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Fizzing Whizzbees were a popular magical sweet made by Queenbee.[1] They were large sherbet balls that would cause a person who sucked on them to float a few inches off the ground.[4][2]

Description[]

Dried Billywig stings were rumoured to be one of this sweet's ingredients. This idea was supported by the fact that being stung by a Billywig would make a person levitate for a short period.[3] Although Fizzing Whizzbees were one of his favourite sweets,[5] when Harry Potter learned they might contain animal parts, he wrote in his copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them that he would never eat them again.[3]

History[]

The Honeydukes sweet shop in Hogsmeade stocked Fizzing Whizzbees in a large barrel.[2] Ron Weasley described them to Harry Potter and Hermione Granger in high anticipation of their first weekend trip to Hogsmeade in December 1993.[4]

Albus Dumbledore used "Fizzing Whizzbee" as the password to his office in December 1995.[6]

Behind the scenes[]

  • Fizzing Whizzbees are one of several Harry Potter tie-in sweets that have been manufactured. One reviewer said they are essentially the same as Pop Rocks.[7]
  • The Billywig sting ingredient may have been inspired by the many off-putting urban legends involving sweets, including the one that Bubble Yum, the world's first non-hard chewing gum, was made soft by the inclusion of spiders' eggs.[8]
  • In the films and the games, the name of the sweet is incorrectly spelled as 'Fizzing Whizbees'.
  • Honeydukes at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter sells another version of Fizzing Whizzbees. They are chocolate bees with a fruity flavoured fizzy in the centre. They maintain the film version packaging with the incorrect spelling.

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