Fizzing Whizzbees

Fizzing Whizzbees are a popular magical sweet. They are large sherbet balls that will cause a person who sucks on them to float a few inches off the ground.

Dried Billywig stings are rumoured to be one of this sweet's ingredients. This idea is supported by the fact that being stung by a Billywig will make a person levitate for a short period. Although Fizzing Whizzbees were one of his favourite candies, when Harry Potter learned they might contain animal parts, he wrote in his copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them that he would never eat them again.

Honeydukes sweetshop in Hogsmeade stocks Fizzing Whizzbees in a large barrel. Ron Weasley described them to Harry Potter and Hermione Granger in anticipation of their first weekend trip to Hogsmeade in 1993.

Albus Dumbledore used "Fizzing Whizzbee" as the password to his office in 1995.



Behind the scenes

 * Fizzing Whizzbees are one of several Harry Potter tie-in sweets that have been manufactured. One reviewer said they are essentially the same as Pop Rocks.
 * The Billywig sting ingredient may have been inspired by the many off-putting urban legends involving candy, including the one that Bubble Yum, the world's first non-hard chewing gum, was made soft by the inclusion of spiders' eggs.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
 * Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Notes and references
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