As a child, no villain was to me more savage than the zucchini. My mother grew the scoundrels in the backyard, and whether she was deliberately scheming to improve her yields, or the climate just ...

“The mandrake forms an essential part of most antidotes, it is also, however, dangerous. Who can tell me why?” That was the question Professor Pomona Sprout posed to her Herbology class at Hogwarts.