black wolf-dog that lived mostly in the southeast areas of England.
As if that name wasn't perfect enough a Footpad is a type of thief or highwayman
who preys on pedestrians while on foot a rather appropriate name for a Marauder.
Hard-pad or Padfoot is a condition that affect the feet of members of the
dog-family.
Pack
A spell to packs a trunk, or perhaps any luggage. It may be that "pack" is not the actual incantation, and Tonks packed Harry's truck by performing a non-verbal spell.
Padma Patil
See Patil Padma
Paper airplanes
Used for interoffice memos at the Ministry of Magic, as owls were too messy.
Paracelsus
Depicted
on a chocolate frog card. A bust
of Paracelsus appears in a corridor en route to the owlery.
Real name was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
(1493-1541) he was a noted 16th century German Swiss physician and alchemist.
He defied the medical tenets of his time asserting that diseases were caused
by agents that were external to the body and that they could be countered
by chemical substances
Parkinson Pansy
A Slytherin girl
at Hogwarts, Pansy: A flower that is very fragrant. Parkinson means Son of little Peter
Parselmouth
Someone
that can talk to snakes According to Jo Rowling, Parselmouth is an old word for someone
who has a problem with his or her mouth like a hair lip.
Parseltongue
Language
spoken by a Parselmouth.
Partial Vanishment
A weaker relative to Vanishing Spells.
Parvati Patil
Gryffindor girl who has a sister is in Ravenclaw A member of Dumbledore's Army. Parvati is a
Hindu Goddess married to Hindu God Siva the Destroyer. She gave birth to a
baby boy named Ganesh who Siva beheaded but replaced the old head with an
elephant head after Parvati reamed him out. Sister of the Goddess of the Ganges
Padma.
Patil
Padma
Identical
twin sister of Parvati Patil. Ravenclaw. Ron's date at the Yule
Ball. A member of Dumbledore's Army. Padma
(Ganga) is the Hindu goddess of the Ganges India's most sacred river. She
is the sister of the mountain goddess Parvati. Padma also means lotus. In
fact the highest cultural honour in India is called Padma Bhushan, which translates
to Order of the Lotus.
Patronus
An anti-Dementor created by using the spell expecto
patronum while thinking happy thoughts Patronus is Latin for
father or protector, the feminine form of the word would be patrona
Payne
One of the campsite managers at the Quidditch
World Cup. From Latin pagus, Meaning a place with fixed bounderies or an outlying village, it is the the
same root as for pagan. At first pagan meant a rustic, then later a civilian,
and finally a heathen.
Peakes, Jimmy
A Gryffindor three years behind Harry; one of Fred and George's replacements as Beater.
Peasegood Arnold
Member of the Accidental Magic
Reversal Squad. See Obliviator
Peebles
A town
on the England-Scotland border.
Pennyfeather, Miss
The name Professor Binns called Parvati
Patil in his History of Magic class
Peeves
A Hogwarts poltergeist Peeve means little devil or something that gets on your nerves.
Poltergiest is one of those rare words that comes direct and unchanged from
the German language. Poltern to make a row or racket, and Geist ghost
Penelope Clearwater
See Clearwater Penelope
Pensieve
A bowl
to collect you thoughts in. A combination of pensive, which means deeply thoughtful; and comes from the Latin Pensum or to weight or suspend,
and sieve (possibly from the Latin Crevi which is a utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal for straining or sifting. Now it is more common to see plastic or nylon
used
Pepper
Imps
Candy or sweets from Honeydukes that makes
you breathe fire Peppermint
creams
Sweets
or sweets from Honeydukes that are shaped
like toads and hop realistically in the stomach
Perks
Sally-Anne
Sorted into an unknown house at Hogwarts. Perks is to carry oneself with self-confidence,
upright, to move with pert briskness
Permanent Sticking Charm
A charm
to prevent removal of pictures and the like
Peskipiski pesternomi
A spell
used by Gilderoy Lockhart to stop
the Cornish pixies, it doesn't seem at all reliable as it doesn't work. Breaks up into "pesky pixie pester no me"
which translates from complete gibberish to "don't pester me pesky pixies".
Pest Advisory Bureau
A part
of the Ministry of Magic's Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures
Petrificus Totalus
Spell
for the Full Body-Bind causing the subject
to lie motionless or petrified. From the Latin words petra, rock, and facere, to make. Totalis and totus both mean whole.
Pettigrew Peter to Prewett, Gideon --- Pride of Portree to Pye, Augustus
