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|born = [[15 May]]<ref name="birthday">{{JKRS}}; [https://twitter.com/pottermore/status/334657953305083904 Pottermore Twitter]</ref>
|born=[[15 May]],<ref name="birthday">[http://www.mugglenet.com/ Mugglenet] — [http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrcom/birthdayarchive.shtml Birthday archive]: Pomona Sprout (information retrieved from [[J.K.Rowling Official Site|J.K. Rowling's Official Site]])</ref> [[1930s|1931]] or [[1940s|1941]]<ref name="pottermore1">[[Pottermore]] biography of [[Minerva McGonagall]] (transcription available [http://forums.darklordpotter.net/showpost.php?s=4a2e751bddc00f9618a0b1bb6d9ce6fc&p=481284&postcount=443 here])</ref>
 
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|blood = [[Pure-blood]] or [[half-blood]]<ref name="Blood">She was still employed at Hogwarts when it was under the rule of the [[Death Eaters]], so she obviously was not [[Muggle-born]].</ref>
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|title=*[[Professor]]<ref name="PS8">''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' - Chapter 8 (''The Potions Master'')</ref>
 
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*[[Head of House]]<ref name="GF36">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' - Chapter 36 (''The Parting of the Ways'')</ref>
 
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*[[Head of Hufflepuff House]]<ref name="GF18"/><ref name="GF36">{{GOF|B|36}}</ref>
*[[Madam]]<ref name="CSf12">''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)]]'' - Chapter 12 (''Writing on the Wall'')</ref>
 
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*[[Madam]]<ref name="CSf12">{{COS|F}} - Chapter 12 (''Writing on the Wall'')</ref>
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|hair=Grey<ref name="CS6">''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' - Chapter 6 (''Gilderoy Lockhart'')</ref>
 
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|romances =[[Filius Flitwick]] (ex-boyfriend)<ref name="flitwick">In the 20th anniversary editions of {{PS}}, it is revealed that Flitwick and Sprout had a long-term relationship, but it ended and they remained friends.</ref>
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*[[Professor|Head]] of [[Herbology department]]<ref name="PS8"/> (after [[1950s|1955]] - before [[2017]])<ref name="Epilogue">''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' - Epilogue (''Nineteen Years Later'')</ref>
 
*[[Head of Hufflepuff House]]<ref name="GF36"/> (? - before [[2017]])<ref name="Epilogue"/>
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*[[Professor|Head]] of the [[Herbology department]] at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]]<ref name="PS8"/> (post [[1975]]-[[2020]])<ref name="Epilogue">{{DH|B|E}}</ref><ref name="WUSos"/>
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*[[Head of Hufflepuff House]] at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]]<ref name="GF36"/> (pre. 1984-pre [[2014]])<ref name="Epilogue"/>
|house=[[Hufflepuff]]<ref name="House">[http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_view.cfm?id=62 "If a teacher is head of a house, can we assume that they were sorted into those houses when they were students at Hogwarts? Is that also true for the house ghosts? So was Snape a Slytherin?"] on [[J.K.Rowling Official Site]]</ref>
 
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|house = [[Hufflepuff]]<ref name="House">[http://web.archive.org/web/20100205004653/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_view.cfm?id=62 "If a teacher is head of a house, can we assume that they were sorted into those houses when they were students at Hogwarts? Is that also true for the house ghosts? So was Snape a Slytherin?"] on [[J. K. Rowling's official site]]</ref><ref name=POB>[http://www.accio-quote.org/themes/hogwarts.htm|What Jo says about... Hogwarts, including the Houses of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin & Huffelpuff]</ref>
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*[[Order of the Phoenix]] (during [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]] and [[Battle of Hogwarts]])
 
*[[Order of the Phoenix]] (during [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]] and [[Battle of Hogwarts]])
 
*[[Dumbledore's Army]] (during [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]] and [[Battle of Hogwarts]])
 
*[[Dumbledore's Army]] (during [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]] and [[Battle of Hogwarts]])
 
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{{Quote|I feel that if a single pupil wants to come, then the school ought to remain open for that pupil.|Professor Sprout after the death of [[Albus Dumbledore]].|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
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{{Quote|I am sure Dumbledore would have wanted the school to remain open. I feel that if a single pupil wants to come, then the school ought to remain open for that pupil.|Sprout's view on Hogwarts and education|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
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'''Professor Pomona Sprout''' (b. [[15 May]])<ref name="birthday" /> was a [[Wizardkind|witch]] who worked as [[Head of Hufflepuff House]] and [[Professor|Head]] of the [[Herbology]] [[Herbology department|department]] at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]]. She attended the school in her youth, where she was [[Sorting ceremony|Sorted]] into [[Hufflepuff]] and excelled at [[Herbology]]. Some time after her [[Seventh year|graduation]], Sprout returned to Hogwarts to teach.
   
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In [[1993]], Professor Sprout grew the [[Mandrake]]s that would later be used in the [[Mandrake Restorative Draught]] to cure those who were petrified by [[Serpent of Slytherin|Slytherin's Monster]]. She also opposed [[Dolores Umbridge]] and her tyranny over the school in the [[1995–1996 school year]], which the rest of the staff were happy to join her in doing.
'''Professor Pomona Sprout''' (b. [[15 May]], [[1930s|1931]] or [[1940s|1941]]) was a [[wizards|witch]] who worked as [[Head of Hufflepuff House]] and [[Professor|Head]] of the [[Herbology]] [[Herbology department|department]] at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]]. She attended the school in her youth, where she was [[Sorting ceremony|Sorted]] into [[Hufflepuff|Hufflepuff House]] and excelled at [[Herbology]]. Some time after her [[Seventh year|graduation]], Sprout returned to Hogwarts to teach.
 
   
Professor Sprout opposed [[Lord Voldemort]] during the [[Second Wizarding War]]. In [[1993]], she brewed the [[Mandrake Restorative Draught]] for those who were petrified by [[Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk|Slytherin's Monster]]. She also opposed [[Dolores Umbridge]] and her tyranny over the school in the [[1995-1996 school year]], which the rest of the staff were happy to join her in doing, voted for the school to remain open after the [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]], and assisted in ousting [[Severus Snape]] in [[1998]]. Sprout took a group of students to the battlements during the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] and threw [[Devil's Snare]] and various other dangerous plants onto the invading [[Death Eaters]]. She ultimately survived the War and had retired by [[2017]], with [[Neville Longbottom]] replacing her in the post of [[Herbology]] teacher. Her life after that is unknown.
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Sprout opposed [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] during the Second Wizarding War. She voted for the school to remain open after the [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]], and assisted in [[Ousting of Severus Snape|ousting Severus Snape]] in [[1998]]. She later took a group of students to the battlements during the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] and threw [[Devil's Snare]] and various other dangerous plants onto the invading [[Death Eaters]].
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She ultimately survived the war. By the early [[21st century]], [[Neville Longbottom]] taught Herbology, alongside her.<ref name="MA">{{MA}}</ref> By summer 2020, Professor Sprout had formally retired from her position as professor of Herbology.<ref name="WUSos">{{WU}}: SOS Task Force Appraisal: Rules of Green (Thumb)</ref>
   
 
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
 
===Early life===
 
===Early life===
[[File:Hogwarts boats 1.jpg|thumb|left|280px|[[First year|First-years]] approaching [[Hogwarts Castle]].]]
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[[File:Hogwarts boats 1.jpg|250px|thumb|left|First years approaching [[Hogwarts Castle]] to begin their magical education]]
Pomona Sprout was born into a wizarding family of unknown degree<ref name="NotMuggle-Born" /> on [[15 May]], [[1930s|1931]] or [[1940s|1941]].<ref name="pottermore1" /> She presumably purchased [[Pomona Sprout's wand|her wand]] from [[Diagon Alley]] at the age of eleven, prior to attending [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]].
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Pomona Sprout was born into a wizarding family of unknown degree<ref name="Blood" /> on [[15 May]]<ref name="birthday" /> in [[Great Britain|Britain]] or [[Ireland]].<ref name="POB" /> She presumably purchased her [[Pomona Sprout's wand|wand]] from [[Diagon Alley]] at the age of eleven, prior to attending [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]].
 
She was [[Sorting ceremony|Sorted]] into [[Hufflepuff|Hufflepuff House]]<ref name="House" /> upon her arrival at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] when she was eleven years old, in either [[1940s|1942]] or [[1950s|1952]]. Sprout excelled at [[Herbology]], which was probably taught by [[Herbert Beery|Professor Herbert Beery]] at the time,<ref name="Prof.Beery">''[[The Tales of Beedle the Bard (real)|The Tales of Beedle the Bard]]'' - ''Albus Dumbledore on "''The Fountain of Fair Fortune''"''</ref> and likely achieved a high-graded [[O.W.L.]] in the subject, maybe even a [[N.E.W.T.]] as well.
 
   
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She was [[Sorting ceremony|Sorted]] into [[Hufflepuff|Hufflepuff House]]<ref name="House" /> upon her arrival at Hogwarts and excelled at [[Herbology]], which may have been taught by [[Herbert Beery|Professor Herbert Beery]] at the time,<ref name="Prof.Beery">{{TBB|R}} - ''Albus Dumbledore on "''The Fountain of Fair Fortune''"''</ref> and likely achieved a high-graded [[Ordinary Wizarding Level|O.W.L.]] and [[Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test|N.E.W.T.]] in the subject.
Pomona and [[Minerva McGonagall]]'s student time at Hogwarts overlapped by two years. The two students enjoyed an excellent relationship both then and in later years.<ref name="pottermore1" />
 
   
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Pomona and [[Minerva McGonagall]]'s student time at Hogwarts overlapped by two years. The two students enjoyed an excellent relationship both then and in later years.<ref name="PM-mcgonagall">{{WW|professor-mcgonagall}}</ref> She felt homesick until her friend Minerva helped her get used to the school. They also helped each other learn the subjects they eventually taught.<ref name="HM2Celebration">{{HM|2|A special Celebration of Hogwarts Teachers}}</ref> During her time at Hogwarts, she enjoyed attending Quidditch matches.<ref name="HM QWC">{{HM}}, Quidditch Season 1 Chapter 7, information revealed for [[Hufflepuff]] players</ref>
Sometime after graduating, Sprout returned to the school to teach, becoming the Herbology professor.<ref name="PS8" />
 
   
 
===Career at Hogwarts===
 
===Career at Hogwarts===
 
====Earlier years====
 
====Earlier years====
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{{Quote|Four to a tray — there is a large supply of pots here — compost in the sacks over there — and be careful of the Venomous Tentacula, it's teething.|Professor Sprout teaching a class|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
[[File:PDVD_1805.jpg|thumb|Professor Sprout at Hogwarts.]]
 
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[[File:Madam Sprout 2.jpg|250px|thumb|Professor Sprout teaching her second-year class how to re-pot [[Mandrake]]s]]
{{Quote|Four to a tray — there is a large supply of pots here — compost in the sacks over there — and be careful of the Venomous Tentacula, it's teething.|Professor Sprout teaching a class.|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
 
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At some point after her graduation, Sprout returned to Hogwarts as a member of the [[Herbology department]].<ref name="PS8" /> She taught her classes in the [[Hogwarts greenhouses|greenhouses]] at the back of the castle<ref name="PS8" /> and used one of the greenhouses as an office.<ref name="PS/gbc">{{PS|G}} - GBC version</ref> At an unknown time, Professor Sprout became Head of Department and [[Head of Hufflepuff House]].<ref name="GOF18">{{GOF|B|18}}</ref>
   
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Professor Sprout used to bring the most interesting specimens (some of which could dance and talk) from the [[Hogwarts greenhouses|Herbology greenhouses]] to decorate [[Hufflepuff Basement]]. This was one of the reasons why Hufflepuffs were often very good in her subject.<ref name="pottermorehufflepuffs">{{PM}} introduction for Hufflepuffs (transcription available [http://lady-slytherin-forever.tumblr.com/post/9001123651/hufflepuff-spoilers here])</ref>
At some point after her graduation in either [[1940s|1949]] or [[1950s|1959]], Sprout returned to Hogwarts as a [[professor|member]] of the [[Herbology department]].<ref name="PS8" /> She taught her classes in the [[Hogwarts greenhouses|greenhouses]] at the back of [[Hogwarts Castle|the castle]]<ref name="PS8" /> and used [[Pomona Sprout's office|one of the greenhouses]] as office.<ref name="PS/gbc">''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)]]'' - GBC version</ref>
 
   
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====1980s/1990s====
At an unknown time, Professor Sprout became Head of Department and [[Head of Hufflepuff House]].
 
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[[File:Professor Sprout awarding Prefect duties HM.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Sprout rewarding one her Hufflepuff students with Prefect duties]]
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Professor Sprout was [[Nymphadora Tonks]]'s [[Head of House]]<ref name="Tonks's house">[http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_view.cfm?id=117 "What houses were Tonks and Myrtle in?"] at [http://www.jkrowling.com/ J.K. Rowling's official site]</ref> in the late [[1980s]] and early [[1990s]]. Sprout did not make her a prefect in her fifth year due to what Sprout deemed an inability to behave herself.<ref name="OP9">{{OOTP|B|9}}</ref> However, Tonks presumably surprised Sprout after she earned at least five [[Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test|N.E.W.Ts]] in her seventh year.
   
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Sometime in between [[1987]] and [[1990]], [[Gabriel Truman]], a [[third year]] at the time, got into a [[Duelling|duel]] with a [[Ravenclaw]] [[Prefect]] who argued that the famous [[Arithmancer]] [[Bridget Wenlock]] must have been in his own house, not Hufflepuff, as she was in fact. Gabriel felt he deserved a week's worth of detentions for his own actions, but Professor Sprout went easy on him, sending him off with a warning and a box of [[Pink Coconut Ice|coconut ice]].<ref name="pottermorehufflepuffs" />
Professor Sprout used to bring the most interesting specimens (some of which dance and talk) from the [[Hogwarts greenhouses|Herbology greenhouses]] to decorate [[Hufflepuff Basement]]. This was one of the reasons why Hufflepuffs were often very good in her subject.<ref name="pottermorehufflepuffs">[[Pottermore]] introduction for Hufflepuffs (transcription available [http://lady-slytherin-forever.tumblr.com/post/9001123651/hufflepuff-spoilers here])</ref>
 
   
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====[[1986–1987 school year]]====
{{Dialogue a-b-a|Nymphadora Tonks|I was never a prefect myself. My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities.|Ginevra Weasley|Like what?|Like the ability to behave myself.|[[Nymphadora Tonks]] to [[Ginevra Weasley]] on what Sprout thought about her.|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
 
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{{Dialogue|[[Jacob's sibling]]|If that wasn't a werewolf, what was it?|Professor Sprout|A Boggart. Nasty shapeshifting creature. It takes the form of the victim's greatest fear. Boggarts are defeated by laughter, so you cast ''Riddikulus'' to change it into something humorous. To my knowledge, a Boggart has never been seen in the [[Hogwarts greenhouses|greenhouses]]... I must report this to Professor Dumbledore. Class dismissed.|Professor Sprout in response to a Boggart manifesting in the [[Herbology Classroom]]|Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery}}
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[[File:Professor Sprout looking concerned HM31h.png|thumb|250px|right|Professor Sprout expressing concern after witnessing a boggart in the greenhouses]]
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Professor Sprout spent the summer holidays of [[1986]] experimenting with [[dragon dung fertiliser]], which she told [[Jacob's sibling]] about during the first Herbology lesson of term. She then set the class to work on tending to [[valerian]] sprigs, which were a basis for many potions. Towards the end of the class, Professor Sprout asked [[Penny Haywood]] to fetch her a plant pot, only for the girl to scream in terror when a [[werewolf]] suddenly burst out of the stack.<ref name="HM31h"/>
   
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The rest of the class began to panic as well, but Professor Sprout stepped forward and cast the [[Boggart-Banishing Spell]] with [[Pomona Sprout's wand|her wand]], revealing that the supposed werewolf was actually a [[Boggart]]. Professor Sprout explained to the class what a Boggart was before dismissing them to go and speak to [[Albus Dumbledore|Professor Dumbledore]], as a Boggart had never appeared in the Herbology Greenhouses before.<ref name="HM31h">{{HM|3|1|h}}</ref>
Professor Sprout was [[Nymphadora Tonks]]'s [[Head of House]]<ref name="Tonks's house">[http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq_view.cfm?id=117 "What houses were Tonks and Myrtle in?"] at [http://www.jkrowling.com/ J.K. Rowling's official site]</ref> in the late [[1980s]] and early [[1990s]]. Sprout did not make her a [[prefect]] in her [[fifth year]] due to her inability to behave herself.<ref name="OP9">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' - Chapter 9 (''The Woes of Mrs. Weasley'')</ref> However, Tonks presumably surprised Sprout after she earnt at least five [[Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test|N.E.W.Ts]] in her [[seventh year]].
 
   
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Also during this year, she provided some [[earmuffs]] to Jacob's sibling and [[Penny Haywood]] in the [[Herbology Classroom]], so they could uproot a [[Mandrake]] in order to extract a hidden [[Chocolate Frog Card]] in its soil.<ref name="HM3FC">{{HM|3|Flume's Clues}}</ref>
Sometime in between [[1987]] and [[1990]], [[Gabriel Truman]], a [[third year]] at the time, got into a [[duel]] with a [[Ravenclaw]] [[Prefect]] who argued that the famous [[Arithmancer]] [[Bridget Wenlock]] must have been in his own house, not [[Hufflepuff]], as she was in fact. Gabriel felt he deserved a week's worth of detentions for his own actions, but Professor Sprout went easy on him, sending him off with a warning and a box of [[coconut ice]].<ref name="pottermorehufflepuffs"/>
 
   
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At some point during this school year, whilst [[Jacob's sibling]] was helping their friend [[William Weasley|Bill Weasley]] with Career Advice, Professor Sprout tasked Bill with teaching Jacob's sibling how to grow [[Leaping Toadstool]]s in the Herbology Classroom to see if he was suited to becoming a [[Herbologist]]. Unfortunately, Jacob's sibling Leaping Toadstools were of poor health and unable to jump, but Professor Sprout did not discourage them, telling them all good Herbologists made mistakes before making discoveries.<ref name="HM-Career-Advice">{{HM|3|Career Advice}}</ref>
====Protecting the Philosopher's Stone====
 
Professor Sprout was still teaching at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] by the [[1991-1992 school year]]. Just before the start of the new school year, [[Albus Dumbledore]] trusted her to contribute to the defences of the [[Philosopher's Stone Chambers]].<ref name="PS14">''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' - Chapter 14 (''Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback'')</ref>
 
[[File:Devil.JPG|thumb|left|250px|Professor Sprout's obstacle to protect the [[Philosopher's Stone]]: a chamber filled with [[Devil's Snare]].]]
 
Sprout, being the [[Herbology]] [[Professor]], planted a large amount of [[Devil's Snare]] in her Chamber, which broke the fall of the one trying to get the Stone but also tried to kill them. The trick was to use [[Bluebell Flames|fire]]<ref name="PS16">''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' - Chapter 16 (''Through the Trapdoor'')</ref> or [[Lumos Solem|sunlight]]<ref name="PSf27">''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)]]'' - Chapter 27 (''Through the Trapdoor'')</ref> to force the Snare into retreat.
 
   
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====[[1987–1988 school year]]====
That year, she taught her first years three times a week in [[Greenhouse One]], and taught them how to care for various herbs and fungi.<ref name="PS8" /> The first lesson focused in recognising plants found in the Hogwarts grounds, using a copy of the ''[[Ingredient Encyclopedia]]'' as a reference.<ref name="PS/gbc" /> Other lessons covered the [[Severing Charm]]<ref name="PS/ps2">''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)]]'' - PS2 version</ref> and the [[Fire-Making Spell|Incendio Charm]].<ref name="PS/ps1">''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)]]'' - PS1 version</ref> Sprout also lectured her students about specific plants, such as [[Devil's Snare]].<ref name="PS16" />
 
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During the 1987–1988 school year, when a [[Dementor]] was spotted on Hogwarts grounds which [[R's Dementor attack at Hogwarts Castle|attacked]] [[Penny Haywood]] and sent her to the [[Hospital Wing]], Professor Sprout met with Dumbledore with the the other [[Head of House]] in the [[Headmaster's office]] to discuss the incident. [[Jacob's sibling]] attended the meeting and informed them that the attack was instigated by "[[R]]", a cabal of [[Dark wizard]]s.<ref name="HM4-Patronus">{{HM|4|Conjure a Patronus}}</ref>
   
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[[File:Professor Sprout approaching Penny and Jacob's sibling HM.png|thumb|left|250px|Professor Sprout approaching Penny Haywood and Jacob's sibling in the Herbology Classroom]]
That year, Sprout met the famous [[Harry Potter]] who was among the first-years she taught.<ref name="PS8" />
 
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Also during this school year, Sprout took the [[Mirror of Erised]] from the castle without anyone's else's prior knowledge to the [[Herbology Classroom]], so she could look into it and see her heart's desire, after she failed to grow an ailing [[Puffapod]]. Jacob's sibling and Penny Haywood found the Mirror in the classroom whilst on their mission to locate it for Dumbledore, and Sprout appeared and admitted to taking the Mirror, and expressed regret over having caused any upset over it being missing. Sprout and Jacob's sibling went to speak with Dumbledore in his office, where Sprout told them of her intentions and how she had seen herself in a greenhouse surrounded by flourishing plants in the Mirror. She and Dumbledore returned to the classroom to retrieve the Mirror, but to their confusion found it missing, and Jacob's sibling went to find it again.<ref name="HM4-Mirror">{{HM|4|SEARCH FOR THE MIRROR OF ERISED}}</ref>
   
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Also during this school year, Jacob's sibling asked what a [[Niffler]] ate during a lesson. She said she did not know, but allowed them to take various edible plants, along with [[venison]] she fed to [[Snargaluff]]s.<ref name="HM48">{{HM|4|8}}</ref> In a later lesson, she allowed Jacob's sibling before the start of a Herbology lesson take some [[Lady's Mantle]] from the Herbology Classroom so they could brew a [[Beautification Potion]], after informing them to seek [[Rubeus Hagrid]] for [[Ginger|ginger root]] from his [[Hagrid's Garden|garden]] as she had not grown any to give at the time, despite sometimes growing it for the [[Hogwarts house-elves]] and [[Severus Snape]].<ref name="HM411">{{HM|4|11}}</ref> Another time, Sprout taught Jacob's sibling, [[Charles Weasley|Charlie Weasley]] and [[Liz Tuttle]] how to cultivate [[Bubotuber]]s in the Herbology Classroom, in preparation for the [[Forbidden Forest]].<ref name="HM4TTF">{{HM|4|TORVUS AND THE TROUBLED FOREST}}</ref>
====Re-opening of the Chamber of Secrets====
 
{{Quote|We will be able to cure her, Argus. Professor Sprout recently managed to procure some Mandrakes. As soon as they have reached their full size, I will have a potion made that will revive Mrs. Norris.|[[Albus Dumbledore]] consoling [[Argus Filch]] after the attack on [[Mrs. Norris]].|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
 
[[File:Madam Sprout 2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Professor Sprout teaching her second-year class how to re-pot [[Mandrake]]s in the [[1992-1993 school year]].]]
 
The following year, [[Harry Potter]] and [[Ronald Weasley]] drove [[Flying Ford Anglia|a bewitched car]] into the school's [[Whomping Willow]]. As the [[Herbology]] teacher, Professor Sprout was in charge of doctoring the damaged tree by wrapping bandages around the broken branches.<ref name="CS6" /> On the first day of term, [[Gilderoy Lockhart]], the new [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]] [[professor|teacher]], gave her useless pointers and made out that he was a better [[Herbologist]] than her. Sprout was made unhappy further when Lockhart took Harry out of the lesson to speak to him. That day, she taught her [[second year]]s how to re-pot a new growth of [[Mandrake]].<ref name="CS6" />
 
   
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On [[14 February]] [[1988]], Sprout taught [[Fourth year|fourth-year]] students how to use the [[Herbivicus Charm]] to accelerate the growth of red [[rose]]s for [[Valentine's Day]].<ref name="HM4V">{{HM|4|Valentine's Day|1}}</ref>
After [[Mrs. Norris]], the cat belonging to [[Argus Filch]], was found petrified, [[Professor Dumbledore]] decided that they were to use a [[Mandrake Restorative Draught]] to cure her.<ref name="CS9">''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' - Chapter 9 (''The Writing on the Wall'')</ref> Professor Sprout was put in charge of maturing her [[Mandrake]]s until they could be chopped up, stewed and used by [[Potions Master]] [[Severus Snape]] for the draught.<ref name="CS9" />
 
   
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====[[1988–1989 school year]]====
Sprout attended the [[Quidditch|Quidditch match]] between the [[Gryffindor Quidditch team|Gryffindor]] and [[Slytherin Quidditch team|Slytherin teams]], sat high up in the stands by [[Potions Master]] [[Severus Snape]], [[Charms Master]] [[Filius Flitwick]], [[Hogwarts Library|librarian]] [[Irma Pince]] and [[Hogwarts Board of Governors|Governor]] [[Lucius Malfoy]].<ref name="CSf15">''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)]]'' - Chapter 15 (''Rogue Bludger'')</ref>
 
[[File:Sprout and pop.jpg|thumb|255px|left|Professor Sprout and [[Poppy Pomfrey|Madam Pomfrey]] at the End-of-Term Feast in [[1993]].]]
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[[File:Sprout creating a local rainstorm.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Professor Sprout creating a rainstorm in the Herbology Classroom]]
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During the [[1988–1989 school year]], Jacob's sibling and [[Liz Tuttle]] came to her in the Herbology Classroom and requested she create a local rainstorm inside the classroom so an [[Augurey at the Magical Creatures Reserve|Augurey]] could fly. She created the rainstorm with ''[[Meteolojinx Recanto]]'' after the students sprayed some [[Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent]] on some [[Flesh-Eating Slug]]s that were attacking [[Mandrake]]s.<ref name="MBOAF">{{HM|5|Magical Birds of a Feather}}</ref>
By the end of the year the Mandrakes had reached maturity and the [[Mandrake Restorative Draught]] was completed and administered to those who were petrified; [[Mrs. Norris]], [[Justin Finch-Fletchley]], [[Colin Creevey]], [[Hermione Granger]], [[Penelope Clearwater]] and the ghost of [[Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington|Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington]].<ref name="CS18">''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' - Chapter 18 (''Dobby's Reward'')</ref> At the [[End-of-Term Feast]], Professor Dumbledore and the rest of the school applauded Sprout for her contribution in the brewing of the Mandrake Draught.<ref name="CSf36">''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)]]'' - Chapter 36 (''Welcome Back'')</ref>
 
   
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Also during this year, while reviewing plants with [[Fifth year|fifth-year]] students in preparation for their upcoming [[Ordinary Wizarding Level]]s, Jacob's sibling asked Sprout about gathering seeds from a [[Venomous Tentacula]], which she informed was both highly difficult and dangerous, informing them they were a [[Non-Tradeable Material|Class C Non-Tradeable Substance]].<ref name="HM511">{{HM|5|11}}</ref>
====Sirius Black's Escape====
 
{{Quote|Careful, Weasley, careful!|Sprout, as [[Ronald Weasley]] drops his [[Puffapod]].|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban}}
 
   
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====[[1989–1990 school year]]====
The [[1993-1994 school year|next school year]], was relatively uneventful at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]. On [[16 October]], the [[Gryffindor]]s and [[Hufflepuff]]s had [[Herbology]] class together, and Sprout taught them how to harvest [[Puffapod]] beans.<ref name="PA8">''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' - Chapter 8 (''Flight of the Fat Lady'')</ref>
 
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During the [[1989–1990 school year]] at Hogwarts, Sprout grew [[sage]], [[dittany]] and [[lavender]] in the greenhouses, which she gave to [[Jacob's sibling]] to give to the [[centaur]]s in the [[Forbidden Forest]]. She explained the various [[magic]]al properties of each plant to the student.<ref name="HM63">{{HM|6|3}}</ref>
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[[File:Rowan Tribute.jpg|left|thumb|250x250px|Professor Sprout attends the [[memorial ceremony for Rowan Khanna]]]]
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She also attended the memorial ceremony for Rowan Khanna held in the [[Great Hall]], in honour of [[Rowan Khanna]] following their [[death]], where she followed Professor Dumbledore's lead in raising her wand in honour of the fallen student.<ref name="HM619">{{HM|6|19}}</ref>
   
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Also during this school year, she ran out of [[Regerminating Potion]], to which [[Severus Snape]] had his [[Sixth year|sixth-year]] [[Potions (class)|Potions]] brew the potion for her in class.<ref name="HM626p">{{HM|6|26|p}}</ref>
During the same year, [[Sirius Black]], a "dangerous mass-murderer", escaped from [[Azkaban]] and tried to get into [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]. <ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' - Chapter 3 (''The Knight Bus'')</ref> It is unknown if she learned that Sirius Black was innocent at the time.
 
   
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====[[1990–1991 school year]]====
On [[25 December|Christmas]], Pomona Sprout was one of the thirteen Christmas Feast attendants.<ref name="PA11">''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'' - Chapter 11 (''The Firebolt'')</ref>
 
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During the [[1990–1991 school year]], in response to an invasion of [[Doxy|Doxies]] that was swarming [[Hogwarts Castle]] and sending lots of students to the [[Hospital Wing]] with [[Doxy venom|venomous doxy bites]], Professor Sprout sought to help the situation by growing [[cowbane]], [[hemlock]] and [[tormentil]] in the greenhouses, the ingredients for [[Doxycide]], so it could be brewed and used to eliminate the doxies. She had [[Jacob's sibling]], [[Chiara Lobosca]] and [[Barnaby Lee]] harvest these plants in the [[Herbology Classroom]].<ref name="HM717">{{HM|7|17}}</ref>
   
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====[[1991–1992 school year]]====
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{{Quote|Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare... what did Professor Sprout say? — it likes the dark and damp.|Hermione about one of Professor Sprout's Herbology lessons|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone}}
{{Dialogue a-b-a|Pomona Sprout|Bubotubers. They need squeezing. You will collect the pus —|Seamus Finnigan|The what?|Pus, Finnigan, pus. And it's extremely valuable, so don't waste it. You will collect the pus, I say, in these bottles.|Pomona Sprout and [[Seamus Finnigan]] on the first Herbology class of the term.|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire}}
 
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[[File:Devil's Snare.jpg|250px|thumb|Sprout's chamber and obstacle protecting the [[Philosopher's Stone]]|alt=]]
[[File:Sprout_pomona.PNG|right|thumb|185px|Professor Pomona Sprout teaching her Herbology class.]]
 
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Professor Sprout was still teaching at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] by the [[1991–1992 school year]]. Just before the start of the new school year, [[Albus Dumbledore]] trusted her to contribute to the defences of the [[Underground Chambers#Sixth|Philosopher's Stone Chambers]].<ref name="PS14">{{PS|B|14}}</ref> Sprout, being the [[Herbology]] [[professor]], possessed considerable knowledge of plants and thus planted a large amount of [[Devil's Snare]] in her Chamber. The Devil's Snare in the chamber broke the fall of the one trying to get the Stone, but also tried to kill them. As the dangerous plant liked the dark and damp, the trick was to use [[fire]]<ref name="PS16">{{PS|B|16}}</ref> or [[Lumos Solem Spell|sunlight]]<ref name="PSf27">{{PS|F}} - Chapter 27 (''Through the Trapdoor'')</ref> to force the Snare into retreat. If the victim struggled, however, the plant would tighten its grip until they were dead.<ref name="PS16"/>
At the Start-of-Term Feast of the [[1994–1995 school year]], Professor Sprout sat next to [[Aurora Sinistra]], the [[professor]] of [[Astronomy]], and was seen talking to her.
 
   
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[[File:Watching Quidditch.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Sprout attending a Hogwarts Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin]]
On the first lesson of the [[1994–1995 school year|school year]], Sprout taught her [[fourth year]] students how to squeeze [[Bubotuber pus|pus]] from [[Bubotuber]]s. By the end of the lesson, each student had collected several pints, which Sprout gave to [[Poppy Pomfrey]], the school matron, since it could be used to remedy [[acne]].<ref name="GF13">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' - Chapter 13 (''Mad-Eye Moody'')</ref>
 
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That year, she taught her first years three times a week in [[Greenhouse One]] and taught them how to care for various herbs and fungi.<ref name="PS8" /> The first lesson focused in recognising plants found in the Hogwarts grounds, using a copy of the ''[[Ingredient Encyclopedia]]'' as a reference.<ref name="PS/gbc" /> Other lessons covered the [[Severing Charm]]<ref name="PSconsole"/> and the [[Fire-Making Spell]].<ref name="PS/ps1">{{PS|G}} - PS1 version</ref> Sprout also lectured her students about specific plants, such as [[Devil's Snare]].<ref name="PS16" />
   
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That year, Sprout met the famous [[Harry Potter]] who was among the first-years she taught.<ref name="PS8" /> She was also present at the End-of-Term Feast where [[Slytherin]] lost the [[House Cup]] to [[Gryffindor]] ending their seven year winning streak, which likely pleased her immensely along with the rest of her House.<ref name="PS17">{{PS|B|17}}</ref>
At some point early on in the school year, Professor Sprout told [[Bartemius Crouch Jr.]] (impersonating the [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]] [[professor|teacher]] [[Bartemius Crouch Jr.|Alastor Moody]]) how good [[Neville Longbottom]] was at [[Herbology]]. "Moody" then lent Neville some books on plants and fungi called ''[[Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean]]''<ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' - Chapter 14 (''The Unforgivable Curses'')</ref> and another called ''[[Magical Water Plants of the Highland Lochs]]''.<ref name="GFf12">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)]]'' - Chapter 12 (''The Hungarian Horntail'')</ref>
 
   
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====[[1992–1993 school year]]====
That school year the [[Triwizard Tournament]] was held at [[Hogwarts Castle|Hogwarts]] and one of the Triwizard Champions was [[sixth year]] [[Hufflepuff]] [[Cedric Diggory]],<ref name="GF16">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' - Chapter 16 (''The Goblet of Fire'')</ref> whom Sprout knew very well.<ref name="GF36" />
 
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{{Quote|We will be able to cure her, Argus. Professor Sprout recently managed to procure some Mandrakes. As soon as they have reached their full size, I will have a potion made that will revive Mrs Norris.|Professor Sprout's Mandrakes|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
Cedric was not the only Hogwarts Champion; [[Harry Potter]] had mysteriously been entered into the Tournament.<ref name="GF16" /> As such, Professor Sprout seemed to act somewhat distant towards Harry.<ref name="GF18">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' - Chapter 18 (''The Weighing of the Wands'')</ref>
 
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[[File:Greenhouses.png|250px|thumb|Sprout teaching her second year students in front of the greenhouses]]
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As the [[Herbology]] teacher, Professor Sprout was in charge of doctoring the damaged [[Whomping Willow]] by wrapping bandages around the broken branches after [[Harry Potter]] and [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] drove [[Flying Ford Anglia|a bewitched car]] into it.<ref name="CS6">{{COS|B|6}}</ref> On the first day of term, [[Gilderoy Lockhart]], the new [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]] [[professor|teacher]], gave her useless pointers and arrogantly made out that he was a better [[Herbologist]] than her, which made her look distinctly cross and not at all her usual cheerful self.
   
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She was further irritated when Lockhart took Harry out of the lesson to speak to him, rudely closing the door in her face before she could make her opinion known. That day she taught her second years how to re-pot a new growth of Mandrake, whilst also warning them about the teething [[Venomous Tentacula]], giving the plant in question a sharp slap to make it withdraw the long feelers it had been inching over her shoulder.<ref name="CS6" /> This lesson and the Mandrakes would later prove to be very useful.<ref name="CS9" />
On [[25 December|Christmas Day]], Professor Sprout attended the [[Yule Ball]] where she danced with [[Albus Dumbledore|Headmaster Dumbledore]].<ref name="GF23">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' - Chapter 23 (''The Yule Ball'')</ref>
 
   
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[[File:Harry-potter2-professorsprout.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Sprout and others observing the message written on the wall by the [[Tom Riddle|Heir of Slytherin]]]]
At the end of the year [[Cedric Diggory]] was murdered on [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s orders.<ref name="GF32">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' - Chapter 32 (''Flesh, Blood and Bone'')</ref> Sprout spoke with [[Amos Diggory]] and [[Cedric Diggory's mother|his wife]], since she knew their son best as [[Head of Hufflepuff|Head of his House]].<ref name="GF36" /> She attended the [[Memorial Feast to Cedric Diggory|Memorial Feast]] in Cedric's memory<ref name="GF37">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' - Chapter 37 (''The Beginning'')</ref> and believed Harry and Dumbledore's claims that [[Lord Voldemort]] had [[Return of the Dark Lord|returned]].<ref name="OP27">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' - Chapter 27 (''Seen and Unforeseen'')</ref>
 
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Sprout and her colleagues were understandably unnerved by the [[Plot to open the Chamber of Secrets|opening]] of the [[Chamber of Secrets]]. After [[Mrs Norris]], the [[cat]] belonging to [[Argus Filch]], was found [[Petrification|petrified]], Professor Dumbledore decided that they were to use a [[Mandrake Restorative Draught]] to cure her.<ref name="CS9">{{COS|B|9}}</ref> Professor Sprout was put in charge of maturing her Mandrakes until they could be chopped up, [[Stewed Mandrake|stewed]], and used by [[Potions Master]] [[Severus Snape]] for the draught.<ref name="CS9" />
   
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Sprout attended the Quidditch match between the [[Gryffindor Quidditch team|Gryffindor]] and [[Slytherin Quidditch team|Slytherin teams]], sat high up in the stands with [[Potions Master]] Severus Snape, [[Charms Master]] [[Filius Flitwick]], [[Hogwarts Library|librarian]] [[Irma Pince]] and [[Hogwarts Board of Governors|Governor]] [[Lucius Malfoy]].<ref name="CSf15">{{COS|F}} - Chapter 15 (''Rogue Bludger'')</ref>
===Second Wizarding War===
 
====High Inquisitor Dolores Umbridge====
 
{{Quote|The teachers were of course forbidden from mentioning the interview by Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six, but they found ways to express their feelings about it all the same. ''[For instance,]'' Professor Sprout awarded Gryffindor twenty points when Harry passed her a watering can.|Professor Sprout after Harry's interview in ''[[The Quibbler]]''.|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
 
[[File:Pomona_sprout.PNG|thumb|left|250px|Professor Sprout doing mock O.W.L.s with [[Harry Potter]].]]
 
The following [[1995-1996 school year|school year]], [[Dolores Umbridge]] was made [[Professor]] of [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]] by the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]] in accordance to the [[Educational Decree Number Twenty-Two]].<ref name="OP15">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' - Chapter 15 (''The Hogwarts High Inquisitor'')</ref> Umbridge was despised by the majority of the staff, including Sprout.<ref name="OP27"/>
 
   
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When the Hogwarts faculty were informed of [[Ginevra Weasley|Ginny Weasley]]'s abduction into the [[Chamber of Secrets]] in the [[staffroom]], Sprout was utterly horrified, clasping her shaking hand over her mouth. When [[Gilderoy Lockhart]] entered the staffroom, Sprout and the other professors goaded Lockhart to enter the Chamber and rescue Ginny, knowing perfectly well he was a cowardly fraud who would soon flee the school, much to their delight. After that, McGonagall ordered her and the other two Heads of Houses to inform their students that the school was scheduled to close due to the kidnapping.<ref name="CS16"/> However, as [[Harry Potter]] thankfully rescued her alive from the Chamber the same day, the school was kept open.<ref name="CS18"/>
The [[Gryffindor]] [[Ordinary Wizarding Level|O.W.L.]]-level class was lectured by Professor Sprout on the importance of the examinations during their first [[Herbology]] class.<ref name="OP13">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' - Chapter 13 (''Detention with Dolores'')</ref> Sprout also had the students make a practical exercise which involved using [[dragon dung fertiliser]]. She also set them a long essay for the following lesson.<ref name="OP13" />
 
   
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[[File:Dps table.PNG|250x250px|thumb|Sprout at the End-of-Term Feast, sitting next to [[Poppy Pomfrey|Madam Pomfrey]]|alt=]]
Sometime this year, Sprout held career consultations with her [[Hufflepuff]] [[fifth year|fifth-years]].<ref name="OP29">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' - Chapter 29 (''Careers Advice'')</ref> During this school year, Professor Sprout also held mock [[Ordinary Wizarding Level|O.W.L.s]] on the [[Hogwarts greenhouses|Herbology Greenhouses]] for those wanting to revise for the exams.<ref name="OPg">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)]]''</ref>
 
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By the end of the year the Mandrakes had reached maturity and the Mandrake Restorative Draught was completed and administered to those who were petrified: [[Mrs Norris]], [[Justin Finch-Fletchley]], [[Colin Creevey]], [[Hermione Granger]], [[Penelope Clearwater]], and the ghost of [[Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington|Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington]].<ref name="CS18">{{COS|B|18}}</ref> At the [[End-of-Term Feast]], Professor Dumbledore and the rest of the school applauded Sprout for her contribution in the brewing of the Mandrake Draught.<ref name="CSf36">{{COS|F}} - Chapter 36 (''Welcome Back'')</ref> During the End-the-Term Feast, Gryffindor also won the House Cup for a second year in a row and Hagrid returned from his confinement in [[Azkaban]].<ref name="CS18"/>
   
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====[[1993–1994 school year]]====
After [[Harry Potter]] took part in an interview for ''[[The Quibbler]]'' about the [[Return of the Dark Lord|events]] at [[Little Hangleton]] the previous [[June]], he was put in detention by [[Dolores Umbridge|Professor Umbridge]].<ref name="OP26">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' - Chapter 29 (''Seen and Unforseen'')</ref> The rest of the teaching staff, however, found the interview an act of bravery on Harry's behalf and, being forbidden of discussing it per the [[Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six]], found other ways to express their feelings; Pomona awarded Harry a large amount of house points for passing her a watering can.<ref name="OP26" />
 
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{{Quote|Careful, Weasley, careful!|Sprout, as [[Ronald Weasley]] drops his Puffapod|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban}}
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[[File:Sprout HP.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Sprout at the End-of-Term Feast next to Madam Pomfrey]]
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The next school year was relatively uneventful at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]. On [[16 October]], the [[Gryffindor]]s and [[Hufflepuff]]s had [[Herbology]] class together, and Sprout taught them how to harvest [[Puffapod]] beans.<ref name="PA8">{{POA|B|8}}</ref> [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] accidentally dropped some of these beans onto the floor of the [[Greenhouse Three|greenhouse]] they were working in and they instantly bloomed, earning him Professor Sprout's disapproval. During the same year, [[Sirius Black]], a "''dangerous mass-murderer''",<ref name="POA3">{{POA|B|3}}</ref> escaped from [[Azkaban]] and tried to get into [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] on two occasions.<ref name="PA8"/><ref name="POA13">{{POA|B|13}}</ref>
   
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On Christmas, Pomona Sprout was one of the thirteen Christmas Feast attendants. During the Christmas feast she was privy to the tense conversation between McGonagall and [[Sybill Trelawney|Trelawney]].<ref name="PA11">{{POA|B|11}}</ref>
The teachers' capability of teaching was examined by Umbridge, as part of her duties as High Inquisitor. [[Sybill Trelawney]], the [[Divination]] [[Professor]], was sacked and almost dragged out of [[Hogwarts Castle|the Castle]] by Umbridge. [[Albus Dumbledore]], finding a loophole in one of the [[Educational Decrees]], allowed the sacked Trelawney to remain occupying her premises on the [[North Tower]]. Trelawney was escorted back to the Castle by Sprout, [[Minerva McGonagall]] and [[Filius Flitwick]].<ref name="OP26" />
 
[[File:Sprout_in_the_game,_Order_of_the_Phoenix.JPG|thumb|296px|Pomona Sprout in the [[Hogwarts greenhouses|Herbology Greenhouses]] in [[1995]].]]
 
Sprout managed to show Professor Umbridge her teaching capability and avoided being sacked herself.<ref name="OP26" /> She was later relieved to have Umbridge removed from the school and welcomed [[Professor Dumbledore]] back as [[Headmaster]].
 
   
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====[[1994–1995 school year]]====
====1996-1997 and Battle of the Astronomy Tower====
 
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{{Dialogue a-b-a|Sprout|Bubotubers. They need squeezing. You will collect the pus —|Seamus Finnigan|The what?|Pus, Finnigan, pus. And it's extremely valuable, so don't waste it. You will collect the pus, I say, in these bottles.|The first Herbology class of the term|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire}}
{{Dialogue a-b|Horace Slughorn|… I do thank you for taking the time, Pomona. Most authorities agree that they are at their most efficacious if picked at twilight.|Pomona Sprout|Oh, I quite agree. That enough for you?|Sprout with [[Horace Slughorn]], the new [[Potions master]] at the [[Hogwarts Castle#Greenhouses and Gardens|vegetable patch]].|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
 
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[[File:PomonaSprout bologyGreenhouse.jpg|250px|thumb|Sprout in her greenhouse teaching students|alt=]]
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At the Start-of-Term Feast of the 1994-1995 school year, Professor Sprout sat next to the [[Astronomy]] [[Professor]] [[Aurora Sinistra]], with whom she spoke.<ref name="GF12"/>
   
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In the first lesson of the school year, Sprout taught her fourth year students how to squeeze pus from Bubotubers. Some of these students found this to be disgusting and [[Seamus Finnigan]] was not sure he heard her correctly. By the end of the lesson, each student had collected several pints. Sprout then gave the pints to the school's matron [[Poppy Pomfrey|Madam Pomfrey]], since it could be used to treat acne.<ref name="GF13">{{GOF|B|13}}</ref>
While giving out the student timetables on [[2 September]], Professor McGonagall remarked that Sprout was going to be delighted to see [[Neville Longbottom]] back with an [[Outstanding]] [[Ordinary Wizarding Level|O.W.L.]] in [[Herbology]] that [[1996-1997 school year|school year]].<ref name="HBP9">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' - Chapter 9 (''The Half-Blood Prince'')</ref> To start off the year, she taught her [[sixth year]]s about various extremely dangerous plants, and permitted them to swear loudly if the [[Venomous Tentacula]] bit them from behind.<ref name="HBP11">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' - Chapter 11 (''Hermione's Helping Hand'')</ref>
 
   
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At some point early on in the school year, Professor Sprout told [[Bartemius Crouch Junior|Bartemius Crouch Jnr]] (impersonating the [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]] [[professor|teacher]] [[Bartemius Crouch Junior|Alastor Moody]]) how good [[Neville Longbottom]] was at [[Herbology]]. "Moody" then lent Neville some books on plants and fungi called ''[[Magical Mediterranean Water-Plants and Their Properties]]''<ref name="GOF14">{{GOF|B|14}}</ref> and another called ''[[Magical Water Plants of the Highland Lochs]]''.<ref name="GFf12">{{GOF|F}} - Chapter 12 (''The Hungarian Horntail'')</ref>
Not long after, Sprout had her sixth year class harvesting [[Snargaluff|Snargaluff pods]]. She chided [[Harry Potter|Harry]], [[Ronald Weasley|Ron]] and [[Hermione Granger|Hermione]] for being slow; as they were still strapping on their protective gear (and talking), while [[Neville Longbottom|Neville]] had already harvested his first pod. The trio's first pod bounced free while they were trying to open it, and rebounded off the glass roof of the greenhouse, knocking Professor Sprout's battered hat off.<ref name="HBP14">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' - Chapter 14 (''Felix Felicis'')</ref>
 
   
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[[File:Weird Sisters playing at the Yule Ball.png|250px|thumb|left|The [[Yule Ball]] that Sprout attended in December 1994]]
In late April of that school year, Sprout helped the new [[Potions master]], [[Horace Slughorn]] picking some potion herbs. She left towards her [[Hogwarts greenhouses|Greenhouses]] after she had collected enough for Slughorn's [[third year]] class, with some to spare.<ref name="HBP22">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' - Chapter 22 (''After the Burial'')</ref> [[Horace Slughorn|Slughorn]] also proceeded to steal some [[Venomous Tentacula leaf|Venomous Tentacula leaves]] while Sprout was not around.<ref name="HBPf22">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)]]'' - Chapter 22</ref>
 
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That school year the [[Triwizard Tournament]] was held at [[Hogwarts Castle|Hogwarts]] and one of the Triwizard Champions was sixth year [[Hufflepuff]] [[Cedric Diggory]],<ref name="GF16">{{GOF|B|16}}</ref> whom Sprout knew very well.<ref name="GF36" /> Cedric was not the only Hogwarts Champion; [[Harry Potter]] had mysteriously been entered into the Tournament, an act which many in Hufflepuff perceived as an attempt to steal Cedric's glory.<ref name="GF16" /> As such, Professor Sprout seemed to act somewhat distant towards Harry.<ref name="GF18">{{GOF|B|18}}</ref> On Christmas Day, Professor Sprout attended the Yule Ball where she danced with [[Albus Dumbledore|Professor Dumbledore]].<ref name="GF23">{{GOF|B|23}}</ref>
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[[File:B4C37M1 Great Hall mourning Cedric's death.png|250px|thumb|Professor Sprout attends [[Memorial feast to Cedric Diggory|Cedric Diggory's memorial feast]]]]
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At the end of the year Cedric Diggory was murdered during the third task of the Triwizard Tournament on [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s orders.<ref name="GF32">{{GOF|B|32}}</ref> Harry Potter at the risk of his own life brought Cedric's body back to the school grounds. Sprout spoke with [[Amos Diggory]] and his wife, since she knew their son best as [[Head of Hufflepuff House|Head of his House]].<ref name="GF36" /> She attended the Memorial Feast in Cedric's memory<ref name="GF37">{{GOF|B|37}}</ref> and believed Harry and Dumbledore's claims that Lord Voldemort had returned.<ref name="OP27">{{OOTP|B|27}}</ref>
   
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===Second Wizarding War {{C|1995–1998}}===
[[File:Dumbledore funeral.jpg|thumb|300px|left|[[Albus Dumbledore]]'s [[Funeral of Albus Dumbledore|funeral]].]]
 
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====[[1995–1996 school year]]====
At the end of the year, the [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]] took place, with the [[Death Eaters]] invading [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] and fighting against the students, [[professor|teachers]], [[Auror]]s and the [[Order of the Phoenix]]. Professor Sprout likely participated, as did [[Minerva McGonagall]], [[Filius Flitwick]] and [[Rubeus Hagrid]].<ref name="HBP28">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' - Chapter 28 (''Flight of the Prince'')</ref>
 
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{{Quote|The teachers were of course forbidden from mentioning the interview by Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six, but they found ways to express their feelings about it all the same. Professor Sprout awarded Gryffindor twenty points when Harry passed her a watering can.|Professor Sprout after Harry's interview in ''[[The Quibbler]]''|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
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The following school year, [[Dolores Umbridge]] was made Professor of [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]] by the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]] in accordance to the [[Educational Decree Number Twenty-Two]].<ref name="OP15">{{OOTP|B|15}}</ref> Umbridge was despised by the majority of the staff, including Sprout. When Umbridge interrupted Professor Dumbledore's welcoming speech in the middle of the Start-of-Term feast, Sprout was taken-aback and scandalised at the audacity, raising her eyebrows high enough that they disappeared into her hairline. During Umbridge's speech she was observed as exchanging a significant look with Professor McGonagall, both of them understanding the message that lay beneath the officious and flowery rhetoric.<ref name="OP11"/><ref name="OP27" />
   
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[[File:Pomona_sprout.PNG|250x250px|thumb|left|Professor Sprout doing mock O.W.L.s with [[Harry Potter]]]]
After [[Albus Dumbledore|Professor Dumbledore]]'s death, Sprout met with fellow staff members [[Minerva McGonagall]], [[Filius Flitwick]], [[Horace Slughorn]] and [[Rubeus Hagrid]] to discuss the future of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]. She was a staunch advocate of keeping the school open, stating that Dumbledore would have wanted it so. She also supported the suggestion that Dumbledore should be laid to rest at Hogwarts, though no Headmaster has ever received a burial there before.<ref name="HBP29">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' - Chapter 29 (''The Phoenix Lament'')</ref>
 
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The [[Gryffindor]] [[Ordinary Wizarding Level|O.W.L.]]-level class was lectured by Professor Sprout on the importance of the examinations during their first Herbology class.<ref name="OP13">{{OOTP|B|13}}</ref> Sprout also had the students make a practical exercise which involved using dragon dung fertiliser. She also set them a long essay for the following lesson.<ref name="OP13" />
   
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Sometime this year, Sprout held career consultations with her [[Hufflepuff]] fifth years.<ref name="OP29">{{OOTP|B|29}}</ref> She also held mock O.W.L.s on the Herbology Greenhouses for those wanting to revise for the exams.<ref name="OPg">{{OOTP|G}}</ref>
Sprout attended Dumbledore's [[Funeral of Albus Dumbledore|funeral]] and led the [[Hufflepuff]]s down to the grounds where the ceremony was held, looking cleaner than she ever had been before; without a single patch on her usually battered hat.<ref name="HBP30">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' - Chapter 30 (''The White Tomb'')</ref>
 
   
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After Harry Potter took part in an interview for ''The Quibbler'' about the events at [[Little Hangleton]] the previous June, he was put in detention by [[Dolores Umbridge|Professor Umbridge]].<ref name="OP26">{{OOTP|B|26}}</ref> The rest of the teaching staff, however, found the interview an act of bravery on Harry's behalf and, being forbidden of discussing it per the [[Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six]], found other ways to express their feelings; Pomona awarded Harry twenty [[house points]] for [[Gryffindor]] for passing her a [[watering can]].<ref name="OP26" />
====Voldemort's infiltration of Hogwarts====
 
[[File:Snape Great Hall Headmaster.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Severus Snape]] in the [[Great Hall]], as [[Headmaster|Headmaster of Hogwarts]].]]
 
{{Quote|Tentacula. Devil's Snare. And Snargaluff pods… Yes, I'd like to see the Death Eaters fighting those.|Professor Sprout prior to the [[Battle of Hogwarts]].|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}
 
   
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[[File:Sprout in the game, Order of the Phoenix.JPG|thumb|Pomona Sprout in the [[Hogwarts greenhouses|Herbology Greenhouses]]|250x250px]]
On [[1 August]], [[1997]] the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]] was [[Fall of the Ministry of Magic|taken over]] by [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s [[Death Eaters]].<ref name="DH8">''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' - Chapter 8 (''The Wedding'')</ref> By the [[1997-1998 school year|next school year]], [[Severus Snape]] was made [[Headmaster|Headmaster of Hogwarts]] while his fellow [[Death Eaters]], [[Alecto Carrow]] and [[Amycus Carrow]] became the [[Muggle Studies]] and [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]] [[professor|teachers]] respectively.<ref name="DH12">''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' - Chapter 12 (''Magic Is Might'')</ref> Despite the school now in the grasp of [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]], or perhaps because of it, Professor Sprout returned to the castle to teach and protect the students.<ref name="DH30">''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' - Chapter 30 (''The Sacking of Severus Snape'')</ref>
 
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The teachers' capability of teaching was examined by Umbridge, as part of her duties as High Inquisitor. [[Sybill Trelawney]], the [[Divination (class)|Divination]] Professor, was sacked and almost dragged out of the castle by Umbridge. [[Albus Dumbledore]], finding a loophole in one of the [[Educational Decree]]s, allowed the sacked Trelawney to remain occupying her premises on the North Tower. Trelawney was escorted back to the Castle by Sprout, [[Minerva McGonagall]] and [[Filius Flitwick]].<ref name="OP26" />
   
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When [[Azkaban escapes|a mass breakout]] from [[Azkaban]] was announced in the ''[[Daily Prophet]]'', Sprout read the article in the Great Hall on the subject with great consternation, and was so intent on doing so that she failed to notice she was dripping [[egg]] yolk into her lap from her breakfast spoon.<ref name="OOTP25">{{OOTP|B|25}}</ref>
The Carrows were put in charge of all discipline and punishments, though Sprout and the staff never sent students to them if they could avoid it. She also, with the other [[Head of House|Heads of House]], tried to protect the pupils from Alecto and Amycus.<ref name="DH29">''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' - Chapter 29 (''The Lost Diadem'')</ref>
 
[[File:H.PNG|thumb|left|200px|Pomona Sprout and [[Filius Flitwick]] intervene during the [[ousting of Severus Snape]].]]
 
One night, after being woken up by Minerva McGonagall's cat patronous, Professors Sprout, [[Filius Flitwick|Flitwick]] and [[Horace Slughorn|Slughorn]], and, still in their night-clothes, went to find out what she wanted. They found [[Minerva McGonagall]] duelling Snape to the death, and, after being defeated, Snape then ran into a classroom, chased by Flitwick, Sprout and McGonagall, and flew out of the window, escaping them.<ref name="DH30"/>
 
   
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Sprout managed to show Professor Umbridge her teaching capability and avoided being sacked herself.<ref name="OP26" /> She would have been relieved to have Umbridge removed from the school at the end of the school year, and would have welcomed Professor Dumbledore back as Headmaster.
Aware that [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] would soon attack the castle, Sprout and the other professors set to defend the school and the students.<ref name="DH30"/> Sprout retreated to the greenhouses, collecting various dangerous plants, and, with the help of a dozen of her students (namely [[Neville Longbottom]]), lobbed [[Mandrake]]s and everything else over the battlements and onto the [[Death Eaters]].<ref name="DH30" /> She took a troop of of-age students up to the [[Astronomy Tower]], where they could easily work spells and drop plants such as [[Venomous Tentacula]]s and [[Snargaluff]]s.<ref name="DH30"/>
 
   
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====[[1996–1997 school year]]====
During the hour-long break in the Battle, Sprout helped treating wounded fighters in the [[Great Hall]].<ref name="DHpt2">''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]]''</ref>
 
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{{Dialogue a-b|Horace Slughorn|… I do thank you for taking the time, Pomona. Most authorities agree that they are at their most efficacious if picked at twilight.|Sprout|Oh, I quite agree. That enough for you?|A conversation at the vegetable patch|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
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[[File:Harry-potter2-sprout.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Sprout in her Greenhouse teaching N.E.W.T. students]]
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While giving out the student timetables on [[2 September]], Professor McGonagall remarked that Sprout was going to be delighted to see [[Neville Longbottom]] back with an '[[Outstanding]]' [[Ordinary Wizarding Level|O.W.L.]] in [[Herbology]] that school year.<ref name="HBP9">{{HBP|B|9}}</ref> To start off the year, she taught her sixth years about various extremely dangerous plants. She also permitted them to swear loudly if the [[Venomous Tentacula]] bit them or seized them unexpectedly from behind.<ref name="HBP11">{{HBP|B|11}}</ref>
   
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Not long after, Sprout had her sixth year class harvesting [[Snargaluff]] pods. She chided [[Harry Potter|Harry]], [[Ronald Weasley|Ron]], and [[Hermione Granger|Hermione]] for being slow; as they were still strapping on their protective gear (and talking), while [[Neville Longbottom|Neville]] had already harvested his first pod. The trio's first pod bounced free while they were trying to open it, and rebounded off the glass roof of the greenhouse, knocking Professor Sprout's battered hat off.<ref name="HBP14">{{HBP|B|14}}</ref>
Sprout also witnessed the [[Duel in the Great Hall|duel]] between [[Harry Potter]] and [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] in the [[Great Hall]] and, after Voldemort's spell rebounded on him, Sprout, Flitwick and McGonagall all reached to hug Harry at the same time, while everyone else joined in.<ref name="DH36">''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'' - Chapter 36 (''The Flaw in the Plan'')</ref>
 
   
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In late April of that school year, Sprout helped the new [[Potions Master]], Horace Slughorn in picking some potion herbs. She left towards her [[Hogwarts greenhouses|Greenhouses]] after she had collected enough for Slughorn's third year class, with some to spare.<ref name="HBP22">{{HBP|B|22}}</ref> Slughorn also proceeded to steal some Venomous Tentacula leaves while Sprout was not around.<ref name="HBPf22">{{HBP|F}} - Chapter 22 (''Liquid Luck'')</ref>
A celebration feast was later held, but no one sat in their proper house tables; teachers, parents and students were all jumbled up.<ref name="DH36"/> Sprout sat by [[Filius Flitwick]] and [[Horace Slughorn]], chatting and drinking a cup of tea.<ref name="DHpt2"/>
 
   
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[[File:Funeral of Albus Dumbledore.png|250px|thumb|[[Albus Dumbledore]]'s [[Funeral of Albus Dumbledore|funeral]]]]
[[File:Deathly_Hallows_Part_2._Professor_Sprout,_Flitwick,_and_Slaghorn.jpg|thumb|275px|Sprout, Flitwick and Slughorn after the Battle.]]
 
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At the end of the year, the [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]] took place, with the [[Death Eaters]] invading [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] and fighting against the students, teachers, [[Auror]]s and the [[Order of the Phoenix]]. Professor Sprout likely participated, as did [[Minerva McGonagall]], [[Filius Flitwick]], and [[Rubeus Hagrid]].<ref name="HBP28">{{HBP|B|28}}</ref>
===Later life===
 
Sprout presumably remained teaching at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] as [[Herbology]] [[professor]], though by [[2017]] she had been replaced by [[Neville Longbottom]]. <ref name="Epilogue"/>
 
   
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After Professor Dumbledore's death, Sprout met with fellow staff members Minerva McGonagall, Filius Flitwick, Horace Slughorn, and Rubeus Hagrid to discuss the future of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]. She was a staunch advocate of keeping the school open, stating that Dumbledore would have wanted it so. She also supported the suggestion that Dumbledore should be laid to rest at Hogwarts, though no Headmaster had ever received a burial there before.<ref name="HBP29">{{HBP|B|29}}</ref>
==Physical description==
 
{{Quote|Professor Sprout was a squat little witch who wore a patched hat over her flyaway hair; there was usually a large amount of earth on her clothes, and her fingernails would have made [[Petunia Dursley|Aunt Petunia]] faint.|A description of Professor Sprout in [[1992]].|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
 
   
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Sprout attended Dumbledore's funeral and led the Hufflepuffs down to the grounds where the ceremony was held, looking cleaner than she ever had been before; without a single patch on her usually battered hat.<ref name="HBP30">{{HBP|B|30}}</ref>
Professor Sprout was described as being a squat little witch with short, grey, wavy hair.<ref name="CS6" /> She usually wore a patched and battered hat.<ref name="CS6" /> Her clothes were noted to almost always be covered in dirt and earth, as were her dirty fingernails.<ref name="CS6" /> Sprout also almost always had a smile on her face.<ref name="CS6" />
 
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====[[1997–1998 school year]]====
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[[File:Harry-potter7-nurses.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Sprout in the Great Hall during Snape's reign as Headmaster]]
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On 1 August, 1997 the [[Ministry of Magic]] was taken over by [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s [[Death Eaters]].<ref name="DH8">{{DH|B|8}}</ref> By the next school year, Severus Snape was made Headmaster of Hogwarts while his fellow Death Eaters, [[Alecto Carrow]] and [[Amycus Carrow]] became the [[Muggle Studies]] and [[Defence Against the Dark Arts]] [[professor|teachers]] respectively.<ref name="DH12">{{DH|B|12}}</ref> Despite the school now in the grasp of Lord Voldemort, or perhaps because of it, Professor Sprout returned to the castle to teach and protect the students.<ref name="DH30">{{DH|B|30}}</ref>
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The Carrows were put in charge of all discipline and punishments, though Sprout and the staff never sent students to them if they could avoid it. She also, with the other [[Head of House|Heads of House]], tried to protect the pupils from Alecto and Amycus.<ref name="DH29">{{DH|B|29}}</ref>
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{{Quote|Tentacula. Devil's Snare. And Snargaluff pods… Yes, I'd like to see the Death Eaters fighting those.|Professor Sprout prepares for the upcoming battle|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}[[File:Harry-potter7-ootp.jpg|250px|thumb|Sprout prepares to stand with the Order of the Phoenix and the other defenders of Hogwarts]]
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One night, after being woken up by Minerva McGonagall's [[cat]] [[Patronus Charm|Patronus]], Professors Sprout, [[Filius Flitwick|Flitwick]] and [[Horace Slughorn|Slughorn]], and, still in their night-clothes, went to find out what she wanted. They found [[Minerva McGonagall]] duelling Snape to the death, and, after being defeated, Snape then ran into a classroom, chased by Flitwick, Sprout and McGonagall, and flew out of the window, escaping them.<ref name="DH30" />
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Aware that [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] would soon attack the castle, Sprout and the other professors set to defend the school and the students, noting that they could at least hold him up if not keep him out entirely and expressing a desire to see how the Death Eaters fared in combat with her deadly plants.<ref name="DH30" /> Sprout retreated to the greenhouses, collecting various dangerous plants, and, with the help of a dozen of her students (namely [[Neville Longbottom]]), lobbed [[Mandrake]]s and everything else over the battlements and onto the [[Death Eaters]].<ref name="DH31" /> She took a troop of of-age students up to the [[Astronomy Tower]], where they could easily work [[spell]]s and drop plants such as Venomous [[Venomous Tentacula|Tentaculas]] and [[Snargaluff]]s.<ref name="DH31">{{DH|B|31}}</ref>
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[[File:Flitwick Sprout Slughorn.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Pomona having a cup of tea with Flitwick and Slughorn]]
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During the hour-long break in the Battle, Sprout helped treat wounded fighters in the [[Great Hall]].<ref name="DHpt2">{{DH|F2}}</ref> Sprout also witnessed the duel between [[Harry Potter]] and Lord Voldemort in the Great Hall. During which Voldemort's spell rebounded on him and Harry emerged the victor. After the duel Sprout, Flitwick, and McGonagall all reached to hug Harry at the same time, while everyone else joined in.<ref name="DH36">{{DH|B|36}}</ref>
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A celebration feast was later held, but no one sat in their proper house tables; teachers, parents and students were all jumbled up and chatting among themselves.<ref name="DH36" /> Sprout sat by Filius Flitwick and Horace Slughorn, chatting and drinking a cup of [[tea]].<ref name="DHpt2" />
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===Later life {{C|1998–}}===
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Sprout remained teaching at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] as [[Herbology]] [[professor]]. By [[2008]],{{MATimeRef}} her former student [[Neville Longbottom]] had joined the [[Herbology department]] and taught the subject alongside her. She oversaw at the [[Sorting Ceremony]] at the beginning of the [[2008–2009 school year]] with her fellow [[Head of House|Heads of House]], including Neville who had become the [[Head of Gryffindor House|Head of Gryffindor]].<ref name="MA"/>
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During the [[Calamity]], she was able to give twenty-three six-hours classes regarding everything she knew about Herbology and herbal remedies to members of the [[Statute of Secrecy Task Force]] for increased recovery,<ref name="WU1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20220105142909/https://wizardsunitehub.info/profession-skill/from-seed-to-tree/ {{WU}} - "From Seed to Tree" ]</ref> and co-teach along with Professor [[Filius Flitwick|Flitwick]] on how different magical approaches, when combined with teamwork, could achieve devastating effects to enhance the efficiency of enchantments cast on a teammate.<ref name="WU2">[https://web.archive.org/web/20210124210737/https://wizardsunitehub.info/profession-skill/teamwork-makes-the-dream-work/ {{WU}} - "Teamwork Makes the Dream Work"]</ref>
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By summer 2020, Professor Sprout had formally retired from her position as professor of Herbology. Following her retirement, she met with a [[Calamity Investigator]] working for the [[Statute of Secrecy Task Force]], informing them of some modifications she had made to their [[Greenhouse Charm]] that would enable it to be cast more frequently in succession. She later met with the same Calamity Investigator with further modifications to the spellwork of the charm, improving the investigator's technique and increasing the amount of ingredients the charm could produce.<ref name="WUSos"/>
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The same Calamity Investigator later attended a retrospective on Sprout's Hogwarts career, with the tales of her tenure at the school proving unexpectedly informative, providing lessons such as "never turn back on a teething [[Venomous Tentacula|Tentacula]]" and "for best results, pick [[Lovage]] at dawn".<ref name="WUSos"/>
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During a Calamity surge in [[August]] and [[September]] [[2020]] focused on [[Grim Fawley]]'s first year at Hogwarts, Sprout suddenly and clearly recalled an unfamiliar memory of a conversation with Grim in which he claimed to have developed enough influence over the Calamity to modify it and that the surge was almost entirely made of his memories of his first year experience and his professors, with her relaying this information to [[Minister for Magic]] [[Hermione Granger]].<ref name="FYH">{{WU}} - [[Brilliant Event: First Year at Hogwarts]]</ref>
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==Physical description==
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[[File:PSprout.png|200px|thumb|Professor Pomona Sprout]]
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{{Quote|Professor Sprout was a squat little witch who wore a patched hat over her flyaway hair; there was usually a large amount of earth on her clothes, and her fingernails would have made [[Petunia Dursley|Aunt Petunia]] faint.|A description of Professor Sprout in [[1992]]|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
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Professor Sprout was described as being a squat little witch with short, grey, wavy hair.<ref name="GF12" /> She usually wore a patched and battered hat. Her clothes were noted to almost always be covered in dirt and earth, and her fingernails were noted to be so filthy they would have made prim and proper [[Petunia Dursley]] faint in horror. Sprout also almost always had a smile on her face.<ref name="CS6" />
   
 
==Personality and traits==
 
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{{Quote|Quite enough chat over here! [[Trio|You’re]] lagging behind, everybody else has started, and [[Neville Longbottom|Neville]]’s already got his first [[Snargaluff|pod]]!|Professor Sprout's no-nonsense attitude as a teacher|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
[[File:Pomoi.jpg|thumb|left|150px|A cheerful Professor Sprout.]]
 
Professor Sprout was noted to be very cheerful, positive and loyal,<ref name="CS6" /> but was also very professional and just and would chide her students if necessary.<ref name="HBP14" /> Thus, Sprout possessed all of the virtues and aspects belonging to [[Hufflepuff|Hufflepuff House]]. She was kind and nurturing to the students, and surely encouraged [[Neville Longbottom]]'s penchant for [[Herbology]] because he was anxious to show her his [[Mimbulus Mimbletonia]].<ref name="OP10">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' - Chapter 10 (''Luna Lovegood'')</ref> She also seemed horrified when she learnt that [[Ginevra Weasley|Ginny Weasley]] had been kidnapped by [[Salazar Slytherin]]'s [[Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk|Basilisk]] and taken into the [[Chamber of Secrets]], clasping her shaking hand over her mouth in shock. Professor Sprout was also very brave always ready to fight for her side. During the Battle of Hogwarts, she didn't question McGonagall's decision to defend Hogwarts, but immediately sought to provide whatever assistance she could, collecting various dangerous plants to fight Voldemort and his Death Eaters.<ref name="CS16">''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' - Chapter 16 (''The Chamber of Secrets'')</ref>
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Professor Sprout was noted to be very cheerful, positive, and loyal,<ref name="CS6" /> but was also very professional and just and would chide her students if necessary.<ref name="HBP14" /> Thus, Sprout possessed all of the virtues and aspects belonging to [[Hufflepuff|Hufflepuff House]]. She was kind and nurturing to the students, and surely encouraged [[Neville Longbottom]]'s penchant for [[Herbology]] because he was anxious to show her his [[Mimbulus mimbletonia]].<ref name="OP10">{{OOTP|B|10}}</ref> Sprout was also the most maternal of all the [[Head of House|Heads of House]], an example being when she calmed and got all of the students back to bed after the [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]].<ref name="HBP29"/>
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{{Quote|[[Harry Potter|He]] was roused by Professor Sprout, who was thundering past followed by Neville and half a dozen others, all of them wearing [[earmuffs]] and carrying what appeared to be large potted plants.|Sprout's bravery during the Battle of Hogwarts|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}She also seemed horrified when she learnt that [[Ginevra Weasley|Ginny Weasley]] had been kidnapped by [[Salazar Slytherin]]'s [[Serpent of Slytherin|Basilisk]] and taken into the [[Chamber of Secrets]], clasping her shaking hand over her mouth in shock.<ref name="CS16">{{COS|B|16}}</ref> Professor Sprout was also very brave, always ready to fight for her side. During the Battle of Hogwarts, she did not question McGonagall's decision to defend Hogwarts and immediately sought to provide whatever assistance she could, collecting various dangerous plants to fight Voldemort and his Death Eaters,<ref name="DH30"/> showing her utmost loyalty and dedication for defending her school and standing up for what is right.
   
 
==Magical abilities and skills==
 
==Magical abilities and skills==
[[File:PSprout.png|thumb|200px|right|Professor Sprout with her wand drawn.]]
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[[File:Professor Sprout greenhouse 1.jpg|250px|thumb|Sprout teaching a second year Herbology class]]
{{Quote|Just been showing Professor Sprout the right way to doctor a Whomping Willow. But I don't want you running away with the idea that I am better at Herbology than she is!|[[Gilderoy Lockhart]] underestimates Professor Sprout's abilities in [[1992]].|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
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{{Quote|Just been showing Professor Sprout the right way to doctor a Whomping Willow. But I don't want you running away with the idea that I am better at Herbology than she is!|[[Gilderoy Lockhart]] arrogantly underestimating Professor Sprout's abilities in [[1992]]|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
*'''[[Herbologist]]''': As the [[professor]] of [[Herbology]] at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]], Professor Sprout was a skilled [[Herbologist]]. Her talents ranged from taking care of harmless plants, such as [[Umbrella Flower]]s<ref name="CS6" /> and [[Puffapod]]s,<ref name="PA8" /> to more dangerous ones, such as [[Whomping Willow]]s,<ref name="CS6" /> [[Mandrake]]s<ref name="CS6" /> and [[Snargaluff]]s.<ref name="HBP14" />
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As the [[Head of Herbology]] at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]], [[Professor]] Sprout was an accomplished and skilful [[Herbologist]], as well as a powerful witch in her own right. Testaments to her considerable abilities were her proficiency in the subject she taught, and her participation of and survival of the legendary [[Battle of Hogwarts]].
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{{Quote|We'll be repotting Mandrakes today. Now, who can tell me the properties of the Mandrake?|Professor Sprout teaching second year Herbology|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets}}
*'''[[Transfiguration]]''': Professor Sprout has shown the ability to conjure flames. This shows that she had knowledge in transfiguration, as [[Conjuration]] is a branch of that type of magic.
 
*'''[[Charms]]''': As the Professor of Herbology, Professor Sprout was well versed in [[Herbology]]-related Charms. For instance she mastered the ''[[Fire-Making Spell|Incendio]]'' spell,<ref name="PSpc">''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)]]'' - PC version</ref> as well as ''[[Incendio Duo]]''<ref name="CSps1">''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)]]'' - PS1 version</ref> ''[[Lumos Solem]]''<ref name="PSf27"/> and the [[Severing Charm]].<ref name="CSpc">''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)]]'' - PC version</ref>
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*'''[[Herbology]]''': As the [[Professor]] of [[Herbology]] at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]], Sprout was a very accomplished [[Herbologist]]. Her talents ranged from taking care of harmless plants, such as [[Umbrella Flower]]s,<ref name="CS6" /> and [[Puffapod]]s,<ref name="PA8" /><ref name="HM531h">{{HM|5|31|h}}</ref> to more dangerous ones, such as [[Whomping Willow]]s,<ref name="CS6" /><ref name="HM624h">{{HM|6|24|h}}</ref> [[Mandrake]]s,<ref name="CS6" /><ref name="HM36h">{{HM|3|6|h}}</ref> [[Snargaluff]]s,<ref name="HBP14" /><ref name="HM48"/> [[Venomous Tentacula]]s<ref name="CS6"/><ref name="HBP11"/> and even the highly lethal [[Devil's Snare]].<ref name="PS16"/><ref name="DH30"/>
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*'''[[Charm]]s''': As the Professor of Herbology, Sprout was well versed in [[Herbology]]-related charms, such as the [[Fire-Making Spell]],<ref name="PSpc">{{PS|G}} - PC version</ref> the [[Incendio Duo Spell]],<ref name="CSps1">{{COS|G}} - PS1 version</ref> the [[Lumos Solem Spell]],<ref name="LEGOY1" /> the [[Herbivicus Charm]]<ref name="HM4V"/><ref name="GOFVG">{{GOF|G}}</ref> and even the [[Severing Charm]].<ref name="CSpc">{{COS|G}} - PC version</ref> She was also able to conjure a non-corporeal [[Patronus Charm|Patronus]],<ref name="LEGOY1" /><ref name="LEGOY2"/> which was an incredibly advanced and powerful piece of protective [[magic]] and concrete evidence of her possessing superior magical ability. She was also proficient with the [[Boggart-Banishing Spell]],<ref name="HM31h"/> [[Freezing Spell]]<ref name="LEGOY1"/> and [[Disarming Charm]].<ref name="OPg"/> Sprout was also accomplished with the [[Weather-Modifying Charms|atmospheric charm]] ''[[Metelojinx]]'', which she once used to create a [[Water|rainstorm]] in the [[Herbology Classroom]] so an [[Augurey at the Magical Creatures Reserve|Augurey]] could take flight.<ref name="MBOAF"/>
*'''[[Potioneer]]''': As the [[Herbology]] [[Professor]] at [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]], Professor Sprout had a skill in potion making as she was highly familiar and accustomed to the various ingredients required for potion making.<ref name="PS/gbc" /> This fact is exemplified when one considers that she allowed the [[Potions Club]] to gather in her greenhouses.<ref name="HBP/g">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)]]''</ref>
 
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*'''[[Potion]]s''': As the Professor of Herbology, Sprout was also very skilled in potion-making, as she was highly familiar and accustomed to the various ingredients required for certain potions.<ref name="PS/gbc" /><ref name="HM63"/> She also experimented with new ways of making potions, including [[Dragon dung Fertiliser]].<ref name="HM31h"/>
*'''[[Duel]]ling''': Professor Sprout also had at least a fair amount of skill in [[duel]]ling since she fought in the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] and survived. Also during that battle, she took a troop of students up to the [[Astronomy Tower]], which was noted to be a great place to work spells.<ref name="DH36" /> Alongside co-workers [[Minerva McGonagall]] and [[Filius Flitwick]], Pomona was able to chase powerful wizard [[Severus Snape]] out of Hogwarts.<ref name="DH30" />
 
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*'''[[Duelling]]''': Sprout was shown to have a considerable level of skill in [[duelling]], given how she fought in the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] and survived. She helped her co-workers, [[Minerva McGonagall|McGonagall]] and [[Filius Flitwick|Flitwick]], to chase [[Severus Snape|Snape]] out of Hogwarts.<ref name="DH30" /> Later on, during the final battle, she took a troop of students up to the [[Astronomy Tower]], which was noted to be a great place to work spells.<ref name="DH31"/> She eventually survived the battle, showing her competence in [[martial magic]].<ref name="DH36" />
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*'''[[Defence Against the Dark Arts]]''': Sprout was highly capable of fighting the [[Dark Arts|Dark Forces]], as she demonstrated when she bravely and successfully fought in the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] against the [[Death Eaters]],<ref name="DH31"/> highly dangerous [[Dark wizard]]s, emerging herself victorious.<ref name="DH36"/> She was also skilled at dealing with Dark creatures, as she successfully repelled a [[Boggart]] when it appeared in one the Herbology greenhouses, with the [[Boggart-Banishing Spell]] for [[Penny Haywood]], and was also able to explain the creature's nature to students.<ref name="HM31h"/>
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==Possessions==
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[[File:Pomona Sprout's wand - Noble Collection.jpg|thumb|Sprout's wand]]
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*'''[[Pomona Sprout's wand|Wand]]''': Sprout owned a [[wand]] of an unknown length, [[Wand wood|wood]] and [[Wand core|core]] material.<ref name="CSf10">{{COS|F}} - Chapter 10 (''Mandrakes and Ron's Howler'')</ref>
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*'''[[Pomona Sprout's office|Office]]''': While teaching at Hogwarts, she had an office in one of the Greenhouses.<ref name="PS/gbc" />
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*'''[[Pomona Sprout's garden|Garden]]''': Sprout owned a garden near the Herbology greenhouses, which was full of various magical and mundane plants.<ref name="PSpc"/>
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*'''Spellbooks''': She owned several spellbooks for Herbology related [[charm]]s, such as spellbooks on the [[Diffindo spellbook|''Diffindo'']]<ref name="PSconsole">{{PS|G}} - Console versions</ref> and [[Herbivicus spellbook|''Herbivicus'']]<ref name="GOFVG"/> [[spell]]s.
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*'''Puffapod seedling''': She kept a seedling of one of the first ever plants she managed to grow, a [[Puffapod]], in hopes of one day having a greenhouse full of Puffapods grown from that first seedling.<ref name="HM4-Mirror"/>
   
 
==Relationships==
 
==Relationships==
 
===Minerva McGonagall===
 
===Minerva McGonagall===
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[[File:Mcgonagall.jpg|248x248px|thumb|left|[[Minerva McGonagall]], her long-time friend]]
{{Dialogue a-b-c|Filius Flitwick|I suppose you are aware that nothing we do can indefinitely prevent You-Know-Who to enter the school, right? —|Pomona Sprout|But we can delay it.|Minerva McGonagall|Thank you, Pomona.|[[Filius Flitwick]], Pomona Sprout and [[Minerva McGonagall]] just before the [[Battle of Hogwarts]].|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}[[File:Pomona_with_Minerva.jpg|thumb|left|Sprout with [[McGonagall]]]]
 
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{{Dialogue a-b-c|Filius Flitwick|I suppose you are aware that nothing we do can indefinitely prevent You-Know-Who to enter the school, right? —|Sprout|But we can delay it.|Minerva McGonagall|Thank you, Pomona.|[[Filius Flitwick]], Pomona Sprout and Minerva McGonagall just before the Battle of Hogwarts|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}
The relationship between [[Minerva McGonagall|Professor McGonagall]] and Professor Sprout dates back to the [[1940s]], when both attended [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]]. The two students mantained an excellent relationship, which was kept well into their adulthood.<ref name="pottermore1"/>
 
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The relationship between [[Minerva McGonagall|Professor McGonagall]] and Professor Sprout dates back to when both attended [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]]. The two students maintained an excellent relationship, which was kept well into their adulthood.<ref name="PM-mcgonagall" />
When [[Dolores Umbridge]] stood to speak during the [[1995]] [[Welcoming Feast]] after her introduction by [[Albus Dumbledore|Headmaster Dumbledore]], the two professors were both taken aback at this, and even exchange glances of disapproval.<ref name="OP11">''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' - Chapter 11 (''The Sorting Hat's New Song'')</ref> [[File:Normal promo neville plant.jpg|thumb|Neville Longbottom]] Furthermore, during the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] on [[2 May]], [[1998]], Pomona was shown to have similar traits and the same views on protecting the Castle against [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s [[Death Eaters]].<ref name="DH30" />
 
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When [[Dolores Umbridge]] stood to speak during the [[1995]] [[Welcoming Feast]] after her introduction by [[Albus Dumbledore|Headmaster Dumbledore]], the two professors were both taken aback at this, and even exchange glances of disapproval.<ref name="OP11">{{OOTP|B|11}}</ref> Furthermore, during the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] on [[2 May]], [[1998]], Pomona was shown to have similar traits and the same views on protecting the Castle against [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]]'s [[Death Eaters]].<ref name="DH30" />
   
 
===Neville Longbottom===
 
===Neville Longbottom===
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[[File:Neville Longbottom.jpg|220x220px|thumb|[[Neville Longbottom]], Sprout's prize student]]
 
{{Quote|Apparently, Professor Sprout told Professor Moody I'm really good at Herbology.|[[Neville Longbottom]]|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire}}
 
{{Quote|Apparently, Professor Sprout told Professor Moody I'm really good at Herbology.|[[Neville Longbottom]]|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire}}
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Pomona was always friendly with Neville Longbottom; she was quite impressed with his skill in [[Herbology]]. According to [[Alastor Moody]] ([[Death Eaters|Death Eater]] [[Bartemius Crouch Junior|Bartemius Crouch Jnr]] in disguise), Sprout told him that Neville had a natural skill for Herbology.<ref name="GOF14"/>
   
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In return, Neville always respected Sprout as one of his favourite teachers. In [[1995]], Neville became excited in the prospect of showing her his [[Mimbulus mimbletonia]].<ref name="OP10" /> Neville helped Sprout to use [[Devil's Snare]], [[Mandrake]]s, [[Venomous Tentacula]], and [[Snargaluff]] pods to attack the [[Death Eaters]] in the last battle.<ref name="DH31" /> Neville eventually succeeded Professor Sprout as the Herbology teacher or taught alongside her.<ref name="Epilogue" />
Pomona was always friendly with [[Neville Longbottom]]; she was quite impressed with his skill in [[Herbology]]. According to [[Alastor Moody]] ([[Death Eaters|Death Eater]] [[Bartemius Crouch Jr.]] in disguise), Sprout told him that Neville had a natural skill for Herbology.<ref name="GF14">''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' - Chapter 14 (''The Unforgivable Curses'')</ref>
 
 
In return, Neville always respected Sprout as one of his favourite teachers. In [[1995]], Neville became excited in the prospect of showing her his [[Mimbulus Mimbletonia]].<ref name="OP10" /> Neville helped Sprout to use [[Devil's Snare]], [[Mandrake]]s, [[Venomous Tentacula]], and [[Snargaluff]] pods to attack the [[Death Eaters]] in the last battle.<ref name="DH30" /> Neville eventually succeeded Professor Sprout as the Herbology teacher.<ref name="Epilogue"/>
 
[[File:Cedric.jpg|160px|left|thumb|[[Cedric Diggory]].]]
 
   
 
===Cedric Diggory===
 
===Cedric Diggory===
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[[File:Cedric Diggory Profile.png|220x220px|thumb|left|[[Cedric Diggory]], one of her students]]
{{Dialogue a-b|Harry Potter|Professor, where are Mr. and Mrs. Diggory?|Albus Dumbledore|They are with Professor Sprout. She was Head of Cedric's house, and knew him best.|[[Harry Potter]] and [[Albus Dumbledore]] after Cedric's murder.|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire}}
 
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{{Dialogue a-b|Harry Potter|Professor, where are Mr and Mrs Diggory?|Albus Dumbledore|They are with Professor Sprout. She was Head of Cedric's house, and knew him best.|[[Harry Potter]] and [[Albus Dumbledore]] after Cedric's murder|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire}}
 
Because [[Cedric Diggory]] was a [[Hufflepuff]] student, Professor Sprout knew him well.<ref name="GF36" /> When [[Harry Potter]] became the second [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] champion in [[1994]], he felt that she had became distant with him as she was supporting Cedric.<ref name="GF18" /> When [[Cedric Diggory]] was killed, she spoke to his parents, as she knew him best.<ref name="GF36" />
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Because [[Cedric Diggory]] was a [[Hufflepuff]] student, Professor Sprout knew him well.<ref name="GF36" /> When [[Harry Potter]] became the second [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] champion in [[1994]], he felt that she had became distant with him as she was supporting Cedric.<ref name="GF18" /> After [[Cedric Diggory]] was murdered by Peter Pettigrew on Lord Voldemort's orders, she spoke to his parents, as she knew him best.<ref name="GF36" /> It can also be assumed that during his memorial feast she felt a sense of tragedy in regards to his loss.
   
 
===Harry Potter===
 
===Harry Potter===
[[File:Harry Potter HBP.JPG|thumb|right|170px|[[Harry Potter]] in his student years.]]
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[[File:Harry Potter movies hbp promostills 6.jpg|220x220px|thumb|[[Harry Potter]], one of her students]]
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{{Quote|Harry thought even Professor Sprout seemed distant with him — but then, she was Head of Hufflepuff House.|Professor Sprout being distant towards Harry after he became a Triwizard Champion|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire}}
Pomona was usually kind to [[Harry Potter]] (as well as to his friends, [[Hermione Granger]] and [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]]).
 
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Pomona was usually kind to Harry Potter (as well as to his friends, [[Hermione Granger]] and [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]]).
   
During the [[Triwizard Tournament]], however, Sprout became somewhat distant towards [[Harry Potter]] as she thought he was stealing [[Cedric Diggory]]'s protagonism as Hogwarts Champion.<ref name="GF18" /> After Diggory's death, Sprout became kinder to Harry once again.
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During the [[Triwizard Tournament]], however, Sprout became somewhat distant towards Harry as she thought he was stealing [[Cedric Diggory]]'s protagonism as Hogwarts Champion.<ref name="GF18" /> After Diggory's death, Sprout became friendlier to Harry once again.
   
Professor Sprout rewarded twenty [[house points]] to [[Harry Potter]] for his bravery in speaking out shortly after the publication of his interview on ''[[The Quibbler]]'' about the [[Return of the Dark Lord|return]] of [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]], saying that she was giving them to him for passing her a plant pot (defying the [[Campaign to discredit Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter|position]] of the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]] and [[Dolores Umbridge]], then-[[Hogwarts High Inquisitor|High Inquisitor]] of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]) <ref name="OP29" /> In May, [[1998]], Sprout helped defend [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] to give time for [[Harry Potter|Harry]] to find [[Rowena Ravenclaw]]'s [[Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem|Diadem]].<ref name="DH30" />
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Professor Sprout rewarded twenty [[house points]] to [[Harry Potter]] for his bravery in speaking out shortly after the publication of his interview on ''[[The Quibbler]]'' about the [[Return of Lord Voldemort|return]] of [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]], saying that she was giving them to him for passing her a watering can (defying the [[Campaign to discredit Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter|position]] of the [[British Ministry of Magic|Ministry of Magic]] and [[Dolores Umbridge]], then-[[Hogwarts High Inquisitor|High Inquisitor]] of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]).<ref name="OP26" /> In May, [[1998]], Sprout helped defend [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] to give time for [[Harry Potter|Harry]] to find [[Rowena Ravenclaw]]'s [[Ravenclaw's Diadem|Diadem]].<ref name="DH30" /><ref name="DH31"/>
   
 
===Hogwarts staff===
 
===Hogwarts staff===
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{{Dialogue a-b-c|Rubeus Hagrid|No other headmaster or headmistress ever gave more to this school.|Filius Flitwick|Hogwarts should be Dumbledore’s final resting place.|Pomona Sprout|Absolutely.|Sprout and her fellow Professor discussing the [[Funeral of Albus Dumbledore]]|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
Professor Sprout possibly had a good relationship with the most of Hogwarts staff. Despite her respective relationship with [[Minerva McGonagall]],<ref name="DH30"/> Sprout also respected very much [[Albus Dumbledore]].<ref name="HBP30"/> After the Headmaster's death, Sprout was distraught.<ref name="HBP30"/>
 
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[[File:Dumbledore, McGonagall, Sprout and Snape COSF.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Professor Sprout with her colleages at Hogwarts]]
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Professor Sprout enjoyed a very good and professional relationship with the most of Hogwarts staff. Despite her respective strong friendship with [[Minerva McGonagall]],<ref name="DH30" /> Sprout also very much respected [[Albus Dumbledore]].<ref name="HBP30" /> After the Headmaster's death, Sprout was distraught.<ref name="HBP30" />
   
She was always friendly with [[Filius Flitwick]], the Head of [[Ravenclaw]] house and [[Charms]] professor. Both Sprout and Flitwick supported [[Albus Dumbledore]] and the [[Order of the Phoenix]], although they were not official members. After the death of Dumbledore, Flitwick and Sprout (along with others) sat and discussed about it and about [[Severus Snape]]'s disloyalty.<ref name="HBP30"/> The next year, they both tried to protect the students from [[Amycus Carrow|Amycus]] and [[Alecto Carrow]] and fought at the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] and survived.
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She was always friendly with [[Filius Flitwick]], the Head of [[Ravenclaw]] house and [[Charm]]s professor. Both Sprout and Flitwick supported [[Albus Dumbledore]] and the [[Order of the Phoenix]], although they were not official members. After the death of Dumbledore, Flitwick and Sprout (along with others) sat and discussed about it and about [[Severus Snape]]'s disloyalty.<ref name="HBP30" /> The next year, they both tried to protect the students from [[Amycus Carrow|Amycus]] and [[Alecto Carrow]] and fought at the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] and survived.
   
Sprout also appeared to be friendly with [[Horace Slughorn]], the [[Potions]] Master. In 1997, Sprout helped Slughorn pick some potion herbs. She left towards her Greenhouses after she had collected enough for Slughorn's third year class, with some to spare. Slughorn also proceeded to steal some Venomous Tentacula leaves while Sprout was not around. However, he fought at the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] with Sprout.
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Sprout also appeared to be friendly with [[Horace Slughorn]], the [[Potions Master]]. In 1997, Sprout helped Slughorn pick some herbs for [[potion]]s. She left towards her Greenhouses after she had collected enough for Slughorn's third year class, with some to spare.<ref name="HBP22"/> Slughorn also proceeded to steal some Venomous Tentacula leaves while Sprout was not around.<ref name="HBPf22"/> However, he fought at the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] with Sprout.<ref name="DHpt2" />
   
Other Hogwarts staff that she had a good relationship with were: [[Poppy Pomfrey]], the nurse, [[Argus Filch]], the caretaker, [[Rubeus Hagrid]], the [[Care of Magical Creatures]] professor.
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Other Hogwarts staff that she had a good relationship with were: [[Poppy Pomfrey]], the [[Matron]], [[Argus Filch]], the caretaker, [[Rubeus Hagrid]], the [[Care of Magical Creatures]] professor.
   
 
==Etymology==
 
==Etymology==
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==Behind the scenes==
 
==Behind the scenes==
[[File:Pomona.PNG|thumb|right|200px|[[Miriam Margolyes]] as Pomona Sprout in [[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]]. ]]
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[[File:Pomona.PNG|200px|thumb|[[Miriam Margolyes]] as Pomona Sprout on the set of {{DH|F2}}]]
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[[File:PomonaSprout WB F1 PomonaSproutCharacterIllustration Illust 080615 Port.jpg|175px|thumb|Pomona Sprout as she appears on {{PM}}]]
*Sprout is portrayed by [[Great Britain|British]] actress [[Miriam Margolyes]] in the [[Harry Potter films|film adaptations]] of ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' and ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2|Deathly Hallows: Part 2]]''.
 
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[[File:Professor_Sprout.gif|200px|thumb|Pomona Sprout as illustrated by [[J. K. Rowling]]]]
*The first physical appearance of Professor Sprout in media was in the [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)|PC/PS1 video game]] of ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''. This was long before any actress had been cast as Sprout, so her appearance was completely different from the later films and games. On the PC version, Sprout appeared as a short, not-really-overweight witch with straight black hair pulled back in a bun, a cheery face and emerald green robes. On the PS1 version, she was featured as a short witch (just a bit taller then the eleven-year old Harry Potter) wearing her red hair in a long plait down her back.
 
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[[File:Professor Sprout LEGO 2020.jpeg|100px|thumb|Pomona Sprout as a LEGO minifigure (2020 edition)]]
*During most of the first six books, Sprout was the only Head of House whose name was not an [[Wikipedia:Alliteration|alliteration]]. This was changed when Horace Slughorn replaced Severus Snape as Head of Slytherin House in ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''. She is also the only Head of House (with the exception of Slughorn, who was first introduced in the sixth installment) who has not appeared in all the films.
 
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*Sprout is portrayed by [[Great Britain|British]] actress [[Miriam Margolyes]] in {{COS|FA}} and {{DH|F2}}.<ref name="Margoyles">{{IMDb|0546816|Miriam Margoyles}}</ref>
*In the books Professor Sprout is described as having grey, flyaway hair while in the film versions of ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' and ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]]'' she is depicted as having short, curly hair.
 
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*Sprout is voiced in {{HM}}, but not by Margolyes, making Sprout the only [[Head of House]] that is completely not voiced by their actor from the [[Harry Potter (film series)|films]].{{fact}}
*In ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]]'', during the time between the first part and the second part of the Battle, Pomona was seen helping [[Madam Pomfrey]] taking care of some [[students]] near the tables.
 
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*Sprout is voiced by American voice actress [[Nicole Vigil]] in {{MA}}.<ref name="Vigil">{{IMDb name|0896970|Nicole Vigil}}</ref>
*In ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]]'', plants are seen attacking [[giant]]s at the beginning of the battle. This could be a part of Professor Sprout's protection.
 
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*The first physical appearance of Professor Sprout in media was in the [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)|PC/PS1 video game]] of {{PS}}. This was long before any actress had been cast as Sprout, so her appearance was completely different from the later films and games. In the [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PC, Mac)|PC version]], Sprout appeared as a short, not-really-overweight witch with straight black hair pulled back in a bun, a cheery face and emerald green robes. In the [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PlayStation)|PS1 version]], she was featured as a short witch (just a bit taller than the eleven-year old Harry Potter) wearing her red hair in a long plait down her back. Regardless of how she looked, she was voiced by [[Eve Karpf]], who also voiced McGonagall, Hooch and the [[Fat Lady]] in the same game.
*In ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]]'', when [[Filius Flitwick]], [[Horace Slughorn]] and [[Molly Weasley]] are putting up the shields, a chain of spells can be seen coming from the herbology classroom. This could be Professor Sprout casting the spell to help protect the school quickly as [[Tom Riddle|Voldemort]] and his Death Eaters are coming to the castle.
 
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*During most of the first six books, Sprout was the only Head of House whose name was not an {{W|alliteration}}. This was changed when Horace Slughorn replaced Severus Snape as Head of Slytherin House in {{HBP}}. Up until the release of {{DH|F1}}, she was also the only Head of House (with the exception of Slughorn, who was first introduced in the sixth instalment) who had not appeared in all the films.
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*In the books, Professor Sprout is described as having grey, flyaway hair, while in the films, she is depicted as having short, curly hair.
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*In {{DH|F2}}, [[Devil's Snare]] plants are seen attacking [[giant]]s at the beginning of the battle. This is most likely part of Professor Sprout's protection of the school.
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**Also in the film, when [[Filius Flitwick]], [[Horace Slughorn]] and [[Molly Weasley]] are placing [[protective enchantment]]s around [[Hogwarts Castle]], a chain of spells can be seen coming from the Herbology greenhouses. This could be Professor Sprout casting the spell ''[[Protego Maxima]]'' to help protect the school quickly as [[Tom Riddle|Voldemort]] and his Death Eaters are coming to the castle.
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*In early German, Italian and Portuguese translations of the first book, Professor Sprout was accidentally referred to as a male, even though chapter 8 refers to her as a "''dumpy little witch''".
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*As Professor Sprout's name is related to plants, it is possible that a [[Naming Seer]] was consulted when she was born.
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==
 
{{Imagecat|Images of Pomona Sprout}}
 
{{Imagecat|Images of Pomona Sprout}}
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*{{PS}} {{1st Mention}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' {{Mention}}
 
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*{{PS|G}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)]]''[[File:Prof.png|thumb|197px|Pomona Sprout as a [[LEGO Harry Potter|LEGO]] minifigure.]]
 
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*{{COS}} {{1st}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' {{1st}}
 
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*{{COS|F}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)]]''
 
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*{{COS|G}} {{C|Except console versions}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)]]''
 
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*{{POA}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]''
 
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*{{GOF}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)]]'' {{Mention}}
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*{{GOF|F}} {{Mention}}
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*{{GOF|G}} {{Mention}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game)]] ''{{Mention}}
 
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*{{OOTP}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]] ''
 
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*{{OOTP|G}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)]]''
 
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*{{HBP}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''
 
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*{{HBP|F}} {{Mention}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)]]'' {{Mention}}
 
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*{{DH}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]''
 
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*{{DH|F2}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]]''
 
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*{{TCG}} {{1st ID}}
*''[[Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book]]''
 
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*{{JKRS}} {{Mention}}
*''[[LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World]]''
 
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*{{PM}}
*''[[Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup]]''
 
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*{{WW}}
*''[[LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4]]''
 
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*{{MHP}}
*''[[LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7]]''
 
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"I am sure Dumbledore would have wanted the school to remain open. I feel that if a single pupil wants to come, then the school ought to remain open for that pupil."
— Sprout's view on Hogwarts and education[src]

Professor Pomona Sprout (b. 15 May)[1] was a witch who worked as Head of Hufflepuff House and Head of the Herbology department at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She attended the school in her youth, where she was Sorted into Hufflepuff and excelled at Herbology. Some time after her graduation, Sprout returned to Hogwarts to teach.

In 1993, Professor Sprout grew the Mandrakes that would later be used in the Mandrake Restorative Draught to cure those who were petrified by Slytherin's Monster. She also opposed Dolores Umbridge and her tyranny over the school in the 1995–1996 school year, which the rest of the staff were happy to join her in doing.

Sprout opposed Lord Voldemort during the Second Wizarding War. She voted for the school to remain open after the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, and assisted in ousting Severus Snape in 1998. She later took a group of students to the battlements during the Battle of Hogwarts and threw Devil's Snare and various other dangerous plants onto the invading Death Eaters.

She ultimately survived the war. By the early 21st century, Neville Longbottom taught Herbology, alongside her.[19] By summer 2020, Professor Sprout had formally retired from her position as professor of Herbology.[15]

Biography

Early life

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First years approaching Hogwarts Castle to begin their magical education

Pomona Sprout was born into a wizarding family of unknown degree[2] on 15 May[1] in Britain or Ireland.[17] She presumably purchased her wand from Diagon Alley at the age of eleven, prior to attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

She was Sorted into Hufflepuff House[16] upon her arrival at Hogwarts and excelled at Herbology, which may have been taught by Professor Herbert Beery at the time,[20] and likely achieved a high-graded O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. in the subject.

Pomona and Minerva McGonagall's student time at Hogwarts overlapped by two years. The two students enjoyed an excellent relationship both then and in later years.[21] She felt homesick until her friend Minerva helped her get used to the school. They also helped each other learn the subjects they eventually taught.[22] During her time at Hogwarts, she enjoyed attending Quidditch matches.[23]

Career at Hogwarts

Earlier years

"Four to a tray — there is a large supply of pots here — compost in the sacks over there — and be careful of the Venomous Tentacula, it's teething."
— Professor Sprout teaching a class[src]
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Professor Sprout teaching her second-year class how to re-pot Mandrakes

At some point after her graduation, Sprout returned to Hogwarts as a member of the Herbology department.[4] She taught her classes in the greenhouses at the back of the castle[4] and used one of the greenhouses as an office.[24] At an unknown time, Professor Sprout became Head of Department and Head of Hufflepuff House.[18]

Professor Sprout used to bring the most interesting specimens (some of which could dance and talk) from the Herbology greenhouses to decorate Hufflepuff Basement. This was one of the reasons why Hufflepuffs were often very good in her subject.[7]

1980s/1990s

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Sprout rewarding one her Hufflepuff students with Prefect duties

Professor Sprout was Nymphadora Tonks's Head of House[25] in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sprout did not make her a prefect in her fifth year due to what Sprout deemed an inability to behave herself.[26] However, Tonks presumably surprised Sprout after she earned at least five N.E.W.Ts in her seventh year.

Sometime in between 1987 and 1990, Gabriel Truman, a third year at the time, got into a duel with a Ravenclaw Prefect who argued that the famous Arithmancer Bridget Wenlock must have been in his own house, not Hufflepuff, as she was in fact. Gabriel felt he deserved a week's worth of detentions for his own actions, but Professor Sprout went easy on him, sending him off with a warning and a box of coconut ice.[7]

1986–1987 school year

Jacob's sibling: "If that wasn't a werewolf, what was it?"
Professor Sprout: "A Boggart. Nasty shapeshifting creature. It takes the form of the victim's greatest fear. Boggarts are defeated by laughter, so you cast Riddikulus to change it into something humorous. To my knowledge, a Boggart has never been seen in the greenhouses... I must report this to Professor Dumbledore. Class dismissed."
— Professor Sprout in response to a Boggart manifesting in the Herbology Classroom[src]
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Professor Sprout expressing concern after witnessing a boggart in the greenhouses

Professor Sprout spent the summer holidays of 1986 experimenting with dragon dung fertiliser, which she told Jacob's sibling about during the first Herbology lesson of term. She then set the class to work on tending to valerian sprigs, which were a basis for many potions. Towards the end of the class, Professor Sprout asked Penny Haywood to fetch her a plant pot, only for the girl to scream in terror when a werewolf suddenly burst out of the stack.[27]

The rest of the class began to panic as well, but Professor Sprout stepped forward and cast the Boggart-Banishing Spell with her wand, revealing that the supposed werewolf was actually a Boggart. Professor Sprout explained to the class what a Boggart was before dismissing them to go and speak to Professor Dumbledore, as a Boggart had never appeared in the Herbology Greenhouses before.[27]

Also during this year, she provided some earmuffs to Jacob's sibling and Penny Haywood in the Herbology Classroom, so they could uproot a Mandrake in order to extract a hidden Chocolate Frog Card in its soil.[28]

At some point during this school year, whilst Jacob's sibling was helping their friend Bill Weasley with Career Advice, Professor Sprout tasked Bill with teaching Jacob's sibling how to grow Leaping Toadstools in the Herbology Classroom to see if he was suited to becoming a Herbologist. Unfortunately, Jacob's sibling Leaping Toadstools were of poor health and unable to jump, but Professor Sprout did not discourage them, telling them all good Herbologists made mistakes before making discoveries.[29]

1987–1988 school year

During the 1987–1988 school year, when a Dementor was spotted on Hogwarts grounds which attacked Penny Haywood and sent her to the Hospital Wing, Professor Sprout met with Dumbledore with the the other Head of House in the Headmaster's office to discuss the incident. Jacob's sibling attended the meeting and informed them that the attack was instigated by "R", a cabal of Dark wizards.[30]

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Professor Sprout approaching Penny Haywood and Jacob's sibling in the Herbology Classroom

Also during this school year, Sprout took the Mirror of Erised from the castle without anyone's else's prior knowledge to the Herbology Classroom, so she could look into it and see her heart's desire, after she failed to grow an ailing Puffapod. Jacob's sibling and Penny Haywood found the Mirror in the classroom whilst on their mission to locate it for Dumbledore, and Sprout appeared and admitted to taking the Mirror, and expressed regret over having caused any upset over it being missing. Sprout and Jacob's sibling went to speak with Dumbledore in his office, where Sprout told them of her intentions and how she had seen herself in a greenhouse surrounded by flourishing plants in the Mirror. She and Dumbledore returned to the classroom to retrieve the Mirror, but to their confusion found it missing, and Jacob's sibling went to find it again.[31]

Also during this school year, Jacob's sibling asked what a Niffler ate during a lesson. She said she did not know, but allowed them to take various edible plants, along with venison she fed to Snargaluffs.[32] In a later lesson, she allowed Jacob's sibling before the start of a Herbology lesson take some Lady's Mantle from the Herbology Classroom so they could brew a Beautification Potion, after informing them to seek Rubeus Hagrid for ginger root from his garden as she had not grown any to give at the time, despite sometimes growing it for the Hogwarts house-elves and Severus Snape.[33] Another time, Sprout taught Jacob's sibling, Charlie Weasley and Liz Tuttle how to cultivate Bubotubers in the Herbology Classroom, in preparation for the Forbidden Forest.[34]

On 14 February 1988, Sprout taught fourth-year students how to use the Herbivicus Charm to accelerate the growth of red roses for Valentine's Day.[35]

1988–1989 school year

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Professor Sprout creating a rainstorm in the Herbology Classroom

During the 1988–1989 school year, Jacob's sibling and Liz Tuttle came to her in the Herbology Classroom and requested she create a local rainstorm inside the classroom so an Augurey could fly. She created the rainstorm with Meteolojinx Recanto after the students sprayed some Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent on some Flesh-Eating Slugs that were attacking Mandrakes.[36]

Also during this year, while reviewing plants with fifth-year students in preparation for their upcoming Ordinary Wizarding Levels, Jacob's sibling asked Sprout about gathering seeds from a Venomous Tentacula, which she informed was both highly difficult and dangerous, informing them they were a Class C Non-Tradeable Substance.[37]

1989–1990 school year

During the 1989–1990 school year at Hogwarts, Sprout grew sage, dittany and lavender in the greenhouses, which she gave to Jacob's sibling to give to the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest. She explained the various magical properties of each plant to the student.[38]

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Professor Sprout attends the memorial ceremony for Rowan Khanna

She also attended the memorial ceremony for Rowan Khanna held in the Great Hall, in honour of Rowan Khanna following their death, where she followed Professor Dumbledore's lead in raising her wand in honour of the fallen student.[39]

Also during this school year, she ran out of Regerminating Potion, to which Severus Snape had his sixth-year Potions brew the potion for her in class.[40]

1990–1991 school year

During the 1990–1991 school year, in response to an invasion of Doxies that was swarming Hogwarts Castle and sending lots of students to the Hospital Wing with venomous doxy bites, Professor Sprout sought to help the situation by growing cowbane, hemlock and tormentil in the greenhouses, the ingredients for Doxycide, so it could be brewed and used to eliminate the doxies. She had Jacob's sibling, Chiara Lobosca and Barnaby Lee harvest these plants in the Herbology Classroom.[41]

1991–1992 school year

"Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare... what did Professor Sprout say? — it likes the dark and damp."
— Hermione about one of Professor Sprout's Herbology lessons[src]
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Sprout's chamber and obstacle protecting the Philosopher's Stone

Professor Sprout was still teaching at Hogwarts by the 1991–1992 school year. Just before the start of the new school year, Albus Dumbledore trusted her to contribute to the defences of the Philosopher's Stone Chambers.[42] Sprout, being the Herbology professor, possessed considerable knowledge of plants and thus planted a large amount of Devil's Snare in her Chamber. The Devil's Snare in the chamber broke the fall of the one trying to get the Stone, but also tried to kill them. As the dangerous plant liked the dark and damp, the trick was to use fire[43] or sunlight[44] to force the Snare into retreat. If the victim struggled, however, the plant would tighten its grip until they were dead.[43]

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Sprout attending a Hogwarts Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin

That year, she taught her first years three times a week in Greenhouse One and taught them how to care for various herbs and fungi.[4] The first lesson focused in recognising plants found in the Hogwarts grounds, using a copy of the Ingredient Encyclopedia as a reference.[24] Other lessons covered the Severing Charm[45] and the Fire-Making Spell.[46] Sprout also lectured her students about specific plants, such as Devil's Snare.[43]

That year, Sprout met the famous Harry Potter who was among the first-years she taught.[4] She was also present at the End-of-Term Feast where Slytherin lost the House Cup to Gryffindor ending their seven year winning streak, which likely pleased her immensely along with the rest of her House.[47]

1992–1993 school year

"We will be able to cure her, Argus. Professor Sprout recently managed to procure some Mandrakes. As soon as they have reached their full size, I will have a potion made that will revive Mrs Norris."
— Professor Sprout's Mandrakes[src]
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Sprout teaching her second year students in front of the greenhouses

As the Herbology teacher, Professor Sprout was in charge of doctoring the damaged Whomping Willow by wrapping bandages around the broken branches after Harry Potter and Ron Weasley drove a bewitched car into it.[48] On the first day of term, Gilderoy Lockhart, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, gave her useless pointers and arrogantly made out that he was a better Herbologist than her, which made her look distinctly cross and not at all her usual cheerful self.

She was further irritated when Lockhart took Harry out of the lesson to speak to him, rudely closing the door in her face before she could make her opinion known. That day she taught her second years how to re-pot a new growth of Mandrake, whilst also warning them about the teething Venomous Tentacula, giving the plant in question a sharp slap to make it withdraw the long feelers it had been inching over her shoulder.[48] This lesson and the Mandrakes would later prove to be very useful.[49]

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Sprout and others observing the message written on the wall by the Heir of Slytherin

Sprout and her colleagues were understandably unnerved by the opening of the Chamber of Secrets. After Mrs Norris, the cat belonging to Argus Filch, was found petrified, Professor Dumbledore decided that they were to use a Mandrake Restorative Draught to cure her.[49] Professor Sprout was put in charge of maturing her Mandrakes until they could be chopped up, stewed, and used by Potions Master Severus Snape for the draught.[49]

Sprout attended the Quidditch match between the Gryffindor and Slytherin teams, sat high up in the stands with Potions Master Severus Snape, Charms Master Filius Flitwick, librarian Irma Pince and Governor Lucius Malfoy.[50]

When the Hogwarts faculty were informed of Ginny Weasley's abduction into the Chamber of Secrets in the staffroom, Sprout was utterly horrified, clasping her shaking hand over her mouth. When Gilderoy Lockhart entered the staffroom, Sprout and the other professors goaded Lockhart to enter the Chamber and rescue Ginny, knowing perfectly well he was a cowardly fraud who would soon flee the school, much to their delight. After that, McGonagall ordered her and the other two Heads of Houses to inform their students that the school was scheduled to close due to the kidnapping.[51] However, as Harry Potter thankfully rescued her alive from the Chamber the same day, the school was kept open.[52]

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Sprout at the End-of-Term Feast, sitting next to Madam Pomfrey

By the end of the year the Mandrakes had reached maturity and the Mandrake Restorative Draught was completed and administered to those who were petrified: Mrs Norris, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Colin Creevey, Hermione Granger, Penelope Clearwater, and the ghost of Sir Nicholas de Mimsy Porpington.[52] At the End-of-Term Feast, Professor Dumbledore and the rest of the school applauded Sprout for her contribution in the brewing of the Mandrake Draught.[53] During the End-the-Term Feast, Gryffindor also won the House Cup for a second year in a row and Hagrid returned from his confinement in Azkaban.[52]

1993–1994 school year

"Careful, Weasley, careful!"
— Sprout, as Ronald Weasley drops his Puffapod[src]
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Sprout at the End-of-Term Feast next to Madam Pomfrey

The next school year was relatively uneventful at Hogwarts. On 16 October, the Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs had Herbology class together, and Sprout taught them how to harvest Puffapod beans.[54] Ron Weasley accidentally dropped some of these beans onto the floor of the greenhouse they were working in and they instantly bloomed, earning him Professor Sprout's disapproval. During the same year, Sirius Black, a "dangerous mass-murderer",[55] escaped from Azkaban and tried to get into Hogwarts on two occasions.[54][56]

On Christmas, Pomona Sprout was one of the thirteen Christmas Feast attendants. During the Christmas feast she was privy to the tense conversation between McGonagall and Trelawney.[57]

1994–1995 school year

Sprout: "Bubotubers. They need squeezing. You will collect the pus —"
Seamus Finnigan: "The what?"
Sprout: "Pus, Finnigan, pus. And it's extremely valuable, so don't waste it. You will collect the pus, I say, in these bottles."
— The first Herbology class of the term[src]
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Sprout in her greenhouse teaching students

At the Start-of-Term Feast of the 1994-1995 school year, Professor Sprout sat next to the Astronomy Professor Aurora Sinistra, with whom she spoke.[9]

In the first lesson of the school year, Sprout taught her fourth year students how to squeeze pus from Bubotubers. Some of these students found this to be disgusting and Seamus Finnigan was not sure he heard her correctly. By the end of the lesson, each student had collected several pints. Sprout then gave the pints to the school's matron Madam Pomfrey, since it could be used to treat acne.[58]

At some point early on in the school year, Professor Sprout told Bartemius Crouch Jnr (impersonating the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Alastor Moody) how good Neville Longbottom was at Herbology. "Moody" then lent Neville some books on plants and fungi called Magical Mediterranean Water-Plants and Their Properties[59] and another called Magical Water Plants of the Highland Lochs.[60]

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The Yule Ball that Sprout attended in December 1994

That school year the Triwizard Tournament was held at Hogwarts and one of the Triwizard Champions was sixth year Hufflepuff Cedric Diggory,[61] whom Sprout knew very well.[6] Cedric was not the only Hogwarts Champion; Harry Potter had mysteriously been entered into the Tournament, an act which many in Hufflepuff perceived as an attempt to steal Cedric's glory.[61] As such, Professor Sprout seemed to act somewhat distant towards Harry.[5] On Christmas Day, Professor Sprout attended the Yule Ball where she danced with Professor Dumbledore.[62]

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Professor Sprout attends Cedric Diggory's memorial feast

At the end of the year Cedric Diggory was murdered during the third task of the Triwizard Tournament on Lord Voldemort's orders.[63] Harry Potter at the risk of his own life brought Cedric's body back to the school grounds. Sprout spoke with Amos Diggory and his wife, since she knew their son best as Head of his House.[6] She attended the Memorial Feast in Cedric's memory[64] and believed Harry and Dumbledore's claims that Lord Voldemort had returned.[65]

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1995–1996 school year

"The teachers were of course forbidden from mentioning the interview by Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six, but they found ways to express their feelings about it all the same. Professor Sprout awarded Gryffindor twenty points when Harry passed her a watering can."
— Professor Sprout after Harry's interview in The Quibbler[src]

The following school year, Dolores Umbridge was made Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts by the Ministry of Magic in accordance to the Educational Decree Number Twenty-Two.[66] Umbridge was despised by the majority of the staff, including Sprout. When Umbridge interrupted Professor Dumbledore's welcoming speech in the middle of the Start-of-Term feast, Sprout was taken-aback and scandalised at the audacity, raising her eyebrows high enough that they disappeared into her hairline. During Umbridge's speech she was observed as exchanging a significant look with Professor McGonagall, both of them understanding the message that lay beneath the officious and flowery rhetoric.[67][65]

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Professor Sprout doing mock O.W.L.s with Harry Potter

The Gryffindor O.W.L.-level class was lectured by Professor Sprout on the importance of the examinations during their first Herbology class.[68] Sprout also had the students make a practical exercise which involved using dragon dung fertiliser. She also set them a long essay for the following lesson.[68]

Sometime this year, Sprout held career consultations with her Hufflepuff fifth years.[69] She also held mock O.W.L.s on the Herbology Greenhouses for those wanting to revise for the exams.[70]

After Harry Potter took part in an interview for The Quibbler about the events at Little Hangleton the previous June, he was put in detention by Professor Umbridge.[71] The rest of the teaching staff, however, found the interview an act of bravery on Harry's behalf and, being forbidden of discussing it per the Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six, found other ways to express their feelings; Pomona awarded Harry twenty house points for Gryffindor for passing her a watering can.[71]

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Pomona Sprout in the Herbology Greenhouses

The teachers' capability of teaching was examined by Umbridge, as part of her duties as High Inquisitor. Sybill Trelawney, the Divination Professor, was sacked and almost dragged out of the castle by Umbridge. Albus Dumbledore, finding a loophole in one of the Educational Decrees, allowed the sacked Trelawney to remain occupying her premises on the North Tower. Trelawney was escorted back to the Castle by Sprout, Minerva McGonagall and Filius Flitwick.[71]

When a mass breakout from Azkaban was announced in the Daily Prophet, Sprout read the article in the Great Hall on the subject with great consternation, and was so intent on doing so that she failed to notice she was dripping egg yolk into her lap from her breakfast spoon.[72]

Sprout managed to show Professor Umbridge her teaching capability and avoided being sacked herself.[71] She would have been relieved to have Umbridge removed from the school at the end of the school year, and would have welcomed Professor Dumbledore back as Headmaster.

1996–1997 school year

Horace Slughorn: "… I do thank you for taking the time, Pomona. Most authorities agree that they are at their most efficacious if picked at twilight."
Sprout: "Oh, I quite agree. That enough for you?"
— A conversation at the vegetable patch[src]
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Sprout in her Greenhouse teaching N.E.W.T. students

While giving out the student timetables on 2 September, Professor McGonagall remarked that Sprout was going to be delighted to see Neville Longbottom back with an 'Outstanding' O.W.L. in Herbology that school year.[73] To start off the year, she taught her sixth years about various extremely dangerous plants. She also permitted them to swear loudly if the Venomous Tentacula bit them or seized them unexpectedly from behind.[74]

Not long after, Sprout had her sixth year class harvesting Snargaluff pods. She chided Harry, Ron, and Hermione for being slow; as they were still strapping on their protective gear (and talking), while Neville had already harvested his first pod. The trio's first pod bounced free while they were trying to open it, and rebounded off the glass roof of the greenhouse, knocking Professor Sprout's battered hat off.[75]

In late April of that school year, Sprout helped the new Potions Master, Horace Slughorn in picking some potion herbs. She left towards her Greenhouses after she had collected enough for Slughorn's third year class, with some to spare.[76] Slughorn also proceeded to steal some Venomous Tentacula leaves while Sprout was not around.[77]

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Albus Dumbledore's funeral

At the end of the year, the Battle of the Astronomy Tower took place, with the Death Eaters invading Hogwarts and fighting against the students, teachers, Aurors and the Order of the Phoenix. Professor Sprout likely participated, as did Minerva McGonagall, Filius Flitwick, and Rubeus Hagrid.[78]

After Professor Dumbledore's death, Sprout met with fellow staff members Minerva McGonagall, Filius Flitwick, Horace Slughorn, and Rubeus Hagrid to discuss the future of Hogwarts. She was a staunch advocate of keeping the school open, stating that Dumbledore would have wanted it so. She also supported the suggestion that Dumbledore should be laid to rest at Hogwarts, though no Headmaster had ever received a burial there before.[79]

Sprout attended Dumbledore's funeral and led the Hufflepuffs down to the grounds where the ceremony was held, looking cleaner than she ever had been before; without a single patch on her usually battered hat.[80]

1997–1998 school year

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Sprout in the Great Hall during Snape's reign as Headmaster

On 1 August, 1997 the Ministry of Magic was taken over by Lord Voldemort's Death Eaters.[81] By the next school year, Severus Snape was made Headmaster of Hogwarts while his fellow Death Eaters, Alecto Carrow and Amycus Carrow became the Muggle Studies and Defence Against the Dark Arts teachers respectively.[82] Despite the school now in the grasp of Lord Voldemort, or perhaps because of it, Professor Sprout returned to the castle to teach and protect the students.[83]

The Carrows were put in charge of all discipline and punishments, though Sprout and the staff never sent students to them if they could avoid it. She also, with the other Heads of House, tried to protect the pupils from Alecto and Amycus.[84]

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"Tentacula. Devil's Snare. And Snargaluff pods… Yes, I'd like to see the Death Eaters fighting those."
— Professor Sprout prepares for the upcoming battle[src]
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Sprout prepares to stand with the Order of the Phoenix and the other defenders of Hogwarts

One night, after being woken up by Minerva McGonagall's cat Patronus, Professors Sprout, Flitwick and Slughorn, and, still in their night-clothes, went to find out what she wanted. They found Minerva McGonagall duelling Snape to the death, and, after being defeated, Snape then ran into a classroom, chased by Flitwick, Sprout and McGonagall, and flew out of the window, escaping them.[83]

Aware that Lord Voldemort would soon attack the castle, Sprout and the other professors set to defend the school and the students, noting that they could at least hold him up if not keep him out entirely and expressing a desire to see how the Death Eaters fared in combat with her deadly plants.[83] Sprout retreated to the greenhouses, collecting various dangerous plants, and, with the help of a dozen of her students (namely Neville Longbottom), lobbed Mandrakes and everything else over the battlements and onto the Death Eaters.[85] She took a troop of of-age students up to the Astronomy Tower, where they could easily work spells and drop plants such as Venomous Tentaculas and Snargaluffs.[85]

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Pomona having a cup of tea with Flitwick and Slughorn

During the hour-long break in the Battle, Sprout helped treat wounded fighters in the Great Hall.[86] Sprout also witnessed the duel between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort in the Great Hall. During which Voldemort's spell rebounded on him and Harry emerged the victor. After the duel Sprout, Flitwick, and McGonagall all reached to hug Harry at the same time, while everyone else joined in.[87]

A celebration feast was later held, but no one sat in their proper house tables; teachers, parents and students were all jumbled up and chatting among themselves.[87] Sprout sat by Filius Flitwick and Horace Slughorn, chatting and drinking a cup of tea.[86]

Later life (1998–)

Sprout remained teaching at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Herbology professor. By 2008,[88] her former student Neville Longbottom had joined the Herbology department and taught the subject alongside her. She oversaw at the Sorting Ceremony at the beginning of the 2008–2009 school year with her fellow Heads of House, including Neville who had become the Head of Gryffindor.[19]

During the Calamity, she was able to give twenty-three six-hours classes regarding everything she knew about Herbology and herbal remedies to members of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force for increased recovery,[89] and co-teach along with Professor Flitwick on how different magical approaches, when combined with teamwork, could achieve devastating effects to enhance the efficiency of enchantments cast on a teammate.[90]

By summer 2020, Professor Sprout had formally retired from her position as professor of Herbology. Following her retirement, she met with a Calamity Investigator working for the Statute of Secrecy Task Force, informing them of some modifications she had made to their Greenhouse Charm that would enable it to be cast more frequently in succession. She later met with the same Calamity Investigator with further modifications to the spellwork of the charm, improving the investigator's technique and increasing the amount of ingredients the charm could produce.[15]

The same Calamity Investigator later attended a retrospective on Sprout's Hogwarts career, with the tales of her tenure at the school proving unexpectedly informative, providing lessons such as "never turn back on a teething Tentacula" and "for best results, pick Lovage at dawn".[15]

During a Calamity surge in August and September 2020 focused on Grim Fawley's first year at Hogwarts, Sprout suddenly and clearly recalled an unfamiliar memory of a conversation with Grim in which he claimed to have developed enough influence over the Calamity to modify it and that the surge was almost entirely made of his memories of his first year experience and his professors, with her relaying this information to Minister for Magic Hermione Granger.[91]

Physical description

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Professor Pomona Sprout

"Professor Sprout was a squat little witch who wore a patched hat over her flyaway hair; there was usually a large amount of earth on her clothes, and her fingernails would have made Aunt Petunia faint."
— A description of Professor Sprout in 1992[src]

Professor Sprout was described as being a squat little witch with short, grey, wavy hair.[9] She usually wore a patched and battered hat. Her clothes were noted to almost always be covered in dirt and earth, and her fingernails were noted to be so filthy they would have made prim and proper Petunia Dursley faint in horror. Sprout also almost always had a smile on her face.[48]

Personality and traits

"Quite enough chat over here! You’re lagging behind, everybody else has started, and Neville’s already got his first pod!"
— Professor Sprout's no-nonsense attitude as a teacher[src]

Professor Sprout was noted to be very cheerful, positive, and loyal,[48] but was also very professional and just and would chide her students if necessary.[75] Thus, Sprout possessed all of the virtues and aspects belonging to Hufflepuff House. She was kind and nurturing to the students, and surely encouraged Neville Longbottom's penchant for Herbology because he was anxious to show her his Mimbulus mimbletonia.[92] Sprout was also the most maternal of all the Heads of House, an example being when she calmed and got all of the students back to bed after the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.[79]

"He was roused by Professor Sprout, who was thundering past followed by Neville and half a dozen others, all of them wearing earmuffs and carrying what appeared to be large potted plants."
— Sprout's bravery during the Battle of Hogwarts[src]

She also seemed horrified when she learnt that Ginny Weasley had been kidnapped by Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk and taken into the Chamber of Secrets, clasping her shaking hand over her mouth in shock.[51] Professor Sprout was also very brave, always ready to fight for her side. During the Battle of Hogwarts, she did not question McGonagall's decision to defend Hogwarts and immediately sought to provide whatever assistance she could, collecting various dangerous plants to fight Voldemort and his Death Eaters,[83] showing her utmost loyalty and dedication for defending her school and standing up for what is right.

Magical abilities and skills

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Sprout teaching a second year Herbology class

"Just been showing Professor Sprout the right way to doctor a Whomping Willow. But I don't want you running away with the idea that I am better at Herbology than she is!"
Gilderoy Lockhart arrogantly underestimating Professor Sprout's abilities in 1992[src]

As the Head of Herbology at Hogwarts, Professor Sprout was an accomplished and skilful Herbologist, as well as a powerful witch in her own right. Testaments to her considerable abilities were her proficiency in the subject she taught, and her participation of and survival of the legendary Battle of Hogwarts.

"We'll be repotting Mandrakes today. Now, who can tell me the properties of the Mandrake?"
— Professor Sprout teaching second year Herbology[src]

Possessions

Pomona Sprout's wand - Noble Collection

Sprout's wand

  • Wand: Sprout owned a wand of an unknown length, wood and core material.[12]
  • Office: While teaching at Hogwarts, she had an office in one of the Greenhouses.[24]
  • Garden: Sprout owned a garden near the Herbology greenhouses, which was full of various magical and mundane plants.[96]
  • Spellbooks: She owned several spellbooks for Herbology related charms, such as spellbooks on the Diffindo[45] and Herbivicus[98] spells.
  • Puffapod seedling: She kept a seedling of one of the first ever plants she managed to grow, a Puffapod, in hopes of one day having a greenhouse full of Puffapods grown from that first seedling.[31]

Relationships

Minerva McGonagall

Mcgonagall

Minerva McGonagall, her long-time friend

Filius Flitwick: "I suppose you are aware that nothing we do can indefinitely prevent You-Know-Who to enter the school, right? —"
Sprout: "But we can delay it."
Minerva McGonagall: "Thank you, Pomona."
Filius Flitwick, Pomona Sprout and Minerva McGonagall just before the Battle of Hogwarts[src]

The relationship between Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout dates back to when both attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The two students maintained an excellent relationship, which was kept well into their adulthood.[21] When Dolores Umbridge stood to speak during the 1995 Welcoming Feast after her introduction by Headmaster Dumbledore, the two professors were both taken aback at this, and even exchange glances of disapproval.[67] Furthermore, during the Battle of Hogwarts on 2 May, 1998, Pomona was shown to have similar traits and the same views on protecting the Castle against Lord Voldemort's Death Eaters.[83]

Neville Longbottom

Neville Longbottom

Neville Longbottom, Sprout's prize student

"Apparently, Professor Sprout told Professor Moody I'm really good at Herbology."
Neville Longbottom[src]

Pomona was always friendly with Neville Longbottom; she was quite impressed with his skill in Herbology. According to Alastor Moody (Death Eater Bartemius Crouch Jnr in disguise), Sprout told him that Neville had a natural skill for Herbology.[59]

In return, Neville always respected Sprout as one of his favourite teachers. In 1995, Neville became excited in the prospect of showing her his Mimbulus mimbletonia.[92] Neville helped Sprout to use Devil's Snare, Mandrakes, Venomous Tentacula, and Snargaluff pods to attack the Death Eaters in the last battle.[85] Neville eventually succeeded Professor Sprout as the Herbology teacher or taught alongside her.[14]

Cedric Diggory

Cedric Diggory Profile

Cedric Diggory, one of her students

Harry Potter: "Professor, where are Mr and Mrs Diggory?"
Albus Dumbledore: "They are with Professor Sprout. She was Head of Cedric's house, and knew him best."
Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore after Cedric's murder[src]

Because Cedric Diggory was a Hufflepuff student, Professor Sprout knew him well.[6] When Harry Potter became the second Hogwarts champion in 1994, he felt that she had became distant with him as she was supporting Cedric.[5] After Cedric Diggory was murdered by Peter Pettigrew on Lord Voldemort's orders, she spoke to his parents, as she knew him best.[6] It can also be assumed that during his memorial feast she felt a sense of tragedy in regards to his loss.

Harry Potter

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Harry Potter, one of her students

"Harry thought even Professor Sprout seemed distant with him — but then, she was Head of Hufflepuff House."
— Professor Sprout being distant towards Harry after he became a Triwizard Champion[src]

Pomona was usually kind to Harry Potter (as well as to his friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley).

During the Triwizard Tournament, however, Sprout became somewhat distant towards Harry as she thought he was stealing Cedric Diggory's protagonism as Hogwarts Champion.[5] After Diggory's death, Sprout became friendlier to Harry once again.

Professor Sprout rewarded twenty house points to Harry Potter for his bravery in speaking out shortly after the publication of his interview on The Quibbler about the return of Lord Voldemort, saying that she was giving them to him for passing her a watering can (defying the position of the Ministry of Magic and Dolores Umbridge, then-High Inquisitor of Hogwarts).[71] In May, 1998, Sprout helped defend Hogwarts to give time for Harry to find Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem.[83][85]

Hogwarts staff

Rubeus Hagrid: "No other headmaster or headmistress ever gave more to this school."
Filius Flitwick: "Hogwarts should be Dumbledore’s final resting place."
Pomona Sprout: "Absolutely."
— Sprout and her fellow Professor discussing the Funeral of Albus Dumbledore[src]
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Professor Sprout with her colleages at Hogwarts

Professor Sprout enjoyed a very good and professional relationship with the most of Hogwarts staff. Despite her respective strong friendship with Minerva McGonagall,[83] Sprout also very much respected Albus Dumbledore.[80] After the Headmaster's death, Sprout was distraught.[80]

She was always friendly with Filius Flitwick, the Head of Ravenclaw house and Charms professor. Both Sprout and Flitwick supported Albus Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix, although they were not official members. After the death of Dumbledore, Flitwick and Sprout (along with others) sat and discussed about it and about Severus Snape's disloyalty.[80] The next year, they both tried to protect the students from Amycus and Alecto Carrow and fought at the Battle of Hogwarts and survived.

Sprout also appeared to be friendly with Horace Slughorn, the Potions Master. In 1997, Sprout helped Slughorn pick some herbs for potions. She left towards her Greenhouses after she had collected enough for Slughorn's third year class, with some to spare.[76] Slughorn also proceeded to steal some Venomous Tentacula leaves while Sprout was not around.[77] However, he fought at the Battle of Hogwarts with Sprout.[86]

Other Hogwarts staff that she had a good relationship with were: Poppy Pomfrey, the Matron, Argus Filch, the caretaker, Rubeus Hagrid, the Care of Magical Creatures professor.

Etymology

In Roman mythology, Pomona was the goddess of fruit trees, gardens and orchards.[100] Sprout is a verb meaning "to begin to grow, shoot forth, as a plant from a seed".[101]

Behind the scenes

Pomona

Miriam Margolyes as Pomona Sprout on the set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

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Pomona Sprout as she appears on Pottermore

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Pomona Sprout as illustrated by J. K. Rowling

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Pomona Sprout as a LEGO minifigure (2020 edition)

Appearances

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Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 J. K. Rowling's official site; Pottermore Twitter
  2. 2.0 2.1 She was still employed at Hogwarts when it was under the rule of the Death Eaters, so she obviously was not Muggle-born.
  3. "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," South West News Service, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
  4. 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 8 (The Potions Master)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 18 (The Weighing of the Wands)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 36 (The Parting of the Ways)
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Pottermore introduction for Hufflepuffs (transcription available here)
  8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) - Chapter 12 (Writing on the Wall)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 12 (The Triwizard Tournament)
  10. In the 20th anniversary editions of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, it is revealed that Flitwick and Sprout had a long-term relationship, but it ended and they remained friends.
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
  12. 12.0 12.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) - Chapter 10 (Mandrakes and Ron's Howler)
  13. 13.0 13.1 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Epilogue (Nineteen Years Later)
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Harry Potter: Wizards Unite: SOS Task Force Appraisal: Rules of Green (Thumb)
  16. 16.0 16.1 "If a teacher is head of a house, can we assume that they were sorted into those houses when they were students at Hogwarts? Is that also true for the house ghosts? So was Snape a Slytherin?" on J. K. Rowling's official site
  17. 17.0 17.1 Jo says about... Hogwarts, including the Houses of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin & Huffelpuff
  18. 18.0 18.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 18 (The Weighing of the Wands)
  19. 19.0 19.1 Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
  20. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - Albus Dumbledore on "The Fountain of Fair Fortune"
  21. 21.0 21.1 Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Professor McGonagall" at Wizarding World
  22. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 2, Side Quest "A special Celebration of Hogwarts Teachers"
  23. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Quidditch Season 1 Chapter 7, information revealed for Hufflepuff players
  24. 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) - GBC version
  25. "What houses were Tonks and Myrtle in?" at J.K. Rowling's official site
  26. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 9 (The Woes of Mrs Weasley)
  27. 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 27.4 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 1 (Year Three Begins) - Herbology Lesson "Valerian Sprigs"
  28. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Side Quest "Flume's Clues"
  29. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Side Quest "Career Advice"
  30. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, "Conjure a Patronus" Achievement
  31. 31.0 31.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, "SEARCH FOR THE MIRROR OF ERISED" Achievement
  32. 32.0 32.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Chapter 8 (Sickleworth)
  33. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Chapter 11 (Beautification Potion)
  34. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, "TORVUS AND THE TROUBLED FOREST" Achievement
  35. 35.0 35.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, "Valentine's Day" Achievement - Part 1, Side Quest "Valentine's Day at Hogwarts"
  36. 36.0 36.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Side Quest "Magical Birds of a Feather"
  37. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 11 (Mundungus Fletcher)
  38. 38.0 38.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 3 (Mixed Message)
  39. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 19 (A Farewell To A Friend)
  40. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 26 (Unfinished Business) - Potions Lesson "Regerminating Potion"
  41. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 17 (An Infestation of Doxies)
  42. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 14 (Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback)
  43. 43.0 43.1 43.2 43.3 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 16 (Through the Trapdoor)
  44. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) - Chapter 27 (Through the Trapdoor)
  45. 45.0 45.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) - Console versions
  46. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) - PS1 version
  47. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 17 (The Man with Two Faces)
  48. 48.0 48.1 48.2 48.3 48.4 48.5 48.6 48.7 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 6 (Gilderoy Lockhart)
  49. 49.0 49.1 49.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 9 (The Writing on the Wall)
  50. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) - Chapter 15 (Rogue Bludger)
  51. 51.0 51.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 16 (The Chamber of Secrets)
  52. 52.0 52.1 52.2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 18 (Dobby's Reward)
  53. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film) - Chapter 36 (Welcome Back)
  54. 54.0 54.1 54.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 8 (Flight of the Fat Lady)
  55. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 3 (The Knight Bus)
  56. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 13 (Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw)
  57. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 11 (The Firebolt)
  58. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 13 (Mad-Eye Moody)
  59. 59.0 59.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 14 (The Unforgivable Curses)
  60. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) - Chapter 12 (The Hungarian Horntail)
  61. 61.0 61.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 16 (The Goblet of Fire)
  62. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 23 (The Yule Ball)
  63. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 32 (Flesh, Blood and Bone)
  64. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 37 (The Beginning)
  65. 65.0 65.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 27 (The Centaur and the Sneak)
  66. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 15 (The Hogwarts High Inquisitor)
  67. 67.0 67.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 11 (The Sorting Hat's New Song)
  68. 68.0 68.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 13 (Detention with Dolores)
  69. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 29 (Careers Advice)
  70. 70.0 70.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
  71. 71.0 71.1 71.2 71.3 71.4 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 26 (Seen and Unforeseen)
  72. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 25 (The Beetle at Bay)
  73. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 9 (The Half-Blood Prince)
  74. 74.0 74.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 11 (Hermione's Helping Hand)
  75. 75.0 75.1 75.2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 14 (Felix Felicis)
  76. 76.0 76.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 22 (After the Burial)
  77. 77.0 77.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) - Chapter 22 (Liquid Luck)
  78. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 28 (Flight of the Prince)
  79. 79.0 79.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 29 (The Phoenix Lament)
  80. 80.0 80.1 80.2 80.3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 30 (The White Tomb)
  81. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 8 (The Wedding)
  82. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 12 (Magic is Might)
  83. 83.0 83.1 83.2 83.3 83.4 83.5 83.6 83.7 83.8 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 30 (The Sacking of Severus Snape)
  84. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 29 (The Lost Diadem)
  85. 85.0 85.1 85.2 85.3 85.4 85.5 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 31 (The Battle of Hogwarts)
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  90. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite - "Teamwork Makes the Dream Work"
  91. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite - Brilliant Event: First Year at Hogwarts
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  93. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 31 (After the Vault) - Herbology Lesson "Puffapod"
  94. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 24 (Return to the Forest) - Herbology Lesson "Whomping Willow"
  95. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 6 (The Letter from No One) - Herbology Lesson "Mandrakes"
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  97. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game) - PS1 version
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  101. "Sprout" at the Wiktionary
  102. IMDb favicon Miriam Margoyles at the Internet Movie Database
  103. IMDb favicon Nicole Vigil at the Internet Movie Database
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Support staff Phineas Nigellus Black's secretaries · Noreen Blainey · Rancorous Carpe · Argus Filch · Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank · Rubeus Hagrid · Rolanda Hooch · Hankerton Humble · Gladwin Moon · Ogg · Irma Pince · Poppy Pomfrey · Apollyon Pringle · Lucinda Thomsonicle-Pocus · Agnes Scribner · Wainscott · Carriage driver (1890s) · Gamekeeper (1890s) · Unidentified Healers · Librarian (?th century) · Librarian (21st century)
Herbology
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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
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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)
Order of the Phoenix
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Founder:
Albus Dumbledore
Leaders:
Albus Dumbledore | Alastor Moody | Kingsley Shacklebolt
Original Order of of the Phoenix:
Aberforth Dumbledore | Alastor Moody | Alice Longbottom | Arabella Figg | Benjy Fenwick | Caradoc Dearborn | Dedalus Diggle | Dorcas Meadowes | Edgar Bones | Elphias Doge | Emmeline Vance | Fabian Prewett | Frank Longbottom | Gideon Prewett | James Potter | Lily Potter | Marlene McKinnon | Mundungus Fletcher | Peter Pettigrew (defected) | Remus Lupin | Rubeus Hagrid | Severus Snape | Sirius Black | Sturgis Podmore
Reconstituted Order of the Phoenix:
Aberforth Dumbledore | Alastor Moody | Arabella Figg | Arthur Weasley | Bill Weasley | Charlie Weasley | Dedalus Diggle | Elphias Doge | Emmeline Vance | Fleur Delacour | Fred Weasley | George Weasley | Harry Potter | Hermione Granger | Hestia Jones | Kingsley Shacklebolt | Minerva McGonagall | Molly Weasley | Mundungus Fletcher | Nymphadora Tonks | Remus Lupin | Ron Weasley | Rubeus Hagrid | Severus Snape | Sirius Black | Sturgis Podmore
Order of the Phoenix allies:
Andromeda Tonks | Augusta Longbottom | Buckbeak | Dobby | Fawkes | Filius Flitwick | Firenze | Garrick Ollivander | Ginny Weasley | Grawp | Helena Ravenclaw | Horace Slughorn | Karkus | Karkus's wife | Kreacher | Lee Jordan | Luna Lovegood | McKinnon family | Mr Westenberg | Mrs Westenberg | Muriel | Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington | Neville Longbottom | Oliver Wood | Olympe Maxime | Rita Skeeter | Patrick Delaney-Podmore | Peeves | Percy Weasley | Pomona Sprout | Poppy Pomfrey | Sybill Trelawney | Ted Tonks | The Fallen Fifty | Westenberg family | Winky | Xenophilius Lovegood
Other affiliations:
Dumbledore's Army | Forbidden Forest Centaur colony | Headless Hunt | Hogwarts Hippogriff herd | Hogwarts house-elves | Hogwarts Ghosts | Hogwarts Staff |
Hogwarts students | Hogwarts Thestral herd | British Ministry of Magic | Giant colony (Karkus's control)