Licorice Wand

"What she did have were Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life."

- Harry Potter about to purchase some sweets on Hogwarts Express.

Licorice Wand is a type of wizarding sweets, most likely wiedely popular amongst Wizardkind children. It is sold on Hogwarts Express to Hogwarts students. Licorice Wands are presumably wand-shaped.

1 September 1991 while going to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy Harry Potter wanted to buy something to eat, and, given the fact that he had withdrawn large amount of money from his Gringotts vault, he intended to buy as much Mars Bars as he could carry. However, instead of Muggle sweets he found many wizarding counterparts, including Licorice Wands.

In 1995 Harry, having seen Bartemius Crouch Jr. in Forbidden Forest, looking as insane, he hurried to the Dumbledore's office to tell him about it, but didn't know the password that let people in, so started enumarating wizarding sweets, as the names of them were usually used as passwords. Harry tried "Licorice Wand" but it didn't function.

In 1 September 1996 on Hogwarts Express Horace Slughorn mentioned Licorice Wands as not approprate for old men as he was, because of pure digestive system, so he had packed his own lunch.

Behind the scenes

 * Licorice Wands can have a references to Licorice Snap. Judging from the names of these sweets they have the same flavour, though cannot look the same, since the Snaps are peaunut-shaped, as it is shown in film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince