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Griselda Marchbanks is a character from J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series. She is an elderly witch that heads the Wizarding Examinations Authority and is an elder of the Wizengamot (although, along with Tiberius Ogden, she resigns her postion in protest of Dolores Umbridge as Hogwarts High Inquisitor). Joanne Rowling OBE (born July 31, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire), commonly known as J.K. Rowling (pronunciation: roll-ing; her former students used to joke with her name calling her the Rolling Stone), is a British fiction writer. ... The official Harry Potter film logo This article is about the Harry Potter series. ... This article is part of the Witchcraft series. ... The Wizarding Examinations Authority are a fictional group in the Harry Potter series that examine Hogwarts students in their fifth and seventh years taking their O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. exams. ... The Wizengamot is a fictional body of wizards in the Harry Potter series of books. ... Dolores Jane Umbridge is a fictional character from the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling. ... Dolores Jane Umbridge is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling. ...


The Daily Prophet includes her in its smear campaign, insinuating that she has "links to subversive goblin groups." If the accuracy of this information is on a par with that published about Harry and Dumbledore, it can be assumed to be false. The Daily Prophet is a fictional newspaper featured in the Harry Potter book series as the most widely-read newspaper in Englands wizard community. ... A goblin is an evil or merely mischievous creature of folklore, often described as a grotesquely disfigured or elf-like phantom. ... The official Harry Potter film logo This article is about the Harry Potter series. ... Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (born ca. ...


Madam Marchbanks is described as tiny and stooped, her face so lined that it appears to be draped in cobwebs. She is at least a decade older than Dumbledore, since when he was about 17, she was already working for the Wizarding Examinations Authority and personally administered his N.E.W.T.s. Draco Malfoy claims she is friends with the Malfoys although Neville Longbottom higly doubts this since Ms. Marchbanks is also close friends with Neville's grandmother Augusta. In the fictional Harry Potter series, N.E.W.T. is an acronym for Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test, a highly advanced test of magical ability in a particular field that the Ministry of Magic administers to students before they graduate from Hogwarts. ...


She personally examines Draco Malfoy's practical Charms O.W.L., as well as Harry Potter's Astronomy, Divination and Potions O.W.L.s. Draco Malfoy (born 5 June 1980) is an antagonist in J. K. Rowlings Harry Potter books and Harry Potters principal rival at school. ... Charms - so Russian poet Daniil Kharms spelled his pseudonym Charm can have the following meanings: In the world of paranormal magic, a charm can mean either: An amulet or talisman, or a spell. ... The official Harry Potter film logo This article is about the Harry Potter series. ... Lunar astronomy: the large crater is Daedalus, photographed by the crew of Apollo 11 as they circled the Moon in 1969. ... This man in Rhumsiki, Cameroon, tells the future by interpreting the changes in position of various objects as caused by a fresh-water crab through nggàm[1]. Divination is the practice of ascertaining information from supernatural sources. ... A potion (from Latin potio, meaning beverage, potion, poison) is a drinkable medicine or poison. ...


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Griselda Marchbanks is a character from J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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