Magical objects in Harry Potter

In the fictional Harry Potter series, many magical objects exist for the use of the characters. The following is a list of Magical Objects in Harry Potter found throughout the books by J.K. Rowling.

Communication

The Dark Mark

Main article: Dark Mark

The Dark Mark is a way of in which the antagonist of the Harry Potter books, Lord Voldemort, contacts his Death Eaters, and vice versa. The tattoo-like mark, when pressed by one of the Death Eaters, burns those branded, notifying them of Voldemort's call for them or vice versa. In the film version, Goblet of Fire (2005), the Dark Mark moves in a wave-like motion upon character Peter Pettigrew are Lord Voldemort touches it with his wand.

Howler

A Howler is a fictional bright red letter sent to signify extreme anger in the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling. When it is opened, the sender's voice will bellow at the recipient, with the voice magically magnified to deafening volumes, before self-destructing. If it is not opened, it will explode violently and the message will be heard anyway, and will be even louder than if opened.^[HP2] In the film version, the Howler folds itself into an origami-stylised set of lips before shredding itself into scraps of paper.

In Chamber of Secrets, character Ron Weasley receives a Howler from his mother, Mrs. Weasley, after he steals his father's enchanted car and flies it to Hogwarts with Harry Potter. Character Neville Longbottom received one from his grandmother after Sirius Black used his list of passwords to enter Gryffindor Common Room in Prisoner of Azkaban. Later in the series, Hermione Granger is sent one in Goblet of Fire after Rita Skeeter publishes an article in which she makes up a relationship between Hermione and Harry. Finally, Dumbledore sends Petunia Dursley a Howler in Order of the Phoenix, to remind her of the agreement to allow Harry to live at Privet Drive, when Harry's Uncle Vernon attempts to throw him out after the Dementors attack.

Dark Objects

Hand of Glory

The Hand of Glory is an instrument used by Draco Malfoy in Half-Blood Prince. It was seen previously in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, when Draco and his father, Lucius Malfoy, visited the Dark Arts store Borgin and Burkes in Knockturn Alley. (At that point, Lucius denied Draco's request to have it, saying that it was a tool for a common thief.) In the second book, it is seen as a large shrivelled hand displayed on a cushion in the shop. However, when a candle is placed in the hand, it gives light only to the user. In the sixth installment, it was used by Draco when leaving the Room of Requirement, allowing him to escape from character Ron Weasley and a few other members of Dumbledore's Army after using the Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder.

Horcruxes

Main article: Horcrux

A Horcrux, in the universe of Harry Potter, is a fictional "receptacle in which a Dark wizard has hidden a part of his soul for the purposes of attaining immortality." With part of a wizard's soul thus stored, the wizard becomes immortal so long as the Horcrux remains intact, typically hidden away in a safe location. If the wizard's body is destroyed, part of the soul remains preserved within the Horcrux. However, the destruction of the creator's body leaves the wizard or witch in a state of half-life, without corporeal form. The Horcrux was the reason behind Lord Voldemort's immortality in the series.

Tom Riddle's diary

Main article: Tom Riddle's diary

See also: Horcrux

Tom Riddle's Diary was a fictional diary belonging to Tom Marvollo Riddle (later renamed Lord Voldemort). The diary then became a horcrux of Voldemort's and made its first appearance in Chamber of Secrets. The diary came to the the fictional Hogwarts School with character Ginny Weasley who had no idea of its dark powers; thus it set the plot line going in the second book. Tom Riddle's diary seems to have a form of real world virtual reality.

Detectors and concealers

Detectors

Foe-glass

A Foe-glass is a fictional mirror that detects and shows its owner's enemies in or out of focus, depending on how close they are. However, like all Dark detectors, it can be fooled, as mentioned by character Harry potter in the fifth book at the beginning of the first D.A. meeting. Alastor Moody, actually Barty Crouch Jr. in disguise, claimed that when the figures are most focused, they are the nearest.

Until the debate over character Severus Snape's allegiance was resolved in Deathly Hallows, a key argument for those who believed that Snape was still in league with the fictional Order of the Phoenix was the fact that Snape appeared as an enemy in the Foe-glass of Barty Crouch, Jr. in the fourth book (an event that would not have occurred were Snape working for the fictitious Death Eaters).

Probity Probe

A Probity Probe is a fictional object which detect spells of concealment and hidden magical objects. The detector made its first appearance in Half-Blood Prince as thin and golden in colour. After Lord Voldemort's return, Probes are used as part of the increased security at Gringotts. They are last seen when characters Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger arrive at Gringotts to rob the bank of one of Voldemort's horcruxes.

Remembrall

A Remembrall is a fictional small, clear orb, containing smoke that turns red when detecting that the user has forgotten something. Unfortunately, it does not tell the user what he/she has forgotten which makes it somewhat worthless. The very forgetful character of Neville Longbottom is given a Remembrall in Philosopher's Stone, but loses it by his sixth year. Their use is forbidden during the fictional O.W.L. exams, because students could tell if they wrote a wrong answer.

The DVD of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone contains a software approximation of a remembrall.

Revealer

A Revealer is a fictional bright red eraser, used in the fictional world of Harry Potter to make invisible ink appear. It makes its first appearance in Chamber of Secrets when character Hermione Granger tries to make something appear in Tom Riddle's diary.

Secrecy Sensor

The Secret Sensor is a dark detector which makes its first appearance when Harry Potter enters Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody's office. The sensor is described as "an object that looked something like an extra-squiggly, golden television aerial." It vibrates when it detects concealment and lies. Moody mentions that it is, "No use here of course, too much interference--students in every direction lying about why they haven't done their homework." However, it may be that this was due to the sinister intentions of Moody (actually Barty Crouch Jr.).

In Order of the Phoenix, it is shown that Secret Sensors are used at the Atrium Desk in the fictional Ministry of Magic upon visitor to the government locale. Later in the book, Harry mentions that they can be easy fooled like its other fictional dark detecting counterparts. In Half-Blood Prince, due to Hogwarts' new stringent security measures, character Argus Filch is assigned to run every student entering the castle with Secrecy Sensors. All the owls flying into Hogwarts, too, are placed under his measure to detect that no Dark object enters the castle through mail. Later, Hermione explains that though Secrecy Sensors detect jinxes, curses, and concealment charms, they cannot detect love potions (that's because they are not dark, though Harry high considers them to be).

Sneakoscope

A Sneakoscope is a fictional magical device which serves as a Dark Arts detector in the universe of Harry Potter. The device is described as a miniature glass spinning top that emits shrill noises in the presence of deception. For instance, when an untrustworthy person is near or when a deceitful event takes place nearby.

Sneakoscopes are first introduced in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when character Ron Weasley gives Harry Potter one of the devices as a present for his 13th birthday. The sneakoscope appears again on the Hogwarts Express, and again up in Harry and Ron's dormitory. Harry later discovers that Scabbers, Ron's rat, who was present each time the Sneakoscope was spinning, is actually a traitorous Animagus named Peter Pettigrew. In Goblet of Fire, the somewhat paranoid "Mad-Eye" Moody has several sneakoscopes that he somehow disabled (possibly related to a crack it was described as having), claiming, "It wouldn't stop whistling." However, it was later revealed that Mad-Eye was really Barty Crouch Jr under the effects of the Polyjuice Potion, thus explaining the constant alerts in his presence. Finally in Deathly Hallows, Hermione gives Harry a Sneakoscope for his 17th birthday which they later use to help as a lookout while in hiding.

Weasley Family Clock

The Weasley family has a special fictional clock in their home, the Burrow, with nine hands, one for every member of the family. Instead of telling the time, the clock reveals the location or status of each family member. The known locations are: Home, School, Work, Travelling, Lost, Hospital, Prison, Mortal Peril. The Weasleys are the only family mentioned to own such a clock.

Only the location of mortal peril is known on the round clock (it is situated where the numeral 12 would normally be). Throughout the first five books, the hands changed to reflect the varying statuses of the family members, but by Book Six, all nine hands had taken to pointing to mortal peril at all times, except when someone was travelling. Mrs. Weasley took this to mean that, with Lord Voldemort having returned, everyone was always in mortal peril, but she could not verify this, because she did not know anyone else who has a clock like hers.^[HP6]

Concealers

Invisibility Cloaks

For information on Harry Potter's special cloak, see Cloak of Invisibility.

Within the universe of Harry Potter, a fictional Invisibility Cloak is used to make the wearer invisible. There are a number of different types of Invisibility Cloaks. All are very rare and expensive, and they may be spun from the pelts of the fictional beast, Demiguise, magical herbivores that are found in the Far East. They can be ordinary cloaks as well with a Disillusionment Charm or a Bedazzlement Hex placed on them. Over time, these fictitious cloaks will lose their invisibility ability, eventually becoming opaque.

Invisibility Cloaks hide the presence of the wearer by visual detection only, meaning that it does not stop people from being solid. Character Alastor Moody's magically-charmed eye however was able to penetrate them. Creatures such as cats (fictional Mrs. Norris) and snakes (fictional Nagini) rely more heavily on other senses unaffected by visibility (smell, hearing), so the cloaks are less effective in hiding from them. The fictional Dementors in the books have no sense of sight and instead sense human despair, a sense unhindered by the use of an Invisibility cloak.

The cloak of character Ignotus Peverell, which was passed down the generations to Harry Potter is an extremely powerful cloak that seems to never lose its ability to render objects invisible. It also never gets worn out despite constant use and is not affected by spells. It was possibly made by Ignotus himself, using powerful but unknown magic, rather than from the methods mentioned above. The story of the cloak says it was Death's cloak given to Peverell, though "Death" if only personification in the story.

Invisibility cloaks have played a major part in the Harry Potter series, they have been used by many characters, not just one. Ignotus Peverell, youngest of the three brothers, and the first owner of the Cloak of Invisibility. James Potter, Harry's father, generations later inherited the Cloak of Invisibility as a descendant of the Peverell family. His son, Harry Potter, then inherited it from his father, presented by Albus Dumbledore, who had possession of it at the time of the death of Harry's parents. Mad-Eye Moody is known to possess two. One of these was borrowed by Sturgis Podmore in the course of work for the fictional Order of the Phoenix. Barty Crouch Senior possessed one as well, as he used it to hide his son.

Both

Deluminator (Put-Outer)

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Albus Dumbledore is using his Deluminator in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

The Deluminator (solely called the Put-Outer until Deathly Hallows) is a device used and invented by Albus Dumbledore that can remove/absorb and later return the light from a light source to provide secrecy to the user. It looks like a standard cigarette lighter and makes its first appearance in Philosopher's Stone. In this instance, Dumbledore uses the Deluminator to darken Privet Drive, where the Dursley household is located. This makes the Deluminator the first magical object to be shown in the novels. It was next seen in Order of the Phoenix where Dumbledore loans the Deluminator to Mad-Eye Moody, who uses it when transporting Harry from the Dursleys' home to the headquarters of the ficitonal Order of the Phoenix at Number 12, Grimmauld Place. In Half-Blood Prince, Dumbledore uses the Deluminator again to darken Privet Drive before collecting Harry.

Finally in Deathly Hallows, it is first referred to as the Deluminator. It is bequeathed to Ron Weasley by Dumbledore. After Ron had left his friends in anger, the Deluminator demonstrated the additional capability of a homing device. Ron hears the voices of Harry and Hermione through the device when they say his name and, when he clicks it, the emitted light enters his body and allows him to locate and Apparate to the vicinity of their camp. Ron speculates that Dumbledore had foreseen that he would abandon his friends and regret it later. Harry said that Dumbledore knew Ron would always want to return to his friends. Rowling later stated that Dumbledore left it to Ron because he believed he might have needed a little more guidance than Harry and Hermione.

Games

Gobstones

Gobstones is one of the many magical games played by young wizards in the Harry Potter books, along with Wizard's Chess and Exploding Snap. Gobstones is similar to the real game of marbles and pétanque, except that in Gobstones, the balls spit, or gob, a foul smelling liquid in the face of the opposing player when they lose a point. Hogwarts students are seen playing Gobstones throughout the books, and there is even a Gobstones Club at the school.

Quidditch equipment

Main article: Quidditch § Players and Equipment

There are several enchanted objects needed to play the wizarding game Quidditch. All the balls in the game are enchanted in some way. The Golden Snitch is enchanted to fly around, mimicking the flight patterns of the Golden Snidget, and also to not leave the playing field. The Bludger is enchanted to fly around and try to knock players off their broomsticks and two magically reinforced bats are used to repel and redirect them. A Bludger does not focus on one player unless it has been tampered with, as was the case in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The Quaffle may appear an exception, but it is also enchanted to make it easy to grip, and to fall more slowly than normal.

Playing cards: Shelf-shuffling and Exploding Snap

In Chamber of Secrets, a pack of Self-Shuffling cards is mentioned as one of the objects littering the floor of Ron's room.

In Goblet of Fire, Ron was trying to build a card castle out of his Exploding Snap pack, playing cards that have the ability to explode at random. It is mentioned that this made building card castles more exciting, as they were likely to explode at any given time, and indeed his did so as he placed the last two cards on the top of the castle.

Wizard's Chess

Wizard's chess is a version of the real chess played with small pieces and a board like real chess, except that the pieces are animated. The players simply tell the fictional pieces to move using algebraic chess notation, and the pieces obey. The pieces attack each other in cases where an opposing player's piece would be taken, usually by knocking the captured piece out and dragging it off the board (in the film version the captured piece is destroyed). Ron has a set left to him by his grandfather. Harry first plays with pieces borrowed from Seamus Finnigan, (it is said that the pieces kept shouting him advice because they did not trust him)^[HP1] Harry later gets a set in one of his wizard crackers during his first Christmas at Hogwarts. During the climactic chapters of Philosopher's Stone Harry, Ron and Hermione become chess pieces in a life-size game of the fictional wizard's chess, thus risking their lives. It is unknown how wizards can play this game repeatedly, though using the spell Reparo to repair them is a possibility.

Recently, the company Deagostini have released a magazine series called Harry Potter Chess, which is based on the life-size game near the end of the film version of Philosopher's Stone and each piece is specially animated. The chess pieces that come with it are based on the life-size pieces in the film. Arco Toys and others also have a Wizards Chess Set.<ref?[4]</ref>

Legendary magical artifacts

The following are fictional artifacts considered legendary in the fictional universe of Harry Potter.

Deathly Hallows

The Sign of the Deathly Hallows represents all three objects symbolically: the wand, the stone and the cloak.

Main article: Deathly Hallows (objects)

The Deathly Hallows are three magical objects featured in the last of the Harry Potter books Deathly Hallows. They are part of a fictional traditional magical children's story; Dumbledore suggested that the story was created after the fact as an explanation for the origin of the objects, as well as a morality tale.^[HP7] The Deathly Hallows are the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone and the Cloak of Invisibility. Possessing all three of the Hallows is said to make the bearer the master of Death.^[HP7]

All three Hallows appear in the books before the main characters discover the story behind the Hallows. Harry's Invisibility Cloak and Dumbledore's wand (the Elder Wand) appear as early as the first book in the series, while the Resurrection Stone (Marvolo Gaunt's Ring) appears in Half-Blood Prince.

Goblet of Fire

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The Goblet as seen in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The Goblet of Fire is a fictional goblet which sprouts fire at the beginning of ever Triwizard Tournament used solely to choose the participating school champions, serving as an "impartial judge".^[HP4] Alastor Moody (the impostor) stated once that the Goblet of Fire was "a very powerful magical object" and it is very difficult to be hoodwinked, unless someone uses an exceptionally strong Confundus Charm. This is the first clue that he is involved in the hoodwinking (as he would just happen know).

During its use in Goblet of Fire, it is placed in the entrance hall and surrounded by an "age line" (a charm place by character Albus Dumbledore). The Goblet can not be fooled by an age potion however as proved by Fred and George Weasley, who enter their names only to have them expelled from the fire. When not in use, the goblet is kept in a jewelled "casket".

Gryffindor's Sword

Gryffindor's Sword is a fictional goblin-made sword adorned with large rubies on the pommel. It was once owned by Godric Gryffindor, one of the medieval founders of Hogwarts. In Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter draws the Sword out of the fictional Sorting Hat to kill a basilisk. The sword also also plays a role in Deathly Hallows, where it is revealed to have been imbued with basilisk venom, and is used to destroy three of Lord Voldemort's horcruxes. On several occasions, it is shown that only one who is truly a member of the Gryffindor House - one who shows courage in the face of danger - can use the Sword.

Because the Sword was goblin-forged, it is indestructible, and will in fact absorb anything that is more powerful than it, making it even more powerful (thus explaining why the sword was imbued with basilisk venom). According to Griphook the goblin, the Sword was originally forged for the goblin Ragnuk the First and stolen by Godric Gryffindor. The Sword was stolen (or retrieved, as goblins would say) by Griphook when the Sword fell from Harry's grasp during the raid on Bellatrix Lestrange's vault in book seven. However, it again returned to human hands later in the book, when Neville Longbottom pulled it out of the Sorting Hat and used it to decapitate the fictional Nagini, Lord Voldemort's snake. In both incidents when it was drawn from the hat, it was used to kill a snake, the symbol of Slytherin. This shows that apparently, no matter where the sword happened to be at the time, it would reappear in the hat when a true member of Gryffindor house is in need of it.

J.K. Rowling has confirmed in her webchat that Gryffindor did not steal the sword from Ragnuk and that this belief is merely part of Griphook's goblin mistrust and prejudice against wizards.

The Philosopher's Stone

The Philosopher's Stone is, in the universe of Harry Potter, a fictional stone, invented by fictional character (in-universe) Nicholas Flamel. The stone is legendary in that it changes all metals to gold, and when brewed into an elixir can make the drinker immortal. The Philosopher's Stone is seen only in Philosopher's Stone, and is the object that Lord Voldemort is pursuing to return himself to power. It was destroyed at the end of the book by character Albus Dumbledore..."As for the Stone, it has been destroyed."

Sorting Hat

The Sorting Hat is a fictional sentient artifact used at Hogwarts, which magically determines to which of the four school houses - Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin - each new student is to be assigned. During the opening banquet at the beginning of the school year, the hat is placed on every First-Year students' head. The hat will announce its choice aloud, and the student joins the selected house. Judging from Harry's own account of his Sorting, and a brief comment made by Hermione, the hat speaks to the student while they're being Sorted and is willing to take the student's preferences into account when it makes its decision. The Sorting Hat originally belonged to Godric Gryffindor, one of the four founders of Hogwarts.

Before sorting the students each year, the hat recites a new introductory song. These songs occasionally warn of danger to come, as in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The Sorting Hat's songs vary in length and content, but always include a brief description of each house. It is suggested by Ron that the hat probably spends each school year thinking up the song it will sing at the next start-of-term banquet.

The Sorting Hat has shown the ability to conjure the sword of Godric Gryffindor from under its brim on two instances; in Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, it provides the sword to Harry Potter, and in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, it delivers the sword to Neville Longbottom. Dumbledore makes it clear in Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets that only a true Gryffindor can summon the sword in this fashion. The sword and hat together make up the two known relics of Godric Gryffindor.

The Sorting Hat had a difficult time placing Harry, almost placing him into Slytherin house before he requested specifically and emphatically not to be. The Hat instead placed him into Gryffindor, after both his parents.

In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the Sorting Hat is set on fire by Lord Voldemort, although it appears the hat was not destroyed, as Neville was able to draw the Sword of Gryffindor from it immediately after and references to the sorting were used during the epilogue 19 years later.

In the first two Harry Potter movies, the hat is voiced by actor Leslie Phillips.

Magical Candies

A multitude of sweets are produced in the stories; many have a violent or bizarre side-effect, especially those created by Fred and George Weasley. Most sweets can be found in the sweetshop Honeydukes. There are also Chocoballs, Cauldron Cakes, Fudge Flies, Pumpkin Pasties and Chocolate Cauldrons.

Major Candies

The following is a list of the main sweets enjoyed and mentioned in the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans are fictional jelly beans that come in literally every flavour. The flavours described in the books that are normal include caramel, chocolate, coffee, marmalade, peppermint, strawberry, lemon, and toffee. The "unusual" flavours include baked bean, curry, earwax, bogey, grass, liver, black pepper, sardine, spinach, sprout, tripe, and vomit. The Jelly Belly candy company produces real versions of fictitious Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. They have produced odd flavours in and out of the market since ~2001. Apart from some "regular" flavours, the company also produces several "unusual" flavours mentioned in the books. Other flavours include bacon, dirt, earthworm, rotten rotten egg, sausage, pickle, toast, and soap.

Chocolate Frogs

Chocolate Frogs are frogs made of chocolate, which have been enchanted to move about like real frogs. They are each packaged with a collectible card displaying a magical picture and brief biography of a famous witch or wizard. The cards named by the Harry Potter books include: Agrippa, Ptolemy, Albus Dumbledore, Nicolas Flamel, Morgana, Hengist of Woodcroft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe, Paracelsus, Merlin, Druidess Cliodna, Crospin Conk, Bertie Bott, Felix Summerbee, Cassandra Vablatskey, and Ignatia Wildsmith. Additionally, J. K. Rowling designed four Wizard Cards for the four Hogwarts founders.

Chocolate Frogs first appear in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, when Harry is on the Hogwarts Express heading to Hogwarts. Having just met Ron Weasley, Harry buys a large amount of food and sweets, including Chocolate Frogs, for the two of them to share. Harry opens a package to discover that the card inside depicts Albus Dumbledore. Said card is fundamental in the plot, because while they are trying to discover who Nicholas Flamel is, the card gives Harry the clue that he is related to alchemy. The films depict these frogs as capable of movement, though this does not appear to be canonically supported.

Chocolate Frogs appear throughout the series. Some fans had speculated that members of the fictional Order of the Phoenix used the cards found with the Frogs to communicate. J.K. Rowling however, has denied this claim. Chocolate Frogs of a sort are also available through the Cap Candy Company, though availability is limited in summer months due to the risk of them melting in transport. They each come with one holographic lenticular collector card.

According to a webchat with the author, Harry and his friends are eventually featured on a series of Chocolate Frog cards, Ron calling it "his finest hour".

Cockroach Cluster

Cockroach Clusters are a very strange type of sweet, which Harry discovers accidentally to be one of the passwords to Professor Albus Dumbledore's office. We can assume it to contain parts of or whole cockroaches, or to at least be shaped like cockroaches, as other sweets are shaped like frogs or mice. They are sold at Honeydukes shop in Hogsmeade. They also seem to resemble peanuts, since character Ron Weasley once thought he could fool Fred into eating some if he told him that the cluster was peanuts.

Cockroach Cluster also happens to be one of the chocolates found in the Whizzo Quality Assortment in Monty Python's Crunchy Frog sketch. Since the book's publication, actual Cockroach Clusters---which look like very large roaches---can be found, especially from Jelly Belly.

Drooble's Best Blowing Gum

Drooble's Best Blowing Gum is a fictional bubble gum in Harry Potter that fills a room with bluebell bubbles that refuse to pop for days. In Order of the Phoenix, character Alice Longbottom - whose mind had been permanently damaged by the Cruciatus Curse - gave her son Neville Longbottom a Drooble's Bubblegum wrapper for Christmas.

Fizzing Whizzbees

The fictional candies, Fizzing Whizbees, are massive sherbet balls that make the eater levitate "a few inches off the ground while you're sucking them", according to Ron Weasley. They are rumoured to contain dried Billywig stings. Fizzing Whizzbees are also made by Cap Candy, and come with three packets (one Raspberry, one Strawberry and one Orange). They actually resemble the real life Pop Rocks.

Other minor candies

These are candies that make only minor appearances and mentions in the Harry Potter books only.

• Ice Mice are mouse-shaped sweets that make one's teeth squeak and chatter.
• Liquorice Wands are fake candy wands. They appear in Philosopher's Stone on the sweets cart on the Hogwarts Express, and in the Goblet of Fire when Ron requests them, again on the train.
• Pepper Imps are tiny and black; they "make you smoke at the mouth", according to Ron Weasley.
• Peppermint Toads are peppermint creams in the shape of a toad. Once eaten, they give the sensation that they hop in the stomach.
• Sugar Quills are popular among students, as they can be eaten during class, "and they just look like you're thinking what to write next", according to Ron Weasley. Deluxe sugar quills, a longer lasting version of sugar quills, are also available.
• Toothflossing Stringmints are odd splintery mints that presumably clean and floss one's teeth.

Mirrors

The Mirror of Erised

The Mirror of Erised is a fictional mystical mirror discovered by Harry in a back corridor of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Philosopher's Stone. On it is inscribed, erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi — which, when reversed and correctly spaced, reads I show not your face but your heart's desire. Erised is "desire" spelled backwards. According to character Albus Dumbledore, the Mirror "shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts"; Harry, upon encountering the Mirror, can see his parents, as well as what appears to be a crowd of relatives; Ron sees himself as Head Boy and Quidditch Captain holding the Quidditch Cup (thus revealing his wish to be acknowledged in the shadow of his highly successful older brothers, as well as his more popular friend, Harry). Dumbledore, one of the only other characters to face the Mirror in the novel, claims to see himself holding a pair of socks, telling Harry that "one can never have enough socks", and lamenting that he did not receive any for Christmas, since people will insist on giving him books. However, this is a lie. It is said in Deathly Hallows that what he really sees is his entire family alive and well and happy together again. If Hermione Granger sees into the mirror, she would have seen herself, Ron and Harry leaving unscathed and victorious after the Lord Voldemort crisis during the war, but otherwise would see herself embraced in a romantic hug with Ron.

The Mirror of Erised was the final protection given to the Philosopher's Stone in the first book. Dumbledore hid the Mirror and hid the Stone inside it, knowing that only a person who wanted to find the Stone, but not to use it, would be able to obtain the stone. Anyone else would see himself making an Elixir of Life or turning things to gold, rather than actually finding the Stone. Dumbledore tells Harry, "It was one of my more brilliant ideas, and between you and me, that's saying something."

The mirror has not been seen since Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Two-way mirrors

In Order of the Phoenix, Sirius Black gives character Harry a mirror he originally used to communicate with James Potter in detention. That fictional mirror is a part of a set of Two-way Mirrors which are activated by holding one of them and saying the name of the other possessor, causing his or her face to appear on the caller's mirror and vice versa. Harry receives this mirror from Sirius in a package after spending his Christmas holiday at Grimmauld Place. Harry, at first, chooses not to open the package, although he does discover the mirror after Sirius's death, by which point it is no longer functional. It makes its second appearance in Half-Blood Prince when character Mundungus Fletcher loots Grimmauld Place and sells it to Aberforth Dumbledore, who uses it to watch out for Harry in Deathly Hallows. When Harry desperately cries for help at a shard of the magical mirror, a brilliant blue eye (which Harry mistakes for Albus Dumbledore's eye) which happens to be Aberforth Dumbledore's eye appears, sends Dobby who arrives to help Harry escape from the Malfoy Manor to Bill and Fleur's Shell Cottage.

Photographs and Portraits

Main articles: Magic (Harry Potter) § Portraits, and Magic (Harry Potter) § Photographs

Photographs and Portraits within the fictional universe of Harry Potter have the magical ability to move. The subjects often move about, as if another world existed behind them. The subjects often move out of their photos and portraits and return later at their own call. Within a location, the subjects of the portraits along the walls may travel from portrait to portrait around the locale (e.g. Hogwarts Castle). Subjects may also visit their other portraits found in other locales, if they have any.

In Hogwarts, the portraits of old headmasters are hung around the headmaster office. These portraits aid the current headmaster by giving their advice. Portraits as well serve as a means of fast communication in the fictional wizarding world; character Albus Dumbledore tells a portrait in his office to visit its Ministry of Magic portrait to inform the government of the ill-stricken Arthur Weasly on premises. The halls of Hogwarts are lined with portraits, and some hide something (i.e House Common rooms, Secret passageways) which often lead somewhere important or have some importance.

Photographs however, can not talk like their portrait counterparts.

Prank objects

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes

Main article: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes

Prank objects from Weasley Wizard Wheezes are made and designed by the owners of the shop, Fred and George Weasley. Weasley's Wild-fire Whiz-Bangs are enchanted fireworks with overly spectacular effects. Skiving Snackboxes are candies which are designed to sicken the eater in order to skive off lessons. Each variety of Snackboxes causes a different effect, such as vomiting, fainting or developing nosebleeds - one side of the candy causes the malady, while the other half cures it. Patented Daydream Charms are a kit which puts the user into realistic daydreams, which can be fitted into lessons. A Headless hat creates a limited field of invisibility which covers the wearer's head, giving them the appearance of not having a head. Its counterpart is a Shield Hat which deflects minor hexes and curses. Originally intended to be a prank item, it expanded into shield cloaks, gloves, etc. because it works so well.

Trick Wands are magical fake wands which turn into a silly item (rubber chickens, tin parrots, etc.) when someone tries to use them. More expensive varieties beat the unwary user around the head and neck. Ton-tongue toffees make the eater's tongue grow to an alarmingly large size temporarily while Canary Cream, a custard cream, temporarily transforms the eater into a giant canary.

Other

Other prank objects include Belch Powder, Dungbombs (explodes and causes a large and extremely smelly mess), and Ever-bashing boomerangs (presumably hit their target repeatedly after being thrown and are banned at Hogwarts). Fanged Frisbees which are literally frisbees with fangs and are first mentioned in Goblet of Fire (as one of Filch's newest restricted items at the beginning of term speech). However, they make their first appearance in Half-Blood Prince when one whirled around the Griffindor common room, changing course with a mind of its own, and taking a bite out of a curtain - all after Ron Weasley threw one in the Gryffindor common room. They may be capable of causing damage.

More objects include Screaming yo-yos, which presumably scream loudly when worked, and Stink Pellets, which are used to distract prefects and teachers, and give an unpleasant smell.

Storage receptacles

Moody's Magical Trunk

Fictional character Alastor Moody owns a specially bewitched magical trunk. It has seven locks on it, and the trunk opens to a different assortment of objects for each lock. Most notably, though, the seventh compartment is about 10 feet deep (possibly because of the use of an Undetectable Extension Charm), and is where Barty Crouch Jr. imprisoned the real Moody. Other compartments contain spellbooks, Dark Detectors, and Moody's Invisibility Cloak.

Pensieve

A Pensieve is a stone receptacle in which to store memories. Covered in mystic runes, it contains memories which take as a type of matter that is described as neither liquid nor gas. A witch or wizard can extract their own memories or another person's and store them in the Pensieve and review them later. It also relieves the mind when it becomes cluttered with information. Anyone can examine the memories in the Pensieve, which also allows viewers to fully immerse themselves in the memories stored within, much like a magical form of real world virtual reality.

Oddly, users of these devices view the memories from a third-person-point-of-view, providing a near-omniscient perspective of the events preserved. This of course, raises questions of how they are able to see things beyond what they have remembered. Rowling answered this question in an interview, confirming that memories in the pensieve allow one to view details of things that happened even if they did not notice or remember them, and stated that "that's the magic of the Pensieve, what brings it alive". The "memories" contained in the Pensieve have the appearance of silver threads. Memories that have been heavily manipulated or tampered with to alter perspectives, or are simply aged and gone-spoiled (such as Horace Slughorn's), may appear thick and jelly-like and offer obscured viewing. Memories are not limited to just those of humans, since at least one house-elf (Hokey) provided Dumbledore with a memory as well.

Dumbledore's Pensieve first appears in Goblet of Fire, again in Order of the Phoenix (Harry also visits Severus Snape's pensive), and plays a pivotal role in Half-Blood Prince. It makes a last appearance in Deathly Hallows when Harry uses it to decipher the memories of Severus Snape.

Transportation

It should be noted that a major form of transportation in the Harry Potter universe is apparation and disapparation, which is a spell/skill that does not involve artifacts of any kind. The reason in many cases that the spell is not used is provided by character Ron Weasley, who states to character Harry Potter that magicals mess with all this (instead of using Apparation and Disapparation or Floo Powder) because either their children can not perform that type of magic or the type pof magical transportation is not available at the desired location.

Often utilized

Broomsticks

Broomsticks are used for transportation by wizards and witches of all ages, and for the game of Quidditch, in the fictional Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling. Their use is similar to that of flying carpets, although the latter are banned in Great Britain. However, they are uncomfortable for extensive trips, even with the fictional patented cushion charm.

Broomsticks are treated as a major consumer product in the Wizarding world. There are numerous brands and models of brooms, all of which vary in their capabilities. These range from expensive high-performance models to toy broomsticks for young children that only fly a few feet off the ground to even family-sized broomsticks that have room for an entire family to sit down on and have a luggage compartment below the seating area. The cultural significance of broomsticks in the world of Harry Potter is similar to that of the real life automobiles.

Since Harry Potter plays Quidditch, his brooms - a Nimbus 2000, and later a Firebolt - are prominent in the series. The Nimbus 2000 was given to him by special consent of Albus Dumbledore via Professor Minerva McGonagall, who had chosen him as Seeker.^[HP1] The Firebolt was given to him by Sirius Black as a Christmas gift.^[HP3] The Firebolt remains the fastest broom in the world, having surpassed the previous record holder, the Nimbus 2001, and its price is so grand that it is only available upon request (character Harry Potter never asks for the price, and thus it remains unknown).

Cars, Motorbikes, Knight Bus, and the Hogwarts Express

Cars, Motorbikes, the Knight Bus, and the Hogwarts Express are regular forms of transportation that we used in the real world. Within the Harry Potter universe however, they are enchanted to meet magical standards of transportation.

Cars and Motorbikes have made appearances in most Harry Potter books for transportation. In the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron had used his father's modified car to get to Hogwarts, the Flying Ford Anglia. Character Sirius Black owned a motorbike, which he lent to Rubeus Hagrid the night Lily and James Potter died; it was first seen when Hagrid was carrying Harry to Private Drive Number Four.

The Knight Bus in the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban film

The Knight Bus is a fictional heavily enchanted, violently purple, triple-decker bus which transports wizards and witches in the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling. It made its first appearance in Prisoner of Azkaban were character Harry Potter signals it down by holding his wand arm out. Harry has a final ride on the Knight Bus with a number of his friends in Order of the Phoenix. While the bus is seemingly lightning-fast (as shown in book and film), still faster are near-instantaneous Floo powder and Apparating. The fictional bus charges for the service; Harry potter was charged 11 Sickles to travel from the fictional town of Little Whinging to the fictional pub, The Leaky Cauldron^[HP3].

The fictitious bus functions as public transportation for the wizard or witch who can't or won't choose another means of transportation. The riders are seemingly picked up by the bus from all over in-universe Great Britain, bringing passengers to the destinations of their choice with seemingly no set route. It bolts through the streets, entirely invisible to "Muggles" (non-magicals in Harry Potter's world) and causes other objects to dodge it (rather than dodging the objects) for travelling short distances. For longer distances, the Knight Bus makes 160 km (hundred-mile) leaps accompanied by a great bang and jolt, possibly similar to Apparating. Its only limit in travelling is that it cannot enter water and the interior of the bus changes or is changed depending on the time of day, having chairs by day and beds by night

The conductor of the fictional Knight Bus is character Stan Shunpike, and its driver is character Ernie Prang in the third book of the series. In the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban film, Stan and Ernie are accompanied by a talking shrunken head voiced by Lenny Henry.

Main article: Hogwarts Express

The Hogwarts Express is a fictional train which makes its first appearance in Philosopher's Stone as transportation for students of Hogwarts between London and the fictional village of Hogsmeade. The fictional train starts from the real life King's Cross railway station at fictitious "platform 9¾", which is invisible to "Muggle" eyes and is reached through the barrier between platforms 9 and 10. The train is scarlet in color and has a trolley loaded with fictional magical sweets (Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Pumpkin Pasties, etc.), pastries and pumpkin juice sent through the corridor at lunchtime.

Floo powder

Floo Powder as seen in Chamber of Secrets

Floo powder is a fictional glittering powder used by wizards to travel and communicate using fireplaces within the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling. It was invented by fictional Ignatia Wildsmith (1227-1320) and named after the flue, which is the passageway that leads from a fireplace to the chimney so hot gases can escape. strangely, flues did not exist at the supposed time of floo powder's invention. There is the though though that the "muggles" could have taken the word from the wizards and made it their own.

Floo powder can be used with any fireplace connected to the Floo Network. To transport from one fireplace to another, the traveller throws a handful of the fictional Floo powder into the fireplace, steps into the fireplace, and states the intended destination in a clear and purposeful voice. Fictional Floo Powder can also be used for communication; a wizard or witch can kneel in front of the fire and stick their head into the fire, which will appear in the fire at another fireplace, leaving the witch or wizard free to talk.

In Chamber of Secrets, the Weasleys travelled to Diagon Alley by Floo powder. Harry did not say "Diagon Alley" clearly, so he was instead sent to Borgin and Burkes shop, in Knockturn Alley. In the fourth book, Arthur Weasley uses his position at the Ministry of Magic to have the Dursleys' fireplace temporarily connected to the Floo network, unaware that the fireplace had been blocked. Character Sirius Black uses the network to communicate with Harry in the same book. In the fifth book, Harry uses the Griffindor fireplace and finally Dolores Umbridge's fireplace to communicate with Sirius Black; he is however forced to do so because Umbridge is monitoring all other lines of communication in and out of Hogwarts (thus why he did not communicate through Griffindor's). The fictional Floo Network is controlled by the fictitious Ministry of Magic. The Ministry also has over 700 fireplaces in its headquarters so ministry officials and workers can teleport straight from their homes to the ministry without the hustle and bustle of traveling on broom or by portkey.

Flying carpets

Flying carpets are a fictional alternative wizarding type of transportation. Usually they are a thick rug, frequently highly patterned and often manufactured in the Middle East. Flying Carpets were once an accepted form of travel for the fictional British magical community, but they are now banned due to being defined as a "Muggle Artifact" by the Registry of Proscribed Charmable Objects. It is therefore now against fictional British wizarding law to charm carpets or fly them, although they are still legal in other countries. Character Arthur Weasley was very much involved in the introduction of this legislation due to his position in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office. It is known that the ban was relatively recent, not only from Arthur's involvement, but also from the fact that Barty Crouch Senior's grandfather owned a 12-seater Axminster carpet before flying carpets were prohibited.

A fictional wizard merchant by the name of Ali Bashir is very keen to export flying carpets to Britain and is very upset that local laws are preventing him from doing so. He regularly berates Arthur about the subject, but it is very unlikely that the law will be changed. It cannot always be thought of as an Arabian sage type. They come in many shapes and designs.

Portkeys

The fictional Portkeys are first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Once created by using the Portus spell, a Portkey can be set to transport anybody who touches it to a designated location, or to become active at a pre-determined time and transport to that location anybody who happens to be touching it at the moment of activation. The creation of Portkeys may be highly restricted in general; although Dumbledore is able to set up an "unauthorised Portkey" in the fifth book, it is treated as a serious crime; Fudge is upset that Dumbledore would create one in front of him, and at one point Lupin says "...it's more than our life's worth to set up an unauthorised Portkey."

In the books, the user feels a pulling or jerking sensation behind the navel, and then suddenly appears at the destination.^[HP4] With enough practice, a graceful landing is possible: after the Portkeyed trip to the Quidditch World Cup in Goblet of Fire, Cedric Diggory, Arthur Weasley, and Amos Diggory landed on their feet, while the others (Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny and the twins) fell onto the ground.

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Barty Crouch Jr., who was impersonating Alastor Moody, made the Triwizard Tournament cup a Portkey so it would transport anybody who touched it straight to the hands of Lord Voldemort, expecting it would be Harry Potter. However, Harry took the cup together with Cedric Diggory, so Voldemort murdered Cedric.

Least untilized

Time-Turners

A Time-Turner is a fictional device in the magical world of Harry Potter, that may be used for time travel. A large supply of Time-Turners is kept at the Ministry of Magic, as seen in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; however, during the events of that book the entire supply of Time-Turners is destroyed. Due to their time-affecting properties, they are seen to smash and reassemble, over and over.

Hermione Granger received a Time-Turner from Professor McGonagall in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, so she could attend more classes than time would normally allow. Hermione is ordered to keep it a secret from everyone, including Harry and Ron, although they do notice the impossibility of her schedule, and several bizarre disappearances and reappearances. Hermione lets Harry and Ron in on the secret near the end of the book, where she and Harry use the Time-Turner to save Sirius Black and Buckbeak.

Granger's Time-Turners resembled a hourglass pendant on a necklace it is unclear if all of them as so. The hourglass pendant would be twisted to move through time, and the number of turns on the hourglass corresponded to the number of hours one travelled back in time. The travel ends as the traveller arrives to the point in time of which he/her went back in time (e.g. Hermione and Harry go back 3 hours, 3hours after their arrival in the past, they return to the time period they turned back).(Personal attack removed)

Vanishing Cabinet

Vanishing Cabinet is a fictional cabinet located in Hogwarts that is a part of a set of two; the other cabinet resides in Borgin and Burkes. One simply enters one of the cabinets at the cabinet's location and exist the other at its location.

The Vanishing Cabinet is first mentioned in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington convinces Peeves to drop it (thus breaking it) over Argus Filch's office in order to help Harry Potter escape detention for "befouling of the castle" (tracking in mud). It was also used in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by Fred and George Weasley, when they forced Montague, the Slytherin Quidditch captain and member of the Inquisitorial Squad into it when he tried to take house points from Gryffindor. Draco Malfoy then learns of Montagues experience, learning that you could transport between the two cabinets and that the other is located in Borgin and Burkes. He later tells Voldemort of this and is instructed to fix the broken one at Hogwarts as so to transport the Death Eaters into the highly secured castle.

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Malfoy visits the dark shop to ask for instruction in fixing the one broken Cabinet placed in the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts after Peeves broke it by dropping it in Malfoy's second year. After Malfoy pales and becomes fatigue in his complex struggle to fix the cabinet, he madly yells in triumph as he succeeds (Harry heard this, but Dumbledore ignored him) and allows the Death Eaters to finally enter the school. Thus, a chaotic battle begins in the castle between them and the Order of the Phoenix, ultimately leading to Dumbledore's murder.

The Vanishing Cabinets have yet to appear prominently in the films, though in a deleted scene in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry hides in one in Borgin and Burke's.

Writing utensils

These are objects used to write in the fictional world of Harry Potter.

Blood Quill

'Blood Quill is a fictional magical quill which character Dolores Umbridge uses throughout Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to carry out her perverse punishment of "cutting up" students. In the fifth book, Harry has detention with Professor Umbridge on several occasions. During these detentions, he is required to write lines (I must not tell lies), and is not released from this until Umbridge believes "the message has sunk in." Rather than using a regular quill, Umbridge makes Harry use a blood quill, which is described as unusually sharp with a black nib. As the user writes, the quill magically (and painfully) cuts into the back of the user's hand and uses their blood for ink. When carried out repeatedly over a period of time, this can lead to permanent scarring, as shown by Harry to Rufus Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Other victims of this form of detention include Lee Jordan. In the film interpretation, all members of Dumbledore's Army were punished using this method. In fandom, most people refer to this as a "Blood Quill." Presumably, the inspiration for this is Kafka's "In the Penal Colony".

Quick Quotes Quill

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A Quick Quotes Quill as seen in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

A 'Quick Quotes Quill is a fictional quill that is a stenographic tool employed by character Rita Skeeter to spin the words of her subjects into a more salacious or melodramatic form more to her liking. Because she sucks on it first before writing (which then the quill right to her liking), it is speculated that the quill will also write to the likings of others (as long as the suck it before it begins writing.

Rita Skeeter uses the quill to interview Harry (inside a Hogwarts broomstick cupboard) about his participation in the Triwizard Tournament in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for her column "Me, Myself, and I" in the newspaper, The Daily Prophet. Harry continually tries to correct the inaccuracy of the quill to Rita. However, she rudely ignores him. Additionally in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Rita Skeeter mentions in her interview concerning Albus Dumbledore's posthumous biography that the Quick Quotes Quill helped her to write the book so quickly after his death.

Other uncategorized objects

These objects remain uncategorized as they are the only in their field.

Gubraithian fire

Gubraithian Fire is a fictional conjured everlasting magical fire that may only by created by extremely skilled wizards (e.g. character Albus Dumbledore). First mentioned in chapter twenty of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, characters Rubues Hagrid and Madame Maxime give a branch of Gubraithian fire (conjured by Dumbledore, to burn atop the branch) as a gift to the giant leader (Gurg) during their journey.

The Marauder's Map

The Marauder's Map is a fictional magical map of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry which makes its first appearance in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The map was created by the four students known collectively as "The Marauders" at Hogwarts during their time there (c. 1971), in which they gained extensive knowledge about the school grounds, such as its various hidden passages, from their frequent night-time adventures together. These marauders were James Potter (Prongs), Sirius Black (Padfoot), Remus Lupin (Moony), and Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail).

At first glance, the fictitious Map is simply a blank piece of parchment; but when the user points their wand to the Map and says, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good". The message "Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, purveyors of aids to magical mischief-makers, are proud to present the Marauders Map" and detailed layout of Hogwarts' Castle (including secret passageways) is revealed.[HP3] Saying, "Mischief managed!" returns the map to its original blank state.[HP3] The ficitonal Map gives information on how to open secret passageways, though several locations (such as the Room of Requirement and the Chamber of Secrets) do not appear on the map. It would seem that the four friends either did not have any knowledge of them, or-in the case of the former-they are unplottable. Furthermore, the fictional Marauder's Map cannot be fooled by Animagus disguises or Invisibility Cloaks. Not even Polyjuice Potion can outwit the Marauder's Map. For this reason, Barty Crouch Jr., disguised as Mad-Eye Moody, considered it a threat and asks to 'borrow' the map from a trusting Harry Potter.

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Fred and George Weasley give the Map to Harry (who have no further need for it) so he can get to Hogsmead Village through a hidden passageway. Professor Severus Snape later on found the Map in Harry's possession and tried to force it to reveal its secrets. It merely insulted him with mocking phrases, the Map retains an echo of its creators' personalities, much like the Sorting Hat remembers the thoughts and opinions of the school founders; the marauders had no happy memories of Snape. Professor Remus Lupin later took it with him. He returns the map to Harry after resigning his post at Hogwarts. The Map then on makes insignificant appearances in the books.

In the book the Map is a piece of parchment; in the films, the Map appears with a cover that unfolds in two with many other folds inside each other. All the lines in the Map are made up of what at first glance are just random letters, but upon closer inspection are Latin words. In the books, there is no mention of Harry recovering the Map from the office of the Professor Moody imposter and Harry later uses it in upcoming books. When asked, author of the novels, J.K. Rowling, answered that Harry had indeed sneaked into the office and recovered it in the days following the Third Task. She also commented that she had intended to include a scene or mention it. When asked during an online question session, "What child did Harry give the Marauders Map to if any?" (after his school years), Rowling responded "I’ve got a feeling he didn’t give it to any of them, but that James[one of Harry's sons] sneaked it out of his father’s desk one day." This is expected, as James Potter, the boy's grandson, was also a mischief maker.

Owners of the Marauder's Map include the Marauders themselves (c. 1971), Argus Filch, Fred and George Weasley (c. 1989 - c. December 1993), Harry Potter (c. December 1993 - c. 2015??), and finally James Potter (c. 2015 - ???)"

Omnioculars

Omnioculars are a pair of fictional magical brass binoculars used by Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the fourth book during the Quidditch World Cup. Omnioculars, besides having magnified lenses, have many other features. Among them, the ones mentioned are the ability to replay or slow down something seen through the lenses, although a side-effect being that the view in the lenses is not accurate of what is currently happening, since it's going slower than real life. They also have a play-by-play feature, where the names of moves performed by Quidditch players is shown in bright purple letters across the Omnioculars' lenses.^[HP4]

Spellotape

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Ron using spellotape in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Spellotape is ficitonal magical adhesive tape. The name is a play on Sellotape, a popular brand which has become a generic name for transparent adhesive tape in the United Kingdom.

Spellotape is referenced in all of the Harry Potter books, apart from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and is seen in the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Wand

This is for the fictional instrument of magic in the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling. See "wand for their real-life basis.

A wand is a fictional instrument, a part of a wizards everyday accessory, used to perform magical feats in the fictional world of Harry Potter. Without it, only limited magic is possible. Wands are generally carried inside the wizard's robes in the Harry Potter books. However, they can also be put into other objects. For instance, character Lucius Malfoy hiding his inside his cane while Moody seems to have his inside his walking staff in the Order of the Phoenix film. Harry also suspects that Hagrid has hidden the broken halves of his wand inside his umbrella, as he has used it to perform magic on many occasions, e.g. using the wand to perform Aguamenti when his cabin caught fire in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In the universe of Harry Potter, when a wizard has commited a serious crime, their wands are as well snapped. The case being with Rubues Hagrid who has acused of opening the Chamber of Secrets, which resulted in the murder of a muggle-born.

The only named wand shop is the fictional Ollivander's, owned by Mr. Ollivander - a fictitious master wand maker. This is where character Rubeus Hagrid takes Harry to buy his first wand. However, in the "Weighing of the Wands" chapter of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Ollivander is seen to evaluate two foreign wands: Viktor Krum's wand: a Gregorovitch creation, unusually thick; and Fleur Delacour's wand, whose core (a hair from her veela grandmother) he felt created "temperamental" wands, which is why he did not use it himself.

Creation

A wand is made by a learned wandmaker in wandlore, the fictional study of wands. Wands are handcrafted from "wandwood", wood capable of sustaining magic (e.g. Holly, Yew, ebony, ect.). Then, a core of a magical creature/being (e.g. Phoenix, Unicorn, ect.) is inserted in the middle of the wand from top to bottom (ron weasley's broken wand dangles from its unicorn tail). Such cores have been mentioned to include phoenix tail feathers, unicorn tail hairs, dragon heartstrings and veela hair. Mr. Ollivander only uses phoenix feathers, dragon heartstrings and unicorn hair as the cores of his wands. Therefore, Harry (phoenix feather), Ron (unicorn hair), and Hermione (dragon heartstring) unite all three Ollivander wand cores.

Effects

A wand is generally considered to be personal for a wizard. However, wands belonging to other wizards can be used to a comparatively less potent effect. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry had to try out many wands before he found one that "chose him". It was an 11 inch, holly and phoenix feather wand.

Wands with cores from the same source give strange effects (Priori Incantatem) when forced to fight each other, as is the case with Harry Potter's and Lord Voldemort's wands. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it is revealed that each of their wands contains a tail feather from Fawkes, the phoenix belonging to Albus Dumbledore. After Priori incantatem, the wands get to know the opposites' master - this is explained in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Wands are capable of changing masters. This is revealed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. When a wizard or witch is defeated, or if their wand is forcibly taken from them in a fight (a form of defeat), the wand will change its allegiance to the one who defeated its previous master and work perfectly well with its new master. It is unclear if the wand will continue to work properly for its original master if it is returned (not taken back in a fight).

Known character wands

Other wands known to have been purchased from Olivanders here include:

• Cedric Diggory / Ash, 12^1/4 inches, Single Unicorn Hair from the tail of a particularly fine male unicorn - albeit Mr. Ollivander almost got himself gored by attempting to retrieve it.
• Lily Evans / Willow, 10^1/4 inches - Mr Ollivander comments that it was swishy and a nice wand for Charm work.
• Hermione Granger / Vine-wood, Dragon heartstrings
• Rubeus Hagrid / Oak, 16 inches - Mr Ollivander comments that it was rather bendy.
• Bellatrix Lestrange / Walnut, 12^3/4 inches, Dragon heartstring - Mr. Ollivander describes it as unyielding.
• Draco Malfoy / Hawthorn, 10 inches, Unicorn hair - Mr. Ollivander describes it as reasonably springy.
• Peter Pettigrew / Chestnut, 9^1/4 inches, Dragon heartstring - Mr. Ollivander describes this as brittle. This may have been result of making this during his captivity in Malfoy Manor.
• Harry Potter / Holly, 11 inches, Single Phoenix tail feather.
• James Potter / Mahogany, 11 inches - Mr Ollivander comments that it was pliable and excellent for Transfiguration.
• Tom Marvolo Riddle (Lord Voldemort) / Yew, 13^1/2 inches, Phoenix Feather - Described by Mr. Ollivander as a very powerful wand.
• Ronald Weasley / Willow, 14 inches, Single unicorn tail-hair

Elder wand

Main article: Deathly Hallows (objects) § Elder Wand

The Elder Wand is an extremely powerful fictional magic wand made of elder wood. In the universe of Harry Potter, it is the most powerful wand in existence wrongly said that it is unbeatable in a duel when used by its true master, although this is what it is known as. However character Albus Dumbledore defeated its true master, Gellert Grindelwald, causing people to believe it is in fact simply the most powerful-no more (as shown by Harry's reparo spell). It also appears that the wand is somewhat sentient, as are all wands, that it will not allow itself to cause real harm to its true Master. The wand's ownership, however, is a tricky matter. As stated by Mr. Ollivander, ownership can only be transferred properly. That is, the wand will only fully work for the new user if they disarm, stun, or kill the previous user. This can occur during a duel (although the Wand is very powerful, this scenario would be rare), or in non-magical ways (killing in Muggle fashion, etc).

Harry intended to return the wand to Dumbledore's tomb at the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and determined that if he died of a natural death, the power of the wand will die out with him. However, it is not made clear whether he eventually returned the wand.

J.K. Rowling revealed in an interview that one of the working titles for Deathly Hallows was "Harry Potter and the Elder Wand".