Articles by Mohandas Alva

Marcus Flint was a student of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He joined Hogwarts in the year 1987 and was sorted into Slytherin House.

Griphook worked at the Gringotts Wizarding Bank building at Diagon Alley. He was a goblin and was very helpful to the trio in finding one of the Horcruxes.

A Qilin was a magical beast in the Harry Potter universe that was a cross between a dragon and a horse. It had special abilities like precognition, which allowed it to predict the future.

Parseltongue is the language used by wizards and witches to converse with snakes and other serpents-like creatures. It was mostly associated with Dark Wizards.

Riddikulus, also known as the Boggart-Banishing Spell, was a spell used to get rid of a Boggart. A Boggart was a magical creature that took the form of the fear of the one facing it.

Scabbers was the pet rat of Ron Weasley. He was Ron’s brother Percy’s pet rat before he was handed to Ron when he started going to Hogwarts. Scabbers was later revealed to be Peter Pettigrew, a wizard, in Animagus form.

The Firebolt was one of the fastest flying broomsticks of its time. It was a racing broom created by Randolph Spudmore in the year 1993.

Veritaserum is a potion in the Harry Potter universe that works like a truth serum. It is a highly potent potion capable of extracting even deeply protected truths from a person.

Percival Dumbledore was a British Wizard and the father of the famous Headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore. He was the husband of Kendra Dumbledore.

Nearly Headless Nick or Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington was a wizard who lived in the fifteenth century but was beheaded and later remained as a ghost in Hogwarts.