Magical creatures
This giant, three-headed dog guards the trapdoor to the Philosopher's stone.
Fluffy
This magical hat looks at a student's thoughts to choose their Hogwarts house.
Sorting Hat
This bright spell lights up the tip of a wizard's wand like a flashlight.
Lumos
This famed American director helmed the first two magical movies before passing the torch.
Chris Columbus
This secret platform at King's Cross Station is where students board the Hogwarts Express.
Platform 9 3/4
This half-eagle, half-horse creature is sentenced to death after scratching Draco Malfoy.
Hippogriff
This mirror shows the deepest, most desperate desire of a person's heart.
Mirror of Erised
This shape-shifting spell is used to defeat a Boggart by turning it into something funny.
Riddikulus
This Scottish actor, who famously played Rubeus Hagrid, sadly passed away in late 2022.
Robbie Coltrane
This snowy, all-wizard village features Hogsmeade's cozy pub, The Three Broomsticks.
Hogsmeade
These blind, soul-sucking guards of Azkaban can only be driven away by a patronus.
Dementors
This object turns red to warn its owner that they have forgotten something.
Rememberall
This luck potion makes the drinker perfectly successful in all their endeavours for a limited time.
Felix Felicis
He is the only director to shoot exactly four of the eight films, covering Order of the Phoenix through Deathly Hallows - Part 2.
David Yates
This bleak, high-security fortress sits on an isolated island in the middle of the North Sea.
Azkaban
This mischievous, jewel-thieving creature hoards shiny objects inside Newt Scamander's suitcase.
Nifflers
Dumbledore uses this stone basin to view and store bottled memories.
Pensive
This transformation potion tastes like overcooked cabbage and requires a piece of the person you want to become.
Polyjuice potion
To avoid breaking production, the cast ate this specific food during the iconic Great Hall feast scenes because real meat spoiled too quickly under the hot lights.
Plastic or painted resin food
This goblin-run bank is the safest place in the wizarding world for gold and treasures.
Gringotts
This is the specific breed of dragon Hagrid hatches illegally in his hut during the first film.
Norwegian Ridgeback
This dark object, hidden in Borgin and Burkes, allows Malfoy to smuggle Death Eaters into Hogwarts.
Vanishing Cabinet
This is the incantation for the advanced protection spell used to shield the entire Hogwarts castle in Deathly Hallows - Part 2.
Protego Maxima
This legendary actor stepped in to play Albus Dumbledore starting in the third movie, following the tragic death of Richard Harris.
Michael Gambon
This grim street, branching off Diagon Alley, caters exclusively to practitioners of the Dark Arts.
Knockturn Alley