Master Froggy's
Encyclopaedia
Padfoot to Petrificus Totalus --- Pettigrew Peter to Prewett, Gideon
Pride of Portree
A professional
Quidditch team. Portree is a port on the Isle of Skye.
Prime Minister
Person nominally in charge of Muggle Britain
Prince Snape, Eileen:
Snapes Mother. Prince from Middle English, a nickname for someone with a regal manner, or who had won a contest of skill. Eileen Gaelic name meaning Light, from the Greek name Helen meaning the bright one
Principles of Rematerialization,
An essay Hermione was writing and Ron was straining to read upside down. I am sure you are all aware that in order to make something vanish you have to make it dematerialise. It stands to reason that to make something you have vanished comeback you then have to make it rematerialise. That process is/should be called Rematerialisation
Pringle
Apollyon
Hogwarts
caretaker in Molly and Arthur Weasley's day. Apollyon was also the name of destroying angel of the bottomless pit (a name sometimes associated with the Devil), From Greek, translation of the Hebrew word. Abaddon (q.v.), prp. of apollyein "to destroy utterly," from apo- "from, away from" and olluein "to destroy."
Pringle
From Prencyll, a hazel-wood, from welsh (Celtic ) word pren, a wood, and cyll or gyll, meaning hazel. Pringle, an obsolete Scottish coin. The Pringle family were a bunch of self-righteous snobs in the book Anne of Green Gables.
Priori Incantatem
Used
to reveal the most recent spells performed with a specific wand Prior means former or before. An incantation is a charm or spell.
Pritchard Graham
Sorted in to Slytherin, in fourth book The goblet of fire
Graham old English name an inhabitant of Grantham in Lincolnshire. Pritchard is from Celtic welsh, meaning son of Richard. Originally it would have been Ap-Richard. As a name it existed in Glamorganshire long before the invasion of the Norman French in 1066
Privet Drive number 4
Home
to the Dursleys, privet is a shrub
having opposite leaves and clusters of black flowers widely used for hedges.
Probity Probe
A device or spell to investigate the integrity of ones character.
Prod, D J (Warlock), of Didsbury
A satisfied Kwikspell customer. To prod is to poke
or to prick, as in with a stick, to goad, to encourage.
Professor Sprout
See Sprout Professor
Professorhead
A name
that peeves calls Dumbledore
Prongs
The
nickname of James Potter as a student at Hogwarts
Prophecy
A
prophecy is an inspired or prophetic utterance to predict an occurance yet
to happen. from the Latin porphetia meaning, forward to speak, also
obscure French, prophete, and Greek prophetes, Pro, for, phanai, to speak.
Prophecy Number two
The
second Prophecy made by Sibyll Trelawney,
heard by Harry Potter in his third
year at Hogwarts.
It will happen tonight, The dark Lord lies alone and friendless, abandoned by his followers. His servant had been chained these twelve years; tonight before midnight…the servant will break free and set out to rejoin his master. The Dark Lord will rise again with his servant's aid, greater and more terrible then ever he was.
( I have put them in this order as even though it was the second prophecy, it was the first one mentioned in the books)
Prophecy Number One
Shortly
before Harry Potter was
born, there was a Prophecy made by Sibyll
Trelawney. On a cold, wet night sixteen years ago, in a room above
the bar at the Hog's Head inn. Dumbledore had gone there to see an applicant for the post of Divination teacher, though it was against his inclination to allow the subject of Divination
to continue at all. The applicant, however, was the great-great-granddaughter
of a very famous, very gifted Seer and being Dumbledore he thought it common politeness
to meet Her. She showed no sign of the gift of true sight until she spoke
in harsh, hoarse tones.
The
one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches born to those who
have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies
. . .and the Dark
Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows
not
. . . and either must die at the hand of the other for neither
can live while the other survives .
Protean Charm
Used
by Hermione in Order of the Phoenix.
Hermione Granger put the charm on a number of fake Galleons. Instead of the serial number around the edge of the coin, the time and date of the next meeting of Dumbledore's Army appeared.
The Protean Charm is an N.E.W.T. standard charm, according to Terry Boot.
Proteus
is a prophetic sea divinity, son of either Poseidon or Oceanus. He will foretell
the future to those who can seize him but when caught he assumes all possible
varying forms to avoid prophesying. When held fast despite his struggles he
will assume his usual form of an old man and tell the future. Encyclopaedia
Mythica
Protego
The spell-word comes from the Latin protego, to sheild, to protect, it is two words
really, Pro-, in front and tego, to cover. Also see shield
charm
Proudfoot
An Auror assigned to guard Hogwarts. From a Scottish nickname for a person with a haughty gait.
Ptolemy
Featured
on a wizard card. An astronomer and mathematician
whose astronomical theories and explanations dominated scientific thought
until the 16th century He expounded that the planets and the stars moved around
the earth in eccentric circles. He is also remembered for his contributions
to the fields of mathematics, optics, and geography.
Pucey Adrian
Chaser for the Slytherin Quidditch team. Prucey a person from Prussia, a north central European state, a Prussian
Puddifoot, Madam
The
proprietor of a teashop in Hogsmeade.
A name for someone compared in shape to a round barrel, from Middle English puddy "round-bellied" and foot or fat.
Puddlemere
United reserve team
The
team that Oliver Wood the ex Gryffindor
Quidditch captain has signed for after leaving Hogwarts
Puffer fish
Any
of the ninety or so fishes of the family Tetradontidae. Their eyes are an
ingredient in a Swelling Solution
Puffapod
A plant that grows fat pink pods, in side are shining
beans that as soon as they touch the soil, they sprout and flower in an instant, Harry repotted them in Herbology
Puffskeins
A favourite
pet for wizards. There was a nest of dead ones under the sofa in the drawing
room at the Black house. Puff might come from the puff adder who inflates himself to make him look
bigger, and skein (a length of thread wound in a loose coil). The skein bit
probably refers to their long tongues.
Puking Pastilles
See
skiving Snackbox
Pumpkin Juice
A beverage
enjoyed by wizards and witches at Hogwarts and on the Hogwarts Express
Pumpkin Fizz
Drinks
that Fred and George bring to
a party to celebrate Gryffindors win
over Ravenclaw in The Prisoner of Azkaban
Pumpkin Pasties
A treat on the Hogwarts Express cart
Punching Telescope
A trick made by Fred and George, currently being stored at the Burrow. it might alread be on sale at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, or it may be a new line. The Twins were still testing some items on themselves.
Purge and Dowse
The department store facade for St. Mungo's,
to purge is to eliminate something unwanted such as toxins. To dowse is the
act of using a divining rod to find water (or other sources of life-energy).
Purkiss, Doris
The witch who claimed in The Quibbler that Sirius Black was really Stubby
Boardman.
Putter-Outer
A device used to turn Muggle streetlamps on and off, it looks a bit like a large silver cigarette lighter
Pye, Augustus
The trainee Healer of the Dai
Llewellyn Ward. Pye is a book of rule for determining the church office
of the day. Augustus was a Roman emperor who gave his name to the month August
in around 31 BC to AD 14. It is also an obscure German word meaning circus clown
Padfoot to Petrificus Totalus --- Pettigrew Peter to Prewett, Gideon
