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Devil's Snare is a fictional plant from the Harry Potter series. It kills its victims by...

Devil's Snare is a fictional plant from the Harry Potter series. It kills its victims by constriction and reacts poorly to fire. It has appeared twice in the series. First, in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, it was Professor Sprout's protection against the theft of the Philosopher's Stone and proved an obstacle to Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Hermione defeats it by setting it on fire. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, potted Devil's Snare is sent to Unspeakable Broderick Bode while he is incapacitated in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries -- possibly by Lucius Malfoy, but almost certainly by somebody working for Lord Voldemort. Healer Strout, who is in charge of Bode, mistakes the deadly plant for a Flitterbloom and it later strangles the comatose Bode. In the film version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Hermione recites a poem about Devil's Snare: Devil's Snare, Devil's Snare / It's deadly fun / But will sulk in the sun. She and Harry relax and it lets them pass through, but she has to send sunlight at it for it to release Ron.