Overview

Horklumps are a magical beast that resemble a pink fleshy looking mushroom that are said to be covered in coarse black bristles and sparse. Despite what they looked like they weren't a plant or fungi but they were considered a living beast.

About the horklump

The origin of horklumps is said to be Scandinavia, but they ended up spreading all over the northern part of Europe and by 1991 they were found in Scotland.

Their preferred prey seems to be earthworms, they hunted them using their muscular tentacles they have spreading them underground.

Horklumps are fast spreading and are said to breed so fast that an average garden could be overgrown by horklumps in the matter of a few days.

They are the favourite food of garden gnomes, and it's said that streeler venom has a known substance that horklumps don't like.

According to Newt Scamander there is no real magical use for horklumps. Even though their juices are mentioned in multiple potions such as herbicide and wiggenweld. Their tentacles are also edible and can be served as horklump tentacle skewers.

History of the horklump

Honoria (Aunt of Albus Dumbledore) was said to have called off her engagement to a wizard, after she caught him fondling with a horklump. She was so shocked that she couldn't continue their relationship afterwards. But to the public she always said it was because the wizard was too cold at heart.

Gilderoy Lockhart wrote about horklumps in his book Marauding with monsters, where he should have visited fans in a rural Essex. There he should have helped the fans clearing a path through their horklump infested garden. He afterwards declined the fans' gift of some of their Celery and beetroot wine. But how much truth there is to this story is unknown, since a lot of the stories told by Gilderoy Lockhart weren't true. He later wrote in his book that a great way of removing horklumps was to hit them with the knockback jinx, grabbing them, twisting them and then ripping them out of the soil they were living in.

Credits/References

Written by Mason Hayes
Base code by Andrew Sutherland, edited by Iselin Merilä and Desmond Gray.