Harry's Birthday Presents
~ Pocket Sneakoscope from Ron, purchased whilst on holiday in Egypt. If there is someone untrustworthy around, it's supposed to light up and spin.
~ Broomstick Servicing Kit from Hermione. This kit consist of:
- A large jar of Fleetwood's High Finish Handle Polish
- A pair of gleaming silver Tail-Twig Clippers
- A tiny brass compass to clip onto your broom for long journeys
- A handbook of do-it-yourself broom care
~ The Monster Book of Monsters from Hagrid.
Letter from Hogwarts
Dear Mr Potter,
Please note that the new school year will begin on September the first.
The Hogwarts Express will leave from King’s Cross Station, platform nine and three- quarters, at eleven o’clock.
Third- years are permitted to visit the village of Hogsmeade at certain weekends. Please give the enclosed permission form to your parent or
guardian to sign.
A list of books for next year is enclosed.
Yours sincerely,
Professor M. McGonagall
Deputy Head mistress
Knight Bus
Emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you any where you want to go.
Conductor: Stan Shunpike.
Driver: Ernie Prang.
Quality Quidditch Supplies
Harry's favourite shop.
THE FIRE BOLT
This state of the art racing broom sports a stream lined, superfine handle of ash, treated with a diamond hard polish and hand numbered with its own registration number.
Each individually selected birch twig in the broom tail
has been honed to aero dynamic perfection, giving the Fire bolt unsurpassable balance and pinpoint precision.
The Fire bolt has an acceleration of 0 - 150 miles an hour in ten seconds and in corporates an unbreakable braking charm.
Price on request.
Harry purchases school supplies at Diagon Alley
~ The Apothecary to replenish his store of potions’ ingredients.
~ Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions for new school robes.
~ New school books from Flourish and Blotts:
- Unfogging the Future by Cassandra Vablatsky (Divination)
- Intermediate Transfiguration
- The Standard Book of Spells, Grade Three
Ron's new wand
Fourteen inches, willow, containing one unicorn
tail hair.
Azkaban
A prison for wizards.
The fortress is set on a tiny island, way out to sea, but they don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re all trapped in side
their own heads, in capable of a single cheerful thought. Most of them go mad with in weeks.
Dementors
The Guardians of Azkaban.
Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they
drain peace, hope and happiness out of the air around them.
Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can’t see them. Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory, will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like it self – soulless and evil. You’ll be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life.
Temporary remedy against Dementors: eating chocolate.
Divination
Taught by Sybill Trelawney in the North Tower.
The classroom looked like a cross between someone’s attic and an old fashioned teashop.
At least twenty small, circular tables were crammed inside it, all surrounded by chintz arm chairs and fat little pouffes. Every thing was lit with a dim, crimson light; the curtains at the windows were all closed, and the many lamps were draped with dark red
scarves.
It was stiflingly warm, and the fire which was burning under the crowded mantelpiece was giving off a heavy, sickly sort of perfume as it heated a large, copper kettle.
The shelves running around the circular walls were crammed with dusty looking feathers, stubs of candles, many packs of tattered playing cards, countless silvery crystal balls and a huge array of
teacups.
The basic methods of Divination to be taught this year:
- First term: reading the tea leaves
- Next term: palmistry
- Summer term: the crystal ball
Re-cap of Quidditch
There were seven people on a Quidditch team:
- Three Chasers, whose job it was to score goals by putting the Quaffle (a red, foot ball- sized ball) through one of the fifty- foot- high hoops at each end of the pitch.
- Two Beaters, who were equipped with heavy bats to repel the Bludgers (two heavy black balls which zoomed around trying to attack the players).
- A Keeper, who dedended the goal posts.
- The Seeker, who had the hard est job of all, that of catching the Golden Snitch, (a tiny, winged, wal nut- sized ball) whose capture ended the game and earned the Seeker’s team an extra one hundred and fifty points.
Third year password for Gryffindor Common Room
Fortuna Major
Dumbledore's stance
No Dementor will cross the threshold of this castle while I am Headmaster.
Christmas approaches
Two weeks before the end of term, the sky lightened suddenly to a dazzling, opaline white and the muddy grounds were revealed one morning covered in glittering frost.
In side the castle, there was a buzz of Christmas
in the air. Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, had already decorated his classroom with shimmering lights that turned out to be real, fluttering fairies.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the castle, the usual magnificent Christmas decorations had been put up. Thick streamers of holly and mistletoe were strung
along the corridors, mysterious lights shone from in side every suit of armour and the Great Hall was filled with its usual twelve Christmas trees, glittering with golden stars. A powerful and delicious smell of cooking pervaded the corridors.
The Merauders Map
To activate the map, touch the parchment lightly with your wand and say: "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good."
Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief Makers are proud to present:
THE MARAUDER’S MAP
It was a map showing every detail of the Hogwarts castle and grounds.
But the truly remarkable thing was the tiny ink dots moving around it, each labelled with a name in minuscule writing. (Tracking the whereabouts of certain people, such as, Professor Dumbledore, Mrs Norris (the caretaker's cat) and Peeves the Poltergeist.
This map also showed a set of passages with seven of those leading right into Hogsmeade.
Remember to wipe it after you’ve used it or anyone can read it. Just tap it again with your wand and say: "Mischief managed!" and it’ll go blank.
Honeydukes
A sweet shop in Hogsmeade.
Inside the shop, there were shelves upon shelves of the most succulent looking sweets imaginable:
- Creamy chunks of nougat
- Shimmering pink squares of coconut ice
- Fat honey coloured toffees
- Hundreds of different kinds of chocolate in neat rows
- There was a large barrel of Every Flavour Beans, and another of Fizzing Whizzbees (levitating sherbert balls).
Along yet another wall were ‘Special Effects’ sweets:
- Droobles Best Blowing Gum (which filled a room with blue bell coloured bubbles that refused to pop for days)
- The strange, splintery Toothflossing String mints
- Tiny black Pepper Imps (breathe fire for your friends!)
- Ice Mice (hear your teeth chatter and squeak!)
- Peppermint creams shaped like toads (hops realistically in the stomach!)
- Fragile sugar spun quills and exploding bonbons.
In the furthest corner of the shop were 'Unusual Tastes’:
- A tray of blood flavoured lollipops
- Cockroach Cluster
BY ORDER OF THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC
Customers are reminded that until further notice, Dementors will be patrolling the streets of Hogsmeade every night aftersun down. This measure has been put in place for the safety of Hogsmeade residents and will be lifted upon the recapture of Sirius Black. It is therefore advisable that you complete your shopping well before night fall.
Merry Christmas!
The Three Broomsticks Inn
A tiny, extremely crowded, noisy, warm and smoky inn owned by Madam Rosmerta at Hogsmeade that serves foaming tankards of hot Butterbeer, a popular wizarding beverage.
What the teachers and the Minister for Magic ordered:
- A small Gillywater for Professor McGonagall
- Four pints of mulled mead for Hagrid
- A cherry syrup and soda with ice and umbrella for Professor Flitwick
- A redcurrant rum for Cornelius Fudge
Christmas Morning
Presents for Harry:
- A scarlet jumper with the Gryffindor lion knitted on the front, also a dozen home baked mince pies, some Christmas cake and a box of nut brittle from Mrs Weaseley.
- A Firebolt broomstick, magnificent and gleaming.
~ The Patronus Charm.
It conjures up a Patronus which is a kind of Anti Dementor - a guardian which acts as a shield be‐
tween you and the Dementor.
The Patronus is a kind of positive force, a projection of the very things that the Dementor feeds upon – hope, happiness, the desire to survive – but it can not feel despair, as real humans can, so the Dementors can’t hurt it.
Each Patronus is unique to the wizard who conjures it. You conjure a Patronus with the incantation: "expecto patronum!" which will work only if you are concentrating, with all your might, on a single, very happy memory.
Cho Chang
A fourth year Ravenclaw Quidditch Seeker who rides a Comet Two Sixty broomstick.
Animagus Registry
There were only seven known registered Animagi in the 20th Century. One of which includes Professor Minerva McGonagall.
Unregistered Animagi: Sirius Black, James Potter, Peter Pettigrew.
Plot Twists!
Sirius Black was best friends with James Potter and is also Harry's Godfather.
Professor Remus Lupin was bitten by a werewolf when he was a child and became infected with lycanthropy. Professor Snape had been brewing Wolfsbane potions to help Lupin ease his symptoms and have control over his mental faculties after transforming.
The Weasley pet rat 'Scabbers' was actually Peter Pettigrew in his animagus form and had stayed hidden for 12 years after betraying Lily and James Potter as well as causing an explosion that killed 12 muggles and framing Sirius Black for everything!
Owl Post from Sirius
Dear Harry,
I hope this finds you before you reach your aunt and uncle. I don’t know whether they’re used to owl post.
Buckbeak and I are in hiding. I won’t tell you where, in case this falls in to the wrong hands. I have some doubt about the owl’s reliability, but he is the best I could find, and he did seem eager for the job.
I believe the Demen tors are still searching for me, but they haven’t a hope of finding me here. I am planning to allow some Muggles to glimpse
me soon, a long way from Hogwarts, so that the security on the castle will be lifted.
There is some thing I never got round to telling you during our brief meet ing. It was I who sent you the Fire bolt - Crookshanks took the order to the Owl Office for me. I used your name but told them to take the gold from Gringotts vault number seven hundred
and eleven – my own. Please consider it as thirteen birthdays’ worth of presents from your god father.
I would also like to apologise for the fright I think I gave you, that night last year when you left your uncle’s house. I had only hoped to get a glimpse of you before starting my journey north, but I think the sight of me alarmed you.
I am enclosing something else for you, which I think will make your next year at Hogwarts more enjoyable.
If ever you need me, send word. Your owl will find me.
I’ll write again soon.
Sirius
P.S. I thought your friend Ron might like to keep this owl, as it’s my fault he no longer has a rat.
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I, Sirius Black, Harry Potter’s god father, hereby give him permission to visit Hogsmeade at weekends.
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GLOSSARY
Neville Longbottom
Harry's alias on the Knight Bus.
Cornelius Fudge
The Minister for Magic.
Gobstones
A wizarding game rather like marbles, in which the stones squirted a nasty smelling liquid into the other player’s face when they lost a point.
Hippogriff
Half horse, half bird.
Boggart
A shape shifter. It can take the shape of whatever it
thinks will frighten us most.
Riddikulus
The charm that repels a Boggart by forcing it to assume a shape that you find amusing. Laughter really finishes a Boggart.
Red Caps
Nasty little goblin- like creatures that lurked wherever there had been blood shed waiting to bludgeon those who had got lost.
Kappas
Creepy water dwellers that looked like scaly monkeys, with webbed hands itching to strangle unwitting waders in their ponds.
Grindylow
Water demon.
Hinkypunk
A little one-legged creature who seemed as though he was made of wisps of smoke, rather frail and harmless looking and yet lures travellers in to bogs.
Hogsmeade Village
The only entirely non-Muggle/all-wizarding settlement in Britain. Only third year students and older are permitted to visit Hogsmeade at certain weekends providing they have signed consent from their parents/guardians.
Dissendium
A charm used to open the One-Eyed Witch Passage in the third corridor at Hogwarts castle. This incantation could also be used to open secret passageways in general.
Fidelius Charm
An immensely complex spell involving the magical concealment of a secret inside a single, living soul.
The information is hidden inside the chosen person, or Secret Keeper, and is hence forth impossible to find - unless, of course, the Secret Keeper chooses to divulge it. As long as the Secret Keeper refused to speak, the secret is safe.
Animagus
A witch or wizard who could transform themselves into an animal and back again at will without the use of a wand.
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Information derived from the third Harry Potter book: The Prisoner of Azkaban
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