Magical Drafts and Potions
Intorduction
Potions Class
In potions class, students learn the correct way to brew potions. They follow specific recipes and use various magical ingredients to create potions, starting with simple ones and moving to more advanced ones as they progress in knowledge.
A standard potions kit includes plant ingredients such as belladonna, and supplies such as glass phials and weighing scales, along with a standard cauldron that all students are expected to bring with them to lessons. The Professor of this subject is referred to as a Potions Master.
Lesson 1
Cure for Boils - gets rid of boils
Part 1
Add 6 snake fangs to the mortar.
Crush into a fine powder using the pestle.
Add 4 measures of the crushed fangs to your cauldron.
Heat the mixture to 250 for 10 seconds.
Wave your wand.
Leave to brew and return in 33-45 minutes.
Part 2
Add 4 horned slugs to your cauldron.
Take the cauldron off the fire before adding the next ingredient.
Add 2 porcupine quills to your cauldron.
Stir 5 times, clockwise.
Wave your wand to complete the potion.
Add crushed snake fangs to your cauldron and stir.
Slice your Pungous Onions finely and place in cauldron, then heat the mixture.
Add dried nettles.
Add a dash of Flobberworm Mucus and stir vigorously.
Add a sprinkle of powdered ginger root and stir vigorously again.
Add pickled Shrake spines.
Stir gently, so as not to overexcite the Shrake spines.
Add a glug of stewed horned slugs.
Add porcupine quills.
Finally, wave your wand over the cauldron to finish the potion.
Lesson 2
Forgetfulness Potion - Causes memory loss
Part 1
Add 2 drops of Lethe River Water to your cauldron
Gently heat for 20 seconds
Add 2 Valerian sprigs to your cauldron
Stir 3 times, clockwise
Wave your wand
Leave to brew and return in 45-60 minutes.
Part 2
Add 2 measures of Standard Ingredient to the mortar
Add 4 mistletoe berries to the mortar
Crush into a medium-fine powder using the pestle
Add 2 pinches of the crushed mixture to your cauldron
Stir 5 times, anti-clockwise
Wave your wand to complete the potion.
Lesson 3
Wiggenweld Potion - Healing potion
The instructions for brewing the Wiggenweld Potion are thus:
Add salamander blood until the potion turns red.
Stir until the potion turns orange.
Add more salamander blood, until the potion turns yellow.
Stir until the potion turns green.
Add more salamander blood, until the potion turns turquoise.
Heat until it turns indigo.
Add more salamander blood until the potion turns pink.
Heat until the potion turns red.
Add five lionfish spines.
Heat until the potion turns yellow.
Add five more lionfish spines.
Add flobberworm mucus, until the potion turns purple.
Stir until it turns red.
Add more flobberworm mucus, this time until it turns orange.
Stir till it turns yellow.
Add Honey water until it turns back to a turquoise colour.
Add another few drops of boom berry juice.
Stir the potion again, then let it simmer for thirty minutes.
Take the potion away from the heat and allow it to cool.
When it cools down, it is ready for consumption.
Lesson 4
Herbicide Potion - Kills or damages plants
Part 1
Add 4 lionfish spines to the mortar
Crush into a rough powder using the pestle
Add 2 measures of Standard Ingredient to the mortar
Crush into a rough powder
Add 3 measures of the crushed mixture to your cauldron
Wave your wand
Leave to brew and return in 45/51/60 minutes (depending on your cauldron)
Part 2
Add 2 measures of Horklump juice to your cauldron
Heat to a medium temperature for 10 seconds
Add 2 blobs of Flobberworm Mucus to your cauldron while it is still heating
Stir 4 times, clockwise
Wave your wand to complete the potion
Lesson 5
Antidote to Common Poisons- counteracts ordinary poisons
Part 1
Add 1 Bezoar to the mortar
Crush into a very fine powder using the pestle
Add 4 measures of the crushed Bezoar to your cauldron
Add 2 measures of Standard Ingredient to your cauldron
Heat to a medium temperature for 5 seconds
Wave your wand
Leave to brew and return in 40 minutes with a pewter cauldron, 34 minutes with brass cauldron and 30 minutes with copper cauldron
Part 2
Add 1 pinch of powdered Unicorn Horns to your cauldron
Stir 2 times, clockwise
Add 2 Mistletoe Berries to your cauldron
Stir 2 times, anti-clockwise
Wave your wand to complete the potion
The Potions Club used a slightly different potion formula, that included Honeywater, mint sprigs, stewed Mandrake, and essence of Lavender.
Lesson 6
Pompion Potion- Turns the drinker's head into a pumpkin
crush a Flitterby Moth into a pulp and add it to the cauldron
then stir the mixture clockwise until it turns green.
Next, a Bouncing Bulb has to be ground with a mortar and add it to the cauldron.
The mixture has to be stirred anti-clockwise until it turns red
slice the foxglove and add it to the mixture. Stirring clockwise until it turned orange completed the potion.
Lesson 6
Hair raising potion- makes your hair stand on end
Ingredients:
Water, boiling (200 mL)
Rat tails, sliced (2)
Billy wig stings, crushed (2)
Spider legs (24)
Instructions:
Bring water to a boil & crush billy wig stings.
Add billy wig stings and spider legs and stew for 15 minutes.
Add rat tail slices and continue to stew for 30 minutes.
Remove from heat and cool before spritzing on hair.
List of ingredients that you will need
Infusion of Wormwood
Flobberworm Mucus
Aconite
Asphodel
Dittany
Dragon blood
Moly
Wiggentree bark
Moondew
Salamander blood
Sloth brain mucus
Spine of Lionfish
Fanged Geranium
Snake fangs
Bones
Flitterby Moth
Bouncing Bulb
Foxglove