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Harry Potter Lingo

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If your children are fans of the Harry Potter books and films, you may have heard them talk about it using strange words and phrases. They have not gone crazy they are just reciting lots of the many unusual lingo, slang terms and expressions from the Harry Potter stories.

Starting with the unusual names of the Hogwarts Houses, when the wizards go to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry each of the children are sorted into Houses. The four houses are Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin and Gryffindor and were named after the schools four founders. The Sorting Hat is put on new students when they first arrive at Hogwarts to determine which house (above) they will be assigned to. Horcrux is an object which holds a fragment of a wizards soul making it easier for him or her to become immortal. A muggle is a person who doesnt possess magical abilities, so normal people are classed as muggles. Knut and Galleon is the money or currency used. A Knut is the smallest denomination of wizard money. There are 493 bronze Knuts in one Galleon. Quidditch is the sport played by wizards at Hogwarts school. Two teams of seven players ride their flying broomsticks using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals three on each side of the pitch. The Sorcerer’s Stone is a magical stone that transforms any metal into gold. In the stories Harry fights to keep the stone out of the wrong hands. The stone also produces the Elixir of Life, which makes the drinker immortal. A Dementor is a creature that guards the prison Azkaban by sucking the souls out of its inhabitants. Dobby is Malfoys’ house elf, who is highly self-deprecating and lives to serve. He loves Harry very much and follows his every order after being freed from service in the second book. There are many slang terms and expressions in the Harry Potter stories. For instance hold your hippogriffs is used in the same way as hold your horses meaning slow down. Fell off the back of a broom is the muggles expression of fell of the back of a truck/lorry, meaning an item is of questionable origin and probably stolen. The cat’s among the pixies is synonymous with the clich cat among the pigeons and crying over spilt potion is synonymous with the saying crying over spilled milk. The creativity and imagination which went into the Harry Potter stories is very clever. The stories were perfect for the big screen and with the success of the books it is not hard to see why J K Rowling is now one of the wealthiest authors ever. Serious fan? Why not go one of the London Harry Potter Tours

or how about the

Warner Bros Studio Tour London

, why not check out Brit Movie Tours who are a London based tour company offering many other London film Locations tours.

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Harry Potter Lingo