YOU WANT TO HELP ME? Do you have read "Harry Potter" in another language than English? Do you want to help me collecting names from that language? Fine! As you maybe don't own a copy of the English edition, you can use this list instead in order to identify the different characters and things. The list contains English Harry Potter names and words from the first three volumes. The first number in brackets means the volume, the second number the chapter. The names in CAPITAL LETTERS are the names I am looking for! You can simply add the names from your language in brackets and send the whole thing to coremi@gmx.de Don't forget the name of the publisher and the translator (you can usually find them on one of the first or one of the last pages of each book.) # The unpleasant relatives where Harry lives: Uncle VERNON, Aunt PETUNIA and his cousin DUDLEY DURSLEY (and AUNT MARGE, see 3,2). Name of the road: PRIVET DRIVE. They are ordinary non-magic people: MUGGLES.A very mean name for muggle-born wizards like Harry's friend Hermione: MUDBLOOD (2,7). # Dudley Dursley's best friend PIERS POLKISS goes to the zoo with the Dursleys in book 1. # Harrys parents: LILY and JAMES POTTER (1,1) # Harrys two best friends at school: RON WEASLEY and HERMIONE GRANGER. # Harry's pet, an owl, is called HEDWIG. # Hermione's pet, a cat, is called CROOKSHANKS (3,4). # Ron's pet, a rat, is called SCABBERS. However, that rat is in fact a wizard: PETER PETTIGREW. His old nickname at school was WORMTAIL. # Ron's family has a very old owl: ERROL. # Peter Pettigrew is one of four old friends from school (3,18): Peter; Harry's father James (nickname: PRONGS); SIRIUS BLACK (nickname: PADFOOT) who escapes from the wizard prison in vol. 3; and REMUS LUPIN (nickname: MOONY), a werewolf, who becomes teacher at Harry's school. Together those four created a magic map: THE MARAUDER'S MAP. # In vol.3, Harry gets a new broomstick as a christmas present - a FIREBOLT. # A guardian at the wizard prison AZKABAN is called a DEMENTOR. # Harry's worst enemy is the evil wizard VOLDEMORT. His real name is TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE (2,17). As most wizards are afraid of pronouncing his name, they call him "HE-WHO-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED" or "YOU-KNOW-WHO" instead. # There is a wizard street in London: DIAGON ALLEY (plus an evil KNOCKTURN ALLEY, see 2,4). If you want to get there, you have to pass through a wizard pub, THE LEAKY CAULDRON. Amongst the shops in Diagon Alley are FLOURISH AND BLOTTS (bookshop, see 1,5/2,4), the wizard bank GRINGOTTS and QUALITY QUIDDITCH SUPPLIES, Harry's favourite shop (3,4) where you can buy everything for the most popular wizard sport. # wizard money (1,5): 1 GALLEON (gold)=17 SICKLE (silver)=29 KNUT (bronze) # A popular wizard sweet are BERTIE BOTT'S EVERY FLAVOUR BEANS which Harry buys on the train. They taste like - everything! # The wizard newspaper is called THE DAILY PROPHET. # Many wizards travel via fireplaces with the help of FLOO POWDER (2,4). # The most popular wizard sport is QUIDDITCH (see 1,10). There are four Quidditch balls: - a big one (QUAFFLE) - two nasty ones (BLUDGER) - a tiny golden one (THE GOLDEN SNITCH) Quidditch players: - The KEEPER is guarding the goal. - A CHASER (there are 3 of them) tries to score. - A BEATER (2 of them, like the Weasley twins) protects his teammates from the nasty bludgers. - And the SEEKER (Harry!) has to find the snitch. # The captain of Harry's team is OLIVER WOOD. # The minister of magic is called CORNELIUS FUDGE. # Harry' school is called HOGWARTS, the nearby village is called HOGSMEADE. # The SORTING HAT puts the pupil in the 4 houses: GRYFFINDOR (the brave ones), RAVENCLAW (the vise ones), HUFFLEPUFF (the loyal ones) and SLYTHERIN (well ... the evil ones?). # The headmaster of Harry's school is ALBUS DUMBLEDORE. His pet, a phoenix, is called FAWKES (vol 2). # The vice headmaster is MINERVA McGONAGALL. She is also head of Harry's house, Gryffindor. # The mean potions teacher is SEVERUS SNAPE. He is also head of house Slytherin. # The tiny teacher for charms is called PROF. FLITWICK. # The ghost who teaches history of magic is called PROF. BINNS. # The witch who teaches herbology (plants, herbs etc.) is PROF. SPROUT. # The witch who can cure the sick is POPPY POMFREY. # MADAM HOOCH is the sports teacher. # The witch who teaches divination and makes strange predictions is SYBILL TRELAWNEY. (vol 3) # PROF. QUIRREL teaches Defence against the dark arts in vol. 1. # The beautiful and stupid GILDEROY LOCKHART teaches Defence against the dark arts in vol. 2. # Harry's giant friend, the Keeper of Grounds and Keys, is RUBEUS HAGRID. His boarhound is called FANG. Hagrid is also the owner of the 3-headed dog guarding the secret in vol. 1 - that dog is called FLUFFY. Another "little friend" of Hagrid's is BUCKBEAK, a hippogriff (vol. 3) which Sirius Black usesī for his escape. # WALDEN MACNAIR is the ministry's executioner who is supposed to kill Buckbeak. # The house ghost of Harry's house is SIR NICHOLAS DE MIMSY-PORPINGTON, also known as NEARLY HEADLESS NICK (1,7). # PEEVES is the poltergeist at Harry's school. # One of the girl's toilets is haunted by another ghost: MOANING MYRTLE. # THE FAT LADY in a portrait is guarding the entrance to Harry's house at school. When she is hurt in volume 3, the brave knight SIR CADOGAN fills in (e.g. 3,13, at the end of the chapter). # ARGUS FILCH is the caretaker. His cat is called MRS NORRIS. Although Filch's parents were wizards, he is not a wizard himself - he is a SQUIB (2,8) # A wizard who can speak to snakes is a PARSELMOUTH - he can speak PARSELTONGUE. (vol2) # A BOGGART is a creature that assumes the shape of whatever you are most afraid of (vol. 3). # The bus for wizards who get lost is THE KNIGHT BUS (vol 3). # The special mirror in vol 1: THE MIRROR OF ERISED. # With the flying car Harry crashes into a dangerous tree (vol 2): THE WHOMPING WILLOW. The mother of his friend Ron gets very angry about this and sends Ron a HOWLER - a shouting letter. Other pupils at Harrys school: # NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM is not a very gifted wizard, he keeps on forgetting things all the time. Therefore his grandmother sends him a REMEMBRALL (1,9). # DRACO MALFOY is Harry's enemy. He is always accompagnied by CRABBE and GOYLE (1,7). The Malfoy familiy's house elf, DOBBY, plays an important part in vol. 2. # MILLICENT BULSTRODE, an unpleasant-looking girl, is the first one who is send to the evil house Slytherin by the Sorting Hat (1,7). In vol 2, Hermione wants to assume her shape ... # SEAMUS FINNIGAN is the boy who asks the house ghost Nick about his head (1,7). # CEDRIC DIGGORY is the extremely good-looking captain of the Hufflepuff team (3,9). # In vol 3, chapter 1, Harry gets a special birthday present by Ron: a pocket SNEAKOSCOPE. # O.W.L.s (=ORDINARY WIZARDING LEVELS): exams the students take after their fifth year at school (3,16). # N.E.W.T.s (=NASTILY EXHAUSTING WIZARDING TESTS): exams the students take after their seventh year at school (3,16). -------------------------- New words and characters from vol 4: # A supporter of Voldemort is called a DEATH EATER. # BARTEMIUS "BARTY" CROUCH is responsible for international magical cooperation at the ministry. He is Percy Weasley's boss and famous for his strictness. Speaks more than 200 languages. # WINKY is the Crouch family's house-elf. # LUDOVIC "LUDO" BAGMAN is the organizer of the Quidditch World Cup, head of the Department for magical games and sports at the ministry. He likes gambling. # ALASTOR "MAD-EYE" MOODY is the new teacher for Defence against the Dark Arts. He is a veteran in the fight against Voldemort. # The TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT is taking place at Hogwarts during Harry's fourth year. # DURMSTRANG is another school for young wizards, obviously situated somewhere in northeastern Europe. You can learn dark magic there ... # IGOR KARKAROFF is the headmaster of Durmstrang. # VIKTOR KRUM is one of the best Quidditch players in the world, member of the Bulgarian national team and a student at Durmstrang. He is even Durmstrang's champion in the tournament. # BEAUXBATONS is another school for young wizards, situated in France. # OLYMPE MAXIME is the headmaster of Beauxbatons. # FLEUR & GABRIELLE DELACOUR are two sisters attending Beauxbatons school. Beautiful Fleur is her school's champion in the Triwizard Tournament. Her second task is to save her younger sister Gabrielle who has been kidnapped by merpeople. # The PENSIEVE is a basin headmaster Dumbledore uses for storing hard thoughts and memories. # BLAST-ENDED SKREWTS are especially nasty creatures that Hagrid uses for his lessons. # RITA SKEETER is the nosey reporter who starts spreading unpleasant rumours about Harry and his friends. # BERTHA JORKINS is a forgetful little witch who works for the ministry. She is killed in Albania. # Hermione starts a club in order to help the house-elves: S.P.E.W. (SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF ELFISH WELFARE). # Mrs. Figg, the old lady with the many cats who takes care of Harry sometimes (according to vol. 1) is probably the same as ARABELLA FIGG mentioned at the end of vol. 4. # OMNIOCULARS are a very special kind of optical instrument Harry uses at the World Cup.