Herbology

Scurvy-Grass • Plants • Potion ingredients A potion ingredient used to make Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts. The plant is supposed to inflame the brain, and therefore useful to producing hot-headedness and recklessness (OP18). Read More

Derwent Shimpling • Character Derwent Shimpling was a comedian known for his boldness; he once ate an entire Venomous Tentacula as a bet. Though he lived, he’s still purple. Wizards and witches everywhere love his silly sense of humor and his boldness. (FW). Read More

Silver Lime • Wandmaking A wand wood (Pm). Read More

Silver Spears • Organizations A secretive 18th century duelling club which only admitted those who carried an aspen wand (Pm: Wand woods)… Read More

Skiving Snackbox • Games, toys, and jokes A range of sweets to make the eater ill; each different category looks like a different type of sweet and causes a different kind of illness. Each sweet is colour-coded so that one end causes the illness and the other makes the effect lift (OP6). Read More

Snargaluff Pods • Plants The pods of the Snargaluff tree are green and pulsating, about the size of a grapefruit. Read More

Snargaluff tree • Plants The Snargaluff tree is a rather vicious plant which looks like a gnarled stump until it is disturbed, at which its spiky branches attack. Inside the snargaluff are a number of small pods which, when stabbed, emit wriggling tubers. The correct way to juice the tubers is found in the book Flesh-Eating… Read More

Sneezewort • Plants • Potion ingredients Sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica) is a member of the yarrow family. The white flowers bloom in the summer. Read More

Phyllida Spore • Character Phyllida Spore was a famous herbologist and the author of One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi (PS5). Read More

Pomona Sprout • 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

Spruce • Wandmaking A wand wood (Pm). Read More

Squill • Plants • Potion ingredients Squill is a mundane flower whose a bulb is used as a potion ingredient. Read More

Stinksap • Plants When poked with a sharp instrument, the Mimbulus mimbletonia plant shoots out thick green sap from every pulsating boil. Read More

Students in Harry's year start their O.W.L.s • Event Harry and the others in his Year sit their Ordinary Wizarding Level (O.W.L.) examinations. The first day is Charms, with a written exam in the morning and a practical exam in the afternoon. O.W.L.s occurs over the span of two weeks. Here’s the full schedule. First week of O.W.L.s: Monday… Read More

Sycamore • Wandmaking A wand wood (Pm). Read More