Magical Devices and Items

UFOs • Glossary UFOs are “Unidentified Flying Objects”. Muggles do not realise that these are Quaffles (DP1). As reported in the Daily Prophet, a Ministry of Magic committee headed by Professor Phoebus Penrose drew attention to Muggles thinking that they are seeing the flying ships of alien beings in the sky, which… Read More

Umbridge-itis • Games, toys, and jokes After the Weasley twins’ spectacular departure, droves of Umbridge’s Defense Against the Dark Arts students turned out to have been Skiving Snackbox customers, and would use them as soon as she appeared in class, claiming to be suffering from ‘Umbridge-itis’ regardless of the specific symptoms they’d developed (OP30). Read More

Umbridge lets Mundungus off in exchange for the locket • Event Mundungus Fletcher admits to having stripped 12 Grimmauld Place of its valuables sometime after Albus Dumbledore’s death. While trying to sell them in Diagon Alley, Mundungus was approached by Dolores Umbridge, who asked to see his Ministry sales permit. Instead of landing him with a… Read More

Underground lake • Lakes and marshes The underground lake was located in the sea cave where Voldemort hid the locket Horcrux. The lake was clear and still, but beneath its surface floated hundreds of Inferi. When the water was touched by a human hand, the Inferi would rise and attack. In the center of the lake was an… Read More

Undesirable Number One • Titles, nicknames, and honorifics The term “Undesirable Number One” is used for the most wanted criminal in wizarding society. Umbridge had a poster with Harry’s picture on it in her office at the Ministry labeled “Undesirable Number One” (DH13)… Read More

Undetectable Extension Charm — "Capacious Extremis (Pm)" • Spells The Undetectable Extension Charm extends the internal dimensions of the target object without affecting the external dimensions. Read More

Unfogging the Future • Books and Literature Unfogging the Future was a divination guide by famous seer Cassandra Vablatsky. Read More

Albanian peasant • Character When he found Ravenclaw’s diadem in Albania, Voldemort killed a peasant and used his or her death to turn the priceless object into a Horcrux (BLC). Read More

Unused 4th Floor Classroom • Hogwarts castle and grounds The unused 4th floor classroom contained stacks of chairs and desks and an upside-down wastebasket. The room was the storage place in 1991 of the miraculous Mirror of Erised propped against a wall (PS12). Appearances Harry discovered the room while running from Snape and Filch under… Read More