Master Froggy's
Encyclopaedia
S.P.E.W to Sites of Sorcery --- Squelchy to Syllabary
Skeeter Rita
Tabloid reporter for Witch Weekly and The Daily
Prophet, she wears her hairin
elaborate and curiously rigid curls that contrasted oddly with her heavy-jawed
face.She also wears jewelled spectacles. The thick fingers end in two-inch nails, her age is quoted as being
forty-three, but like all that comes from her quick quote quill I suspect
her age to be much greater then that. Unregistered beetle Animagus.
Her title Miss Skeeter sounds an awful lot like mosquito which also happen
to be bloodsucking little insect pests, hell bent on going out of their way to make people
suffer
Skele-Gro
A type of medicine you take when someone has de-boned you. When you take Skele-Gro the bones in your body grow back but it's painful.
Skinning
In Quidditch,
a deliberate attempt at collision with another player.
Sleekeazy Hair Gel.
A potion for unruly hair.
Slimeball
The term unpleasent term the marauders map used to describe Professor
Snape when he catches Harry Potter out of bed and wandering about Hogwarts.
Slinkhard Wilbert
Author
of Defensive Magical Theory, a next to useless book on the theory of Defensive
Magic
Sloper, Jack.
A replacement Beater on the Gryffindor
Quidditch team.
Sloth Grip Roll.
A Quidditch move that would seem to involve hanging upside down.
Slytherin
The Hogwarts house named for one of the founders, Salazar Slytherin was, like
Harry, able to speak Parseltongue. Slytherin is basically slithering minus the g and the snake is the
symbol for Slytherin house. He himself is nicknamed Serpent-Tongue after his
Parselmouth abilities. Slytherin could also be a breakdown of sly therein
meaning clever in that circumstance.
Slug-Vomiting Charm
The only incantation heard in for this spell is Eat Slugs.
Slug Club, The
Slughorn's collection of bright and interesting students.
Slug, Horned
A basic potion ingrediant, used in simple potions as taught by Professor Snape to his First year students
Slughorn, Horace E. F.
The new Potions teacher at Hogwarts, and former head of Slytherin.
Horace E.F. Slughorn the new Professor of potions and current head of Slytherin, onetime founder of the Slug Club. His age is unknown but he must be between 80 and 150. He is known to own an owl called Einstein, that like him, is big grey and fat. He is rather short and very round, with a large belly that pushes out of his waistcoats and trousers he likes to wear so much. He is almost totally bald, with just a few wisps of silvery-white hair left.
His name, 'Slughorn' also spelt 'Slughorne' or 'Sloggorne' is an old Scottish word derived from 'slogan', and applied primarily to a clan motto.
Smarm Gregory the
A
Statue of a historical figure from Hogwarts past, the statue also conceals a secret passageway.
Smart Answer Quills
A product available in the joke shop owned by the Weasley Twins.
Smeltings
Boarding
school attended by Dudley. Uncle
Vernon's Old school (Alma Matter.) Smelting is the process of heating ore to remove
the metal it contains; this is then separated for processing, leaving worthless
dross, waste and slag behind
Smeltings stick,
Stick that appears to be part of the school uiniform, used by pupils at Smeltings to hit people with while the teachers are not looking. This
is supposed to be good training for later in life.
Smethley Veronica
Lockhart fan to whom Harry was addressing a
letter when he first heard the Basilisk's voice
Smethwick
A
city in Staffordshire in central England near Birmingham.
Smethwyck Hippocrates
Healer-in-charge of the Dai
Llewellyn Ward at St. Mungo's. Hipporates
is known as the Father of Medicine. He was a Greek physician traditionally
but incorrectly credited with Hippocratic oath administered to graduate physicians.
The name Smethwyck has a distinctive old-Dutch look, mainly because of the -yck ending. "Smet", the modern form of smeth, means spot or stain. Also a "besmetting"
is an infection, while a "smetstof" is an infectant. "wijk" is the modern form of wyck, and is the imperative
form of the verb "wijken" which means something like "step
aside" or disappear.
Therefore,
"Smethwyck" means quite literally "disease, be gone".
Smith, Zacharias
A Hufflepuff who is on their Quidditch team and is
a member of Dumbledore's Army .Wild fan speculation has him related to Hepzibah Smith, and therefore related to Helga Hufflepuff. However after the debacle over the Mark Evans/LilyEvans I shall reserve judgment. Zacharias as
mentioned in the New Testament was the father of John the Baptist He had an
angel appear to him and his wife, who prophesised the birth of John the Baptist; Zacharias didn't believe him and was struck dumb. Zacharias is also
cited in several biblical sources as being among the prophets. The meaning
of the name Zacharias is something along the lines of "keeper of the
Lord" or "memory of the Lord".
Smith, Hepzibah
A large lady who attended Hogwarts before Tom Riddle she was in Hufflepuff. She was until her death the owner of a cup, once belonging to Helga Hufflepuff, and a locket which once belonged to Salazar Slytherin, that she had purchased from Borgin and Burkes. Tom Riddle visited her and several days later she died, the cup and locket disappeared. Hepzibah a Biblical name meaning "my delight is in her". Wife of Hezekiah and the mother of King Manasseh.
Snackboxes
Skiving
Double-ended
sweets one side to make you ill or give you a nosebleed, the other side to
cure you, they allow you to skive off of lessons you don't like. Skive is a fairly modern word (c 1820) and means to cut or slice material in to strips or to shave or pare to reduce the thickness, the post first world war use, meaning to avoid working comes from the french word esquiver meaning to slink away or elude.
Snake
The
mascot for Slytherin
Snake fang.
Crushed
A basic potion ingrediant, used in simple potions as taught by Professor Snape to his
first year students
Snape
A town in England. There are only two villages in Great Britain called Snape
one is in north Yorkshire near the roman road called Dere Street and the other
is in Suffolk by the river Alde, It is only about 10 miles from Ispwich, a
town that according to the Doomsday book had a church called St Stephen held
by a little known man called Godric
Snape, Eileen Prince
Severus Snape's mother and the one-time captain of the Hogwarts Gobstones team.
Eileen Gaelic name meaning Light, from the Greek name Helen meaning the bright one
Snape
Severus
Potions
teacher and head of Slytherin house. Rival of James
Remus Sirius
and Peter, also based after a person
Jo Rowling knew Supposedly Jo made the Potions master the enemy because
she didn't like a Chemistry teacher she once had. Snape is a small town Jo
once visited. The word snape actually has a meaning beyond simply being a
place-name (in that context it means a boggy patch of ground). To snipe someone
means to rebuke or hurt them and a snape is a rebuke.
Snape, Tobias
A Muggle, Severus Snape's father, Tobias from a Hebrew name meaning "Jehovah is good", the main character of the book of Tobit.
Snargaluff
A magical plant that looks like a gnarled tree stump, it uses thorn covered vines to ensnare it’s prey the plant has to be subdued to retrieve its pods from it. The pods look like a pulsating green grapefruit, when opened they appear to be full tubers that looked like green worms
Sneakoscope
See Pocket Sneakoscope
Sneezewort
Could refer to either Achillea ptarmica or Veratrum album. A common ingredient in Confusing Draughts and Befuddlement
Draughts.
Snitch (or Golden Snitch)
The
smallest Quidditch ball, gold with silver
wings; earns 150 points for the team who catches it and ends the game
Snowy
One of Mrs. Figg's cats that she bores
Harry with
Snuffles
Sirius
Black's nickname in his Animagus form
as he lurks around Hogsmeade Village, pretending
to be a lovable stray Dog.
Sonnets of a Sorcerer
A cursed
book, anyone who read from it spoke in limericks for the rest of their lives
Sonorous
A spell used to magnify a voice like a loudspeaker - Sonorus is Latin for
noisy or resounding sound, sono is 'to sound'.
Sorcerer's Stone
Also
see Philosopher's Stone - a substance
that turns any metal into gold; produces the Elixir of Life that will make
the drinker immortal but only as long as they keep drinking it.
Sorting Hat
Godric
Gryffindor's wizard's hat that assigns new students to their houses at
Hogwarts
Spattergroit
A magical malady that a portrait
in St. Mungo's Hospital thought Ron had it.
It is a most grievous affliction of the skin, that will leave you pockmarked
and gruesome The only remedy is to take the liver of a toad, bind it tight
about your throat, and stand naked at the full moon in a barrel of eels' eyes.
To spatter is to cover or scatter with mud or liquid or to sprinkle with drops
and griot or goitre is a large swelling, normally of the throat or neck
Specialis Revelio
The incantation for Scarpin's Revelaspell. Latin word Specialis means a particularity or peculiarity. The Latin word Reveliato means uncovering or laying bare.
Spectrespecs
Psychedelic spectacles offered in an issue of the Quibbler. Spectre a ghost or apparition, spec’s are a slang word for spectacles or eye glasses
Spellman's Syllabary
A book used for translating Rune's. A syllabary is a collection of characters
that represent the syllables in speech, from the Latin syllabatim meaning syllable by syllable, or sound for sound
Spell-Checking Quill
Produced by Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes, they appear to wear out after a while.
Spell-o-tape
A wizards' tape used to mend broken items (such as Ron Weasley's wand ) a spoof on cellotape the British equivalent of scotch tape.
Sphinx
A half-human half-lion. Enjoys riddles. In ancient Egypt the Sphinx is a male
statue of a lion with the head of a human sometimes with wings. Most sphinxes
however represent a king in his appearance as the sun god. The name sphinx was
applied to the portraits of kings by the Greeks who visited Egypt in later
centuries because of the similarity of these statues to their Sphinx. The Greek
Sphinx was a demon of death and destruction and bad luck. It was a female
creature sometimes depicted as a winged lion with a feminine head and sometimes
as a female with the chest paws and claws of a lion a snake tail and bird
wings.
Spinner's End
The street on which Snape used to live when away from Hogwarts.
Spinnet Alicia
Chaser for Gryffindor
Quidditch team two years ahead of Harry,
and a member of Dumbledore's Army. Spineus A thorn bush. Alicia: is German for Noble, truthful.
Spirit Division
A section of the Ministry of Magic that deals with relations with the dead.
Splinched
What happens when you get the Apparating spell wrong and
you leave parts of yourself behind. It is not fatal but is embarrassing, and a trifle confusing to see.
Spore Phyllida
Author of One
Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi; the prefix Phyll means leaf and a spore
is a single-celled reproductive organism that is resistant to drying out and
heat. It's capable of growing into a new organism.
The reason it's funny is mushrooms reproduce via spores and Phyllida
Spore is the author of One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi (fungi are mushrooms)
Spotted dick
A
type of sponge pudding with the raisins being the spots.
Sprout Pomona Prof.
Professor
of Herbology (plants) at Hogwarts and
head of Hufflepuff house; a sprout
is a small or baby plant. Pomona is Roman goddess of fruit and fruit trees. Pomona also known as Mainland and is one of the larger island of the Orkneys. Kirkwall is the seat of the council of Orkney her birthday is May 15th
