There was one thing Mel liked more than brewing potions in classes. Brewing potions outside of class for extra credit. The credit was something she could really go for right about now in the winter when holidays were about to come around…maybe it would be smart for her to go brew this potion somewhere else? She didn’t want people to get the wrong impression.

Really, the Gryffindor was just curious. She wanted to know deep down what her mind thought her favorite scents would be…that was the only reason she had set out to brew amortentia today nothing more than the simple desire to know.

Looking around the nearly empty room she sent the only other inhabitant a quick wave as she set about setting up her cauldron and workstation. ”Hey Olivia” she smiled over to her housemate as she began to set up her ingredients. ”what potion are you working on?” she asked quietly before glancing over at her cauldron once more ”I’m…uh doing amortentia to find out what the scent is for me so…if you want to smell it later and see what your nose comes up with I’m game” she grinned. Just don’t drink it. That would be dangerous.

Setting up a bezoar stone in a small closed container on her workstation was her backup of course if anything went wrong. All right. Time to get to business.

Taking her wand she proceeded to clean her cauldron, knife, stirrers, and mortar and pestle with a swish of her wand each time. We’ve got this, she told herself again as she began to separate the sneezewart heads and petals and took her moonstone and proceeded to grind it into a fine powder with her mortar and pestle. The last bit, she took the eight leaves of alihosty and began chopping them neatly and cleanly before setting the ingredients up in their own little bowls. Pointing her wand at her cauldron she cast a quick and steady “aquamenti” and watched as the water filled the cauldron “finite” the spell ended with a flick and her wand immediately was used to set a fire below the cauldron. Taking the bowl of chopped sneezewort petals she immediately dropped them into her cauldron and waited to see what would happen next.

SPOILER!!: potion list

Amortentia

Effect: Love potions cause a infatuation or obsession for the brewer or the first person seen. Amortentia is the most powerful.

Ingredients
• 8 flower heads of sneezewort (seperate the petals beforehand)
• 8 berries of atropa belladonna
• 8 chopped leaves of Alihotsy (prepared beforehand)
• One frozen ashwinder egg broken in 8
• 8 tea spoons of powdered moonstone
• All the thorns of 8 roses
• 8 drops of salamander blood
• 8 table spoons of peppermint

Instructions
1. Prepare the sneezewort, alihotsy and moonstone.
2. Fill the cauldron with purified water and add the sneezewort petals
3. Light a fire under the cauldron and set it to maximum
4. Add the heads of the sneezewort
5. Stir 8 times clockwise with a metal stick
6. Add the berries of atropa bellandonna one by one
7. Sprinkle Alihotsy leaves in a circle in clockwise direction
8. Wave your wand. The colour should turn to dark red
9. Wait for 25 minutes for pewter cauldrons, 13 for brass and 8 for copper
10. In the meantime, break the egg into 8. If you break it into more pieces accidentally, get another egg.
11. When the time is up, add the egg parts
12. Stir vigorously clockwise with a metal stick until the colour is purple
13. Sprinkle the moonstone in the middle of the cauldron
14. Throw all the thorns in quickly
15. Add the drops of salamander blood one by one: with each drop, observe that the potion turns to its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen.
16. Add the peppermint spoon by spoon. Stir clockwise with a metal stick slowly until it dissolves.
17. Wave your wand again.
18. Put off the fire when you see the spiral steams and smell its aroma.

Extra notes
• The duration of the effects (usually up to 24 hours) vary depending on factors such as the weight of the person drinking the potion and the attractiveness of the person with whom the potion is supposed to make the drinker obsessed. The effects wear off naturally over time, but can be renewed by administering further doses of potion. Therefore, there is no overdose.
• The effect is near instantaneous: the drinker appears "pale and sickly" and becomes obsessed with the brewer or the first person seen and excited or dangerously unstable towards others.
• A hate potion can cancel out love potions and vice versa. There is also a proper antidote.
• The brewer doesn't have to be present for the effect if it's that sort of love potion.
• The drinker does not forget what he or she did while under its influence.
• Love potions mature over time; so the longer it is kept, the stronger it will be.
• Amortentia's characteristics are a distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen and spiral steams. Its aroma is different for everyone and reminds each person of the things that they find most attractive, even if they don't acknowledge or are unaware of their fondness themselves.
• The smell of Amortentia can change as you see new things and people.
• Life advice from Blaise Bellaire: You should NEVER give a love potion to a girl who's bigger than you and throws a harder punch 'cause when it wears off she'll remember everything and beat the living Circe out of you. It causes strong dislike after.
• May cause strong feelings of love for the brewer