Pomona Sprout

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Template:HP Character Pomona Sprout (b. May 15) is the fictional Herbology teacher and head of Hufflepuff house in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. She is a dumpy, cheerful little witch. She wears shabby earth-covered robes and a patched and frayed hat over her fly-away grey hair.

Professor Sprout was played by British character actress Miriam Margolyes on screen.

Her most notable accomplishment in the Harry Potter novels is having prepared a draught of mandrake to revive those who had been petrified in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. She subsequently appeared in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She made a strong amount of bubotuber pus that helps clear up stubborn forms of acne.

Later on in the school year she was chosen to comfort Amos Diggory and his wife after the death of their son, Hufflepuff student Cedric Diggory at the hands of Lord Voldemort.

In Order of the Phoenix, she is a nonvocal supporter of Harry Potter's story about Lord Voldemort's resurrection. Like many teachers at Hogwarts, she detested Umbridge's presence, and did her best to disobey her. One such occasion was when she awarded twenty points to Gryffindor because Harry passed her a watering can.

After the battle at Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Professor Sprout got the students back to bed and was part of the meeting with Minerva McGonagall, Filius Flitwick, Horace Slughorn and Hagrid to discuss the future of Hogwarts. Professor Sprout is one of the main advocates of keeping Hogwarts open after Dumbledore's death, stating that Albus Dumbledore would've wanted it. She also supported the suggestion that Dumbledore should be laid to rest at Hogwarts. She attended Dumbledore's funeral, where she was seen cleaner than her students ever previously saw her, a reference to her usual activity gardening in the Hogwarts greenhouses.

As a likely reference to her subject of teaching, Professor Sprout shares her first name with Pomona, the goddess of fruit trees and horticulture in Roman mythology. Her last name is equally appropriate; "sprout" is an English verb meaning "to grow (as shoots or buds)".

Until June, 1997, she was the only Head of House in the current age to not have the same first initial as the last (Horace Slughorn takes over the helm as Head of Slytherin after Severus Snape's departure).
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