Hogwarts Professors
This Care of Magical Creatures professor looms large brings the first years over to the castle in the boats each year.
Hagrid
This latin term means "Creation out of Nothing"
creatio ex nihilo
The current accepted scientific theory for the beginning of the universe
The Big Bang Theory
Voldemort's closest circle of followers
the Death Eaters
This scientist was the founder of modern genetics
Gregor Mendel
This Potions Master was archenemies with Harry's father when they were in school at Hogwarts.
Severus Snape
experts who study theology
theologians
The Catholic priest and physicist who is credited for the current leading scientific theory about origins of the universe
George Le'Maitre
This symbol of a skull with a snake slithering through it, was often projected into the air over a victim
the Dark Mark
This scientist developed pasteurization of vaccines
Louis Pasteur
Remus Lupin
the branch of science concerned with the motion of objects
physics
the natural process by which life arises from non-living matter
abiogenesis
The three unforgivable curses
Cruciatus, Imperius, and Avada Kedavra
Scientist who invented the battery
Alessandro Volta
A licensed animagus, Professor McGonagall can transfigure herself into this animal.
a cat
something that supplies a temporary commodity but is likely to change
provisional
These kinds of proofs reason down from generals to particulars
deductive proofs
This ability to speak to snakes has long been associated with the dark arts
parseltongue
This physicist invented the radio
Guglielmo Marconi
This centaur comes out of the Forbidden Forest to teach Divination when Professor Treelawny is sacked in Book 5.
Firenze
relating to the study of being
ontological
He is credited with developing the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God
St. Thomas Aquinas
According to Albus Dumbledore, this is the only power strong enough to enable a person to resist the temptation of the Dark Arts
love
This scientist was the first woman to be granted a professorship in Physics
Laura Bassi