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Encyclopedia > Chocolate Frog (Harry Potter)

Chocolate frogs are delicacies in the Harry Potter universe. They are frogs made of chocolate and, because they are magical, they hop around. Chocolate frogs are each packaged with a magical collectable card giving a brief biography of a famous (in the Harry Potter universe and sometimes in other magical worlds) witch or wizard. The cards named by the Harry Potter books include: Cover of the original novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. ... Pobblebonk, Australia Frogs are amphibians in the Order Anura, which includes frogs and toads. ... Chocolate comes in dark, light, and white varieties with cocoa contributing the brown coloration. ... Look up Magic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Magic is any unexplained process (contrast this with technology). ... Biography (from the Greek words bios meaning life, and graphein meaning write) is a genre of literature and other forms of media like film, based on the written accounts of individual lives. ...

We are first introduced to chocolate frogs in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone when Harry is on the Hogwarts Express heading to Hogwarts. Having just met Ron Weasley, Harry buys a cart load of candy for the two of them to split. Some of the pieces of candy are chocolate frogs. Harry opens one and the frog jumps out the window. Harry then sees that that frog's card was Albus Dumbledore. There have been several notable people named Agrippa, mainly in the ancient world: Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the Roman who was a friend of Augustus Caesar His three sons: Gaius Vispanius Agrippa (a. ... Claudius Ptolemaeus, given contemporary German styling, in a 16th century engraved book frontispiece Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος; c. ... There have been several people named Ptolemy: Claudius Ptolemaeus, called Ptolemy, was an ancient Greek geographer and astronomer; The Ptolemaic dynasty of ancient Egypt included several kings by that name (for a full list, see that article); Ptolemy, a disciple of the Gnostic Valentinius is known only for writing a... Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of books written by J. K. Rowling. ... Morgan le Fay, by Anthony Frederick Sandys (1829 - 1904), 1864 (Birmingham Art Gallery): A spell-brewing Morgaine distinctly of Tennysons generation In the mythology of King Arthur, Morgan le Fay, alternatively known as Morgaine, Morgain or Morgana and a slew of related nicknames, is an important female figure and... This article is about the goddess. ... Paracelsus Paracelsus (November 11 or December 17, 1493 - September 24, 1541) was a famous alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist. ... Merlin Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin Emrys; also known as Myrddin Wyllt (Merlin the wild), Merlin Caledonensis (Scottish Merlin), Merlinus, and Merlyn) is the personage best known as the mighty wizard featured in accounts of Arthur of Britain starting with Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniae. ... Cover of the International edition, distributed in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone is the first volume in a planned series of seven books for children written by British author J. K. Rowling, and featuring Harry Potter, a young wizard. ... Rubeus Hagrid meets the Hogwarts Express at Hogsmeade station in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. ... Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of books written by J. K. Rowling. ...


Chocolate Frogs appear throughout the series. Some fans had speculated that members of the Order of the Pheonix used the cards found with the frogs to communicate. JK Rowling has denied this.


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