A Death Eater is one of Voldemort’s followers. Draco Malfoy became a Death Eater during Voldemort’s return to power in Harry’s final years at school.
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Durmstrang
Durmstrang is another magical school, like Hogwarts, whose students competed at the Triwizard Tournament. Viktor Krum competed for Durmstrang, and when Scorpius and Albus go back in time to the first task, they impersonate…
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Dementors
Dementors are dark, wraithlike beings that feed off of people’s happiness, generating feelings of intense sadness. Dementors can fly and also suck out people’s souls, leaving them husks of themselves. Scorpius faces dementors in the…
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Parseltongue
Parseltongue is the language of snakes, which only people descended from Salazar Slytherin (one of the four Hogwarts founders) can speak. It is generally associated with dark magic. In the play, Voldemort, Delphi…
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Squib
“Squib” is the wizarding world’s term for a person with magical parents who is born without magic. Kids at Hogwarts make fun of Albus by calling him a squib, even though he isn’t one.
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The Triwizard Tournament was a competition held during Harry’s fourth year at Hogwarts (from 1994-1995), first depicted in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It involved students from three schools: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and…
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