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- "'Family,' said Hagrid gloomily. 'Whatever yeh say, blood's important…' And he wiped a trickle of it out of his eye."
- —Hagrid mopes at the Three Broomsticks Inn while suffering injuries caused by Grawp in 1996[src]
Blood is a liquefied substance in some organisms, like humans, that carries oxygen throughout the body. In some creatures, blood is known to possess magical qualities.
Blood in the Wizarding World
- Weakness payment requires blood to be shed.[1]
- Blood pact involves the mixing of blood as part of a magical blood oath ritual.[2]
- The blood of a unicorn will keep someone alive, even if they are "an inch from Death".[3]
- Re'em blood gives the drinkers immense strength for a short period of time.[4]
- Albus Dumbledore is known to have discovered the twelve uses of dragon blood.
- Some Creatures, like ghosts and inferi, have no blood, because they are dead.
- Chicken blood mixed with brandy is fed to baby dragons every half-hour.
- Some wizarding terms and nicknames use the word blood. They include:
- Severus Snape was known as the Half-Blood Prince and invented the curse Sectumsempra, which lacerates the target, causing it to shed much blood. This spell has only been used by two known wizards, including:
- Harry Potter, in 1997, on Draco Malfoy, causing the latter to nearly bleed to death[5] and the former later tried to use it on both the Inferi (which are bloodless)[1] and Snape (who blocked the curse).[6]
- Snape, in 1997, on George Weasley. Though meaning to strike down a Death Eater, Snape accidentally severed George's ear off, during the Battle of the Seven Potters.[7]
- The Blood-Replenishing Potion replenishes blood lost during an injury.[8]
- Vampires are dark magical beings that are known to drink blood as their diet, that belong to the Living Dead.[9] Some are known as blood brothers. Lady Carmilla Sanguina was a vampire who took things a step further and bathed in the blood of her victims, believing it would help her retain her health and beauty.[10]
- Eldred Worple wrote a book known as Blood Brothers: My Life Amongst the Vampires.[11]

- Honeydukes sells blood-flavoured lollipops, supposedly for vampires.[12]
- Dolores Umbridge created and owned a quill that scarred whatever one wrote into one's Flesh, as a dark magical torture device.
- In his fifth year, Harry was scarred by Umbridge's Blood Quill.[13]
- Sometime into the eleventh century, the Baron became known as the "Bloody Baron", in the afterlife as a ghost, after he killed Helena Ravenclaw and became covered in her blood.[14]

Quirrell drinking Unicorn's blood for Lord Voldemort in 1991
- In his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry caught Quirinus Quirrell illegally killing unicorns and drinking their blood for Lord Voldemort.[3]
- In 1992, Rubeus Hagrid thought that a Blood-Sucking Bugbear was killing his roosters, which had actually been killed by Ginny Weasley, being possessed by the fragmented soul of Tom Riddle.[15]
- In 1995, the blood of Harry Potter helped in the Return of the Dark Lord.[16]
- Voldemort's death, in 1998, was mostly because of Harry's blood in the Dark Lord's veins, making him unable to kill the young wizard.[17]
Behind the scenes
- One of the chapters in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is titled "Flesh, Blood and Bone".
- The title of the sixth Harry Potter book, film, video game, and soundtrack is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
- During the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, the Gryffindor house point hourglass was shattered by a curse,[6] causing red rubies to flood the floor like blood.[18]
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- 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 Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 26 (The Cave)
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 15 (The Forbidden Forest)
- ↑ Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 24 (Sectumsempra)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 28 (Flight of the Prince)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 5 (Fallen Warrior)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 22 (St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries)
- ↑ Pottermore - The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 15 (The Unbreakable Vow)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 10 (The Marauder's Map)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 13 (Detention with Dolores)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 31 (The Battle of Hogwarts)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 11 (The Duelling Club)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 32 (Flesh, Blood and Bone)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 36 (The Flaw in the Plan)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 29 (The Phoenix Lament)
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