Blood (Harry Potter)

> 'Family,' said Hagrid gloomily. 'Whatever yeh say, blood's important…' And he wiped a trickle of it out of his eye.
>
> Hagrid mopes at the ***Three Broomsticks Inn*** while suffering injuries caused by ***Grawp*** in ***1996***, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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**Blood** is a liquefied substance in some organisms, like humans, that carries ***oxygen*** throughout the body. In some ***creature***s, blood was known to possess ***magic***al qualities.

## Blood in the wizarding world

* A weakness payment required blood to be shed. This was needed to access The Cave.
* Blood pact involved the mixing of blood as part of a magical blood oath ritual.
* The blood of a unicorn would keep someone alive, even if they were "an inch from Death". It was also used alongside Nagini's venom to create a rudimentary body for Lord Voldemort's main soul.
* ***Re'em blood*** gave the drinkers immense strength for a short period of time.
* The ***Qilin*** had ***blood*** from which ***vision***s could be perceived in.
* Albus Dumbledore was known to have discovered the twelve uses of ***dragon*** ***blood***.
* Some ***creatures***, like ghosts and ***Inferi***, had no blood, because they were dead.
* Chicken blood mixed with brandy ***was fed to baby*** dragon***s every half-hour.***
* Some wizarding terms and nicknames used the word "blood". They included:
	+ Half-blood
	+ Pure-blood
	+ Mudblood
	+ Half-Blood Prince
	+ Bloody Baron
	+ Blood Quill
	+ Blood traitor
	+ Blood status
	+ Blood brothers
	+ Bloody hell
* Severus Snape was known as the "Half-Blood Prince", and invented the curse *Sectumsempra*, which lacerated the target, causing it to shed much blood. This spell had only been used by two known wizards, including:
	+ Harry Potter, in 1997, on Draco Malfoy, causing the latter to nearly bleed to death and the former later tried to use it on both the Inferi (which are bloodless) and Snape (who blocked the curse).

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* ***Honeydukes*** sold ***blood-flavoured lollipop***s, supposedly for vampires.
* Sometime into the ***11th century***, the ***Baron*** became known as the "Bloody Baron", in the afterlife as a ghost, after he killed ***Helena Ravenclaw*** and became covered in her blood.

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* In his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry caught Quirinus Quirrell (who was hooded) illegally killing ***unicorn***s and drinking their blood for Lord Voldemort in the ***Forbidden Forest***, whilst serving detention in there.
* In 1992, Rubeus Hagrid thought that a ***Blood-Sucking Bugbear*** was killing his ***roosters***, which had actually been killed by Ginny Weasley, being possessed by the fragmented soul of Tom Riddle.
* In 1995, the blood of Harry Potter helped in the Return of the Dark Lord.
* During the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, the Gryffindor house point hourglass was shattered by a curse, causing red rubies to flood the floor like blood.
* Voldemort's death, in 1998, was mostly because of Harry's blood in the Dark Lord's veins, making him unable to kill the young wizard.
* An advertisement for the ***Society for the Tolerance of Vampires*** published in the *Daily Prophet* on 8 February 1999 asked for an applicant to run their S.T.V. head office to be willing to quote their blood-type.

## Behind the scenes

* One of the chapters in Template:GOF is titled "***Flesh***, Bloodand Bone*".*
* The title of the sixth Harry Potter book, film, video game, and soundtrack is *Harry Potter and the Half-*Blood *Prince*.

## Appearances

* *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (film) (First appearance)
* *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (film)
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* Template:GOF
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## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Template:HBP
2. ↑ Template:COG
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (film), Chapter 15
4. ↑ Template:WU
5. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (film), Chapter 6
6. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (film), Chapter 14
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Template:HBP
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Template:HBP
9. ↑ Template:POA
10. ↑ Template:DH
11. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone* (film), Chapter 17
12. ↑ *Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets* (film), Chapter 11
13. ↑ Template:GOF
14. ↑ Template:HBP
15. ↑ Template:DHTemplate:DH