Intermediate Potion Making

Wilfric Williboughy

Aging Potion

Beautifying Potion

Confusing/Befuddlement Draught

Invigoration Draught

Strengthening Solution

Tranquilizing Potion

Voice Altering Potion

Aging Potion

Created by Augustus Wrinkleroot, a renowned alchemist of the 18th century who dabbled in the span of the human life and coincidentally died at the early age of 32. This potion ages the drinker's physical appearance rapidly for a temporary period of time. This potion requires few ingredients but must be carefully prepared. It will last for two hours.

Ingredients:

3 Worrywart Toes, dried
Mammoth Bone, ground

Kumquat juice

Procedure:

  1. Fill the cauldron halfway with fresh water and bring it to a rapid boil.
  2. Shred Worrywart Toes into thin strips, and add them to your cauldron along with 2 ounces of ground mammoth bone.
  3. Lower heat and let it sit for 10 minutes, or till the brew is a greenish grey, then slowly add the juice to the mixture.
  4. Cover cauldron and stew for a fortnight (14 days or 2 weeks).

Notes: If the Kumquat juice is not fresh enough, one will age past their death date and immediately end their life. DO NOT drink unless the potion is a dark olive in color.

Beautifying Potion

This potion causes the drinker to appear more attractive to whoever is looking at them. The affects, however, are short; usually lasting only several hours.

Ingredients:

Dugbog Urine
4 Skink Eyes
Flobberworm Mucus
Rat Droppings
1 Rose Petal

Procedure:

  1. Bring 14 ounces of Dugbog Urine to a rapid boil.
  2. Add Skink Eyes immediately and boil one minute past the point at which they are fully dissolved. The potion should be orange in color.
  3. Add seven drops of Flobberworm Mucus immediately and stir vigorously for two minutes.
  4. Gently mix in one scoop of rat droppings and rose petal.
  5. Reduce heat and let simmer for ten minutes. Allow to cool completely before handling.

Notes: Over boiling the Dugbog Urine will produce fumes that cause acne. Too many rat droppings will give it a bitter taste. Adding the rose petal before the rat droppings will cause the potion to explode.

Confusing/Befuddlement Draught

This draught is a special concoction that can cause forgetfulness and confusion. The draught is simple, but one must know the ingredients very well, if not the spell could be made wrong and cause permanent-irreversible reactions. The Ministry of Magic often utilizes this draught in their Office of Misinformation to keep Muggles from knowing about the Wizarding World.

Ingredients:

Sneezewort
Scurvy-grass

Lovage

Procedure:

  1. Ground all ingredients into a fine powder. (Sneezewort will be yellow when it is a fine powder. Scurvy-grass is blue. Lovage is red)
  2. Mix together 1 cup of both Scurvy-grass and the Sneezewort. Then stir until the powder turns a greenish color.
  3. Add in 1 cup of Lovage. Then stir until the powders begin to smoke. The powder will turn into a dark orange color.
  4. Add water to activate the potion, the powder/water will take on an orange hue.

Notes: The antidote is simple; an average spell cast using the Rennervate spell will reverse the affects. If the potion is not mixed correctly, the affects can be rather harsh and would need a stronger cast of the Rennervate spell.

Invigoration Draught

This draught is used to stimulate the mind and body. This draught requires a brew time of 20 minutes.

Ingredients:

25 Anise seeds
8 ounces Water
1 Marigold Root, sliced
3 ounces Chicory, grated
4 ounces Gumplant
5 Scorpion Legs

Procedure:

  1. Heat a dry pewter cauldron, over medium heat for ten minutes.
  2. Sprinkle the Anise seeds into it and toast them until they begin to bounce around the cauldron and there is a light fragrance of grass.
  3. Add the water and stir in a figure eight five times.
  4. Add the Marigold root and the Chicory and let boil for two and a half minutes.
  5. Drop in the Gumplant, whole, and stir in the Scorpion legs. Stir 45 times rapidly.
  6. Remove from heat immediately upon completing the final stir. Potion should be tan in color and slightly luminescent.

Strengthening Solution

Increases strength for a given period of forty-eight hours. This is not to say you will be superhuman. What this potion does is maximize your own strength, as according to what is best for your body. Effects last 3 days. This potion is illegal in any competitions that involve strength. In order to make this potion please set the brewing time to 20 minutes.

Ingredients:

3 oz. of salamander blood
2 tbsp. of pomegranate juice
2 strips of steak (no ground meat)
1/4 cup of spinach leaves, shredded
1-cup fresh water

Procedure:

  1. Coat the bottom of the cauldron with the salamander blood.
  2. Put cauldron on fire, and add the two strips of red meat; let it sit for 5 minutes.
  3. Add shredded spinach leaves and a cup of fresh water, and stir vigorously for 5 minutes.
  4. Add pomegranate juice IMMEDIATELY after step three, and let sit for ten minutes. Will be a thick grayish color and texture when properly brewed.

Tranquilizing Potion

There are many uses for a tranquilizing potion. It neutralizes a danger without permanently damaging it. It can calm a patient before a medicinal procedure. It can be used on wild animals, in order to transport them peacefully. Herbalists created this particular draught, popular among European Apothecaries, in the 13th century.

Ingredients:

4 drops Anise Oil
1 oz. St. John's Wart
1/2 oz. Dragon Horn, powdered
8 oz. Spring Water

Procedure:

  1. Begin by adding the Anise Oil to a standard size 2 cauldron.
  2. Create an infusion of St. Johns Wart by putting the herb in a strainer and pouring boiling water over it, letting the mixture steep for 15-30 minutes in a separate goblet.
  3. Add infusion to the cauldron, then the powdered dragon horn a pinch at a time.
  4. Do not let the potion reach its boiling point, as it is extremely flammable at this stage. Lower heat, and stir constantly for 10 minutes.
  5. Allow to cool before bottling.

Voice Altering Potion

This potion has long been a tool the deceptive, the elusive, and the occasional fan of ventriloquism. The basic formula for changing the range of the voice was developed in 1354 by an infamous charlatan wizard named Lazarus Larynx. Many historical figures have attributed the draught to their success, and at times their failure. As the active ingredient in this potion, voices will be variably altered depending upon the amounts of lovage or chicory added to the potion. Lovage will enhance the upper register of the voice, Chicory the lower. This potion’s affects last for 90 minutes and the following formula is suitable for 12 doses.

One successful brawny Quidditch beater for Puddlemere United, Erik Olsen, secretly took it to mask his effeminate voice to his millions of fans. After a long match that closed the season of 1926, he forgot to take his dose before the press conference, and by morning mockery of his soprano voice was stamped across the prophet. Uric the Oddball, eccentric hermit-genius of experimental charms, was known for having the strange habit of randomly altering his voice 5 times a day without any reason at all. Today, the potion is used largely as a cocktail party prank, or by young witches and wizards who seem to have the same fondness and fascination for the concoction as Muggle children do for swallowing helium.

Ingredients:

2 ounces- Inner bark of elm
2 1/2 cups African hedgehog bile
1 ounce powdered fox's clot
2 ounces dried Lady's Mantle
3 ounces powdered hops
1 red fox spleen
1 scarlet snake skin

1-5 tablespoons of minced lovage OR chicory leaves

Procedure:

  1. Prepare ingredients while bringing 2 liters of water to a steady boil in a cauldron. Clean and dice fox spleen, shred snakeskin. Chop lady's mantle very fine. Grind elm bark and combine with 3 tablespoons of water till it forms a glutinous paste, then add the desired amount of lovage or chicory and stir well.
  2. Add the paste and powdered ingredients to the cauldron; stir continuously until a mustard yellow froth appears on the potion's surface.
  3. Slowly pour in hedgehog bile, then immediately extinguish the cauldron flame and let the potion sit undisturbed for ten minutes. During this time, the runny draught will slowly begin to thicken as it cools.
  4. Stir the cauldron rapidly for 30 seconds before carefully adding the fox spleen and snakeskin simultaneously.
  5. Raise to rapid boil once more, then immediately remove from heat and allow the potion to cool to a drinkable temperature. This potion, however, should be taken while still warm and must be reheated for use if stored. The potion will have a gelatinous consistency at room temperature.

Note: Do not attempt to take a second dose of this potion before the first has run it's course. Doing so will permanently damage the vocal chords.