Zonko's Joke Shop was a favourite place for Hogwarts students to shop on Hogsmeade trips. As it carried "jokes and tricks to fulfill even Fred and George's wildest dreams." Such products were Dungbombs, Hiccup Sweets, Frog Spawn Soap, sugar quills and Nose-Biting Teacups.
During the events surrounding Lord Voldemort's second rise to power, Zonko's was closed and boarded up. Fred and George visited Hogsmeade with an eye toward possibly buying the premises and turning it into another Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.
Behind the scenes
- In the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film), Zonko's is mentioned many times. One such mention occurs when Harry Potter was confronted in the middle of the night, wandering the corridors of Hogwarts, by Professor Severus Snape. Professor Remus Lupin suggested the Marauder's Map was a Zonko's product when started spouting out insults at Snape.