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{{Quote|I don't think I learned enough in Herbology class to know how to use this flower.|[[Harry Potter]], regarding [[Floo powder]].|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)}}
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{{Quote|I don't think I learned enough in Herbology class to know how to use this flower.|[[Harry Potter]] regarding [[Floo Powder|Floo powder]]|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)}}
'''Floo''' is a flowering plant with magical properties. [[Floo powder]] is extracted from the flowers of this plant,<ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)]]'' - GBC version</ref> as devised by a Medieval witch [[Ignatia Wildsmith]].
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'''Floo''' was a flowering plant with [[magic]]al properties. [[Floo Powder]] was extracted from the flowers of this plant,<ref name="COSG">{{COS|G}} - GBC version</ref><ref name="HM710A">{{HM|7|10|Transportation Regulation}}</ref><ref name="HM725"/> as devised by the [[Middle Ages|Medieval]] [[Wizardkind|witch]] [[Ignatia Wildsmith]].<ref name="JKRS">{{JKRS}}</ref>
   
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==History==
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{{Quote|The main ingredient in Floo Powder is Floo. What a surprise!|[[Nymphadora Tonks]]|Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery}}
*On ''[[Pottermore]]'', it is revealed that a single company, [[Floo-Pow]], was licenced to make [[Floo Powder]] in [[Great Britain|Britain]], and that the composition of its product was a "closely guarded secret" no one had managed to figure out.<ref name="POT">[[Pottermore]] - [http://www.pottermore.com/en/book2/chapter4/moment2/floo-powder-jkr New from J. K. Rowling: Floo Powder]</ref> Thus, this plant must be considered non-canonical, as it is unlikely its existence or practical application would be widely known, much less taught in [[Herbology]] class at Hogwarts.
 
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In [[Great Britain]], a single company, [[Floo-Pow]], was licenced to make [[Floo Powder]] in the country, and that the composition of its product was a "closely guarded secret" no one had managed to figure out. However, there were numerous attempts at creating homemade Floo powder called "[[Faux Floo]]", which caused injuries, much to the annoyance of [[Healer]]s at [[St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries]].<ref name="PM-floo-powder">{{WW|floo-powder}}</ref>
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During the [[1990–1991 school year]], whilst [[Jacob's sibling]] was analysing samples of [[Faux Floo]] in the [[Department of Magical Law Enforcement]] for St Mungo's, [[Penny Haywood]] gave them a question on what was the only known ingredient of Floo Powder, the answer being Floo. [[Professor]] [[Pomona Sprout]] also taught her [[Seventh year|seventh-year]] [[Herbology]] students about this herb that same school year.<ref name="HM725">{{HM|7|25|Faux Floo}}</ref>
   
 
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Latest revision as of 14:48, 24 February 2022

"I don't think I learned enough in Herbology class to know how to use this flower."
Harry Potter regarding Floo powder[src]

Floo was a flowering plant with magical properties. Floo Powder was extracted from the flowers of this plant,[1][2][3] as devised by the Medieval witch Ignatia Wildsmith.[4]

History

"The main ingredient in Floo Powder is Floo. What a surprise!"
Nymphadora Tonks[src]

In Great Britain, a single company, Floo-Pow, was licenced to make Floo Powder in the country, and that the composition of its product was a "closely guarded secret" no one had managed to figure out. However, there were numerous attempts at creating homemade Floo powder called "Faux Floo", which caused injuries, much to the annoyance of Healers at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.[5]

During the 1990–1991 school year, whilst Jacob's sibling was analysing samples of Faux Floo in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement for St Mungo's, Penny Haywood gave them a question on what was the only known ingredient of Floo Powder, the answer being Floo. Professor Pomona Sprout also taught her seventh-year Herbology students about this herb that same school year.[3]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) - GBC version
  2. 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 10 (The Wampus Cat's Out of the Bag) - Assignment "Transportation Regulation"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 25 (Swan Dive) - Assignment "Faux Floo"
  4. J. K. Rowling's official site
  5. Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Floo Powder" at Wizarding World
Herbology
Pottedmandrake
Herbologists
Astrid Cole · Clifford Cromwell · Marmaduke Dale · Blossom Degrasse · Miranda Goshawk · Alfred Lawley · Olgae Marinus · Beaumont Marjoribanks · Nepali wizard · Gethsemane Prickle · Sanjay Shanker · Selina Sapworthy · Phyllida Spore · Yubert Thorne · Tilden Toots · Hadrian Whittle · Winogrand
Herbology at Hogwarts
Herbology Award · Herbology Lesson Cup · Herbology Race Cup · Herbology Store · Hidden Herbology Corridor
Greenhouses One · Two · Three · Four · Five · Six · Seven · Professor's office
Professors Mirabel Garlick's predecessor · Mirabel Garlick · Herbert Beery · Pomona Sprout · Neville Longbottom
Textbooks Flesh-Eating Trees of the World · Ingredient Encyclopedia · One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi · Winogrand's Wondrous Water Plants
Plants studied and grown at Hogwarts
Aconite · Alihotsy · Asphodel · Belladonna · Bouncing Bulb · Bubotuber · Bubotuber pus · Chinese Chomping Cabbage · Cowbane · Dandelion · Devil's Snare · Dirigible Plum · Dittany · Fanged Geranium · Fat cactus-like plant · Fire seed bush · Flitterbloom · Floo · Flutterby bush · Fluxweed · Gillyweed · Ginger · Greenhouse Tree · Hemlock · Honking daffodil · Ivy · Knotgrass · Lady's Mantle · Lavender · Leaping Toadstool · Lovage · Mandrake · Mimbulus mimbletonia · Mistletoe · Moly · Nettle · Peppermint · Puffapod · Raspberry · Rose · Sage · Screechsnap · Scurvy grass · Self-fertilising shrub · Shrivelfig · Snargaluff · Sneezewort · Sopophorous plant · Sopophorous Bean · Spiky Bush · Spiky Prickly Plant · Stinksap · Sugar Shrub · Toad-eating plant · Tormentil · Umbrella Flower · Valerian · Vampiric vegetation · Venomous Tentacula · Walking plant · Wax vegetables · Whomping Willow · Wiggentree · Wild rice · Wormwood
Spells taught in Herbology at Hogwarts
Fire-Making Spell (Incendio) · Herbivicus Charm (Herbivicus) · Incendio Duo Spell (Incendio Duo) · Lumos Solem Spell (Lumos Solem) · Severing Charm (Diffindo)