History

Theodard Fontaine • Character Theodard Fontaine was one of MACUSA’s original twelve aurors (Pm). Read More

Theophilus Abbott • Character Theophilus Abbott was an American Magical Historian who identified families of “Scourers,” witches and wizards who persecuted their own kind and also innocent No-Maj Muggles by selling them out during the Salem Witch Trials and other situations (MNA). Read More

Time Travel • Magical discipline Time travel is an extremely dangerous magical effect which allows a person to travel back in time. Because of the potential for catastrophe should history be altered, time travel is all but forbidden in wizarding society. Certain magical devices can be used for time travel, but access to them is… Read More

Tom Marvolo Riddle is born • Event He is born in a Muggle orphanage to a witch mother, Merope Gaunt, and Muggle father, Tom Riddle. His mother Merope dies an hour later, living just long enough to name her son after his father, Tom, and her father, Marvolo Gaunt (HBP13). She is nineteen years old. The older… Read More

Tom Marvolo Riddle disappears • Event After the death of Hepzibah Smith, Riddle vanishes for ten years. He travels far and wide, sinking deeply into the Dark Arts, consorting with the very worst of wizard-kind. He undergoes so many dangerous, magical transformations that when he resurfaces years later as Lord Voldemort, he is barely recognizable. 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 learns about the Chamber of Secrets and decides to find and open it • Event He is in his first year at Hogwarts when he learns about the existence of the Chamber. He is determined to find it but doesn’t succeed until five years later, in June of 1943. Read More

Torquil MacTavish • Character Torquil MacTavish was a Scottish wizard who participated in a broom race that led to the destruction of the Colosseum. MacTavish and his Italian rival Silvio Astolfi flew a close race from Aberdeen to Rome. In the explosions at the end of the race that destroyed the Colosseum, MacTavish was… Read More

Tough on Muggles • Wizarding culture Damocles Rowle used this slogan to get himself elected the second Minister for Magic in 1718, replacing Ulick Gamp. Rowle’s tough stance extended to wizards as well. He favored using the cursed and Dementor-infested fortress of Azkaban as a wizarding prison in spite of the terrible effect it had on… Read More

The Triwizard Tournament is established • Event The tradition begins with the three European Wizarding schools: Beauxbatons Academy, Durmstrang Institute, and Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It will continue off and on for many centuries. Read More

The True History of the Opal Fire • Books and Literature The True History of the Opal Fire is a Dark Magic book (CC1.19). Read More

Queen Elizabeth I • Character Queen Elizabeth I was the Muggle Queen of England and Ireland, from November 1558 until her death in March 1603. Known as the Virgin Queen, she was the last Tudor monarch. Her reign was known as the Elizabethan period. Read More

Tuft Family • Character A wizarding family. Notable family members of the Tuft include: Wilhelmina and her son Ignatius formed a brief political dynasty as successive Ministers for Magic 1949 – 1962 (Pm)… Read More

Aristotle Twelvetrees • Character Aristotle Twelvetrees was Keeper of Treasure and Dragots in MACUSA in the late 18th century (Pm). Read More

Dorcus Twelvetrees • Character Vain, self-centered air-headed witch who fell in love with No-Maj and Scourer descendant, Bartholomew Barebone, ultimately causing one of the worst breaches of the International Statute of Secrecy of all time, which led to the instatement of Rappaport’s Law in the United States. She was imprisoned for a year, after… Read More

Twin Wand Cores • Wandmaking Two wands that have the same magical substance at the core are said to be twins or brother wands. Read More