Advanced Potion Making

Written by Libatius Borage. Published by Merge Books in 1946.

A book used for N.E.W.T. level potion studies.

Potions include:

~ Draught of Living Death
Effect: Causes the drinker to fall into a deep, death-like slumber.
Characteristics: Clear as water when completed.
Difficulty level: Advanced.
Ingredients: Wormwood, Asphodel, Valerian Roots, Sloth Brain, Juice of a Sopophorous Bean.


~ Elixir to Induce Euphoria
Effect: Induces a sense of irrational happiness upon the drinker - cures depression.
Characteristics: Sunshine yellow in colour.
Difficulty level: Advanced.
Ingredients: Sprig of Peppermint, Wormwood, Shrivelfig, Porcupine Quills, Castor Beans.


~ Hiccoughing Solution
Effect: Presumably causes hiccups.


~ Felix Felicis
Effect: Increases the luck of the drinker.
Characteristics: Molten gold in colour. Droplets leap like goldfish above potions surface when in cauldron.
Brewing time: Six months.
Difficulty level: Advanced.


~ Poison Antidote following Golpalott's Third Law
The antidote for a blended poison will be equal to more than the sum of the antidotes for each of the separate components.


~ Wiggenweld Potion
Effect: Awakens a person from magically-induced sleep. Acts as an antidote to the Draught of Living Death. Also cures minor damage.

Difficulty level: Beginner to Advanced.

Ingredients:
One pint of Horklump juice
2 drops of Flobberworm Mucus
7 Chizpurfle fangs
Billywig sting slime
A sprig of mint
Boom Berry juice
One stewed Mandrake
Drops of Honeywater
Sloth brain Mucus
Moondew drops
Powdered root of asphodel
Shredded dittany
Wiggentree bark
Moly petals
Salamander blood
10 Lionfish spines
Unicorn horn
Wolfsbane