• Games, toys, and jokes One of the range of sweets found in a Skiving Snackbox, this causes the eater to faint. During the twins’ beta tests on the volunteer Gryffindor first years, the eater remained unconscious until fed the antidote by someone else. Hermione found these testing methods alarming (OP13). Read More
• Food and drinks • Games, toys, and jokes One selection in the Weasley Twins’ Skiving Snackboxes (OP6). Read More
• Food and drinks A sweet available in Honeydukes. Ron describes them as “massive sherbet balls that make you levitate a few inches off the ground…” (PA5). They are rumored to be made with dried Billywig stings (FB, BN). Read More
• Character Mundungus Fletcher is a rather dodgy character, a crook whose shady business dealings are always getting him into trouble. However, he’s also a member of the Order of the Phoenix. Read More
• Character Florean Fortescue was the owner of an ice cream parlor in Diagon Alley. Florean knew quite a bit about history; When Harry was living at the Leaky Cauldron for a couple of weeks in August of 1993, he spent part of his days working on his homework at Florean’s shop. Read More
• Businesses, merchants, and shops Florean Fortescue’s Ice Cream Parlor is a restaurant in Diagon Alley with outdoor tables (PA4). The shop was boarded up after Florean disappeared mysteriously in 1996 (HBP6). Harry bought strawberry-and-peanut-butter ice cream for himself, Ron, and Hermione while they strolled around Diagon Alley during their visit in… Read More
• Food and drinks People seem to eat well in the wizarding world. At the Burrow, Molly Weasley serves delicious meals using a mixture of magic and cooking skill. The house-elves at Hogwarts cook a wide variety of dishes and bake delicious cakes, pies, and eclairs. There is some magic involved, certainly, but the… Read More
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In one of her many interviews, JKR said that wizards generally live longer than Muggles. After a thorough research about food in the Harry Potter universe and, above all, its magical part, the only possible conclusion is that wizards don’t have problems with cholesterol, otherwise their life span would be… Read More
• Event When Ron is seven years old, he is given an acid pop by Fred. The sweet burns a hole through Ron’s tongue. Molly punishes Fred by hitting him with her broomstick, according to Ron’s recollection (PA10). Read More
• Food and drinks • Glossary A full meal of fried food, typically including eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, toast, and tomatoes. Read More
• Sweets Fudge flies are a Honeydukes sweet that Scabbers, Ron’s rat, enjoyed. Read More