Sage
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Plants
Centaurs burn this, observing the fumes and flames to refine the results of their stargazing (OP27). Read MoreScurvy-Grass
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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 MoreDerwent 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 MoreSilver Lime
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Wandmaking
A wand wood (Pm). Read MoreSilver Spears
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Organizations
A secretive 18th century duelling club which only admitted those who carried an aspen wand (Pm: Wand woods)… Read MoreHarold Skively• Character
Wizard whose letter was published in The Daily Prophet proposing the creation of a new wizarding holiday (DP1)… Read MoreSkiving Snackbox
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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 MoreSlughorn finally gives up his memory to Harry, thanks to Felix Felicis• Event
Harry visits Hagrid with Slughorn, where the three hold a burial for Aragog. Slughorn and Hagrid drink to honor the deceased Acromantula, and when Hagrid falls asleep, Harry talks with Slughorn about his and Dumbledore’s efforts to reveal Voldemort’s past. Slughorn had refused to share his own… Read MoreGeorgina Smyth• Character
Witch who writes in to Tilden Toots’ herbology radio show “Toots’ Shoots ‘n’ Roots” to ask about a sick Flitterbloom plant (JKR). Read MoreSnakewood Tree
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Plants
The Snakewood Tree is an unknown species which grew from the buried remains of Salazar Slytherin’s wand at Ilvermorny School in Massachusetts. Read MoreSnargaluff Pods
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Plants
The pods of the Snargaluff tree are green and pulsating, about the size of a grapefruit. Read MoreSnargaluff tree
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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 MoreSneezewort
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Plants • Potion ingredients
Sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica) is a member of the yarrow family. The white flowers bloom in the summer. Read MoreSopophorous plant
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Plants • Potion ingredients
The sopophorous is a magical plant which grows in gloomy marshlands. The roots and the beans are used in potion-making. The white bean produces a silver juice which has magical properties. If drunk straight, the juice will cause a person to lose their memory. The juice is an ingredient in… Read MorePhyllida Spore• Character
Phyllida Spore was a famous herbologist and the author of One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi (PS5). Read MorePomona 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 MoreSpruce
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Wandmaking
A wand wood (Pm). Read MoreSquill
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Plants • Potion ingredients
Squill is a mundane flower whose a bulb is used as a potion ingredient. Read Morestandard ingredient
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Potion ingredients Start of term for Harry, Ron, and the other First Years• Event
Classes begin at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Harry and Ron get into trouble with Filch when they get lost. He assumes they’re trying to break into the forbidden third floor corridor. Read MoreStinksap
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Plants
When poked with a sharp instrument, the Mimbulus mimbletonia plant shoots out thick green sap from every pulsating boil. Read MoreSt. Mungo's Hospital is founded by Mungo Bonham• Event
The hospital was founded to cater to the unique medical needs of witches and wizards, whose ailments and injuries would baffle a Muggle doctor. The original location is unknown, since presumably Purge and Dowse Ltd., the abandoned London department store that now houses the hospital, did not exist in the… Read MoreSt. Mungo's Hospital founder Mungo Bonham dies• EventStudent Store Cupboard
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Thing
A cupboard in the Potions classroom filled with ingredients for use in class. Read MoreSycamore
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Wandmaking
A wand wood (Pm). Read More
Herbology
Sage
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Plants
Centaurs burn this, observing the fumes and flames to refine the results of their stargazing (OP27). 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
Slughorn finally gives up his memory to Harry, thanks to Felix Felicis
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Harry visits Hagrid with Slughorn, where the three hold a burial for Aragog. Slughorn and Hagrid drink to honor the deceased Acromantula, and when Hagrid falls asleep, Harry talks with Slughorn about his and Dumbledore’s efforts to reveal Voldemort’s past. Slughorn had refused to share his own… Read More
Snargaluff Pods
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Plants
The pods of the Snargaluff tree are green and pulsating, about the size of a grapefruit. Read More
Snargaluff tree
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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
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Plants • Potion ingredients
Sneezewort (Achillea ptarmica) is a member of the yarrow family. The white flowers bloom in the summer. Read More
Sopophorous plant
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Plants • Potion ingredients
The sopophorous is a magical plant which grows in gloomy marshlands. The roots and the beans are used in potion-making. The white bean produces a silver juice which has magical properties. If drunk straight, the juice will cause a person to lose their memory. The juice is an ingredient in… 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
Squill
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Plants • Potion ingredients
Squill is a mundane flower whose a bulb is used as a potion ingredient. Read More
Stinksap
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Plants
When poked with a sharp instrument, the Mimbulus mimbletonia plant shoots out thick green sap from every pulsating boil. Read More
St. Mungo's Hospital is founded by Mungo Bonham
• Event
The hospital was founded to cater to the unique medical needs of witches and wizards, whose ailments and injuries would baffle a Muggle doctor. The original location is unknown, since presumably Purge and Dowse Ltd., the abandoned London department store that now houses the hospital, did not exist in the… Read More