Reference library

Library Book Card

A required component for either type of Defence Shield, obtained at the Library.

Parchment Scroll

The knowledge component required to collect any Defence Shield.

Dark Detector

A shared component controlled through the Hogwarts Loyalty Track and required by three of the six Defence Shields.

Dumbledore’s Army Coin

A component obtained in the revealed Room of Requirement and required by three Defence Shields.

Defence Shield

The House Player victory objective: any two Defence Shields win the game for that player.

Hogwarts Token

One of seven card-type tokens that can fund an additional Explore Action on a later turn.

Magical Creatures & Beings Token

The Hogwarts Token matching the Magical Creatures & Beings card type.

Transfiguration & Spell Casting Token

The Hogwarts Token matching the Transfiguration & Spell Casting card type.

Hogwarts Items & Artefacts Token

The Hogwarts Token matching the Hogwarts Items & Artefacts card type.

Defence Against the Dark Arts Token

The Hogwarts Token matching the Defence Against the Dark Arts card type.

Charms Token

The Hogwarts Token matching the Charms card type.

Potions Token

The Hogwarts Token matching the Potions card type.

Herbology Token

The Hogwarts Token matching the Herbology card type.

Library

The Main Board location where House Players obtain Library Book Cards.

Room of Requirement

A conditional board space that awards D.A. Coins while it is revealed.

Great Hall

The House Pawns’ starting space and the destination for a pawn bumped by the Dark Arts Player.

Protected Area

One of four spaces with a blue shield icon that Dark Arts Pawns cannot enter.

Fly Off Point

A special travel point available to either side only when a card enables flight.

Secret Passageway

One of three red, green or blue passageways connecting a pair of non-adjacent spaces for House Players.

Defence Shield Space

A Main Board space where a House Player exchanges the required components for the shield placed there.

Dark Arts Deployment Space

A Dark Mask space used to introduce an off-board Dark Arts Pawn onto the Main Board.

Explore Action

The Main Action used by either side to play a card and resolve its movement and/or effect.

Learn Action

A House-only Main Action for acquiring a new card by discarding hand cards.

Replenish Action

The Main Action that refills a hand to five cards and stands up that player’s stunned pawns.

Use a Hogwarts Token

A House-only Free Action granting an Explore in addition to the chosen Main Action.

Draw a Card

Move the top card of the specified deck to your hand unless the instruction says otherwise.

Hogwarts Loyalty Track

A seven-space Side Board track controlling the Dark Detector and access to the Room of Requirement.

EntryFactions

Dark Arts Path

A white–orange–red track that advances events, unlocks Dark Arts card effects and approaches the final phase.

EntryFactions

Dark Arts Progress Tokens

The Giant, Acromantula and Dementor tokens from the white, orange and red zones; all three are required for Dark Arts victory.

Final Phase at the Last Path Space

The limited-card continuation triggered when the Dark Arts Marker reaches the last path space.

Obstacles and Castle Walls

Four printed obstacle types restrict House movement; castle walls are a separate impassable map boundary.

Stun / Stunned

A sideways pawn cannot move by any means until its stun is reversed.

Bump / Bumped

The procedure when a Dark Arts Pawn ends movement in a space occupied by a House Pawn.

Reactive Effect

A lightning-bolt card effect that can be played outside a House Player’s turn when its condition is met.

Multi-Move

A card with two movement values can move two different pawns or combine the values on one pawn.

EntryFactions

House Marker

A house-specific component captured during bumps, distinct from the seven Hogwarts Tokens.

Bonus Space

A House-only landing bonus: acquire a card, draw a card or take another turn according to the icon.

Alohomora

A House Starter Deck Charms card with three movement points and permission to pass Locked Doors.

House Player Location Card

A location objective card used in pairs to earn a Parchment Scroll.

Dark Arts Player Location Card

The location objective drawn by the Dark Arts Player when taking the red Progress Token.

Filch’s Keys

An Items & Artefacts card illustrated in the House Acquire Deck guide, with 2 + 2 movement and a Locked Doors effect.

Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder

A white-zone Dark Arts Acquire Deck card illustrated with a Fly Off Point movement icon.

Trevor

A House Starter Deck Magical Creatures & Beings card with four movement points and no additional effect.

Explore — card

The named Explore card in the House Starter Deck has 2 + 2 movement and no effect. It is distinct from the Explore Action.

Conspire — four-move variant

The four-point Conspire card in the Dark Arts Starter Deck has no effect. The same deck also shows a different three-point Conspire.

Conspire — three-move variant

A separately verified Dark Arts Starter Deck face. One eligible pawn may move up to 3 spaces.

Nimbus 2001

A separately verified Dark Arts Starter Deck face. One eligible pawn may move up to 2 spaces.

Gathering Dark Forces — 2 + 2 variant

A separately verified Dark Arts Starter Deck face. Two different eligible pawns may each move up to 2 spaces, or one may move up to 4. Keep the printed 2 + 2 allocation; no other split is allowed.

Gathering Dark Forces — 3 + 3 variant

A separately verified Dark Arts Starter Deck face. Two different eligible pawns may each move up to 3 spaces, or one may move up to 6. Keep the printed 3 + 3 allocation; no other split is allowed.

Legilimency — four-move variant

A separately verified Dark Arts Starter Deck face. One eligible pawn may move up to 4 spaces.

Legilimency — five-move variant

A separately verified Dark Arts Starter Deck face. One eligible pawn may move up to 5 spaces.

Gillyweed

A Herbology card in the House Starter Deck, with 3 movement points and permission to cross Water.

Strengthening Solution

A Potions card in the House Starter Deck, with 3 movement points and permission to cross Physical Objects.

Partis Temporus

A Defence Against the Dark Arts card in the House Starter Deck, with 3 movement points and permission to cross Protective Spells.

School Broomstick

A House Starter Deck Items & Artefacts card with two movement points and a Fly Off Point transfer effect.