Magic• Page
Magic is what sets folks in the wizarding world apart from their Muggle neighbors. Magic is the heart and soul of the wizarding culture in the same way that science and technology are the heart and soul of Muggle culture. Where a Muggle would pound a stake into the ground… Read MoreMagical Water Plants of the Mediterranean
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Books and Literature
Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean is a guide to magical marine plants. Read MoreMahogany
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Plants
Mahogany is a wand wood also used to make broom handles (PS5). Background According to Mr. Ollivander, James Potter had a mahogany wand, eleven inches, pliable, and “excellent for transfiguration” (PS5). It makes sense that a wand good for transfiguration would be “pliable,”… Read MoreMallowsweet
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Plants
Centaurs burn this, observing the fumes and flames to refine the results of their stargazing (OP27). Read MoreMandrake
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Plants • Potion ingredients
The Mandrake is a magical plant with powerful restorative properties. The root system takes the form of a small baby which matures into the form of small humanoid adult. The screams of the roots are dangerous; those of a full-grown adult mandrake can kill. Read More
Mandrake Draught
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Potions
Mandrake Draught is a powerful antidote which will revive people who have been Petrified. Read MoreMandrake-Grower
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Occupations
Witches and wizards who cultivate mandrakes for profit or for a hobby. Read MoreMandrake, or Mandragora• Quote
“It is used to return people who have been transfigured or cursed to their original state.”… Read MoreMaple
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Wandmaking
A wand wood (Pm). Read MoreMerope Gaunt fools Tom Riddle into marrying her• Event
c. December 1925 – Merope Gaunt, besotted as she is with the handsome Muggle who rides his horse near her miserable hovel, somehow hoodwinks him into marrying her. Most likely, she does so by giving him a love potion. Read MoreMimbulus mimbletonia
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Plants
The Mimbulus mimbletonia is a very rare magical plant, native to Assyria, which resembles a grey cactus but with boils where the spines would have been. The boils are a defensive mechanism that spew Stinksap upon contact. Read MoreMinister for Magic Crickerly dies in a gardening accident• Event
Venusia Crickerly was a well-liked, competent Minister when she died a mysterious death involving mandrakes, the cries of which can be fatal (MoM). Read MoreMinistry Imposes Restrictions
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Headlines and advertisements
Ministry Imposes Restrictions is a front page headline in the Daily Prophet about the Ministry of Magic’s plans to curb wizarding Hallowe’en celebrations (DP4). Hallowe’en is the one time of year when wizards can be “out and about” without arousing the suspicions of Muggles, so the plans announced… Read MoreMistletoe
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Plants • Potion ingredients
Mistletoe is a plant, commonly used as a Christmas decoration, whose berries can be used as potion ingredients. Read MoreMoly
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Plants Monkshood
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Plants • Potion ingredients
Monkshood is another name for the plant called aconite or wolfsbane (PS8). Monkshood is extremely poisonous and must be handled with care to avoid poisoning. Read MoreMoondew
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Plants • Potion ingredients
Moondew is a flower used as a potion ingredient; its magical properties were discovered by medieval Irish druidess Cliodna (FW). Read More
Herbology
Magic
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Magic is what sets folks in the wizarding world apart from their Muggle neighbors. Magic is the heart and soul of the wizarding culture in the same way that science and technology are the heart and soul of Muggle culture. Where a Muggle would pound a stake into the ground… Read More
Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean
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Books and Literature
Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean is a guide to magical marine plants. Read More
Mahogany
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Plants
Mahogany is a wand wood also used to make broom handles (PS5). Background According to Mr. Ollivander, James Potter had a mahogany wand, eleven inches, pliable, and “excellent for transfiguration” (PS5). It makes sense that a wand good for transfiguration would be “pliable,”… Read More
Mandrake
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Plants • Potion ingredients
The Mandrake is a magical plant with powerful restorative properties. The root system takes the form of a small baby which matures into the form of small humanoid adult. The screams of the roots are dangerous; those of a full-grown adult mandrake can kill. Read More
Mandrake Draught
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Potions
Mandrake Draught is a powerful antidote which will revive people who have been Petrified. Read More
Mandrake, or Mandragora
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“It is used to return people who have been transfigured or cursed to their original state.”… Read More
Mimbulus mimbletonia
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Plants
The Mimbulus mimbletonia is a very rare magical plant, native to Assyria, which resembles a grey cactus but with boils where the spines would have been. The boils are a defensive mechanism that spew Stinksap upon contact. Read More
Ministry Imposes Restrictions
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Headlines and advertisements
Ministry Imposes Restrictions is a front page headline in the Daily Prophet about the Ministry of Magic’s plans to curb wizarding Hallowe’en celebrations (DP4). Hallowe’en is the one time of year when wizards can be “out and about” without arousing the suspicions of Muggles, so the plans announced… Read More
Mistletoe
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Plants • Potion ingredients
Mistletoe is a plant, commonly used as a Christmas decoration, whose berries can be used as potion ingredients. Read More
Monkshood
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Plants • Potion ingredients
Monkshood is another name for the plant called aconite or wolfsbane (PS8). Monkshood is extremely poisonous and must be handled with care to avoid poisoning. Read More
Moondew
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Plants • Potion ingredients
Moondew is a flower used as a potion ingredient; its magical properties were discovered by medieval Irish druidess Cliodna (FW). Read More