enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Language of flowers - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_flowers

   In J. K. Rowling's 1997 novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Professor Severus Snape uses the language of flowers to express regret and mourning for the death of Lily Potter, his childhood friend and Harry Potter's mother, according to Pottermore. [19] Flowers are often used as a symbol of femininity.

3. Phoenix (mythology) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)

   Phoenix (mythology) The phoenix is an immortal bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. While it is part of Greek mythology, it has analogs in many cultures, such as Egyptian and Persian. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by rising from the ashes of its predecessor.

4. Dumbledore's Army - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbledore's_Army

   Dumbledore's Army (or D.A. for short) is a fictional student organisation in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. It is founded by Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger after Dolores Umbridge, the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, refuses to teach students practical defensive magic. [ 1]

5. Violet (color) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_(color)

   While violet is the color of humility in the symbolism of the Catholic Church, it has exactly the opposite meaning in general society. A European poll in 2000 showed it was the color most commonly associated with vanity. [32] As a color that rarely exists in nature and so attracts attention, it is seen as a color of individualism and extravagance.

6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the...

   Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the longest book in the series at 766 pages in the UK version and 870 pages in the US version. [62] It was published worldwide in English on 21 June 2003. [63] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was published on 16 July 2005 and sold 11 million copies in the first 24 hours of its worldwide release.

7. Heliotrope (color) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope_(color)

   Heliotrope was a popular colour reference of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, script writers of Hancock's Half Hour. In James Joyce's Finnegans Wake,"heliotrope" is the answer to the Maggies' riddle. [clarification needed]Throughout the chapter, the word "heliotrope" is disguised a number of times, hidden either in anagrams, riddles, puns, or ...

8. Hippogriff - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippogriff

   The hippogriff or hippogryph ( Greek: ιππόγρυπας) is a legendary creature with the front half of an eagle and the hind half of a horse . It was invented at the beginning of the 16th century by Ludovico Ariosto in his Orlando Furioso. Within the poem, the hippogriff is a steed born of a mare and a griffin —something considered ...

9. Harry Potter - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter

   Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's conflict with Lord Voldemort, a ...