Honeydukes

Honeydukes
Location information
Location	High Street, Hogsmeade, Highlands, Scotland, Great Britain
Owner(s)	Patrick Redding (formerly) Olivia Redding (formerly) Ambrosius Flume and Mrs Flume
Permanent residents	Patrick Redding (formerly) Olivia Redding (formerly) Ambrosius Flume Mrs Flume
Affiliation	Honeydukes Express

"There were shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable. Creamy chunks of nougat, shimmering pink squares of coconut ice, fat, honey-coloured toffees; hundreds of different kinds of chocolate in neat rows; there was a large barrel of Every Flavour Beans, and another of Fizzing Whizzbees, the levitating sherbet balls that Ron had mentioned; along yet another wall were ‘Special Effects’ sweets: Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum (which filled a room with bluebell-coloured bubbles that refused to pop for days), the strange, splintery Toothflossing Stringmints, tiny black Pepper Imps (‘breathe fire for your friends!’), Ice Mice (‘hear your teeth chatter and squeak!’), peppermint creams shaped like toads (‘hop realistically in the stomach!’) , fragile sugar-spun quills and exploding bonbons."

— Description of the sweets shop

Honeydukes was a wizarding sweet shop located on High Street in the all-wizarding village of Hogsmeade. It was first established in 1641 and was owned by Ambrosius Flume and his wife, and was filled with "shelves upon shelves of the most succulent-looking sweets imaginable".

In addition to the standard wizarding candy that was sold there, the owners also made their own fudge and chocolate. For obvious reasons, the shop was quite a popular destination for Hogwarts students when visiting Hogsmeade on the weekends and during the Christmas season, one could barely move due to the crowd of visitors.

History

"BY ORDER OF THE MINISTRY OF MAGIC
Customers are reminded that until further notice, Dementors will be patrolling the streets of Hogsmeade every night after sundown. This measure has been put in place for the safety of Hogsmeade residents and will be lifted upon the recapture of Sirius Black. It is therefore advisable that you complete your shopping well before nightfall.
Merry Christmas!"

— Notice on the Honeydukes door during the escape of Sirius Black

The shop was run by Patrick Redding and his daughter Olivia in the 1890s. By 1993, it was run by Ambrosius Flume, a rather large, bald man, and his wife, who watched over the shop when he went to the cellar to retrieve the sweets that the main shop was running out of.

The inside of Honeydukes

Honeydukes also housed the entrance to a secret passageway from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry directly into the cellar of the sweet-shop; however, it was advisable only to use it to go from Hogwarts Castle to Honeydukes and not the other way around, due to the presence of a stone slide at the Hogwarts end.

In the Gunhilda of Gorsemoor Corridor on the third floor of Hogwarts Castle, one could find a large stone statue of Gunhilda. By tapping the back of the statue with one's wand and incant "Dissendium", one would open up the secret passageway in the statue's hunched back, leading down a short, cool stone slide. They would land in a very low, very narrow earthy passageway that twisted like a rabbit's burrow, rising after an hour or so and reached a large, worn stone staircase after ten minutes of steep ascent. There were over two hundred steps on this staircase, and those climbing it would usually be surprised when their head hit the hard, cold trap-door. This trap-door led into the cellar of Honeydukes, and matched the dusty floor perfectly.

Honeydukes sweets

The cellar of the shop was full of wooden crates and boxes, with a very dusty floor and a large wooden staircase leading up to the main shop. In the cellar, one could hear the opening and shutting of the sweet-shop door, as well as the tinkling of the bell above it.

Honeydukes maintained and supplied the Honeydukes Express, a large food trolley which sold sweets to the staff and students riding the Hogwarts Express. It was driven about, and the candies were dispersed, by a kind, wizened old lady.

In 1890, a new student of Hogwarts stole dried Billywig stings out of Honeydukes' cellar for Garreth Weasley.

During the Calamity in the 2010s, volunteer members of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force were able to make visits to Honeydukes with the usage of Portkeys. On these visits, they were tasked with collecting Wrackspurts seen throughout the shop.

In December 2010, Honeydukes was broken into by a thief one night who didn't steal anything but trampled on everything in there. Ambrosius Flume happened to be in the shop at the time and was hit on the head.

Products

"Important Allergy Information: Our products may contain Peanuts, Almonds, Cashews, Hazelnuts, Macadamias, Pecans, Walnuts, Wheat, Milk, Egg, and Soy Products."

— Allergy warning regarding Honeydukes products

Product packaging

Sweets sold

"It’s this sweetshop, where they’ve got everything... Pepper Imps — they make you smoke at the mouth — and great fat Chocoballs full of strawberry mousse and clotted cream, and really excellent sugar quills which you can suck in class and just look like you’re thinking what to write next —"

— Description of the items sold in the shop

Acid Pops Bat's Blood Soup Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans Blood-flavoured lollipops Cauldron Cakes Charm Choc Cheering Cherry Tart Chocoballs Chocolate Cauldrons Chocolate Frogs Chocolate Skeletons Chocolate Wands Choco-Loco Cockroach Clusters Crystallised pineapple

Drooble's Best Blowing Gum Elephant on a Bicycle Exploding bonbons Fizzing Whizzbees Fudge Flies Glacial Snow Flakes Honeydukes Best Chocolate Honeydukes Mice Pops Ice Mice Jelly Slugs Limas Crazy Blob Drops Liquorice Wands No-Melt Ice cream Nougat Chunks Pepper Imps Peppermint Toad Pink Coconut Ice

Pixie Puffs Pumpkin fizz Pumpkin Pasties Salt Water Taffy Shock-o-Choc Skeletal Sweets Spindle's Lick'O'Rish Spiders Sugar Quills Sugared Butterfly Wings Toffees Toothflossing Stringmints Tooth-Splintering Strongmints Treacle fudge Wizochoc

Behind the scenes

Honeydukes at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

• The 2-disc DVD edition of the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban includes an interactive tour of Honeydukes, featuring the main shop area, as well as the cellar and the entrance to the Hogwarts' secret tunnel. The tour includes exclusive footage of Fred and George Weasley wandering about the place and, ultimately, accessing the secret tunnel.
• There is a recreation of Honeydukes in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
• Alfonso Cuarón included some Mexican elements in Honeydukes, such as Chocolate Skeletons.

Appearances

The Honeydukes logo as seen in Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells

Honeydukes as seen in Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Flashback on Disc 2)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play) (Mentioned only)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore - The Complete Screenplay (Mentioned only)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (Mentioned only)
• Pottermore
• Wizarding World
• The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
• Harry Potter: The Wand Collection (Mentioned only)
• LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World
• LEGO Harry Potter (Mentioned only)
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
• LEGO Harry Potter
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
• Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
• Hogwarts Legacy
• The Art and Making of Hogwarts Legacy
• The Art of Harry Potter Mini Book of Graphic Design