• Glossary UFOs are “Unidentified Flying Objects”. Muggles do not realise that these are Quaffles (DP1). As reported in the Daily Prophet, a Ministry of Magic committee headed by Professor Phoebus Penrose drew attention to Muggles thinking that they are seeing the flying ships of alien beings in the sky, which… Read More
• Sports teams The Ugandan National Teams come from the African country of Uganda. At some point Uganda’s team included six players from the Patonga Proudsticks – a record number to come from one single team (QA8). During the qualifying rounds of the 1994 Quidditch World Cup, the Ugandan… Read More
• Games, toys, and jokes After the Weasley twins’ spectacular departure, droves of Umbridge’s Defense Against the Dark Arts students turned out to have been Skiving Snackbox customers, and would use them as soon as she appeared in class, claiming to be suffering from ‘Umbridge-itis’ regardless of the specific symptoms they’d developed (OP30). Read More
• Magical identities Underbeings are humanoid individuals who have magical ancestors but have no magical powers (CG). Read More
• Titles, nicknames, and honorifics The term “Undesirable Number One” is used for the most wanted criminal in wizarding society. Umbridge had a poster with Harry’s picture on it in her office at the Ministry labeled “Undesirable Number One” (DH13)… Read More
• Potion ingredients • Wandmaking Unicorn hair (usually referring to the strong, magical hairs of a unicorn’s tail) is a potion ingrediant and a wand core frequently used by Garrick Ollivander in his wands (PS5, PS15). Wands with unicorn hair cores are generally the most difficult to turn to the Dark Arts. A… Read More
• Potion ingredients Unicorn horn is an expensive and powerful potion ingredient (PS5, PS15, FB). A unicorn grows its horn at about four years of age (GF10). Read More
• Quidditch The United States Cup is a Quidditch tournament held in the United States. The Fitchburg Finches have won this cup seven times (QA8). Read More
• Sports teams The American (US) National Teams are from the United States of America, a North American country. Quidditch Quidditch was slow to catch on in the United States, where the game of Quodpot reigns supreme. However, it has been steadily gaining in popularity (QA8, Pm). The US team… Read More
• Broomsticks Universal Brooms Limited is the company that produced the Shooting Star broom. Operating from 1955 until going out of business in 1978, the Universal Broom company’s Shooting Star racing broom was inexpensive and extremely popular. Unfortunately, the broom’s initial good performance did not improve with age (QA9). Read More
• Glossary A lowly task involving the bathroom facilities at MACUSA, according to Queenie Goldstein who worked as a secretary (WFT). Read More