Magical Drafts and Potions

by Arsenius Jigger

Foreword by Severus Snape

I do not expect many students to understand the subtle

science and exact art that is potion making. However, for those of you who possess the predisposition… you may yet comprehend the delicate power of a softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, or the force of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses, or seizing the body. Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger is an excellent directory of ingredients and potions. At my request he has added a Dark Arts section with the intent of showing students the power and danger to expect from dark witches and wizards. I expect students to take Potions study very seriously as I only except students with exceptional OWLS into my NEWTS classes. A potions NEWT is required for a career as a Magical Healer, or an Auror. Bottle fame, brew glory, stopper death,

Professor Severus Snape

Potion equipment mortar and pestle potion-making kit knife Cauldrons

Every Witch and Wizard owns at least one cauldron. This versatile item can be used to brew potions, to carry supplies, and, in a pinch, to clobber an attacker.

Types of cauldrons:

• collapsible • self stirring • Solid gold • Fire- crab shells, which resemble tortoise shells encrusted with jewels,

are prized by unscrupulous Wizards as magical cauldrons

List of Potion Ingredients: Potion ingredients are available for student use from the Student Store cupboard. Students also buy their own ingredients as part of their school supplies, and purchase additional materials and refills every year.

Many witches and wizards buy their potion-making supplies at the Apothecary in Diagon Alley. Professor Snape maintains his own private stores which include ingredients not available in the Student Store Cupboard, including boomslang skin and gillyweed.

Abyssinian shrivelfig must be peeled

aconite (also called monkshood and wolfsbane) Scott Cunningham's "Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs" informs us that a folk name for the highly poisonous Wolf's Bane is "Dumbledore's Delight"

Antipodean Opaleye dragon eggshells

armadillo bile used in Wit-Sharpening Potion

Ashwinder eggs frozen

asphodel, root of powdered

belladonna, essence of [Note that belladonna is poisonous

bezoar comes from the stomach of a goat, protects from most poisons

bicorn horn powdered

Billywig stings

Black beetle eyes

boomslang skin shredded

bubotuber pus good against stubborn acne; yellowish, smells of petrol The pimple-curing properties of Bubotuber pus were discovered by Sacharissa Tugwood

Bundimun secretion

caterpillars sliced

cockroach, dead Snape keeps a jar of these in his office

daisy roots chopped

Doxy eggs black in color, they are used for researching trick sweets by Fred and George

dragon hide, blood, heart, liver, horn

Erumpent horns, tails, and Exploding Fluid

fluxweed picked at full moon

frog brains

gillyweed eating a wad of this grows gills and webbed fingers and toes so that a person can swim and breathe underwater. Native to the Mediterranean Sea.

The effects of gillyweed were first dicovered by Elladora Ketteridge. About a century later, gillyweed was re-discovered by Beaumont Marjoribanks.

ginger roots cut

Graphorn horn powdered

hellebore There are several kinds of hellebore. The name comes from the Greek words 'elein' (to injure) and 'bora' (food), indicating that hellebore is poisonous. In some belief systems, it's been believed to be a purgative, sometimes of bad things generally, used for things like protecting livestock from evil spells, and (in powdered form) for invisibility.

The only thing it's known definitely to be used for in Potions is for the Draught of Peace, despite its poisonous properties

horned toad Neville had to disembowel a barrel of these for Snape

horned slugs

Jobberknoll feathers for Memory Potions and Truth Serums

knotgrass

lacewing flies stewed 21 days

leeches leech juice

lionfish, spine of part of students' standard potion-making kit

mandrake An important plant which is used as an ingredient in the Restorative Draught

monkshood (see aconite)

moonstone Used in various potions (including the Draught of Peace), sometimes in powdered form; Harry had to write an essay (12 inches of parchment) for Snape about the uses of moonstone in potion making. Moonstone is found in a variety of colors. Its supposed magical effects include helping a person gain emotional balance. Since Harry spent much of book five emotionally unbalanced, it is perhaps fitting that he was forced to write an essay on the stone's use in Potions-making.

nettles dried gathered in Queerditch Marsh for nettle tea

porcupine quills

puffer-fish eyes

rat tails and spleen- used in hair-raising potion

Romanian Longhorn dragon horn powdered

scarab beetles crushed

shrivelfig Abyssinian, skinned

snake fangs crushed

spiders

tubeworms Harry had to stay behind in Potions and scrape tubeworms off a desk

unicorn horn unicorn tail hair -used for wands

wolfsbane (see aconite)

wormwood

Potions

Note from Professor Snape: Some of the potions are copyrighted by cosmetics companies or medical administrations. If the ingredients are left out there is good reason, so don’t ask!

Aging Potion effect: causes drinker to age according to amount of potion drunk

Anti-poison potion Ingredients: crushed Bezoar- stone from the belly of a Goat

effect: cures most poisons

Boil cure potion ingredients: dried nettles, crushed snake fangs, stewed horned slugs, porcupine quills (added after taking the cauldron off the fire)

Simple potion to cure boils.

Deflating Draught Effect: reverses swelling solutions and engorgement charms

Draught of Peace ingredients: essence of hellebore, moonstone

Effect: gives a person a sense of peace

Forgetfulness Potion

Effect: causes memory loss

Hair-Raising Potion Effect: causes fear

Love Potion Effect: causes drinker to feel amorous towards giver

Mandrake Restorative Draft ingredients: Mandrake, of course

This powerful antidote will revive people who have been Petrified.

Pepperup Potion A potion to cure colds. It leaves the drinker smoking at the ears for several hours. Polyjuice Potion

ingredients: lacewing flies stewed 21 days, leeches, powdered bicorn horn, knotgrass, fluxweed picked at full moon, boomslang skin, a bit of who one wants to turn into.

Effect: Transforms a person to look exactly like someone else. One dose lasts for one hour, but doses can be renewed, apparently indefinitely

Skele-Gro A potion to re-grow bones.

Sleekeazy's Hair Potion Effect: Causes frizzy, curly hair to straighten, smooth, and shine

Shrinking Solution ingredients: Caterpillar, Daisy Roots, Leech Juice, Rat Spleen, Abyssinian Shrivelfig

Effect: reverses swelling solution and causes living tissue to shrink

Swelling Solution Effect: cause a body part to swell like a balloon on contact

Wit-sharpening potion ingredients: Scarab Beetles, Ginger Roots, Armadillo Bile

effect: cause an increase in intellect, cleverness, and humor

Wolfsbane Potion Effect: used to help werewolves keep their sanity during transformation

Veritaserum A Truth Potion so powerful that three drops would make you spill your innermost secrets.

Dark Arts Potions Confusing Concoction ingredients: powdered lovage plant, scurvy grass, sneezewart.

Effect: confuses, confounds, baffles, bewilders, bamboozles, puzzles, perplexes, muddles, mystifies

Draught of the Living Death ingredients: asphodel in an infusion of wormwood

Effect: Causes someone to fall into a deep sleep simulating death.

Flesh, Blood, and Bone -Potion of Revival Ingredients: Bone of the Father, Flesh of the servant, blood of the enemy.

This potion also requires an incantation: Bone of the father, unknowingly given, you will renew your son. Flesh of the servant, willingly given, you will revive your master. Blood of the enemy, forcibly taken, you will resurrect your foe.