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- "It's a lunascope, old boy - no more messing around with moon charts, see?"
- — Wizard from Diagon Alley explaining lunascopes to a fellow diner[src]
A lunascope was an astronomical instrument invented by Perpetua Fancourt,[1] which showed the phases of the moon. It was created to counter the difficulty of using moon charts.[2]
History[]
In December 1926, Newt Scamander offered up one of his lunascopes to negotiate for information from the goblin gangster Gnarlak, regarding his missing beasts that were freely roaming New York. However, Gnarlak was uninterested, as he retorted that he himself owned five of them.[4] During the 1980s, there was a lunascope in the Artefact Room at Hogwarts.[5]
Before the start of his third year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter spent some time at the Leaky Cauldron exploring the shops in Diagon Alley and eating under brightly-coloured umbrellas outside cafés, where diners were showing each other their purchases. One diner boasted that he had bought a lunascope, which, it was claimed, removed the need to mess around with moon charts.[2] Albus Dumbledore kept one in his office. Harry Potter chucked it into the fireplace in 1996, lashing out in anger over the death of his godfather, Sirius Black.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
- During Astronomy class in Hogwarts Legacy, Amit Thakkar made a reference to the Lunascope, even though the inventor shouldn't even have been born by that year.
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) (Appears on a Famous Wizard Card)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter (website)
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
- Hogwarts Legacy
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 3 (The Knight Bus)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 37 (The Lost Prophecy)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Side Quest "Dumbledore's Christmas Wish"
