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Wizarding Life

JKR recommends Arkie Alderton's Kwik-Repair Shop for broken flying brooms and advises us never to fix them at home.

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the Wizarding world are pretty similar to ours. People like Malfoy were more interested in someone's blood status than their love life.

The Sorting Hat has never been wrong. When it talks on its own it comes from "the founders themselves."

Jo thinks that there are about 3,000 wizards in Britain, though she admits that being specific about numbers is not "how I think."

The fact that Ginny is the first girl to be born into the Weasley family in generations is meant to indicate that Ginny will be a very gifted witch.

•••Wedding ceremonies
"Do you, William Arthur, take Fleur Isabelle...?"
"...then I declare you bonded for life." The tufty-haired wizard waved his wand high over the heads of Bill and Fleur and a shower of silver stars fell upon them, spiraling around their now entwined figures.

•••Magical Theory
Dumbledore: "Of course, it is also possible that her unrequited love and the attendant despair sapped her of her powers; that can happen." ie. Tonks losing her powers

Muggles can be born with magic because it is a recessive gene; it resurfaces generations later.

•••Etiquette
Harry: "Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?"
Dumbledore: "Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door. Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry."

Spells/Charms

There are two different memory charms. One wipes memory and one changes what you remember.

Portraits can “only move between portraits in the same building.”

Muggles cannot brew potions because there is always a magical component, and at some point you would have to use a wand.

You do not know what animagus form you will take until you have transformed.

•••Wands
Wands they develop an affinity ("loyalty") for the wizards who bear them. Disarming someone in an informal duel may not affect this, but if won in a duelling battle, the wand will switch allegiance. The exception is the "unsentimental" Elder Wand which "knows no loyalty except to strength."

Wands are "quasi-sentient" because they carry so much magic.

If a muggle picked up a wand something accidental and possibly quite violent would be likely to occur. The wand is a vessel for what lies inside a person. You need the magical ability to make it work properly.

Wandmakers can choose wand cores “that are particular to their country.” Ollivander was given her three favourite cores from the many she had written down.

•••Apparating/Tracking
Lupin: "But how did they find you so quickly? It's impossible to track anyone who Apparates, unless you grab hold of them as they disappear!"

Harry: "Professor, why couldn't we just Apparate directly into your old colleague's house?" Dumbledore: "Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door. Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of deny us entry."

Dumbledore: "In any case, most Wizarding dwellings are magically protected from unwanted Apparators."

Witches and wizards can Disapparate when they’re in danger and they can’t/won’t stay and fight.

•••Wards
Voldemort couldn't get through the Order's charms at the Tonks' for a while:
"He felt Voldemort before he saw him. Looking sideways, he stared into the red eyes and was sure they would be the last thing he ever saw: Voldemort preparing to curse him once more--- and then Voldemort vanished."

Ted: "Well, we know our protective charms hold, then, don't we? They shouldn't be able to get within a hundred yards of the place in any direction."

Later on the death eaters do break through the charms, but it's at least a week, because the wedding was August 1st, and then Lupin shows up at Grimmauld talking about how he just shook off the DEs that were following him.

Dumbledore: "In any case, most Wizarding dwellings are magically protected from unwanted Apparators."

Slughorn: "Didn't hear my Intruder Charm go off,"

•••Patronuses
A Patronus is a kind of spirit guardian.

Move as a silvery light and then solidify to speak. Then dissolve into nothingness after the message is relayed.

A Patronus “often mutates to take the image of the love of one's life (because they so often become the 'happy thought' that generates a Patronus).”

Patronuses can walk around/patrol to defend against dementors.
"At the foot of the platform, a bright-silver, long-haired cat prowled up and down, up and down, and Harry realized it was there to protect the prosecutors against the dementors."

"The moment he had passed the place where the Patronus cat patrolled, he felt the change in temperature: It was warm and comfortable here. The Patronus, he was sure, was Umbridge's, and it glowed brightly because she was so happy here."

Snape was careful not to reveal his Patronus to other members of the order.

•••Pensieves
When you don't enter the memory completely, you can pull the thought out like a hologram. Dumbledore prods around in his thoughts:

Frowning slightly, he prodded the thoughts within the basin with the tip of his wand. Instantly, a figure rose out of it, a plump, scowling girl of about sixteen, who began to revolve slowly, with her feet stil in the basin. She took no notice whatsoever of Harry or Professor Dumbledore. When she spoke, heer voice echoed as Snape's basin had done, as though it were coming from the depths of the stone basin.

•••Invisibility Cloak
Dumbledore could see Harry beneath the cloak because he could perform a non-verbal 'Homenum revelio' -

•••Horcruxes
Official definition of a Horcrux: "the receptacle is prepared by dark magic to become the receptacle of a fragmented piece of soul and that that piece of soul deliberately detached from the Master Soul to act as a future safeguard or anchor to life and to safeguard against death."

Order Members

•••Potters/Godric's Hollow
James, Lily and Sirius became full time members of the Order of the Phoenix after leaving Hogwarts and did not have regular jobs. They lived off of James’s money.

The Potters did not go into hiding until Lily became pregnant.

At the latest by Harry's birthday, "We had a very quiet birthday tea, just us and old Bathilda, who has always been sweet to us and who dotes on Harry. We were so sorry you couldn't come, but the Order's got to come first."

Same letter: "---also, Dumbledore's still got his Invisibility cloak, so no chance of little excursions."

The Potters are distantly related to the Peverells, but so are many wizarding families.

Voldemort asked Lily and James if they would join the Death Eaters, but they turned him down.

Dumbledore knew about the attack on Godric's Hollow because he had put a charm on the house.

•••Longbottoms
Crouch: "The four of you stand accused of capturing an Auror---Frank Longbottom---and subjecting him to the Cruciatus Curse, believing him to have knowledge of the present whereabouts fo your exiled master, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named---" "You are further accused of using thee Cruciatus Curse on Frank Longbottom's wife, when he would not give you information."

Neville was born "hours" before Harry.

Alice and Frank Longbottom earned Voldemort's ire because they were such "efficient" Aurors, and "were responsible for a lot of captures and arrests and imprisonments."

Hogwarts

Quirrell “was teaching at Hogwarts for more than a year, but NOT in the post of D.A.D.A. teacher. He was previously Muggle Studies professor.”

Hogwarts needed to be somewhere fairly distant so that students could make all the commotion they needed and Muggles didn't come across it all the time.

•••Quidditch captain
"That gives you equal status with prefects!" cried Hermione happily. "You can use our special bathroom now and everything!"

"Wow, I remember when Charlie wore one of these," said Ron, examining the badge with glee.

•••Slytherin
Not everyone in Slytherin house is hateful. The house is important to Hogwarts to create balance.

The Death Eater children are a small fraction of the total Slytherin population. In fact, some Death Eater children belong to other houses.

•••Dorms
“The Hufflepuff common room is accessed through a [still-life painting] near the kitchens. It is a very cosy and welcoming place, as dissimilar as possible from Snape's dungeon. Lots of yellow hangings, and fat armchairs, and little underground tunnels leading to the dormitories, all of which have perfectly round doors, like barrel tops.”

The four houses “correspond roughly to the four elements.” Gryffindor is fire, Ravenclaw is air, Hufflepuff is earth, and Slytherin is water"

Death Eaters

Karkaroff: "You must understand," said Karkaroff hurriedly, "that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named operated always in the greatest secrecy...He preferred that we---we never knew the name of every one of our fellows---He alone knew exactly who we all were---"

"And you say you have names for us?" "I--I do. And these were important supporters, mark you."

Wormtail picked Voldemort’s wand up at Godric’s Hollow and saved it for him.

Pettigrew "was a better wizard [and better at keeping secrets] than they knew."

Regulus was able to figure out what Voldemort was doing with the Horcruxes because Voldemort arrogantly dropped hints about why he could not be killed.

•••Captures/Deaths
Sirius Black (GOF; CH. 27, pg. 531 US edition): "Rosier and Wilkes---they were both killed by Aurors the year before Voldemort fell."

"Avery---from what I'e heard he wormed his way out of trouble by saying he'd been acting under the Imperius Curse---he's still at large."

Mad-Eye Moody (GOF; CH. 30, pg. 589 US edition): "He's [Karkaroff] done a deal with him. Took me six months to track him down, and Crouch is going to let him go if he's got enough new names."

Igor Karkaroff (GOF; CH. 30, pg. 589 US edition): "Antonin Dolohov," he said. "I---I saw him torture countless Muggles and---and non-supporters of the Dark Lord." Crouch: "We have already apprehended Dolohov, he was caught shortly after yourself."

"Why, yes...there was Rosier...Evan Rosier." "Rosier is dead. He was caught shortly after you were too. He preferred to fight rather than come quietly and was killed in the struggle."

He gives up Travers, Mulciber, and Rookwood "Rookwood, who was a spy, and passed He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named useful information from inside the Ministry itself!" "Rookwood? Augustus Rookwood of the Department of Mysteries?" "The very same, I believe he used a network of well-placed wizards, bothing inside the Ministry and out, to collect information--"

"But Travers and Mulciber we have."

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