Slug & Jiggers Apothecary

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Slug & Jiggers Apothecary
Location information
Location	Diagon Alley, London, England
Behind the scenes
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Slug & Jiggers Apothecary is a shop in Diagon Alley which sells potion ingredients.

Contents 1 History 1.1 1991 1.2 1993 2 Description 3 Behind the scenes 4 Notes and references

[edit] History

[edit] 1991

On July 31, 1991, Rubeus Hagrid took Harry Potter to Diagon Alley to purchase supplies for his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry looked around the store while Hagrid dealt with the man behind the counter, noting that unicorn horns were on sale for twenty-one Galleons apiece, and beetle eyes for five Knuts per scoop.^[1]

[edit] 1993

In the summer of 1993, Harry Potter spent a couple of weeks at the Leaky Cauldron, during which time he went to Slug & Jiggers to stock up on ingredients for Potions.^[2]

[edit] Description

The store's interior is packed full of goods, with barrels of "slimy stuff" on the floor, jars containing herbs, roots, and brightly-coloured powders along the walls, and bunches of feathers, fangs, and claws hanging from the ceiling. All of these ingredients give the store an unpleasant aroma described as a combination of bad eggs and rotten cabbage.^[1]

[edit] Behind the scenes

• The name of this store is given only in the Harry Potter films.^[3][4] It is referred to as simply "the apothecary" in the novels.

[edit] Notes and references