- Ginny Weasley: "You can't come down here! No, sorry, you're going to have to go round by the swivelling staircase, someone's let off Garrotting Gas just along here -"
- Surly Hogwarts student: "I can't see no gas."
- Ginny Weasley: "That's because it's colourless! But if you want to walk through it, carry on, then we'll have your body as proof for the next idiot who doesn't believe us."
- — Ginny Weasley claiming to dissenting passer-bys about the gas[src]
A colourless gas,[1] Garrotting Gas was produced as a result of the creation of a certain potion.[3] Anyone exposed to the gas would find themselves choking and as a result, suffocate,[4] as the gas caught people by the neck if they passed through it.[5]
History
In the 1987–1988 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Severus Snape gave a flask of Garroting Gas to Jacob's sibling to be used as a defensive weapon against Patricia Rakepick.[6]
Jacob's sibling later used it in the Portrait Vault at the end of the 1988–1989 school year against Rakepick, after she attacked them and their fellow students in the vault.[7]
During the 1989–1990 school year at Hogwarts, Professor Snape taught sixth-year Potions students how to brew Garrotting Gas.[2]
Fred and George Weasley were planning to release some in Hogwarts in 1996, during Dolores Umbridge's tyrannical tenure as Headmistress, but they left the school before they had a chance. Their sister, Ginny, merely had to mention it to prevent students from traversing down a school corridor, which allowed Harry Potter and Hermione Granger to break into Umbridge's office to use her fireplace for communication.[1]
Etymology
A garrotte is a wiry weapon that can be used to strangle a victim, and also may refer to the action of "ripping through" something.
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game) (First appearance)
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 32 (Out of the Fire)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 45 (The Messenger) - Potions Lesson "Garrotting Gas"
- ↑ "Powerful potions revealed for new game" at the "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)" official site
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter Glossary at the Bloomsbury Harry Potter website
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Chapter 12 (Working with Snape)
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 30 (Into the Vault)
