Master Froggy's
Encyclopaedia
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Squelchy
The
feeling of handful of frog’s livers
Squib
A
person born to wizard parents but has no wizarding talent. A Squib is a small
firecracker that doesn't explode. It's also term used in cinematography for a
device that makes it appear as if someone has been shot.
St Brutus's secure Centre for Incurably Criminal Boys.
The
school to which the Dursleys have
told their neighbours and friends, that they have sent Harry
Potter away to. Brutus from the latin Bruto for heavy or immoveable object, brutus (when referring to a person) has come to mean dull insensible or unreasonable
Standard Book of Spells
Required text at Hogwarts the grade indicates year - The Standard Book of Spells Grade
One was required for first year students Grade Two for second year and so on) The standard book of spells (grade six) covers non-verbal spells
Statute of Secrecy
The law stating that wizard activity should be kept secret from Muggles society.
Stealth Sensoring Spell
A passive detection spell.
Stebbins
A
Hufflepuff, year unknown. Caught necking with Miss
Fawcett at the Yule Ball
Stebbins senior
A student at Hogwarts at the same time as Harry's parents.
Stimpson, Patricia
A
student two years ahead of Harry, house unknown. She had a minor breakdown at
the thought of her O.W.L.s and kept feeling very faint
Stinging Hex
Produces a stinging sensation in the victim.
Stink Pellets
Small
brown pellets that stink when tossed or dropped.
Stinksap
The Defence mechanism of the Mimbulus mimbletonia plant it fires a thick green stinking sap that smell like manure
Stoatshead Hill
The site of the nearest Portkey to The
Borrow set up by the Ministry of Magic for use during the Quidditch
World Cup
Stonewall High
The public secondary school Harry would
have attended at the Dursley's had
he not discovered he was a wizard, their uniform is grey on grey, almost the
same as my old school uniform.
Strengthening Solution
A potion
Harry had to make in class.
Stretching Jinx
A spell that might make a person taller.
Stringmints
See Tooth-flossing Stringmints
Stubbs, Billy
A child at Tom Riddle's orphanage. At the time Dumbledore's first meeting with Riddle he was suffering from chicken pox. Mrs. Cole, told Dumbledore that soon after Tom Riddle and Billy had got into an argument; Billy's pet was found dead, hanging from the rafters.
From Old English stubb "stump", used as a name for a short, stout man.
Study of Ancient Runes
A class taken by Hermione
Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry
A book in the Hogwarts library.
Stunning Spell
A spell intended to knock out the target. Very large or tough targets, like a dragon, can take the combined efforts of several casters to stun. Incantation: Stupefy.
Stupefy
A spell used to make someone unconscious - Stupefy in English means dull the senses of; daze. From the Latin stupe facio, to be struck senseless.
Sugar Quills
Delicate
sugar spun quills that you can suck on in class and just look like you're
thinking what to write next. Sold
in Honeydukes
Sullens, A Sudden fit of the
An illness that affected Sirius Black after Christmas making him grumpy and moody, sullen from the Latin solus, alone
Summerby
The new Seeker on the Hufflepuff Quidditch team.
Summers
Hufflepuff,
year unknown, who tried to age himself to be a candidate for the Triwizard
Tournament
Summoning Charm
A spell
that causes the target to fly through the air to the caster. Incantation: Accio plus (usually) the name of the target.
Surrey
A county in the southeast of England adjoining the county of Greater London. The city
of Little Whinging is fictional
though. Home of the Dursleys
Swedish Short-Snout
A breed
of dragon.
Swelling Solution
A potion that causes whatever it touches to inflate.
Switch Emeric
Author of A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration, the germanic word Almeric (Emeric)
means "the rule to work," or "work empowers".
Spells.
Spells are incantations for use in performing Magic, such as the ones used in Transfiguration. Some times in conjuntion with wand waving.
Sword of Godric Gryffindor
A gleaming silver sword that had appeared inside the sorting hat, its handle glittering with rubies the
size of eggs. Harry Potter used it
to kill the Basilisk in the Chamber of
Secrets
Swooshing
Noise
that owls make delivering the post,
Swotty
Something that Harry's uncle didn't want Dudley to become (as
if)
Syllabary
See Spellman's Syllabary
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