Tari_Sue's Great Big List of HP Canon Spellings
THINGS TO REMEMBER

HP CANON SPELLINGS
General
Animagi/Animagus
Apparate/Disapparate
Apparition/Disapparition
Aragog
Arithmancy
Basilisk
Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
Boggarts
Buckbeak
Care of Magical Creatures
Cauldron Cakes
Chameleon Ghouls
Chocolate Frogs
Chudley Cannons
Crookshanks
Death Eaters
Defence Against the Dark Arts
Dementors
Divination
Drooble's Best Blowing Gum
Fawkes
Filibuster Fireworks
Firewhisky, Ogden's Old
Forbidden Forest, the
Gryffindor
half-blood
Hippogriff
house-elf
Hufflepuff
International Warlock Convention
Knight Bus
Legilimency
Liquorice Wands
Mandrake/Mandragora (plant)
Ministry of Magic
Mudblood
Muggle
Muggle-born
Muggle Studies
Nagini
Occlumency
Parselmouth – a speaker of Parseltongue
Parseltongue – the language of snakes
Pumpkin Pasties
pure-blood
Quidditch
Ravenclaw
Remembrall
Slytherin
Sneakoscope
Squib
Transfiguration
Venomous Tentacula (plant)
Whomping Willow

Places:
Azkaban
Borgin and Burkes
Burrow, the – Ottery St Catchpole
Diagon Alley
Eeylops Owl Emporium
Flourish and Blotts
Gringotts Wizarding Bank
Hogsmeade
Leaky Cauldron
Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions
Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands
St Brutus's Secure Centre For Incurabley Criminal Boys
Quality Quidditch Supplies
Weasley's Wizard Wheezes

People:
Harry's Classmates
Other years
Teachers
Ghosts
Random People
Famous Witches and Wizards
Named Death Eaters

Potions:
Felix Felicis
Polyjuice
Skelegrow

Spells:
Avada Kedavra – Killing curse
Babbling curse. Lockheart.
Crucio Cruciatus
Engorgio makes bigger
Expelliarmus – disarming charm
Finite Incantatum
Homorphus Charm – for turning werewolves back into people. Lockheart.
Imperio Imperius
Lumos – light
Peskipiksi Pesternomi – getting rid of Piskies. Lockheart.
Petrificus Totalus
Reducio makes smaller
Rictusempra – hits with silver light
Riddikulus – for getting rid of Boggarts
Sectumsempra – severing charm
Serpensortia – conjures a snake
Tarantallegra – makes your legs dance
Waddiwasi – for getting rid of Peeves
Wingardium Leviosa



JUST IN GENERAL

Confusables
Blonde – a woman with blonde hair.
Blond – a man with blond hair, not commonly used.

Brunette – a woman with dark or dark brown hair.
Brunet – a man with dark or dark brown hair, rarely used. Also, according to J.K. Rowling Harry Potter has black hair, not brown.

Lie – to tell an untruth. Past tense, lied. You lie, you are lying, you lied, you are a fibbing bastard.
Lie – to lie down. Past tense, lay. Present perfect, lain. So, basically you lie down now, you are lying down, you have lain down, you did lay down yesterday.
Lay – to place something down. Past tense, laid. You lay an egg, you are laying an egg, you laid an egg yesterday.
How to remember? Hens lay, Men lie!

Prostate – a gland surrounding the neck of the bladder in males which releases part of the fluid in semen]
Prostrate – lying face down, esp in submission

rain – precipitation, or water falling from the sky.
rein – a strap to hold something back or the actual act of holding back, as in to rein in.
reign – ruling a country

Whisky – Scotch whisky only, made in Scotland, never to be refered to as Whiskey
Whiskey – Non-Scotch whiskey. If your whisky is made in Ireland or America or pretty much anywhere that isn't Scotland, you can call it Whiskey. Please note, the spelling of whisky/whiskey does not depend on where the writer comes from, it depends on where the whisky/whiskey comes from!

Publication titles should be italicised.

'Nutters' is the plural form of 'nutter', you cannot be 'nutters' unless there are several of you and you are all a bit insane.

Snakes are rarely poisonous, but many are venomous! Poisonous means it will harm you if you bite it, venemous means it will harm you if it bites you.

Potions and medicines should be ingested, salves are applied to the skin.


All canon spellings are taken from the original UK editions of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series of books only.