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If you didn't go to school at Hogwarts, Beauxbatons or Durmstrang, you may not know every wizarding word you hear in the Harry Potter movies or read in the HP books.

Many kind fellow-fans have taken the time to put together lists of words that wizards use to help out the Muggles who love Harry Potter.

Names of Harry potter characters, places and Harry Potter animals & creatures, spells and technical wizardry terms (and other unfamiliar words from all the books and movies) are covered just up ahead, with explanations of what different words mean, along with references on where you can find them in the books at these top Harry Potter glossary pages:

The Unofficial Guide to Harry Potter Fun, Facts and Trivia - Scroll down this very long page for a complete identification of character names and what roles they play in the book along with animals and creatures, settings and places.

Harry Potter Dictionary - From A to Z, you'll find the meanings of words that wizards use for spells, the names of strange creatures, places in the wizarding world and more from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone through Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince...

Answers.com Harry Potter Glossary - This is a simple A - Z list of definitions, but what makes it special is the search. Enter any word that you're looking for and you don't have to go through the whole dictionary to find it.

The Glossarist's Harry Potter Dictionary, Glossary and Terms directory - A great resource pointing to various dictionaries and glossaries around the Web that include more than one German-English dictionary and plenty of other great sites. They page is a bit old - the last update seems to have been in 2003, but most of the links are good - and there are so very many...