

Wand Woods
The following description of the powers and properties of various wand woods are taken from notes made, over a long career, by Mr Garrick...


Mr Ollivander
Renowned wandmaker Mr Ollivander owns the wand shop Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands Since 382 BC on Diagon Alley. His shop is widely...


Clothing
Wizards at large in the Muggle community may reveal themselves to each other by wearing the colours of purple and green, often in...


Ghost Plots
This is a personal expression, which has nothing to do with tales of the dead. Over the seventeen years that I planned and wrote the...


Vernon & Petunia Dursley
Harry's aunt and uncle met at work. Petunia Evans, forever embittered by the fact that her parents seemed to value her witch sister more...


Measurements
Just as British witches and wizards do not use electricity or computers, they have never turned metric. They are not governed by the...


Number Four, Privet Drive
Privet Drive is located in Little Whinging in Surrey, England. Similarly styled houses line the neat street. It’s a quiet and distinctly...


The Quill of Acceptance and The Book of Admittance
In a small locked tower, never visited by any student at Hogwarts, sits an ancient book that has not been touched by human hands since...