Battle

Mad-Eye Moody • Character Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody is a retired Auror, considered one of the best Dark Wizard catchers the Ministry has ever had. Moody came on staff for a year at Hogwarts, but  spent it at the bottom of a magical trunk, unbeknownst to anyone but the imposter who put him there (… Read More

Albus, Aberforth, and Grindelwald duel; Ariana is killed • Event Angry that his brother is neglecting their fragile sister for his new friend, Aberforth confronts Albus and Grindelwald about their plans to leave Godric’s Hollow and make their mark on the world. Grindelwald tells Aberforth he just doesn’t understand, and then uses the Cruciatus Curse on the younger boy. Then a… Read More

Albus Dumbledore defeats the dark wizard Grindelwald • Event The threat posed by Grindelwald and his plans for world domination become so dire that the Wizarding world clamors for Dumbledore to intervene. It is only when he has no choice that Dumbledore finally confronts his old friend in an epic duel. In the end, Dumbledore wins the duel and takes… Read More

Albus Potter • Character Albus Potter is the middle child and second son of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley Potter.  He is named after two headteachers of Hogwarts: Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape. Albus is Neville Longbottom‘s godson (Pm) and, when he was six years old, his best friend… Read More

Albus Potter disarms Cedric Diggory during the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament • Event 24 November 1994 Disguised as Durmstrang students, Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy successfully travel back in time to the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament. They hear the introduction and announcements of Ludo Bagman and encounter a suspicious Hermione Granger (who Scorpius initially mistakes her… Read More

Albus Potter, Scorpius Malfoy and Delphi battle with Hermione Granger's Weaponised Library • Event Having seen off Hermione Granger, Albus Potter, Scorpius Malfoy and Delphi approach the Minister’s bookshelves to look for the Experimental Time-Turner. The bookshelves, which are full of dangerous books, are a “Weaponised Library” and fight back. Scorpius, Albus and Delphi have to solve the… Read More

Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy realise that Delphi plans to kill the baby Harry Potter • Event 30 October 1981 Left stranded at Aviemore train station in Scotland by Delphi after the destruction of the Experimental Time-Turner, Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy are lost. From a chance remark by the station master, Albus realises where and when they are in Time (CC4.2). He now… Read More

Albus and Scorpius encounter the Trolley Witch on the roof of the Hogwarts Express • Event Scorpius Malfoy follows Albus Potter onto the roof of the Hogwarts Express. To their surprise (and alarm), the Food Trolley Witch appears and tries to keep them on the train. They jump off before she can capture them. The Trolley Witch tells them a little about her… Read More

Alicia Spinnet • Character Alicia Spinnet was a Gryffindor girl two years (CS7) ahead of Harry Potter, in the same year as Angelina Johnson, Fred and George Weasley and Lee Jordan. She played Chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team with Harry (PS11). She was made a full member… Read More

The American Revolutionary War results in a new country: the United States • Event Between 1775 and 1783, the original thirteen British colonies in North America rebel against foreign rule and establish a new country, the United States of America. North American witches and wizards debate whether or not to take sides against their British magical counterparts. In the end, both sides decide to… Read More

Amycus Carrow • Character Amycus Carrow was a squat, “lumpy” looking wizard with a lopsided leer and a wheezy giggle. Part of the group of Death Eaters who participated in the Battle of the Tower, where Amycus egged on Draco to kill Dumbledore, and had fun trying to curse Ginny Weasley (HBP27). Snape… Read More

Anti-Disapparation Jinx • Spells The Anti-Disapparation Jink prevents someone from Disapparating, or disappearing to magically travel somewhere else. Read More

Antonin Dolohov • Character Antonin Dolohov was a particularly sadistic Death Eater, one of Tom Riddle’s friends after leaving school (HBP20). He was sent to Azkaban for the murders of Gideon and Fabian Prewett (OP25). Dolohov escaped from Azkaban early in 1996, along with Bellatrix Lestrange and several other high-security prisoners, and rejoined… Read More

Aragog's hollow • Creatures' homes, lairs, and territories Hagrid takes his Acromantula Aragog to live in a hollow in the Forbidden Forest after being accused of opening the Chamber of Secrets. Aragog lives in “the middle of the misty domed web” with his wife Mosag and hundreds of their descendants (CS15). The hollow is located deep inside the forest; Harry and Ron… Read More

Armenian warlock • Character Described as “ugly” and “old” by Gilderoy Lockhart, this warlock was the one who faced the Wagga Wagga Werewolf – only to have his memory wiped by Lockhart, who took credit for the warlock’s heroism by writing about it in Wandering with Werewolves (CS16). Read More

Artemius Lawson • Character Artemius Lawson was an outspoken notorious campaigner for the suppression of trolls (DP2). Read More

Astronomy Tower • Buildings The astronomy tower is the tallest tower of Hogwarts. This is where students had Astronomy class every Wednesday night at midnight during Harry’s first year The top of this tower where observation sessions are held for Astronomy is more or less directly above the front entrance of the castle; the top of… Read More

The Attack on Ilvermorny • Event The Irish witch Gormlaith Gaunt attacks Ilvermorny School to take revenge on her niece, Isolt Sayre, who had stolen the family heirloom wand once belonging to Salazar Slytherin from Gormlaith and fled to America. The witch was also furious that Isolt married James Steward, a No-Maj, and was running a… Read More

Attack of the Killer Forest • Quidditch The Attack of the Killer Forest, which took place at the final of the Quidditch World Cup in 1809, is considered to be one of the worst exhibitions of unsportsmanlike conduct in wizarding history (QWC). The match between Romania and New Spain (now Mexico) ended in… Read More

Attack on Pearl Harbor • Event

Augusta "Gran" Longbottom • Character Neville’s grandmother who raised him in the absence of his parents. She is a forceful, strong woman and a powerful witch who wears green robes, a fox-fur scarf, a distinctive hat topped with a stuffed vulture, and carries a large red handbag. Neville loves her, but he’s a bit scared… Read More

Augustus Rookwood • Character Augustus Rookwood was a Death Eater and spy in the Ministry during the first war with Voldemort. He worked for the Department of Mysteries but had agents throughout the Ministry, not all of whom knew who they were really working for. (For example, Rookwood was an… Read More