20 Facts Every Harry Potter Super-Nerd Should Know
18. Amortentia Smells Like Weasleys?
Its perhaps by no accident that Rowling placed the Potions lesson on the love potion Amortentia in the sixth year, where our sixteen-year-old heroes and heroines hormones were running amuck. Some eagle-eyed fans have noticed some particularities implied in the text of what Amortentia smells like to different characters (for those of you unfamiliar, Amortentia smells like ones favourite scents). Specifically, in Half-Blood Prince, Hermione is telling the class, as she does, of this unique property of the potion, giving herself as an example only, she stops after new parchment, clearly embarrassed. Readers assumed and Rowling confirmed that she was a few seconds away from blurting out her crush on the apparently sweet-smelling Ron Weasley. Similarly, when Harry gets a whiff of the potion, he notes that it smells like treacle tart and something flowery he recalls he smelled at the Burrow: in this case, it was later revealed that our hormonal hero was unknowingly recalling the scent of Ginnys his own preferred Weasley hair.
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