Pear (fruit)

A pear was the fruit of any tree in the genus Pyrus. They were generally green or light yellow and had a curved shape.

History
In order to access the Hogwarts kitchens, one had to tickle the "huge green pear" in a painting of a bowl of fruit in an underground corridor, causing it to squirm and laugh, then transform into a doorknob.

There was a bowl of pears sitting on the coffee table in the living room of Burrow when Rufus Scrimgeour met with Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger to discuss the will of Albus Dumbledore on 31 July 1997.

In December 1997, while Harry and Hermione were hiding from Death Eaters and trying to find Voldemort's Horcruxes, Hermione snuck into a Muggle supermarket under Harry's Invisibility Cloak. She took spaghetti Bolognese and tinned pears, secretly paying for them by depositing money in an open till. The two had these items for dinner on Christmas Eve, and, after this "unusually good meal", Harry he might have more luck trying to persuade Hermione to visit Godric's Hollow.

Appearances

 * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
 * Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1