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Fizzing Whizzbees are a popular magical sweet made by Queenbee.[1] They are large sherbet balls that will cause a person who sucks on them to float a few inches off the ground.[2][3]
Dried Billywig stings are rumoured to be one of this sweet's ingredients.[4] This idea is supported by the fact that being stung by a Billywig will make a person levitate for a short period.[4] Although Fizzing Whizbees were one of his favourite sweets,[5] 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.[4]
Honeydukes sweetshop in Hogsmeade stocks Fizzing Whizbees in a large barrel.[3] Ron Weasley described them to Harry Potter and Hermione Granger in high anticipation of their first weekend trip to Hogsmeade in 1993.[2]
Real-world version of Fizzing Whizzbees
Behind the scenes
- Fizzing Whizbees are one of several Harry Potter tie-in sweets that have been manufactured. One reviewer said they are essentially the same as Pop Rocks.[6]
- The Billywig sting ingredient may have been inspired by the many off-putting urban legends involving sweets, including the one that Bubble Yum, the world's first non-hard chewing gum, was made soft by the inclusion of spiders' eggs.[7]
- Honeydukes at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter sells another version of Fizzing Whizbees. They are chocolate bees with a fruity flavoured fizzy in the centre. They maintain the film version packaging.
- Albus Dumbledore used "Fizzing Whizbee" as the password to his office in 1995.[8]
Appearances
- 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 Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Appears in extra feature on Disc 2)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 See this image.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 5 (The Dementor)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 10 (The Marauder's Map)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 23 (The Yule Ball)
- ↑ "Mini Review: Harry Potter Fizzing Whizbees" on CandyAddict.com
- ↑ "Spider Eggs in Bubble Yum" on Snopes.com
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 22 (St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries)
