Herbologist

Warning!

At least some content in this article is derived from information featured in: Hogwarts Legacy & Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells & Harry Potter: Magic Awakened & Harry Potter: Wizards Unite & Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery.
As such, spoilers will be present within the article.

A Herbologist was a wizard or witch who specialised in the field of Herbology, the study of magical and mundane plants and fungi. Pomona Sprout,^[1]^[2] Herbert Beery^[3] and Neville Longbottom^[4] were Professors of Herbology at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, while Tilden Toots was a celebrity herbologist in the wizarding world.^[5]

History

The Sunday edition of The New York Ghost published on 28 November 1926 reported a Mandrake attack on a Herbologist.^[6]

Known Herbologists

Behind the scenes

Elladora Ketteridge, the witch who accidentally discovered the use of Gillyweed,^[7]^[8]^[15] may have been a Herbologist.

Appearances

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) (Mentioned only)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (video game) (Mentioned only)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mentioned only)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play) (Mentioned only)
Quidditch Through the Ages (Mentioned only)
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Mentioned only)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (Mentioned in a newspaper)
Pottermore
Wizarding World
J. K. Rowling's official site
LEGO Harry Potter
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup
Wonderbook: Book of Spells
Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World
Harry Potter for Kinect
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells
Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
Hogwarts Legacy

Notes and references

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 8 (The Potions Master)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 6 (Gilderoy Lockhart)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 The Tales of Beedle the Bard - "The Fountain of Fair Fortune"
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Epilogue (Nineteen Years Later)
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 J. K. Rowling's official site
↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (see this image)
↑ ^7.0 ^7.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
↑ Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World
↑ ^10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 ^11.2 ^11.3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) - Chapter 22 (The Second Task)
↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 5 (Diagon Alley)
↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
↑ Hogwarts Legacy
↑ Pottermore

Herbology

Herbologists
Blossom Degrasse · Miranda Goshawk · Quiac Marinus · Beaumont Marjoribanks · Nepali wizard · Gethsemane Prickle · Sanjay Shanker · Selina Sapworthy · Phyllida Spore · Tilden Toots · Hadrian Whittle · Sir Winogrand
Herbology at Hogwarts
Herbology Award · Herbology Lesson Cup · Herbology Race Cup · Herbology Store
Greenhouses	One · Two · Three · Four · Five · Six · Seven · Professor's Office
Professors	Herbert Beery · Pomona Sprout · Neville Longbottom · Unnamed Professor (19th century)
Textbooks	Flesh-Eating Trees of the World · Ingredient Encyclopedia · One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi · Winogrand's Wondrous Water Plants
Plants studied and grown at Hogwarts
Aconite · Asphodel · Belladonna · Bouncing Bulb · Bubotuber · Bubotuber pus · Chinese Chomping Cabbage · Cowbane · Devil's Snare · Dirigible plum · Dittany · Fanged Geranium · Fat cactus-like plant · Fire Seed Bush · Flitterbloom · Flutterby bush · Fluxweed · Gillyweed · Ginger · Honking daffodil · Ivy · Knotgrass · Lavender · Leaping Toadstool · Mandrake · Mimbulus mimbletonia · Mistletoe · Moly · Nettle · Puffapod · Raspberry · Rose · Sage · Screechsnap · Self-fertilising shrub · Shrivelfig · Snargaluff · Sneezewort · Sopophorous plant · Spiky Bush · Spiky Prickly Plant · Stinksap · Sugar Shrub · Toad-eating plant · Tormentil · Umbrella Flower · Valerian · Vampiric vegetation · Venomous Tentacula · Walking plant · Wax vegetables · Whomping Willow · Wiggentree · Wild rice · Wormwood
Spells taught in Herbology at Hogwarts
Fire-Making Spell (Incendio) · Herbivicus Charm (Herbivicus) · Incendio Duo Spell (Incendio Duo) · Lumos Solem Spell (Lumos Solem) · Severing Charm (Diffindo)

[PS8-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 8 (The Potions Master)

[COS6-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 6 (Gilderoy Lockhart)

[TBBE-3] 3.0 ^3.1 The Tales of Beedle the Bard - "The Fountain of Fair Fortune"

[DHEpilogue-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Epilogue (Nineteen Years Later)

[JKRS-5] 5.0 ^5.1 J. K. Rowling's official site

[6] Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (see this image)

[PSG-7] 7.0 ^7.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)

[COSG-8] 8.0 ^8.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)

[FBC-9] Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World

[WU-10] 10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 Harry Potter: Wizards Unite

[GOFF-11] 11.0 ^11.1 ^11.2 ^11.3 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film) - Chapter 22 (The Second Task)

[PS5-12] Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 5 (Diagon Alley)

[DHF2-13] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

[HL-14] Hogwarts Legacy

[PM-15] Pottermore

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