Transfiguration

wandless magic • Magical discipline Wandless magic is the phrase used to describe the phenomenon of magic being performed without a wand. Read More

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes • Businesses, merchants, and shops Fred and George Weasley worked for several years to develop a line of comic magic items which they hoped to sell through their company, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. They were putting together order forms during the summer of 1994 with the hope of selling the items at school, but their mother… Read More

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes Certified Nose-Stealing Breath • Games, toys, and jokes Ron’s “lame trick” to breath on someone’s nose and make it disappear (CC1.2). Read More

Werewolves • Creature A werewolf is a human who has been infected with lycanthropy and who changes into a dangerous wolf form when the moon is full. The werewolf is a most unusual creature in that it doesn’t technically exist except for a brief period of time around the full moon. At any… Read More

Dempster Wiggleswade • Character Dempster Wiggleswade was an employee of the Ministry of Magic in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and one of a team of experts answering reader questions for the Daily Prophet‘s problem page (DP3)… Read More

wildebeest • Creature Either of two species – the black wildebeest and the blue wildebeest – of large antelopes, each of which has long shaggy heads, hooked horns, and long tails (NSOED). Read More

The witch Circe encounters Odysseus on her island of Aeaea • Event She transfigures half his men into pigs, but according to legend, changes them back when Odysseus promises to give her his love. He stays on Aeaea for a year. Read More

Woolworth Building • Buildings • Wizarding places After the Great Sasquatch Rebellion of 1892, MACUSA was relocated to New York (Pm:History of Magic in North America). When the Woolworth Building was being built between 1910-1912, the construction site was infiltrated by wizards who concealed a secret space for their use that could be opened using spells. Thus… Read More

Wormtail • Character Wormtail was the servant of Voldemort who found him in Albania and helped bring about the Dark Lord’s rebirth and return to power. While at Hogwarts, Peter Pettigrew first used the nickname “Wormtail” when, with the help of Sirius Black and James Potter, he learned to become an Animagus (a rat)… Read More