This may be because the Pygmy Puffs are small, harmless and not joke items, and that the ban Argus Filch placed on Weasley's Wizard Wheezes may only affect their joke products. Despite not being on the Hogwarts supply list and Argus Filch's ban on the Weasley's Wizard Wheezes products in Hogwarts, Ginny somehow managed to bring Arnold with her into the school.However, as they are merely miniature pink or purple Puffskeins, this may not count as an offence as Fred and George Weasley may have attained a special licence to breed them and/or simply used the Colour Change Charm (or Crinus Muto) with the Shrinking Charm or Diminuendo or some Shrinking Solution. While some magical creatures can naturally change their size, Pygmy Puffs would appear to be violations of the Ban on Experimental Breeding.A group of Puffskeins or Pygmy Puffs was called a poffle.
Luna Lovegood believed that all Pygmy Puffs sang on Boxing Day. Pygmy Puffs resembled little fluffy balls that rolled around, squeaked and came in various shades of pink and purple.
When they arrived at the graveyard it led to, Mathilda said "Why am I surprised? It was hardly going to lead to a basket of Pygmy Puffs!" Characteristics ĭuring the investigation of their 9th case, Mathilda Grimblehawk and her partner had to follow a trail of blood. Ginny once joked that her brother Ron had a tattoo of a Pygmy Puff, without saying where, when Romilda Vane was pestering her about whether Harry Potter had a tattoo of a Hippogriff. Baby Pygmy Puffs were also for sale at the Magical Menagerie. Ginny Weasley bought a purple Pygmy Puff named Arnold in August 1996, which she played with at Hogwarts. Ginny looking at the Pygmy Puffs at the Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes