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=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone|Philosopher's Stone]] ===
[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Harry Potter|Harry]] finds that he has Professor Sprout for [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Herbology|Herbology]]. He is learning how to care for the herbs and fungi that are used in magic, and their properties.
Professor Sprout was teaching at Hogwarts during the 1991–1992 school year. Just before the start of the new school year, Albus Dumbledore trusted her to contribute to the defences of the Philosopher's Stone Chambers. Sprout, being the Herbology Professor, planted a large amount of Devil's Snare in her Chamber, which broke the fall of the one trying to get the Stone but also tried to kill them. The trick was to use fire or sunlight to force the Snare into retreat.
Harry, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Ron Weasley|Ron]], and [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Hermione Granger|Hermione]] learn from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rubeus Hagrid|Hagrid]] that one of the enchantments guarding the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Philosopher's Stone|Philosopher's Stone]] was put in place by Professor Sprout. When they go through the trap door, they find that her contribution is a large [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Devil's Snare|Devil's Snare plant]], which traps Harry and Ron. Hermione manages to conjure fire to force it to retreat and free them.
This year, Professor Sprout took on new students Leanne, Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones, Megan Jones, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Ernie Macmillan, Wayne Hopkins and Zacharias Smith into her House, Hufflepuff. She taught her first years three times a week in Greenhouse One, and taught them how to care for various herbs and fungi, aswell as the Severing Charm and Bluebell flames, and lectured them on Devil's Snare. One of these first years was the famous Harry Potter, who Sprout was probably delighted to teach.
=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets|Chamber of Secrets]] ===
Professor Sprout, somewhat the worse for wear, enters our story being trailed by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gilderoy Lockhart|Professor Lockhart]]; it seems Lockhart has been giving her pointers regarding the first aid she is providing for the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Whomping Willow|Whomping Willow]], which Harry and Ron had driven into the night before. It does not seem that the pointers were much use; Professor Sprout seems somewhat disgruntled when she arrives, and her mood is not lightened when Lockhart asks to speak privately with Harry for a moment.
The following year, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley drove a bewitched car into the school's Whomping Willow. As the Herbology teacher, Professor Sprout was in charge of doctoring the damaged tree by wrapping bandages around the broken bandages. On the first day of term, Gilderoy Lockhart, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, gave her useless pointers and made out that he was a better Herbologist than her. Sprout was made unhappy further when Lockhart took Harry out of the lesson to speak to him. That day, she taught her second years how to re-pot a new growth of Mandrakes and Mandragora. She awarded twenty points to Gryffindor because of Hermione Granger's answers aswell.
Once Harry returns to the greenhouse, he finds that Professor Sprout is giving instructions on the repotting of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Mandrake|young Mandrake plants]].
After Mrs. Norris, the cat belonging to Argus Filch, the caretaker, was found petrified, Professor Dumbledore decided that they were to use a Mandrake Restorative Draught to cure her. Professor Sprout was put in charge of maturing her growth of Mandrakes until they could be chopped up, stewed and used by Potions master Severus Snape for the draught.
The mandrake plants prove necessary over the course of the book as students and others are petrified by an apparently unknown monster. We hear that Professor Sprout has canceled one class in the dead of winter because she needs to fit winter clothing on the Mandrakes and doesn't trust anyone else to help; and over the course of the year we hear about how the Mandrakes are growing and maturing.
Sprout attended the Quidditch match between the Gryffindor and Slytherin teams, sat high up in the stands by Charms Master Filius Flitwick and Governor Lucius Malfoy. When second year Slytherin Draco Malfoy had an accident and came off of his broom, Sprout looked very shocked and worried, while Lucius looked ashamed.
Finally, at the end of the year, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Minerva McGonagall|Professor McGonagall]] announces that Professor Sprout has informed her that the Mandrakes are ready and the potion to revive the petrified students will be administered that evening.
By the end of the year, the Mandrake Restorative Draught was completed and administered to those who were petrified; Mrs. Norris, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Colin Creevey, Hermione Granger, Penelope Clearwater and Nearly Headless Nick. At the End-of-Term Feast, Professor Dumbledore and the rest of the school applauded Sprout and Poppy Pomfrey, the matron, for the Anti-Petrification Potion.
=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Prisoner of Azkaban|Prisoner of Azkaban]] ===
=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Goblet of Fire|Goblet of Fire]] ===
Professor Sprout starts the year by telling the students that they will be squeezing pus from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Bubotuber|Bubotubers]].
Professor Sprout was still teaching at the school during the 1994–1995 school year, despite the ordeal with Sirius Black the previous term. That year, the Triwizard Tournament was held at Hogwarts and one of the Triwizard Champions was sixth year Hufflepuff Cedric Diggory, whom Sprout was friendly with.
The first [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Defence Against the Dark Arts|Defence Against the Dark Arts]] class, taught by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Alastor Moody|Professor Moody]], leaves [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Neville Longbottom|Neville Longbottom]] severely shaken. Moody asks Neville back to his office for tea, and while he is there, tells him that Professor Sprout has spoken highly of his abilities in Herbology. Moody also gives him a book, ''Magical Mediterranean Water-Plants and Their Properties''.
Sprout taught her fourth years how to squeeze pus from Bubotubers during the first lesson of the year, and had to tell Seamus Finnigan that they were squeezing pus twice, because he thought he jeard otherwise. By the end of the lesson, each student had collected several pints, which Sprout gave to Madam Pomfrey since it could be used to remedy acne.
At the end of the book, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Cedric Diggory|Cedric Diggory]] is murdered by [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Peter Pettigrew|Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail)]]. It is mentioned that Professor Sprout, as head of Cedric's house, is speaking with his parents.
At some point early on in the school year, Professor Sprout told the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, "Alastor Moody", how good Neville Longbottom was at Herbology. Moody then gave Neville a book on plants and fungi called Magical Mediterranean Water Plants and Their Properties.
As Cedric was not the only Hogwarts Champion, Professor Sprout seemed to act coldly towards Harry Potter, who had mysteriously been entered into the Tournament. At the end of the year, when Cedric was found murdered, Sprout spoke with his parents; Amos Diggory and his wife, since she knew their son best as Head of his House. She attended the Cedric's Memorial Feast and believed Harry and Dumbledore's claims that Lord Voldemort had been reborn.
=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Order of the Phoenix|Order of the Phoenix]] ===
Harry, Ron, and Hermione are still taking Herbology. At one point, Professor Sprout speaks sharply to them after one of the bouncing bulbs which they have been assigned to plant breaks loose and, bouncing off the glass, hits Harry in the back of the head.
The following year, Dolores Umbridge was made Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts, though all of the staff despised her, including Sprout. For her first lesson with her Ordinary Wizarding Level students, Sprout lectured them on the importance of the exams and had a practical which involved using Dragon dung Fertiliser. She also set them a long essay for the following lesson.
Shortly after Harry's interview is published in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/The Quibbler|the ''Quibbler'']], Professor Sprout, rewarding him for his bravery in speaking out, awards Gryffindor house ten points when he hands her a pair of secateurs.
Soon after, Sprout had to tell Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger off after a bouncing bulb they were supposed to be planting broke free and hit Harry in the back of the head after bouncing off the greenhouse glass.
After Harry took part in an interview for The Quibbler to deliberately disobey Dolores Umbridge, Sprout approved of him and awarded him twenty house points after he passed her a watering can to show her approval. After Sybill Trelawney, the Divination Professor, was fired by Umbridge, Sprout, McGonagall and Flitwick guided her back to the castle.
Sprout managed to show Professor Umbridge her capability of teaching and avoided being sacked herself. She was later relieved to have Umbridge removed from the school, and welcomed Professor Dumbledore back as Headmaster. Sometime this year, Sprout held career consultations with her Hufflepuffs.
=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Half-Blood Prince|Half-Blood Prince]] ===
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When Harry, with the assistance of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Felix Felicis|Felix Felicis potion]], is trying to recover a particular memory from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Horace Slughorn|Professor Slughorn]], he feels impelled to go past the greenhouses. There, he sees Professors Slughorn and Sprout harvesting leaves of some plant for Slughorn's third year Potions class, and talking about how they are most effective when collected at twilight.
▲Not long after, Sprout had her sixth year class harvesting Snargaluff pods. She chided Harry, Ron and Hermione for being slow; as they were still strapping on their protective gear (and talking), while Neville had already harvested his first pod. The trio's first pod bounced free while they were trying to open it, and rebounded off the glass roof of the greenhouse, knocking Professor Sprout's battered hat off.
Professor Sprout, as head of Hufflepuff house, is present at the meeting of the heads of house at the end of the book, along with Professor McGonagall (as head of Gryffindor and acting Headmaster), Professor Slughorn (as head of Slytherin), [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Filius Flitwick|Professor Flitwick]] (as head of Ravenclaw), Hagrid, and Harry. She has little to say at the meeting, but is in favour of the school remaining open.
Later on in the year, Sprout helped pick leaves of some sort for the new Potions master, Horace Slughorn, at twilight on the vegetable patch when the plant was particularly efficacious. She left towards her Greenhouses after she had collected enough for Slughorn's third year class, with some spare.
At the end of the year, the Battle of the Astronomy Tower took place, with the Death Eaters invading Hogwarts and fighting against the students, teachers, Aurors and the Order of the Phoenix. Professor Sprout likely participated, as did Minerva McGonagall, Filius Flitwick and Rubeus Hagrid.
After Professor Dumbledore's death, Sprout met with fellow staff members Minerva McGonagall, Filius Flitwick, Horace Slughorn and Rubeus Hagrid to discuss the future of Hogwarts. She was a staunch advocate of keeping the school open, stating that Dumbledore would have wanted it so. She also supported the suggestion that Dumbledore should be laid to rest at Hogwarts, though no Headmaster has ever received a burial there before.
Sprout attended the Funeral of Albus Dumbledore and led the Hufflepuffs down there too, looking cleaner than she ever had been before; without a single patch on her usually battered hat.
=== [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows|Deathly Hallows]] ===
Pomona Sprout, as the head of Hufflepuff house, is one of the Heads of House that Professor McGonagall summons when she decides to oust the current Headmaster, [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape|Professor Snape]], and defend Hogwarts against the Death Eaters so that Harry can locate the final [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Horcrux|Horcrux]]. Professor Sprout is present when Snape makes his escape, and is in the Great Hall, with the Hufflepuffs, when McGonagall announces the evacuation of the under-age wizards.
Prior to the start of the 1997–1998 school year, Severus Snape was made Headmaster of Hogwarts while his fellow Death Eaters, Alecto and Amycus Carrow, became the Muggle Studies and Defence Against the Dark Arts teachers respectively. Despite the school now in the grasp of Lord Voldemort, or perhaps because of it, Professor Sprout returned to the castle to teach and protect the students.
The Carrows were put in charge of all discipline and punishments, though Sprout and the staff never sent students to them if they could avoid it. She also, with the other Heads of House, protected the pupils from Alecto and Amycus.
One night, Sprout, with Professors Flitwick and Slughorn, heard a disturbance in one of the corridors and, still in their night-clothes, went to find out what it was. They found McGonagall duelling Snape to the death, and, after being defeated by the three of them, Snape then ran into a classroom, chased by Flitwick, Sprout and McGonagall, and flew out of the window, escaping them.
Aware that Lord Voldemort would soon attack the castle, Sprout and the other professors set to defend the school and the students. Sprout retreated to the greenhouses, collecting various dangerous plants, and, with the help of a dozen of her students (namely Neville Longbottom), lobbed Mandrakes and everything else over the battlements and onto the Death Eaters. She took a troop of of-age students up to the Astronomy Tower, where they could easily work spells and drop plants such as Venomous Tentaculas and Snargaluffs.
Sprout also witnessed the duel between Harry Potter and Voldemort in the Great Hall and, after Voldemort's spell rebounded on him, Sprout, Flitwick and McGonagall all reached to hug Harry at the same time, while everyone else joined in.
We see Professor Sprout acting to defend Hogwarts against the Death Eaters attack. She is one of the teachers assigned to the battlements, and with the help of Neville among others, we see her carrying various magical plants to the tops of the towers to throw down upon the enemy.
A celebration feast was later held, but no one sat in their proper places; teachers, parents and students were all jumbled up. It is likely that Professor Sprout sat by the Hufflepuffs, since she was their Head of House.
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