Portugal

• Type: Country
• Location: Southwestern Europe
• Owner/Residents: Portuguese Witches and Wizards
• Key Features: National Quidditch team

Portugal is a country in southwestern Europe whose existence within the Wizarding World is confirmed through discussions of international Quidditch. It is home to a community of witches and wizards and fields a national Quidditch team that competes at an international level, having played against at least one of the British or Irish home nations teams. Beyond its participation in international sport, little is known about the magical community or significant magical locations within Portugal from the primary canon.

Portugal is mentioned once in the series, in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Following the riot at the Quidditch World Cup campground, Ludo Bagman reminisces about past matches with Barty Crouch Sr.. In a state of confusion, Bagman at first recalls a match against Portugal from the previous year, claiming it was the one where Veela were brought on as mascots. Mr. Crouch corrects him, stating that it was the Welsh team that used Veela. Bagman then amends his memory, claiming the Portuguese team's mascots were Leprechauns. This assertion is notable as Leprechauns are firmly established as the mascots for the Irish National Quidditch Team. Given that Ludo Bagman had just confused multiple matches in the same conversation, his recollection is considered highly unreliable. It remains the only canonical, albeit questionable, detail about Portugal's national Quidditch team.

There are no magical locations within Portugal explicitly mentioned in the seven original novels.

• J.K. Rowling lived and worked in the city of Porto, Portugal, from 1991 to 1993, where she taught English as a foreign language. Her daughter, Jessica, was born in Portugal in 1993. (J.K. Rowling interview)
• Rowling has stated that she wrote some of the earliest chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone during her time in Porto, often writing in local cafés such as the Majestic Café. (J.K. Rowling interview)
• The traditional academic dress (traje académico) worn by students at Portuguese universities, consisting of a black suit and a long black cape, is widely considered to be a strong visual inspiration for the design of the Hogwarts student robes. (J.K. Rowling interview)
• For many years, it was a popular fan theory that the Livraria Lello bookshop in Porto, with its ornate interior and grand, curving staircase, was the inspiration for Flourish and Blotts or the moving staircases of Hogwarts. However, in 2020, J.K. Rowling stated that she had never been inside the bookshop and that it was not an inspiration for anything in the Harry Potter books. (J.K. Rowling on Twitter)