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- Ginny Weasley: "You can't come down here! No, sorry, you're going to have to go round by the swivelling staircase, someone's let off Garrotting Gas just along here -"
- Surly Hogwarts student: "I can't see no gas."
- Ginny Weasley: "That's because it's colourless! But if you want to walk through it, carry on, then we'll have your body as proof for the next idiot who doesn't believe us."
- — Ginny Weasley claiming to dissent passer-bys about the gas[src]
A colourless gas,[1] Garrotting Gas was produced as a result of the creation of a certain potion.[3] Anyone exposed to the gas would find themselves choking and as a result, may suffocate,[4] as the gas caught people by the neck if they passed through it.[5]
History
A bottle of Garrotting Gas
In the 1987–1988 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Severus Snape gave a flask of Garroting Gas to Jacob's sibling to be used as a defensive weapon against Patricia Rakepick.[6]
Patricia Rakepick choking on Garrotting Gas
Jacob's sibling later used it in the Portrait Vault at the end of the 1988–1989 school year against Rakepick, after she attacked them and their fellow students in the vault.[7]
During the 1989–1990 school year at Hogwarts, Professor Snape taught sixth-year Potions students how to brew Garrotting Gas.[2]
Fred and George Weasley were planning to release some in Hogwarts in 1996, during Dolores Umbridge's tyrannical tenure as Headmistress, but they left the school before they had a chance. Their sister, Ginny, merely had to mention it to prevent students from traversing down a school corridor, which allowed Harry Potter and Hermione Granger to break into Umbridge's office to use her fireplace for communication.[1]
Etymology
A garrotte is a wiry weapon that can be used to strangle a victim, and also may refer to the action of "ripping through" something.
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game) (First appearance)
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 32 (Out of the Fire)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 45 (The Messenger) - Potions Lesson "Garrotting Gas"
- ↑ "Powerful potions revealed for new game" at the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)" official site
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter Glossary at the Bloomsbury Harry Potter website
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Chapter 12 (Working with Snape)
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 30 (Into the Vault)
