Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Skiving Snackbox
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Magic | |
| Skiving Snackbox | |
|---|---|
| Type | Magical artifact |
| Features | Various ways of becoming temporarily ill |
| First Appearance | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
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[edit] Overview
Skiving Snackboxes, a creation of Fred and George Weasley, are a portable way of escaping from ("skiving off") classes or other duties.
[edit] Extended Description
As would be expected of Fred and George, one of the first things they invent for their joke shop, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, is a way of escaping from classes. Skiving Snackboxes, which are under development throughout Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is that escape. Typically, a Skiving Snackbox is a candy with two colored ends; eating from the one end will bring on some sickness, eating from the other end will cure it. In order to secure the fastest escape from class, illnesses caused by Skiving Snackboxes are designed to be dramatic.
Several different Snackboxes are mentioned in passing:
- Fainting Fancies cause the person taking them to pass out.
- Nosebleed Nougat results in a sudden and dramatic nosebleed.
- Puking Pastilles cause repeated projectile vomiting.
- Fever Fudge gives a very high fever; a prototype, tested by Fred and George, has a side effect of giving them large, pus-filled boils in a very private place. A later version which makes use of Murtlap tentacles seems to resolve this problem.
