Aurora didn’t know the first thing about making her own potions, nor did she think she was particularly adept at it but she sure was going to give it a try. The first hurdle was coming up with an original idea that hadn’t been overdone. There was such a vast array of healing potions out there and so the easiest direction to go in was to be specific. It would also help if the potion she was attempting to brew was useful to her, or at least could be helpful in the future should her plans to become a creature healer come into fruition. She assumed that dealing with creatures in pain would result in an awful lot of injuries on her behalf so perhaps something that could heal Kneazle scratches would be beneficial.

The library was not somewhere the Ravenclaw often frequented but it was the easiest place to find the books she needed to research for this project. She scoured the shelves in search of books on healing magic, amassing quite the pile which she semi-skillfully levitated back to her desk and plopped them onto the bench with a perhaps all too loud for a library bang.

She opened the pages in search of anything that was remotely similar to what she wanted to create, anything that involved skin and rejuvenation, settling on Essence of Dittany, a potion to cure shallow wounds. She turned to another book on the properties of potion ingredients before setting up her parchment and her (pink if you must know) quill to take notes.



Speaking of the Wiggenweld Potion, she supposed that it was also effective at healing injuries and maybe some of its ingredients could be useful in her own. She settled on Horklump Juice, mostly as it was found frequently across a range of healing potions and therefore had to have SOME merit behind it.



The number of ingredients found in all these potions was really quite overwhelming and it was difficult to distinguish which would be the most useful. How was she supposed to know when to stop? Five had been the minimum recommendation and so that was her target for now. She turned her attention to something more on the muggle side for a minute, a step away from all the confusing magical plants and all their properties to settle onto something more simplistic. Something like.. Witch Hazel.



And that was about as much studying as this Ravenclaw could handle for now.