• Plants • Potion ingredients A plant sometimes added to potions or sweets. Read More
• Character Phyllida Spore was a famous herbologist and the author of One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi (PS5). Read More
• Source Pottermore was a website by J. K. Rowling intended to become the permanent online home for Harry Potter. The site opened for a limited beta release in September of 2011 and for the general public in April of 2012. The website as originally conceived was to… Read More
• Source A number of spell books were available on the original version of Pottermore. These were not the same as the books which a player collected and keept in the trunk. Rather, these books were accessed through individual moments or through the Duelling Club and Potions Class links on the Pottermore… Read More
• Character Pomona Sprout was a squat little witch with fly-away gray hair who taught Herbology at Hogwarts. In the greenhouses, Sprout had to deal with a wide variety of magical plants, some of which were very strange and even dangerous. She handled them all with aplomb, even the… Read More
• Potion ingredients A wide variety of plants and animal parts are used in making potions. These ingredients can be magical or mundane. Some of the plants are grown in the greenhouses and some of the animal parts come from magical creatures living in the Forbidden Forest, such as unicorn hair. Potion ingredients… Read More
• Areas of knowledge • Hogwarts academics Potions are magical liquids created by mixing various ingredients in a cauldron according to very specific rules. These mixtures must usually be drunk to give their magical effect. The ingredients in potions range from the mundane to the bizarre and fantastic, and the procedures for creating some potions can be… Read More
• Plants • Potion ingredients Pritcher’s Porritch is a magical plant with pods that secrete a lumpy blue substance. It is considered to be dangerous, but used in preparation of the Potion of All Potential (BoP)… Read More
• Gardens and farms • Hogwarts castle and grounds A small pumpkin patch is located behind Hagrid’s hut and enclosed by a fence. Hagrid grows magically large pumpkins in his pumpkin patch (CS7, PA21). Harry sees twelve enormous pumpkins there during his second year (CS7). Read More
• Food and drinks • Plants Pumpkins are a squash, a vegetable used for food, drink, and ornamental purposes. Cultivation Hagrid maintains a pumpkin patch outside his hut, which produces the pumpkins used to decorate the Great Hall for the Hallowe’en feast. Although the plants aren’t inherently magical, Hagrid gives them some “help”… Read More
• Businesses, merchants, and shops Pumpkins R Us is a specialty pumpkin-growing business, run by Dagbert Pips (DP4)… Read More