Advanced Potion-Making
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Advanced Potion-Making
by Libatius Borage
Amortentia
ingredients: unknown
Effect: The most powerful love potion in the world; see love potion for discussion of effects.
Bruise-healing paste
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Medical magic this is a thick yellow paste used to heal bruises.
Cough potion
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Medical magic unknown, but presumably treats a cough.
Draught of the Living Death
ingredients: asphodel in an infusion of wormwood; valerian roots, sopophorous bean
Effect: Causes someone to fall into a deep sleep.
Euphoria, an Elixir to Induce
ingredients: includes a sprig of peppermint in the Half-Blood Prince’s version
Effect: Induces euphoria in the drinker, with occasional side effects of excessive singing and nose-tweaking (the peppermint would tend to counterbalance that effect)
Felix Felicis
ingredients: unknown
Effect: Until the effects wear off, all the drinker’s endeavours will tend to succeed. However, if taken in excess the potion causes giddiness, recklessness, and dangerous overconfidence, and it is highly toxic in large quantities.
Hiccuping Solution
ingredients: unknown
Effect: unknown, but presumably either causes or cures hiccups
Love Potion
ingredients: may include frozen Ashwinder eggs
Effect: Does not really causes the person who drinks it to fall in love with someone, as it is impossible to manufacture or imitate love. A love potion simply causes the drinker to develop a powerful infatuation or obsession with the target.
Polyjuice Potion
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
Effect: Transforms a person to look exactly like someone else. One dose lasts for one hour, but doses can be renewed, apparently indefinitely.
Veritaserum
ingredients: unknown
Effect: The most powerful Truth Serum available, this colourless, odorless potion forces the drinker to tell the truth