Death

The Tale of the Three Brothers • Books and Literature “The Tale of the Three Brothers” is one of the stories in the book “Tales of Beedle the Bard“, which was left to Hermione by Albus Dumbledore in his will (DH7), and is the original source of the Deathly Hallows legend (DH21). Read More

Ted Tonks is killed while on the run from the Ministry • Event Ted, along with Dirk Cresswell and Gornuk, spend the fall of 1997 and the spring of 1998 on the run. Sometime in March, they are all captured and killed (DH22). Read More

Thorfinn Rowle • Character Thorfinn Rowle was a huge, blonde Death Eater during the second war with Voldemort. During the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, Rowle was part of the group that invaded Hogwarts where he did tremendous damage (HBP27). It was his Avada Kedavra that killed fellow Death Eater Gibbon when it missed Lupin. Rowle… Read More

The time the US editors screwed up a Harry Potter book • Article

Posted June 20, 2014 by Steve VanderArk in Canon discussion

Way back in the late 90s, the Harry Potter books came out in Britain first, long before the US editions. In fact, it took a whole year for Philosopher's Stone to be Transfigured into Sorcerer's Stone. During that year, the editors at Scholastic changed a lot more than the title. They replaced a lot of British terms which they assumed would confuse American readers. In some cases, I guess they were probably right. Many Americans would have no idea what a "bobble hat" or a "packet of crisps" was, and in the U.S. a "jumper" Read More

Today1 • Source First part of the post-DH interview on the Today Show (NBC) Source: MSNBC Interviewer: Meredith Vieira Context: This was one of the first interviews after the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, so Jo could finally answer some questions she was reluctant to answer before. Read More

Tom Marvolo Riddle turns the diary into a Horcrux • Event He uses murder of Myrtle in June (BLC) and the knowledge he gained from Slughorn to work the Dark Magic required to turn the diary into a Horcrux (HBP23). Read More

Tom Marvolo Riddle • Character Tom Marvolo Riddle was a gifted young wizard born of a witch mother (Merope Gaunt) and a Muggle father (Tom Riddle, Sr.) on December 31, 1926. His mother had fallen in love with his father, who was a Muggle, and tricked him into marrying her with a… Read More

Tom Riddle commits his first murders: his father and grandparents in their Little Hangleton mansion • Event He first visits his uncle, Morfin Gaunt, and uses magic to steal Marvolo’s ring and frame Morfin for the murders of the Muggles in the Riddle house. Tom uses the murders to create his first Horcrux, the ring. The next day, Morfin is taken to Azkaban, where he remains until his… Read More

Tom Riddle kills Hepzibah Smith, framing her house-elf, Hokey • Event After doing so, he steals Slytherin’s locket and Hufflepuff’s cup – items he later uses to make Horcruxes. Read More

Tom Riddle murders a Muggle tramp and creates the Locket Horcrux • Event After stealing Salazar Slytherin’s locket from Hepzibah Smith, Tom Riddle uses the murder of “a Muggle tramp” to turn the locket into a Horcrux with part of his soul inside (BLC). Read More

Tom Riddle Sr. • Character Tom Riddle Sr. was the father of Tom Marvolo Riddle, described as being “a very handsome, dark-haired young man” (HBP10). He abandoned his wife Merope (who was then pregnant with Tom) after her love potion wore off and he found out she was a witch and the daughter of… Read More

Tom Riddle turns Marvolo's ring into his first Horcrux • Event Shortly after murdering his father and grandparents, Tom Marvolo Riddle uses those murders to create a Horcrux from Marvolo Gaunt’s heirloom ring. The ring had once belonged to the Peverell family. Read More

Ted Tonks • Character Ted Tonks was a Muggle-born wizard, father of Nymphadora and husband of Andromeda. He was described by his daughter as a “right old slob,” in contrast to the Dursleys, whose house seemed unnaturally clean to Nymphadora (OP3). Andromeda’s marriage to Ted resulted in her being disowned by the Black family… Read More

Triwizard Tournament • Sports and competitions The Triwizard Tournament is a famous contest between three schools: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Durmstrang Institute, and Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. History It originated some 700 years ago as a friendly competition between the three schools. Each school took turns hosting the Tournament, which took… Read More

True Master Of Death • Quote “You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.  He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”… Read More

TTB: The Tale of the Three Brothers (fairy tale) • Source “The Tale of the Three Brothers” is a wizarding world fairy tale, part of the collection The Tales of Beedle the Bard. In the tale, three brothers use magic to cheat death. Death himself appears and offers them each one magical item. The choices of the older two brothers… Read More

Tufty-haired man who gives Dumbledore's eulogy • Character A “little tufty-haired man” wearing black robes spoke at Dumbledore’s funeral, giving a eulogy. From what Harry can hear — phrases like “nobility of spirit” — it was a speech praising the life of the Headmaster(HBP30). In the midst of these high-sounding words, Harry remembered Dumbledore’s idea of a… Read More