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Eeylops Owl Emporium • Businesses, merchants, and shops Eeylops Owl Emporium is a dimly lit shop in Diagon Alley which, according to the sign, sells tawny, screech, barn, brown, and snowy owls. Hagrid bought Hedwig here for Harry’s eleventh birthday on July 31, 1991 (PS5). Harry also returned later to buy owl nuts – a favorite treat… Read More

Elias Grimstone • Character Elias Grimstone was the developer of the Oakshaft 79 broom (QA9). Read More

Ellerby • Character Ellerby is one-half of the broom manufacturing partnership Ellerby & Spudmore. He (or she) and Able Spudmore developed the Tinderblast and Swiftstick models of broom (QA9, Pm:Quidditch). Read More

Ellerby & Spudmore • Broomsticks Ellerby & Spudmore are the company name of the broom manufacturing team of Ellerby (given name unknown) and Able Spudmore, based in the Black Forest of Germany (QA9, Pm). They launched the slow but sturdy Tinderblast broom in 1940. This was followed in 1952 by the release of the faster … Read More

Re'em • Creature The Re’em is an extremely rare golden-furred giant ox. … Read More

🎙️ Encore Presentation: Wizarding Currency • Article

Posted April 26, 2020 by Selena Gallagher in Harry Potter Lexicon Minute

This is an encore presentation of an episode from February 2018. You may notice on the homepage of the Lexicon that it always shows the current exchange rate between a galleon and a range of different worldwide currencies. But did you ever wonder how J.K. Rowling came up… Read More

Five errors in the original text of book one and how they were fixed • Article

Posted May 30, 2014 by Steve VanderArk in Canon discussion

In the summer of 2004, Bloomsbury released new editions of the Harry Potter books. These new editions featured a slew of changes to the original text. Some of the changes were simple fixes for typos. For example, on the third line of page 15 of Philosopher’s Stone, the word… Read More

Evening Prophet • Publications The Evening Prophet is a special edition of the Daily Prophet, the newspaper of the wizarding world. Read More

Evil-Looking Masks • Dark magic items Hanging on the wall of Borgin and Burkes shop in Knockturn Alley (PA4)… Read More