Lessons/Second Years

## Week One

* Name a potion you brewed the previous year.
	+ (answers may vary)
* What is the boil cure potion? What are the ingredients?
	+ The boil cure potion is a potion which cures boils. Known ingredients are:

		- Dried nettles
		- 6 snake fangs
		- 4 horned slugs
		- 2 porcupine quills
* What is a step used in the boil cure potion?
* What is the wideye potion? What are the ingredients?
	+ The wideye potion is a potion which leaves the drinker awake. Known ingredients are:

		- 6 snake fangs
		- 4 measures of Standard Ingredient
		- 6 dried Billywig stings
		- 2 sprigs of Wolfsbane
* What is a step used in the wideye potion?
* What if the difference between a concoction and a potion?
* What potion ingredients can be used as an antidote to poisons?
* What are the different cauldrons?

## Week Two

Ingredients

* Minced daisy roots
* Peeled Shrivelfig
* Sliced caterpillars
* One rat spleen
* A dash of leech juice

Method

* Add **five** sliced caterpillars.
* Heat till the potion turns red.
* **Shake** the peeled **Shrivelfig** until it is ready (if one tries to add it before it is ready the potion may emit noxious green gases).
* Add peeled Shrivelfig until the potion turns yellow.
* Allow the potion to simmer till it turns purple.
* Add four rat spleens to the cauldron.
* Add the minced daisy roots till it turns green.
* Add five drops of leech juice.
* Add more of the Shrivelfig, this time till it turns pink.
* Add one sliced caterpillar.
* Allow the potion to simmer till it turns green.
* Wave your wand to complete the potion.

## Week Three

Ingredients

* Rat tails
* Bouncing Spider Juice
* Standard Ingredient

Method

* Add Lovage to boiling potion water
* Stir in 3 Rat tails
* Let the brew simmer at a low temperature for 10 minutes.
* Add crushed Vervain to cauldron
* Pour a dash of Bouncing spider juice
* Wave wand to complete potion

## Week Four

Ingredients

* Snake fangs
* Measures of Standard Ingredient
* Dried Billywig stings
* Wolfsbane

Method

* Add 6 Snake Fangs to the mortar
* Add 4 measures of Standard Ingredient to the mortar
* Add 6 Dried Billywig Stings to your cauldron
* Heat on a medium temperature for 30 seconds
* Finely crush the ingredients in the mortar
* Add 4 measures of the crushed ingredients to your cauldron
* Stir 3 times, clockwise
* Wave your wand
* Leave to brew and return in 42 minutes
* Add 2 sprigs of Wolfsbane to your cauldron
* Stir 3 times, anti-clockwise
* Wave your wand to complete the potion

## Week Five

Ingredients

* Five cups of water
* dash of scurvy-grass
* sprig of peppermint
* ¼ pound cut ginger roots
* One cup powered moonstone
* Three Drops of belladonna

Method

* Place cauldron on high heat fire add water then bring to a boil.
* Mix in moonstone, stir till dissolved.
* Add in ginger root, scurvy-grass (remember just a dash), and peppermint.
* Turn heat to low and allow to simmer for 30 minutes stirring every 10 minutes
* Add in belladonna. Potion should turn amber color.
* Remove cauldron from flames and allow to settle for 15 minutes in room air.
* Pour potion into five one cup glass vials for storage at room temperature.

## Week Six

Ingredients

* 1 Bezoar
* 2 measures of Standard Ingredient
* 1 pinch of unicorn horn
* 2 mistletoe berries

Method

* 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.
* Add 1 pinch of 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

## Week Seven

Ingredients

* 2 drops of Lethe River Water
* 2 Valerian sprigs
* 2 measures of Standard Ingredient
* 4 mistletoe berries

Method

* 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
* 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

## Week Eight

Ingredients

* One chopped doxy egg
* dash of powdered root of asphodel
* Two cups dried nettles
* Five jobberknoll feathers
* ¼ cup armadillo bile
* Seven cups of water

Method

* Place cauldron with water on low fire heat.
* Add nettles and jobberknoll feathers, allow to stew for two hours. Potion will be blue.
* Combine doxy egg and armadillo bile then slowly stirring clockwise add into cauldron
* Raise fire heat to high and allow to boil for 30 minutes
* Add powdered root of asphodel. Potion will turn purple instantly.
* Remove cauldron from heat, cover and allow to sit for 5 minutes undisturbed.
* Stir potion four times counter-clockwise, then bottle in two glass vials.

## Week Nine

Ingredients

* 4 Caterpillars
* A pack of sliced Daisy Roots
* Several chopped Ginger Roots
* Knotgrass
* 1 Powdered Moonstone
* Standard Potioning Water

Method

* Set your cauldron on medium heat, and then add 1 cup of water in it and the powdered Moonstone.
* Stir clockwise for 1 minute and then add another cup of water. Stir one minute clockwise.
* In another cauldron, mix up the chopped Ginger Roots and the sliced Daisy Roots and add some water to them. Leave them for 20-30 minutes.
* Meanwhile, add the Knotgrass in your main cauldron, and stir for about 10 minutes, then let it brew for a while.
* Once the Daisy Roots and Ginger Roots get a darker color, add the caterpillars in that cauldron, stir it and leave it like that until the concoction in the main cauldron starts producing smoke.
* Once that happens, add the ingredients from your other cauldron to your main cauldron.
* Stir for about 15 minutes.
* Pour potion into a vial.