potter_words (potter_words) wrote in potterwords,
2007-02-11 21:09:00

Potterwords III

Welcome to the new and (hopefully) improved version of the list.

Notes:
  1. Most words are taken from the UK editions - if anyone has any additions or corrections (especially US versions of words), please let me know in a comment.

  2. The parts of names in square brackets are optional.
Generally, the use of capitals is increasing through the books (and in later editions).

All Harry Potter vocabulary was created by JK Rowling and is owned by her, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

Section listing (in the same order as the old list)
A to Z index



Section listing
Names
Verbs
Adjectives
The wizarding world
People
Light and Dark
Hogwarts
Shops and other businesses
Bureaucracy
Titles and awards
Wizarding Medicine
Miscellaneous magical institutions
Divination
Spells and their incantations
Books, newspapers and magazines
Potions
Miscellaneous magical substances
Food and drink
Miscellaneous magical objects
Magical transportation
Joke-shop products
Magical sports and games
Quidditch
Languages
Creatures, beings etc.
Ghosts and other spirits
Plants



Index
Academic journals
Adjectives
African Quidditch teams
American Quidditch teams
Animals
Apparition
Asian Quidditch teams
Australasian Quidditch teams
Awards and titles

Beauxbatons
Books
British Quidditch teams
Brooms
Bureaucracy
Businesses

Classification of magical objects/substances
Care of Magical Creatures
Clubs and other extracurricular activities at Hogwarts
Coins
Creatures, beings etc.
Creatures that Luna believes in

Dark and Light
Deathly Hallows
Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures
Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes
Department of Magical Games and Sports
Department of Magical Transportation
Department of Mysteries
Diseases
Divination
Drinks
Durmstrang

European Quidditch teams
Events at Hogwarts
Exams at Hogwarts
Extracurricular activities at Hogwarts

The Floo Network
Food
Fouls in Quidditch

Games
Ghosts

Harry's textbooks
Herbology
Hogwarts
Hogwarts: clubs and other extracurricular activities
Hogwarts: events
Hogwarts: exams
Hogwarts: houses
Hogwarts: paperwork
Hogwarts: places
Hogwarts: staff
Hogwarts: students

Incantations (for spells)
Institutions
International bodies
Irish Quidditch teams

Joke-shop products

Languages
Law
Leaflets
Light and Dark
Luna believes in...

Magazines
Magical Accidents and Catastrophes, Department of
Magical creatures
Magical Creatures, Department for the Regulation and Control of
Magical games and sports
Magical Games and Sports, Department of
Magical transportation
Magical Transportation, Department of
Medical jobs
Medicine
Ministries of Magic in other countries
Ministry of Magic (Britain)
Miscellaneous magical institutions
Miscellaneous magical objects
Miscellaneous magical substances
Money
Moves in Quidditch
Mysteries, Department of

Names
Newspapers

Pamphlets
Paperwork at Hogwarts
People
Places at Hogwarts
Plants
Players (Quidditch)
Portkeys
Potions
Publishers
Pubs

Quidditch
Quidditch balls
Quidditch fouls
Quidditch moves
Quidditch players
Quidditch teams

Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, Department for the

St Mungo's
Shops and other businesses
Special events at Hogwarts
Spells
Spirits
Sports
Staff of Hogwarts
Students at Hogwarts
Subjects taught at Hogwarts
Sweets

Textbooks
The Deathly Hallows
Titles and awards
Transport
Treatments for magical diseases

Verbs

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
The wizarding worldstatistics
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  • 27 comments

septentrion1970

May 10 2007, 17:17:47 UTC 6 years ago

Thank you for all the work you've put into this.

mrs_muggle

May 14 2007, 09:02:21 UTC 6 years ago

Glad you're finding it useful :)

kestrelsparhawk

May 10 2007, 20:25:22 UTC 6 years ago

Yes -- thanks, this is totally amazing. I've wandered here via your old list, recc'd today by a friend.

mrs_muggle

May 14 2007, 09:03:10 UTC 6 years ago

You're welcome :)

19crookshanks

July 17 2007, 07:50:03 UTC 5 years ago

Superb list! What about character names??? I've noticed that two names get misspelled quite often McGonagall and Pomfrey/Pomphrey...Riddle's middle name gets misspelled too as Marvalo when it should be Marvolo...or do you have these listed somewhere and I just didn't see it? This list is a great resource...thanks for taking the time to compile it...it must have been a royal pain!

mrs_muggle

August 6 2007, 16:05:36 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks :) I'm not planning to add names, other than noting the two versions of Ernie and Colin's surnames. For one thing, it'd be a huge list, if I included all the peripheral characters like the people on the Chocolate Frog cards, and for another, I'm not trying to copy the Lexicon, who, I think, have a full listing.

Sorry for the late reply - I've been away for a couple of weeks and was in full paranoid spoiler-avoiding mode for a while before that.

Anonymous

August 19 2007, 03:55:54 UTC 5 years ago

Names

I understand that you don't intend to add a list of names. But since so many fanfic authors use this resource (and why wouldn't they?) I wanted to add for their benefit that another name frequently misspelled is Finnigan. (I see Finnegan everywhere.)
Oh - and in DH, she changed veil to Veil, capping it for the first time.
Sigh.

C Dumbledore

mrs_muggle

5 years ago

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grey_hunter

September 16 2007, 06:56:52 UTC 5 years ago

Hi! Still love your list. Have two questions that have come up recently while trying to post a fic at an archive and arguing conversing about spelling with a moderator.

1) I always went by the (self-made) rule that a spell or potion's name must only be capitalised if it really is its name and not just a general reference to it based upon what it does. Like 'the L'oreal Hair-Dye Potion TM' vs. 'a hair-dye potion'. How right am I? Does 'a Hair-Dye Potion' need to be capitalised in this case?

2) If JKR uses italics with the names of the wizarding papers and books, does everyone have to write it like that? (Personally, I don't like putting things in italics except if it has a function, like emphasising a word or thoughts or things like that, so I'd rather not.)

potter_words

October 5 2007, 18:02:36 UTC 5 years ago

Hello again!

Sorry for the late reply - my computer died.

1) I'd be inclined to agree with you, but a quick flick through the books shows both versions (at least for love potions). I'll add this.

2) I wouldn't have said so, but I suppose it's up to individual fic archives to set their own rules about formatting.

grey_hunter

5 years ago

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wildcard_47

August 28 2008, 22:00:00 UTC 4 years ago

*waves hello*

Have you, by chance, researched into any of the wizarding "curse words" to see which ones are most popular in the books? I know we don't get many until OOTP, really, but I was writing a fic and was wondering if I had any other options for cursing besides "Merlin's pants" or "Salazar's socks", etc.

I wouldn't mind going the fanon route and making a few up, but I'd love to know what's out there in the 'verse before I put my mind to the task.

Any help on this would be really appreciated. You have done a fantastic job on cataloguing Potterwords thus far. I am so impressed!

mrs_muggle

September 22 2008, 19:31:06 UTC 4 years ago

Sorry for the very slow reply - real life is ridiculously busy at the moment and I'm not my checking fandom email very often.

I haven't actually counted them, although I know that Merlin's whatever (usually beard) is pretty popular. Otherwise, they just seem to use Muggle expressions (and those unspecified ones that make Hermione go, "Ron!"). Making them up seems like a good idea.

sayingsorry_hh

January 3 2009, 08:46:15 UTC 4 years ago

This is the most wonderfully helpful thing ever, especially for those concerned about keeping their fics British without British Harry Potter books at hand. Thank you!

potter_words

January 8 2009, 18:58:17 UTC 4 years ago

Thanks - I'm glad you're finding it useful.

alethiaxx

January 23 2009, 03:39:39 UTC 4 years ago

This is really great, thanks for all your work compiling these. I looked around and couldn't find it, but would you happen to know if "owl" is ever used as a verb?

mrs_muggle

October 18 2009, 16:48:42 UTC 3 years ago

No, it isn't.

shyfoxling

May 31 2009, 02:09:07 UTC 3 years ago

OMFG. And to think I was going to the trouble of compiling such a list myself. Marvelous!

bagerboy

June 7 2009, 07:36:14 UTC 3 years ago

This is an amazing resource. Thank you so much!

ms_figg

July 15 2009, 12:05:00 UTC 3 years ago

Fantastic

Oh, I just love this resource. Thank you so very much! Favoriting immediately!

theemdash

December 15 2009, 14:01:38 UTC 3 years ago

I just found this (fandom_grammar posted an answer to a question about wizard/muggle capitalization and someone linked us here) and this is EXACTLY the resource I need. The one thing I always forget is what's capitalized and what isn't and what's the official name of things so THANK YOU for having all this.

crrrrr

December 28 2009, 16:21:56 UTC 3 years ago

I'm also late to finding this, but again, it's wonderful. :)

awntheauthor

September 11 2010, 10:21:25 UTC 2 years ago

First off: thanks for your wonderful list! My beta reader at the time recommended it for information of school books four years ago, and I need to say I’m still hooked for spell-checking the names. This is much faster than browsing through the books. As a matter of fact, I just checked the list, researching, while typing a fic.

I must say, however, that I do have one addition, concerning the events on Hogwarts. Doesn’t McGonagall say ‘the Sorting Banquet’ in Philosopher’s Stone? I’m pretty sure she does, at least in my British paper-back edition—however, it seems like I have lost it. Still, I am quite sure it’s called ‘Sorting Banquet’ there. The term’s missing in Hogwarts: Events. Just a heads-up.

Thanks, again!

end1essly

January 22 2011, 01:01:18 UTC 2 years ago

Bookmarking, thanks so much! :D

sollardragon

May 31 2011, 20:58:27 UTC 1 year ago

names of characters

Would it be possible to get a listing that's actually what it means? You have a heading labeled name and another labeled people, unfortunately, neither one has any names in either one! I actually have to look up names in the books JK Rowling wrote in order to figure out how to write Kreachure because no where on this site does it say ANY thing about character names.

felidaeryl

October 30 2011, 08:46:31 UTC 1 year ago

Re: names of characters

The list-maintainer answered this earlier - it would be a supremely long list that is already available on the HP Lexicon. I'm pretty sure the right spelling is Kreacher.

felidaeryl

October 30 2011, 08:47:32 UTC 1 year ago

Adding my two-penneth to say another wow, this is incredible and thank you for all your work in creating and adding to this. I guess this is a dormant list now, but I'm glad it's still here for reference.