Introduction: what is all this? -- Harry Potter and the something of something -- The wheels of plot : Infodumps and McGuffins ; The problem of Slytherin ; Those awful orcs -- Guns on the wall : chocolate frog ; Pyrotechnics ; Magical misfires ; Putting back the clock ; Key to transport ; The Sulks ; Lumber room ; Enchanted gadgetry -- Logic: Seven green bottles -- Naming names : Who's who ; Wonders of Onomastics -- Smoke and mirrors : P-P-Poor stuttering Quirrell ; Chamber of horrors ; Black-hearted villainy ; When the Wolfbane blooms ; Goblet of deception ; The quickness of the hand ; The ivory gate ; Conjuror's cabinet -- Casting spells : The great spell register ; Silence is power ; Spellhacking -- Muggle studies : Magic and machines ; Meddling with memories ; Beasts and magical creatures -- Muddle at the ministry of magic : Misuse of magic ; Abuses of power ; The legal angle -- Awkward consequences : Mischief managed ; Lifting faces ; The curse of Scotland ; Backward, O time ; Cloak and dagger -- Shadows before : Forked tongue ; Seeing thoughts ; The mirror of dreams ; Spectres in general ; Black dog ; Killing grounds ; Weasel words ; Hands off ; Privy purposes ; Door to death ; Out of the closet ; In the cards ; The black hand ; Phoenix rising -- Pure-bloods and crosses : Pure-blood prejudice ; Wizard genetics -- Unfinished business : Harry's heritage ; Wormtail's debt ; Blood transfusion ; Werewolf cure? ; Taking Umbridge ; Yet another mirror ; Lost locket ; Several scars ; Albus and Severus.

The lives of Lord Voldemort : Heartless villains ; Counting down ; Secret keepers -- Slips and falls : Ascending and descending ; Assorted oddities ; Not so fast! -- Echoes from Outside : Schools ; The dead man's knock ; Maze ; Instruments of torture ; Patton animals ; Teleportation ; Tarot ; Collect the coupons -- These things shall be : In the stars ; In the tradition ; In her own words ; No comment -- The end of Harry Potter : The classic fantasy version ; Professor Trelawney predicts ; On the cutting-room floor ; The Parseltongue proclamation ; But seriously, now ... ; The ultimate secret -- Acknowledgments and thanks.