19 Years Later...

Harry and Ginny's children

~ James Potter (Gryffindor)

~ Albus Severus Potter (Slytherin)

~ Lily Potter (Gryffindor)

Hermione and Ron's children 

Rose Granger-Weasley (Gryffindor)

Hugo Granger-Weasley

Snacks and confectionaries

Pumpkin Pasty

Chocolate Frog

Cauldron Cake

Fizzing Whizbees

Shock-o-Choc

Pepper Imps

Jelly Slugs

Draco and the late Astoria Malfoy's son

Scorpius Malfoy

Sorting Hat Songs

I’ve done this job for centuries

On every student’s head I’ve sat

Of thoughts I take inventories

For I’m the famous Sorting Hat

I’ve sorted high, I’ve sorted low,

I’ve done the job through thick and thin

So put me on and you will know

Which House you should be in . . .

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Are you afraid of what you’ll hear?

Afraid I’ll speak the name you fear?

Not Slytherin! Not Gryffindor!

Not Hufflepuff! Not Ravenclaw!

Don’t worry, child, I know my job,

You’ll learn to laugh, if first you sob.

Careers

Harry: Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

Hermione: Minister for Magic.

Ron: Was an Auror at the Ministry but is now co-Proprietor of Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes.

Ginny: Edits the sports pages of the Daily Prophet.

Pre-Hogwarts gifts from uncle Ron

~ James: a comb that made his hair turn a shade of pink.

~ Albus: love potion.

~ Lily: farting gnomes.

Pre-Hogwarts gifts from Harry

~ James: the Invisibility Cloak.

~ Albus: the blanket Harry was wrapped in as a baby (saved by his aunt Petunia).

~ Lily: fairy wings.

Some of the books from the Restricted Section 

• Magick Moste Evile 
• Fifteenth-Century Fiends
• Sonnets of a Sorcerer
• Shadows and Spirits. The Nightshade Guide to Necromancy.
• The True History of the Opal Fire. 
• The Imperius Curse and How to Abuse It.
• My Eyes and How to See Past Them by Sybill Trelawney. 

Information taken from the play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'

Lily & James' Son - Part IV

Harry's letter to Sirius

Dear Sirius,

Thanks for your last letter. That bird was enormous; it could hardly get through my window. 

Things are the same as usual here. Dudley's diet

isn't going too well. My aunt found him smuggling doughnuts into his room yesterday.

They told him they'd have to cut his pocket money if he keeps doing it, so he got really angry and chucked his PlayStation out of the window. That's a sort of computer thing you can play games on. Bit stupid really, now he hasn't even got Mega Mutilation Part Three to take his mind off things.

I'm okay, mainly be cause the Dursleys are terrified you might turn up and turn them all into bats if I ask you to.

A weird thing happened this morning, though. My scar hurt again.

Last time that happened it was be cause Voldemort was at Hogwarts. But I don't reckon he can be any where near me now, can he? Do you know if curse scars sometimes hurt years afterward?

I'll send this with Hedwig when she gets back; she's off hunting at he moment. Say hello to Buckbeak for me.

Harry

Harry's plea for non-diet food is answered

~ A large box stuffed full of sugar-free snacks from Hermione's house. 

~ A sack full of Hagrid's own homemade rock cakes 

~ An enormous fruit cake and assorted meat pies from Mrs Weasley. 

~ Four superb birthday cakes, one each from Ron, Hermione, Hagrid and Sirius. 

The Invitation sent via Muggle post

Dear Mr and Mrs Dursley,

We have never been introduced, but I am sure you have heard a great deal from Harry about my son Ron.

As Harry might have told you, the final of the Quidditch World Cup takes place this Monday night, and my husband, Arthur, has just managed to get prime tickets through his connections at the Department of Magical Games and Sports.

I do hope you will allow us to take Harry to the match, as this really is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; Britain hasn't hosted the cup for thirty

years, and tickets are extremely hard to come by. 

We would of course be glad to have Harry stay for the remainder of the summer holidays, and to see him safely onto the train back to school.

It would be best for Harry to send us your answer as quickly as possible in the normal way, because the Muggle postman has never delivered to our house, and I am not sure he even knows where it is.

Hoping to see Harry soon.

 

Yours sincerely,

Molly Weasley

P.S. I do hope we've put enough stamps on.

Owl Post 

Harry - DAD GOT THE TICKETS - Ireland versus Bulgaria, Monday night. 

Mum's writing to the Muggles to ask you to stay. They might already have the letter, I don't know how fast Muggle post is. Thought I'd send this

with Pig anyway.

We're coming for you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and Dad reckon it's better if we pretend to ask their permission first. If they say yes, send Pig back with your answer pronto, and we'll come and get you at five o'clock on Sunday. If they say

no, send Pig back pronto and we'll come and get you at five o'clock on Sunday any way.

Hermione's arriving this afternoon. Percy's started work - the Department of International Magical Cooperation. Don't mention anything

about Abroad while you're here unless you want the pants bored off you.

See you soon -

Ron

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Ron, it's all okay, the Muggles say I can come. See you five o'clock tomorrow. Can't wait.

Harry

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(Postscript to Sirius)

If you want to contact me, I'll be at my friend Ron Weasley's for the rest of the summer. His dad's got us tickets for the Quidditch World Cup!

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Harry's Most Prized Possessions

~ The Invisibility Cloak he had inherited from his father.

~ The broom stick he had gotten from Sirius.

~ The enchanted map of Hogwarts he had been given by Fred and George Weasley last year.

Advertisements at the Quidditch World Cup

~ The Bluebottle: A Broom for All the Family - safe, reliable, and with Built-in Anti-Burgler Buzzer.

~ Mrs Shower's All Purpose Magical Mess Remover: No Pain, No Stain! 

~ Gladrags Wizardwear - London, Paris, Hogsmeade.

Harry's items for a new school year

~ The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 4, by Miranda

Goshawk.

~ A handful of new quills

~ A dozen rolls of parchment

~ Refills for potion-making kit: spine of lionfish and essence of belladonna.

~ Dress robes for formal occasions.

New Sorting Hat Song

A thousand years or more ago,

When I was newly sewn,

There lived four wizards of renown,

Whose names are still well known:

Bold Gryffindor, from wild moor,

Fair Ravenclaw, from glen,

Sweet Hufflepuff, from valley broad,

Shrewd Slytherin, from fin.

They shared a wish, a hope, a dream,

They hatched a darung plan

To educate young sorcerers

Thus Hogwarts School began.

Now each of these four founders

Formed their own house, for each

Did value different virtues

In the ones they had to teach.

By Gryffindor, the bravest were

Prized far beyond the rest;

For Ravenclaw, the cleverest

Would always be the best;

For Hufflepuff, hard workers were

Most worthy of admission;

And power-hungry Slytherin

Loved those of great ambition.

While still alive they did divide

Their favourites from the throng,

Yet how to pick the worthy ones

When they were dead and gone?

Twas Gryffindor who found the way,

He whipped me off his head

The founders put some brains in me

So I could choose instead!

Now slip me snug about your ears,

I've never yet been wrong,

I'll have a look inside your mind

And tell where you belong!

Mr Filch's list of objects forbidden inside the castle

The full list comprises some four hundred and thirty- seven items including: Screaming Yo-Yos, Fanged Frisbees, and Ever-Bashing Boomerangs. 

Triwizard Tournament

The Triwizard Tournament was first established some seven hundred years ago as a friendly competition between the three largest European schools of wizardry: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang. 

A champion was selected to represent each school, and the three champions competed in three magical tasks. The schools took it in turns to host the tournament once every five years, and it was generally agreed to be a most excellent way of establishing ties between young witches and wizards of different nationalities - until, that is, the death toll mounted so high that the tournament was discontinued. 

There have been several attempts over the centuries to reinstate the tournament, none of which has been very successful. However, our own departments of International Magical Cooperation and Magical Games and Sports have decided the time is ripe for another attempt. 

We have worked hard over the summer to ensure that this time, no champion will find himself or herself in mortal danger.

The heads of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will be arriving with their shortlisted contenders in October, and the selection of the three champions will take place at Halloween. 

An impartial judge will decide which students are most worthy to compete for the Triwizard Cup, the glory of their school, and a thousand Galleons personal prize money.

Eager though I know all of you will be to bring the Triwizard Cup to Hog warts, the heads of the participating schools, along with the Ministry of Magic, have agreed to impose an age restriction on contenders this year. Only students who are of age - that is to say, seventeen years or older - will be allowed to put forward their names for consideration. 

This is a measure we feel is necessary, given that the tournament tasks will still be difficult and dangerous, whatever precautions we take, and it is highly unlikely that students below sixth and seventh year

will be able to cope with them. I will personally be ensuring that no underage student hoodwinks our impartial judge in to making them Hogwarts

champion.

I therefore beg you not to waste your time submitting yourself if you are under seventeen.

Password to Gryffindor Tower

Balderdash

Curses most heavily punished by wizarding law

~ Imperius Curse

~ Cruciatus Curse

~ Avada Kedavra / the Killing Curse

The Unforgivable Curses. The use of any one of them on a fellow human being is enough to earn a life sentence in Azkaban.

You need to practice constant never ceasing vigilance.

More Owl Post

Harry 

I'm flying north immediately. This news about your scar is the latest in a series of strange rumours that have reached me here. If it hurts again, go straight to Dumbledore - they're saying he's got Mad-Eye out of retirement, which means he's reading the signs, even if no one else is.

I'll be in touch soon. My best to Ron and Hermione. Keep your eyes open, Harry.

Sirius

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Dear Sirius,

I reckon I just imagined my scar hurting, I was half asleep when I wrote to you last time. There's no point coming back, everything's fine here.

Don't worry about me, my head feels completely normal.

Harry

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Nice try, Harry.

 I'm back in the country and well hidden. I want you to keep me posted on everything that's going on at Hogwarts. Don't use Hedwig, keep

changing owls, and don't worry about me, just watch out for your self . Don't forget what I said about your scar.

Sirius

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The Weighing of the Wands

Fleur Delacour: nine and a half inches. Inflexible. Rosewood and containing a single hair from a veela (Fleur's grandmother).

Cedric Diggory: containing a single hair from the tail of a particularly fine male unicorn. Twelve and a quarter inches. Ash. Pleasantly springy.

It's in fine condition.

Viktor Plum: a Gregorovitch creation. Hornbeam and dragon heartstring. Rather thick and quite rigid. Ten and a quarter inches.

Harry Potter: Holly. Eleven inches long, and

contained a single feather from the tail of a phoenix.

The First Task (24 November)

Retrieve a golden egg from your allocated fire-breathing dragon.

The Yule Ball is approaching

A traditional part of the Triwizard Tournament and an opportunity for Hogwarts to socialize with the other schools.

The ball will be open only to fourth years and above - although you may invite a younger student if you wish.

Dress robes will be worn.

The ball will start at eight o'clock on Christmas Day, finishing at midnight in the Great Hall.

The Yule Ball is of course a chance for us all to let our hair down, but that does NOT mean that

we will be relaxing the standards of behaviour we expect from Hogwarts students.

The castle at its best this Christmas

Everlasting icicles had been attached to the banisters of the marble staircase.

The usual twelve Christmastrees in the Great Hall were be decked with everything from luminous holly berries to real hooting golden owls.

The suits of armour had all been bewitched to sing carols whenever anyone passed them.

Harry's Christmas Presents

~ Hand knitted socks from Dobby: the left sock was bright red and had a pattern of broomsticks upon

it and the right sock was green with a pattern of Snitches.

~ A single tissue from the Dursleys.

~ A book called Quidditch Teams of Britain and Ireand from Hermione

~ A bulging bag of Dungbombs from Ron

~ A handy penknife with attachments to unlock any lock and undo any knot from Sirius

~ A vast box of sweets from Hagrid. These include all Harry's favourites: Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Chocolate Frogs, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, and Fizzing Whizbees. 

~ A new jumper (green, with a picture of a dragon on it) and a large quantity of homemade mince pies from Mrs Weasley.

Prefect's Bathroom

Password: pine fresh.

It was softly lit by a splendid candle-filled chandelier.

Everything was made of white marble, including

what looked like an empty, rectangular swimming pool sunk into the middle of the floor. 

About a hundred golden taps stood all around the pools edges, each with a differently coloured Jewel set into its handle. There was also a diving board. 

Long white linen curtains hung at the windows.

A large pile of fluffy white towels sat in a corner. 

There was a single golden-framed painting on the wall. It featured a blonde mermaid who was fast asleep on a rock, her long hair over her face. It fluttered everytime she snored.

The Second Task (24 February)

Champions have precisely one hour to recover what has been taken from them.

Come seek us where our voices sound,

We can not sing above the ground,

And while you researching, ponder this:

Wove taken what you'll sorely miss,

An hour long you'll have to look,

And to recover what we took,

But past an hour-- the prospect's black,

Too late, it's gone, it won't come back.

The Third Task (24 June)

Get through the obstacles in the maze and touch the Triwizard Cup located in the centre. Obstacles may come in the form of creatures and spells that need breaking.

Plot Twists!

Barty Crouch Junior (a loyal Death Eater) disguised himself as Mad Eye Moody by drinking Polyjuice potion. It was under this disguise that he entered Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire.

 

Rita Skeeter was an unregistered Animagus and spied around Hogwarts as a beetle.

GLOSSARY

Omnioculars 

You can replay action; slow everything down; and they flash up a play-by-play breakdown if you need it.

Death Eaters

Supporters of Voldemort.

Portkey

An inanimate everyday object that is enchanted to transport anyone who grasped it to a pre-arranged destination. Particularly useful for those who cannot apparate at will; those who wish to travel in daylight (which means broomsticks etc would be inappropriate) or whose destination had no fireplace.

 

Bubotuber pus

An excellent remedy for the more stubborn forms of acne. Wear dragon-hide gloves when handling the undiluted form.

Rita Skeeter

Special Correspondent for the Daily Prophet.

S.P.E.W.

The Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare.

Manifesto: Stop the Outrageous Abuse of Our Fellow Magical Creatures and Campaign for a Change in Their Legal Status.

Veela

Semi-human, magical creatures most alluring in their human form. When angry, their appearance transforms into harpy-like creatures.

Gillyweed

Eating this helps you breathe in water.

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Information derived from the fourth Harry Potter book: The Goblet of Fire

Lily & James' Son Part III

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.

Anti Dementor Lessons with Professor Lupin

~ 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

Lily and James' Son - Part II

Interesting Facts

Underage wizards weren't allowed to use magic outside of school.

House elves are only allowed to use magic with permission from their master.

Mr Weasley (Ron's father) works in The Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office at the Ministry of Magic. This involves regulating the use of magic in Muggle-made things and ensuring that bewitched items do not end up back in a Muggle shop or house.

Letter from Ministry of Magic

Dear Mr. Potter,

We have received intelligence that a Hover Charm was used at your place of residence this evening at twelve minutes past nine.

As you know, underage wizards are not permitted to perform spells outside school, and further spellwork on your part may lead to

expulsion from said school (Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery, 1875, Paragraph C).

We would also ask you to remember that any magical activity that risks notice by members of the non-magical community (Muggles) is

a serious offense under section 13 of the International Confederation of Warlocks' Statute of Secrecy.

Enjoy your holidays! 

Yours sincerely,

Mafalda Hopkirk

IMPROPER USE OF MAGIC OFFICE

Ministry of Magic

Mr Arthur Weasley and Mrs Molly Weasley's Wizard Household at THE BuRRow, Ottery St Catchpole

The Weasleys' house burst with the strange and unexpected. 

There was a clanking ghoul in the attic and a talking mirror over the mantelpiece.

The Kitchen

Scrubbed wooden table and chairs in the middle.

The clock on the wall opposite had only one hand and no numbers at all. Written around the edge were things like Time to make tea, Time to feed the chickens, and You're late. 

Books were stacked three deep on the mantelpiece, books with titles like Charm Your Own Cheese,

Enchantment in Baking, and One Minute Feasts - It's Magic! 

The old radio next to the sink had just announced that coming up was "Witching Hour, with the popular

singing sorceress, Celestina Warbeck."

Children

Bill 

Charlie

Percy

Fred and George (twins)

Ron

Ginny

Ronald's Room

Nearly every inch of the shabby wallpaper was covered with posters of Ron's favourite Quidditch team 'The Chudley Cannons' who were ninth in the league.

 

He had an orange bedspread, which was emblazoned with two giant black C's and a speeding cannon ball.

Ron's school spellbooks were stacked untidily in a corner, next to a pile of comics that all seemed to feature The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle.

Ron's magic wand was lying on top of a fish

tank full of frog spawn on the windowsill, next to his fat gray rat, Scabbers, who was snoozing in a patch of sun.

On the floor was a pack of Self-Shuffling playing cards.

List of New Books for the Second Year

SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS WILL REQUIRE:

• The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2 by Miranda Goshawk
• Break with a Banshee by Gilderoy Lockhart
• Gadding with Ghouls by Gilderoy Lockhart
• Holidays with Hags by Gilderoy Lockhart
• Travels with Trolls by Gilderoy Lockhart
• Voyages with Vampires by Gilderoy Lockhart
• Wanderings with Werewolves by Gilderoy Lockhart
• Year with the Yeti by Gilderoy Lockhart

Password to Enter Gryffindor Tower

Wattlebird

Pig snout (first year)

First breakfast of the New Term

The four long house tables were laden with tureens of porridge, plates of kippers, mountains of toast, and dishes of eggs and bacon.

New teacher of Defence Against the Dark Arts

Gilderoy Lockhart

Order of Merlin, Third Class, Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and five-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most-Charming-Smile Award.

His secret ambition is to rid the world of evil and market his own range of hair-care potions.

Dumbledore's Office

It was a large and beautiful circular room, full of funny little noises. A number of curious silver instruments stood on spindlelegged tables,

whirring and emitting little puffs of smoke. 

The walls were covered with portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses, all of whom

were snoozing gently in their frames. 

There was also an enormous, claw-footed desk, and, sitting on a shelf behind it, a shabby, tattered wizard's hat - the Sorting Hat.

Christmas at Hogwarts

Harry's Christmas presents

A toothpick from the Dursleys with a note telling him to find out whether he'd be able to stay at Hogwarts for the summer vacation, too.

A large tin of treacle fudge from Hagrid.

Flying with the Cannons from Ron (a book of interesting facts about his favourite Quidditch team).

A luxury eagle-feather quill from Hermione.

A a new, hand-knitted jumper from Mrs Weasley and a large plum cake. 

The Great Hall

Looking magnificent with a dozen frost-covered Christmas trees and thick streamers of holly and mistletoe crisscrossing the ceiling.

Enchanted snow was falling, warm and dry, from the ceiling.

Password to Slytherin Common Room

Pure blood.

Harry's Singing Valentine

His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad,

His hair is as dark as a blackboard.

I wish he was mine, he's really divine,

The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.

Lucius Malfoy declares Dumbledore's suspension as Headmaster

"If the governors want my removal, Lucius, I shall of course step aside...however", said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that none of them could miss a word, "you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it."

Pipes

Of the many fearsome beasts and monsters that roam our land, there is none more curious or more deadly than the Basilisk, known also as the King of Serpents. This snake, which may reach gigantic size and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken's egg, hatched beneath a toad. Its methods of killing are most wondrous, for aside from its deadly and venomous fangs, the Basilisk has a murderous stare, and all who are fixed with the beam of its eye shall suffer instant death. Spiders flee before the Basilisk, for it is their mortal enemy, and the Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it.

Harry Potter freed Dobby

Harry tricked Lucius Malfoy into throwing a filthy sock aside with Dobby nearby to catch it, thus the Master has 'given' an item of clothing to Dobby, ending his enslavement.

Plot Twist!

TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE

I AM LORD VOLDEMORT

GLOSSARY 

Dobby

House elf of the Malfoy family.

Hedwig

Harry's owl.

O.WL.s

Ordinary Wizarding Levels.

Floo powder

Magical method of transportation via the Floo Network which connected the fireplaces of nearly every wizarding household and building.

Mandrake or Mandragora

A powerful restorative used to return people who have been transfigured or cursed to their original state. The Mandrake forms an essential part of most antidotes. It is also, however, dangerous. The cry of the Mandrake is fatal to anyone who hears it.

Howler

Howlers are magical letter in a red envelope which reads out the written message in the writer's voice, usually at a very high volume. This volume increased if the recipient didn't open the envelope in a timely manner.

Mudblood

A highly derogatory term for either a Muggle or a Muggle-born or half-blood, wizard or witch (individuals with close Muggle relatives).

Squib

Someone who was born into a wizarding family but hasn't got any magic powers. 

Parseltongue

The language of snakes.  A wizard or witch who could speak Parseltongue was known as a Parselmouth.

The Daily Prophet

A wizarding newspaper based in London.

Azkaban

The wizard prison.

Hogwarts Board of Governors 

Twelve witches/wizards who oversee the running of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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Information derived from the second Harry Potter book: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Lily and James' Son - Part I

Various attempts to deliver the letter to Harry Potter 

Mr H. Potter

The Cupboard under the Stairs

4 Privet Drive

Little Whinging

Surrey

Mr H. Potter, The Smallest Bedroom, 4 Privet Drive

Mr H. Potter

Room 17

Railview Hotel

Cokeworth

Mr H. Potter, The Floor, Hut-on-the-Rock, The Sea

Harry Potter's Hogwarts Acceptance Letter

HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear Mr Potter,

We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. 

Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

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HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY

Uniform

First-year students will require:

1. Three sets of plain work robes (black)

2. One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear

3. One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)

4. One winter cloak (black, silver fastenings)

Please note that all pupils’ clothes should carry name tags.

Set Books

All students should have a copy of each of the following:

The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshawk

A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling

A Beginner’s Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander

The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble

Other Equipment

1 wand

1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)

1 set glass or crystal phials

1 telescope

1 set brass scales

Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad.

PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST-YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED

THEIR OWN BROOMSTICKS

Rubeus Hagrid takes Harry to buy the necessary books and equipment

Dear Mr Dumbledore,

Given Harry his letter. Taking him to buy his things tomorrow.

Weather’s horrible. Hope you’re well.

Hagrid

Shops

~ Cauldrons – All Sizes – Copper, Brass, Pewter, Silver – Self-Stirring – Collapsible.

~ Eeylops Owl Emporium – Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown and Snowy.

~ Flourish and Blotts (book shop).

~ Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions.

~ Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC.

"We use unicorn hairs, phoenix tail feathers and the heart strings of dragons. 

No two Ollivander wands are the same, just as no two unicorns, dragons or phoenixes are quite the same. And of course, you will never get such good results with another wizard’s wand."

First wands

Lily Potter: Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wand for charm work.

James Potter: Mahogany wand. Eleven inches. Pliable. A little more power and excellent for transfiguration.

Voldemort: Thirteen and a half inches. Yew. Very powerful wand.

Hagrid :Oak, sixteen inches. Rather bendy. Was snapped in half when he was expelled.

Harry's pile of tried wands 

Beechwood and dragon heartstring. Nine inches. Nice and flexible.

Maple and phoenix feather. Seven inches. Quite whippy.

Ebony and unicorn hair, eight and a half inches, springy.

Harry's perfect match

Holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches, nice and supple.

It’s really the wand that chooses the wizard.

Snacks from the Hogwarts Express Trolley

Bertie Bott’s Every-Flavour Beans

Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum

Chocolate Frogs

Pumpkin Pasties

Cauldron Cakes

Liquorice Wands 

Profiles Cards of Famous Witches and Wizards

Albus Dumbledore

Currently Headmaster of Hogwarts. Considered by

many the greatest wizard of modern times, Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945,

for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon’s blood and his work on

alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling.

The Sorting Ceremony

This is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts. 

You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory and spend free time in your house common room.

The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin.

Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. 

While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn your house points, while any rule-breaking will lose house points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the House Cup, a great honour. I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours.

The Sorting Hat Song

‘Oh, you may not think I’m pretty,

But don’t judge on what you see,

I’ll eat myself if you can find

A smarter hat than me.

You can keep your bowlers black,

Your top hats sleek and tall,

For I’m the Hogwarts Sorting Hat

And I can cap them all.

There’s nothing hidden in your head

The Sorting Hat can’t see,

So try me on and I will tell you

Where you ought to be.

You might belong in Gryffindor,

Where dwell the brave at heart,

Their daring, nerve and chivalry

Set Gryffindors apart;

You might belong in Hufflepuff,

Where they are just and loyal,

Those patient Hufflepuffs are true

And unafraid of toil;

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,

If you’ve a ready mind,

Where those of wit and learning,

Will always find their kind;

Or perhaps in Slytherin

You’ll make your real friends,

Those cunning folk use any means

To achieve their ends.

So put me on! Don’t be afraid!

And don’t get in a flap!

You’re in safe hands (though I have none)

For I’m a Thinking Cap!’

Start of Term Banquet in the Great Hall

Roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops and lamb chops, sausages, bacon and steak, boiled potatoes,

roast potatoes, chips, Yorkshire pudding, peas, carrots, gravy, ketchup and, for some strange reason, mint humbugs.

Pudding: blocks of ice-cream in every flavour you could think of, apple pies, treacle tarts, chocolate éclairs and jam doughnuts, trifle, strawberries,

jelly, rice pudding.

House Ghosts

The Fat Friar: the resident ghost of Hufflepuff.

Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington / Nearly Headless Nick: the resident ghost of Gryffindor Tower.

The Bloody Baron: the resident ghost of Slytherin.

The Grey Lady: the resident ghost of Ravenclaw.

 

The School Song

Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,

Teach us something please,

Whether we be old and bald

Or young with scabby knees,

Our heads could do with filling

With some interesting stuff,

For now they’re bare and full of air,

Dead flies and bits of fluff,

So teach us things worth knowing,

Bring back what we’ve forgot,

Just do your best, we’ll do the rest,

And learn until our brains all rot.

Hogwarts Staff

Argus Filch: Caretaker.

Professor Sprout: Herbology and Head of Hufflepuff house.

Professor Binns (ghost): History of Magic.

Professor Flitwick: Charms and Head of Ravenclaw house.

Professor McGonagal: Transfiguration and Head of Gryffindor house.

Professor Quirrell: Defence Against the Dark Arts.

Professor Snape: Potions and Head of Slytherin house.

Madam Hooch: Flying.

Madam Pince: Librarian.

Madam Pomfrey: Matron.

Potions Lesson

You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. 

I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death – if you aren’t as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.

Asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death. 

A bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons. 

As for monkshood and wolfsbane, they are the

same plant, which also goes by the name of aconite.

Broomsticks

~ Comet Two Sixty

~ Nimbus Two Thousand

Harry trains as a Seeker in the Gryffindor Quidditch Team 

DO NOT OPEN THE PARCEL AT THE TABLE.

It contains your new Nimbus Two Thousand, but I don’t want everybody knowing you’ve got a broomstick or they’ll all want one.

Oliver Wood will meet you tonight on the Quidditch pitch at seven o’clock for your first training session.

Professor M. McGonagall.

The Rules

There are seven players on each side:

• Three Chasers
• One Keeper
• Two Beaters
• One Seeker

There are four balls:

• The Quaffle (bright red ball about the size of a football)
• There are two Bludgers (jet black and slightly smaller than the red Quaffle)
• The Golden Snitch (tiny, about the size of a large walnut, bright gold with little fluttering silver wings).

The Chasers throw the Quaffle to each other and try and get it through one of the hoops to score a goal. Ten points every time the Quaffle goes through one of the hoops.

The Keeper flies around the six team hoops and stop the other team from scoring.

Bludgers rocket around trying to knock players off their brooms.

The two Beaters protect their side from the Bludgers and try andknock them towards the other team.

The Golden Snitch is very hard to catch because it’s so fast and difficult to see. It’s the Seeker’s job to catch it by weaving in and out of the Chasers, Beaters, Bludgers and Quaffle to get it before the other team’s Seeker, because whichever Seeker catches the Snitch wins their team an extra hundred and fifty points, so they nearly always win. 

That’s why Seekers get fouled so much. A game of

Quidditch only ends when the Snitch is caught.

Harry spends Christmas at Hogwarts

Christmas Presents

A roughly cut wooden flute whittled by Hagrid himself.

A fifty pence piece from From Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia.

A thick, hand-knitted Weasley jumper in emerald

green and a large box of home-made fudge from Mrs Weasley.

A large box of Chocolate Frogs from Hermione.

An invisibility cloak and the following note:

Your father left this in my possession before he died. It is time it was returned to you.

Use it well.

A Very Merry Christmas to you.

Christmas dinner

A hundred fat, roast turkeys, mountains of roast and boiled potatoes, platters of fat chipolatas, tureens

of buttered peas, silver boats of thick, rich gravy and cranberry sauce – and stacks of wizard crackers every few feet along the table. These fantastic crackers didn’t just bang, it went off with a blast like a cannon and engulfed everyone all in a cloud of blue smoke, while from the inside exploded a rear- admiral’s hat and several live, white mice. 

Flaming Christmas puddings followed the turkey.

Things Harry won from the wizard crackers

Non-explodable luminous balloons.

Grow-your-own-warts kit 

New wizard chess set.

Christmas Tea

Turkey sandwiches.

Crumpets.

Trifle.

Christmas cake.

The Philosopher's Stone

The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher’s Stone, a legendary substance with astonishing powers.

The Stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the Elixir of Life, which will make the drinker immortal.

There have been many reports of the Philosopher’s Stone over the centuries, but the only Stone currently in existence belongs to Mr Nicolas Flamel, the noted alchemist and opera-lover. Mr Flamel, who

celebrated his six hundred and sixty-fifth birthday last year, enjoys a quiet life in Devon with his wife, Perenelle (six hundred and fifty-eight).

Dragons

Dragon-breeding was outlawed by the Warlocks’ Convention of 1709.

Wild dragons:

• Common Welsh Green 
• Hebridean Blacks
• Norwegian Ridgeback

Fluffy the Three-Headed Dog

Guards the trapdoor leading to the underground chamber where the Philosopher's Stone was hidden.

The sound of music playing calms Fluffy down and sends him to sleep.

Plot Twist!

Professor Quirrell was in league with Voldemort and was helping him to obtain the Philosopher's Stone.

Professor Snape was suspicious of him from the beginning. During a Quidditch match, Professor Quirrell attempted to kill Harry by cursing his broomstick. Professor Snape muttered a counter-curse in order to save Harry. Snape also insisted on refereeing the next match to make sure Quirrell didn't try doing it again. 

GLOSSARY

Gringotts 

Wizards’ bank run by Goblins.

"Enter, stranger, but take heed

Of what awaits the sin of greed,

For those who take, but do not earn,

Must pay most dearly in their turn,

So if you seek beneath our floors

A treasure that was never yours,

Thief, you have been warned, beware

Of finding more than treasure there".

Vault seven hundred and thirteen.

Muggle 

Non-magical folk.

Wizarding currency 

Knuts, Sickles and Galleons.

Ministry of Magic: the government of the magical community whose main job is keeping Muggles from finding out that witches and wizards exist.

The Leaky Cauldron 

A Wizards pub with the gateway to Diagon Alley via the back wall.

Diagon Alley

An alley way with an assortment of shops selling books and equipment.

Quidditch

A popular team sport played by witches and wizards whilst riding on flying broomsticks.

Mirror of Erised

The mirror that shows the looker the deepest, most desperate desire of their hearts.

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Out of loyalty to Jill Murphy and also not wanting to jump on the band wagon, the Domestic Goblin had initially avoided reading any of the Harry Potter books written by J.K. Rowling (and also avoided watching the film adaptations).

 

More than two decades later, in April/May 2022, the Domestic Goblin decided to start reading the first book 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' with an open mind...