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"Professor Sprout awarded Gryffindor twenty points when Harry passed her a watering can..."
— Professor Sprout awarding Harry Potter house points[src]

A watering can is a portable container, with a hand and funnel, used to water plants by hand.[5]

History[]

Enchanted watering cans were used to water plants in the grounds of Hogwarts during the late 19th century.[6]

Watering cans were kept in the Herbology greenhouses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for watering the various plants that grew in them.[1][4][7][3] In 1996, Professor Pomona Sprout awarded Harry Potter twenty house points to Gryffindor for handing her a watering can in the greenhouses, in order to show her support for his interview in The Quibbler, despite being forbidden to discuss it by Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six.[1]

Rubeus Hagrid kept a watering can outside his hut on the Hogwarts grounds.[2][4]

Watering cans were often collected and used by members of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force during the Calamity in the late 2010s/early 2020s, in order to water plants and fungi growing in wizarding greenhouses used to brew potions.[8]

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Notes and references[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 26 (Seen and Unforeseen)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 6 (The Letter from No One) - Herbology Lesson "Mandrakes"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
  5. ↑ Watering can on Wikipedia
  6. ↑ Hogwarts Legacy on X: "The enchanted watering cans of Hogwarts tend the grounds even during a rainy spring night - after all, the summer sun is just over the horizon. #HogwartsLegacy"
  7. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
  8. ↑ Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
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