Meliflua, Araminta Melusina
Mercury
Merlin
Merpeople
Merrows
Mesopotamia
Metamorphmagus
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
Milkah
Milton, John
Miltwaste
Minerva (goddess)
Ministry of Magic
Minos
Minotaur
Mirror of Erised
Mirrors
Mitford, Jessica
Moaning Myrtle
Morgana
Morris, William
Morsmordre
Mosag
Moses
Mosely, Diana
Mosely, Oswald
Mount Killaraus
Mount Olympus
Muggles
Muslims
N.E.W.T.
Naga
Nagamani
Nagini
Narcissa
Narcissus
Nearly Headless Nick (Nicholas De Mimsy-Porpington)
Needham, Peter
Nellie Long-Arms
Nesbit, Edith
Nessos
Nettles
New Statesman, The
New Testament
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nibelungenlied
Niflheim
Nigellus, Phineas
Nile River
Norsemen
Oberon
Occlumency
Odin
Odysseus
Odyssey, The
Oedipus
Ollivander, Mr.
One Thousand Magical Herbs
Order of the Phoenix (organization)
Orlando Furioso (Ariosto)
Orpheus
Overlord Embroidery
Ovid
Oxfordshire
Padfoot
Paladins
Pankhurst, Emmeline
Paracelsus
Paradise Lost (Milton)
Pariah Elites
Parkinson, Pansy
Parliament
Patil, Padma
Patil, Parvati
Patronus
Pease, Edward
Peer Gynt (Ibsen)
Pegasus
Pendragon, Arthur (King Arthur)
Pendragon, Uther
Pensieve
Perceval
Pettigrew, Peter
Philosopher’s Stone (magical object)
Phoenix
Phoenix (see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
Physiologus
Pliny
Podmore, Frank
Podmore, Sturgis
Polyjuice Potion
Pomfrey, Poppy
Pontefract (Yorkshire)
Pope Gregory
Poseidon
Potions
Potter, Beatrix
Potter, Francis
Potter, Harry; (and Aragog) ; (and boggart); (and Dumbledore); (and Dursleys) ; (and Fawkes); (fear) ; (and Forbidden Forest) ; (friends); (and Godric Gryffindor), (guardians of) ; (and Goblet of Fire); (and grindylows); (and Hogwarts basilisk); (injuries); (and merpeople); (and Mirror of Erised); (parents’ death); (Prof. Trelawney’s prediction of death); (and Sphinx); (and Voldemort)
Potter, James
Potter, Lily
Prague
Prewett, Fabian
Prewett, Gideon
Prometheus
Prongs
Proteus
Proust, Marcel
Ptolemaeus, Claudius
Ptolemy
Puck
Queerditch Marsh
Quidditch
Quidditch Through the Ages
Quirrell, Professor
Ragnok
Ragnorok
Ramora
Raphael
Red Cap
Red Comb
Re’em
Rémy, Nicholas
Ring Cycle
Rogero
Rome
Romulus
Ronan
Rose, Carol
Rosicrucians
Rossetti, Christina
Rouen, Archbishop of
Rowling, Joanne, (hypothetical animagus) , (connection to Hermione) , (Dementors and depression) , (writing habits), (middle name ), (best friend and Ron), (“heroine”), (birthday), (mother’s death)
Runes
Sagittarius
Salamander
Salazar, António de Oliveira
Sammonicus, Quintus Serenus
Sanskrit
Scamander, Newt
Scandinavia
Scarabs
Scotland
Scott, Sir Walter
Second World War
Secret Guardians
Seer
Seine River
Selkies
Serbia
Shacklebolt, Kingsley
Shakespeare, William
Shamans
Shaw, George Bernard
Shelob
Sibyls
Sirens
Skeeter, Rita
Skywalker, Luke
Slytherin (House)
Slytherin, Salazar
Smethwyck, Hippocrates
Snape, Severus
Snow White
Sorcerer’s Stone
Sorting Hat
Spain
Spenser, Edmund
Sphinx
Spider
Sprout, Pomona
Squib
“Squire’s Tale, The” (Chaucer)
St. George
St. Isidore
St. Mungo
St. Mungo’s Hospital
St. Romain
St. Walpurgis
Staffordshire
Star Wars
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stone, (see Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone)
Stonehenge “Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton” (Dickens)
Switzerland
Sword in the Stone, The, (White)
Taliesen
Tapestries
Tempest, The
Temptation of Saint Anthony, The (Flaubert)
Tenebrus
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Thebes
Theosophical Society
Theseus
Thestral
Thoth
Through the Looking-glass(see also Alice in Wonderland)
Tickell, Thomas
Tithonus
Tofty, Professor
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Tonks, Andromeda (Black)
Tonks, Nymphadora
Torquemada, Tomás de
Treasure Island
Trelawney, Sibyll
Triwizard Cup
Triwizard Tournament
Trojan Horse
Trojan War
Trolls
Troy
Tutankhamen
Ugly Duckling
Umbridge, Dolores
Underworld
Unforgivable Curses
Unicorn
Uranus
Vablatsky, Cassandra
Van Gogh, Vincent
Vance, Emmeline
Vasuki
Vatican
Veela
Verne, Jules
Violet
Virgil
Voldemort
Vortigern
Wagner, Richard
Walpurgis Night (Walpurgisnacht)
Wands
Weasley, Arthur
Weasley, Bill
Weasley, Ginny
Weasley, Molly
Weasley, Percy
Weasley, Ron
Weasley twins
Webster, Griselda
Weird Sisters
Wells, H. G.
White, T. H.
Whomping Willow
Widdershins, Willy
William
Will-o’-the-wisp
Wilson, Harold
Wint
er’s Tale, A
Witenagemot
Wizard of Earthsea, A
Wizengamot
Wolfsbane
Wolfsbane Potion
Wood, Oliver
Woodcroft Castle
Woodcroft
Wormtail
Wormwood
Yeats, William Butler
Yggdrasil
Yorkshire
Zeus
About the Author
David Colbert’s many books include The Magical Worlds of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials”, The Magical Worlds of The Lord of the Rings, the Eyewitness history series, and the 10 Days series of biographies.