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| THE RIDDLE HOUSE! |
| Once the home of the Riddle family, the Riddle House now holds riddles from the Harry Potter books. |
| ALCHEMY: Alchemy is a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life (the Elixer of Life?) Alchemy is also a power or process of transforming something common into something special (ordinary objects into gold!) |
| LOCKHART: Lockhart, John Gibson, 1794-1854, was a Scottish novelist & biographer; author of novels "Adam Blair", "Reginald Dalton", etc., and the biography "Life of Sir Walter Scott" in 7 volumes (does this sound like our Lockhart?) |
| MINERVA: Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom. |
| BASILISK: A legendary animal with fatal breath and glance. |
| PHILOSOPHER'S STONE: An imaginary stone, substance, or chemical preparation believed to have the power of transmuting baser metals into gold and sought by alchemists. |
| DRACO: Athenian lawgiver; prepared the first comprehensive written law code for Athens (ca. 621 B.C.), prescribing death for most offenses, whence the word draconian. Draco(nis) also means dragon! |
| REMUS (Lupin): A son of Mars slain by his twin brother Romulus. Romulus and Remus were two abondoned children, raised by a wolf. Romulus, in an argument over where to found their city, killed his brother Remus and founded Rome. Lupin is similar to lupine, which means wolf-like, just like bovine means cow-like and feline is cat-like. I think lupus is Latin for wolf. *from a fan |
| MIRROR OF ERISED: Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi is "I show not your face but your heart's desire" backwards! |
| If you'd like to help out, try to find some other HP riddles. But DO NOT take them off another person's site! Look in Encarta, online dictionaries, and encyclopaedias and email me if you find one. |
| HIPPOGRIFF: A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin. |
| MANDRAKE: A low plant of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. |
| ALBUS DUMBLEDORE: "Dumbledore" is the Old English word for bumblebee, and "Albus" is "white" in Latin. |
| SNAPE: A small town in England. |
| HEDWIG: A German saint. |
| RUNNING WEASLE (Ron Weasley): There was an old legend of a person called Running Weasel (sounds like Ron Weasley) and his rat, whom he dyed yellow (which Ron said he tried to do to Scabbers in the 1st book on the train) knocked over a lamp and killed Running Weasel. Also Running Weasel was an expert at Chess (so is Ron). *from Bobby |
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| SIRIUS BLACK: Sirius is the brightest star in the sky. It's in the constelation Canis Major. Sirius is also called the "dog star." Sirius Black can turn into a dog. *from a fan |
| PIGWIDGEON: Ron's owl Pigwidgeon is probably named after a fairy knight in Drayton's "Nymphidia". He fell in love with Queen Mab, who is the fairy queen. *from Berni |
| PADFOOT: Padfoot is short for Padfootis and is another name for a type of Grim. It is usually in the form of a supernatural sheep, a bundle of fleece, a large white dog, or a black donkey. *from Berni |
| PETER PETTIGREW: Peter Pettigrew (HP3) means "petit gros" (it's French), which means "little fat". *from Guillaume Gervais It just occured to me, that Peter (as in Pettigrew) was the name of an apostle that betrayed Jesus. *from Christopher Robbins |
| ARGUS FILCH: Comes from the Greek goddess Hera's watchman. He was said to have 100 eyes. *from Sarah If you "flich" something, you steal it. This could refer to Filch being a squib; he has "stolen" his way into the wizard world by being a caretaker at a Wizard school. *from Pat |
| PARVATI (Patil): Parvati was the Hindu goddess of dance.(Remember the Yule Ball?)She was Lord Shiva's consort and was also known as Uma. *from a fan |
| ALASTOR MOODY: Alastor means the spirit of solitude (remember he trusted no one), and he was very moody, or tempermental. *from Jim M. |
| HERMIONE: In Greek mythology, she was the daughter of Helen of Troy and Menelaus, King of Sparta. She was the wife of Achilles' son Neptolemus, and also of Orestes. *from Chelsey and Colin |
| CROOKSHANKS: "Crook" means a curve or bend and "shank" means a leg which is a very appropriate name for a bowlegged cat! *from Seanna |
| VOLDEMORT: "Voler" is a French word meaning "to fly or steal" and "mort" means "death". *from Seanna |
| MARS: The Roman god of war. The centaurs say "Mars is bright tonight." Is this their way of saying that war or evil things are coming because they are aware of Voldemort's returning strength? *from Pat |
| LUDO BAGMAN: Ludo is Latin for sport. *from Pat |