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sage Centaurs burned this plant to observe the fumes for shapes and symbols to predict the future [OOTP27)
salamander a magical creature; it was a small, brilliant white, fire-dwelling lizard that fed on flames, although it could survive up to six hours outside a fire if regularly fed pepper; a salamander lived only as long as the fire from which it sprang, scampering along burning logs and among the coals, and its color appeared blue or scarlet depending on the heat of the fire in which it appeared [FB]; Fred and George once fed fireworks to an orange salamander to see what would happen [COS8]; Hagrid provided a bonfire full of them for his third-year Care of Magical Creatures class [POA12]
salamander blood a potion ingredient used in a Strengthening Potion; salamander blood had powerful curative and restorative properties [FB, OP17]
Salem Witches' Institute a group of witches from the United States who attended the Quidditch World Cup [GOF7]
Salvio Hexia a protective spell that Harry, Ron, and Hermione used while on the run from Voldemort; it is cast while the user walks in a circle [DH14]
Sanguina, Lady Carmilla (1561-1757) a vampire who was famous for bathing in the blood of her victims to retain her youthful beauty [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Sanguini the vampire friend of Eldred Worple, who wrote the book Blood Brothers: My Life Amongst the Vampires; Sanguini was tall and emaciated with dark shadows under his eyes [HBP15]
Sardinian Sorcerers Professor Binns lectured about a sub-committee of Sardinian sorcerers in one of Harry's History of Magic classes [COS9]
Saucy Tricks for Tricky Sorts a book [GOF26]
Savage a Ministry of Magic Auror who was stationed at Hogsmeade during Harry's sixth year
Sawbridge, Almerick (1602-1699) a wizard who was famous for conquering a river troll who terrorized people who crossed the Wye River [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Scabbers the name of a rat that belonged to the Weasley; however, Scabbers was really the animagus Peter Pettigrew in disguise [POA19]
Scabior one of the Snatchers who caught Harry, Ron, and Hermione after Harry broke the Taboo [DH23]
scales, brass Harry purchased a set of brass scales for weighing potion ingredients; Harry, Ron, and Hermione saw a very small girl who dropped the heavy brass scales she was carrying; she was really Goyle taking Polyjuice Potion [PS/SS5; HBP9, 20, 21]
Scamander, Lorcan son of Rolf and Luna Scamander; great-grandson of famous Wizarding naturalist "Newt" Scamander; twin brother of Lysander [JKR "A Year in the Life"]
Scamander, Luna see Lovegood, Luna
Scamander, Lysander son of Rolf and Luna Scamander; great-grandson of famous Wizarding naturalist "Newt" Scamander; twin brother of Lysander [JKR "A Year in the Life"]
Scamander, Newton "Newt" Artemis Fido (1897-present) - the author of the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, an approved textbook at Hogwarts; grandfather of Rolf Scamander and great-grandfather of Lorcan and Lysander Scamander; he was previously employed by the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures and the Office for House-Elf Relocation, Beast Division; he also studied fire slugs in the Brazilian rainforest [FB; JKR Interview; JKR "A Year in the Life"]
Scamander, Porpentina the wife of Newt Scamander [FB]
Scamander, Rolf a Wizarding naturalist; grandson of Newt Scamander, husband of Luna Lovegood and father of Lorcan and Lysander Scamander [JKR Interview; JKR "A Year in the Life"]
scar Harry Potter's forehead had a very thin scar that looked like a lightning bolt (the scar was from where Voldemort's curse hit him]; Dumbledore had a scar on his knee that was a "perfect map of the London Underground"; Harry's curse scar hurt him when Voldemort was near or feeling strong emotion; after Voldemort's second defeat his scar stopped hurting entirely [PS/SS1; DH Ep]
scarab beetles, crushed a potion ingredient used in a Wit-Sharpening Potion [GOF27]
Scarpin the wizard who invented Revelaspell, which identified a potion's ingredients (HPB18]
Schmidt, Bruno a six-year-old German child who hit an Erkling over the head with his father's collapsible cauldron and killed it [FB]
school governors a committee of twelve witches and wizards who provided leadership for Hogwarts; Lucius Malfoy used to be one of the directors and coerced the others to sign an order to dismiss Professor Dumbledore as Headmaster of Hogwarts; this was later reversed and Malfoy was removed as a school governor; after Professor Dumbledore's death, the school governors had to decide whether to close Hogwarts [COS18; PA11; HBP19, 29]
school song at the end of Harry's first feast at Hogwarts, the staff and students sang the Hogwarts school song [PS/SS7]
Scintillation Solution – a potion that Madam Z Nettles learnt how to make properly following a Kwikspell course [COS8]
Scops owl an tiny owl in the post office in Hogsmeade; it was particularly good for local deliveries; Pigwidgeon might be a Scops owl [POA8).
Scourgify – a spell used to clean something (it is possibly the incantation for the Scouring Charm]; Tonks used this spell to clean Hedwig’s cage in Harry’s bedroom; James Potter used it to wash out Snape’s mouth when Snape called Lily a Mudblood [OOTP3, 10, 28]
Scouring Charm a charm to clean something; Hermione taught Neville a Scouring Charm to clean out the frog guts from under his fingernails [GOF14]; a Scouring Charm was required to eradicate an infestation of bundimuns [FB]
Screaming Yo-Yos a n magical object that Filch banned from Hogwarts [GOF12]
screech owl a kind of owl that delivered Wizarding mail
Screechsnap seedlings a plant that wiggled and squeaked if too much dragon manure was put on it [OOTP25]
Scrimgeour, Brutus the author of the book The Beaters' Bible [QA, OP7]
Scrimgeour, Rufus the Minister of Magic who replaced Cornelius Fudge; he was previously Head of the Auror office in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement; he was a consummate politician who kept Fudge with him in an advisory capacity; he went hunting for Nogtails in Norfolk with Cormac McLaggen and his Uncle Tiberius, and Bertie Higgs; he was murdered by Lord Voldemort in the Death Eaters' coup, and was supplanted by Pius Thicknesse, who was under Voldemort's control [DH8, 11]
Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop a shop in Hogsmeade; Hermione bought a new quill there [OOTP16]
scurvy cur a password to get into Gryffindor common room [POA11]
scurvy-grass a plant that was a potion ingredient in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts [OOTP18]
Sea Serpent of Cromer the wizard Glanmore Peakes, the slayer of the Sea Serpent of Cromer, was born in 1677 [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
seal the Hogwarts' seal had a coat of arms with a lion, eagle, badger, and snake that surrounded a large letter H; this seal was on Harry's letters from Hogwarts [PS/SS3]
sealing spell a spell that sealed a roll of parchment with a tap of the wand; Umbridge used it to seal the pink parchment note she sent to McGonagall; McGonagall unsealed it with a tap of her wand [OOTP12]
Secrecy Sensor a magical object that detected jinxes, curses, concealment charms, Dark Magic and Dark objects; the Hogwarts students were searched with Secrecy Sensors when they entered school during Harry's sixth year [GOF20; OP18; HBP11, 12, 15, 21]
Secret Keeper - the witch or wizard who was the one person who knew about the magical concealment of a secret with the Fidelius Charm; the secret was impossible to reveal unless the Secret Keeper chose to divulge it; Peter Pettigrew was the Secret Keeper for the Potters; Dumbledore was the Secret Keeper for the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix until his death; upon the death of a Secret Keeper, each person who knows the secret becomes a Secret Keeper himself [POA10, 19; OOTP6; HBP2; JKR Website]
secret passages - the Marauder's Map showed seven secret passages leading out of Hogwarts; four were known by Filch; one of these passages was behind the statue of Gregory the Smarmy, and another one was caved in; Filch therefore didn't know about three passages out of Hogwarts: [1] one was beneath the Whomping Willow and led to the Shrieking Shack; [2] one was behind the mirror on the fourth floor but was completely blocked off [probably during the cave-in during the Chamber of Secrets]; [3] one was in the hump of the one-eyed witch statue and led to the cellar of Honeydukes, the candy shop in Hogsmeade; in addition, two secret passages led to hidden rooms deep underneath the castle: [1] a secret passage under a trapdoor in a room on the third floor corridor dropped down to the secret chambers where the Philosopher's Stone was hidden; [2] the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets was hidden in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, but only a Parseltongue could say the words to open the entrance; there were also many secret passages hidden within the walls of the castle, which Argus Filch and his cat, Mrs. Norris, mastered in order to quickly get around the school; by Harry's sixth year, he also knew all the secret passages and easily maneuvered through them; the Room of Requirement created a secret passage between itself and the Hog's Head pub in Hogsmeade when its residents needed to get food [POA 10; HBP15, 18; DH29]
Secrets of the Darkest Art - a book that contained instructions for the creation and destruction of Horcruxes [DH6]
Sectumsempra - the incantation for a curse invented by Severus Snape, the Half-Blood Prince; Harry used it on Draco Malfoy, who looked like he'd been slashed with an invisible sword [HBP21, 23, 26]
security questions the Ministry of Magic asked Wizarding families to agree on security questions with close friends and family [HBP3]
security trolls Dumbledore hired security trolls to guard the Fat Lady after Sirius Black attacked her [POA15]; Umbridge hired security trolls to guard Harry's Firebolt [OOTP30, 31]
Seeing Eye also called an Inner Eye ; it was the ability to prophesy the future; it was a very rare magical gift; a witch or wizard with this gift was called a Seer [POA6, OP18, HBP25]
Seeker one of the seven players on a Quidditch team ; this player was to find the Golden Snitch, which was a tiny enchanted ball that has wings and is enchanted; the Seeker who caught the Golden Snitch earned 150 points for his or her team, which usually won the match [QA; SS9, 10, 11; CS7, 10; PA9, 13, 15; GF8]
Seer a witch or wizard with the gift to prophesy the future [POA6; OP15; 22]
Self-Correcting Ink a magical item that was banned from the examination hall at Hogwarts [OOTP31]
Self-Defensive Spellwork a book [OOTP18]
Self-Fertilizing Shrubs a magical plant; Harry and other fifth-year students had to write an essay on self-fertilizing shrubs for Professor Sprout [OOTP14]
Self-Inking quill a magical item for sale in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley [HBP6]
Self-Shuffling cards Ron Weasley had a deck of these cards in his bedroom at the Burrow ( CS3]
Self-Stirring Cauldron – a magical item invented by Gaspard Shingleton; this was on the History of Magic exam at the end of Harry’s first year [PS/SS16; Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Self-Straightening Brush – this feature was included on the Twigger 90 racing broom [QA]
Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic a position held by Dolores Umbridge at the Ministry of Magic [OOTP8]
serpent / snake the symbol of Slytherin house was a serpent or snake [PS/SS1; CS11, 16, 17; GF29; OP4, 21, 22, 36; HBP23]
Serpensortia a spell that caused a large serpent to burst from the end of the caster's wand; Draco cast this spell on Harry at the Dueling Club on Snape's suggestion [COS10]
seven seven was considered to be the most powerfully magical number, thus, Voldemort wanted seven Horcruxes [HBP23]
seventeen the age of adulthood in the Wizarding world [HBP3]
Severing Charm – a charm that used the incantation Diffindo to cut something off; Ron used this spell to remove the lace from the neck and sleeves of his second-hand dress robes [GOF23]
Shacklebolt, Kingsley a tall, black wizard; he was member of the Order of the Phoenix; he was an Auror who was once in charge of the search for Sirius Black; he worked in the office of the British Prime Minister to protect him from Death Eaters; after the second defeat of Voldemort he became temporary Minister of Magic, after which he was officially appointed to the post [OOTP 3, 5; HBP1; JKR Interview]
shape shifter - a magical creature that could change its shape; a Boggart was a shape shifter that took the form of the thing most feared by the person it encountered; a Veela would turn into an ugly bird with scaly wings when it was angry; wizards and witches who could turn into their Animagus form were shape shifters
sherbert lemon (UK) / lemon drop (US) a password into Dumbledore's Office [COS11]
Shield Charm – a charm that used the incantation Protego to protect the witch or wizard from spells, hexes, and jinxes; Harry taught this charm in his DA classes; it was a charm necessary for all Wizarding families to know, but unfortunately many didn’t know how to do a decent one; Fred and George Weasley sold Shield Hats, Shield Cloaks, and Shield Gloves that blocked many hexes and jinxes [GOF31; OP25; 26; 35; HBP3, 6, 9]
Shield cloak a magical cloak that blocked many hexes and jinxes; this item was sold in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes [HBP6]
Shield gloves a pair of gloves that blocked many hexes and jinxes; this item was sold in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes [HBP6]
Shield hats a hat that blocked many hexes and jinxes; this item was sold in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes ; the Ministry of Magic ordered 500 of these [HBP6]
Shimpling, Derwent (1912-present) a wizard comedian; he once ate an entire Venomous Tentacula for a bet and survived, although he was still purple; wizards and witches everywhere loved his boldness and his silly sense of humor [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Shingleton, Gaspard (1959-present) a wizard who was the celebrated inventor of the Self-Stirring Cauldron [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Shock Spell a spell used at St. Mungo's Hospital to cure mental illness [OOTP26]
Shooting Star a broom introduced by Universal Brooms Ltd. in 1955; the company went out of business in 1978; Ron Weasley had a Shooting Star, which was often outstripped by passing butterflies [QA, PA10]
shooting stars wizards and witches set off shooting stars to celebrate the disappearance of Lord Voldemort [PS/SS1]
shrake a magical saltwater fish found in the Atlantic Ocean; it was covered in spines and deliberately destroyed Muggle fishing nets; the first shrake was supposedly created in the 1800s by a group of Wizard fisherfolk who had been insulted by Muggles [FB]
Shrieking Shack a house that was built the year that Remus Lupin came to Hogwarts ; he could go there to safely transform into a werewolf; a secret passage led from the Whomping Willow to the Shrieking Shack [POA5, 14, 17]
Shrinking Solution / Shrinking Potion an acid green potion made in the third-year Potions class; Snape used it to turn Neville's toad into a tadpole; it was unclear whether the potion made things simply reduce in size, or actually reduce in age [POA1, 7]
shrivelfigs, skinned a plant used in a Shrinking Solution [COS15; PA7]
Shunpike, Stan the pimply teenage conductor on the Knight Bus; he was arrested on false charges because the Ministry wanted to look like they were doing something and sent to Azkaban; when the Death Eaters broke open Azkaban, Stan was put under the Imperius curse and used to do Voldemort's bidding [POA3, GOF9, OOTP25, HBP11; DH4]
Shuntbumps a broom sport that was popular in Devon, England; it was still played by children [QA]
Sickle silver Wizarding money; one gold Galleon equaled seventeen silver Sickles, which equaled 29 bronze Knuts [PS/SS5, PA4, GF7]
Side-Along-Apparition Apparition was to disappear from one place and appear in another; another witch or wizard could Apparate with an adult witch or wizard; it was an emergency measure that all Wizarding families should know [HBP3, 4]
Silencing Charm – a charm that used the incantation Silencio to force a person or creature to be silent [OOTP18]
Silencio – the incantation for the Silencing Charm, a spell that forced a person or creature to be silent; the song of the Fwooper would drive the listener insane and must have a Silencing Charm recast on it every month; the fifth-year Transfiguration students practiced this spell on bullfrogs and ravens; Hermione cast this spell on a Death Eater during the Battle at the Ministry of Magic [FB, OP17, 35, 38]
Silver Arrow a broom invented by Leonard Jewkes [QA, PA13]
Sinistra, Professor Aurora a witch who was the Astronomy teacher at Hogwarts [COS11]
Sir Cadogan the portrait of a feisty little knight with a huge sword and a little fat pony; his picture hangs in seventh floor landing near the South Tower; Sir Cadogan briefly guarded the Gryffindor common room when Sirius Black attacked the Fat Lady he was the only painting brave enough to take the job [POA6, 9, 13; GF31; OP12]
Sites of Historical Sorcery a book [POA5]
Skeeter, Rita a writer for the Daily Prophet; she wrote horrible lies about people, including Dumbledore, Harry, Hermione, and Hagrid; she was an unregistered Animagus and could turn into a beetle to listen to people's conversations without them knowing she was there; she was blackmailed by Hermione into interviewing Harry and reporting the facts of his story, which caused many readers to become disillusioned with the Ministry of Magic's denial of Voldemort's return; she wrote a scandalous biography of Dumbledore that was published weeks after his death [GOF37; OOTP25; DH2]
Skele-Gro a potion that helped regrow bones, although it was a very painful process; Harry had to take this potion [COS10]
Skiving Snackboxes a n invention of Fred and George Weasley; they helped deserving students skive out of classes [OOTP6, 9, 17]
Skower, Mrs . probably the developer of Mrs. Skower's All-Purpose Magical Mess Remover [COS9, GF8]
Sleekeazy's Hair Potion a potion to slick down curly hair; Hermione used liberal amounts of this when she went to the Yule Ball with Viktor Krum [GOF24]
Sleeping Draught / Sleeping Potion a potion that caused the drinker to fall asleep [COS12; GF19, 36]
Slinkhard, Wilbert the author of the book Defensive Magical Theory [OOTP9]
Sloper, Jack a Gryffindor student and Beater on the Quidditch team [OOTP21, HBP9]
Sloth Grip Roll a difficult Quidditch move [QA; OP17, 18]
Slug Club a group of students who were invited to parties at Hogwarts with Professor Slughorn; the students invited to join were usually well-known, influential, or remarkably talented [HBP7, 14]
Slughorn, Horace E. F. the former Head of Slytherin House and retired Potions teacher who began teaching at Hogwarts around the same time as Dumbledore; he was a very short, round wizard with a bald head, prominent pale gooseberry eyes, and an enormous silver walrus-like mustache; he was old but not as old as Dumbledore; he became the Potions teacher again at Hogwarts during Harry's sixth year; and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts [HBP4, 5, 7; DH36]
slugs, horned a potion ingredient; stewed horned slugs were an ingredient in a boil cure potion [PS/SS8]
slug-vomiting charm a hex that caused the victim to burp slugs; Ron tried to hit Malfoy with this curse after Malfoy had called Hermione a Mudblood, but unfortunately, Ron's wand was damaged and the spell backfired on him [COS7, OP19]
Slytherin one of the four houses at Hogwarts; ambitious students were often sorted into this house, and it turned out more Dark wizards and witches than any other house [PS/SS7]
Slytherin, Salazar (medieval) - one of the four founders of Hogwarts; he thought that only pure-blood students should be taught at Hogwarts and left when he didn't get his way; but before he left he created the Chamber of Secrets and left a basilisk; he was a Parselmouth and also the ancestor of Lord Voldemort [COS9, 11, 17, 18; HBP10, 20, 23]
Smart-Answer quill a magical item sold in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley [HBP6)
Smeek, Enid a witch quoted in Rita Skeeter's biography of Albus Dumbledore [DH18]
Smeltings stick – a knobbly stick that the Smeltings’ boys used to hit each other when the teachers weren’t looking [PS/SS3]
Smeltings – the school that Dudley Dursley attended [PS/SS3]
Smethley, Veronica a fan of Gilderoy Lockhart [COS7]
Smethwyck, Elliot the inventor of the Cushioning Charm, which greatly improved the comfort of riding broomsticks [QA]
Smethwyck, Hippocrates a Healer at St. Mungo's Hospital [OOTP22, 23]
Smethwyck, Leopoldina (1829-1910) the first British witch to referee a Quidditch match [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Smith, Hepzibah a very old, very rich witch who showed Voldemort her prized possessions, which were Slytherin's locket and Hufflepuff's goblet; her house-elf Hokey was accused of killing Hepzibah, but it was really Voldemort who murdered her and stole the two treasures [HBP20]
Smith, Zacharias a Hufflepuff student and a member of Dumbledore's Army; he was a tall, skinny blond boy with an upturned nose; he commentated at the Quidditch matches after Lee Jordan left Hogwarts; he played Chaser on the Hufflepuff Quidditch team [OOTP16, 18]
snake fangs, crushed a potion ingredient in a simple potion to cure boils [PS/SS8]; one of the basilisk's fangs entered Harry's arm; Harry Potter removed the fang from his arm and stabbed Riddle's diary, thus destroying it [COS17]
snake venom a potion ingredient that kept Voldemort alive until he could be reborn [GOF1, 23]
snake / serpent the symbol of Slytherin house was a serpent or snake [PS/SS1; CS11, 16, 17; GF29; OP4, 21, 22, 36; HBP23]
Snape, Severus (January 9 1960 - May 1998) - the former Potions teacher and head of Slytherin house, he was cruel, sarcastic, and disliked by everybody except the students from his own house; he was a thin man with a cold voice, sallow skin, hooked nose, and greasy, shoulder-length black hair who always wore black robes; James Potter called him Snivellus, and Sirius called him Snivelly; he loved Lily Potter since he met her as a child; he was a Death Eater who later joined the Order of the Phoenix when Voldemort began to plan to kill Lily; he killed Professor Dumbledore on Dumbledore's orders and escaped from Hogwarts, but was reinstated there as Headmaster of the Death Eaters' regime the following year; he was killed by Voldemort's snake, Nagini, but moments before his death gave Harry all the important memories of his life to explain his actions [PS/SS 8; DH33]
Snape, Tobias the Muggle father of Severus Snape, in Snape's memory he was screaming at his cowering mother [OOTP26, HBP30)
Snargaluff a magical plant that the sixth-year students studied; it looked like a gnarled stump and viciously attacked anyone who tries to take out a pod, which were filled with tubers that wriggled like pale-green worms [HBP14]
sneak jinx Hermione jinxed a piece of parchment that each member of Dumbledore's Army signed; this parchment was a contract that the members would not tell anyone about the DA meetings; when Marietta Edgecombe told Umbridge about the DA, the word sneak broke out in horrible purple pustules across her face; even Madame Pomfrey couldn't fix her face, and Marietta's face was still disfigured when she went to school the following September [OOTP16; HBP7]
sneakoscope a common magical protection device; the sneakoscope was supposed to let the owner know when someone untrustworthy came near them ; however, Arthur confiscated a box of cursed sneakoscopes that were probably planted by a Death Eater [HBP4, 5]
s neakoscope, pocket a magical protection device that looked like a miniature glass spinning top; the sneakoscope was supposed to let the owner know when someone untrustworthy came near them; Ron gave Harry a pocket sneakoscope for his thirteenth birthday [POA1, 5, 11; GF20; 35; OP18]
sneezewort a plant u sed in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts [OOTP18]
Snidget, Golden – a tiny, peace-loving, magical bird that had an aptitude for great speed, agility, and avoiding predators; the Snidget nearly became extinct because its golden feathers and red, jewel-like eyes were highly prized, also because and Snidgets became an integral part of Quidditch and usually died when they were caught; the Snidget became a protected species and severe penalties were exacted for harming or even capturing one; Snidget reserves were set up worldwide; a magical device, the Golden Snitch, replaced the Snidget in Quidditch games [FB, QA]
Snidget-hunting – a sport popular with witches and wizards since the early 1100s; in 1269 Snidget-hunting was introduced into a Quidditch match by Barbarus Bragge; the Golden Snidget was now a protected species [QA]
Snitch (Golden Snitch) a Quidditch ball invented by the wizard Bowman Wright of Godric's Hollow; this ball mimicked the behavior and flight patterns of the Snidget; it was very small, very fast, difficult to catch, and enchanted to remain within the Quidditch pitch; a Quidditch game didn't end until the Snitch had been caught, and the Seeker who caught the Golden Snitch earned his or her team an extra hundred and fifty points [QA]
Snitchnip a common Quidditch foul in which a player other than the Seeker touched the Golden Snitch [QA]
Snowy a cat-Kneazle that belonged to Arabella Figg [PS/SS2, JKR website]
snowy owl a kind of owl that delivered Owl Mail; Hedwig was a snowy owl [PS/SS5; GF15, 28]
snuffbox, silver a magical item in the Black house; it was filled with Wartcap Powder and the snuffbox bit Sirius [OOTP6]
Snuffles the nickname that Harry used to refer to Sirius Black [GOF27]
Society for Distressed Witches a society founded by Dorcas Wellbeloved in the 1800s [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Society for Reformation of Hags a society founded by Honoria Nutcombe around 1700 [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Society for the Tolerance of Vampires a society with an office in London; this society advertised for someone to run the office, with preference to be given to applicants with a garlic allergy [Daily Prophet, 8 February 1999]
Somnolens, Leticia [medieval] a spiteful hag who was jealous of the king's daughter and caused her to prick her finger on a spindle tainted with a Draught of the Living Death; a young wizard who had smeared his lips with Wiggenweld potion kissed the princess and brought her out of her trance
Sonnets of a Sorcerer a book [COS13]
Sonorus a spell that greatly amplified a witch or wizard's voice; Ludo Bagman used this spell to make his voice heard by over 100,000 witches and wizards at the Quidditch World Cup and he also used it during the Triwizard Tournament; Quietus was the counterspell that returned the voice to normal [GOF8, 26, 31]
sopophorous bean an potion ingredient in the Draught of Living Death, which was a very powerful sleeping potion; it was the first potion that the N.E.W.T. Potions class made; the Half-Blood Prince noted that it was better to crush the bean with the flat side of a silver dagger than to cut it [HBP9]
Sorcerer's Stone (US) / Philosopher's Stone (UK) a stone created by Nicolas Flamel; it was an extraordinary and very powerful magical item; the Stone could transform metal into gold and produce the Elixir of Life, a potion that allowed the drinker to live indefinitely as long as they kept drinking it [PS/SS13, 17; GF33, HBP2, 23). [PS/SS13, 17; GF33]
Sorting Ceremony this ceremony began the start-of-year feast at Hogwarts; a teacher led the new students into the Great Hall, where the rest of the school was assembled; the Sorting Hat was brought in and sang a different song every year and gave warnings whenever it felt the school was in danger; the first-year students were called up in alphabetical order to sit on the stool, where a teacher placed the Sorting Hat on the student's head; the Sorting Hat then announced which house the student would be in to the entire school [PS/SS7, CS5, PA5, GF12, OP11]
Sorting Hat an ancient wizard's hat that was a remarkable magical item; it could think, speak, sing, read minds, and even had its own personality; it originally belonged to Godric Gryffindor; the main function of the Sorting Hat was to classify the first-year students into the house that would most suit their personality; the Sorting Hat carried the sword of Godric Gryffindor to Harry in the Chamber of Secrets, and later to Neville Longtbottom in the Battle of Hogwarts [PS/SS7, COS17; DH36]
Sparky the phoenix mascot of the Moutohora Macaws Quidditch team from New Zealand [QA]
spattergroit a malady that caused a person to develop spots on their face; the portrait of a medieval healer in St. Mungo's Hospital told Ron that he had spattergroit [OOTP23]
Special Award for Services to the School an award given at Hogwarts; these were kept in the trophy room [COS7, 13, 18]
Specialis Revelio – a spell that causes an item to reveal anything that has been hidden by magical means; Hermione used it on Harry’s borrowed textbook Advanced Potion-Making [HBP9]
Spectrespecs a magical object; they looked like psychedelic spectacles and were included free in an edition of The Quibbler; when Luna wore them, she looked like a demented, multicolored owl [HBP7, 15]
Spell Damage the fourth floor at St. Mungo's Hospital treated witches and wizards with spell damage, unliftable jinxes, hexes, and incorrectly applied charms, etc. [OOTP22, 23]
Spell-Checking quill a magical item for sale in Weasley's Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley [HBP6, 21]
Spellman's Syllabary a book [OOTP26]
Spellotape the Wizarding version of Scotch tape [COS6, 16; OP23]
SPEW, S.P.E.W. a an abbreviation for the Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare; Hermione was the main advocate for this society, although the house-elves didn't want any assistance [GOF14, 16]
sphinx – Harry met a sphinx in the third task of the Triwizard Tournament and had to solve a riddle to pass it; the newspaper reported a gripe with Gringotts Bank “about their use as guards” [GOF31; Daily Prophet, 31 July 1998]
spiders the cupboard under the stairs was full of spiders; spiders were a potion ingredient; Fred turned Ron's teddy bear into a giant spider; Mad-Eye Moody used spiders to demonstrate the Unforgivable Curses; spiders the size of saucers were in the Black home; the shed at the Weasley's was full of spiders; giant spiders were sold in magical pet stores; dangerous spiders lived in the Forbidden Forest [PS/SS2, CS9, 15; PA7; GF14, 31; OP6; HBP4]
spine of lionfish, powdered a potion ingredient in a Hogwarts student's standard potion-making kit [GOF10]
Spinner's End a dismal looking street that Snape's cottage was on [HBP2]
Spinnet, Alicia a Gryffindor student and Chaser on the Quidditch team; she was a member of Dumbledore's Army and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts [PS/SS11; HBP16; DH29]
spirit the ghost of a witch or wizard [FB]
Spirit Division a division in Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures [FB]
Spleen, Professor Helbert a wizard who worked in St. Mungo's Hospital and answered medical queries for the Problem Page ( Daily Prophet ]
Splinch when Apparition was incorrectly done, the witch or wizard could leave some of their body parts behind; they were stuck and couldn't move without magical help [GOF6, HBP18]
Splinter & Kreek's a Wizarding store that sold second-hand brooms [Daily Prophet, 1 Oct 1999]
Spore, Phyllida the author of the book One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi [PS/SS5]
Sprout, Professor Pomona the Herbology teacher and head of Hufflepuff house; she was a squat little witch with a patched hat, flyaway hair, and dirt on her clothes and fingernails; she kept the keys to the greenhouses on her belt; she fought in the Battle of Hogwarts [COS6; DH31]
squeaking sugar mice a candy sold in Honeydukes in Hogsmeade [POA10]
Squib a person who had no magical powers although born into a Wizarding family; Squibs were quite rare; Argus Filch and Arabella Figg were Squibs [COS9, OP2]
squid, giant a giant squid lived in the lake next to Hogwarts; he was quite friendly and enjoyed being tickled; he tossed Dennis Creevey back in the boat when he fell in the lake
Squiggly Wiggly – this was not a real spell, but one Harry made up to tease Dudley [COS1]
St. Brutus’s Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys – the school that the Dursley family told people Harry attended [POA2, GF2]
St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries the Wizarding hospital in London
stag – the animagus form of James Potter and also the Patronus of Harry Potter
staircases – 142 staircases were at Hogwarts; “wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump” [PS/SS8]
Stalk, Blenheim a Muggle expert and author of many books, including Muggles Who Notice [FB]
Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) a book written by Miranda Goshawk [PS/SS5]
Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2 a book written by Miranda Goshawk [COS4, 9]
Standard Book of Spells, Grade 4 a book written by Miranda Goshawk [GOF10, 11]
Standard Book of Spells, Grade 5 a book written by Miranda Goshawk [OOTP9, 31]
Standard Book of Spells, Grade 6 a book written by Miranda Goshawk [HBP9]
Standard Book of Spells, Grade Three a book written by Miranda Goshawk [POA4]
Starfish and Stick a difficult Quidditch move [QA]
Starkey, Hesper [1881-1973] a witch who studied the use of the phases of the moon [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
start-of-term banquet / start-of-term feast the first feast of the Hogwarts school year in which the new students were sorted [PS/SS7, CS5, PA5, GF12, OP11]
Statute of Secrecy a statute that Wizarding communities around the world keep themselves hidden from Muggles [OOTP2]
Stealth and Tracking a course that Aurors in training had to take [OOTP3]
Stealth Sensoring Spell a s pell that detected anyone sneaking by; a fter two Nifflers were placed in her office, Umbridge placed Stealth Sensoring Spells on her door, which detected Harry and Hermione when they broke in to use her fire [OOTP32]
Stebbins – a Hufflepuff student who Snape took 10 points from for dallying in a rose bush with Miss Fawcett during the Yule Ball [GOF23]
Stebbins – a student in James Potter's time at Hogwarts [OOTP28]
Stichstock an early wizard sport in Germany that used an inflated dragon bladder; it died out in the fourteenth century [QA]
Stimpson, Patricia a Gryffindor student [OOTP12]
Stingers Wizarding supporters of the Wimbourne Wasps Quidditch team; they buzzed loudly to distract opposing Chasers [QA]
Stinging Hex a hex that caused painful red welts on the victim; Harry nonverbally produced this hex during his Occlumency lessons with Snape [OOTP24]
stink pellets a magical j oke item that released a nasty smell when dropped; they were sold at Zonko's in Hogsmeade; Filch has probably banned them from Hogwarts [POA8]
Stoatshead Hill the hill near the Weasley home where the Weasleys and the Diggorys found the Portkey to travel to the Quidditch Cup [GOF6]
Stonewall High the Muggle school that Harry was going to attend in Little Whinging [PS/SS3]
Stonewall Stormers a Quidditch team in Canada [QA]
Stooging a Quidditch foul in which two Chasers entered the scoring area and rammed the Keeper aside, letting the third Chaser score a goal [QA]
Stooging Penalty a penalty given during a Quidditch match [QA]
Streeler a magical creature; it was a giant African snail that changed color every hour; as it moved, it deposited a trail of venom that killed and shriveled all vegetation; it could also kill horklumps, so it was often kept as a pet [FB]
Strengthening Solution a potion that apparently made someone stronger ; the students had allowed their potions to mature over a weekend; Umbridge thought it should be taken off the syllabus [OOTP15, 17]
Stretching Jinx Molly thought that someone had put Stretching Jinxes on Ron and Harry because they had grown so much the previous year [HBP5]
Stroulger, Edward [1703-1798] a wizard who invented the Sneakoscope [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Strout, Miriam a Healer at St. Mungo's Hospital[OOTP23, 25]
Stubbs, Billy – an orphan in the Muggle orphanage in London where Tom Marvolo Riddle was born; Billy’s rabbit was found hanging from the rafters [HBP13]
Study of Ancient Runes a class taught at Hogwarts [POA4]
Study of Recent Developments in Wizardry, A a book [PS/SS12, 13]
Stump, Grogan (1770-1884) a wizard who was a popular Minister of Magic appointed in 1811 [FB, Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Stunning spell – a spell that used the incantation Stupefy to render the victim unconscious
Stupefy – a spell that rendered the victim unconscious; it stunned the victim with a bolt of red light; the counterspell was Enervate; this spell was used by Ministry Wizards to try to stop whomever cast the Dark Mark during the Quidditch World Cup [GOF9]; many dragon keepers had to use it at the same time to control the dragons [GOF19]; Flavius Belby tried to use it against a Lethifold, but only succeeded in blasting a hole through his bedroom door, although the spell was effective against Pogrebins [FB]; it was not very effective against Hagrid, however, who was part giant [OOTP31]
Subcommittee of Sardinian Sorcerers – Professor Binns lectured about a sub-committee of Sardinian Sorcerers in one of Harry’s History of Magic classes [COS9]
Substantive Charm – no incantation was given and the effect was unknown; Seamus Finnigan recited the definition of this charm the day before their first OWL [OOTP31]
sugar quills a candy sold in Honeydukes in Hogsmeade [POA5, PA10]
suits of armor / coats of armor - many suits of armor lined the corridors at Hogwarts; a long gallery full of suits of armor was adjacent to the Trophy Room on the third floor; in Harry's early days at the school, he "was sure the coats of armor could walk;"; they certainly had a sense of perception, and at night they creaked, along with the muttering portraits; they even had a sense of humor: for example, a suit of armor at the top of the stairs "creaked, clanked, and laughed wheezily" when Neville's foot sank right through a trick step in a staircase; one time Harry hid behind a suit of armor when he was breaking into Professor Umbridge's office, and it did nothing to give him away even though the helmet turned around to watch him; shortly before the Battle of Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall used a spell to animate all the coats of armor so that they could defend the school [PS/SS8, 9; COS5, 7, COS13; GOF12; OOTP29; DH30]
Sumbawanga Sunrays a Quidditch team in Tanzania; they were highly popular, and the players delighted crowds with formation looping [QA]
Summerbee, Felix (14471508) a wizard who was the inventor of Cheering Charms [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Summerby the Hufflepuff Seeker after Cedric Diggory died [OOTP26]
Summers a Hufflepuff student [GOF16]
Summoning Charm – the incantation was Accio followed by the object that the caster wanted to retrieve; Molly Weasley used this spell to retrieve Ton-Tongue Toffees from Fred and George; Hermione helped Harry learn this spell for the first task of the Triwizard Tournament so he could retrieve his racing broom; Harry tried to use this spell in the cave to retrieve the Horcrux, but the Inferi rose up [GOF6, 20; OP13; HBP26]
Sunday Prophet the Wizarding newspaper delivered on Sunday [OOTP38]
Swedish Short-Snout a Swedish dragon; Cedric Diggory fought this dragon during the first task of the Triwizard Tournament [FB; GF19, 20]
Supersensory Charm a charm that Ron says he can use in place of looking in his side mirror while driving [DH Ep]
Sweeting, Havelock (1634-1710) a unicorn expert [Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
Sweetwater All-Stars a Quidditch team in Texas (USA); they defeated the Quiberon Quafflepunchers (France) after a five-day match in 1993 [QA]
Swelling Solution a potion that caused whatever it touched to swell in size [COS11]
Swiftstick – a broom developed by Ellerby and Spudmore, a Black Forest company, in 1952 [QA]
Switch, Emeric the author of the book A Beginners' Guide to Transfiguration [PS/SS5]
Switching Spells spells that changed items from one thing into another, they were a major branch of Transfiguration; Hermione knew quite a bit about Switching Spells in her first year and won house points from McGonagall; Neville wasn't very good at these spells and switched his own ears onto a cactus during class; Hermione discussed using Switching Spells as a way to fight dragons; the definition of Switching Spells was on the theory portion of the Harry's Transfiguration OWL [PS/SS9; GOF15, 20; OOTP31]
Swivenhodge a Wizarding broomstick sport still being played in England [QA]
sword of Godric Gryffindor one of two items in Professor Dumbledore's office that had belonged to Godric Gryffindor (the other was the Sorting Hat]; Fawkes brought the sword to Harry so that he could fight the dragon in the Chamber of Secrets [COS17, 18]
Sykes, Jocunda (1915-present) a witch famous for being the first witch or wizard to fly across the Atlantic Ocean on a broomstick in 1935 [QA; Famous Witches and Wizards cards]
syrup of hellebore a potion ingredient in the Draught of Peace [OOTP12]
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