potions and thier ingredients

[Severus Snape]

[glow=red,2,300]Aging Potion [/glow]

ingredients: unknown

Effect: Causes the person drinking it to grow older. The more Aging Potion one drinks, the more one ages.

Fred and George Weasley and Lee Jordan took a few drops of Aging Potion in an attempt to con the Age Line around the Goblet of Fire into thinking that they were a few months older. The Line wasn't fooled. They were thrown back out of the circle, then they sprouted full beards.

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[glow=red,2,300]antidotes [/glow]

ingredients: vary, but often include mandrakes

There are antidotes for many poisons and for potions effects.

Antidote for Swelling Solution is the Deflating Draught
Potions class studies antidotes; Snape threatened to poison a member of the class to see if his or her antidote worked

The Mandrake Restorative Draft is the antidote for Petrification

A bezoar will act as an antidote to most poisons

Snape had an antidote handy to restore Trevor the toad when he was turned into a tadpole.

Mrs. Weasley had an antidote handy for Doxy bites when she and the children spent the morning de-Doxifying the draperies of the drawing room of Number 12 Grimmauld Place.

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[glow=red,2,300]Beautifying Potions / Beautification Potion [/glow]

Potions to make the drinker more lovely in appearance.

Sacharissa Tugwood was an expert at these potions, pioneering their creation and use

The famous hag Malodora Grymm, using a beautification potion to conceal her true form, married a king and used a charmed mirror to reinforce her self-image. She became jealous of the most beautiful girl in the land and fed her a poisoned apple to get rid of her.

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[glow=red,2,300]Blood-Replenishing Potion [/glow]

Potion to make up for lost blood.

Arthur had to take a Blood-Replenishing Potion every hour until the Healers could find an antidote for the venom of the snake that bit him. Something in that venom was keeping the wound open and he was bleeding whenever they would remove the bandages.

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[glow=red,2,300]boil cure potion [/glow]

ingredients: dried nettles, crushed snake fangs, stewed horned slugs, porcupine quills (added after taking the cauldron off the fire)

[glow=red,2,300]Simple potion to cure boils. [/glow]

taught to First Years in their first Potions classes with Snape

If the porcupine quill is added before the cauldron is taken off the fire, the mixture produces clouds of acid green smoke and a loud hissing, melts the cauldron, and burns holes in people's shoes. This happened to Neville, who was splashed by it and sprouted angry red boils

c.f. Furnunculus (spell)

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[glow=red,2,300]burn-healing paste [/glow]

Medical magic: this is an orange paste is used to heal burns.

Used by Madam Pomfrey to tend to burns during the Triwizard Tournament

[Severus Snape]

[glow=red,2,300]cleaning solutions, magical [/glow]

Cleaning and polishing is usually accomplished with magical means, including various potions

diluted Bundimun secretion

Mrs. Scower's Magical Mess Remover
use number twelve of dragons' blood is oven cleaner

when Ron had to polish awards in the trophy room, he came back into the dormitory smelling of metal polish because he was not allowed to use magic for it

In preparation for the visit by the delegations from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons, the castle was spiffed up. Armor was polished and oiled so it didn't squeak when it moved. Some of the more dingy paintings were scrubbed so that their subjects sat with their faces pink from the effects.

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[glow=red,2,300]Confusing Concoction [/glow]

Effect is to cause confusion.

Ingredients: Unknown

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[glow=red,2,300]Confusing & Befuddlement Draught [/glow]

Effect similar to that of Confusing Concotion (see above.)

ingredients:Sneezewort, Scurvy-grass and Lovage.



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[glow=red,2,300]Deflating Draught [/glow]

Antidote to swelling solution

Snape had some on hand while Harry's second year class was preparing Swelling Solution, which turned out to be a handy thing.

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[glow=red,2,300]Doxycide [/glow]

Black liquid, usually delivered by spray bottle, used to knock out Doxies so they can be safely disposed of. The effects last quite a long time.

Molly Weasley provided each of the children a spray bottle of Doxycide with which to help clear the infestation of Doxies from the draperies of the drawing room in Number 12 Grimmauld Place.

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[glow=red,2,300]Draught of the Living Death [/glow]

ingredients: asphodel in an infusion of wormwood

Effect: Causes someone to fall into a deep sleep.

one of Snape's first three questions to Harry in Potions

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[glow=red,2,300]Draft of Peace [/glow]

ingredients: essence of hellebore

Effect: gives a person a sense of peace

Tricky potion which is OWL standard, taught in fifth-year Potions




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[glow=red,2,300]Elixir of Life [/glow]

ingredients: unknown, but it is derived from the Philosopher's Stone

The Elixir of Life grants immortality for as long as it's imbibed. When a person stops drinking it, they will die.

Nicolas Flamel and his wife have lived over 650 years by drinking Elixir of Life

Voldemort seeks immortality, and stealing the Philosopher's Stone was one way he hoped to attain it

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[glow=red,2,300]Exploding Fluid [/glow]

ingredients: include Erumpent fluid

Effect: unknown (well, it explodes of course, but besides that)


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[glow=red,2,300]Forgetfulness Potion [/glow]

Effect: uncertain, probably makes a person forget things

first years were tested on this in final exams

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[glow=red,2,300]Gregory's Unctuous Unction [/glow]

Effect: persuades the drinker that the giver is their very best friend

invented by Gregory the Smarmy

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[glow=red,2,300]Hair-Raising Potion [/glow]

ingredients: include rat tails

Exact effect unknown

[Severus Snape]

[glow=red,2,300]Invigoration Draught[/glow]

ingredients: unknown

Exact effect unknown


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[glow=red,2,300]Ingredients [/glow]

Potion ingredients are available for student use from the Student Store cupboard. Students also buy their own ingredients as part of their school supplies, and purchase additional materials and refills every year. Many witches and wizards buy their potion-making supplies at the Apothecary in Diagon Alley. Snape maintains his own private stores which include ingredients not available in the Student Store Cupboard, including boomslang skin and gillyweed.

Abyssinian shrivelfig
(must be peeled)

aconite
(also called monkshood and wolfbane)
(Scott Cunningham's "Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs" informs us that a folk name for the highly poisonous Wolf's Bane is "Dumbledore's Delight" )

Antipodean Opaleye dragon eggshells


armadillo bile
(used in Wit-Sharpening Potion)

Ashwinder eggs
(frozen)

asphodel, root of
(powdered)

belladonna, essence of
(Note that belladonna is poisonous)

bezoar
(comes from the stomach of a goat, protects from most poisons)

bicorn horn
(powdered)

Billywig stings
(dried)

black beetle eyes


boomslang skin
(shredded)

bubotuber pus
(good against stubborn acne; yellowish, smells of petrol
The pimple-curing properties of Bubotuber pus were discovered by Sacharissa Tugwood)

Bundimun secretion


caterpillars
(sliced)

Chinese Chomping Cabbage
(Hermione studied a diagram of this when they were searching in the library for potion ingredients for Snape)

cockroach, dead
(Snape keeps a jar of these in his office)

daisy roots
(chopped)

Doxy eggs
(black in color, they are used for researching trick sweets by Fred and George)

dragon
hide, blood, heart, liver, horn, claws
(Chinese Fireball dragon eggs, powdered, uses of which were discovered by Quong Po)

Erumpent
(horns, tails, and Exploding Fluid)

fluxweed
(picked at full moon)

frog brains

gillyweed
(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.

The effects of gillyweed were first dicovered by Elladora Ketteridge. About a century later, gillyweed was re-discovered by Beaumont Marjoribanks)

ginger roots
(cut)

Graphorn
(horn powdered)

hellebore
(There are several kinds of hellebore. The name comes from the Greek words 'elein' (to injure) and 'bora' (food), indicating that hellebore is poisonous. In some belief systems, it's been believed to be a purgative, sometimes of bad things generally, used for things like protecting livestock from evil spells, and (in powdered form) for invisibility.

The only thing it's known definitely to be used for in Potions is for the Draught of Peace , despite its poisonous properties)

horned toad
(Neville had to disembowel a barrel of these for Snape)

horned slugs


Jobberknoll feathers
(for Memory Potions and Truth Serums)

knotgrass


lacewing flies
(stewed 21 days)

leeches

leech juice

lionfish, spine of
(part of students' standard potion-making kit)

mandrake
(An important plant which is used as an ingredient in the Restorative Draught)

monkshood
(see aconite)

moonstone
(Used in various potions (including the Draught of Peace), sometimes in powdered form; Harry had to write an essay (12 inches of parchment) for Snape about the uses of moonstone in potion making.)

nettles
(dried)
(gathered in Queerditch Marsh for nettle tea)

porcupine quills


puffer-fish eyes


rat tails, spleen
(rat spleen)
(tails - used in hair-raising potion)

Romanian Longhorn dragon horn
(powdered)

salamander blood
(used in Strengthening Potion)

scarab beetles
(crushed)

shrivelfig
(Abyssinian skinned)

snake fangs
(crushed)

spiders


tubeworms
(Harry had to stay behind in Potions and scrape tubeworms off a desk)

unicorn horns, tail hair
(tail hair used for wands)

wolfsbane
(see aconite)

wormwood

[Severus Snape]

[glow=red,2,300]Love Potion [/glow]

ingredients: include frozen Ashwinder eggs

Effect: Causes the person who drinks it to fall in love with someone.

Lockhart suggested that
Love potions are against Hogwarts school rules

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[glow=red,2,300]Mandrake Restorative Draft [/glow]

ingredients: include Mandrake, of course

This powerful antidote will revive people who have been Petrified.

Mature Mandrakes are needed for this potion, which Snape brewed in May, 1993, to restore the people who were Petrified by the Basilisk from the Chamber of Secrets.

There has been some discussion as to how Petrified people would be able to drink a potion. Clearly this particular concoction is not always ingested. Perhaps Madam Pomfrey applied the potion to the skin of the victims.

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[glow=red,2,300]Memory Potions [/glow]

ingredients: include Jobberknoll feathers

Effect unknown

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[glow=red,2,300]Mrs. Scower's Magical Mess Remover [/glow]

Magical cleaning product.

Used by Filch for various cleaning jobs. It wouldn't remove the foot-high painted letters on the corridor wall near where Mrs. Norris was Petrified, however
Advertised at the Quidditch World Cup
stored by the case in various broom closets around the castle

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[glow=red,2,300]Pepperup Potion [/glow]

Cures the common cold.

Glover Hipworth (1742 - 1805) invented the Pepperup Potion.
Madam Pomfrey dispensed quite a lot of this as winter hit the castle. It leaves steam coming out of the person's ears for several hours.

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[glow=red,2,300]photograph potions [/glow]

If normal Muggle photographs are developed in certain potions, the resulting images will move.

Colin Creevey discovered this during his first year at Hogwarts. He was pretty excited about it

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[glow=red,2,300]Polyjuice Potion [/glow]

ingredients: lacewing flies stewed 21 days, leeches, powdered bicorn horn, knotgrass, fluxweed picked at full moon, boomslang skin, a bit of who one wants to turn into

"poly" Gr. many + juice

Effect: Transforms a person to look exactly like someone else. One dose lasts for one hour, but doses can be renewed, apparently indefinitely.

The instructions for making this potion are found in the book Moste Potente Potions, which is in the Restricted Section of the library at Hogwarts
Only intended for human transformation
Crouch Jr. used Polyjuice Potion to impersonate Moody

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[glow=red,2,300]Quodpot solution[/glow]

Effect: Used in the pots serving as goals in the game of Quodpot to the Quod from exploding

[Severus Snape]

[glow=red,2,300] Scintillating Solution [/glow]

Effect unknown

One of the students who found the Kwikspell course helpful wrote that people were now begging for her recipe for Scintillating Solution.

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[glow=red,2,300]Shrinking Solution [/glow]

ingredients: chopped daisy roots, skinned shrivelfig, sliced caterpillar, one rat spleen, dash of leech juice

Effect: Makes things shrink in size


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[glow=red,2,300]"Skele-Gro" [/glow]

"skeleton" + "grow" (sounds like a brand name)

Medical magic: Potion which regrows bones. The effect takes about eight hours and can be quite painful.

When Lockhart removed all the bones from Harry's arm, Madam Pomfrey gave Harry Skele-Gro to grow them back. It took all night .

Skele-Gro comes in a large bottle and is dispensed by the steaming beaker-full. It burns the mouth as it goes down. Regrowing bones is a painful process, and Harry felt stabbing pains in his arm, as if it were full of large splinters

Ron thought maybe Hagrid had drunk too much of this as a child, making him larger than everyone else

In CS/f, the bottle has this on the label:

1100 Drops

Bone Regenerator

SKELE-GRO

Bone-Fide Results Everytime

Sold Only by Rubens Winikus and Company Inc.


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[glow=red,2,300]Sleekeasy's Hair Potion [/glow]

Used to style hair.

Hermione used this to style her hair for the Yule Ball

c.f. Lockhart dreamed of one day selling his own line of hair care products

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[glow=red,2,300]Sleeping Draft/Draught/Potion [/glow]

Effect: causes the drinker to fall into a deep sleep

Hermione filled two chocolate cakes with Sleeping Draught, and Harry and Ron used them to knock out Crabbe and Goyle

a Sleeping Potion is a purple potion which Harry drank after his ordeal with Voldemort in the Third Task. He didn't drink it all, so he was still awake when Dumbledore was arguing with Fudge

The dragons for the First Task were given Sleeping Drafts to knock them out for transport to Hogwarts

SEE Draught of the Living Death


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[glow=red,2,300]Swelling Solution [/glow]

Causes something to get bigger.

The second year students were making this when Harry threw a firecracker into Goyle's cauldron to create a diversion. Where the solution splashed, people's arms, noses, eyes, etc. were enlarged grotesquely. The antidote was a Deflating Draft

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[glow=red,2,300]Truth Potion/Serum [/glow]

ingredients: can include Jobberknoll feathers

Force a person to tell the truth.

Truth Potion (Truth Serum)
Veritaserum

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[glow=red,2,300]Veritaserum [/glow]

"veritas" L. truth

The most powerful Truth Serum available.

A Truth Potion so powerful that three drops would have you spilling your innermost secrets

Use of this potion is controlled by very strict Ministry guidelines

Dumbledore had Snape use it on Barty Crouch Jr.

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[glow=red,2,300]Voldemort's potions [/glow]

ingredients

In his unnatural quest to achieve immortality, Voldemort used three different potions:

unicorn blood: Voldemort induced Quirrell to kill unicorns and drink their blood to allow the Dark Lord to survive. Unicorn blood will give only a cursed life because you have killed something defenseless and pure to save yourself. Voldemort didn't care, of course, because he was only trying to stay alive until he could drink the Elixir of Life from the Philosopher's Stone
potion which kept Voldemort alive from the time Wormtail returned to him until he could be reborn; it consisted of unicorn blood and snake venom milked from Nagini

potion to restore Voldemort to his body - June 24, 1995: bone of his father, blood of his enemy, flesh of his servant

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[glow=red,2,300]Wartcap Powder [/glow]

Substance which causes the skin of a person who touches it to form a thick hard crust

A snuffbox in the cabinet in the drawing room of 12 Grimmauld Place had Wartcap Powder in it, as evidenced by the reaction of Sirius's hand to the box when he picked it up

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[glow=red,2,300]Wit-Sharpening Potion [/glow]

ingredients: ground scarab beetle, cut up ginger root, armadillo bile

Effect is presumably to make a person think more clearly.

The fourth year Potions class was making this potion shortly after the second task

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[glow=red,2,300]Wolfsbane Potion [/glow]

Effects: While this potion can't cure lycanthropy, it does prevent the extremely dangerous dementia which accompanies the transformation from human into werewolf.

A fairly recent invention, very difficult to make. Snape makes it for Lupin

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[glow=red,2,300]wound-cleaning potion [/glow]

Medical potion used on cuts and other open wounds.

Used to clean out Harry's wounds from his bout with the dragon in the First Task (purple, smokes and stings)

[Severus Snape]

[glow=red,2,300]Ingredients [/glow]
--Potion ingredients are available for student use from the Student Store cupboard. Students also buy their own ingredients as part of their school supplies, and purchase additional materials and refills every year. Many witches and wizards buy their potion-making supplies at the Apothecary in Diagon Alley. Snape maintains his own private stores which include ingredients not available in the Student Store Cupboard, including boomslang skin and gillyweed.

--Abyssinian shrivelfig (must be peeled)
--Aconite
--Antipodean Opaleye Dragon Eggshells
--Armadillo bile (used in Wit-Sharpening Potion)
--Ashwinder eggs (frozen)
--Asphodel, root of (powdered)
--Belladonna, essence of (Note that belladonna is poisonous)
--Bezoar
--Bicorn horn (powdered)
--Billywig stings (dried)
--Black beetle eyes
--Boomslang skin (shredded)
--Bundimun secretions
--Caterpillars (sliced)
--Chinese Chomping Cabbage
--Cockroach, dead
--Daisy roots (chopped)
--Doxy eggs
--Dragon hide, blood, heart, liver, horn, claws
--Erumpent (horns, tails, and Exploding Fluid)
--Fluxweed (picked at full moon)
--Frog brains
--Gillyweed
--Ginger roots (cut)
--Graphorn (horn powdered)
--Hellebore
--Horned toad
--Horned slugs
--Jobberknoll feathers
--Knotgrass
--Lacewing flies (stewed 21 days)
--Leeches
--Leech juice
--Lionfish, spine of
--Mandrake
--Monkshood
--Moonstone (sometimes in powdered form)
--Nettles (dried)
--Porcupine quills
--Puffer-fish eyes
--Rat tails, spleen (tails - used in hair-raising potion)
--Romanian Longhorn dragon horn (powdered)
--Salamander blood
--Scarab beetles (crushed)
--Shrivelfig (Abyssinian skinned)
--Snake fangs (crushed)
--Spiders
--Tubeworms
--Unicorn horns, tail hair
--Wolfsbane
--Wormwood