Pomona Sprout

Pomona Sprout
Born	15 May
Also called	Professor
Character information
Species	Human (Wizardkind)
Blood status	At least Half-blood
School	Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
House	Hufflepuff
Occupation	Herbology Professor at Hogwarts (by 1991 - ?) Head of Hufflepuff House
Book information
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Last appearance	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Pomona Sprout is a character in the Harry Potter book series. She is the Herbology Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Head of Hufflepuff house.

Biography

Early life

Pomona was born to a wizarding family on 15 May. At the age of eleven, she attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Hufflepuff house and excelled in Herbology.

When she graduated from Hogwarts, she became a Professor and taught Herbology. She was Head of Hufflepuff when Nymphadora Tonks attended the school in her House. Tonks once noted that she had an inability to behave and caused problems for Professor Sprout.

Professor Sprout was still teaching in September 1991 during Harry Potter's time at the school. In the summer of 1991, she had helped Albus Dumbledore defend the Philosopher's Stone by providing a Devil's Snare in the underground chambers underneath the third-floor corridor.

Chamber of Secrets

In September 1992, Professor Sprout had to doctor the Whomping Willow by putting banadages and slings around its limbs when it was damaged by the flying Ford Anglia. Professor Lockhart popped by prior to her teaching the second-years about Mandrakes, to tell her how to doctor it properly even though she knew how and found Lockhart condescending.

Professor Sprout was given the task of growing the Mandrakes to full-size and then have them used to put together the Mandrake Restorative Draught. The Chamber of Secrets had unleashed a Basilisk that was petrifying people in the school. She cancelled second-year Herbology for the final lesson of the winter term because it was snowing and she wanted to put scarves on the Mandrakes.

In April, the Mandrakes held a party and she knew it was nearly time until they reached full-size. In May, she told Professor McGonagall they were ready. She found out through Professor McGonagall that a student was taken into the Chamber of Secrets. She joined her, Professor Snape and Professor Flitwick in telling Professor Lockhart he was being sent to save her because he told everyone he knew how to find the entrance to it. McGonagall then sent the Head of Houses to tell their students that the school was going to be closed down.

Appearance

Pomona Sprout is a small, dumpy witch with flyaway hair. She wears a patched hat.