Magical Places
Wizarding Objects
Defense Class
Feasts & Festivities
Who's Who
400

Hidden behind the Leaky Cauldron, this London shopping street is where young witches and wizards buy school supplies.

Diagon Alley

400

This enchanted headwear decides which Hogwarts house a new student joins.

The Sorting Hat

400

This defensive charm blocks or deflects spells aimed at the caster.

Protego

400

Hogwarts' welcome feast begins just after first-years complete this ceremony.

The Sorting Ceremony

400

This half-giant is Hogwarts' Keeper of Keys and Grounds.

Rubeus Hagrid

800

This snowy village near Hogwarts is the only entirely non-Muggle settlement in Britain.

Hogsmeade

800

Hermione uses this hourglass-shaped device to attend more than one class at the same time.

A Time-Turner

800

A full-body bind leaves its target rigid after this incantation.

Petrificus Totalus

800

At Christmas, wizarding families pull these noisy novelties to reveal hats and gifts.

Wizard crackers

800

This Hogwarts professor teaches Transfiguration and leads Gryffindor house.

Minerva McGonagall

1200

Students board the Hogwarts Express from this famously concealed King's Cross platform.

Platform Nine and Three-Quarters

1200

This silver lighter left to Ron can also guide him back to the people he loves.

The Deluminator

1200

This spell disarms an opponent and becomes one of Harry's signatures.

Expelliarmus

1200

This pink-and-green sweet shop is a favorite Hogsmeade stop for Hogwarts students.

Honeydukes

1200

This dreamy Ravenclaw student wears radish earrings and reads The Quibbler.

Luna Lovegood

1600

This wizarding hospital treats magical maladies and injuries in London.

St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

1600

Harry inherits this object, one of the Deathly Hallows, from his father.

The Invisibility Cloak

1600

A nonverbal shield against mind-reading is practiced through this magical discipline.

Occlumency

1600

These enormous Halloween lanterns in the Great Hall are large enough for three people to sit inside.

Pumpkins

1600

This former Auror with a magical eye teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts — at least in appearance.

Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody

2000

Borgin and Burkes sells suspicious magical objects on this shadowy alley.

Knockturn Alley

2000

This Gaunt family heirloom becomes Voldemort's locket Horcrux.

Salazar Slytherin's locket

2000

This curse, one of the three Unforgivable Curses, places another person under total control.

The Imperius Curse

2000

The Triwizard Tournament's formal Christmas dance is known by this two-word name.

The Yule Ball

2000

This wandmaker remembers every wand he has ever sold.

Garrick Ollivander