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Selina Sapworthy was born somewhere in the [[Great Britain|British Isles]] and, as a child, attended [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]], where she was [[Sorting ceremony|Sorted]] into [[Gryffindor]] [[Hogwarts Houses|House]].<ref name="portrait">See [[:File:SelinaSapworthy.jpg|this image]].</ref> During this time, she presumably excelled in the studies of [[Herbology]] and [[Divination]], as she later wrote books on both subjects.
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Selina Sapworthy was born somewhere in the [[Great Britain|British Isles]] and, in her youth, attended [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]], where she was [[Sorting ceremony|Sorted]] into [[Gryffindor]] [[Hogwarts Houses|House]].<ref name="portrait">See [[:File:SelinaSapworthy.jpg|this image]].</ref> During this time, she presumably excelled in the studies of [[Herbology]] and [[Divination]], as she later wrote books on both subjects.
   
 
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*Selina is the English spelling of the name Celine (as in Celine Dion). Celine is a short form of the French name Marcelline, the feminine form of Marcel.
*"Selena" is the Latinized form of "Selene", a Greek name that means "moon". Selene was the name of a Greek goddess of the moon, sometimes identified with the goddess Artemis.<ref name="BTN">[http://www.behindthename.com/name/selena "Selena"] on [http://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name]</ref> "Sapworthy" may be a variation of the [[England|English]] surname "Sapworth", and a pun on the word "sap", the word used to describe the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition, as both her known published works involve plants in some way.
 
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"Selena" is the Latinized form of "Selene", a Greek name that means "moon". Selene was the name of a Greek goddess of the moon, sometimes identified with the goddess Artemis.<ref name="BTN">[http://www.behindthename.com/name/selena "Selena"] on [http://www.behindthename.com/ Behind the Name]</ref> "Sapworthy" may be a variation of the [[England|English]] surname "Sapworth", and a pun on the word "sap", the word used to describe the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition, as both her known published works involve plants in some way.
   
 
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Selina Sapworthy was a witch, a Gryffindor alumna at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and, later in her life, an award-winning author in the fields of Herbology and plant-related Divination. She was also a loyal servant to the International Quidditch Team[2], sometime after her graduation.

Biography

Early life

Selina Sapworthy was born somewhere in the British Isles and, in her youth, attended Hogwarts, where she was Sorted into Gryffindor House.[3] During this time, she presumably excelled in the studies of Herbology and Divination, as she later wrote books on both subjects.

Later life

Once she graduated from Hogwarts, Sapworthy became a loyal servant to the International Quidditch Team.[2]

She went on to write an Herbology book, Winogrand's Wonderous Water Plants, focusing specifically on the water plants among Sir Winogrand's collection in the African Lakes. It was part of the required reading at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for at least a quarter of a century.[4] She also published Xylomancy, a book exploring the eponymous (and often overlooked) art of Divination by twigs.[5]

A portrait of her was hung at Hogwarts Castle by the 1990s, near the sixth-floor landing of the Grand Staircase.

Etymology

  • Selina is the English spelling of the name Celine (as in Celine Dion). Celine is a short form of the French name Marcelline, the feminine form of Marcel.
  • Selina is also an alternate spelling of the name Selena.

"Selena" is the Latinized form of "Selene", a Greek name that means "moon". Selene was the name of a Greek goddess of the moon, sometimes identified with the goddess Artemis.[6] "Sapworthy" may be a variation of the English surname "Sapworth", and a pun on the word "sap", the word used to describe the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition, as both her known published works involve plants in some way.

Behind the scenes

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter Limited Edition
  3. See this image.
  4. Harry Potter Limited Edition - A Guide to the Graphic Arts Department: Posters, Prints, and Publications from the Harry Potter Films (see this image).
  5. Pottermore
  6. "Selena" on Behind the Name
Herbology
Pottedmandrake
Herbologists
Astrid Cole · Clifford Cromwell · Marmaduke Dale · Blossom Degrasse · Miranda Goshawk · Alfred Lawley · Olgae Marinus · Beaumont Marjoribanks · Nepali wizard · Gethsemane Prickle · Sanjay Shanker · Selina Sapworthy · Phyllida Spore · Yubert Thorne · Tilden Toots · Hadrian Whittle · Winogrand
Herbology at Hogwarts
Herbology Award · Herbology Lesson Cup · Herbology Race Cup · Herbology Store · Hidden Herbology Corridor
Greenhouses One · Two · Three · Four · Five · Six · Seven · Professor's office
Professors Mirabel Garlick's predecessor · Mirabel Garlick · Herbert Beery · Pomona Sprout · Neville Longbottom
Textbooks Flesh-Eating Trees of the World · Ingredient Encyclopedia · One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi · Winogrand's Wondrous Water Plants
Plants studied and grown at Hogwarts
Aconite · Alihotsy · Asphodel · Belladonna · Bouncing Bulb · Bubotuber · Bubotuber pus · Chinese Chomping Cabbage · Cowbane · Dandelion · Devil's Snare · Dirigible Plum · Dittany · Fanged Geranium · Fat cactus-like plant · Fire seed bush · Flitterbloom · Floo · Flutterby bush · Fluxweed · Gillyweed · Ginger · Greenhouse Tree · Hemlock · Honking daffodil · Ivy · Knotgrass · Lady's Mantle · Lavender · Leaping Toadstool · Lovage · Mandrake · Mimbulus mimbletonia · Mistletoe · Moly · Nettle · Peppermint · Puffapod · Raspberry · Rose · Sage · Screechsnap · Scurvy grass · Self-fertilising shrub · Shrivelfig · Snargaluff · Sneezewort · Sopophorous plant · Sopophorous Bean · Spiky Bush · Spiky Prickly Plant · Stinksap · Sugar Shrub · Toad-eating plant · Tormentil · Umbrella Flower · Valerian · Vampiric vegetation · Venomous Tentacula · Walking plant · Wax vegetables · Whomping Willow · Wiggentree · Wild rice · Wormwood
Spells taught in Herbology at Hogwarts
Fire-Making Spell (Incendio) · Herbivicus Charm (Herbivicus) · Incendio Duo Spell (Incendio Duo) · Lumos Solem Spell (Lumos Solem) · Severing Charm (Diffindo)
Sixth-floor of Hogwarts Castle
Bathrooms
Boys' bathroom · Disused Bathroom
Classrooms
Classroom 6A · Classroom 6B · Empty classroom
Corridors
Glanmore Peakes' Corridor · Secret Hallway · Sixth-floor corridor
Halls and rooms
East Wing · Floor 6 Bonus · Frog Choir hall · Room of Rewards · Trophy Room
Offices
Horace Slughorn's office
Portraits, statues and other artwork
Damara Dodderidge · Edessa Sakndenberg · Edgar Stroulger · Glanmore Peakes · Portrait at the Storeroom · Selina Sapworthy · Skeleton in a top hat · Temeritus Shanks · Vindictus Viridian · Wendelin the Weird
Staircases
Grand Staircase · Ravenclaw Tower staircase · Slughorn's Staircase · Staircase to the seventh-floor corridor · Turris Magnus staircase
Storerooms
Storeroom · Writing Supplies Room