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This headmaster's first name means 'white' in Latin,  | Albus Dumbledore |
The name for a wizard who can change his or her shape into that of an animal - for example, the rat Pettigrew,  | Animagus |
The first name of Hogwarts' caretaker comes from a mythical guardian,  | Argus Filch |
These wizards enforce the law and investigate dark magic; their name is similar to the Latin word for 'dawn',  | Aurors |
Her first name means 'female warrior' in Latin,  | Bellatrix Lestrange |
Harry's nemesis (among the students, anyway), he has a first name meaning 'dragon' in Latin,  | Draco Malfoy |
Fawkes is modeled on which mythical creature that burns to ash and is reborn?,  | phoenix |
Fluffy is modeled on which mythical guardian of the underworld?,  | Cerberus |
This fantastical creature's species name comes from the Greek words for 'horse' and 'beaklike',  | hippogriff |
Voldemort turned corpses into these creatures whose name comes from the Latin word for 'below',  | Inferi |
This shop is located on which sinister street whose name sounds like the Latin word for 'happening at night'?,  | Knockturn Alley |
This Death Eater's first name, which comes from the Latin word for 'light', may come from his light blond hair,  | Lucius Malfoy |
Named after the Roman goddess of the moon, she also acquires a similar-sounding nickname that means 'crazy',  | Luna Lovegood |
This Hogwarts teacher is named after the Roman goddess of wisdom and war,  | Minerva McGonagall |
Harry's first two brooms were both named after this Latin word for 'cloud',  | Nimbus |
Her first name comes from the home of the Greek and Roman gods, and her last name means 'very big' in Latin,  | Olympe Maxime |
The name of this memory-storing device comes from the Latin word meaning 'weigh' or 'ponder',  | Pensieve |
Both the first and last names of this Hogwarts professor hint at what animal he periodically transforms into,  | Remus Lupin |
Hogwarts' groundskeeper, he has a first name that means 'ruddy' or 'red-faced' in Latin,  | Rubeus Hagrid |
Harry would agree that this Hogwarts professor, whose first name means 'harsh' in Latin, was properly named,  | Severus Snape |
The first name of Harry's godfather, appropriately enough, is also the name of a star in the constellation representing the hunter Orion's dog,  | Sirius Black |
This Divination professor's first name comes from the most famous prophetesses in the ancient Mediterranean,  | Sybil Trelawney |
The main villain of the story created a name for himself that comes, via French, from the Latin words for 'flight' and 'death',  | Voldemort |
This gentle man's first name comes from the Greek words for 'stranger, guest' and 'love',  | Xenophilius Lovegood |