Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Bubotuber
| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Magic | |
| Bubotuber | |
|---|---|
| Type | Magical plant |
| Features | Black and sluglike |
| First Appearance | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
Overview
[edit | edit source]Bubotubers are the ugliest plants Harry has ever seen, looking like thick black slugs sticking vertically out of the plant pots.
Extended Description
[edit | edit source]Bubotubers, despite their extreme ugliness, seem to have at least one valuable product. Large, shiny swellings grow on the plant; these are full of a yellowish-green liquid, the "pus", which smells strongly of petrol (gasoline). The raw pus can have unpleasant effects on the skin, so the harvesters must wear dragon-hide gloves; but when properly prepared, it is an excellent cure for the more stubborn forms of acne.
Analysis
[edit | edit source]Bubotubers are quite a minor sidelight into the world of magic. In this book, they are used for two things: first, to show, by making the plants in Herbology classes more dangerous, that Harry's class has advanced further in their studies, and second, to provide a reasonable noxious substance for inclusion in the hate-mail later directed at Hermione. One suspects that this work with bubotubers may be somehow associated with the jinx that Hermione later lays on Marietta Edgecombe.
Questions
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- How do you pronounce "bubotuber"?