Cheese

Cheese is a foodstuff formed by curdling the proteins in milk, and comes in many different varieties. Both wizardkind and Muggles eat cheese.

Cheese is a flavour of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans.

The book Charm Your Own Cheese, published in various versions by Greta Catchlove and Gerda Curd, presumably covers magical cheese-making. Curd's edition covers such topics as dragon milk cheeses, cured and cursed cheese, and Cheese-Based Potions.

History

 * At some point in wizarding history, Humphrey Belcher created the cheese cauldron, believing it to be a great invention. He was, in the words of Albus Dumbledore, "woefully wrong", and the cauldron never caught on.
 * On 31 July, 1992, Harry Potter was served a supper that consisted of merely two slices of bread and a lump of cheese, as the Masons were visiting 4 Privet Drive that night and the Dursleys wanted Harry out of the way as quickly as possible.
 * A slab of cheese covered in furry green mold was among the unique "foodstuffs" served at Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington's five-hundredth Deathday Party.
 * As part of his Smeltings Academy-mandated diet, Dudley Dursley ate a lunch of cottage cheese and grated celery on the day that the Weasley family had come to pick up Harry in 1994. Due to fear at meeting wizards again, he neglected to protest at the amount of food he was served, as he had been doing all summer.
 * By Christmas of 1995, Kreacher's bedroom at 12 Grimmauld Place had acquired, among various other filth, mouldy bits of discarded cheese.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
 * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
 * Pottermore
 * J. K. Rowling Official Site