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Causes the person drinking it to grow older. The more Aging Potion one drinks, the more one ages.
Antidotes
Ingredients vary, but often include Mandrakes
There are antidotes for many poisons and for potion effects.
-Antidote for Swelling Solution is the Deflating Draught
-The Mandrake Restorative Draft is the antidote for Petrification
-A bezoar will act as an antidote to most poisons
Boil Cure Potion
Ingredients include: dried nettles, crushed snake fangs, stewed horned slugs, porcupine quills (added after taking the cauldron off the fire)
Simple potion to cure boils.
If you add the porcupine quill before you take the cauldron off the fire, the mixture produces clouds of acid green smoke and a loud hissing,which will melt the cauldron.
Cleaning Solutions
-Bundimun -- Infests houses; greenish fungus with eyes. An infestation of Bundimuns can destroy a house, as their secretions rot away the foundations. This same secretion, in diluted form, is used in some magical cleaning solutions.
-Dragon's Blood -- one of its 12 uses is as a cleaner.
Confusing Concoction
Ingredients will be covered in Lecture
Effect is to cause confusion.
Draught of the Living Death
Ingredients: Asphodel in an infusion of Wormwood
Causes someone to fall into a deep sleep.
Exploding Fluid
Ingredients: Erumpent fluid
Causes an object to explode.
Forgetfulness Potion
Ingredients will be covered in Lecture
Causes forgetfulness
Ingredients
Potion ingredients are available for student use from the Student Store cupboard. Students must also buy their own ingredients as part of their school supplies, and purchase additional materials and refills every year. The Apothecary in Diagon Alley is where many Wizards buy their potion-making supplies. Under no circumstance is a student to go into my private supply cupboard without first consulting me.
-Abyssinian shrivelfig
-Aconite
-Antipodean Opaleye Dragon Eggshells
-Armadillo bile
-Ashwinder eggs
-Asphodel
-Belladonna, essense of
-Bezoar
-Bicorn horn
-Billywig stings
-Black beetle eyes
-Boomslang skin
-Bubotubor pus
-Bundimun secretion
-caterpillars
-Daisy roots
-Dragon
-Erumpent
-Fluxweed
-Frog brains
-Gillyweed
-Ginger roots
-Graphorn
-Horned toads
-Horned slugs
-Jobberknoll feathers
-knotgrass
-lacewing flies
-leeches
-Lionfish, spine of
-Mandrake
-Monkshood
-Nettles
-Porcupine quills
-Puffer-fish eyes
-Rat tails, spleen
-Romanian Longhorn dragon horn
-Scarab beetles
-Snake fangs
-Spiders
-Tubeworms
-Unicorn horns, tail hair
-Wolfsbane
-Wormwood
Love Potion
Ingredients include frozen Ashwinder eggs
Causes the person who drinks it to fall in love with someone.
**NOTE**Love potions are against Hogwarts school rules
Mandrake Restorative Draft
Ingredients include Mandrake, of course
This powerful antidote will revive people who have been Petrified.
Mature Mandrakes are needed for this potion
Memory Potions
Ingredients include Jobberknoll feathers
Pepperup Potion
Relieves symptoms of the cold or flu.
Polyjuice Potion
Ingredients: Lacewing flies stewed 21 days, leeches, powdered bicorn horn, knotgrass, fluxweed picked at full moon, boomslang skin, a bit of who you want to turn into (i.e. a hair)
Transforms a person to look exactly like someone else
Quodpot solution
In the pots used as goals in the game of Quodpot, this solution keeps the Quod from exploding
Shrinking Solution
Ingredients: chopped daisy roots, skinned shrivelfig, sliced caterpillar, one rat spleen, dash of leech juice
Makes things shrink in size
"Skele-Gro"
Medical magic: Potion which regrows bones. The effect takes about eight hours and can be quite painful.
Sleekeasy's Hair Potion
Used to style hair.
Sleeping Draft/Draught/Potion
Potion which causes a person to fall into a deep sleep. Also known as the Draught of the Living Death
Swelling Solution
Causes something to get bigger.
The antidote is the Deflating Draft.
Truth Potion/Serum
Ingredients: can include Jobberknoll feathers (FB)
Force a person to tell the truth.
Veritaserum is the most powerful Truth Serum available
Wit-Sharpening Potion
Ingredients: ground scarab beetle, cut up ginger root, armadillo bile
Effect is presumably to make a person think more clearly.
Wolfsbane Potion
While this potion can't cure a person from being a werewolf, it does prevent the extremely dangerous dementia which accompanies the transformation.
Wound-cleaning Potion
Medical potion used on cuts and other open wounds.
needs to be peeled
also known as Monkshood and Wolfbane
used in Wit-Sharpening Potion
must be kept frozen
commonly mixed from powdered roots
comes from the stomach of a goat, protects from most poisons
most commonly mixed as a powder
most commonly dried
must be shredded
good against stubborn acne; yellowish, smells of petrol
usually sliced
commonly mixed chopped
hide, blood, heart, liver, horn
horns, tails, and fluid; most commonly mixed for Exploding Fluid
should be picked at full moon
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.
commonly mixed when cut
commonly used when horn is powdered
used for Memory Potions and Truth Serums
should be stewed for 21 days
leech juice is common in many potions
An important plant which is used as an ingedient in the Restorative Draught
(see Aconite)
usually dried; gathered in Queerditch Marsh for nettle tea
used in a poision
usually powdered
should be crushed
should be crushed
tail hair used for wands
(see Aconite); also known in folklore as "Dumbledore's Delight"