Hogwarts Potions (Class)

Potions was a core class and subject taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In this class, students learnt the correct way to brew potions. They followed specific recipes and used various magical ingredients to create potions, starting with simple ones and moving to more advanced ones as they progressed in knowledge.The Professor of this subject was referred to as a Potions Master. The Potions Master at Hogwarts for many years was Horace Slughorn and later Severus Snape. By 2016, Professor Slughorn had retired for a second time, and an unidentified teacher had taken over.
==Class information==
At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Potions was a required subject for students, from the first year to the fifth year. Potion recipes could be found in many books, including the books the students at Hogwarts used in their classes, but the intricacies of timing, ageing, stirring techniques, and bottling which are much more difficult to learn without the mentoring of the experienced masters. Certain ingredients could be found in the cupboard in the classroom, but others had to be bought before the start of the year at the apothecary. Around 1981, Severus Snape became the professor of Potions at Hogwarts. Snape served as the school's potions professor through 1996, until he became the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and was replaced by Horace Slughorn.
==Location and time==
Potions lessons took place in the Dungeons.
===Classroom layout===
The classroom used to be squared-sized, very large, with large tables and windows. In the corner resideed a stone basin used to wash students' hands and ladles. From 1992-onwards, the classroom was of an oval shape and relatively smaller, with small work tables. In 1996, the classroom was extended, adding space for more work tables.
===Lesson times===
Year 	Day 	Period
First 	Monday 	first
First 	Wednesday	first
First 	Friday 	first/second
Second	Monday 	third
Second	Wednesday	third
Second	Friday 	third
==Curriculum==
===First year===
Besides potions and their ingredients, other information was covered in the first year as well. Students were informed of the basic details on preparation of the Draught of Living Death, along with the nature of various ingredients, such as Infusion of Wormwood, Powdered Root of Asphodel and Aconite. The class also covered the twelve uses of dragon blood, the types of cauldrons, and the types of phials used in potion-making. Bezoars were briefly mentioned and the Standard Ingredient was also used in most beginner potions.
====Ingredients====
*Bones
===Second year===
Second-year students were set an essay on Flobberworm Mucus and its uses in potions. Also homework included something that involves Hair-Raising Potions. This year appeared to focus more on actual potion brewing then the previous one.
===Grades===
===Passing grades===
*Outstanding [O]
*Exceeds Expectations [E]
*Acceptable [A]	
===Fail grades===
*Poor [P]
*Dreadful [D]
*Troll [T]
==Known O.W.L.s==
Severus Snape.jpg|Severus Snape †
Draco Malfoy Promo HPB.jpg|Draco Malfoy
HBP promo side Harry cropped.jpg|Harry Potter - Chapter 8 (The Half-Blood Prince)
Hermione Granger HBP.jpg|Hermione Granger
Ron Weasley Half Blood Prince.jpg|Ron Weasley
Percy.jpg|Percy Weasley
Bill Weasley.jpg|Bill Weasley - It is said that both Percy and Bill Weasley earned twelve Ordinary Wizarding Levels, meaning they must have earned an O.W.L. in this subject.
Tom Marvolo Riddle (HBP promo) 1.jpg|Tom Riddle † (possibly)
Lily Potter1.jpg|Lily J. Potter † (possibly)
Profile - Molly Weasley COS.jpg|Molly Weasley (possibly)
*All Healers and Aurors, as an O.W.L. and N.E.W.T. at Exceeds Expectations or Outstanding is a compulsory requirement in this subject in order to apply for their relevant training.
==Media==
File:Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Potions with Slughorn|Potions With Slughorn
==Behind the scenes==
*In , many more students are shown to be in Harry's N.E.W.T. level Potions class than are mentioned in the book. The book specifically names Harry, Ron, and Hermione to be the only Gryffindors to have moved on to N.E.W.T. level, but the film shows Neville Longbottom, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, and Lavender Brown to be in the class as well. Katie Bell and Romilda Vane are also in the class in the film, although they are actually a seventh year and a fourth year student respectively, along with Leanne, whose year is unknown. Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe are Slytherins depicted as attending sixth year Potions class in the film, which also contradicts the novel.
*In Hogwarts Mystery, if players take Jacob's sibling to the O.W.L. through an optional side quest, they will definitely gain at least an A, even if they fail to answer every question and make every potion.
===Author's comments===
Chemistry was my least favourite subject at school, and I gave it up as soon as I could. Naturally, when I was trying to decide which subject Harry's arch-enemy, Severus Snape, should teach, it had to be the wizarding equivalent. This makes it all the stranger that I found Snape's introduction to his subject quite compelling ('I can teach you to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death...'), apparently part of me found Potions quite as interesting as Snape did; and indeed I always enjoyed creating potions in the books, and researching ingredients for them. Many of the components of the various draughts and libations that Harry creates for Snape exist (or were once believed to exist) and have (or were believed to have) the properties I gave them. Dittany, for instance, really does have healing properties (it is an anti-inflammatory, although I would not advise Splinching yourself to test it); a bezoar really is a mass taken from the intestines of an animal, and it really was once believed that drinking water in which a bezoar was placed could cure you of poisoning.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Hogwarts Known Subjects
Category:Potions