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Ottaline Gambol • Character Ottaline Gambol was Minister for Magic from 1827 to 1835. She was more appreciative of Muggles and their technology than many wizards of the time, and thus introduced the Hogwarts Express as the method of transport to Hogwarts (Pm). Read More

The game of Quodpot is created by American wizard Abraham Peasegood • Event Abraham Peasegood invented the game of Quodpot when a Quaffle came into contact with his wand when the items had been transported in his luggage from Britain. Peasegood took the Quaffle out to play Quidditch and the ball exploded (QA8). Read More

Games • Games, toys, and jokes • Sports and competitions Games and sports are integral to the life in the Wizarding World. Card games Chocolate Frog cards Exploding Snap Self-Shuffling playing cards Other wizard games Wizard Chess Gobstones Sports “When it comes to wizarding sports and games (Quidditch, Quodpot, Creaothceann – officially banned but still… Read More

Gamp family • Character The Gamp family is an illustrious Wizarding family. Members of this family include a famous political figure and a magical theoretician. While not appearing as one of the “Sacred Twenty-Eight,” the family evidently is primarily Pureblood, since one of their number married into the Black family. Notable Members of the… Read More

Gaspard Shingleton, wizarding inventor, is born • Event He goes on to invent the self-stirring cauldron (FW). Read More

General Counter Spell — "Finite Incantatem" • Spells The General Counter-Spell, Finite Incantatem, is an all-purpose spell which stops currently operating spell effects. Read More

The new generation comes to King's Cross to board the Hogwarts Express • Event Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione bring their children to Hogwarts Express and send the older ones off to school. Draco Malfoy is also there with his wife and son, and Teddy Lupin is also there, seeing off Victoire Weasley. Albus Severus Potter, Rose Weasley, and Scorpius Malfoy are all about to… Read More

Georgios Xenakis • Character Georgios Xenakis was a Referee at the Quidditch World Cup tournament in 2014 (Pm). Xenakis refereed the match between New Zealand and Bulgaria, where he made a call to send New Zealand Chaser Dennis Moon off after judging him to have caused a deliberate collision with a… Read More

Georgi Zdravko • Character Georgi Zdravko played Keeper for the Bulgarian National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Bulgarian fans were nervous about Zdravko’s ability to keep opposing Chasers from scoring goals at the Quidditch World Cup 2014 tournament (Pm). During the New Zealand game he let in 17 goals and there were only further… Read More

The German broom game Stichstock dies out • Event Stichstock was a competitive sport played with brooms and a dragon bladder (QA2). Read More

Germany National Team • Sports teams The national teams from the European country of Germany. Read More

GF8: The Quidditch World Cup • Source The spectators take their seats, Harry meets Winky (house elf for Barty Crouch), the Malfoys, and Mr. Oblansk (the Bulgarian Minister for Magic). The pre-game show features the Bulgarian and Irish team mascots, followed by the introductions of the team members, and the… Read More

GF9: The Dark Mark • Source Harry dreams about Quidditch, some wizards run amok, Ministry wizards attempt to stop them, and Harry, Ron and Hermione hide in the forest, encountering Draco Malfoy along the way. Harry discovers that he has lost his wand. they meet Ludo Bagman, hear noises in… Read More

Giant Chess Set • Magical objects One of the protections for the Philosopher’s Stone. Read More

Gladys Boothby • Character Gladys Boothby created the Moontrimmer racing broom in 1901, but was unable to keep up with commercial demand for it by Quidditch enthusiasts who wanted the broom’s new height-flying features (QA9). Read More

Gladys Boothby invents the Moontrimmer broom • Event The slender, ash-handled broom breaks the record for speed (QA9). Read More

"Glisseo" • Incantations Converts the target object into a smooth slide. Read More

Goals • Quidditch There are three goal posts at each end of a Quidditch pitch – fifty-foot high poles with hoops on them. Read More

Golden Time-Turner • Magical objects A device created for Lucius Malfoy in order to travel back in time longer than two hours, which was the limit for Ministry Time-Turners (CC4.4). Read More

Gonçalo Flores • Character Gonçalo Flores played Chaser for the Brazilian National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Read More

Arsenia Gonzales • Character Arsenia Gonzales was a Chaser for the United States National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Appearances Part of the team representing the United States in the 2014 Quidditch World Cup, Gonzales participated in the first round match against Jamaica (won by 240 points to 230)… Read More

Glynnis Griffiths • Character Glynnis Griffiths played Seeker for the Holyhead Harpies Quidditch team in 1953. Read More

Wilda Griffiths • Character Wilda Griffiths was a Chaser for the Puddlemere United Quidditch team during the 1990s. Considered to be an outstanding Chaser, Griffiths was lured away from the Holyhead Harpies by a huge fee, much to the chagrin of their talented but dangerous captain Gwenog Jones. She was also said to… Read More

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

Gripping Charm • Spells A Gripping Charm is a spell that allows the enchanted object to be held more easily. Read More

Stoyanka Grozda • Character Stoyanka Grozda was a Chaser on the Bulgarian National Team at the 2014 Quidditch World Cup. Read More

Gryffindor beat Ravenclaw while Harry and Hermione are in the Forbidden Forest • Event During the Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw Quidditch match, from which Harry Potter is banned from playing, he and Hermione Granger go with Hagrid deep into the Forbidden Forest to meet his giant half-brother Grawp (OP30). In spite of Slytherin supporters singing “Weasley is our… Read More

Gryffindor beats Ravenclaw despite attempts by the Slytherins to sabotage Harry • Event Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw in Harry Potter’s third year is the first Quidditch match where he is allowed to fly on his new Firebolt broom, which was given back to him only in time for one practice session with the team (PA13). It is a “must win” situation… Read More

During the Gryffindor vs Hufflepuff match, McLaggen injures Harry • Event Luna Lovegood provides the commentary for the fourth Quidditch match of the season. Although playing as Gryffindor’s Keeper, Cormac McLaggen grabs a Beater’s bat and cracks Harry’s skull, knocking him unconscious. While Harry is taken to the Hospital Wing, Hufflepuff win the match by… Read More

Gryffindor's Quidditch team lose to Hufflepuff with Ron Weasley as Keeper • Event With Harry and the Weasley twins under a “lifetime ban” from playing Quidditch, Angelina Johnson captains a Gryffindor team with replacements Ginny Weasley as Seeker, and Jack Sloper and Andrew Kirke as Beaters. She sticks with Ron Weasley as their Keeper, even though he seems… Read More

The Gryffindors and Slytherins have their first flying lesson during the second week of term • Event Madam Hooch teaches the first flying lesson to the first year Gryffindor and Slytherin students. Rose Granger-Weasley and Yann Fredericks both are immediately successful commanding their school brooms. Everyone else manages on the second try, including Scorpius Malfoy, but excluding Albus Potter (who is unable… Read More

Gryffindor win the Quidditch Cup after a difficult match against Slytherin • Event In this match, the Slytherin team members resort to dirty tactics to try and beat Gryffindor’s team in what is the last Quidditch match of the year. However, in spite of Slytherin’s efforts to foul and cheat, Harry Potter catches the Snitch and Gryffindor wins… Read More

Gryffindor wins the Quidditch Cup (1984) • Event It is the last time Gryffindor will win until 1993-94. We don’t know who wins the House Cup. Read More

Gryffindor wins the Quidditch Cup (1997) • Event The Gryffindor team, with Ginny Weasley as their Seeker and Ron Weasley in front of the goal hoops, won their final match against Ravenclaw by a margin of at least 300 points (needed in order to be that year’s Quidditch Cup winners). They won the Cup… Read More

Gunhilda Kneen misses out on a Kwidditch match because of a case of Dragon Pox • Event Goodwin Kneen of Yorkshire wrote a letter to his cousin Olaf in Norway describing their Kwidditch match against a team from Ilkley. His wife Gunhilda was to play Catcher but had to sit out the match due to her illness from Dragon Pox. Instead… Read More

Guthrie Lochrin of Scotland writes of the discomfort of riding broomsticks • Event The Scottish wizard described the pain resulting from a short flight on an early broomstick (QA1). Read More

Gwendolyn Morgan • Character Gwendolyn Morgan was a Quidditch player and the Captain of the Holyhead Harpies team in 1953. After her Seeker, Glynnis Griffiths, caught the Snitch to give them the victory in a hard-fought seven-day match, the captain of the Heidelberg Harriers, Rudolf Brand, proposed marriage immediately he landed on… Read More