West put his hand up to answer, expression sort of on the thoughtful side.

"Well Potion comes from potio which is Latin for 'beverage' or 'drink', and the Greek poton which means 'that which one drinks', and it gives you a bit of a clue there: potions are generally liquids but they don't always have to be ingested." West began.

"They are used for medicinal or magical purposes, and sometimes they are poisons. A potion is a combination of ingredients, prepared in a bunch of ways, and depending on how they're prepared or administered a potion can be called a brew, a concoction, a tisane, an elixir, or a tincture, amongst other names." Because they weren't all the same thing after all. Kind of like the difference between a charm, a hex, and a jinx or whatever. All were spells but they were still different.

"Almost anything you can do with a spell, you could do with a potion in theory."

West dropped his hand and fell quiet, curious to see where this lesson was going, given they rarely dropped back to basics.