Owl
Means to everyone else: A fluffy nocturnal bird that hoots.
Means to Harry Potter fans: A witch and wizard version of GCSEs, graded between Outstanding and Troll.
Snitch
Means to everyone else: A traitor of a gang. Generally frowned upon in prisons.
Means to Harry Potter fan: A fluttering golden ball crucial to the game of Quidditch.
Pothead
Means to everyone else: Persons who enjoy smoking the occasional joint.
Means to Harry Potter fan: A proud label if you’re a member of the intense HP fandom.
Diagonally
Means to everyone else: A sloping straight line.
Means to Harry Potter fan: THE wizard place to go in London, full of everything you need for all your wizarding needs.
Spew
Means to everyone else: Vomiting EVERYWHERE.
Means to Harry Potter fan: A House Elf liberation movement in which elfish welfare NEEDS TO CHANGE.
Keeper
Means to everyone else: A particularly nice and appealing partner. E.g. “He’s a keeper!”
Means to Harry Potter fan: The Quidditch goalie. Oh hey Oliver Wood.
Pig
Means to everyone else: A pink animal with a curly tail that oinks.
Means to Harry Potter fan: A small, very cute excitable owl.
Fluffy
Means to everyone else: Something particularly soft and nice.
Means to Harry Potter fan: A giant three headed dog guarding a stone that make it’s possessor immortal sought after by the most evil dark wizard of all time.
Newt
Means to everyone else: A little amphibian creature
Means to Harry Potter fan: Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests.
Giant
Means to everyone else: Synonym of big. Jack fights one.
Means to Harry Potter fan: A feared race which alienates Hagrid when it comes out that he himself is a half-giant. Also includes extremely naff storyline involving Hagrid’s younger brother, Grawp.
Fang
Means to everyone else: A sharp tooth from an animal.
Means to Harry Potter fan: A large, slobbery beloved pet dog of Hagrid's.
(K)Night bus
Means to everyone else: A bus that you hop onto when you can’t afford a taxi but are drunk and tired.
Means to Harry Potter fan: A three-story purple bus that is full of four-poster beds accompanied by a pimply bus conductor named Stan.
Ridiculous
Means to everyone else: Stupid, foolish.
Means to Harry Potter fan: A spell which will banish a Boggart after it assumes your greatest fear as you try to think of something funny to dispel it.
Bathroom
Means to everyone else: Somewhere to ahem, do your business.
Means to Harry Potter fan: The way to the Heir of Slytherin’s Chamber of Secrets, perfect for potion-making and haunted by a whiney teenage girl ghost.
Galleon
Means to everyone else: An old, old wooden ship
Means to Harry Potter fan: Basically the pound coin of Wizard currency
Serious
Means to everyone else: Are you SERIOUS?
Means to Harry Potter fan: Serious sounds a LOT like Sirius. Only the greatest character who did 12 years in Azkaban for a crime he didn’t commit!
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