Whomping W Willow

A Whomping Willow was a very valuable, very violent sentient species of magical plant.
==Description==
Whomping Willows would attack anyone and anything that came within range of its branches. A deciduous plant, its limbs functioned as arms, and any damage to them had to be treated in much the same way.
A Whomping Willow could be rendered safely immobile with the Freezing Charm.
==History==
During the 1989–1990 school year at Hogwarts, Professor Pomona Sprout taught her sixth-year Herbology students about how to care for young Whomping Willows.
===Known Whomping Willows===
The most famous Whomping Willow was the one planted on the grounds of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Whomping Willow was planted around the year 1971 to cover up the opening of a secret passage leading from the Hogwarts grounds to the Shrieking Shack in the village of Hogsmeade.
It had a small knot near the base. Pressing the knot caused the tree to become immobilised. This allowed Remus Lupin to travel unnoticed to and from the Shrieking Shack, where he was able to undergo his transformation into a werewolf in privacy. To access the tunnel, Lupin's friend Peter Pettigrew would transform into his rat animagus form, becoming small enough to easily avoid the willow's branches and press the knot.
The willow's movements afterwards prevented Lupin from leaving while in his feral state.
Students would challenge each other to get as close as possible to the tree's trunk until the tree nearly took the eye of student Davey Gudgeon.
On 1 September 1992, Ron Weasley and Harry Potter crashed the Flying Ford Anglia into the Hogwarts Whomping Willow whilst trying to reach the school at the start of their second year, causing considerable damage to the tree. Severus Snape lectured them severely afterwards for damaging the tree, with Albus Dumbledore writing to both their families and Minerva McGonagall giving them detention. Pomona Sprout had to heal the Whomping Willow the next day with bandages.
==Appearances==
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Category:Folio Bruti Entries
Category:Foundables
Category:Plants