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Glossary - R
R.A.B. the initials of Regulus Arcturus Black, Sirius's brother, who took Slytherin's locket, which was one of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes [HBP28, 29, 30; DH10]
rabbit – a magical species of rabbit was sold at the Magical Menagerie; one fat white rabbit transformed itself into a top hat and back again [POA4]; Lavender Brown had a young pet rabbit named Binky that was killed by a fox [POA8]
Rabnott, Madam Modesty a witch who lived in Kent ; in 1269 she saw Barberus Bragge release a Snidget into a Quidditch match [QA]
Rackharrow, Urquhart (1612-1697) the wizard who invented the Entrail-Expelling Curse; a portrait of this nasty-looking wizard hung in Arthur Weasley's hospital room in St. Mungo's Hospital [OOTP22; Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
radio, magical the radio in the Wizarding world was powered by magic instead of electricity [JKR website]; the WWN (Wizarding Wireless Network) was broadcast over the magical radios; one popular program was the Witching Hour, with the popular singing sorceress, Celestina Warbeck [COS3; HBP16]; another popular musical group on the WWN was the Weird Sisters [GOF22]; during Lord Voldemort's control of the Ministry of Magic, the program Potterwatch was broadcast [DH22]
radish earrings – Luna Lovegood wore a pair of earrings that looked like radishes [OOTP13; HBP5, 15]
Radulf a wizard blacksmith mentioned in Goodwin Kneen's letter; Radulf played Quidditch [QA]
Ragnok a goblin who worked at Gringotts; Bill tried to persuade Ragnok to support Dumbledore; this was possibly the same goblin as Ragnok the Pigeon-Toed, who wrote the book Little People, Big Plans and was an activist for B.O.G., or the Brotherhood of Goblins, whose slogan was We're not just ugly fairies [Daily Prophet]
Ragnuk the First the goblin who made the sword that would later become Godric Gryffindor's [DH25]
Railview Hotel the hotel on the outskirts of Cokeworth where the Dursley family escaped so that Harry wouldn't get his letters [PS/SS3]
Ramora a magical creature; it was a powerful silver-colored fish from the Indian Ocean ; the Ramora guarded seafarers as it could anchor ships; the Ramora was protected from poaching by international Wizarding law [FB]
Rastrick, Xavier (1750-1836) a flamboyant wizard entertainer who vanished while tap dancing to a crowd of 300 in Painswick and was never seen again [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
rat – Piers Polkiss, Dudley Dursley’s best friend, was “scrawny, with a face like a rat” [PS/SS2]; Aunt Petunia said Harry’s mother would turn teacups into rats [PS/SS4]; Ron had a pet rat named Scabbers, who was really Peter Pettigrew in animagus form; the tunnel was quiet as the Ron stepped on a rat’s skull near the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets [COS16]; a magical species of rat was sold at the Magical Menagerie; the magical rats could jump rope with their tails, and the saleswitch implied that they lived longer than a common rat [POA4]; the boggart turned into a rat for an unidentified female student [POA7]; in order to stay near Harry, Sirius ate rats to survive [GOF27]; Peter Pettigrew had an affinity with rats, and the rats in the forest in Albania told him where Voldemort was [GOF33]; Sirius fed Buckbeak dead rats [OOTP6]; Harry accidentally made a rat grow alarmingly large during his Charms OWL [OOTP31]
rat intestines a potion ingredient that Filch mentioned [COS9]
rat spleen a potion ingredient ; only one spleen was used in a Shrinking Solution [POA7]
rat tails a potion ingredient in a hair-raising potion [COS13]
rat tonic Ron bought Scabbers a rat tonic at the Magical Menagerie [POA4]
raven r avens were sold in Diagon Alley [POA4]; fifth-years practiced the Silencing Charm on bullfrogs and ravens [OOTP18]
Ravenclaw one of the four houses at Hogwarts; clever students were often sorted into this house [GOF12]
Ravenclaw, Helena (medieval) also called the Grey Lady; the Ravenclaw house ghost; daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, she fled with her mother's diadem to an Albanian forest and was killed there by the Bloody Baron when she refused to return with him as his lover; she hid the diadem in Albania and told Tom Riddle of its location [DH31]
Ravenclaw, Rowena (medieval) one of the four founders of Hogwarts; it was believed that Ravenclaw came up with the ever-changing floor plan of Hogwarts. She's best remembered for her intelligence and creativity; she was dear friends with Helga Hufflepuff, another of the founders [GOF12]
Re'em a very rare magical creature n ative to the wilds of North America and the Far East , it was a golden-furred giant ox [FB]
Re'em blood the blood of the Re'em gave the drinker immense strength; however, since the demand far exceeded the supply, Re'em blood was rarely found on the open market [FB]
rear admiral's hat a hat that came out of a Christmas cracker [PS/SS12]
Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery a decree that was passed in 1875, it forbade any magic in a Muggle-inhabited area or in the presence of a Muggle; however, clause 7 of this decree stated that magic could be used in exceptional circumstances [COS2, 5; POA3; OP2, 7, 8]
Red Cap a magical creature that was small and goblin- or dwarf-like; Red Caps loved bloodshed and tried to beat to death Muggles who were lost in dungeons or on battlefields on dark nights; as Red Caps were easily repelled by charms and hexes, Muggles faced the most danger from them [POA8; FB]
Reducio a spell that returned an object to its normal size; this spell negated the effect of Engorgio ; Mad-Eye Moody used Reducio to return a spider to its normal size [GOF14]
Reducto – the incantation for the Reductor curse, which blasted away solid objects; Snape used it on rosebushes at the Yule Ball [GOF23]; Harry used it to blast a hole in the hedge during the third task of the Triwizard Tournament [GOF31]; during DA training a Reductor curse reduced a table to dust [OOTP19]; DA members used it to smash shelves in the Hall of Prophecy during the Battle at the Ministry of Magic [OOTP35]; a Reductor curse was used to destroy the stairs at Hogwarts to where Dumbledore was [HBP27]
Reductor curse – see Reducto
refilling charm a charm that Harry used nonverbally to refill the wine bottles at Aragog's burial [HBP22]
Registry of Proscribed Charmable Objects the Ministry of Magic kept a Registry of Proscribed Charmable Objects, and it was illegal for witches and wizards to enchant Muggle artifacts; for example, magic carpets were banned in Britain , since they were enchanted Muggle artifacts [GOF7]
Relashio - a spell that created a magical shockwave from the end of a wand and caused the target to release what they were holding; Harry used this spell against the Grindylows in the second task of the Triwizard Tournament [GOF26]; Ogden used this spell to stop Marvolo Gaunt attacking his daughter [HBP10]; this spell failed to cause Peter Pettigrew's silver hand to cease choking him [DH23]
Remembrall – a magical glass object the size of a large marble and full of white smoke; when held in a person’s hand, the Remembrall glowed scarlet if he or she had forgotten something; Neville’s grandmother sent him a Remembrall, and Draco’s theft of this Remembrall led to Harry being selected as Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team [PS/SS9]; Remembralls were banned from examinations at Hogwarts [OOTP31]
Rennervate a spell that Harry used to try to revive Dumbledore [HBP26]
Reparo a spell that mended a broken object; however, some objects, like Harry's smashed Nimbus 2000, could not be mended with any spell; Mr. Weasley probably used this spell to repair Harry's glasses [COS4]; McGonagall probably used this spell to fix the leg of Neville's desk [COS16]; Bill Weasley used it to repair a table leg [GOF5]; Percy used it to repair his glasses [GOF8]; Hermione used it to repair the broken glass in the Hogwarts Express [GOF11]; Harry used it to fix a broken bowl however, the spell couldn't put the spilled liquid back in the bowl [OOTP15]; Snape used it to repair a shattered jar during Occlumency lessons [OOTP26]; Hermione repaired a broken teacup in Transfiguration [OOTP30]; Horace Slughorn and Albus Dumbledore probably nonverbally used this spell to repair the damage to Slughorn's borrowed house [HBP4]; Ogden used it to repair Merope's broken pot [HBP10]; Harry used it to repair the Potions textbooks [HBP11]; Hermione used it to fix the broken scales that a little girl, who was really Crabbe or Goyle under Polyjuice Potion, was carrying [HBP20]
Repelling Spells – these spells were used by crowds during a Quidditch match to keep the Snidget within the Quidditch pitch; however, after the Golden Snitch was enchanted to remain within the pitch in the 1300s, spectators no longer needed to use such spells [QA]
Repello Muggletum - likely the incantation for the Muggle-Repelling Charm; this spell was used to secure Harry, Ron, and Hermione's campsite [DH14]
Reptile House the Dursleys took Dudley, Piers Polkiss, and Harry to the zoo on Dudley 's eleventh birthday; in the Reptile House, Harry learned that he could talk to snakes [PS/SS2]
Restorative – a healing ingredient or potion; salamander blood had powerful curative and restorative properties [FB]; a mandrake root was a powerful restorative and formed an essential part of most antidotes, including one for Petrification [COS6]; the Mandrake Restorative Draught returned people who have been cursed or transfigured back to their original state [COS6]
restoring spell a spell that forced an Animagus who had transformed back to his or her human form; Lupin and Sirius cast this spell to change Scabbers back into Peter Pettigrew [POA19]
Restricted Section a section in the Hogwarts Library that held very advanced or Dark Magic books; Harry used his Invisibility Cloak to search the Restricted Section for information on Nicolas Flamel [PS/SS12]; Hermione got a note from Professor Lockhart to check Moste Potente Potions out of the Restricted Section [COS9, 10]; as a sixth-year student Hermione could freely browse the Restricted Section for a reference to Horcruxes [HBP18]
Reusable Hangman a magical joke item sold in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes; a tiny little wooden man climbed the steps to a set of gallows: spell it or he'll swing [HBP6]
Revealer a magical item; it was an eraser-like object that made invisible ink visible; Hermione owned one [COS13]
Revelaspell Scarpin invented this spell, which correctly identified a potion's ingredients (HPB18]
Reverse Pass a difficult Quidditch move [QA]
Reverse spell effect see Priori Incantatem
Rictusempra Charm – the Tickling Charm, which invariably caused the victim to laugh uncontrollably; Harry used it against Draco Malfoy at the Dueling Club [COS10]
Riddikulus a spell that caused an item, creature or person to take on an amusing appearance; this spell was useful against boggarts, who were destroyed by laughter; Lupin taught this spell to his third-year Defense Against The Dark Arts class [POA7]; Harry used it against a boggart in the third task of the Triwizard Tournament [GOF31]; Molly tried to use it against a boggart at number 12, Grimmauld Place [OOTP9]; Harry did a perfect spell during his Defense Against the Dark Arts OWL [OOTP31]
Riddle House the home of Tom Riddle senior and his parents [GOF1; HBP10]
Riddle Snr, Tom – the father of Tom Marvolo Riddle; Morfin Gaunt hit him with a jinx that made him break out in hives; he married Merope Gaunt under an enchantment and left her when she was pregnant; he was killed by his own son, Lord Voldemort, when Voldemort was only 15 years old [HBP10, 13, 17]
Riddle, Merope Gaunt – the daughter of Marvolo Gaunt; she had a plain, pale heavy face and eyes that stared in opposite directions; she enchanted Tom Riddle Snr to marry her; she was the mother of Tom Marvolo Riddle [HBP10, 13]
Riddle, Mr. - husband of Mrs. Riddle and father of Tom Riddle, Sr; murdered by his grandson Tom Marvolo Riddle [GOF1]
Riddle, Mrs. - wife of Mr. Riddle and mother of Tom Riddle, Sr; murdered by her grandson Tom Marvolo Riddle [GOF1]
Riddle, Tom Marvolo - the Half-Blood son of Tom Riddle senior and Merope Gaunt; he was born on New Year's Eve 1926 in a Muggle orphanage in London, and his mother died an hour after he was born; he was Slytherin student at Hogwarts; he went on to become Lord Voldemort, the most powerful Dark wizard of all time and was the leader of the Death Eaters; he was defeated by Harry Potter [COS17; HBP13; DH36]
Ridgebit, Harvey (1881 - 1973) - a Dragonologist who caught the first Peruvian Vipertooth, and established the world's largest Dragon sanctuary in Romania [JKR Website]
ring, Resurrection Stone - a ring that contained the Resurrection Stone, one of the Deathly Hallows, with the Peverell coat of arms engraved on it; Lord Voldemort stole it from his uncle; the ring was one of his Horcruxes and he hid it in the Gaunt's old cottage; Dumbledore retrieved the ring, but it had been terribly cursed and it severely injured his hand [HBP4, 10, 13, 17, 23; DH22]
Ripper the favorite bulldog of Aunt Marge Dursley [POA2]
Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts, The a book [PS/SS6, GOF9]
Robards, Gawain the new Head of the Auror office [HBP16]
Roberts, Jnr #1 son of Mr. Roberts, who was tossed up into the air by Death Eaters after the Quidditch World Cup [GOF9]
Roberts, Jnr #2 son of Mr. Roberts, who was tossed up into the air by Death Eaters after the Quidditch World Cup [GOF9]
Roberts, Mr. a Muggle campsite manager at the Quidditch World Cup; he and his family were tossed up into the air by Death Eaters [GOF7, 9]
Roberts, Mrs. wife of Mr. Roberts, who was tossed up into the air by Death Eaters after the Quidditch World Cup [GOF 9]
robes the normal clothing for witches and wizards; the robes always had a pocket for the wand; the Hogwarts students had black robes for school and dress robes for special occasions; Quidditch players wore Quidditch robes; a set of purple robes in the Black house tried to strangle Ron [OOTP6]; dress robes were differently styled for witches and wizards [HBP6, 8]
Robins, Demelza a Gryffindor student and the new Chaser on the Quidditch team in Harry's sixth year [HBP11, 14, 19]
Romanian Longhorn – a dragon from the Romanian mountains; they had dark green scales and a long glittering golden horn; powdered Romanian Longhorn horns were a Class B Tradable substance [FB]
Ronan a centaur who lives in the Forbidden Forest [PS/SS15; OP33]
Rookwood, Augustus – a Death Eater who once worked in the Ministry of Magic; he fought in the battle at the Department of Mysteries [GOF30; OP25, 26, 35, 37]
Room of Requirement a room at Hogwarts that was also known as the Come and Go Room; Dumbledore mentioned this room [GOF23]; Harry learned about this room from Dobby; the room was on the seventh floor opposite the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy [OOTP18]; Fred and George had once found the room when they needed to escape from Filch; Filch once found extra cleaning supplies in it; Dobby brought a drunk Winky there [OOTP18]; Harry taught Defense Against the Dark Arts in this room [OOTP18]; after a DA meeting, Harry snogged Cho Chang in this room [OOTP21]; this room was unplottable and didn't appear on the Marauder's Map; Harry hid the Half-Blood Prince's book in the room; the Death Eaters entered Hogwarts through this room after Malfoy fixed the Vanishing Cabinet in there [HBP24, 25, 26, 29]; the remnants of Dumbledore's Army used the room as a headquarters during the 1997-1998 school year; the room became a passage to and from the Hog's Head pub in Hogsmeade, through which Harry covertly entered the school and from which the majority of the students escaped before the Battle of Hogwarts [DH29, 31]
room-sealing spell – many rooms at Hogwarts needed a password to enter (for example, the common rooms and dormitories, Dumbledore’s office, and the Hogwarts kitchen]; the high security vault in Gringotts would only open when a Gringotts goblin ran his finger down it; if anyone else tried it, they would be sucked into the vault and trapped there [PS/SS5]; one of the rooms leading to the chamber guarding the Sorcerer’s stone was magically sealed and could only be opened with the right winged key [PS/SS16]; Snape used a powerful spell to seal his office [GOF25]; Umbridge sealed her office with spells [OOTP29]; one of the doors in the Department of Mysteries was so magically sealed that Harry’s knife was melted [OOTP34]; Hermione, Harry, and several other members of Dumbledore's Army used a spell to seal doors in the Department of Mysteries [OOTP35]
rooster Hagrid moved a half-plucked rooster off his scrubbed table and set down a teapot [COS7]; the cry of the rooster was fatal to a basilisk, so Tom Riddle forced Ginny to kill the roosters at Hogwarts [COS16]
ropes, magical – the spell Incarcerous sent out magical ropes that tied up someone; Quirrell created magical robes to bind Harry; when he clapped his hands, the ropes fell away [PS/SS17]; Snape used magical ropes to tie up Lupin [POA19]; Wormtail conjured magical ropes to bind Harry to the headstone of Voldemort's father [GOF32]; Dumbledore conjured magical ropes to bind Barty Crouch Jr. [GOF36]; a similar enchantment was used on the chair in the Court of Magical Law; when a prisoner sat down, the chains glowed gold and encircled the person's arms, binding them to the chair [GOF30, OP8]
rosettes, luminous during the Quidditch World Cup, supporters for the Irish team wore green rosettes, while supporters of Bulgaria wore red rosettes [GOF7]
rosewood a wood used in making wands; Fleur Delacour's wand was made of rosewood [GOF18]
Rosier, Evan a Death Eater who attended Hogwarts with Snape; he was killed by Aurors [GOF27, 30]
Rosmerta, Madam the pretty bartender at The Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade; Draco Malfoy put her under the Imperius Curse [POA10, GOF19]
Rotfang Conspiracy Luna Lovegood believed that the Aurors were part of a conspiracy to bring down the Ministry of Magic by the use of Dark Magic and gum disease [HBP15]
rotten fish a food served at Nearly Headless Nick's deathday party [COS8]
rowboat spell a spell that propelled a rowboat without oars; Hagrid used his umbrella to speed things up a bit when he and Harry left the Hut on the Rock [PS/SS5]; this spell possibly propelled the fleet of small boats from the dock near Hogsmeade station to Hogwarts castle [PS/SS6]
Rowle, Thorfinn a blonde Death Eater who fought the Order of the Phoenix at Hogwarts on the night of Dumbledore's death; he attacked Harry, Ron, and Hermione on Tottenham Court Road but allowed them to escape, so was punished by Voldemort [HBP29; 9]
rue, essence of a potion that Ron had to keep taking after he drank poisoned mead (HPB19]
Rufford, Grugwyn a member of the National Welsh Gobstones Team, who complained to the Daily Prophet because they didn't cover the Welsh victory over Hungary; the editor responded that this was because people thought Gobstones was deeply boring [Daily Prophet, 31 July 1998]
Runcorn, Albert a Ministry of Magic official whose identity was taken on by Harry when he snuck into the Ministry; he was generally unpleasant and reported Muggle-borns to the Ministry [DH12, 13]
Rune Dictionary a book [GOF20]
runes the letters of an ancient alphabet that could have secret or magic meanings; Ancient Runes was a class at Hogwarts
Runespoor a magical creature; it was a bright orange three-headed snake with black banding that reached 6-7 feet in length; it was native to Burkina Faso; Runespoors rarely lived to a great age, as each head had an independent brain, and they tended to attack each other; the right head was the planner, the middle head was the dreamer, and the left head was the critic; the Runespoor was a favorite pet of Dark Wizards because of its intimidating appearance [FB]
Runespoor eggs the Runespoor was unique because it produced its eggs through its mouth; the eggs of the runespoor were used in making potions that enhanced mental ability; a flourishing black market in the eggs and in the serpents had existed for centuries [FB]
Ryan, Barry a Keeper for the Ireland National Quidditch Team [GOF7]; he made a spectacular save against Poland 's top Chaser, Ladislaw Zamojski [OOTP19]
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