Muggles

Tarquin McTavish • Character Tarquin McTavish was a wizard who imprisoned his Muggle neighbour inside a tea kettle. He was sent to prison for this act (JKR, WoM). Read More

Ted • Character Newsreader on the Muggle news… Read More

Telephone Box • Glossary Telephone booth. Read More

Tents • Thing Wizards attending the Quidditch World Cup have been known to customise their tents both inside and out, even though they are supposed to be keeping a low profile. Read More

W.O.M.B.A.T. tests • Wizarding culture W.O.M.B.A.T. stands for Wizards’ Ordinary Magic and Basic Aptitude Test. It is administered by the Wizarding Examinations Authority. The head of this Authority is Griselda Marchbanks, CDMG, APMD, fbBB (JKR). These tests could be taken by Muggles as well as wizards, but the Wizarding Examinations Authority “does… 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

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas • Character Dean’s parents, who didn’t know anything about any deaths at Hogwarts as of the beginning of the 1995 – 1996 school year, because their son didn’t see fit to tell them (OP11). Mr. Thomas is Dean’s stepfather; Dean’s biological father was a wizard who was killed by Death Eaters… Read More

Thornton Harkaway is President of MACUSA • Event Harkaway, a flamboyant Virginian, brings the Congress to his home town of Willimasburg. He leaves the Presidency in disgrace, however, after his pack of Crups attack some No-Majs. Read More

Tina takes Newt in to MACUSA headquarters • Event Tina Goldstein arrests Newt Scamander after he uses various spells in the presence of Jacob Kolwalski and fails to Obliviate him — and nearly loses a niffler in the process. No one at MACUSA will listen to her report except Percival Graves, who come down to her tiny office to… Read More

Tinworth • Wizarding villages Though a Muggle village, Tinworth in Cornwall has been a place where wizarding families have congregated for hundreds of years, much like Godric’s Hollow and Ottery St. Catchpole (DH16). In the 1200s, famous Arithmancer Bridget Wenlock lived in Tinworth (BoS). Among the town’s current wizarding… Read More

Toad • Creature Toads are allowed as pets for students at Hogwarts, but they’re out of fashion, so if you have one, you’re likely to be laughed at for it. Nevertheless, Neville has a toad named Trevor, a gift from an older family member (PS6, Pm), and there are enormous purple… Read More

Tobias Snape • Character Tobias Snape was the Muggle husband of Eileen Prince Snape and father of Severus Snape (HBP13, HBP30). Tobias was verbally and possibly physically abusive towards his wife and son, and the memory of his abuse and the Snapes’ generally unhappy homelife in the run-down Spinner’s End neighborhood of… 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 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

Tortoise • Creature A tortoise is a land reptile, similar to a turtle, which is protected by a hard shell on its back. Read More

Tottenham Court Road • Streets, alleys, and lanes When Bill and Fleur’s wedding was interrupted by Death Eaters, Hermione grabbed Harry and Ron as fast as she could and Apparated with them to the first Muggle place she thought of – Tottenham Court Road, in London. There they try to hide briefly in a Muggle cafe, though they… Read More

toy wand • Games, toys, and jokes A contraband toy wand found under the bed of Modesty Barebone by her adult brother Credence in Second Salem Church caused their infuriated mother Mary Lou to threaten the child with a beating (WFT). Read More

Trainers • Glossary Athletic shoes, also called sneakers. Trainers, although ostensibly for sport, are popular everyday footwear for many people, young and old. 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

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

Twenty-four letters arrive for Harry, rolled up inside two dozen eggs • Event It’s a Saturday morning. The milkman delivers two dozen eggs to Aunt Petunia by way of the kitchen window. To her consternation, she discovers a Hogwarts letter rolled up inside each of the eggs. She shreds them in her food processor. Read More

Typing Course • Glossary A course in which one learns to write something by means of a typewriter or computer, usually blindly (without looking at the keyboard). Read More