GRYFFINDOR, HUFFLEPUFF, RAVENCLAW & SLYTHERIN

Today, The Fosters and The Grandma have visited Hogwarts guided by Professor Albus Dumbledore, its Headmaster and Professor Rubeus Hagrid, its Guard. 

 

They have been talking about its four Houses, their history, members, values and rooms. It has been an amazing interesting day.

 

Before, the family has been preparing their Cambridge Exam studying some vocabulary about  Inside the House and Food and Drink.

 

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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was divided into four houses: Gryffindor, founded by Godric Gryffindor; Hufflepuff, founded by Helga Hufflepuff; Ravenclaw, founded by Rowena Ravenclaw; and Slytherin, founded by Salazar Slytherin.

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Gryffindor is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was founded by Godric Gryffindor.

Gryffindor instructed the Sorting Hat to choose students possessing characteristics he most valued, such as courage, chivalry, and determination, to be sorted into his house. Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, also known as Nearly Headless Nick is the House ghost.

Gryffindor corresponds roughly to the element of fire, and it is for this reason that the colours scarlet and gold were chosen to represent the house. The colour of fire corresponds to that of a lion as well, with scarlet representing the mane and tail and gold representing the coat.

The emblematic animal is a lion, and its colours are scarlet and gold.

 

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Gryffindors and Slytherins have shared a fierce house rivalry since their founders, Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, respectively, had a severe falling out over Slytherin's emphasis on blood purity. There might also be an element of feeling wronged, as Harry and his fellow Gryffindors tend to win in a lot of circumstances which, when viewed from a neutral point of view, may be considered unfair.

The Gryffindor Common Room is located in one of the castle's towers (Gryffindor Tower), the entrance to which is located on the seventh floor and is guarded by an oil painting of the Fat Lady, who is garbed in a pink silk dress. She permits entry only after being given the correct (regularly changing) password. Behind her painting is a large common room, with a fireplace, and two staircases leading up to the girls' and boys' dormitories. There is a spell on the girls' staircase that prevents boys from using it; however, there is no such enchantment on the staircase to the boys' dormitory, allowing girls to use it whenever they wish, due to the founders' belief that girls were more trustworthy. The common room is very comfortable, and members of the Gryffindor house meet there for study groups, celebrations, or relaxation. The walls are lined with portraits, each one depicting a previous or current Head of Gryffindor.

The head of house before and during Harry Potter's time was Minerva McGonagall. Minerva became the head of house possibly in 1956, when she was appointed Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, taking over Albus Dumbledore's previous teaching position when he became Headmaster. It is unknown who later became the head of house when she was made Headmistress in 1998 following the end of the Second Wizarding War.

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You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry,
Set Gryffindors apart...
 

Hufflepuff is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Its founder was the medieval witch Helga Hufflepuff.

Hufflepuff is the most inclusive among the four houses; valuing hard work, dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play rather than a particular aptitude in its members. Students in Hufflepuff are known to value everyone and treat them as equal.

Hufflepuff corresponds roughly to the element of earth, and it is for that reason that the House colours were chosen: yellow represented wheat, while black was emblematic of soil. The Hufflepuff point hourglass contains yellow diamonds. Students sorted into Hufflepuff often demonstrate exceptional abilities in Herbology, owing to their correspondence to earth.

The emblematic animal is a badger, and yellow and black are its colours.

Hufflepuff appears to have the least rivalry with the other houses, except in Quidditch, although the Triwizard Tournament did temporarily put a great deal of strain on the relationship between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, due to unusual circumstances of the selection of both Gryffindor student Harry Potter and Hufflepuff student Cedric Diggory as Champions. This was mended by 1998, where a majority of Hufflepuffs rose to defend Harry from Pansy Parkinson and later helped to defend Hogwarts.

Hufflepuff is the house that produced the fewest dark wizards through out its history. Their cheerful and friendly demeanor can probably account for this property of the House. Hufflepuff firmly demonstrated its loyalty during the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998, when they were second only to Harry Potter's own house of Gryffindor in the number of students willing to stay and fight against Voldemort and his forces in the defence of their school. The Hufflepuff dormitories and common room have never been seen by outsiders and is the only house with repelling devices in case of intruders. They are accessed through a pile of large barrels, found stacked in a shadowy stone recess on a right-hand side corridor near the kitchens. The barrel two from the bottom, middle of the second row, will open if tapped in the rhythm of Helga Hufflepuff.
 

The Hufflepuff's head of house before and during Harry Potter's time was Pomona Sprout. She was the Herbology professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true,
And unafraid of toil...
 

Ravenclaw is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Its founder was the medieval witch Rowena Ravenclaw.

Members of this house are characterised by their wit, learning, and wisdom. Ravenclaw House prizes learning, wisdom, wit, and intellect in its members. Thus, many Ravenclaws tend to be academically motivated and talented students. They also pride themselves on being original in their ideas, and methods. It's not unusual to find Ravenclaw students practising especially different types of magic that other houses might shun. Ravenclaws tend to be curious about the world and pay attention to the world around them. Ravenclaws are known to be logical and rational.

Ravenclaw corresponds roughly to the element of air, and it is for that reason that the House colours were chosen; blue and bronze represent the sky and eagle feathers respectively, both having much to do with air. The Ravenclaw points hourglass contains blue sapphires.

The emblematic animal symbol is an eagle, and blue and bronze are its colours.

Ravenclaw House appears to have little rivalry with the other houses, except in Quidditch. Harry Potter believed that they tended to side with Gryffindor in its rivalry with Slytherin, as did Hufflepuff house.

The Ravenclaw common room is in one of the castle's towers and is wide and circular. You have to climb a tight spiral staircase to get there. It has graceful arched windows, and the walls are hung with blue and bronze silks. The domed ceiling is painted with stars, which are echoed in the midnight-blue carpet. Tables, chairs, and bookcases cover the expanse of the floor, and a white marble statue of Rowena Ravenclaw sits next to the door that leads to the dormitories above. Harry Potter entered the common room in 1998 while searching for clues to the location of one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Unlike the other common rooms in the school, a logical riddle given by a bronze eagle-shaped knocker must be answered to enter.

The Head of Ravenclaw is Filius Flitwick and the house ghost is the Grey Lady, otherwise known as the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, Helena Ravenclaw.

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Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind...
 

Slytherin is one of the four Houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, founded by Salazar Slytherin.

In establishing the house, Salazar instructed the Sorting Hat to pick students who had a few particular characteristics he most valued. Slytherins tend to be ambitious, shrewd, cunning, strong leaders, and achievement-oriented. They also have highly developed senses of self-preservation. This means that Slytherins tend to hesitate before acting, so as to weigh all possible outcomes before deciding exactly what should be done.

Slytherin corresponds roughly with the element of water due to serpents being commonly associated with the sea and lochs in western European mythology, as well as serpents being physically fluid and flexible animals. Similarly, in Celtic mythology, water is seen as a portal to another world, leading some to speculate that the element was chosen to symbolise many Slytherins' hope for a pure-blood only community. The colours also correspond with waters around lakes and lochs often being green, and silver being often associated with grey rainwater.

The emblematic animal of the house is a snake and its colours are green and silver.

Slytherin and Gryffindor are generally rivals in Quidditch and for the House Cup, of which the former had won seven years in a row prior to Harry Potter's arrival at Hogwarts in 1991. It is also rare for Slytherin and Gryffindor students to be friendly with one another, and is also quite common for them to share animosity. There are exceptions, such as Slytherin Merlin who had a friendship with Gryffindor Sir Cadogan and Slytherin Severus Snape and Gryffindor Lily Evans, who were best friends until Snape's use of the slur Mudblood as well as his aspirations to be a Death Eater caused Lily to sever their ties. 

The Slytherin common room is in the dungeons of Hogwarts Castle and underneath the Black Lake. Because of this, the light in the common room is green. Harry Potter along with Ron Weasley entered the common room in his second year to find out if Draco Malfoy was the one opening the Chamber of Secrets. To enter the Slytherin common room one must merely speak aloud the current password in front of a stretch of a damp stone wall; once the word is uttered a concealed stone door will slide aside leaving a rectangular hole in the wall leading to the Slytherin common room.

Slytherin's head of house for Harry's first six years of school was Severus Snape; however, as he fled with the Death Eaters at the end of Harry's sixth year, Potions Master Horace Slughorn became the head of Slytherin House.

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Or perhaps in Slytherin,
You'll make your real friends,
These cunning folks use any means
To achieve their ends.

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

LUNA & XENOPHILIUS LOVEGOOD, AN ALTERNATIVE VOICE

Today, The Stones and The Grandma have met two of the nicest and wonderful magic people, The Lovegood.

Luna Lovegood is a British witch and only child and daughter of Xenophilius Lovegood, a British wizard who works as the editor of The Quibbler magazine.

Luna is a closer friend of Harry Potter and a member of the Dumbledore Army.

Luna Lovegood is a British witch, the only child and daughter of Xenophilius and Pandora Lovegood.

Her mother accidentally died while experimenting with spells when Luna was nine and Luna was raised by her father, editor of the magazine The Quibbler, in a rook-like house near the village of Ottery St Catchpole in Devon.

Luna attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Ravenclaw House. In her fourth year, Luna joined Dumbledore's Army, an organisation taught and led by Harry Potter, of which she became an important member.

She participated in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, and co-led the reconstituted Dumbledore's Army when Hogwarts fell under the control of Lord Voldemort.

Because of her father's political dissidence at the time, Luna was abducted by Death Eaters to be held ransom, and imprisoned in the dungeons of Malfoy Manor for months. She was freed by Dobby along with several other prisoners, and stayed at Shell Cottage until she returned to Hogwarts to participate in the final battle of the Second Wizarding War.

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After the war, Luna became a Magizoologist (Studies magical creatures) discovering and classifying many magical species that had never been encountered before.

Luna is the only child of Xenophilius and Pandora Lovegood. Luna's mother was accidentally killed while experimenting with a spell that she created when Luna was nine years old. Thus, Luna was subsequently raised by her father. As she witnessed her mother's death, she was able to see Thestrals, the magical skeletal black horses that led the Hogwarts carriages, from that point onward.

Luna attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Ravenclaw House.

One year behind the famous Harry Potter, she noticed Thestrals on her very first day of school.

During her years at Hogwarts, she was often teased by many of the other students due to her strange behaviour and odd beliefs. Some time during her early years at Hogwarts students had also taken to calling her Loony Lovegood.

Luna also met and became a friend of Ginny Weasley, who was in the same year as her. Se went to the Quidditch World Cup with her father.

In her third year at Hogwarts, she likely chose Divination as an elective, when Professor Sybill Trelawney claimed to miss her in class; Luna explained she had Firenze that year. She may have also have attended Study of Ancient Runes, she was seen reading an article written about runes in The Quibbler.

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In Luna's fourth year, she met and befriended Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger, and Neville Longbottom. She believed Harry's declaration that Lord Voldemort was back.

Luna has waist-length, straggly, dirty blonde hair, protuberant silvery eyes, which often seemed to be dreamily distracted, and faint eyebrows. She had an aura of distinct dottiness about her and was known to put her wand behind her left ear for safekeeping.

Luna had a unique fashion sense that other people usually found bizarre. She often wore odd pieces of jewellery such as a Butterbeer cork necklace and Dirigible plum earrings, and a pair of Spectrespecs. Luna also didn't wear shoes because students in her house would take her shoes and hide them.

At Hogwarts Quidditch matches, Luna supported Gryffindor against every House except Ravenclaw; to show her support for Gryffindor, she would wear a hat in the shape of a lion head that roars, and to show support for Ravenclaw she would wear an eagle hat with flapping wings.

Luna was an extremely quirky girl, with a serene disposition and many eccentric beliefs and qualities.

Luna was also intelligent and unusually perceptive, having been sorted into Ravenclaw where those of wit and learning will always find their kind. She was a complete nonconformist; she lacked self-consciousness and was not afraid to show who she truly was.

She had an uncanny way of making others uncomfortable by being bluntly honest -Harry Potter described her as having a knack for embarrassing honesty. She was also completely unflappable and rarely seemed anxious or stressed, even under difficult circumstances such as being a prisoner of Malfoy Manor. Luna was very good at comforting others.

Luna's demeanour and voice were often distant and dreamy; she would drift away from a conversation she did not find interesting. However, whenever someone made fun of her father or his magazine The Quibbler, the dreamy quality in her voice would vanish and be replaced by one of steel, and she would immediately become very angry.

Luna means Moon in Latin, as well as in Italian, Russian, Spanish, Bulgarian and Romanian. People believed that the moon caused craziness, which may be why she's the way she is. Her nickname, Loony, also references the moon and its ties with insanity, as it is short for lunatic.

Lovegood is a real surname and a compound word, Love and Good. Speaking in accordance of her having good feelings for every person she knew, hence Lovegood.

Luna Lovegood is also alliterative, for effect.

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 I enjoyed the meetings too,...

it was like having friends.

Luna Lovegood

Xenophilius "Xeno" Lovegood was a British wizard who works as the editor of The Quibbler magazine, the husband of Pandora, and the father of Luna Lovegood.

His wife died when their only child was nine years old, and he raised his daughter by himself. He was likely the source of his daughter’s eccentric beliefs, although he was often correct in his assumptions. He believed in the existence of the Deathly Hallows and supported Harry Potter in The Quibbler when few others would.

Xenophilius and Luna lived in a house shaped like a rook chess piece near the village of Ottery St Catchpole and were friends with the Weasleys.

Xenophilius and Luna attended Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour's wedding at the Burrow.

After the Second Wizarding War, he left the prison and continued editing The Quibbler.

Xenophilius was born into the Lovegood family and attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he was sorted into Ravenclaw.

At an unknown time, he married Pandora Lovegood with whom he had a daughter, Luna Lovegood. He raised Luna himself after Pandora died when her magical experiment went wrong.

Xenophilius created a magazine called The Quibbler, in which he wrote about his obscure beliefs, including the Crumple-Horned Snorkack.

At some point during his life, Xenophilius attended one of Eldred Worple's book signings. He presumably shared his bizarre beliefs with Worple, not to mention his choice of clothing and accessories, as the latter remembered him as a seriously unbalanced man.

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Xenophilius published Harry Potter's story about the night he saw Lord Voldemort return and sent Harry a free copy.

This was the fastest-selling edition of The Quibbler, even being reprinted at least once before Mr Lovegood sold the story to The Daily Prophet.

The Lovegoods used the money received from selling the story to the Prophet to travel to Sweden over the summer to search for a Crumple-Horned Snorkack.

When Rufus Scrimgeour became Minister for Magic, Xenophilius planned to print a story in The Quibbler stating that Scrimgeour was in fact a vampire. However the Ministry stepped in and prevented him from printing the story; Xenophilius believed that this was because the Ministry did not want the truth to get out. 

Xenophilius's public support of Harry Potter eventually got him in trouble with Death Eaters, many speculated why the Death Eaters had let him get away with it for so long.

Xenophilius was an eccentric-looking wizard, who looked slightly cross-eyed and had shoulder length hair that was the texture of candyfloss.

Xenophilius cared a great deal about his daughter Luna, and shared her bizarre beliefs; he was likely the cause of them. He thought The Daily Prophet was an awful paper, and only published stories that he thought were important and needed to be known by the public.

He was extremely firm in his beliefs and felt those who disbelieve in them are painfully limited, narrow and close-minded. Every time a sceptic demands the evidences for his beliefs, he in turn asks them to prove them untrue themselves.

Due to his bizarre views, many in the wizarding world thought he was senile. Elfred Worple even remembered him as a seriously unbalanced man after meeting him at one of his book signings.

According to Luna, her father did not care about making money and did not pay people to write for The Quibbler; she claims they did so because it was an honour to see their name in print.

Luna also said that her father was supportive of any anti-Ministry action. Mr Lovegood fully supported Harry Potter and encouraged others to do so as well.

Xenophilius' name comes from two Greek words: Xenos, strange and -Phile, love. As opposed to xenophobe, one who fears the strange, his name means one who loves the strange.

Xenophilius' name bears a similarity to The X-Files, and like X-Files main character Fox Mulder, he describes himself as a believer. Both characters investigate and believe in numerous conspiracy theories which are not accepted by their mainstream culture.

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The most eccentric-looking wizard...

Slightly cross-eyed, with shoulder-length white hair

the texture of candyfloss, he wore a white cap

whose tassel dangled in front of his nose and robes

of an eye-watering shade of egg-yolk yellow.

An odd symbol, rather like a triangular eye,

glistened from a golden chain around his neck. 

J.K. Rowling about Xenophilius Lovegood

 

The Quibbler, marketed as The Wizarding World's Alternative Voice, is a wizarding tabloid published and edited by Xenophilius Lovegood, father of Luna Lovegood.

Luna gets every issue of The Quibbler when it is published, which could contribute to her often odd beliefs.

The Quibbler publishes odd articles, including conspiracy theories and discussions of imaginary creatures; it also published Rita Skeeter's interview of Harry Potter on Lord Voldemort's return.

Many think The Quibbler is rubbish, including Hermione Granger, Rita Skeeter, and Dirk Cresswell; the latter referred to it as a lunatic rag, and when Hermione informed Rita that she would be publishing the interview in The Quibbler, Rita looked at Hermione with disdain.

Publishing of The Quibbler started by the 1980s. The magazine published many ridiculous articles, such as those on the supposed existence of the Crumple-Horned Snorkack. The magazine had an article about a witch who did not know she was a werewolf.

Reading The Quibbler was part of sixth year Divination. There was at least one mention of Celestina Warbeck saying something, which students did not believe was something she actually said.

The magazine published an edition with an article that put forward the theory that Sirius Black was actually the reclusive rock star Stubby Boardman.

When Harry Potter read the article on the Hogwarts Express, he found it to be total rubbish. The same issue also had a segment written in Runes which caused the reader to look at the magazine upside down, which was probably why Luna Lovegood read it upside down.

The Quibbler scored a journalistic coup when the magazine agreed to run an interview with Harry Potter concerning the Rebirth of Lord Voldemort. The interview, given by ex-Daily Prophet columnist Rita Skeeter, was published in the March edition, and as it offered another take on recent events, the magazine quickly sold out.

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Dolores Umbridge, a Ministry bureaucrat acting as the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Hogwarts High Inquisitor, and later Headmistress at Hogwarts, banned students from having copies of The Quibbler after this article, as she and the Ministry were intent on denying Lord Voldemort's return.

However, Hermione Granger was very pleased about this, saying that the one thing Umbridge could have done to make all the students and teachers want to read it was to ban it, as the students were very focused on rebelling against the sadistic tyrant.

Harry Potter received lots of fan mail during breakfast at the Great Hall, and some letters said he had them convinced, especially after the Ministry's poor reaction to the mass breakout from Azkaban.

In the article, he names all the Death Eaters he saw in the Little Hangleton graveyard and gives as many details as he could of the night Lord Voldemort returned.

Though Rita was displeased about writing for The Quibbler, and even more displeased that she wasn't going to get paid for it, she was blackmailed into writing the article by Hermione, who threatened to reveal to the world that Skeeter was an unregistered Animagus.

The interview with Harry Potter went on to be one of the biggest selling individual issues ever. After the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and the world was forced to believe Lord Voldemort had returned, The Daily Prophet began to stop slandering Harry Potter and call him the lone voice of truth.

In addition, they used this interview in their paper, calling it exclusive, even though it was printed in The Quibbler months ago. By late summer that same year, The Quibbler had returned to its usual form, offering an issue with free Spectrespecs to see Wrackspurts.

During the height of the Second Wizarding War, when Lord Voldemort took over the Ministry of Magic, The Quibbler was one of the only media outlets to print the truth and publicly support Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. To combat this dissent, the Death Eaters abducted Luna Lovegood, and held her hostage against Xenophilius Lovegood's good behaviour in the basement of Malfoy Manor.

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Dad's reprinting!... I can't believe it,

he says people seem even more interested

in this than the Crumple-Horned Snorkacks!

Luna Lovegood

FILIUS FLITWICK, CHARMS MASTER & CHORUS DIRECTOR

Today, The Weasleys and The Grandma have received the visit of one of the nicest people of Hogwarts, Professor Filius Flitwick, a British Half-goblin wizard sorted into Ravenclaw House. 

He is the Charms Master, the Head of Ravenclaw House, the director of the chorus and a Duelling Champion.

Professor Filius Flitwick is a British Half-goblin wizard who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Ravenclaw House, being an intelligent young man and a model student. Some time after his graduation, Flitwick returned to Hogwarts and became the Charms Master, as well as the Head of Ravenclaw House.

During the First and Second Wizarding Wars, Flitwick opposed Lord Voldemort. He also opposed Dolores Umbridge, the High Inquisitor of Hogwarts, and fought at the Battle of the Astronomy Tower. He also protected the students from the Carrows. He partook in the Battle of Hogwarts and defeated many Death Eaters.

He survived the war, and likely continued to teach Charms at Hogwarts to future generations of students.

Filius Flitwick was born somewhere in the British Isles into a wizarding family with the distant descent of a goblin, which accounted for his short stature. 

Prejudged and foredoomed from an early age because of his ancestral connection to a different breed of being that was both regarded and treated as second-class citizens by much of the wizarding community, by the time young Filius began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he was already used to being judged by strangers.

Brave in the face of adversity, however, whilst Flitwick once admitted to having been subjected to scrutiny from those around him from the minute he set his foot inside the castle, the future professor carried his burden remarkably well.

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Wise beyond his years and rather thick-skinned, he eventually came to regard those who judged him as ignorant rather than malevolent, reasoning that most people simply want those around them to be simple so that they would be easier to understand, as opposed to simply acknowledge the fact that people are complex.

In this, he indirectly proved himself to be correct. During his sorting ceremony, when the Sorting Hat wavered between putting him in Ravenclaw or Gryffindor before it ultimately chose the former, though, as the decision took less than five minutes, Flitwick was not a true Hatstall.

At some point, he asked the Grey Lady about the whereabouts of Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, which was rumoured to grant the wearer wisdom. However, she denied revealing the information.

To his unknowing that she had already revealed it to a teenage Tom Riddle and later went on to tell Harry Potter during the Battle of Hogwarts. 

It was also mentioned that Flitwick, being a model student with nothing to hide, never entered or used the Room of Hidden Things in the Room of Requirement. It is likely that he achieved a high graded O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. in Charms, as later in his life he went on to teach this subject for over thirty years.

He also may have taken exams in Defence Against the Dark Arts, as he became a Master Duellist sometime after leaving the school.

After completing his Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests in his seventh year, Flitwick graduated from Hogwarts and then proceeded to become a Master Duellist and earned the title of Duelling Champion at some point, and has a shelf full of trophies to prove it. It is also likely Flitwick studied further into magic, becoming an accomplished wizard, masterful in spells, charms, and defensive magic, and even possibly earning the title of Doctor, and becoming a fully-fledged and educated sorcerer before beginning his teaching career back at Hogwarts.

Flitwick taught charms to Lily Evans, Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, and Severus Snape. He also taught many others during this time as well.

Flitwick administered the Theory of Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L. He walked between the hundreds of small desks in the Great Hall during the exam and, once their time was up, ordered the students to put down their quills, but had to tell a pupil named Stebbins twice before they put their down. 

Flitwick then used a Summoning Charm to collect in the papers, but was knocked over onto the floor when the hundred scrolls of parchments zoomed into his outstretched arms.

Flitwick, due to his goblin blood, was particularly short and frequently described as tiny little Professor Flitwick. He had a shock of white hair in his elderly years and brown when he was younger. Also when he was young, he usually wore black clothes and suits as opposed to the green robes that he wore in his later years.

Filius is Latin for son, and the filius philosophorum, meaning the philosophers' son is a symbol in alchemy, sometimes associated with the philosopher's stone.

The surname Flitwick may come from the Charms professor's own advice for wand movement swish and flick.

Flitwick is also the name of an English town, pronounced Flittick. To flit is to move quickly from location to another. A wick is a loosely woven strand of fabric or fibres, often used in a candle or oil lamp.

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No! You'll do no more murder at Hogwarts!

Filius Flitwick

SYBILL TRELAWNEY, PROPHECIES SINCE ANCIENT TIMES

Today, The Weasleys and The Grandma have assisted to one of the most interesting classes in Hogwarts: Divination. Professor Sybill Trelawney has offered them a masterclass about how to guess the future using glass balls and tea leaves.

The Grandma has been very interested in this class because she is a great fan of Greek and Roman Sybils and for first time in her live she has met a modern Sybil.

Before assisting to Professor Sybill Trelawney's masterclass, The Grandma has offered a new Cambridge Key English Test A2 Example, their first Listening, to The Weasleys to prepare their future exam.

She has also asked Professor Trelawney about the future results of these exams and after an intense tea leaves reading, Professor Trelawney has given her an answer... but it is a secret that The Grandma is not going to reveal.

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Professor Sybill Patricia Trelawney is a half-blood witch and professor of Divination at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

She is the great-great-granddaughter of the celebrated Cassandra Trelawney, who was also a Seer.

It was Trelawney herself who made the prophecy concerning Lord Voldemort and the one with the power to vanquish him, Voldemort took this to mean Harry Potter, during her job interview with Albus Dumbledore.

She accurately predicted the escape of Peter Pettigrew and return of Lord Voldemort. Trelawney was greatly distressed by Dolores Umbridge, who dismissed her and attempted to banish her from Hogwarts Castle, though Dumbledore allowed her to remain at the school, with Umbridge being greatly offended when she later had to teach alongside the centaur Firenze.

She participated in the Battle of Hogwarts, dropping crystal balls on Death Eaters' heads and tending to the wounded and dead along with Padma Patil.

Professor Trelawney continued to teach well into the 2010s, continuing her tradition of predicting the deaths of her students. Since Firenze was welcomed back to his herd, it is possible that she taught Divination on her own again.

Sybill was born to a Muggle mother and wizard father, into the half-blood Trelawney family. There were three generations between her and Cassandra Trelawney, who was a renowned Seer. No one in the family since Cassandra had possessed the Second Sight. Presumably purchasing or inheriting her wand at the age of eleven, Sybill attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which she referred to as her home. Being Sorted into Ravenclaw, she may have been a member of the Slug Club because of her ancestry.

In her third year, Sybill would have taken Divination as one of her elective subjects in her third year, and achieved high grades in her O.W.L and N.E.W.T.

She married early, but it ended in unforeseen rupture due to Sybill's refusal to adopt the surname Higglebottom. They had no children.

After graduating, Sybill drifted through the wizarding world, trying to gain employment based on her ancestry but scorning those who did not offer what she felt was the rightful treatment of a true Seer.

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Sybill, who by this point had begun making false predictions, arranged a meeting with Albus Dumbledore in the Hog's Head where she was staying in the hopes of acquiring the position of professor of Divination at Hogwarts School. Dumbledore, who was not planning on continuing divination at Hogwarts, agreed to give her a chance because of her ancestry.

Sybill displayed none of Cassandra's divinatory skills, which disappointed Dumbledore even though he was planning on discontinuing the subject anyway. After courteously telling her she was not fit for the position, Sybill entered a real trance and made the prophecy about Voldemort's defeat. It so happened that the Death Eater Severus Snape was eavesdropping at the door, which placed Trelawney in great danger from Voldemort. Hoping to protect Sybill, Dumbledore hired her.

As a professor, Trelawney taught in the Divination Classroom on the seventh floor of the North Tower. She presumably also ran the Divination Workshop. Sybill made many predictions over her time at Hogwarts.

Minerva McGonagall once claimed that she predicted the death of one of her students every year, none of whom had yet died. Knowing her talents pale in comparison to her colleagues, Professor Trelawney very rarely attended meals in the Great Hall with the rest of the school, preferring to remain in her tower. She appeared to be acquainted with a certain colleague of hers, but frequently clashed with Professor McGonagall.

Professor Trelawney survived the Second Wizarding War and continued to teach well into the 2010s, continuing her tradition of predicting the deaths of her students. Since Firenze was welcomed back to his herd, it is possible that she taught Divination on her own again. Trelawney wrote a book entitled My Eyes and How to See Past Them.

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Professor Trelawney was described as being a thin woman, usually draped in gauzy shawls, and cloaks and bangles all covered with shining sequins and glittering strings of beads.

She had thick glasses, which hugely magnified her eyes and caused them to appear about ten times their normal size. She spoke in a soft, misty, ethereal voice, though she would become brisk and snappy when she was angry or upset.

Trelawney was extremely eccentric; she had a theatrical presence and frequently spoke in misty, ethereal tones. She saw herself as being a great Seer, although her predictions rarely came true. Much like Gilderoy Lockhart, Trelawney was sometimes unable to understand who liked and who disliked her. She was, however, conscious of her low status amongst the staff, which led to her spending most of her time apart from her colleagues in her office.

According to Professor McGonagall, seeing death omens was a favourite way for Trelawney to greet her class, something that greatly annoyed Harry Potter as he was her frequent target. One of her hobbies was practising doom-laden prophecies in front of the mirror. She became angered when she believed that students were not impressed by nor interested in her subject, such as Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

Her first prediction was made in the presence of Albus Dumbledore at the Hog's Head inn. Trelawney was in the middle of an interview for a teaching job at Hogwarts when it was made. Dumbledore reported that he had decided not to give Trelawney the job, but changed his mind when he heard the prophecy. Trelawney herself is not aware that she made the prophecy, merely remembering that she came over faint, which she attributed to not having eaten that day.

This prediction is believed to refer to Voldemort, The Dark Lord, and Harry Potter. At the time of its prophesying, the identity of the child was not known as he had not been born yet. The time of year the prophecy was made is unknown.

It later became apparent that the prophecy could have applied to either Harry or Neville Longbottom, who was also born at the end of the seventh month on 30 July. Part of the prediction came to pass on the night of October, when Voldemort's body was destroyed after Harry survived an attack from him, reputedly using the killing curse, Avada Kedavra.

The attack left Harry with an ability to speak Parseltongue, a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead, and a mental connection to Voldemort. It was Dumbledore's view that it was Voldemort's choice of Harry as his target from the two possible boys, that caused Harry to have the power to vanquish the Dark Lord. In other words, the only reason Harry had the power to defeat Voldemort is that Voldemort believed he did. By attacking Harry, Voldemort caused the prophecy to become true.

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Both her name and her surname are related to her future telling ability. Sibyl was a priestess in ancient Roman mythology. A sibyl, one l, is a woman who could look into the future. A sibyl also can be any female prophet. The name is from the Latin sibylla, seer. Rowling chose to spell it Sybill, because she did not feel Trelawney really qualified as a Sibyl.

Sybil could also originate from the Sybilline Books, a Roman collection of oracular occurrences.

Her middle name, Patricia, comes from Latin and means noble woman.

Trelawney is derived from a famous cry of defiance from the south-west of England, where J. K. Rowling grew up, often shouted at football matches:

And shall Trelawney live? And shall Trelawney die? Here's ten thousand Cornishmen who ask the reason why!

The cry is a line from The Song of the Western Men, written in 1833 by the poet and parson Robert Stephens Hawker and the unofficial Cornish national anthem. It concerns the march to London in 1688 in protest at the incarceration in the Tower of Jonathan Trelawney, Bishop of Bristol. This could be a reference to Trelawney predicting the death of one of her students every year. It is also interesting to note that Bishop Trelawney also was released and went on to live for another thirty-three years, just as Professor Trelawney's famous death predictions rarely came true.

The name Trelawney comes from the Cornish phrase tre-lonow, homestead of groves, or tre-launow, farm in clearing. J. K. Rowling claimed that she picked the name because of her love of Cornish surnames, which she had not used in her books before. The age of the name also made it suitable, because of Trelawney's over-reliance on her ancestry when seeking to impress.

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 Welcome.

How nice to see you in the physical world at last.

Welcome to Divination.

My name is Professor Trelawney.

You may not have seen me before.

I find that descending too often 

into the hustle and bustle

of the main school clouds my Inner Eye.

Sybill Trelawney