Places

Variety store • Place See newsagent’s (CS – Differences Between U.K. and U.S. editions). Read More

Vault 713 • Caves and vaults Vault 713 is the “top security” vault underneath Gringotts Bank where Dumbledore kept the Philosopher’s Stone (PS5). Read More

Vauxhall Road • Streets, alleys, and lanes On this street, there was a newsagent’s where Tom Marvolo Riddle bought his diary (CS13). This diary, of course, is the one Riddle later turned into a horcrux – and which Harry destroyed with the fang of the basilisk (HBP23). See also Echoes of the Past: Street Names… Read More

Village • Glossary An inhabited place large enough to have a church but smaller than a town, roughly speaking.  … Read More

Villages • Place A number of places are described as villages, including some that are never named. Wizarding villages: Chipping Clodbury Godric’s Hollow Hogsmeade Lancashire Mould-on-the-Wold Ottery St. Catchpole Tinworth Upper Flagley unnamed villages in which Gilderoy Lockhart’s amazing feats supposedly took place, including a village in Transylvania, where he claimed to have… Read More

A visit to the home of Xenophilius Lovegood • Event Mr. Lovegood explains the history of the Deathly Hallows, then tries to sell Harry to the Ministry. The trio just barely escapes. Harry thinks he has figured out the mystery of the Hallows. The Lovegoods’ tower-like home, which reminds Ron of a rook in chess, is near the village of Ottery… Read More

Vratsa • Place Vratsa is a city in northwestern Bulgaria, located in the foothills of the Balkans. It is the home of the Vratsa Vultures Quidditch team (QA8). Read More