Creature magic

Otto Obermeier • Character Otto Obermeier is Liechtenstein’s Minister for Magic in 2014. He had to intervene when the Liechtenstein Quidditch team’s mascot, Hans the Augurey, was kidnapped during the 2014 Quidditch World Cup tournament by over-excited US fans. Obermeier and the President of MACUSA made joint statements after Hans… Read More

Obscurus Books • Businesses Wizarding publisher located at 18a Diagon Alley, London.  Their editor Augustus Worme commissioned the original edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander in 1918, which is now in its 52nd edition (FB). Read More

Occamy • Creature A beautiful, carnivorous creature native to India and the Far East, resembling a winged snake, but plumed, having two legs, and reaching up to fifteen feet in length. As occamy eggshells are formed from pure soft silver, the occamy’s reputation for aggression may be overstated, as most of its interaction with humans probably… Read More

Occamy eggs • Magical objects • Potion ingredients The pure silver eggshells are quite valuable and may be used as a potions ingredient. Read More

Oceania • Continents A geographic region of the South Pacific Ocean including the continent of Australia, the country of New Zealand, and surrounding islands such as Fiji and New Guinea. Read More

Winkus Oddpick • Character Winkus Oddpick was a writer on the Daily Prophet’s op-ed page (DP3). Oddpick wrote an editorial entitled “Why can’t goblins be more like elves?“, which appeared on p.32 of the Daily Prophet after the Chipping Clodbury riot (DP3). Read More

Olive Hornby • Character Olive Hornby was a Hogwarts student in the early 1940s. She teased Myrtle about her glasses, but regretted it later when Myrtle was killed and came back to haunt her (CS16). Read More

🎙️ OP6: Drawing Room Delights • Article

Posted April 28, 2018 by Steve VanderArk in Harry Potter Lexicon Minute

Let’s just take a moment to talk about the richness of Rowling’s imagination. In chapter six of Order of the Phoenix, we’re introduced to the weird and wonderful drawing room of number twelve Grimmauld Place, with it’s curtains filled with Doxies, the nest of dead Puffskeins… Read More

🎙️ Order of the Phoenix Chapter 2 - Kneazles • Article

Posted March 17, 2018 by Steve VanderArk in Canon discussion / Harry Potter Lexicon Minute

Mister Tibbles? Mrs Norris? Why do the animals owned by Squibs seem to have similar names? And particularly human-sounding names at that? In chapter two of Order of the Phoenix, we meet Mrs Figg properly for the first time. She’d turned up in book… Read More

New Orleans • Place American city in the state of Louisiana, located at the delta of the Mississippi River on the Gulf of Mexico. Read More

Ortiz O'Flaherty • Character Ortiz O’Flaherty was an American and the author of Bigfoot’s Last Stand, a book about the Great Sasquatch Rebellion of 1892 (Pm). Read More

I'd like to be an otter • Quote Q: If you were an Animagus, what kind of animal would you be? A: I’d like to be an otter – that’s my favourite animal. It would be depressing if I turned out to be a slug or something. Read More

Outback • Wilderness areas A vast expanse of desert in the interior of Australia. Read More

Owl Post • Communication Owl post — owls carrying letters and parcels — is one of the most common ways that wizards communicate with each other. Wizards either tie messages or parcels to owls’ legs or have the owls carry the parcel in their beaks. Considered by wizards to be “the normal way” of… Read More

Owls • Creature Owls in the wizarding world are regarded both as pets and as the primary method of communication. They are of course used to deliver letters and packages as part of owl post service, but to wizards they mean more than just that. On many occasions Harry thinks of Hedwig as… Read More