The Daily Prophet prints Charity Burbage's opinion piece• Event
Burbage writes in support of Muggle-borns, a point of view which results in her capture and murder by Death Eaters soon after. Read MoreDamocles Rowle elected as second Minister for Magic• Event
Rowle successfully campaigns on a platform of being tough on Muggles. His antagonistic rhetoric appeals to a wizarding community angered by the requirements of the Statute of Secrecy forcing them to hide away (Pm). Read MoreDamocles Rowle forced to step down as Minister for Magic• Event
His anti-Muggle actions as Minister earn him sanctions by the International Confederation of Wizards. He steps down under censure and is replaced by Perseus Parkinson (Pm). Read More
Dark energy
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Magical effects
Dark energy builds up inside a magical child when they suppress their powers, creating an Obscurus that can violently burst out of them (WFT). Read MoreDartmoor
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Moors • Quidditch places
Dartmoor is an area of moorland in Devon, in South-West England. The moorland is capped with many exposed granite hilltops known as tors, providing habitats for Dartmoor wildlife. The entire area is rich in antiquities and archaeology (Wikipedia). Appearances Dartmoor was the location of the Quidditch… Read MoreOn the last day of Aunt Marge's visit, Harry blows her up and runs away• Event
Marge insults Harry’s father, and Harry’s deep anger leads to uncontrolled magic. Marge inflates like a balloon and floats up to the ceiling. Knowing he’s in trouble with the Dursleys for blowing up Marge and believing he’s expelled from Hogwarts for performing magic outside of school, Harry grabs his school… Read MoreA third day of the mysterious letters for Harry• Event
Harry gets up at 6am and creeps downstairs. His plan was to wait for the mail carrier on the corner of Privet Drive to intercept the mail for Number Four. However, Uncle Vernon had positioned himself in front of the door in a sleeping bag to prevent just… Read MoreDementors attack Dudley and Harry, who drives them off with a Patronus Charm• Event
Two Dementors attack Harry and Dudley in an alley in Little Whinging. The Dementors show up just as Harry is frightening Dudley by pretending to perform magic. The Dementors, we find out later, had been sent by Dolores Umbridge (OP32). After Harry saves his cousin and himself (he successfully conjures… Read MoreDennis• Character
Dennis was a Muggle boy, living in Little Whinging, who was part of Dudley’s gang (PS3). Read MoreDennis Bishop• Character
Dennis Bishop was a child from the Tom Riddle’s orphanage whom Tom Riddle once terrorized in a seaside cave (HBP13). Read MoreDepartment of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes
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Ministry of Magic
The Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes is the department within the Ministry of Magic which has responsibility for being first on the scene when magical spells go wrong or Muggles become aware of wizarding activity. Read MoreDH11: The Bribe• Source
Remus Lupin seeks out Harry, Ron and Hermione at Grimmauld Place and offers to accompany them on their quest, but Harry refuses, recognizing that Lupin is seeking escape from complications in his personal life. Kreacher returns with Mundungus Fletcher, who reveals that… Read MoreDH12: Magic is Might• Source
After weeks of planning, Harry, Ron and Hermione ambush three Ministry of Magic workers, assume their identities, and sneak into Ministry headquarters. To their horror, they learn that Ron has assumed the identity of a man whose wife is about to be interrogated about her blood status,… Read MoreDH13: The Muggle-Born Registration Commission• Source
Hermione accompanies Dolores Umbridge to court while Harry breaks into Umbridge’s office, to find Mad-Eye Moody’s eye mounted on her door. While inside, Harry sees she has a file on Arthur Weasley and a copy of Rita Skeeter’s book. Harry retrieves the eye and… Read MoreDH14: The Thief• Source
Harry, Ron and Hermione apparated to the old Quidditch World Cup campgrounds, Ron having been splinched in the process. Hermione treats Ron’s injuries and they set up camp, whereupon Harry has a vision of Lord Voldemort interrogating Gregorovitch. He realizes that Voldemort is searching for something Gregorovitch… Read MoreDH33: The Prince's Tale• Source
Lord Voldemort tells his fighters to return to him. Voldemort asks Harry to meet him in the Forbidden Forest within the next hour or he will join the battle and kill everyone who tries to conceal Harry. While everyone goes to the Great Hall, to mourn… Read MoreDH3: The Dursleys Departing• Source
Vernon Dursley is reluctant for the family to flee Privet Drive. Harry explains to the Dursleys why they are in danger, and Dudley then tells his parents he wants to leave with Hestia Jones and Dedalus Diggle from the Order of the… Read MoreDH6: The Ghoul in Pyjamas• Source
Molly Weasley loads H.R.H. up with wedding-preparation chores in an attempt to stop them from making plans to leave. Ron and Hermione prove to Harry that they understand what’s involved in accompanying him and have taken steps to protect their families from retaliation. Hermione reveals that she has researched the… Read MoreDH9: A Place to Hide• Source
Harry, Ron and Hermione flee the Death Eaters by Apparating to Tottenham Court Road. Hermione’s handbag turns out to have hidden depths (undetectable extension charm), and they go to a Muggle café to plan their next move. Antonin Dolohov and Thorfinn Rowle arrive, they… Read MoreDishes, Cups, and Plates
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Furniture and household items
In the Wizarding World, dishes, cups, and plates have the potential to serve as more than simple dinnerware, though it is certainly also used as such. Read MoreFar Distant Country
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Place
We don’t know which country this is, except that it’s a long way from Britain, but the President of this country was scheduled to call the British Prime Minister on the night he was instead visited by Cornelius Fudge and Rufus Scrimgeour. The wizards arranged for the President to forget… Read MoreSub-division dealing with No-Maj Fraternisation
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Rules and laws • Titles, nicknames, and honorifics
One section of MACUSA in the 1920s was devoted to keeping wizards and witches from associating with No-Majs in any way, by order of Rappaports Law separating the two worlds (Pm). This law had no counterpart in England’s Ministry of Magic because they had no such law and allowed interaction,… Read MoreDodgy Dirk• Character
Dodgy Dirk was one of the Muggles present fort he Ilfracombe Incident of 1932. All the other Muggles present had their memories wiped by Tilly Toke and her family. However, “Dodgy Dirk” is known to tell tales of a “dirty great flying lizard” that attacked him way back when. His… Read MoreDoor opens for the eighth time: W.O.M.B.A.T. 3• Event
The W.O.M.B.A.T. test Grade 3 appeared on 13 June 2007 (JKR-W3). Read MoreDoor opens for the sixth time: W.O.M.B.A.T. 2 & more• Event
The Door opened for the 6th time on 29 September 2006, containing a Lucky charm puzzle and the W.O.M.B.A.T. test Grade 2 (JKR-W2). Diary entry #8, 2 News articles, 3 Rumours Fan Site Award: Potterish… Read MoreDoor opens for the fifth time: first W.O.M.B.A.T. exam• Event
The W.O.M.B.A.T. test Grade 1 appeared on 31 March 2006 (JKR-W1). Read MoreDot• Character
Resident of Little Hangleton, who remembered Frank Bryce as a child, who (when the rumor began spreading that he was responsible for the Riddles’ deaths), was quick to say that she thought he had a horrible temper, and to support her opinion with childhood reminiscences. When Frank was released after… Read MoreDougal McGregor• Character
Dougal McGregor was a Muggle farm boy with whom Minerva McGonagall fell madly in love at age 18. Dougal proposed to her and she accepted. However, having seen the heartache and loneliness her mother endured as a witch married to a Muggle, Minerva the next day told Dougal she could… Read MoreDowning Street
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Houses and addresses • Muggle places • Streets, alleys, and lanes
The phrase “Downing Street” usually is referring to number ten, Downing Street, the home of the British Muggle Prime Minister. This is where Kingsley Shacklebolt works undercover, protecting the Prime Minister during the war against Voldemort. After he helps fly Harry away from number four, Privet Drive, Kingsley is the… Read MoreA dozen more letters arrive for Harry• Event
The letters had been pushed through every available opening into the house, including a small bathroom windows. Uncle Vernon didn’t react well to this. Uncle Vernon stayed at home again. After burning all the letters, he got out a hammer and nails and boarded up the cracks around the… Read MoreDP4: Daily Prophet Issue 4• Source
Oct 1st 1999The Daily ProphetPrice: 7 Knuts Headlines MINISTRY IMPOSES RESTRICTIONS NEW POTION GIVES HOPE FOR HAGS Advertisement: Poor memory? Sports Quidditch League Table & Match Information Ballycastle Bats lead the league with 820 points and the Falmouth Falcons are still at the… Read MoreDrsly: The Dursleys (essays)• Source
The reference “Drsly” refers to a series of essays written by Rowling giving details about the Dursley family and where they lived. The essays originally appeared on Pottermore. Cokeworth Marge Dursley Number Four, Privet Drive… Read MoreDudley Dursley is born• Event
Dudley is the only child of Vernon and Petunia Dursley of Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey. He is about about a month older than his cousin Harry who comes to live with the Dursleys in November of the following year. Dudley grows up spoiled while… Read MoreDudley Dursley undergoes surgery for the removal of a pig's tail from his rather large behind• Event
The Dursleys took Dudley “to a private hospital where the staff was very discreet, and said that a wart had got out of control.” (PS6, Sch2)… Read MoreAlbus Dumbledore• Character
Albus Dumbledore was the Headmaster of Hogwarts for over thirty years, a time period that encompassed both of Voldemort’s attempts to take over the Wizarding world. Considered to be the most powerful wizard of his time, Dumbledore was awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, and was… Read MoreDumbledore chats with the Dursleys in their living room• Event
He comes to collect Harry but needs to settle a few details first. Thinking Dumbledore coming to take him on an errand and then to the Burrow might just be too good to be true, Harry hasn’t packed or told the Dursleys about this when Dumbledore arrives on Privet Drive… Read MorePercival Dumbledore• Character
Percival Dumbledore was the father of Albus, Aberforth, and Ariana Dumbledore. When Ariana was attacked by three muggle boys, Percival went after them in “a savage and well-publicized attack.” (DH2) He was convicted and sent to Azkaban in 1891, where he would later die. (DH2) Neither Percival… Read MoreDumbledore visits Tom Riddle in the orphanage and offers him a place at Hogwarts• Event
August, 1938: After charming the skeptical matron with magic, manners, and gin, Dumbledore meets Riddle in his room and reveals that the boy is a wizard and invites him to Hogwarts. Tom Riddle proves himself to be a bossy, hostile, independent, and calculating child who terrifies and torments the other… Read MoreDudley Dursley• Character
Profile Dudley was born on June 23, 1980. Dudley Dursley is Harry Potter’s Muggle cousin, and the only son of Vernon and Petunia Dursley of number four Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey. Dudley, in extreme contrast to Harry, was grossly overindulged by both his mother and… Read MoreDursley family• Character
The Dursley family is a Muggle family with which Harry Potter lives after being orphaned in 1981. Mrs. Dursley is Harry’s maternal aunt. The family consists of Vernon Dursley, his wife Petunia, their son Dudley, and Vernon’s sister, Marge. Read MoreAunt Marge Dursley• Character
Miss Marjorie Eileen Dursley is Vernon Dursley’s loathsome older (Pm) sister. She lives in the country, in a house with a large garden where she breeds bulldogs but appears to have no other type of employment. Even though she is not Harry’s blood relation, he has been forced to call… Read MorePetunia Dursley• Character
Aunt Petunia is Lily (Evans) Potter’s older sister, and the wife of Vernon Dursley. The Dursleys live at number four Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey. She is a tall, very thin blond with a long neck and an angular face. Estrangement and bitterness Petunia and Lily grew up in… Read MoreThe Dursleys and Harry spend the night in the Hut-on-the-Rock• Event
Uncle Vernon rows the family out to the hut just off the coast. He brings a rifle along. However the only food he brought was a couple of bags of crisps and some bananas. Harry and Dudley sleep in the front room while Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia sleep in… Read MoreThe Dursleys are taken away from Privet Drive for safety• Event
The war is intensifying: “These accidents aren’t accidents—the crashes and explosions and derailments and whatever else has happened since we last watched the news. People are disappearing and dying and he’s behind it—Voldemort. I’ve told you this over and over again, he kills Muggles for fun. Even the fogs—they’re caused… Read MoreVernon Dursley• Character
Vernon Dursley is the husband of Harry’s Aunt Petunia. Like her, he is very much a Muggle. In fact, he is about as Muggle as a person can get. He has no use for imagination at all. He is a large, beefy man with very little neck and… Read More