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During their last and unfinished year at Hogwarts, Fred and George tested many of their products on students, much to the displeasure of [[Gryffindor]] [[prefect]] [[Hermione Granger]].
 
During their last and unfinished year at Hogwarts, Fred and George tested many of their products on students, much to the displeasure of [[Gryffindor]] [[prefect]] [[Hermione Granger]].
   
[[File:Fred and George at their WWW joke shop.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Fred and George in [[1996]].]] After releasing their [[Weasleys' Wildfire Whiz-bangs]] and [[Portable Swamp]] on school grounds and defecting from [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] as to rebel against [[Dolores Umbridge]]'s tyrannical rule, the twins set off to Diagon Alley to fulfill their dreams of opening a joke shop, with the Galleons that [[Harry Potter]] gave to them.
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[[File:Fred and George at their WWW joke shop.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Fred and George in [[1996]].]] After releasing their [[Weasleys' Wildfire Whiz-bangs]] and [[Portable Swamp]] on school grounds and defecting from [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]] as to rebel against [[Dolores Umbridge]]'s tyrannical rule, the twins set off to Diagon Alley to fulfill their dreams of opening a joke shop, with the winnings of the Triwizard Tournement that [[Harry Potter]] gave to them.
   
 
[[File:Terrified-Umbridge-cause-by-WeasleyTwins-Fireworks.jpg|thumb|[[Fred and George Weasley]]'s fireworks terrify Umbridge.]]
 
[[File:Terrified-Umbridge-cause-by-WeasleyTwins-Fireworks.jpg|thumb|[[Fred and George Weasley]]'s fireworks terrify Umbridge.]]

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"WHY ARE YOU WORRYING ABOUT YOU-KNOW-WHO?
YOU SHOULD BE WORRYING ABOUT U-NO-POO
THE CONSTIPATION SENSATION THAT'S GRIPPING THE NATION!
"
— Sign outside Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes[src]

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, also known as Weasley and Weasley[1] is a joke shop located at Number 93 Diagon Alley founded by Fred and George Weasley. It sells practical joke objects, such as Extendable Ears, a Reusable Hangman, and Fred and George's special WonderWitch products, such as Love Potions, Ten-Second Pimple Vanishers, and Pygmy Puffs. There is also a section of Muggle Magic Tricks "for freaks like Dad"[HP6], which are said to do steady business, despite not being big sellers. The shop also sells a number of defensive magical objects. This establishment started out as an 'owl-post service' led by the twins from The Burrow, their home. A year later the establishment was led by the twins inside Hogwarts, selling joke-products until the final shop was opened.

History

Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes 01

Fred Weasley and George Weasley, founders

Starting Up

George Weasley: "Harry, you help yourself to anything you want, all right? No charge."
Harry Potter: "I can't do that!"
Fred Weasley: "You don't pay here... you gave us our start-up loan, we haven't forgotten. Take whatever you like, and just remember to tell people where you got it, if they ask."
— Fred and George, with Harry in 1996[src]

While still students at Hogwarts, Fred and George were inspired to develop a number of practical joke products, which they initially developed in their room at The Burrow. Their initial efforts were sold as mail-order items using owl post. Their mother discovered the orders while cleaning their room one day. She didn't support their wild ambitions, considering that most of the products that they'd created were dangerous, and wished them to get jobs in the Ministry of Magic like their father. Even though she burned the orders, her twin sons still maintained their ambition to open a joke shop. To raise money for their shop, they started by betting their life's savings with Ludo Bagman on the outcome of the Quidditch World Cup. They won, but Bagman paid them off with Leprechaun gold, which vanished after a few hours, wiping out their savings, and putting their dream in peril.

The Weasleys got the money for the shop from Harry Potter's un-wanted Triwizard Tournament winnings of 1,000 Galleons. Since Harry gave them their start-up loan, Fred and George allow him to help himself to whatever he wants, free of charge.

Fred and George's Final Year at Hogwarts School

"We were thinking of buying Zonko's. A Hogsmeade branch, you know, but a fat lot of good it'll do us if you lot aren't allowed out at weekends to buy our stuff anymore..."
— Fred thinking of buying Zonko's.[src]

During their last and unfinished year at Hogwarts, Fred and George tested many of their products on students, much to the displeasure of Gryffindor prefect Hermione Granger.

Fred and George at their WWW joke shop

Fred and George in 1996.

After releasing their Weasleys' Wildfire Whiz-bangs and Portable Swamp on school grounds and defecting from Hogwarts as to rebel against Dolores Umbridge's tyrannical rule, the twins set off to Diagon Alley to fulfill their dreams of opening a joke shop, with the winnings of the Triwizard Tournement that Harry Potter gave to them.

Terrified-Umbridge-cause-by-WeasleyTwins-Fireworks

Fred and George Weasley's fireworks terrify Umbridge.

Prior to their departure, they offered a discount for any Hogwarts students who would swear to use their products to eliminate Umbridge.

Argus Filch banned all of Fred and George's products from Hogwarts in 1996. However, as no one paid much attention to things Filch banned, this had little effect. They opened a branch in Diagon Alley shortly after leaving Hogwarts in April 1996, employing a shop assistant named Verity. They also intended to buy Zonko's Joke Shop in Hogsmeade in order to extend their business. However, due to Hogwarts security being raised to the point that all Hogsmeade trips were cancelled, they saw no point to this.

The Second Wizarding War

In the summer of 1997, the Death Eaters seized control of the British Ministry of Magic. In the spring of 1998, it was discovered that the Weasleys had been helping the fugitive Harry Potter, and the family went into hiding. Although forced to close the shop in Diagon Alley, Fred and George continued to sell their products via mail order while at their Aunt Muriel's. Fred and George both fought in the Battle of Hogwarts, where Fred was killed in an explosion.

After the War

George continued to operate the business after Fred's death, despite never fully getting over the loss of his twin.[2] He was eventually joined by his brother Ron, who had previously worked as an Auror alongside Harry Potter to track down Death Eaters that had gone into hiding after the war. Together, they were able to successfully turn Weasley's Wizard Wheezes into an enormous money-spinner again.[2]

Products

Skiving Snackbox Weasley and Weasley

Skiving Snackboxes, a Weasley product.

Fred: "That's three Galleons, nine Sickles, and a Knut. Cough up."
Ron: "I'm your brother!"
Fred: "And that's our stuff you're nicking."
— Fred and George won't cut Ron a deal on their products.[src]

Known Joke products

  • Anti Gravity Hats - "Ruin a gentleman's day by making his hat fly away!"
  • Aviatomobile - a flying toy car. Costs 3 sickles and 11 knuts. Possibly made in the likeness of their father's flying car.
  • Canary Creams - temporarily transfigures the eater into a canary.
  • Edible Dark Marks - "They'll make anyone sick!"
    Extendable Ears

    Extendable Ears.

  • Extendable Ears - used to hear voices at the other end of the ear.
  • Headless Hats - make the wearer's head invisible (along with the hat itself).
  • Muggle magic tricks/pranks - for "freaks like [their] dad", not a real money spinner.
  • Patented Daydream Charms, virtually undetectable highly realistic thirty-minute daydreams (side-effects can be: slight drooling and a dazed expression, Not for sale for wizards under 16).
  • Portable Swamp - creates a swamp when used.
  • Punching telescopes - when squeezed, gives the user a black eye which is almost impossible to remove (Hermione Granger was a victim of one in 1996). Costs 12 sickles and 26 knuts.
  • Quills - in Smart Answer, Self Inking and Spell Checking varieties.
  • Reusable Hangman - "Spell It Or He'll Swing."
  • Skiving Snackbox - A Skiving Snackbox is a range of sweets to make the user ill. The user develops strange symptoms depending on the type of snack eaten. The purpose of these was to make a student appear unable to stay in class. Most came in two colour-coded parts: one that would cause the malady, and one that would heal the pupil once they had left class. They include: Fainting Fancies, Fever Fudge, Nosebleed Nougat, and Puking Pastilles.
  • Ton-Tongue Toffee (tested by the Weasley twins on Dudley Dursley[HP4]) - when eaten, they cause the tongue to rapidly swell and turn purple.
  • Trick wands - turn into a variety of unexpected things when waved.
  • U-No-Poo - a causative product with a name meant to parody "You-Know-Who" (causes constipation).
Fireworks

Weasleys' Wildfire Whiz-bangs

  • Weasleys' Wildfire Whiz-bangs - unstoppable fireworks that violently explode when hit by a stunning spell and multiply by ten at any attempt to vanish them. These include a shocking pink-wheel, fire-breathing dragons, sparklers that spell out profanity, rockets with long tails of silver stars, and standard firecrackers. When any two types collide, they make new effects. Include Basic Blaze Box and Deflagration Deluxe. Background History: In Fred and George's final year, they used these fireworks as a protest against the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher and new Headmistress, Professor Umbridge.

Defense objects

WonderWitch products

  • Love Potions, that when drunk, will give the drinker an obsession with the one who bought the drink (love being impossible to manufacture). They work for up to twenty-four hours at a time, depending on the weight of the boy and attractiveness of the girl. Like all love potions the effects can increase the longer they're kept. This potion is very strong and only a very skilled potioneer can make the cure for the love potions.
  • Pygmy Puffs, miniature puffskeins with pink or purple fur. They have small, beady eyes and ears. Ginny Weasley is a known owner of Arnold the Pygmy Puff.
  • Ten-Second Pimple Vanisher, excellent on everything from boils to blackheads.

Sweets

Employees and associates

Ron Weasley at their WWW joke shop

Ron Weasley, an employee.

Uniform

  • All employees at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes wear a magenta robe.

Location

  • The first official premises of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes was at 93 Diagon Alley.
  • During 1997, the founders, Fred and George Weasley were known to be looking at buying Zonko's Joke Shop after it closed. However, due to various complications such as Fred's death and the return of Voldemort, it is unknown whether this purchase was actually made or not. It is assumed that it was purchased, as the business was highly successful after Voldemort's death. If this second location was purchased, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes could also have a branch located in Hogsmeade.

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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