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"T'was a student who gave me Francis... One spring afternoon I discovered a bowl on my desk, just a few inches of clear water in it. Floating on the surface was a flower petal... as I watched, it sank... just before it reached the bottom, it was transformed, into a wee fish. It was beautiful magic, wondrous to behold. The flower petal had come from a lily... your mother. The day I came downstairs, the day the bowl was empty, was the day your mother..."
Horace Slughorn regarding his pet fish Francis to Harry Potter[src]

Francis was the name of a pet fish owned by Horace Slughorn.[2]

Biography[]

Horace Slughorn

Horace Slughorn, Francis's owner

It was originally a lily petal which Lily Evans had transfigured into piscine form during her studying years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.[2]

The fish came into Slughorn's possession when Lily set the petal to float inside a bowl filled with water. When Slughorn found his gift, the petal sank down in the bowl and turned into Francis, much to the Professor's delight. Slughorn kept Francis for many years, until the morning of 1 November 1981, when he found Francis had disappeared. This was due to Lily's death at the hands of Lord Voldemort.[2]

Slughorn mentioned Francis again to Harry Potter in the 2010s when he went back to the school to wish Slughorn a happy birthday.[3]

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1971 to 1978 were the years Lily Evans was a student at Hogwarts.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) - Chapter 23 (After Aragog's Burial)
  3. Harry Potter: Magic Awakened - Slughorn's birthday (see this video)
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