Transportation

Aberdeen • Cities Aberdeen is a city of about 100,000 people on the eastern coast of Scotland, about 85 miles northeast of Hogwarts School. Modesty Rabnott’s sister Prudence lived in Aberdeen c. 1200s, according to a thirteenth-century letter on display in the Museum of Quidditch (QA4). During Harry’s first trip… Read More

Abergavenny • Towns Located in southeastern Wales on the English border, Abergavenny is a market town that was once home to fortresses for the Roman and, later, Norman empires. This is where the Knight Bus dropped Madam Marsh off the first time Harry rode it (PA3). Read More

The Advance Guard arrives in Privet Drive and escorts Harry to number twelve, Grimmauld Place • Event The Dursleys depart for what they believe to be the prize-giving of the All-England Best Kept Suburban Lawn Competition. The Advance Guard — “Mad-Eye” Moody, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Elphias Doge, Dedalus Diggle, Emmeline Vance, Sturgis Podmore, and Hestia Jones — arrive at number four, Privet Drive to… Read More

Albert Tillyman • Character Albert Tillyman was a wizard and a bully whose wife, Violet, went missing after they argued. He believed she had disappeared in the Floo Network, which caused a national scare. Unbeknownst to him, she had traveled to the wrong house and left him for the man she met there, Myron… Read More

Albus Dumbledore's portrait speaks to Harry; Draco Malfoy has a confession • Event 31 October 2020 While Harry Potter is in his office at the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Albus Dumbledore visits his portrait and they have a conversation. Dumbledore attempts to speak to Harry about love. Harry counters that that he is so bad at understanding his own… Read More

Albus Potter disarms Cedric Diggory during the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament • Event 24 November 1994 Disguised as Durmstrang students, Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy successfully travel back in time to the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament. They hear the introduction and announcements of Ludo Bagman and encounter a suspicious Hermione Granger (who Scorpius initially mistakes her… Read More

Albus Potter hears about the confiscated Time-Turner from Rose Granger-Weasley • Event Rose Granger-Weasley asks Albus Potter whether he has heard about the Ministry’s raid that confiscated an illegal Time-Turner. Having recently listened to his father and Amos Diggory’s conversation, this gives Albus an idea of how to save Cedric Diggory. He meets with Scorpius Malfoy on… Read More

Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy meet and become friends on the Hogwarts Express • Event Albus Potter and Rose Granger-Weasley board the Hogwarts Express, with Rose determined to look for the ‘right’ people to sit with. Unlike Albus, Rose has heard the rumours about the parentage of Scorpius Malfoy and wants to instantly reject sitting in his compartment on the train. Read More

Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy use the Time-Turner for the first time • Event Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy enter the Forbidden Forest and, although Scorpius has some misgivings, they use the Time-Turner for the first time (CC2.6). Read More

Albus Potter starts his third year at Hogwarts • Event Following another argument with his father Harry, Albus Potter boards the Hogwarts Express on Platform Nine and Three-quarters at King’s Cross and starts his third year at Hogwarts. He finds out that the mother of his friend Scorpius Malfoy has recently died and he doesn’t know what to… Read More

Albus Potter starts his second year at Hogwarts • Event Albus Potter boards the Hogwarts Express on Platform Nine and Three-quarters at King’s Cross and starts his second year at Hogwarts. He tries to keep a distance from his father Harry – and he and Rose Granger-Weasley stand together and pretend to be “friends” while their parents are… Read More

Albus Potter starts his first year at Hogwarts and is sorted into Slytherin • Event Albus Potter, the second son of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley, boards the Hogwarts Express on Platform Nine and Three-quarters at King’s Cross to start his first year at Hogwarts School and, to everyone’s surprise, he is sorted into Slytherin House (CC1.2, CC1.3, CC1.4). Read More

Albus and Scorpius decide to save Cedric Diggory, and not return to Hogwarts • Event Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy board the Hogwarts Express at King’s Cross to start what should be their fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. However, Albus tells Scorpius about the confiscated Time-Turner the Department of Magical Law Enforcement found in Theodore Nott’s possession. Read More

Albus and Scorpius encounter the Trolley Witch on the roof of the Hogwarts Express • Event Scorpius Malfoy follows Albus Potter onto the roof of the Hogwarts Express. To their surprise (and alarm), the Food Trolley Witch appears and tries to keep them on the train. They jump off before she can capture them. The Trolley Witch tells them a little about her… Read More

Albus and Scorpius travel through the sink pipes from Moaning Myrtle's bathroom into the Lake • Event Albus Potter, with Scorpius Malfoy, enters Moaning Myrtle’s girls’ bathroom and demonstrates using the Engorgement Charm on a piece of soap. Myrtle appears in the sink and they tell her that they are planning to save Cedric Diggory. She reveals that the sink pipes in this… Read More

Anglesey • Islands Anglesey is an island off the west coast of Wales, almost due east across the Irish Sea from Dublin. It is one of the places the Knight Bus visited the first time Harry rode it (PA3) though the Knight Bus then moved abruptly to Aberdeen, on the other side… Read More

Annual Broom Race of Sweden • Sports and competitions The Annual Broom Race of Sweden is a dangerous 300-mile race between Kopparberg and Arjeplog, first run in the 900s, and which has since become a popular international event. The racers must travel through the dangerous dragon reservation that lies directly between the starting and ending points. The… Read More

Anti-Disapparation Jinx • Spells The Anti-Disapparation Jink prevents someone from Disapparating, or disappearing to magically travel somewhere else. Read More

Apparition • Spells Apparition is an advanced spell used by fully trained witches and wizards to disappear from one place and appear almost instantly somewhere else. A person who uses this spell is referred to as an Apparator. Apparition is typically cast non-verbally. No one can Apparate or Disapparate inside Hogwarts because of… Read More

First Apparition Lesson • Event Harry and the other sixth years take their first Apparition lesson, under watchful eye of the Ministry instructor, Wilkie Twycross. None of the students manage to Apparate in this first lesson, although Susan Bones does manage to Splinch herself (HBP18). The lessons will continue for twelve… Read More

Apparition lessons • Hogwarts academics Wizards who have come of age can take lessons in Apparition at Hogwarts (HBP17). Read More

Apparition Test Centre • Ministry of Magic A division of the Department of Magical Transportation, with responsibility for administering the Apparition Test to witches and wizards. Read More

Arbroath • Towns A town on the east coast of Scotland. Guthrie Lochrin flew a splintery broomstick from Montrose to Arbroath (a distance of approximately 13 miles) in 1107 (QA1).  … Read More

Arkie Alderton's Kwik-Repair Shop • Businesses, merchants, and shops All we know about this shop is that JKR would recommend it to a wizard whose Nimbus 2000 “has a terrible knack of veering left,” according to her online chat (BLC). Read More

Arthur's contact at the Floo Regulation Panel • Character Arthur Weasley’s contact at the Floo Regulation Panel was a Ministry of Magic employee who was involved with the Floo Regulation Panel. In the summer of 1994, he bent the Panel’s rule against connecting Muggle fireplaces to the Floo Network so that Arthur could collect Harry Potter from Privet Drive (… Read More

Ash • Wandmaking A wand wood also used to make other magical objects. Read More

Atlantic Ocean • Oceans and seas Just as with Muggles in aeroplanes, the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by broomstick was an important milestone for wizards, as the distance is too great for safely Apparating. Jocunda Sykes first accomplished this feat in 1935, riding an Oakshaft 79 (QA9). Isolt Sayre crossed the Atlantic in… Read More

Aviemore Train Station • Muggle places • Railway places Aviemore Train Station is a muggle location in Scottish Highlands, about 45 miles from Hogwarts, where Scorpius and Albus get sent back to in 1981 by Delphi. Read More