Five Below is genuinely one of the better places to stock up on Harry Potter candy — not just because of the prices, but because the selection actually covers the iconic stuff. Here are six worth grabbing.
1. Harry Potter™ Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans® 1.2oz – $2.50
The whole appeal here is the risk — half the beans taste like blueberry, watermelon, or coconut, and the other half hit earwax, soap, or vomit with disturbing accuracy. For $2.50, this is the best dare you can stage at a movie night or a birthday table.
Taste: When you land on a good one, it’s a classic chewy jelly bean with a clean, bright fruit payoff. Land on a bad one and the off-flavors are genuinely, impressively awful — not vaguely wrong but actually earwax-adjacent in a way that makes people shriek.
Make It Better: My trick is to line up a few beans, assign them numbers without looking at colors, and make people guess the flavor before they chew — the reactions are better than any party game I own.
Parting Thoughts: If you’ve got a Potter fan who enjoys a dare, this is the one to grab first.
2. Harry Potter™ Chocolate Frog™ With Collectible Wizard Card 0.55oz – $5.00
Milk chocolate with crisped rice, shaped like a frog, with a collectible wizard card tucked inside the box — this is the one item on this list that delivers two things at once: a snack and a find. A collector or a kid who just finished the series will be opening multiples just for the cards.
Taste: Solid milk chocolate with light crisped rice crunch throughout — familiar, sweet, and gone in three bites. It’s not a complex chocolate experience, but it’s genuinely good eating and not the waxy novelty-grade stuff you sometimes get with licensed candy.
Make It Better: Slide the card out before you unwrap the chocolate so it doesn’t get smudged, and sleeve it if you’re building a collection — they’re genuinely nice little pieces worth keeping flat.
Parting Thoughts: A dedicated collector will happily buy several for the card alone; at $5 for 0.55oz it’s a splurge on pure candy, but the collectible element earns it.
3. Haribo® Limited Edition Harry Potter Gummi Candy – $1.50
Four ounces of imported Haribo gummies in Wizarding World shapes — wands, owls, lightning bolts — at $1.50 is a straightforward win. These are the ones to toss in a candy bowl at a party or let a kid build their own movie-night snack bag.
Taste: Distinctly Haribo: firm, dense, and chewy in a way that American gummies never quite manage. The flavors include a caramel note that lands genuinely Butterbeer-adjacent, plus cotton candy, cola, cherry, and sweet apple — the caramel is the one everyone keeps reaching back for.
Make It Better: Mix these into a party candy bowl and leave the bag visible — the shaped gummies spark conversation, and the caramel flavor always gets a double-take from people who weren’t expecting it.
Parting Thoughts: At $1.50 for 4oz of real imported Haribo, this is the best pure value in the HP candy section.
4. Harry Potter™ Butterbeer™ Chewy Candy 1.5oz – $5.00
Butterscotch-flavored chews packed into their own little Butterbeer barrel — the packaging alone earns this a spot on any Hogwarts-themed party table. Unlike every other HP candy here, this one tries to recreate an actual flavor from the books rather than just printing a character on the wrapper.
Taste: Rich, creamy butterscotch with a firm initial chew that softens as you work through it — sweet and warm, more dessert-caramel than old-fashioned hard candy. The Butterbeer resemblance is real: it tastes like something you’d actually order at a wizarding pub.
Make It Better: Set the barrel out unopened on the table and let people discover it — half the charm is the presentation, and once it’s empty the barrel makes a decent small container for other treats.
Parting Thoughts: At $5 for 1.5oz the price-per-ounce is high, but no other candy on this list comes in its own themed barrel.
5. Harry Potter™ Gringotts Milk Chocolate Coin – $2.50
Peel the gold foil and there’s a smooth milk chocolate coin underneath, stamped with Gringotts bank branding. Goody bags, Halloween treat bowls, classroom parties — anywhere you need a small, themed candy that looks more polished than a generic mini bar.
Taste: Clean, straightforward milk chocolate — smooth and sweet, melting evenly without any waxy aftertaste. The experience is simple and satisfying, and honestly the foil peel is half the fun.
Make It Better: Scatter a few coin-side up on a dessert table before anyone arrives — the gold foil photographs well and disappears fast once people realize there’s real chocolate inside.
Parting Thoughts: Pure presentation value at $2.50 — the chocolate is solid, but the reveal is genuinely what makes people smile.
6. Hershey’s® x Harry Potter™ Milk Chocolate 1.55oz – $0.75
A standard 1.55oz Hershey’s milk chocolate bar in officially licensed Harry Potter packaging, made in the USA and priced at $0.75. Grab a stack when you need a classroom party treat or want to fill Halloween bags with something familiar that still fits the theme.
Taste: Exactly Hershey’s milk chocolate — smooth, milky, and straightforwardly sweet in the way everyone already knows. There’s nothing surprising here, and that’s precisely its strength when you’re buying for a mixed crowd where not everyone wants to gamble on a mystery flavor.
Make It Better: Keep a few loose in your bag for a themed event — at $0.75 each, you can hand them out freely, and nobody goes home without something recognizable.
Parting Thoughts: The easiest yes on this whole list: zero risk, universal appeal, and a price that makes buying a dozen an obvious call.
