Wizarding Sweets and Confections

• Type: Magical Consumables, Food
• Owners: N/A (Commercially available to the Wizarding World)
• Maker: Various, including Honeydukes Sweetshop and Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.

Wizarding sweets, or confections, are a vast and popular category of edible magical products in the Wizarding World. They are far more varied and fantastical than their Muggle counterparts, often imbued with spells and enchantments that cause amusing, strange, or sometimes hazardous side effects. They are primarily sold at shops like Honeydukes Sweetshop in Hogsmeade, aboard the Hogwarts Express from the trolley witch, and at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes in Diagon Alley. Notable types of magical sweets and their effects include:

• Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans: Famous jelly beans that come in an enormous range of flavours, from appealing ones like chocolate and peppermint to disgusting ones like liver, tripe, vomit, and earwax. Eating them is a gamble, summed up by their slogan: “A Risk With Every Mouthful!”
• Chocolate Frogs: A popular confection made of chocolate shaped like a frog, enchanted to move and jump realistically. Each package contains a collectible card featuring a famous witch or wizard, which students often trade.
• Skiving Snackboxes: A range of sweets invented by Fred and George Weasley to induce temporary, believable illnesses to get the eater out of class. Each sweet has a double-ended effect; one side causes the symptom, and the other contains the antidote. The range includes:
  • Puking Pastilles: Induce vomiting.
  • Nosebleed Nougat: Cause a heavy nosebleed.
  • Fainting Fancies: Cause the user to faint.
  • Fever Fudge: Induce a high fever.
• Fizzing Whizzbees: Large sherbet balls that cause the eater to levitate a few inches off the ground.
• Acid Pops: Known to be so acidic they can burn a hole through the tongue. Albus Dumbledore used “Acid Pops” as a password to his office.
• Ton-Tongue Toffee: A sweet that causes the tongue to swell to an enormous size upon consumption.
• Sugar Quills: Quills made of solid sugar, allowing students to suck on them during class while appearing to be deep in thought. They come in various flavours and are available in a “deluxe” version that lasts longer.
• Ice Mice: Sweets that cause one's teeth to chatter and squeak.
• Drooble's Best Blowing Gum: A brand of chewing gum that creates large, bluebell-coloured bubbles that do not pop for days.
• Other Sweets: The wizarding world also features Liquorice Wands, Jelly Slugs, Cauldron Cakes, Pumpkin Pasties, and Cockroach Clusters.

While not strictly a magical sweet, mundane chocolate is known to be a highly effective remedy for the after-effects of a Dementor attack, alleviating the cold and dread they leave behind.

Sweets play a significant and recurring role throughout the Harry Potter series, often serving as a symbol of the wonder, fun, and danger of the Wizarding World. For Harry Potter, his first purchase of magical sweets from the Hogwarts Express trolley marks his true entry into the magical world. Having grown up deprived, the act of buying a large quantity of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Chocolate Frogs, and more to share with Ron Weasley solidifies the beginning of their friendship. Honeydukes Sweetshop is a central location for students during their visits to Hogsmeade, representing freedom and enjoyment. The secret passage from Hogwarts to the Honeydukes cellar is crucial to the plot of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, allowing Harry to visit the village despite not having permission. The invention and sale of sweets are central to the story of Fred and George Weasley. Their early experiments with items like Ton-Tongue Toffee, which they test on Dudley Dursley, eventually lead to their masterpiece: the Skiving Snackboxes. These sweets become a tool of rebellion against the oppressive regime of Dolores Umbridge at Hogwarts and provide the start-up capital for their successful joke shop, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. Sweets are also used for more nefarious purposes. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Romilda Vane attempts to give Harry a box of Chocolate Cauldrons laced with a powerful Love Potion. Ron consumes them by mistake, triggering a key series of events that ultimately leads to him being poisoned. Finally, Albus Dumbledore's fondness for sweets is a notable character trait, as he frequently uses the names of various confections, such as Sherbet Lemon and Cockroach Cluster, as passwords to his office.

• According to J.K. Rowling, the creator of Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Bertie Bott, was a wizard confectioner who accidentally created the infamous beans when he tried to make a batch of tasty sweets but inadvertently included a pair of dirty socks. He embraced the marketing potential and adopted the slogan “a risk with every mouthful.” (Pottermore)
• The packaging and design of the sweets, particularly Chocolate Frogs and Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, were heavily featured in the film adaptations and have become iconic pieces of real-world merchandise associated with the franchise. (film)