Gillyweed
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Gillyweed is a fictional plant in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. It looks like slimy, greyish green rat tails, and tastes unpleasantly slimy and rubbery, like octopus tentacles. When eaten, Gillyweed causes the user to grow gills and thus breathe underwater, as well as webbed feet and webbing between fingers to make swimming easier. The effect lasts for about an hour. Its spelling may have been influenced by the real gillyflower.
Gillyweed may or may not be related to gillywater, which Professor McGonagall orders at the Three Broomsticks in Chapter Ten of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and which Romilda Vane offers to Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Harry Potter eats Gillyweed in Goblet of Fire in order to complete the second task. In the book, he is given the Gillyweed by Dobby who most likely stole it from Professor Snape's office (Snape later accuses Harry of stealing the Gillyweed). The fake Moody's first plan involved...
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