Auror -  a member of an elite team of wizards in the Ministry of Magic. ex. Mad Eye Moody, Mr. Longbottom

Animagi -  Ability to turn yourself into an animal

Animagus - A person who can turn themselves into an animal

Apparate - Ability to make yourself move from place to place almost instantly

Apothecary - Shop where magical materials are sold.

Azkaban - A wizard prison 

B

Beater - A Quidditch player that must kit the Bludger with a wooden stick

Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans - Wizard Candy... that really has every flavor!

Bezoar - A stone taken from the stomach of a goat that will save you from most poisons

Bludger - A large jet black ball, hurts a lot if you get hit with it

Boggart - Creature that turns into whatever you fear the most

C

 Chaser - A Quidditch player that must score using the Quaffle

Codswallop - Not true, a lie

Cornish Pixies - Electric blue, about 8 inches high with pointy faces and a shrill voice

D

Dementor - A tall, robed creature who has no soul. Dementors are horrid things, who guard the prison of Azakaban. The dementors literally suck your soul out, in an act know as the Dementor's Kiss.

Diagon Alley - The cultural and business center of the Wizarding World.

Disapparate - Ability to remove yourself from somewhere

Droobles Best Blowing Gum - Can fill a room with bluebell-colored bubbles that refuse to pop for days

Dungbomb - When one of these is set off it stinks up a large area around it

E

Erised, The Mirror of - A mirror that shows what you desire most, Erised spelt backwards is desire

F

Floo Powder - When thrown into a fire it can transport a witch or wizard anywhere connected on the Floo network

Flourish and Bott's - the book shop in Diagon Alley

G

Galleon - A gold piece of wizard money

Gillyweed - A magical herb, giving you gills, to let you breathe underwater.

Godric's Hollow - The hideout of James and Lily Potter when Voldemort was after them

Gnome - Small, leathery looking creature with a large knobby, bald head exactly like a potato

Goblet of Fire - A bewitched object that chooses the contestants for the Triwizard Tournament.

Gryffindor - (1) One of the four greatest wizards of all times, helped construct Hogwarts

                  (2) A Hogwarts house section

Grim - A giant spectral dog that haunts graveyards

Gringotts - The wizard bank

Grunnings - A muggle company that makes drills; Mr. Dursley works for this company

H

Hippogriff - Half horse, half bird with gleaming coats of different colors

Hinkypunk - A little one-legged creature that looks like it is made of wisps of smoke; holds a lantern in it's hand and lures travelers into bogs

Hogwarts - School for witches and wizards

Hogwarts Express - The train that brings Hogwarts students to Hogwarts

Howler - A letter that lets out yells one-hundred times louder than usual

Hufflepuff - (1) One of the four greatest wizards of all times, helped construct Hogwarts

                  (2) A Hogwarts house section

Hungarian Horntail - A type of dragon

I

Invisibility Cloak - A cloak that makes anything beneath it invisible

J

K

Kappa - Creepy water-dwellers that look like scaly monkeys with webbed hands

Keeper - The "Goalie" in the wizard's game of quittich. ex. Oliver Wood

Knut - A bronze piece of wizard money; 29 Knuts to a Sickle

L

Levitating Sugar Balls - Wizard Candy, Suck on them and you can levitate a few inches in the air!

M

Mandragora - See Mandrake

Marauders Map - A map that shows every detail of the Hogwarts castle

Mandrake - Is a powerful restorative, they form an essential part of most antidotes; The cry of a full grown Mandrake is fatal to anyone who hears it

Muggle - A person with absolutely no magical powers

N

O

P

Patronus - A spell that can ward of dementors; Every wizard's Patronus has a different shape

Pepper Imps - Breath fire on your friends

Q

Quaffle - A large red ball, about the size of a soccer ball; used in quidditch (below)

Quidditch - A wizard game played on broomsticks

R

Ravenclaw - (1) One of the four greatest wizards of all times, helped construct Hogwarts

                   (2) A Hogwarts house section

Red Caps - Nasty goblin like creatures that lurk wherever there had been bloodshed

Remembrall - Tells you if you have forgotten something to do

S

Seeker - The most important Quidditch player, has to catch the Snitch

Sickle - A silver piece of wizard money; 17 Sickles to a Galleon

Slytherin - (1) One of the four greatest wizards of all times, helped construct Hogwarts

   &blacknbsp;            (2) A Hogwarts house section

Snitch - A small golden ball with silver wings

Squib - A wizard born without magical powers

Sugar Quills - Wizard Candy- Suck them in class and it looks like you are just thinking of what to write!

T

 Toothflossing Stringmints - Cleans your teeth like floss

Triwizard Tournament - The subject of Book 4, a tournament between the three schools of witchcraft and wizardry. It includes different tasks and each of the (usually) three contestants are scored.

U

Unicorn - a mystical creature, somewhat like a horse with a horn, unicorn blood makes you live longer, even if an inch from death, but if you drink the blood you will be cursed from the moment the blood touches your lips.

V

Venemous Tentacula - Spiky, dark red plant with long feelers

Voldemort - "He Who must not be named", "The Dark Lord", Tom Marvolo Riddle

W

 Whomping Willow - A very violent tree that stood alone in the middle of the school grounds

Wand - The essential wizarding tool. Each wizard's wand is different. Most range in length from 9 to 16 inches. They are made out of wood, and contain dragon heartstring, unicorn hair, or a phoneix feather for a core. In Book 4, Fleur Delacour's wand had a veela hair.

X

Y

Z

  Zabini, Blaise - student sorted into Slytherin at Hogwarts

Zograf - Keeper on the Bulgarian National Quidditch Team

Zonko's - the joke shop in Hogsmeade