Potter, Harry
page 206: “Entirely by coincidence”: www.jkrowling.com. www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=18
page 254: “European tradition”: www.jkrowling.com. www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=18
page 207: “A sudden quarrel broke out”: Histories of the Kings of Britain, translated by Sebastian Evans (New York: Dutton, 1920).
Trolls
page 230: “I’ll come to your bedside at midnight tonight”: Peer Gynt, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp (London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton, 1921).
Unicorns
page 240: “a most swift beast”: Pliny the Elder [C. Plinius Secundus], The Historie of the World, translated by Philemon Holland, Book VIII (1601).
page 240: “The elder is formed”: The Travels of Ludovico de Varthenta in Egypt, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, AD 1503-1508, trans. John Winter Jones, ed. George Percy Badger (London: Hakluyt Society, 1863), quoted in Nigg.
page 241: “never become tamed”: Pliny, as page 240.
page 241: “Time’s glory”: Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece.
page 243: “There are in India certain wild asses”: Ctesias, Indica. From Ancient India as Described by Ktesias the Knidian, ed. J. W. McCrindle, 1882.
Veela
page 245: “Two brothers”: adapted from Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians by Vojislav Petrovic (London: G. G. Harrap & Company, 1914).
Voldemort
page 249: “A Dark Lord has often been”: see entry for “Dark Lord” in Clute, John, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (New York: St. Martin’s, 1999) p. 250.
page 250: “racist”: TIME, 30 October 2000.
page 250: “takes what he perceives”: transcript of “Hot Type with Evan Solomon,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, original broadcast 23 June 2000.
Wands
page 254: “European tradition: www.jkrowling.com. www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/extrastuff_view.cfm?id=18
Wizards
page 255: “psychically sensitive”: Guiley, Rosemary Ellen, The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits (New York: Checkmark Books, Facts on File, 2000) page 383.
page 262: “When they reached”: The Odyssey of Homer done into English Prose. S. H. Butcher and A. Lang (London: Macmillan, 1879).
Seven
page 270: “the first to establish”: www.jkrowling.com. Archived at www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/a-z/w.html
page 271: “Time, then, and the heaven”: Plato, Timaeus, trans. by Benjamin Jowett. Available at www.gutenberg.org/etext/1572
page 274: “The number seven represents”: Lévi, Éliphas, Transcendental Magic, trans. by A. E. Waite (1896).
Horcruxes
page 277: “I had tried for days”: Diary entry for 29 September 2006 at www.jkrowling.com; archived at www.hp-lexicon.org/about/sources/jkr.com/jkr-com-diary.html
page 278: “Stories of this kind”: Frazer, James G., The Golden Bough, 1922 edition, ch. 66. Available at www.bartleby.com/196/166.html
page 279: “Temporary absences”: The Golden Bough, ch. 66.
page 280: “If only the safety”: The Golden Bough, ch. 66.
Family
page 287: “Harry encounters himself”: Doniger, Wendy, originally published as “Can You Spot the Source?” in the London Review of Books, vol. 22 no. 4, 17 February 2000; reprinted in another version as “Never Snitch: The Mythology of Harry Potter”. Copyright © 2001 by The University of Chicago. Available at fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/1/777777121870/
page 289: “Snape is a complicated man”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007. Archived at www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/0729-dateline-vieira.html
Religion
page 289: “My struggle is to keep believing”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.
page 289: “religious undertone”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.
page 290: “Every time I’ve been asked”: “Hot Type,” CBC Newsworld, 13 July 2000. Archived at www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0700-hottype-solomon.htm
page 290: “I knew this was coming”: Blume, Judy, “Is Harry Potter Evil?” The New York Times, 22 October 1999.
page 292: “a kind of limbo”: Webchat at www.bloomsbury.com, 30 July 2007. Archived at www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/0730-bloomsbury-chat.html
page 296: “I wouldn’t expect”: “Hot Type,” CBC Newsworld, 13 July 2000.
Evil
page 297: “I wasn’t going to pretend”: “Harry Potter author defends her work, The Associated Press, 14 October 1999. Archived at www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/1099-ap.html
page 298: “The enchantment” and “There can’t be many more”: Webchat at www.bloomsbury.com, 30 July 2007.
page 299: “psychopath”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.
page 299: “he’s beyond redemption”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.
page 301: [Mobs] “demand illusions”: Freud, Sigmund, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) pp. 77-80.
page 301: “magical protection”: Becker, Ernest, The Denial of Death (New York: Free Press, 1973) p. 132.
page 302: “Nothing is more dangerous”: Baldwin, James, “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy,” Esquire, May 1961.
page 302: “If one murders”: The Denial of Death, pp. 135-6.
page 302: “People use their leaders”: The Denial of Death, p. 137.
page 304: “avoiding responsibility”: The Denial of Death, p. 137.
page 304: “involved in something historic”: Arendt, Hannah, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Penguin, 1963), p. 105.
page 305: “The belief in a supernatural source”: Conrad, Joseph, Under Western Eyes (1911).
page 305: “Ron had finally got S.P.E.W.”: Webchat at www.bloomsbury.com, 30 July 2007.
Deathly Hallows
page 307: “Death became a central”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.
page 308: “In many ways”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.
page 309: “He’s terrified of death”: Dateline, NBC News, 29 July 2007.
page 310: “I would like to”: “Hot Type,” CBC Newsworld, 13 July 2000.
page 311: “Death is but crossing” and “They that look beyond”: Penn, William, Fruits of Solitude, in vol. 1, part 3, The Harvard Classics (New York: Collier & Son, 1909-14) available at www.bartleby.com/1/3/210.html
All illustrations come from the Dover Publication art collection and ArtToday.com except for: pages 50 and 258 (reproduced with slight alteration from Ogden, Tom, Wizards and Sorcerers: from Abracadabra to Zoroaster. New York: Facts on File: 1997); and page 169, courtesy of the Cruikshank Collection of Drawings and Prints, Princeton University.
Index
Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)
Achilles
Aconite
Actium, Battle of
Aelian
Aeneid, The
Africa
Agrippa (Heinrich Cornelis)
Alberich
Alchemist, The (Jonson)
Alchemy
Alcott, Louisa May
Alexander the Great
Alexandria
Alice in Wonderland(see also Through the Looking-glass)
Almagest
Ananta
Animagus
Antony, Marc
Apollo
Arabia
Arabian Nights, The
Arachne
Aragog
Argus
Ariadne
Ariel
Ariosto, Ludovico
Aristotle
Arithmancy
Artemis
Arthur (King), see Pendragon, Arthur
Asia
Asphodel
Assyrians
Astolfo
Athena
Athens
Atlantic
Atlee, Clement
Auror
Avada Kedavra
Azkaban
Azkaban (see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Baal
Bagman, Ludovic
Bagshot, Bathilda
Bane
Bar-Hillel, Gili
Basilisks
Bast
Bayeux Tapestry
Beard, Henry
Beaumont, Francis
Beauxbatons
Belladonna
Bellerophon
Beltane
Bezoar
Bible
Bicorn
Biedermann, Hans
Black Death
Black Dogs
Black Forest
Black family motto
Black, Regulus
Black, Sirius
Blair, Tony
Blast-Ended Skrewt
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
Blenheim, Battle of
Blenheim Palace
Bloody Cap
Blue Cap
Bodin
Boggarts
Boleyn, Anne
Bonaccord, Pierre
Borgin & Burkes
Braccae
Bradamante
Britain
Brocken
Broomsticks
Brown, Lavender
Bubasti
Buckbeak
Buddhism
“Burning Times, The,”
Caesar, Julius
Caffè Florian
Campbell, Joseph
“Canonization, The,” (Donne)
Canterbury Tales, The
Carroll, Lewis
Cassandra
Cats
Cauldrons
Celsus
Celts
Centaurs
Centaurus
Cerberus
Cerridwen
Chamber (see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Chamber of Secrets
Charlemagne
Charms
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chimaera
Chiron
Chocolate Frogs
Christ, Jesus
Christianity
Christmas Carol, A
Chronicles of Narnia, The
Cinderella
Circe
Cliodna
Clute, John
Complete Herbal, The (Culpeper)
Congreve, William
Constant, Alphonse Louis
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Cornish Pixies
Cornwall
Creevey, Dennis
Crete
Criosphinx
Cromwell, Oliver
Crookshanks
Crouch Jr., Barty
Cruikshank, George
Ctesias
Culpeper, Nicholas
Cyclops
Daedalus
Daisies
Dark Arts
Dark Mark
Davies, Robertson
De Mimsy-Porpington, Nicholas (Nearly Headless Nick)
Dearborn, Caradoc
Death Eaters
Dee, John
Delacour, Fleur
Dementors
Department of Magical Games
Devil
Diagon Alley
Diana
Dickens, Charles
Diggle, Dedalus
Diggory, Cedric
Dittany
Divination
Dog Star
Doge, Elphias
Donne, John
Dragons
Draught of Living Death
Draught of Peace
Dream Oracle, The
Druids
Duke of Marlborough
Dumbledore, Aberforth
Dumbledore, Albus
Durmstrang
Dursley family
Dursley, Petunia
Echeneis
Egypt
Elixir of Life
Elizabeth
Elves
England
English Physician, The (Culpeper)
Erkling
Erl King
Essex
Ethiopia
Eton
Europe
Eurydice
Excalibur
Fabian Society
Fabius (Quintus Fabius Maximus, “Cunctator”)
Faerie Queen, The
Fairies
Famous Witches and Wizards
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fat Lady
Fata Morgana
Faust
Fawkes
Fawkes, Guy
Fidelius Charm
Figg, Arabella
Filch, Argus
Filibuster, Dr.
Firenze
Flamel, Nicolas
Flamel, Perenelle
Flaubert, Gustave
Fletcher, John
Fletcher, Mundungus
Flitwick
Flint, Marcus
Floo
Florence
Fluffy
Flying Dutchman, The (Wagner)
Forbidden Forest
Ford, Ford Madox
Fortescue, Florean
Fortescue, Sir John
France
French (language)
Freya
Fridwulfa
Fudge, Cornelius
Furies
Gaea
Gaelic
Galahad
Gandalf
Gargantua
Gargouille
Gaul
Geoffrey of Monmouth
German (language)
Germany
Giant Squid
Giants
Gigantes
Gillyweed
Glasgow
Goblet (see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
Goblet of Fire
“Goblin Market” (Rosetti)
Goblins
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gog
Gogmagog
Goyle, Gregory
Granger, Hermione
Grant, John
Great Pyramid
Great Sphinx
Greece
Greek mythology
Grey, Lady Jane
Griffins
Grim (black dog)
Grimmauld Place
Grimoald
Grindelwald
Grindylows
Gringotts Bank
Grub, Gabriel
Grunnion, Alberic
Gryffindor House
Gryffindor, Godric
Gubraithian Fire
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen
Gunpowder Plot
Hades
Hagrid, Rubeus
Hallowe’en
Hannibal
Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harz Mountains
Hecate
Hedwig
Hein, Rudolf
Heka
Heliopolis
Hellebore
Hengist of Woodcroft
Hera
Herbology
Hercules
Hermes
Hermione, see Granger, Hermione
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
“Hero with a Thousand Faces,”
Hidden Monarch
Hieroglyphs
High Inquisitor of Hogwarts (see Umbridge, Dolores)
Hinduism
Hinkypunk
Hippocampus
Hippocrates
Hippocratic Oath
Hippogriffs
History of Magic
Hitler, Adolf
Hobbit, The (Tolkein)
Hogsmeade
Hogwarts Express
Hogwarts
Ho
linshed, Raphael
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Holy Grail
Homer
Honeydukes
Hopkirk, Mafalda
Hornby, Olive
Horsa
Hunt, Violet
Hvergelmer
Hydra
Hydrippus
Hyperborea
Ibsen, Henrik
Icarus
Iceland
Idylls of the King
Imago, Inigo
Immortality
India
Inquisition
International Confederation of Wizards
Ireland
Isis
Italian (language)
Italy
Iyer, Pico
James
Japan
Jenny Greenteeth
Jerusalem
Jesus Christ
Jigger, Arsenius
Job
Jonah
Jones, Hestia
Jonson, Ben
Judah
Judaism
Jung, Carl
Kappas
Karkaroff, Igor
Kelley, Edward
Kelpie
Kenobi, Obi-Wan
“Kensington Garden” (Tickell)
Kent
Kettle, Gertie
Khepera
Killing Curse (Avada Kevadra)
King Arthur, see Pendragon, Arthur
King Proetus of Tiryns
Kingdom of Kent
Kirke, Digory
Knights (of Charlemagne)
Knights (Order of the Garter)
Knights of the Round Table
Knights of Walpurgis
Knights Templar
Knockturn Alley
Knotgrass
Kraken
Kreacher
Labour Party
Labyrinth
Laius
Lamed Wufniks
Lancashire
Lancelot
Laski, Harold
Last Supper
Latin
Le Fay, Morgan
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Legilimency
Leprechauns
Lestrange, Bellatrix (Black)
Levi, Eliphas
Lewis . S.
Lindisfarne
“Loch Ness” (McGonagall)
Lockhart, Gilderoy
Lockhart, J. G.
Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien)
Love for Love (Congreve)
Lucifer
Lupin, Remus
Macbeth
MacDonald, Ramsay
Madame Mim
Magog, see Gog
Malfoy, Draco
Malfoy, Lucius
Malfoy, Narcissa
Malleus Maleficarum
Mandragoritis
Mandrake
Manguel, Alberto
Manticore
Marauder’s Map
Marchbanks, Griselda
Marchbanks, Samuel
Marko, Kralyevich
Martin, Kingsley
Marx, Karl
Maxime, Olympe
McCarthy, Joseph
McGonagall, Minerva
McGonagall, William
Meadowes, Dorcas
Mecca
Medea
Medusa