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haggle      bargain

hallucinations     false mental perceptions usually due to drugs

harass     annoy persistently

harebrained     as stupid as hares are supposed to be

haughtily     disdainfully proud

haunts     places that one visits often, hangouts

haven     a safe place in time of trouble

havoc     wide and general destruction

heave    to throw, cast, to cause to be lifted upward or onward

hiccoughing     a spasm of the glottis

high jinks     boisterous carryings-on or horseplay

Hinkypunk     a legendary one-legged creature that leads travellers off track into

                        the bog

Hippogriffs     legendary offspring of a griffin and a mare

hoarse     rough or harsh in sound

hocus pocus     to perpetrate a trick on

Hogsmeade     the only enitrely wizarding village in Britain

hoisted      raised, lifted

honed      made very sharp

honeysuckle     a bush with showy flowers rich in nectar

hoodwinks     to deceive by false appearance

hostility     overt acts of warfare

hover     an action that only helicopters and humming birds can accomplish

Howlers     bright red letter signifying extreme anger

huffily     arrogant and easily offended

humiliation     lowered one's position due to ill-behaviour

hurtling     travelling at a dangerously fast speed

hush     remain silent or prevent dissemination of certain information

hydrangea     a flowering shrub that requires watering often

hynotize     to dazzle by means of suggestions

hysterical     a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitabliity