Fainting Fancies

Fainting Fancies
Food information
Manufacturer	Fred and George Weasley
Sold	Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
Flavour	Sweet

Hermione Granger: "No, I’m sorry, they’ve gone too far. Come on, Ron."

Ron Weasley: "I — what? No — come on, Hermione — we can’t tell them off for giving out sweets...."

Hermione Granger: "You know perfectly well that those are bits of Nosebleed Nougat or — or Puking Pastilles or —"

Harry Potter: "Fainting Fancies?"

— The trio discussing the contents of Fred and George's Skiving Snackboxes

Fainting Fancies were a type of sweet sold by Fred and George Weasley in their Skiving Snackbox, in order to get students out of lessons. Fainting Fancies were designed to make the eater faint within seconds.

History

Some Fainting Fancies in a Skiving Snackbox

In 1995, Fred and George fed them to first years in the common room to test them, until they were stopped by Hermione Granger, who did not approve. Supposing that they worked similarly to Puking Pastilles (eating one half would get one sick while eating the remaining half would cure the same person), there is some question as to how an unconscious person would be able to eat the second half of the sweet, though it is possible that they might just need a friend to put it in their mouth.

In the 1995–1996 school year, while the twins were still at school, this is one of the many Skiving Snackbox sweet varieties that they had sold and tested on students, and they were used to allow students to skip classes, but mainly as part of the facetious Umbridge-itis disease to annoy the tyrannical Dolores Umbridge.

Behind the scenes

• According to the mobile version of the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter used Fainting Fancies on Slytherins to make them sick so that he could pass down the corridors.

Translations

• Hebrew: "טופי עילוף" Toffee-Illuf ("Toffee-Fainting")
• European Portuguese: Pastilhas Isybalda (Pastilhas = Pastilles, Isy = Easy, Balda = Baldar = To skip classes/to skive)
• Brazilian Portuguese: Fantasias Debilitantes ("Debilitating Fantasies")

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mobile version only)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
• Pottermore (Mentioned only)
• Wizarding World (Mentioned only)
• The Wizarding World of Harry Potter