Herbology Class

This page is under construction, and should not be taken as official material.

Image Unavailable

Hadrian Whittle
Professor of Herbology

Student Aides

Oscar

Synopsis

The study of magical and mundane plants and fungi. In Herbology, students learn to care for and utilize plants, and learn about their magical properties, and what they are used for. Many plants provide ingredients for potions and medicine, while others have magical effects of their own right.

Each particular subject roughly takes up two weeks time. Every class is two hours long.

In order to take Herbology at the N.E.W.T. level a student must have an 'A' Grade in their Herbology O.W.L.

Hogwarts Schedule

6 AM 7 AM 8 - 10 AM 10 AM -12 Noon 12 Noon - 1 PM 1 -3 PM 3 - 5 PM 5 - 6 PM 6 - 8 PM 8 - 10 PM 10 PM - 12 Midnight 12 Midnight - 2 AM
Wake-Up/Ready Breakfast 1st Period 2nd Period Lunch 3rd Period 4th Period Dinner 5th Period Free Time to Lights Out 6th Period 7th Period

Herbology Schedule

1st Years 2nd Years 3rd Years 4th Years 5th Years 6th Years 7th Years
- - - - - - -

Syllabus

1st Year

1st Year Supplies

  • Book: Title

September

  • Aconite - Otherwise known as monkshood and wolfsbane. The basic care and maintenance of this poisonous plant is gone over in hands off book learning manner.
  • Valerian - This plant is harmless so there is a hands on workshop covering the care, maintenance and harvesting of it. Valerian is an ingredient in several potions and even a Hogwarts Dessert and there is usually a harvest to coincide with these potions being taught in Potions Class: Treacle fudge, Draught of Living Death, Draught of Peace, and Forgetfulness Potion.

October

  • Foxglove - This slightly poisonous plant's care and maintenance is taught to coincide with when the Pumpion Potion is being taught in Potions Class.
  • Borage - The basic care and maintenance of this mundane herb used to heal magical and mundane maladies. As it is completely harmless a hands on workshop can be had on this subject.

November

  • Betony - A mundane herb used to heal magical and mundane maladies, such as a mad dog bite. It is also hopefully administered to lessen the horrible effects of a werewolf attack.
  • Centaury - Much like Betony Centaury is used in curing mad dog bites and other maladies so it is taught along with betony.

December

  • Aloe Vera - The basic care and maintenance of this plant with healing and soothing properties is gone over. As it is completely harmless a hands on workshop can be had on this subject. Not coincidentally the balm is good to sooth burns is taught right before the Fire-Making Spell.

January

  • Incendio - This fire making spell is taught to the students to deal with such heat and light sensitive plants such as Devil's Snare.
  • Devil's Snare - The basic care and maintenance of this very dangerous plant is gone over in hands off book learning manner.

February

  • Flitterbloom - This harmless plant is very similar looking to Devil's Snare. It is featured in many a wizarding garden. The basic care and maintenance of this plant is gone over. As it is completely harmless a hands on workshop can be had on this subject in the Hogwarts Garden.
  • Henbane - The basic care and maintenance of this sometimes poisonous plant is gone over in hands off book learning manner. It is used in some healing potions for its anesthetic qualities.

March

  • Spiky Bush - The basic care and maintenance of this very dangerous plant is gone over in hands off book learning manner.
  • Daisies & Dandelions - Daisies roots are used in Shrinking Potion and they are also used for brewing Daisyroot Draught. The basic care and maintenance of this plant is gone over. As it is completely harmless a hands on workshop can be had on this subject in the Hogwarts Garden. Dandelion's are used to make juice out of the roots for medicinal drinking and also the leaves are boiled down for food make the Garden weeds just as valuable as the other flowers. The Greens are featured in many a Hogwarts Feast. The basic care and maintenance of this plant is gone over. As it is completely harmless a hands on workshop can be had on this subject in the Hogwarts Garden.

April

May

  • Lavender - This plant is found a great deal in the Hogwarts Garden, it is also used in many potions and in some of the foods served at Hogwarts too. Like flavoring honey and chocolate and other herb mixtures.
  • Kelp - In May just before school's out the first years can be found on the shore of Black Lake putting armfuls of kelp that's washed up onto the beach into large baskets to keep them moist and onto large portable racks to dry them out. During these harvests the different sorts of Kelp are gone over and students are pop quizzed on identifying them as they sort and organize. All very hands on obviously.
separator.gif

2nd Year

September

  • Gurdyroot - The basic care and maintenance of this magical plant is gone over. As it is completely harmless a hands on workshop can be had on this subject.
  • Alihotsy

October

  • Severing Charm - This severing charm is learned in Herbology class to deal with such plants as the next one on the itinerary: the Bowtruckle.
  • Bowtruckles - These dangerous creatures are the subject of study, while an in depth look into the details of the creature are left to a Care of magical Creatures class. In Herbology the Severing Charm is practiced on these creatures.

November

  • Goosegrass - The basic care and maintenance of this plant is gone over. As it is completely harmless a hands on workshop can be had on this subject. It is sometimes an ingredient in healing potions.
  • Mandrake - Potting of young Mandrakes.

December

  • Cocoa Bean - Several cocoa plants are found in Greenhouse 1 for the school campus use for making chocolate treats for feasts. Students are taught the basic care and maintenance and refining of this very delicious plant. As a special treat the week before Christmas Holiday every year harvests some cocoa beans and a cup of hot cocoa is enjoyed.

January

  • Germander - This herb's care and maintenance and harvesting is gone over when it's in bloom. So that the harvest is done to provide the Hogwarts Kitchen this Treacle Fudge ingredient.
  • Sneezewort -

February

  • Soil Testing Potion - There are some rare times when potions and spells are taught in Herbology class. This is one of them. This potion is easy to brew and only takes 30 minutes to do so. When done a soil sample from the garden or green house is added. There is a quiz in this lesson on what the colours mean and where the student believes the soil sample is from.
  • Plant-Growth Charm

March

  • Dirigible Plum - The basic care and maintenance of this very buoyant wizard orange radish-like fruit is gone over. As it is completely harmless a hands on workshop can be had on this subject.
  • Abyssinian Shrivelfig -

April

May

  • Comfrey - This plant is often an ingredient in healing potions, after it has been turned into an Essential Oil.
  • Cherries - There are a couple of Cherry trees in the garden for their beautiful blossoms that turn into sweet-tart fruit during the later end of May and into the summer. Students harvest these fruits for the Potions Class ingredient stores and for the kitchens and for personal enjoyment as the Professor is all for sampling while you work, so long as one doesn't eat the whole crop or choke on a pit.
separator.gif

3rd Year

September

October

November

December

January

With the subject of Wand Woods being so vast it takes up the greater section of the second half of the 3rd Year. Wherein knowledge of, care for and identifying each and every wood and the derived from plant is gleaned.

  • Wand Woods - An introduction.
  • Wand Woods - Aspen, Beech, Birch, Elm, English Oak and Holly are focused on.

February

  • Wand Woods - Hornbeam, Maple, Pear, Pine, Poplar, and Spruce are focused on.
  • Wand Woods - Sycamore, Hazel, Ash, Rowan, Blackthorn,and Cherry are focused on.

March

  • Wand Woods - Dogwood, Hawthorn, Willow, Yew, Alder, and Apple are focused on.
  • Wand Woods - Chestnut, Cypress, and Fir, Ivy, Larch, and Reed are focused on.

April

  • Wand Woods - Vine, Walnut, Silver Lime, Ebony, Rosewood and Laurel are focused on.

May

  • Wand Woods - Olive, Acacia, Black Walnut, Cedar and Mahogany are focused on.
  • Wand Woods - Red Oak and Redwood are focused on and then comes a review of the year before end of term finals that includes a field trip to the Wand Wood Weald where students identify trees and the best places to harvest present trees.
separator.gif

4th Year

September

October

  • Bubotuber -
  • Mimbulus Mimbletonia - A magical plant that looks a bit like a very portly cactus with boils instead of thorns. When the plant is prodded the boils burst and release Stinksap which can be used to help ill animals.

November

December

January

February

  • Gomas Barbadensis - This is a gum resin that is collected from a magical tree that is similar to a Copperwood otherwise known as a Gumbo Tree that grows in and around Barbados. There is one tree that grows in the Hogwarts Greenhouse and students are taught how to carefully cut into the bark so the sap resin will collect without damaging the tree. The bits of resin are harvested for the Potions Class ingredient stores so it can be used in potions such as the hair care potions and scalp treatments.
  • Baling Charm - Baling things such as oats, hay, many grasses and the like is an essential part of harvesting plant matter. This charm does all the hard work of gathering said plant matter into a neat parcel.

March

  • Bouncing Bulb
  • Flutterby Bush - The care of this decorative quivering magical plant is gone over. As it is completely harmless a hands on workshop can be had on this subject in the Hogwarts Garden.

April

May

The month of May is dedicated to the preserving practices of Herbaria, Fungaria, Xylaria & Hortoria which is the preserving of plants, fungi, trees and the specialized preserving of specimens of cultivated plants.

separator.gif

5th Year

September

  • Planning your Greenhouse or Garden - It takes education and knowledge to plan out a perfect garden and greenhouse. The class spends all month touring the gardens and greenhouses and at the end of the month provide the Professor with a diagram of their own planter box and what it will look like by Winter Holiday.

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

  • Gillyweed - Though it is a magical Mediterranean water plant, there is a small crop located in a pond in one of the Hogwarts Greenhouses. The care of this plant is gone over along with the facts of harvesting as well. When properly harvested fresh gillyweed can be eatten and cause the witch or wizard who's eaten the plant to grow gills at the neck and webbing between fingers and toes.

May

separator.gif

6th Year

September

  • Boom Berry - This berry with healing properties is taught coinciding with when it's the Wiggenweld Potion is taught in Potions Class.
  • Dittany - This plant with healing properties is taught coinciding with when it's the Wiggenweld Potion is taught in Potions Class.

October

  • Nightshade -
  • Asphodel - The hands off study of this plant usually coincides with the same time the Draught of Living Death is being taught in Potions Class.

November

  • Bloodroot - This poisonous plant is taught coinciding with when it's the Bloodroot Potion is taught in Potions Class.
  • Niffler's Fancy -

December

January

  • Fluxweed - On the fullmoon there is a night class where and when this plant within the mustard family is picked.
  • Neem Tree Oiling - The process of extracting Neem Tree Oil and the care for this Indian Lilac.

February

  • Knotgrass - Right along with Fluxweed lessons the care, maintenance, and harvesting of the magical plant called Knotgrass. The excess of the harvest after the Potions Pantry is full is sent off to be brewed into Knotgrass Mead off Campus.
  • Dorema Ammoniacum - This plant found in the Greenhouses is pricked and sliced just so along the stalk so that the milky white sap collects and hardens on the stem and these tears of Ammoniacum are collected to give to the Potions Class ingredient stores.

March

  • Galanthus Nivalis - Found in the Hogwarts Gardens as a beautiful white floral ground cover it is also used as an ingredient in memory potions and so their care and maintenance is taught coinciding with the Potions Class. The Galanthus Nivalis is harvested in the first weeks of spring.
  • Cowbane - This poisonous plant is taught about and harvested from a greenhouse for the Potions Class ingredient stores.

April

May

Exploding_Ginger_Eyelashes.jpg
  • Exploding Ginger Eyelash - This interesting magical plant will explode when the eyelash like hairs are tickled. Damaging the tickler. However if the fleshy reddish orange center of the flower is pressed down on without touching the 'eyelashes' the plant will flutter and shed the lashes so that they can be harvested and used in Potions Class.
  • Sopophorous Plant - The Sopophorous bean is harvested from these plants for Potion Class Stores.
separator.gif

7th Year

September

October

  • Mushrooms - General education on Fungi starts off the month long lessons on:
    • Bursting Mushroom - The bursting mushroom is disarmed with an Extinguishing Spell. Once disarmed it can be picked from the soil which will permanently disarm the Mushroom. After harvest the mushrooms are given to the Potion's Class Stores to use in their potion making.
    • Deadlyius - Deep in the Hogwart Dungeons attached to the walls of the darkest niches that are the chosen haunts for where the ghosts rest is where students can find and harvest these deadly mushrooms that are then dried and given to the Potions Class for their ingredient stores.
    • Deathcap - This deadly poisonous mushroom is carefully made the subject of study.
    • Leaping Toadstool -
    • Common Field Mushroom -
    • Staghorn Mushroom -
    • And how to identify Poisonous mushrooms -

November

December

January

February

March

April

May


Poppy & Poppy Heads -
Plantain -
Arnica - Syrup of Arnica is used in potion-making.
Poison Ivy -
Polypody -
Pomegranate Juicing -
Cobra Lily - The care and maintenance of this very dangerous plant is gone over.
Preacher's Porridge -
Snargaluff -

Mandrake - Harvesting of Mandrake Roots and **Mandrake Leaves.
Angel's Trumpet

Baneberry - This plant with poisonous berries is taught coinciding with when it's the Baneberry Potion is taught in Potions Class.

Fire Seed Bush

Whomping Willow

Gugal Tree - This is a shrub that produces a resin called Bdelium that is used for potions when the sap has dried.

  • Bulbadox Plant - This magical plant looks like a sunflower in a mane of thistle leaves. The leaves of the plant can be dried and turned into Bulbadox Powder or the fresh roots can be pressed to make Bulbadox Juice both items used in potion making.
  • Venomous Tentacula - The care and education of this plant is gone over, along with the feeding of Chizpurfles to the plant. The students, after the plant has spit out the Chizpurfle's carapaces, collect the shells in jars for the Potion Class ingredient stores.

Moonseed -

Red Myrrh -

Roses - Rose Petals are used in making Rose Oil and the thorn is a potion ingredient.

Silverweed -
Rue -

Scurvy Grass -
Snakeweed -
Spleenwart -

Squill - Squill Bulbs when harvested at the right time are good in Potion-making so they are sent off to the Potion Ingredient Stores.

St. John's Wort -

Star Grass -

Starthistle -
Thyme -
Tormentil -
Vervain -
Wartizome -
Wiggenbush -
Wiggentree -
Witch's Ganglion -
Wormwood -

separator.gif

1st Year Plant Ingredients:
Aconite
Nettles
Wormwood

2nd Year Plant Ingredients:
Mint
Lavender
Mistletoe
Fluxweed
Bloodroot
Ginger
Pumpkin (juice)
Bouncing Bulb
Foxglove

3rd Year Plant Ingredients:
Fire Seeds
Garlic
Lemon (oil)
Shrivelfigs
Daisy
Cowbane

4th Year Plant Ingredients:
Passion Fruit (juice)
Mandrake
Knotgrass
Saw Palmetto
Hemlock
Tormentil
Bursting Mushrooms
Wartcap

5th Year Plant Ingredients:
Alihotsy
Hellebore
Jalapeno

6th Year Plant Ingredients:
Red Wine (Possibly over-thinking on my part…)
Prune (juice)
Hairy Fungus
Rose
Scurvy Grass
Sneezewort
Lovage

7th Year Plant Ingredients:
Devil's Snare
Sopophorous Bean
Valerian
Asphodel
Vervain

separator.gif
wip
Unless otherwise stated, the content of this page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License