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Herbology is a mandatory class at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] for the first five years of a student's education. Students spend class time learning about the different varieties of magical plants that exist. The further into a student's education the more difficult and dangerous the plants become.
  
Herbology is a mandatory class at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] for the first five years of a student's education. Students spend class time learning about the different varieties of magical plants that exist. The further into a student's education the more difficult and dangerous the plants become.
   
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[[Ordinary Wizarding Level|&nbsp;]]In the fifth year students take[[Ordinary Wizarding Level| Ordinary Wizarding Level]] examinations, much of the year is spent working with a variety of more dangerous plants like the [[Fanged Geranium]], as well as revisiting the past four years of lessons. As part of their Herbology [[Ordinary Wizarding Level|O.W.L]], students must sit a written exam, and then complete a practical exam, during which the students work with a wide selection of plants.<ref name="OotP31">{{OOTP}} - Chapter 31 (''O.W.L.s'')</ref>
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[[Ordinary Wizarding Level|&nbsp;]]In the [[fifth year]] students take[[Ordinary Wizarding Level| Ordinary Wizarding Level]] examinations, much of the year is spent working with a variety of more dangerous plants like the [[Fanged Geranium]], as well as revisiting the past four years of lessons. As part of their Herbology O.W.L, students must sit a written exam, and then complete a practical exam, during which the students work with a wide selection of plants.<ref name="OotP31">{{OOTP}} - Chapter 31 (''O.W.L.s'')</ref>
   
 
Students who achieve a passing grade on their Herbology O.W.L. move on to the advanced class, where the plants become more dangerous still. At the end of their seventh year, students prepare for their [[Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test|N.E.W.T.s.]]
  
Students who achieve a passing grade on their Herbology O.W.L. move on to the advanced class, where the plants become more dangerous still. At the end of their seventh year, students prepare for their [[Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test|N.E.W.T.s.]]
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*Learning the properties of [[Bubotuber pus]] and how to safely collect it.
  
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*[[Gillyweed]] and its uses.
  
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*''[[Harry Potter for Kinect]]''
  
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==Notes and references==
  
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Revision as of 16:07, 27 March 2016

"Three times a week they went out to the greenhouses behind the castle to study Herbology, with a dumpy little witch called Professor Sprout, where they learned how to take care of strange plants and fungi, and found out what they were used for."
— Harry Potter's description[src]

Herbology is the study of magical and mundane plants and fungi, making it the wizarding equivalent to botany. Herbology is a core class and subject taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in which students learn to care for and utilize plants, learn about their magical properties and what they are used for. Many plants provide ingredients for potions and medicine, while others have magical effects of their own right.

Herbert Beery was the professor of this subject at Hogwarts for many years prior 1955. After he retired Pomona Sprout took over the post and later Neville Longbottom after the 1990s.

Class information

Herbology is a mandatory class at Hogwarts for the first five years of a student's education. Students spend class time learning about the different varieties of magical plants that exist. The further into a student's education the more difficult and dangerous the plants become.

1992 Herbology

A Second year Herbology lesson

 In the fifth year students take Ordinary Wizarding Level examinations, much of the year is spent working with a variety of more dangerous plants like the Fanged Geranium, as well as revisiting the past four years of lessons. As part of their Herbology O.W.L, students must sit a written exam, and then complete a practical exam, during which the students work with a wide selection of plants.[3]

Students who achieve a passing grade on their Herbology O.W.L. move on to the advanced class, where the plants become more dangerous still. At the end of their seventh year, students prepare for their N.E.W.T.s.

Pomona Sprout was at Hogwarts as Herbology professor in the 1990's; by 2017, however, she had either been replaced by, or was working alongside Neville Longbottom, who was likewise a professor. Neville was one of her students in the past, and a gifted herbologist.

Location and time

These classes are held in the grounds of Hogwarts, in the greenhouses. The greenhouses are located below the two main Bell Towers of the castle. Classes are held in different greenhouses depending on the students' year, with more advanced and dangerous plants typically reserved for O.W.L. or N.E.W.T.-level study.

Lesson times

Year Day Period
First Wednesday second
Second Monday
Tuesday third
Wednesday first
Thursday third
Third Wednesday afternoon
Fourth Monday morning
Fifth Thuesday sixth
Wednesday forth/fifth
Sixth Tuesday unknown
Seventh unknown

Curriculum

First Year

" […] one of the Bouncing Bulbs wriggled free from Harry's grip and smacked him hard in the face."
— A first year lesson[src]

Second Year

"Those are Spiky Bushes. You may cast Incendio on them but step back to avoid their needles."
— Pomona Sprout[src]
Professor Sprout greenhouse 1

Second year lesson the Mandrake root

Third Year

Fourth Year

Pomona sprout

Fifth year O.W.L. revision

Fifth Year

Sixth Year 

" [...] they were dealing with more dangerous plants than ever in Herbology but at least they were still allowed to swear loudly if the Venomous Tentacula seized them unexpectedly from behind."
— N.E.W.T.-level lessons[src]

Known equipment

Dragon-hide gloves Book of Spell

Dragon-hide gloves

Known Professors

Required textbooks

Known O.W.L.s

Media

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Behind the scenes

  • As revealed in Pottermore, J. K. Rowling had originally devised this class to be called "Herbalism".[4]
  • Pottermore has a feauture called "Health hazards of Herbology".

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Chapter 14 - Felix Felicis) (pg.283 American edition)
  2. ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chapter 6 - Gilderoy Lockhart) (pg. 72 UK edition)
  3. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 31 (O.W.L.s)
  4. ↑ Pottermore - Hogwarts School Subjects (J.K. Rowling's thoughts)
Herbology
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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)
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Specialised schools
Academy of Broom Flying · Charm School · Euro-Glyph School of Extraordinary Languages · Merge School of Under-Water Spellage · The Naaszcademy of Magizoology · Wizarding Academy of Dramatic Arts · Young Wizards Daycare Center
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