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'''Slug & Jiggers Apothecary''' is a shop in [[Diagon Alley]] which sells [[potion]] ingredients.
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'''Slug & Jiggers Apothecary''' is a shop in [[Diagon Alley]], established in [[1200s|1207]],<ref name="TMOHP">''[[The Making of Harry Potter]]'' {{see image|File:Slug&JiggersWormwoodEssence.jpg}}</ref> which sells [[potion]] ingredients.
   
==History==
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==Etymology==
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It is possible that "slug" refers to the mollusc, and "jigger" to a liquid measure (1&frac12; fl. oz. or about 45ml). The latter is often an apothecaries' measurement.
===1991===
 
[[File:Beetle Eyes.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Beetle eyes on sale for five [[Wizarding currency|Knuts]] a scoop in [[1991]].]]
 
On [[31 July]], [[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 horn]]s were on sale for twenty-one [[Wizarding currency|Galleons]] apiece, and beetle eyes for five [[Wizarding currency|Knuts]] per scoop.<ref name="ps5">''Philosopher's Stone'', Ch. 5</ref>
 
   
===1993===
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==Appearances==
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)]]'' {{Comment|Name seen on sign}}
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 his ingredients for [[Potion]]s.<ref>''Prisoner of Azkaban'', Ch. 4</ref>
 
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)]]''
 
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*''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)]]'' {{Comment|Name seen on sign}}
==Description==
 
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*''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)]]'' {{Comment|Name seen on sign}} {{Comment|Briefly}}
[[File:Slug&JiggersApothecary.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Slug & Jiggers sign]]
 
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)]]''
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.<ref name="ps5" />
 
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*''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1]]'' {{Comment|Name seen on sign}}
 
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*''[[LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4]]''
==Behind the scenes==
 
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*''[[LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7]]''
*The name of this store is given only in the ''Harry Potter'' [[Harry Potter films|films]].<ref>"[http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizworld/places/w_pl_diagon.html Diagon Alley]" on The Harry Potter Lexicon</ref><ref>[http://www.angelfire.com/mi3/cookarama/premnov01_1.html 2001 ''Premiere'' magazine article]</ref> It is referred to as simply "the apothecary" in the [[Harry Potter books|novels]].
 
 
== Appearances ==
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]''
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)]]'' {{Comment|Seen on sign}}
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]''
 
*''[[Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4]]'' {{Comment|Identified as Apothecary Slug & Jiggers}}
 
   
 
==Notes and references==
 
==Notes and references==
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Revision as of 18:24, 24 July 2014

Slug & Jiggers Apothecary is a shop in Diagon Alley, established in 1207,[1] which sells potion ingredients.

Etymology

It is possible that "slug" refers to the mollusc, and "jigger" to a liquid measure (1½ fl. oz. or about 45ml). The latter is often an apothecaries' measurement.

Appearances

Notes and references


London's wizarding quarter
England, Great Britain
Carkitt Market - Diagon Alley - Horizont Alley - Knockturn Alley
Diagon Alley
Shops

2nd Hand Brooms · Amanuensis Quills · Badeea Ali's uncle's tea shop · Bats! Bats! Bats! · Belcher's Bottled Beers · Bernie Balls Fireworks · Blinkhorn's workshop · Boogermongers · Boot and Shoemaker for Witches and Wizards · Brigg's Brooms · Bufo's · Broomstix · Broom Brakes Service · Broom Shop · Caput Mortuum · Cauldron Workshop · Cranville Quincey's Magical Junkshop · Creepy Scrawlers Stationers · Crispa Culpepper's Drugs & Preparations · Diagon Alley Arts Club · Diagon Alley cafés · The Diagon Dispensary · Eeylops Owl Emporium · Fine Enchanting Cauldrons · Flail & Hyde Furriers · Floo-Pow · Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour · Florist's stall · Flourish and Blotts · Gaberlunzie Garments · Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop · Grandma Gramercy's Grandiloquent Gramophones · The Harpy's Bazaar · Healer Shop · Herbert's Sherbets · J. Pippin's Potions · Janus Galloglass · Jimmy Kiddell's Wonderful Wands · The Junk Shop · Krakens · Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions · Madam Primpernelle's Beautifying Potions · The Magic Lantern · Magical Menagerie · Mandrake Mufflers · Marcus Minucius Myomancer · Mourning & Starr Armourers · Mr Milvus Grizedale, Kitemaker · Mr Mulpepper's Apothecary · Mr Trismus, Mouth Magician · Mulligrubs Materia Medica · Nell's Bells · Nollikins for Scrolls & Skins · Noltie's Botanical Novelties · Obscurus Books · Oldknowe Books · Ollivanders · Owl Post Office · Pettichaps · Potage's Cauldron Shop · Praedico Predico · Quality Quidditch Supplies · Rosa Lee Teabag · S. Starling · Scribbulus Writing Implements · Second-Hand Bookshop · Second-Hand Robes · Shrew & Scold's Bridal Wear · Slug & Jiggers Apothecary · Spindlewarps Wool Shop · Sugarplum's Sweets Shop · Surgical and Dental Operator · Tangle & Noils Wigmakers & Perruquiers · Tatoo Artist · The Three Sheets · Trading Card Shop · Tut's Nuts · Twilfitt and Tattings · Twinkle's Telescopes · Unidentified shop · Vietch's Leeches · Wand Showroom · Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes · What Larks! Songbird Specialists · Whizz Hard Books · Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment · Wynch & Tugg Movers · ZA Coffee

Other services

Brews and Stews · Daily Prophet's main office · Diagon Alley stalls · GalleLoans · Gold Pole · Gringotts Wizarding Bank · The Ministry Press · Ollivanders Wand Repair and Re-Tooling · Peter Boat · TerrorTours

Locations

1 Diagon Alley · 129b Diagon Alley · 18a Diagon Alley · 275 Diagon Alley · 343 Diagon Alley South · 521 Diagon Alley · 59 Diagon Alley · 92 Diagon Alley · 93 Diagon Alley · 94 Diagon Alley · Penny Haywood's flat

Known residents and shop employees

Archibald Bennett · Broom Shop shopkeeper · Badeea Ali · Badeea Ali's uncle · Clutterbuck Crispe · Cranville Quincey · Daily Prophet personnel · Edwin Avarus · Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour attendant · Fred Weasley · Garrick Ollivander · George Weasley · Healer · Jimmy Kiddell · J. Pippin · Penny Haywood · Penny Haywood's flatmate · Madam Primpernelle · Manager of Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop · Mulpepper · Podric Batworthy · Ronald Weasley · Shimmy Hardoteer · Sugarplum · Unidentified florist in Diagon Alley · Verity · Villanelle