A cauldron is a kind of kettle that is used in the wizarding world to brew potions. They appear throughout the Harry Potter book series.
Description[]
Cauldrons can be purchased at Potage's Cauldron Shop.[1] Chizpurfles are known to live in cauldrons in order to gorge on lingering drops of potions.[2]
Every first year student of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has to bring a pewter cauldron of standard size two for their first year.[1]
History[]
Broken cauldron
In the Middle Ages, the game of Creaothceann was played with cauldrons strapped to the heads of every player. They were used to catch rocks and boulders that were dropped out of the sky.[3]
Bruno Schmidt survived an Erkling attack by hitting it over the head with his father's collapsible cauldron.[4]
For his first year at Hogwarts, Harry wanted to buy a gold cauldron instead of the pewter one that he was asked to bring but Rubeus Hagrid stopped him.[1] Before his second year at Hogwarts, Vernon Dursley locked Harry's cauldron in the Cupboard under the Stairs.[5]
Three years later, Mundungus Fletcher was on guard duty for the Order of the Phoenix to protect Harry at Privet Drive. He abandoned his duty to get stolen cauldrons which had fallen off a broomstick even though Arabella Figg had given him a warning to stay.[6]
The Department of International Magical Cooperation once received a report on the importance of having a standardised cauldron thickness size, with international imports to Britain being too thin and leakages increasing at a rate of nearly three percent per year.[7] In an article for the Daily Prophet, Rita Skeeter suggested that the British Ministry of Magic was wasting their time discussing something so trivial.[8]
Cauldrons[]
The shells of Fire Crabs have been used to create highly prized cauldrons. To protect the beast, a reservation has been established in its native land, Fiji.[9] There are at minimum two known standard cauldron sizes, which appear to be numbered: Hogwarts Students require Standard Size 2.[10]
- Gold
- Silver
- Self-stirring
- Collapsible
Notes and sources[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 5
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: An A-Z of Fantastic Beasts (Chizpurfle)
- ↑ Quidditch Through the Ages, Chapter Two: Ancient Broom Games
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: An A-Z of Fantastic Beasts (Erkling)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 1
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 2
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 5
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 10
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: An A-Z of Fantastic Beasts (Fire Crab)
- ↑ PS4