![]() A boy called Davey Gudgeon nearly lost an eye, and they were forbidden to go near it. Students used to play a game, trying to get near enough to touch the trunk of the tree. James Potter managed to pull him out in time to save his life. Snape was curious and it almost got him killed by Lupin transformed into a "fully-grown werewolf" at the end of the tunnel. Sirius Black told Slytherin classmate Severus Snape how to stop the tree from whomping him, and somehow convinced him to do it on the night of a full moon. The Willow was so dangerous that it kept other people from entering the passage and encountering the werewolf. Lupin would go through a hole in the Willow’s roots every month and through a tunnel to transform into a werewolf in the Shack where he couldn't hurt anyone. 1971) to disguise the opening to a secret passage from Hogwarts to the Shrieking Shack. It was planted the same year that Remus Lupin arrived at Hogwarts (c. The Whomping Willow was a very valuable, very violent tree planted alone in the middle of the school grounds. The truth is that it was planted because I came to Hogwarts." - How the Willow came to be at Hogwarts " I told you, months ago, that the Whomping Willow was planted the year I came to Hogwarts. During the Battle of Hogwarts, Ron simply used a Levitation Charm to levitate a fallen twig into the knot which worked as well. ![]() Crookshanks also performed this duty during Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger's third year at Hogwarts. ![]() During the Marauders' time at Hogwarts, a transformed Peter Pettigrew, whose Animagus form was a rat, would slip in and push the knot. The tree could be frozen by pushing a knot on its base. A deciduous plant, its limbs functioned as arms and any damage to them was treated in much the same way. As was eloquently put by Ron Weasley, it was the only tree in the world that would hit back. ![]() Whomping Willows were a very valuable, very violent species of magical plant. Severus Snape: " I noticed, in my search of the park, that considerable damage seems to have been done to a very valuable Whomping Willow." Ron Weasley: " That tree did more damage to us than we -" - Severus Snape mentioning the value of this tree, whilst scolding Ron Weasley and Harry Potter
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