Magical Drafts and Potions

## An Introduction to Potion Making

This book is the perfect companion to any student beginning their education in the subtle art of potion making\*\*. It will teach you how to ensnare the senses and bewitch the mind with a range of simple yet useful potions. However, if you are looking for a book that contains potions of the dark art, you have come to the wrong place.

Before you step near a cauldron, it’s important that you understand the science and the theory. This chapter will explore the things you must have in order to create a potion, and the different types of potions you can make.

The word ‘potion’ comes from the Latin word potio meaning ‘beverage’. To brew a potion you will need ingredients that have magical properties, and each potion will require you to prepare these ingredients in a different way. You can use a potion as a medicine, a lethal poison or to give the drinker any effect; from constant hiccupping, to immunity to flames.

### Different Types of Potions

Brew: A liquid mixture made by steeping.

Concoction: A simple mixture of ingredients.

Elixir: A sweetened, aromatic solution used as a medicine.

Tincture: A benign medicine preserved in alcohol.

Philter: A potion designed to enchant or charm the drinker.

Draught/Draft: One serving or portion of a potion.

### Supplies Required

Aside from the different ingredients that a potion calls for, you will require the following:

Cauldron: To brew the potion (they come in a range of sizes and materials from pewter to gold)

Brass Scales: To weigh potion ingredients.

Glass/Crystal Phials: Used to hold your potions, and also to measure/hold extra liquid ingredients.

You will also need a range of knives to cut and slice your ingredients as required by the recipe for the potion you are making. The apothecary is the best place to get all of your needs.

Ensure that the place where you will be brewing your potions is a wide space, free of clutter. You must be able to easily access the bottom of your cauldron to adjust the fire.

### Perfecting your Skills

Potion making is not a branch of magic that everyone will be able to perfect. It requires determination, a steady hand and a lot of patience. The more complex the potion, the longer it will take you to brew. You must plan out your steps before you begin; read the recipe, ensure that you have your ingredients ready and enough time to complete the potion.

Unlike charms or transfiguration you can’t simply flick your wand, mutter a few words and have a potion ready. It’s important that you pay close attention to the instructions as one wrong step can lead to disaster.

It is suggested that you start slowly; for example a Shrinking Solution or similar before moving your way up to more complex concoctions.

### Famous Potioneers

Hesper Starky is a renowned Potionneer who was born in 1881 (and died in 1973). His most notable contribution to Potions was the effect of the the moon’s phases on the fabrication of various potions. While not many written reports about her findings can be found, her discoveries revolutionised the field. A Famous Witches and Wizards card in her honour was added in recent years.

The remaining chapters will jump straight into potion making. May you create perfection in your liquid magic and not melt your cauldron!

* This book can also be used by the adults who slept through their potions classes in school.

## Potion Recipes - Part 1

This chapter will explain how a Shrinking Solution and a Babbling Beverage are made. It’s vitally important that all recipes are read in full before they are attempted, no matter how advanced you may be. Do not stray from the recipes in any manner as this can cause disastrous effects. Use these potions wisely and with caution.

### Shrinking Solution

A shrinking solution is useful to decrease the drinker in size or apparent age. The recipe below will make enough for ten to fifteen serves.

IMPORTANT: The daisy roots must be chopped evenly for the potion to work. Be careful not to add too much leech juice as the potion will be unusable.

Ingredients

* A dash of leech juice
* One rat spleen
* Two sliced caterpillars
* One peeled shrivelfig, diced
* Chopped daisy roots
* Eight cups of water

Method

1. Set up your cauldron and place the fire on a low heat. Combine the water and chopped daisy roots and stir counter-clockwise twenty times.

2. Add the sliced caterpillars and the peeled shrivelfig to your cauldron. Stir in a clockwise direction until the solution begins to bubble.

3. Slowly add one rat spleen and a dash of leech juice. Turn the heat up to the maximum setting and allow the potion to brew. Avoid stirring the potion.

4. Remove the potion from the flames as soon as it turns bright acid green.

5. Once cool place the potion in glass vials for storage.

Your potion must be bright acid green to be deemed safe for consumption. Not following the above directions can result in an orange solution, which is poisonous. If this occurs, dispose of immediately and start again, ensuring that no extra ingredients are added and all directions are followed properly.

This potion will keep for up to 8 years, if stored in a dry environment. When consuming the potion, swallow in small doses until the desired effect is reached.

### Babbling Beverage

The babbling beverage will cause the drinker to babble pure nonsense that makes no sense to anyone but themselves. The beauty of this potion is that the drinker rarely recognizes their “under the influence”. It’s the perfect potion to prank your best friend, worst enemy, siblings or professors.

This recipe makes five serves and takes approx three hours to brew.

Ingredients

* One porcupine quill
* One whole leech
* Two cups of armadillo bile
* One roughly sliced ginger
* Four chopped rats’ tails
* Three cups of water

Method

1. Set your cauldron to the highest heat and add the water. Allow to boil for one hour.

2. Add rats’ tails and sliced ginger. Stir counter-clockwise until potion turns yellow.

3. Slowly add armadillo bile while continuing to stir counter-clockwise for ten minutes.

4. Pierce the leech with the porcupine quill and add to potion.

5. Leave for two hours.

6. Extinguish the cauldron fire and stir potion clockwise eighty times EXACTLY.

7. The potion should be clear, with flecks of gold.

The babbling beverage must be stored in a cool environment.

If gold flecks are not evident, proceed with caution. While not poisonous it may cause prolonged babbling. If a drinkers babbling persists past two hours, seek medical attention immediately.

## Potion Recipes - Part 2

This chapter will tells the secrets of the Calming Draught and the Dream Enhancing Solution. Please read all directions carefully and remember to note expiration dates on all your potions… both of these are time sensitive.

### Calming Draught

A calming draught use to sooth the mind and relax the body. This recipe will make enough for five servings.

Warning: Only use ONE serving at a time or you may find yourself sleeping for a week!

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

1. Place cauldron on high heat fire add water then bring to a boil.

2. Mix in moonstone, stir till dissolved.

3. Add in ginger root, scurvy-grass (remember just a dash), and peppermint.

4. Turn heat to low and allow to simmer for 30 minutes stirring every 10 minutes

5. Add in belladonna. Potion should turn amber color.

6. Remove cauldron from flames and allow to settle for 15 minutes in room air.

7. Pour potion into five one cup glass vials for storage at room temperature.

Your potion once settled should remain a light amber color (yellowish orange) any other color is not acceptable and will not give the desired results.

Serving size is one cup not to be combined with any other potions within 3 hours.

This potion should remained stored at room temperature, and will keep for only six months. After six months potion should be discarded to avoid any unknown side effects.

### Dream Enhancing Solution

This dream enhancing solution will extent the length of your dreams and enhance them for easier remembering. Perfect for those times when you feel like your dreams are trying to tell you something but you can’t remember them long enough to figure our what they are saying.

Use only when you can dedicate seven to eight hours for sleep!

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

1. Place cauldron with water on low fire heat.

2. Add nettles and jobberknoll feathers, allow to stew for two hours. Potion will be blue.

3. Combine doxy egg and armadillo bile then slowly stirring clockwise add into cauldron

4. Raise fire heat to high and allow to boil for 30 minutes

5. Add powdered root of asphodel. Potion will turn purple instantly.

6. Remove cauldron from heat, cover and allow to sit for 5 minutes undisturbed.

7. Stir potion four times counter-clockwise, then bottle in two glass vials.

This potion provides two servings which can not be used within the same week. Potion should be stored in dark area where light is minimal, and can not remain unused for more then three weeks. Potion will maintain its purple coloring after expiration so be sure to date your bottle.

## Potion Recipes- Part 3

In this particular section the topic is love. This chapter gives the recipe of a extremely strong Love Philter and a powerful Love Breaking Elixir guarantied to get you over an ex. These potions although simple to brew should always be used with caution.

### Love Philter

A powerful potion that induces the effects of love on the drinker. This potion when brewed correctly will have a cherry flavor, and no after taste. Recipe will make 4 servings.

IMPORTANT: Potion will take effect immediately ; HOWEVER, does not really causes the person who drinks it to fall in love with someone, as it is impossible to manufacture or imitate love. As with all love potion it simply causes the drinker to develop a powerful infatuation or obsession with the target. Effects will discontinue after 1 month.

Ingredients

* Four cherry blossoms
* Two ashwinder eggs (frozen)
* One cup chopped daisy roots
* One cup lovage
* Two cups fluxweed (picked at full moon)
* Four cups water

Method

1. Place cauldron with water on high heat fire and bring to boil.

2. Add frozen ashwinder eggs and lovage and allow to boil for 20 minutes.

3. Mix daisy root and fluxweed then add slowly while stirring clockwise 10 times.

4. Turn heat to medium and add allow to simmer for 1 hour, potion should be white color.

5. Add in cherry blossoms and immediately remove from heat.

6. Allow potion to sit until color changes to rose (pink) then bottle in 4 glass vials

Remember: Love Breaking Elixir can reverse the effects of the Love Philter if needed or annoyed enough; however, the target person will probably hate you for at least 6-8 months.

### Love Breaking Elixir

A magical potion that reveals the worst faults and habits of the target person to the drinker. This elixir is recommended by the [u]Daily Prophet‘s[/u] advice columnists to help witches and wizards get over emotional attachments to people who don't love them.

Ingredients

* Two pinches of ground ginger
* Two jobberknoll feathers
* One cup pomegranate seeds
* ½ cup armadillo bile
* Four drops salamander blood
* One pair of crushed snake fangs
* 7 cups of water

Method

1. Place cauldron with water on low heat fire.

2. Add jobberknoll feathers and armadillo bile. Stir counter-clockwise 5 times.

3. Pour in snake fangs while turning fire heat to medium.

4. Bring potion to a simmer then add pomegranate seeds. Wait for color change to blue.

5. Add ginger, then stir clockwise 15 times.

6. Drop in salamander blood, turn heat to high and allow to boil for 45 minutes.

7. Remove cauldron, let sit for 5 minutes, then bottle in glass vial while still warm/hot.

This relationship changing potion is very strong and will remain effective for 6-8 months. Use with caution! Serving size is 2 cups. Store in dry area, will keep for 3 years.

## Potion Recipes - Part 4

After reading and trying love recipes it may be important to review a few emotional well-bring potions. This chapter will focus on a Grief Easing Elixir, and Confidence Enhancing Solution. Use both with caution and read all directions carefully.

### Grief Easing Elixir

Everyone finds themselves grieving or emotionally hurting over a loss at some point in a lifetime; however, the emotional healing process can be sped up with this simple, easy to make elixir. Why grieve longer then you truly want to, life goes on and so this elixir allows you to as well.

Ingredients

* One ounce St. John’s Wart
* One cups lemon balm leaves
* Four drops chamomile oil
* Three peppermint sticks
* Four cups water

Method

1. Heat water in cauldron using medium heat fire...do NOT allow to boil!

2. While stirring clockwise add lemon balm leaves and peppermint sticks. Allow to heat for 2 hours.

3. Mix in St. John’s Wart and watch for color change to blue, immediately turn fire heat to low.

4. Add chamomile oil and remove from heat. Allow to cool for 25 minutes then bottle in glass vial.

This potion should be stored at room temperature, and in direct sunlight whenever possible. Expiration will be 35 days after bottling. Potion will make 2 servings although only 1 serving needed per person.

### Confidence Enhancing Solution

This confidence enhancing solution is sure to bring a “pick-me-up” whenever needed. If brewed correctly it can instantly boost the confidence of any witch or wizard.

IMPORTANT: Just because this potion will bring confidence doesn’t mean you can’t get caught if what you need the confidence for is illegal. Use your best judgment before taking!

Ingredients

* Three cups dead sea salt
* One cup ginger
* One ounce knotgrass
* Dash of powered moonstone
* Two sliced caterpillars
* Four porcupine quills
* Seven drops of Jasmine oil
* Nine cups of water

Method

1. Set up your cauldron and place the fire on a high heat. Combine water and dead sea salt.

2. Bring to a boil and add sliced caterpillars and ginger stir in a clockwise direction until the solution begins to bubble.

3. Slowly add knotgrass and porcupine quills. When color changes to red turn heat to medium.

4. Mix in jasmine oil and powered moonstone. Allow to simmer for 4 hours then remove from heat.

5. Potion needs to cool for 4 hours…watch for color change to light pink, then bottle in vials.

Your potion must be light pink before bottling. Store in dry area, and do not keep in direct sunlight. Potion will make 7 servings that will keep for 7 years. It is advised not to use more then 1 serving within any given month to avoid any unwanted side effects.

## Potion Recipes - Part 5

In this chapter we explore a couple of potions for Memory enhancement. Please remember to follow the directions explicitly. One extra stir in the wrong direction can change your potion into something quite unexpected!

### Memory Charm - Studious

Do you have three exams tomorrow and you only have time to study for one of them? Have you left studying for term finals until the last day and you are tearing out your hair because you simply know you won't remember what you read? Fret not, this potion will provide you with a fail-safe memory enhancement, guaranteed for 28 hours.

Warning: Everything you crammed into your head while this potion is in effect will vanish after said 28 hours.

Ingredients

* Billywig wings - 1/4 ounce
* Tongue of Newt - 3
* Pomegranate Juice - 2 tablespoons
* Lemon juice - 3 tablespoons
* Powdered unicorn horn - 1 teaspoon
* Purified water (or well water) - 2 cups

Method

1. Put the Billywig wings into your pewter cauldron (size 3) with the Tongue of Newt, Pomegranate Juice and Lemon Juice. Add sufficient water to cover the ingredients and enable a brisk stirring of ingredients. Stir counterclockwise, 2 stirs per second, for 1 minute. Stop stirring after 120 stirs.

2. Add the powdered unicorn horn, slowly, into the potion while stirring clockwise. Stir clockwise at the rate of about 1 stir every 2 seconds. Do NOT stir more rapidly. Stir the mixture until the unicorn horn has totally disappeared. The potion should appear to be a pale green colour.

3. Place the cauldron on the lowest possible heat and leave it there until a gentle steam appears above the surface of the fluid.

4. The potion is completed when the colour of the fluid turns pale lilac.

This potion retains its potency for 48 hours. Store it in a glass jar and place it in a cool, dark place. Just before you wish to start your studying, take a small glass and drink the whole amount in one long swallowing. Pinch your nose before swallowing if the smell of rotting entrails has a tendency to cause you to vomit it up.

### Memory Charm - Personal

Do you have a terrible memory for names and faces? Do you find yourself wondering who that familiar looking person is and then later remember it is your mother? Does your girlfriend get upset when you use the wrong name when you talk with her? Never fear -- this potion will help you straighten out those slip-ups!

Warning: This only helps you to establish the memory patterns in your head. You will need to exercise those newly found abilities in order to retain them.

Ingredients

* Blueberries - 1/8 pound
* Cranberries - 1/8 pound
* Essence of Dittany - 10 drops
* Powdered Bicorn Horn - 3 ounces
* Semi-Deadly Nightshade - 3 berries
* Distilled water (well water) - 4 cups
* One hair from your head

Method

1. Place all the ingredients onto a chopping board and chop up finely until you cannot discern anything but a mess

2. Place the mess into your cauldron and add sufficient water to cover

3. DO NOT PLACE ON HEAT - heat will activate the Semi-Deadly Nightshade toxins

4. Stir the mixture (any direction) until it turns a bright molten gold in colour

5. Add in the hair from your head

6. Stir 5 times clockwise. Stir 5 times counterclockwise. Lift spoon from mixture straight out.

7. Decant into a dark blue air-tight small jar.

You must take this potion every day, same time of the day, for a week. The serving amount is 1 fluid ounce. Store the container in a clean sock in your sock drawer.

The mixture will retain its potency for three months. Take more when you find that you are starting to forget your own name.

## Potion Recipes - Part 6

Medical potions quickly became a preferred alternative to visiting Healers since they were first brewed in 1039 by Marcus Miller in Germany. This chapter will cover the Blood-Replenishing and Wound-Healing potions. These are useful for those who duel a lot, or are very clumsy and prone to injuring themselves and others.

### Blood-Replenishing Potion

To be used if you have lost substantial amounts of blood. This should only be used when you have been bleeding profusely for more than ten minutes. The potion can be consumed by all blood types without harm.

This potion will take thirty-two days to brew, makes thirty serves. It can be kept for nine months.

Ingredients

* Eight cups of water
* Eight cloves of garlic, crushed
* Nine raspberries, left whole
* One eye of newt
* Two Hippogriff feathers
* One ounce of flobberworm secretion

Method

1. Place cauldron on low heat for ten minutes

2. Add water and flobberworm secretion, stir clockwise three times

3. Turn cauldron to high heat and add eye of newt and crushed garlic

4. Rub the raspberries along the Hippogriff feathers

5. Place feathers and raspberries in cauldron and remove from heat immediately

6. Stir counter-clockwise one hundred times

7. Place cauldron in a dark corner, cover with a cloth and leave for 32 days

8. Once the potion has matured, it should be blood red.

9. If the potion is pink, add another eye of newt and leave for one more day.

Keep the potion at room temperature. To use, simply consume one cup and your blood should be replenished in two hours. If you feel dizzy at any stage, seek medical attention.

### Wound Healing Potion

This potion is gentle enough to use on children, the elderly and Muggles (although it does have a slight sting). It can heal almost any wound and takes only ten minutes to brew. This potion is not to be consumed, instead dabbed on to the wound that requires healing.

Ingredients

* Three cups of water
* One phoenix feather
* Six crushed lacewing flies
* Two drops of lavender oil
* Four diced slugs
* Dash of armadillo bile

Method

1. Place cauldron on high heat.
2. Add water and armadillo bile, bring to the boil
3. Add diced slugs, phoenix feather and lace wing flies
4. Stir nine times clockwise
5. Stir nine times counter-clockwise, potion should be blue
6. Add lavender oil and let potion sit until thickens and turns purple

This potion will make enough to fill 2 large vials. Keep in a cool environment for up to one year.

To heal wounds, apply a small amount of this potion directly on the wound. It will smoke and sting but should not hurt. The wound will heal immediately.

## Potion Recipes - Part 7

To the unwary, potion slipped into a beverage may cause horrific effects. In this chapter, you will learn to brew Detection Drought, which will reveal hidden potions.

### Detection Drought

NOTE: If you plan to use this in a liquid, brew the potion during a full moon. If you plan to use this on a solid, brew this potion during daylight of a winter solstice.

Ingredients

* 1 Willow Tree Log
* 3 Cups Water
* 12 Drops Bloodhound Saliva (Must be from a pure-bred)
* 1 Cup of Boiled Peppermint Leaves
* 3 Pomegranate Seeds
* 3 Hippogriff Tear
* 3 Pinches of Ground Ginger
* 1 Cup Chopped Birch Tree Bark
* 1 Nettle Leaf

Method

1. Light your willow tree log on fire and fan the smoke above your potion. Set your cauldron to a high heat. Pour in two of your cups of water and wait for them to begin boiling. When they do, add the third cup and when the water begins to boil again allow it to sit for one hour.

2. After your water has boiled, drop in six drops of the bloodhound saliva. Stir your mixture clockwise for ten seconds at a rate of half a rotation per second. Add the peppermint leaves and other six drops of bloodhound saliva, and immediately stir counterclockwise for thirty seconds at a rate of two rotations per second. DO NOT SLOW DOWN.

3. Drop the pomegranate seeds onto your mixture and allow them to float. Drop one Hippogriff tear on each seed, which will immediately dissolve. Sprinkle in your ground ginger and increase the heat of your cauldron.

4. Evenly spread the Birch tree bark throughout your potion. Mix clockwise at a rate of one rotation per second, but make every third rotation counterclockwise. Do so for twenty seconds.

5. If you are going to use your potion right away, pour straight from cauldron into or onto your desired beverage or item. If you are going to save it, you must use your nettle leaf to transfer your potion to a vial.

6. When you apply this potion, allow the object to sit for twelve seconds. After this period, black smoke will be emitted if any potion was present. Also, purple smoke will be emitted if the hidden potion was a love potion and yellow smoke will be emitted if any sleeping droughts were detected.

## Potion Recipes - Part 8

In this chapter you will learn how to brew a Boil-Cure Potion and a Deflating Draught, both of which are healing concoctions that can be useful in cases when someone has boils, or a swelling solution or an engorgement charm has been used on them.

However, regardless of the fact that you want to cure someone as fast as you can, it's best that you first fully read the whole recipe, and when you're brewing it, double check not to miss anything, otherwise you might make the person's case even worse.

### Boil-Cure Potion

This is a simple potion used to cure boils.

Ingredients

* Dried Nettles
* 10 Crushed Snake Fangs
* 6 Stewed Horned Slugs
* A dozen Porcupine Quills

Method

1. Fill your cauldron by adding at least 5 cups of water. Then set your cauldron on high heat and wait for the water to start boiling.

2. After your water has started boiling, put all the dried Nettles in it and stir for a while. Then add exactly half of the crushed Snake Fangs. Leave it to brew for an hour.

3. Then add all 6 of the stewed Horned Slugs into the cauldron. Stir, then add the other half of the crushed Snake Fangs, and stir for 15 minutes. Afterward set the cauldron on low heat and let it brew for at least 4 hours.

4. Put the cauldron off the fire, and wait for it to cool down a bit. Then add the Porcupine Quills to it.

NOTE: If you mess up the potion it will have the opposite effect---it will MAKE boils. So make sure you've done everything correctly before giving it to someone.

### Deflating Draught

The Deflating Draught can shrink anything that was changed with an engorgement charm or a swelling solution back to its normal size.

Ingredients

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

Method

1. Set your cauldron on medium heat, and then add 1 cup of water in it and the powdered Moonstone. Stir it for a little while and then add another cup. Stir some more.

2. In another cauldron, mix up the chopped Ginger Roots and the sliced Daisy Roots and add some water to them. Leave them like that 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.

3. 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. Your draught should be ready now.

## Potion Recipes - Part 9

Besides Memory Potions, there are also other potions that could help you increase your memory and intelligence. In this chapter we will look over the Wit-Sharpening Potion, and the Invigoration Draught.

### Wit-Sharpening Potion

This potion causes the drinker to have increased cleverness, intellect, and humour. However, the effect lasts only a few hours (several at the maximum, if you create a stronger potion).

Ingredients

* A dozen Scarab Beetles
* Ginger Roots
* A flask of Armadillo Bile

Method

1. After you make sure your cauldron is in a perfect state and is clean, add the flask of Armadillo Bile into it, set the fire to medium heat, and stir for a few minutes. Then leave the Armadillo Bile on the heat like that for while.

2. Meanwhile, you should powder your Scarab Beetles and chop your Ginger Roots. Make sure the scarab beetles are perfectly powdered and that the Ginger Roots are nicely chopped. If they aren't, keep working on that till you get them perfect.

3. Add the chopped Ginger Roots into the cauldron and stir for about 20 minutes. When you see the potion turning a blue-ish color, add the powdered Scarab Beetles.

4. After that you should just stir for a little while, let's say a couple of minutes, and then your potion will be ready.

If you intend on using it for a longer period, you should probably make a bigger amount of it, as you will need to take the potion over a few hours.

### Invigoration Draught

This potion increases the drinker's energy and stimulates his body and mind. The effect can last from a few hours up to 2-3 days.

Ingredients

* 7 Alihotsy Leaves
* 3 Asphodel Roots
* 10 Daisy Roots
* 1 Lionfish Spine
* 2 Flasks of Pomegranate Juice

Method

1. Put one flask of Pomegranate Juice in your cauldron and let it brew about 30 minutes on medium heat.
2. In the mean time, chop your Alihotsy Leaves, Asphodel Roots, and Daisy Roots. Once done, put the chopped Alihotsy Leaves and Asphodel Roots in another cauldron and set the cauldron on low heat.
3. Add the chopped Daisy Roots to your main cauldron and stir for some time. Then move over to the other cauldron and stir for a while there as well.
4. Remove your second cauldron from the heat and let it cool down. After that, add the stuff from your second cauldron to your main cauldron and stir for about 10 minutes. Then you should add the other flask of Pomegranate Juice, and let it brew for at least 40 minutes.
5. Add the final ingredient, the Lionfish Spine, stir for about 10 minutes till it gets a grey-ish color, and then take it off heat. Your Invigoration Draught is now ready.

## Potion Recipes - Part 10

Many times you will find yourself in situations when you'll need potions that will get rid of pests for you, or you'll need one to protect yourself from something. In this chapter we'll study the Doxycide and the Fire Protection Potion, which are potions that have that same use.

### Doxycide

This potion has the effect of knocking out Doxies, and it lasts for a long time so it's really useful to help you escape from Doxies, or remove them from somewhere. It's extremely important to remember that the potion can cause a lot of trouble if used on a human being, since most of its ingredients have poisonous effects.

Also, a Doxy egg isn't a necessary ingredient, but without it the effect of the potion lasts only for a short period of time.

Ingredients

* Aconite
* Dozen Beetle Eyes
* A Flask of Belladonna Fluid
* Boomslang Skin
* 1 Doxy Egg

Method

1. Set your cauldron to medium heat, then put the flask of Belladonna Fluid in it and let it brew for a while. In the meanwhile chop the Boomslang Skin in small pieces and put your Beetle Eyes in another cauldron with water on medium heat to boil.

2. Put the chopped Boomslang Skin in the cauldron with Beetle Eyes and stir for 10 minutes. Then add the ingredients from that cauldron to your main cauldron.

3. Put the Doxy Egg in your main cauldron. Leave it to brew a bit, and in meantime powder the Aconite.

4. The last step is to add the powdered Aconite, and stir a few minutes. You now have Doxycide.

### Fire Protection Potion

This potion makes the user invulnerable to fire. However, the effect lasts only about an hour, you will have to re-take the potion every hour if you want it to last longer.

Ingredients

* A Couple of Eel Eyes
* Half a Jar of Flobberworm Mucus
* 5 Drops of Leech Juice
* A Flask of Honeywater
* 1 Eagle Owl Feather
* Several Ashwinder Eggs

Method

1. Put both the Flask of Honeywater and the Eel Eyes in your main cauldron and set it to high heat. Stir until it gets a dark green color.
2. Add the Flobberworm Mucus to your main cauldron, and stir a few minutes. Let the concoction brew and get your Ashwinder Eggs prepared, by freezing them.
3. Before you add the Ashwinder Eggs, first put 5 Drops of Leech Juice and stir. With this the color of the potion should have changed to dark red. Once done with that, you are free to add the Ashwinder Eggs as well.
4. Last, but not least, add the Eagle Owl Feather and stir. Basically your potion should now be ready, though before you use it you have to leave it a couple of minutes to cool down, otherwise it can reverse its effect and instead of protecting you from fire, it will create fire.

## Potion Recipes - Part 11

In this chapter we will be exploring potions that are associated with the 5 senses; sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. Some will damped the senses whereas others will strengthen them. The final one, Elixir of the Senses is known to strengthen all the senses for a short amount of time. The 6 potions I will be explaining are entitled: Blinding Draught, Hearing Potion, Scenting Concoction, Numbing Draught, Elixir of the Senses and the Taste bud Enhancer.

### Blinding Draught

The effect of this potion is to cause temporary blindness. It should last for 2-3 hours.

Ingredients

* 3ml of Billywig Slime
* 4 blades of Goosegrass
* 1 Rat spleen
* 15 Pickled beetle eyes
* 1 tablespoon of Celery Salt.

Method

1. Fill your cauldron with 2 cups of water, put on low heat.

2. Add the Billywig slime.

3. Stir clockwise until potion turns dark green.

4. Put on high heat.

5. Wait until the potion begins to emit black steam.

6. Add a blade of Goose grass and then sir anticlockwise twice. Repeat three times.

7. The rat spleen should be diced and dried, and then sprinkled in after the grass.

8. The potion should now be maroon and thick, but not lumpy. It should emit white steam.

9. Heat the potion until boiling, and then individually add the beetle eyes.

10. If the potion has been brewed correctly, it should now be dark blue and have maroon smoke emitting from it.

11. Add the celery salt, leave for 48 hours and then drink.

### Hearing Potion

This potion will cause the drinker to have an extraordinary sense of hearing for 24 hours.

Ingredients

* 1 ladybird
* 1/2 cup of honey water
* Powdered sopophorus root
* 2 bat ears

Method

1. Set three cups of water to the boil.

2. Once boiling, add the honey water.

3. The potion should have a slight tinge of yellow, and should smell strongly of honey.

4. The lady bird should be added, it will sink immediately.

5. Slowly add the powdered root. Wait three minutes until the ladybird is completely dissolved. The potion should now be a pinkish grey and opaque.

6. Add the bat ears. If they float the potion is wrong.

7. Stir seven times anti-clockwise.

8. The final solution should be a luminous pink, very slimy and thick.

9. Leave for an hour on low heat, then drink.

### Scenting Concoction

This concoction is easily brewed, yet very effective. Drinking it will cause you to be able to pick up scents from over 2 miles away.

Ingredients

* Two wolf hairs
* 1 cup of asphodel syrup
* 3 shriveled cloud berries

Method

1. Boil two cups of water on low heat.

2. Add the asphodel syrup. The potion should turn lilac.

3. The cloud berries should then be added.

4. If the potion is now turquoise, it should be chilled for an hour, then drunk.

### Numbing Draught

This potion causes the drinker to feel numb all over their body for two days. This potion is usually used animals when they must be killed, so that they don't feel a thing.

Ingredients

* 1 rose thorn
* 10 daisy leaves
* 2 raven talons
* Powdered spine of catfish
* 5 leaves of stinging nettles
* 1 liter of flobberworm mucus

Method

1. Set 2 cups of water to the boil.

2. Add half of the flobberworm mucus.

3. The potion should turn fluorescent green and lumpy.

4. Stir clockwise until smooth.

5. Add the daisy leaves, they should float.

6. Add the powdered catfish spine gently and slowly.

7. Stir until daisy leaves have dissolved and potion is pale green.

8. Add the other half of the mucus, followed by the talons, which should dissolve immediately.

9. Add the nettles and then leave on low heat for three hours.

10. Potion should be drunk quickly, along with some water to wash out the taste.

### Taste Bud Enhancer

This potion will strengthen the drinkers sense of taste for a little over a day. Each of the ingredients is delicious, but when mixed tastes revolting.

Ingredients

* 2 Strawberries
* 1 cup of honey
* 3 chocolate frogs.
* 1/2 cup of melted chocolate
* 6 boiled sweets, (flavor of choice)
* 2 Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans

Method

1. Put a liter of water to the boil.

2. Add the honey and stir until the water and honey is mixed.

3. The chocolate frogs must be added next. Be sure that they are unconscious when added.

4. Stir anti-clockwise until potion emits a yellow-brown steam.

5. Dice the strawberries, then sprinkle in.

6. If the strawberries sink, the potion is correct.

7. Add the beans and boiled sweets at the same time.

8. Add the chocolate slowly, and if the potion turns pure black it is correct.

9. Leave the potion to cool until it turns pale grey, then drink.

### Elixir of The Senses

This potion will strengthen all the senses for six hours. It must be produced at midnight on a full moon.

Ingredients

* Ear of a bat
* Eye ball of a fish eagle
* Nose of a shrew
* Tongue of a koala
* Quill of a porcupine

Method

1. Set 4 cups of water to the boil.

2. Finely dice the tongue and then add.

3. Stir anticlockwise until the tongue has dissolved completely, and the potion is a faded red colour.

4. The eye ball should be added next. If it floats it is correct.

5. Chop up the quill and add to the potion.

6. The potion should be beige.

7. Add the nose and ears simultaneously.

8. None of the ingredients apart from the tongue should be dissolved.

9. The potion should be left until the next half-moon, by which time the ingredients will be dissolved, then drink.