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potions.reference Key to colours and symbols Everything in black has been taken from the Wikipedia article potions Everything in orange is canon but not from Wiki OR it is movie/ video game canon Everything in blue is original content (Game Canon) This list was put together with the hard work of hafren   - potion banned at Hogwarts (either outside of the classroom or all together) - healing potion - OWL level potion or below - NEWT level potion (6th or 7th year) • "Simple" to "Advanced" can be assumed learned in school • "Expert" is learned outside of scool (healer training, apothecary apprenticeship, etc) All new potions must include: Name: potion name (include draught, unction, salve, paste) Description: the potion's effects Level: the difficulty of the potion to brew, simple, moderate, advanced, expert (you may also mention OWL level, NEWT level, or beyond NEWT level, if you wish) Notes: potion appearance, skill level, area of effect Ingredients: major ingredients needed Illicit potions: Assuming students are able to get the requisite potions ingredients, some brewing may occur in the privacy of dorms, bathrooms, or snogging closets. The chance of finishing the potion before getting caught and the efficacy of the finished potion will require mod approval, and will likely involve complicated dice rolls based on character year and skill, and the potion difficulty. Smuggling from Hogsmeade is also encouraged, though dice rolls are skewed in favour of getting caught, as that promotes logging.   A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Aging Potion Description: A potion which causes the drinker to become older. The more of the potion is drunk, the larger the aging which occurs. The effects of this potion are temporary. Amortentia Description: The most powerful love potion in the world. Causes a powerful infatuation. It has a disctinctive mother-of-pearl sheen, and steam rises from it in spirals. It has a different aroma for everyone who smells it, remiding each of things they find attractive. Effects are instantaneous. Level: Moderate. 6th year Notes: N/A Ingredients: B Babbling Beverage Description: Causes the drinker to speak nonsense. Level: Moderate. Notes: N/A Ingredients: Baruffio's Brain Elixir Description: Allegedly increases one's brain power. Level: Simple. Notes: Possibly invented by Baruffio. A popular potion sold in apothecaries, but known to be a likely scam by reputable potioneers. Ingredients: Beautifying Potions Description: Potions make the derinker more lovely in appearance. Level: Notes: Sacharissa Tugwood pioneered the creation and use of many of these potions. Ingredients: Befuddlement Draught Description: Helps the drinker to clear their mind of Dark Magic and horrible thoughts. Level: Moderate Notes: Ingredients: Scurvy grass, lovage, and sneezewort. Blood-Replenishing Potion Description: Potion makes up for lost blood and stimulates the creation of new blood cells. Level: Expert Notes: Requires three days cycle to make and must sit for 8 hours before bottled for use. Generally considered to be an improvement over the blood-replenishing charm as it includes the dense nutrients required to compensate the body's rapid creation of blood and plasma. Ingredients: Boil-Cure Potion Description: Level: Simple; Taught to First Years Notes: Must remove the cauldron from the fire before adding porcupine quills or the cauldron will melt, and Ingredients: Dried nettles, crushed snake fangs, stewed horned slugs, porcupine quills. Bruise-Healing Paste Description: A thick yellow paste used to heal bruises. Level: Simple. Notes: Ingredients: Burn-healing Paste Description: An orange paste is used to heal burns. Level: Notes: Ingredients: C Calming Draught Description: Calms the drinker. The effects of Calming Draught usually last anywhere from four to eight hours, depending on the size and concentration of the dose; it can easily be mixed with various sleeping potions or pain potions to increase the duration of these effects, with the risk of more potent side-effects. May easily be mixed with tea. An incredibly still liquid of a very deep, blue-green color. Level: Advanced; Requires several days to brew properly. Notes: May be highly addictive and may cause withdrawal in one who uses the potion frequently. Ingredients: Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) root; the leaves, berries, and root of Withania somnifera (Winter Cherry or Indian Ginseng); distilled essence of Helleborus niger (Black Hellebore); powdered leaves and root of Piper methysticum (Kava); three sprigs and a tincture of peppermint (Mentha × piperita); and the flowers and berries of the Mandrake (Mandragora officinarum). Castigan's Draught Description: Eases breathing difficulties and pain whilst breathing due to problems with the lungs. Level: Advanced; typically taught at NEWT Level Notes: Taken weakly or bi-weekly as ordered by a healer Ingredients: Eucalyptus bark, scurvy grass Conception Prevention Description: Prevents conceptions Level: Moderate; not taught at Hogwarts Notes: Lavender in colour; two tablespoons a day while sexually active; side effects include temporary breast growth on males when taken. Contraindicated with any potion containing belladonna (rendered ineffective). Ingredients: Confusing & Befuddlement Draught Description: Causes confusion in the drinker. Differs from the Confusing Concoction in that it also disrupts short term memory and makes the drinker more susceptible to magical intrusion of the mind. Level: Moderate; Studied OWL year Notes: Ingredients: Sneezewort, scurvy-grass, and lovage. Confusing Concoction Description: Causes confusion in the drinker. When brewed properly is thick in its final stages. Level: Simple to moderate; typically taught third year. Notes: Ingredients: Cough Potions Description: Decreases coughing in the drinker. Level: Moderate. Notes: Ingredients: D Deflating Draught Description: Causes anything swollen by magical means to shrink back to normal size. Level: Simple to moderate Notes: Antidote to the Swelling Solution. Ingredients: Dictatorial Draught Description: A potion that makes people more likely to act upon suggestions. Notes: Is made over a process of three weeks, during specific times of the moon cycle. Level: Advanced Expert. Ingredients: Thirty different ingredients. Doxycide Description: Black liquid, usually delivered by spray bottle, used to knock doxies so they may be safely disposed of. Effects last for a long time. Level: Moderate Notes: Would have poor effects if taken internally by a human being including nausea and vomiting with small doses and unconsciousness if overdosed in large quantities. Ingredients: Draught of Living Death Description: Causes the drinker to fall into a deep, death-like slumber. Mimics the state of death. Is clear as water when completed. Level: Advanced. Notes: Resembles a smooth, blackcurrant-coloured liquid at the halfway stage; should turn lilac, then clear as water after you stir the potion counterclockwise seven times. Varying levels of deep sleep depending on how much you ingest. Countered by the Wiggenwald Potion Ingredients: Wormwood, asphodel, valerian roots, and a single Sophophorous Bean. Draught of Peace Description: Relieves anxiety and agitation. If brewed correctly, the potion will emit a silvery vapour. Level: Advanced; Taught fifth year. Notes: Directions must be followed very carefully. Overdoing the ingredients can put the drinker into a deep sleep that may be irreversible. Potion must be stirred the correct number of times, before hellebore is added, the temperature of the flames must be lowered and the potion allowed to simmer for seven minutes. Ingredients: Powdered moonstone, syrup of hellebore. Dr. Ubbly's Oblivious Unction Description: Used to treat wounds from thoughts, enhances ability to forget certain scenarios. Level: N/A. Notes: Ingredients: Dreamless Sleep Potion Description: Sleeping potion allows the drinker to sleep without dreams. Stonger than a typical Sleeping Potion, although not as strong as the Draught of Living Death. Potion is brown in colour and tastes a bit like hay grass. Level: Advanced; Typically taught at NEWT Level Notes: Takes about an hour to brew. Mildly addictive if used consistently. Ingredients: Dried chamomile, sopophorous, and dragon scales, and powdered catnip. E Elixir to Induce Euphoria Description: A sunshine yellow potion that induces euphoria in the drinker. May cause nose tweaking and excessive singing. Level: Advanced; Taught during sixth year Notes: Ingredients: Sprig of Peppermint. Elixir of Life Description: Grants extended life for as long as the drinker continues drinking it. Level: Unique Notes: Invented by Nicolas Flamel Ingredients: Derived from the Philosopher's Stone. Elphabium Poison Description: Deep blue in colour, potion grows in intensity over a period of several weeks when allowed to seep in a liquid. Causes severe nausea, vomiting, weakness, trouble breathing, severe thirst, and abdominal pains. Will not respond to typical treatments, such as bezoar, and if not administered the antidote within forty-eight hours of the symptoms beginning it will cause death. Level: Expert. Notes: Works more quickly in children and the elderly. Ingredients: Pickled Newt Eye, oleander leaves, jasmine berries, powdered moonstone, dried aconite, and Belladonna. Emerald Green Potion Description: Induces fear, delirium, and extreme thirst in the drinker. Emerald green in colour and glows phosphorescently. Highly dehibilitating if not treated immediately. Level: Advanced. Notes: Found in Death, Despaire, and Delirium: Potions to Feed the Deepest Fears. Ingredients: Everlasting Elixirs Description: A Class of Potions rather than a specific potions. Effects of these elixirs continue indefinitely. Level: Advanced; Studied in Sixth Year Notes: N/A Ingredients: Exploding Potion Description: Causes anything that is impregnated with it to explode. Level: N/A. Notes: Valued highly as a potion ingredient. Is a Class B Tradeable Material. Ingredients: Found in the horn of the Erumpent. F Felix Felicis Description: Potion is "Lady Luck" in liquid form. Makes the drinker lucky for a period of time in which they will succeed with everything they attempt. Level: Expert; Disastrous to get wrong Notes: Appears the golour of molten gold. Droplets leap like goldfish above the potion's surface. Takes six months to brew. Should be used sparingly -- taken in large quantities, it will cause recklessness, giddiness, and dangerous overconfidence. Ingredients: Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent Description: Repels Flesh-Eating Slugs. Level: Moderate. Notes: Sold in Knockturn Alley. Ingredients: Fire Protection Potion Description: Protects the drinker from being burned by magical fire. Level: N/A. Notes: Ingredients: Forgetfulness Potion Description: Potion causes the drinker to become forgetful. Level: Simple; Taught First Year. Notes: Ingredients: G Gravidaste Description: Regulates menstruation and increases sexual desire. Notes: Sold in a light green bottle; actual potion is green and has a lumpy consistency; very bitter taste. To be taken twice daily. Overdosing can lead to extreme moodswings and unhealthy estrogen increase. Level: Advanced. Ingredients: Chasteberry and Black Cohash. Gregory's Unctuous Unction Description: Convinces the drinker that the giver is his or her best friend. Level: N/A. Notes: Invented by Gregory the Smarmy. Ingredients: H Hair-Raising Potion Description: Creates moderate to extreme paranoia in the drinker. Level: Simple; Taught Second Year Notes: N/A Ingredients: Rat Tails Hangover Potion Description: Relieves the symptoms of a hangover including headache, sensitivity to light and noise, and brain function. Depending upon the how much alcohol was consumed may not completely eliminate all symptoms. Is usually taken the morning following. Notes: Is brewed in approximately forty minutes, but should not be brewed while drunk! Is more effective when well hydrated. Level: Easy. Ingredients: Hate Potion Description: Reveals the worst faults and habits of the target person to the drinker. Level: Simple to Moderate. Notes: Recommended to help witches and wizards get over emotional attachments to people who don't love them. The opposite of a Love potion. Ingredients: Essence of the person to be hated. Hiccuping Solution Description: Potion that causes hiccups. Level: Moderate Notes: N/A Ingredients: I Invigorating Draught Description: Boosts the drinker's energy Level: Moderate; OWL Level Notes: N/A Ingredients: L Love Potion Description: Causes a powerful obsession with or attachment to the target. Amortentia is the strongest of theses. Level: Simple to advanced, depending upon the potion. Notes: Duration depends upon factors such as the weight of the person drinking the potion and the attractiveness of the target person. Effects wear off naturally, but can be renewed by administering further doses. The target does not have to be present when the potion is consumed. Ingredients: frozen Ashwinder eggs. M Mandrake Restorative Draught Description: Restores those who have been petrified or paralyzed. Level: Advanced Expert Notes: Ingredients: Mature Mandrake roots. Memory Potion Description: Enhances the drinker's memory. Level: Moderate. Notes: Opposite of Forgetfulness Potions. Ingredients: Jobberknoll feathers. Mrs. Scower's Magical Mess Remover Description: A popular potion used to clean up messes, magical or otherwise. Level: N/A. Notes: Ingredients: Unknown. Is sold by Apothecary's but made only by Mrs Scower's. P Pain Relieving Draught Description: Relieves pain temporarily for the drinker. Effects typically last for 3 - 4 hours. Is typically used for minor aches and pains, i.e. headaches, muscle aches, etc. Potion ranges from a navy blue (low strength) to a very bright and almost transparent blue (high strength). Tastes like aniseed. Is unlikely to be addictive. Level: Moderate to Advanced; Low strength version taught at OWL level; NEWT students may brew a much stronger potion. Notes: Drinker should be careful with dosage, as it can act as a sedative and more serious overdosing can have nasty effects. Ingredients: Birch bark, dandelion roots, diced caterpillars Pain Removing Potion Description: Relieves pain for the drinker. May relieve pain for up to six hours. Potion itself is a light ivory in colour. Chalky in taste with a touch of citrus . Notes: Typically sold in a dark blue bottle. May be difficult to procure without a healer's note. May be highly addictive if used for longer than three weeks. Level: Expert. Brewed in three stages, requiring four days rest between each stage for a total of fourteen days to brew. Ingredients: Pennyroyal Potion Description: Renders the drinker (male) temporarily sterile. (There is some error rate). Level: Simple. Ingredients: Mainly Pennyroyal. Pepperup Potion Description: Potion relieves the symptoms of colds and flu. Causes steam to come out of the drinker's ears for a few hours. Level: N/A Ingredients: Polyjuice Potion Description: Potion allows the drinker to take the form of someone else. It can account for age and gender, but cannot be used to make a human take an animal form or a half-breed to assume human form. Requires one month to brew. Is thick and mud-like before addition of final ingredient. Taste and colour varies depending upon the person being turned into. Level: Advanced Expert. Ingredients: Full List; Lacewing flies, Antimony, Leeches, Fluxweed, Sal Ammoniac, Knotgrass, Bicorn, Boomslang, Salpeter, Mercury and Mars, Extract of The-Transfigured-Being-To-Be. S Sanguio Solution Description: Potion curdles the blood of the drinker. Is extremely potent and is a deep burgundy in colour. Level: Extremely Advanced. Notes: Found only in Dark Magic Texts. Not commonly taught and unknown to the average wizard or witch. Ingredients listed in Death, Despaire, and Delirium: Potions to Feed the Deepest Fears. Ingredients: Newt eyes, oleander leaves, and an herb imported from China. Scintillating Solution Description: Potion stimulates and increases wit for the drinker. Level: Simple. Ingredients: Shrinking Potion Description: Causes the drinker to decrease in size or apparent age. Is bright green when brewed correctly. The potion must be left to simmer before it can be drunk and, if prepared incorrectly, it can be poisonous. Level: Moderate. Taught during third year potions. Ingredients: Minced daisy roots, peeled Shrivelfig, sliced caterpillars, a single rat spleen, and a small amount of leech juice. Skele-Gro Description: Causes vanished or otherwise lost bones to regrow in a notably slow and painful process. Notes: Potion smokes as dispensed, burns the throat as swallows, and tastes terrible. Level: Advanced but commercialised Ingredients: Sleekeazy's Hair Potion Description: Used to style hair. Level: Moderate. Notes: Ingredients: Sleeping Draught Description: Causes the drinker to fall into a deep sleep. Potion is purple in colour. Differs from the Draught of Living Death, more powerful, and the Dreamless Sleep Potion, which disallows dreaming. Notes: Purple Level: Simple. Taught first or second year. Ingredients: Smethwyk's Infertility Cure Description: Helps induce ovulation and build blood. Notes: Sold in a black bottle; potion is dark grey and liquid; sour taste. To be taken once daily. Overdosing can lead to menstrual spotting, hemophilia, and cramps. Level: Moderate. Ingredients: Unicorn Root, Dong Quai, and Evening Primrose Oil. Sobriety Brew Description: Keeps the recipient sober despite alcohol consumption Notes: Amber coloured, lasts about five hours; side effects include a severe hangover six to seven hours after potion wears off Level: Advanced. Ingredients: Strengthening Solution Description: Increases the strength of the drinker. Brewed in two stages, requiring several days to mature in between. Level: Moderate to Advanced. Taught at OWL level. Ingredients: Salamander blood. Swelling Solution Description: Causes whatever it touches to swell in size. Level: Simple. Taught Second Year. Ingredients: Puffer-fish Eyes. Counter: Deflating Draught. T Truth Serum Description: Serum that reveals the truth from anyone. The most powerful is Veritaserum. Ingredients: includes Jobberknoll feathers. V Veritaserum Description: Powerful truth serum. Clear, colourless, and odourless. Is practically indistinguisable from water. It can be mixed with any drink and no more than three drops are needed. Must mature for one lunar phase (about 28 days). May be possible to resist through Occlumency Level: Expert. Ingredients: Jobberknoll feathers, spine of Lionfish, Dragon Blood, Puffer-Fish Eyes, Belladonna W Wiggenwald Potion Description: A healing potion with the power to awaken a person from a magically-induced sleep. Acts as an antidode to the Draught of Living Death. Also cures minor damage. Level: Advanced Notes: A prince once used this potion to awaken a princess who had been given the Draught of Living Death by the Hag Leticia Somnolens. The prince first put some of the potion on his lips and then kissed the princess. Ingredients: It is created by mixing powdered root of asphodel, shredded dittany, Wiggentree bark and Moly petals. Wit-Sharpening Potion Description: Allows the drinker to think more clearly. Level: Moderate. Taught Fourth Year. Ingredients: Ground scarab beetles, cut ginger roots, and armadillo bile. Wound Cleaning Potion Description: Used to clean open cuts and wounds. Level: Simple. Notes: Ingredients: