Wizarding Culture

Idris Oakby, founder of the S.S.S. (Society for the Support of Squibs), dies • Event Oakby’s charity organization helped squibs function in the Wizarding world, a world of which they could never fully be a part (JKR). Read More

Ilfracombe • Place A seaside resort town in Devon and the site of the famous Ilfracombe Incident of 1932, where a Common Welsh Green Dragon escaped and flew right over a beach filled with Muggles on holiday. Disaster was averted thanks to the quick-thinking Tilly Toke, who performed one of the largest Memory… Read More

Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry • Schools A wizarding school located in the state of Massachusetts in the United States (Pm)… Read More

Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is founded • Event Ilvermorny was started in the stone house on Mount Greylock in Massachusetts by witch Isolt Sayre and No-Maj James Steward as a way of educating their magical adopted boys Chadwick and Webster Boot (Pm). As word spread, they were soon joined by… Read More

Imagi(c)nation in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone • Article

Posted May 1, 2004 by Connie Ann Kirk in Canon discussion / Essays

There is a popular poster of Albert Einstein that appears on many faculty office walls on college campuses around the country. Underneath the well-known black and white image of the wild and white-haired physicist are printed the words, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” The full quotation from Einstein actually… Read More

Improper Use of Magic Office • Ministry of Magic The Improper Use of Magic Office is a division of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement in the Ministry of Magic. The office deals with incidents of magic being used inappropriately, particularly in cases where Muggles are involved. The offices are located on Level Two of Ministry headquarters (OP7). Read More

Indifference and Neglect • Quote “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike….”… Read More

Ingolfr the Iambic • Character Ingolfr the Iambic was a Norwegian poet who wrote a poem about Quidditch (QA8). Read More

fire talking — "initiated with Floo Powder" • Magical effects Effect: communication between fires Using Floo Powder in a fire connected to the Floo Network, a person can communicate with another over distance. The head of the person making contact appears in the midst of the flames and they can hold a conversation and even interact physically with the person… Read More

International Ban on Duelling • Rules and laws Percy Weasley hoped the Transylvanian wizards would sign on to the International Ban on Duelling, which seems to have been accepted by the Ministry of Magic in 1994 (GF23). Read More

International Confederation of Wizards (I.C.W.) • Organizations The International Confederation of Wizards (ICW) is a wizarding intergovernmental organisation, equivalent to the Muggle United Nations (JKR:Tw). Organisation The leader of the International Confederation of Wizards is called the Supreme Mugwump. The first Supreme Mugwump was Pierre Bonaccord (OP31). Other holders of the office were Albus… Read More

International Confederation of Wizards Quidditch Committee (I.C.W.Q.C.) • Organizations The International Confederation of Wizards Quidditch Committee (I.C.W.Q.C.) is an organisation which regulates Quidditch on an international level. The ICWQC was created after the International Statute of Secrecy was implemented in order to find suitable venues for the Quidditch World Cup to take place and to police the games. It… Read More

International Statute of Secrecy • Rules and laws The International Statute of Secrecy is a wizarding law which was instituted in 1689 (TBB/WHP) and put fully into effect in 1692 (JKR/W3) in order to hide the existence of witches and wizards from the Muggles who persecuted them. This law was at least in part a direct outcome of the… Read More

International Symposium of Animagi • Organizations A meeting of Animagi from around the world. Read More

International wizardry • Wizarding culture International wizardry covers the management of magic, Witches and Wizards worldwide. Meetings of the International Confederation of Wizards (ICW) take responsibility for overseeing this. Countries in the Wizarding world each have their own magical government system running side-by-side to the local Muggle government. Since the passage of the International Statute… Read More

Inverness • Place A city located on the eastern coast of Scotland, where the river Ness flows from Loch Ness into the North Sea, Inverness was the city over which the Banchory Bangers Quidditch team was apprehended by Ministry of Magic officials as they tried to fly off and capture a Hebridean Black… Read More

Invisibility Charm • Spells Spell to make a person or thing invisible.    … Read More

Invisibility Task-force • Ministry of Magic A group or division in the Ministry of Magic (DP1)… Read More

Iran • Place Iran is located in southern Asia, sandwiched between Iraq and Pakistan. It is a country where Quidditch has never caught on, because flying carpets are generally preferred to broomsticks for everyday transportation (QA8). Read More

Ireland • Place Ireland, though not officially a part of United Kingdom, is nevertheless closely associated with it – through geography if nothing else. It comes up repeatedly in the Harry Potter books, as wizarding children from Ireland attend Hogwarts, and cities in Ireland are part of the British and Irish Quidditch League. Read More

Islands • Place While on the run from Death Eaters, one of the places to which Harry and Hermione Apparated to spend the night was an island in the middle of a Scottish loch. While they slept here, snow half-buried their tent in the middle of the night (DH16). In addition to… Read More

Isle of Drear • Islands • Wizarding places The tiny island of Drear is located off the northernmost point of Scotland. Its sole inhabitants are the fierce Quintapeds (FB). The map, of course, shows only the approximate location of Drear, since it is Unplottable. Read More

Ivory Coast • Countries A country in Africa. Read More