Master Froggy's
Encyclopaedia
Hogwarts Students sorted by first name or lastname
Adrian Pucey
Chaser for the Slytherin Quidditch team. Prucey a person from Prussia, a north central European state, a Prussian
Alicia Spinnet
Chaser for Gryffindor Quidditch team two years ahead of Harry, and a member of Dumbledore's Army. Spinnet: (Latin) A thorn bush. Alicia: Noble, truthful.
Andrew Kirke
One of the replacement Beaters on the Gryffindor Quidditch team. From the Greek for "manly"; also the name of the patron saint of Scotland and Russia. The saint's name is probably derived from a Hebrew name."
Angelina Johnson
A tall black girl who played Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, her birthday is the week before Halloween, Angelina means little angel, Johnson means the son of John.
Anthony Goldstein
A Hufflepuff prefect in Harry's year and a member of Dumbledore's Army.
Bole
A Beater on the Slytherin Quidditch team. The bole is the thick part or trunk of a tree, or a lump of red clay or earth (a clod)
Cedric Diggory
One of the Hogwart's school champions whom Lord Voldemort killed. He was a Hufflepuff house student and captain and seeker of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team. Cedric means a battle chieftain
Chambers
A Chaser on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team.
Cho Chang
Ravenclaw seeker. She was shorter than Harry by about a head, and extremely pretty with long, shiny black hair, Harry has a rather large crush on her. Former girlfriend to Cedric Diggory. Cho is Japanese for very extremely. Chang when used as a first name can signify a person that is quick thinking and to the point. Therefore, Cho Chang is very quick thinking quite appropriate for a Ravenclaw. Additionally Cho Cho is Japanese for butterfly. Cho is also a Korean girls name meaning lovely, pretty.
Colin Creevey
A year younger than Harry. Colin is also in Gryffindor and he may be Harry's biggest admirer (after Ginny Weasley). Colin was always following Harry around trying to take his picture and get his autograph.
Daphne Greengrass
A fifth year that took her Practical charms O.W.L.s exam before Harry. , Daphne means, "laurel". The Greek myth about Daphne is that she was transfigured into a laurel bush in order to escape the amorous advances of the god Apollo
Dean Thomas
A Gryffindor; a tall black boy and a fan of soccer who shares a room with Ron and Harry; he is a good artist
Dennis Creevey
Colin's younger brother sorted into Gryffindor, on the boat ride across the lake he fell into the water and had to be helped back into the boat by the giant squid, a fact he was very proud of.
Derek
A Hogwarts student, he stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas in his first year, he is two years behind Harry, house unknown.
Derrick
A Beater on the Slytherin Quidditch team, A part of a crane, strangely enough the term for some reason comes from a 17th-century Highwayman called Derrick, perhaps they invented a new crane to lift him up to the scaffold
Draco Malfoy
A Slytherin rival of Harry Ron and Hermione. Draco means dragon in Latin. Also Draco was the name of a cruel Athenian lawmaker. His harsh legal code punished both trivial and serious crimes with death. From this we get our expression draconian laws meaning unnecessarily harsh laws.
Eddie Carmichael
A Ravenclaw, one year ahead of Harry. Carmichael meaning the castle or stronghold of Michael, from caer, a castle or fortified place.
Eleanor Branstone
Sorted into Hufflepuff, Eleanor From a Provencal form of Helen, Greek for "the bright one". The name of several queens.
Eloise Midgen
A girl who tried unsuccessfully to curse her acne away, the School nurse at Hogwarts managed to reattach her nose, considered an unsuitable date to the Yule ball as her nose was not on straight, it might have been a smidgen off centre (a tiny amount)
Emma Dobbs
Sorted the same years as Colin Creevey brother Dennis, A Hogwarts student. To Dobb is to report someone for their wrongdoing or blame them unfairly.
Ernie Macmillan
Hufflepuff student who was petrified when the Chamber of Secrets was opened. A pureblood wizard,
Euan Abercrombie
Boy Sorted into Gryffindor, Abercrombie comes from Aber, marshy ground, a place where two or more streams meet; and cruime or crombie, a bend or crook. Aber, in the Celtic and Gaelic,
Fawcett, Miss
Ravenclaw mentioned in the Duelling club where she ended up with a bloody nose. Also mentioned in GoF as one of the students to unsuccessfully cross the age line and kissing (necking in the USA, petting in the UK) a Hufflepuff student named Stebbins at the Yule Ball.
Fleur Delacour
Triwizard champion of Beauxbatons part Veela. Her name separates into Fleur De La Cour, which means in French Flower of the Court or noblewoman. (From AOL chat with J.K. Rowling)
Fred Weasley
Frederick From Old German frithu "peace" and ric or ruler. The name of lots and lots of German kings.
Geoffrey Hooper
A Gryffindor who tried out to be the Keeper on their Quidditch team
George Weasley
The patron saint of England, whose dragon-killing exploits, said to have happened in Libya, may be a transfer of the Perseus myth. The name is from Greek for "farmer"
Ginny (Ginevra) Weasley
Ron's little sister, she had a crush on Harry in her first two years of school. Ginny (Ginevra) is a modern familiar name of Guinevieve, (King Arthur's wife and eventual betrayer)which either means wife or black rabbit or black wave
Graham Pritchard
A Slytherin, 3 years behind Harry.
Gregory Goyle
Draco Malfoy's friend and cohort (father is a death-eater)
Hannah Abbott
A pink-faced girl with blonde pigtails a Hufflepuff later to become a prefect in her fifth year. Hannah: (Hebrew) Grace of God. Abbott: (Aramaic) Father.
Harold Dingle
A student who was selling fake powdered dragon claw as an exam-taking aid. It was in fact it was powdered Doxy dropping and therefore dangerous
Harry James Potter
A young boy who unexpectedly finds himself at Hogwarts studying wizardry. Familiar form of Harold meaning army ruler
Hermione Granger
A girl with bushy-haired, her teeth in the early years of attendance were slightly buck-toothed, she's famously bossy she has brown eyes and the smartest pupil at Hogwarts a Gryffindor Bookish friend of Harry and Ron.
Jack Sloper
A replacement Beater on the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Justin Finch-Fletchley
Sorted into Hufflepuff
Katie Bell
A Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team, she and her team mates Alicia and Angelina all kissed Harry when he won them their game against the Slytherin team in Prisoner of Azkaban, and a member of Dumbledore's Army.
Kenneth Towler
A student, probably a Gryffindor, two years ahead of Harry. He had an attack of the boils during his O.W.L.s
Kevin Whitby
A Hufflepuff, 3 years behind Harry.
Laura Madley
A Hufflepuff, 3 years behind Harry.
Lavender Brown
Gryffindor interested in Divination She had a pet rabbit called Binky, Lavender and Brown are colours. The term Brown can mean a dark or dusky complexioned, it has a slightly more macabre meaning as well, it is the term for a bloodstained sword or dagger.
Lee Jordan
Friend and conspirator of the Weasley twins; he has dreadlocks Gryffindor student and announcer for the Quidditch matches, kept a giant tarantula as a pet when Harry first went to Hogwarts.
Lisa Turpin
A Ravenclaw student.
Luna Lovegood
Friend of Ginny Weasley but in Ravenclaw house Her father publishes the Quibbler (A news paper) Her mother died when Luna was nine.
Mandy Brocklehurst
A student sorted into Ravenclaw. Brocklehurst means the wood or grove of the badger.
Marcus Flint
Slytherin Quidditch captain and like Oliver Wood Flint's last name is a raw material. There was another famous Captain Flint the evil ship captain from Treasure Island.
Michael Corner
A Ravenclaw, a member of Dumbledore's Army and Ginny's ex-boyfriend. Originally, meant horn blower, or referred to someone who lived at the corner of two streets.
Miles Bletchley
The Keeper for the Slytherin Quidditch team in Harry's first year.
Millicent Bulstrode
A Slytherin who duelled Hermione during the Duelling Club demonstration.
Moaning Myrtle
Ghost that haunts the girl's toilet. Killed by a basilisk. She moans loudly and complains that no one likes her (which is probably true.) Told Harry that if he were to die she would willingly share her u-bend with him.
Montague
A Chaser on the Slytherin Quidditch team, he became team captain in Harry's fifth year, though he may not be anymore if he never recovers from his experience with the Vanishing Cabinet.
Moon
A student sorted into an unknown house at Hogwarts
Morag MacDougal
Sorted into an unknown house.
Natalie McDonald
A student sorted into Gryffindor in GoF: From Latin natale (domini), i.e. Christmas Day. Natalie was a 9-year-old Harry Potter fan diagnosed with a fatal case of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. She knew she wouldn't live to see book 4 so she wrote to JKR and asked her to tell her what would happen in the next four books. JKR responded with a very lengthy letter but it arrived two days after Natalie died. Natalie now lives on immortalized as a student brave enough to be sorted into Gryffindor.
Neville Longbottom
Forgetful and clumsy classmate of Harry's; a Gryffindor; his gran brought him up and she was a witch.
Oliver Wood
Former Gryffindor Quidditch captain Like Marcus Flint the Slytherin captain his last name is a raw material. Wood is also an archaic English word for violently mad which ties in nicely with his manic enthusiasm for Quidditch.
Owen Cauldwell
Sorted in to Hufflepuff. Cauldwell is a type of well made by damming a small stream with a weir or cauld (from an old Scottish term).
Padma Patil
Identical twin sister of Parvati Patil. A Ravenclaw. Ron's date at the Yule Ball.
Pansy Parkinson
A Slytherin girl at Hogwarts, Pansy: A flower, fragrant. Parkinson: Son of little Peter.
Parvati Patil
Gryffindor girl who has a sister is in Ravenclaw Parvati is a Hindu Goddess married to Hindu God Siva the Destroyer.
Patricia Stimpson
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.
Penelope Clearwater
Percy's girlfriend, a Ravenclaw prefect. Penelope was the wife of Odysseus and their home in Ithaca was mentioned as being close to a place called Clearwater.
Percy Ignatius Weasley
Straight-laced ambitious He was a prefect in Hogwarts was made head boy in Harry's third year, before leaving to work for the ministry.
Roger Davies
Ravenclaw Quidditch Captain, he went to the Yule Ball with Fleur Delacour. From the Hebrew name David, meaning "beloved"
Ron Weasley
His Birthday is the first of March. In Arthurian legend Ron is the name of King Arthur's trusty spear.
Rose Zeller
The last person sorted in Harry's fifth year, she was sorted into Hufflepuff.
Sally-Anne Perks
Sorted into an unknown house at Hogwarts. Perks is to carry oneself with self-confidence, upright, to move with pert briskness
Seamus Finnigan
Gryffindor in the same year as Harry, who mother was a witch who didn't tell anyone until after the wedding.
Stebbins
A Hufflepuff, year unknown. Caught by Professor Snape, kissing (necking in the USA) with Miss Fawcett at the Yule Ball.
Stewart Ackerley
Sorted into Ravenclaw.
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.
Susan Bones
A student sorted into Hufflepuff.
Terrance Higgs
The Seeker on the Slytherin Quidditch team during Harry's first year.
Terry Boot
A student sorted into Ravenclaw and later a member of Dumbledore's Army.
Theodore Nott
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.
Vicky Frobisher
A Gryffindor who tried out to be the Keeper on the Quidditch team.
Viktor Krum
A thin, dark, and sallow-skinned youth, he is still attending school, and is therefore quite young, he has a large curved nose and thick black eyebrows, he was the Bulgarian seeker and Durmstrang Triwizard champion.
Vincent Crabbe
One of Draco Malfoy's goons. If you switch the first letters of Crabbe and Goyle you get grab and coil which is what a snake does to its prey.
Zabini Blaise
Sorted in to Slytherin. Blasius, the name of the patron Saint of wool-workers and sufferers of throat diseases.
Zacharias Smith
A Hufflepuff who is on their Quidditch team and is a member of Dumbledore's Army.
