Pomona Sprout

Pomona Sprout (b. May 15) is the fictional Herbology teacher and head of Hufflepuff house in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. She is a dumpy, cheerful little witch. She wears shabby earth-covered robes and a patched and frayed hat over her fly-away grey hair.

Related Topics:
Fictional - Herbology - Hufflepuff - J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter

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Professor Sprout was played by British character actress Miriam Margolyes on screen.

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Her most notable accomplishment in the Harry Potter novels is having prepared a draught of mandrake to revive those who had been petrified in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. She subsequently appeared in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She made a strong amount of bubotuber pus that helps clear up stubborn forms of acne.

Related Topics:
Mandrake - Petrified - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Later on in the school year she was chosen to comfort Amos Diggory and his wife after the death of their son, Hufflepuff student Cedric Diggory at the hands of Lord Voldemort.

Related Topics:
Amos Diggory - Hufflepuff - Cedric Diggory - Lord Voldemort

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In Order of the Phoenix, she accepts Harry Potter's story in The Quibbler about Lord Voldemort's resurrection. She awarded Harry 20 points to Gryffindor for telling his story, under a clever ruse.

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In Half-Blood Prince Professor Sprout fights the Death Eaters along with her colleagues Minerva McGonagall and Filius Flitwick and five students from Dumbledore's Army. Professor Sprout is one of the main advocates of keeping Hogwarts open after Dumbledore's death, stating that Albus Dumbledore would've wanted it. She also supported the suggestion that Dumbledore should be laid to rest at Hogwarts. She attended Dumbledore's funeral, where she was seen cleaner than her students ever previously saw her, a reference to her usual activity gardening in the Hogwarts greenhouses.

Related Topics:
Death Eaters - Minerva McGonagall - Filius Flitwick - Dumbledore's Army

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As a likely reference to her subject of teaching, Professor Sprout shares her first name with Pomona, the goddess of fruit trees and horticulture in Roman mythology. Her last name is equally appropriate; "sprout" is an English verb meaning "to grow (as shoots or buds)".

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