| Most Potente Potions |
| Potions are very important to the magical world. They can make life more pleasureable, less pleasureable,they can save lives and they can kill. This book will describe great and bad potions with ingredients and descriptions. Read on... |
| Name: Draught of the Living Dead Description: Extremely strong sleeping potion Ingredients: Powdered root of asphodel and an infusion of wormwood. |
| Name: Elixir of Life Description: If you keep drinking this you will stay alive forever. Ingredients: This comes from the stone, made by Mr. Flammel. |
| Name: Boil Oinkment Description: Cures boils. Ingredients: Dried nettle, snake fangs, horned slugs, porcupine quills. Directions: Crush the sname fangs, stew the horned slugs and add them both to cauldron. Take cauldron off fire and add porcupine quills. |
| Name: Polyjuice Potion Description: This potion will turn you into anyone you want although it can go seriously wrong if you want to turn into an animal. You just drink the potion and it will transform you. Ingredients: Lacewig flies, leaches, fluxweed, knot grass, powdered horn of a bicorn, shredded skin of a boomslang and part of the person you wnat to turn into (hair, etc.). Directions: Pick the fluxweed during a full moon, add leeches to cauldron, add lacewigs and stew for 21 days and add bicorn horn and boomslang skin. |
| Name: Forgetfulness Potion Description: Just like a memory charm this will erase someones memory depending on doses. |
| Name: Film Developing Potion Description: This potion is what seperates magical photos from Muggle ones. If you develop a film in this potion then your photos will move and seem to have a life of their own. |
| Name: Pepperup Potion Description: This potion cures colds, minor dizzyness. When drank this potion will also make steam come out of your ears. |
| Name: Mandrake Restorative Draught Description: This is a powerful restorative which returns transfigured people back to their original state. Ingredients: You must grow a Mnadrake to its adult form (they will try to share pots when they are adults) and then they can produce the restorative. |
| Name: Deflating Draft Description: This potion will make any swelling go down. This is a great and common antidote for swelling. |
| Name: Swelling Solution Description: This solution is the complete opposite to the deflating draft. It is very powerful when a lot is added to the skin and can make any part of your body swell and bulge largely. |
| Name: Skele-Grow Description: This medicine grows back any missing bones. It is a very painful and slow process but it does work well. If you drink Skele-Grow when all your bones are in tact then you could end up the size of a half giant permanantly. |
| Name: Sleeping Drought Description: Definately not as strong as Draught of the Living Dead but effective, none the less. If you slip this potion in to someone's food or drink they will sleep for a temporary ammount of time. |
| Name: Hair Rising Potion Description: Does exactly what it says above. it rises your hair. Ingredient: Rat tails. |
| Name: Love Potion Description: This Potion makes the drinker fall in love with someone. |
| Name: Shrinking Solution Description: This solution shrinks whatever comes into contact with it. Ingredients: Daisy roots, shrivelfig, dead caterpillar, one rat spleen, and. dash of leech juice. Directions: Chop the daisy roots up into equal pieces, skin the shrivelfig, add rat spleen and leech juice and let the potion simmer a little before use. |
| Name: Confusing Concoction Description: This potion confuses people. |
| Name: Wolfsbane Potion Description: Wolfsbane potion is a recent discovery and a very complexed potion to make. It allows a werewolf to have it's human state of mind. Ingredient: Wolfsbane. |
| Name: Aging Potion Description: This potion will make the person who drinks it seem physically older. One drop will make the person seem just 2-3 months older. This potion does not work with agelines. |
| Name: Antidotes Description: These cure the effects of potions. |
| Name: Sleekeasy's Hair Potion Description: This potion will tame frizzy, curly, sticking up, bushy and any other type of hair. |
| Name: Sleeping Draft Description: This is the most strong Slleping Potion there is. It will even knock out a dragon. Not recommended for use on humans. |
| Name: Wound Cleaning Potion Description: This acts like a disinfectant towards wounds by cleaning the wound and killing germs that may cause an infection. This is purple and smoke comes from wounds that it cleans. It also stings. |
| Name: Burn Mending Paste Description: This thick, orange paste will cool burns and make them painless. It will also get rid of the burn. |
| Name: Wit-Sharpening Potion Description: This potion makes it's drinker more witty, funny and clever. Ingredients: Scarab beetles, ginger roots and armadillo bile. Directions: Crush scarabs into powder, slice ginger roots and put both into cauldron then add armadillo bile. |
| Name: Veritaserum Description: A very strong truth potion that is a clear liquid color (just like water). With three drops anyone will reveal all their secrets and answer questions truthfully when asked. this potion has very strict guidelines from the ministry. |
| Name: Life-Preserving Potion Description: This allows someone to live even without a body. it kept Voldemort alive when he died. Ingredients: Unicorn Blood and snake Vernom. |
| Name: Body-Restoring Potion Description: This brings somebody's body back if they don't have it (if they are a spirit). Ingredients: Blood from someone, flesh of a loyal servant's arm along with other ingredients. Directions: The person must drink the blood must be under the person who's blood they get and they must be somewhere where they feel emotion (like hate if they are by somebody they hates gravestone. |
| Name: Dreamless Sleep Potion Description: A very effective potion, one of the many sleeping potions. This will quickly make you fall into a heavy, deep, sleep with no dreams. |
| Common Potion Ingredients (In alphatbetical order) |
| Acconite Asphodel Bezoar Bicorn Horn Black Beetle Eyes Booslang Sking Bubotuber Pus Caterpillar Daisy Roots Fluxweed Horned Slugs Knotgrass Lacewing Flies Leeches Leech Juice Lion Fish Mandrake Restorative Nettles Porcupine Quills Puffer-fish Eyes Rat tails Rat Spleens Shrivelfig Snake Fags Spiders Tube worms Unicorn Horns Wormwood |
| Written by Justine of Slytherin and Edited by Prof. Lewis |
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