Dresden Draught

Use/Effect:
The potions helps you keep awake, content and better at concentrating.

Ingredients:
Water
Armadillo Bile
Bottle of a muggle soft drink called Pepsi
Cherry syrup
Powdered moonstone
A chocolate bar

Instructions:
Fill Cauldron with water
Bring it to a boil
Add the armadillo Bile
Add the bottle of the muggle soft drink called Pepsi
Add the cherry syrup
Stir until the potion goes from a pinky red colour to pale purple
Add the powdered moonstone
Add the entire bar and wait till it dissolves rapidly and faint wisps of white smoke erupts off the surface of the potion.
Let cool


Lafay's Scintillation Solution

Use/Effect: Cause the drinker to glow in their favorite colour and become animated and bright

Ingredients
Half a cauldron of Water
One cup of Orange Juice (Blood Oranges are best)
One Billywig Stinger
1 tsp of crushed dried Ginger Root
2 tbsp of Sugar
5 Peppermint leaves
20 Firefly Bulbs
9 Clabbert pustules
2 drops of Magnesium Gluconate Liquid
7 drops of Flobberworm mucus
3 frozen runespoor eggs
1 tsp of powdered purple moonstone

Instructions:
Fill cauldron halfway with water and start a high waiting for water to boil.
Cut oranges, juice them with a silver knife and add into cauldron.
Add Billywig Stinger
Lower the flame
Crush dried ginger root until powdery
Add Sugar
Stir ingredients counter clockwise once then add a peppermint leaf, then repeat for each leaf and give one final stir
Squeeze the fluid of 20 firefly bulbs into cauldron
Add Clabbert Pustules whole
Stir potion once counter clockwise then thrice clockwise
Add Magnesium Gluconate and quickly follow with flobberworm Mucus
Take frozen runespoor eggs and remove the shells
Sprinkle the powdered moonstone onto the frozen eggs
Put the three eggs into cauldron and DO NOT STIR!
Wave wand in circular motion over cauldron ONCE and cast Vividus Excandesco.


Aging Potion

Use/Effect:
Causes the drinker to advance in age

Ingredients:
Red Wine (100 mL)
Prune Juice (10 mL)
Hairy Fungus (2 g, mashed)
Tortoise Shell (2 g, powdered)
Caterpillar (5 g, sliced)
Bat Tongue (1, diced)

Instructions:
Prepare all ingredients as listed in the ingredients list, weighing and measuring each carefully.
Slowly heat the red wine and prune juice and begin stirring clockwise until you can just see bubbles starting to form. (The mixture will be dark purple/brown)
Immediately add the Hairy Fungus and continue to stir clockwise for ten minutes. (The mixture will slowly fade to a lighter purple/brown)
Continuing to stir clockwise, add the tortoise shell. (The mixture will be a creamy color)
After eight minutes, remove the cauldron from the heat and add the caterpillar and bat tongue, making sure to continue to stir the solution in a clockwise motion.
As the potion cools, it will turn milky white. Once it is completely cooled (about fifteen to twenty minutes), you may cease your clockwise stirring and dispense the potion into appropriate vials for storage.

De-aging Potion

Use/Effect: Causes the drinker to turn back their body and heal the effects of father time while retaining their memories.

Ingredients :
1 gallon of goat's milk.
1 tsp of crushed Yellow Moonstone
2 lacewing flies
10 Shrivelfigs
2 tbsp of chopped knotgrass
1 drop of Leech juice
5 drops Pomegranite juice
1 tsp bicorn horn, crushed
1 phoenix tear
1 daisy root, finely chopped
2 sprigs of Fluxweed
2 peppermint toads
1 chocolate frog
1 liquorish wand

Instructions:
Fill cauldron with 1 gallon of goat's milk
Grind yellow moonstone til it becomes powder
Sprinkle the powder in the cauldron while stirring
Add two Lacewing flies
Stir two times clockwise an three counter clockwise
Chop the knotgrass carefully using slicing technique, lay to the side
Manually squish the Shrivelfigs over the cauldron adding them in.
Take the knotgrass and run it over the glove getting the excess fig
Add the drop of leech juice
Add five drops of Pomegranite juice
Crush bicorn horn
Add Phoenix tear to the bicorn horn dust
Add the mixture of Bicorn dust and Phoenix tear stirring 15 times clockwise
Crush daisy roots with knife handle then chop it.
Use the sprigs of Fluxweed to stir it one time counter clockwise and 3 times clockwise then add them in.
Add peppermint toads, chocolate frog and liquorish wand after stirring it.
Lower the flame.

Scotopia Solution

Effect: Allows night vision

Ingredients
500ml water
Juice of 5 Carrots
100g Knotgrass
7 drops Bats blood
50ml Elder Tree sap

Instructions
Extract the juice of five medium carrots and add to 500ml of boiling water.
Allow mixture to boil (100 degrees Celsius) for three minutes and add the knotgrass,stir twice counter-clockwise.
Reduce the flame to a simmer (90 degrees Celcius). Stir three times clockwise with a metal stirrer.
Add the bats blood, stirring once counter-clockwise between each drop with a metal stirrer. With each drop and stir, the solution should be slowly achieving better clarity and should be translucent by the end of this process.
Increase the cauldron flame to boil and add 50ml of Elder Tree sap.
Leave to boil until the solution’s orange deepens to a dark amber.

Extra notes
The colour should be a dark amber, but should be translucent enough to be able to see the bottom of your cauldron without any difficulty.
The Scotopia Solution allows the drinker the ability to see in the dark without difficulty, night vision.
The effects are temporary and typically last 8 hours.
The Scotopia Solution is not advised to be taken in the day time as the subject will be blinded by the saturation off light. This also applies to the use of artificial sources of light also, including but not restricted to: wand light, electric lights, solar operated lights, fire light.



Animal Whisperer Potion

Use/Effect:
Allows the drinker to understand what their pet is thinking (results vary depending on connection with pet)

Ingredients:
6 cups water
15 fresh Belladonna leaves
3 dried Fluxweed sprigs, roughly crushed in mortar and pestle (picked during a full moon, and dried over one week)
0.5mL Wormwood essence
2Tbsp Lacewing flies
1tsp honey
1tsp water
0.1mL Boomslang venom
1 crushed Unicorn Horn
1 measure of your animal

Method:
Add 6 cups of water to you cauldron, and light a small flame. Simmer the water for 5 minutes to slowly heat to an appropriate temperature
Pluck the 15 leaves of Belladonna from the sprigs, will need approximately 2 sprigs, and add them to the cauldron once five minutes is up
Gather the 3 sprigs of dried Fluxweed, and roughly crush in mortar and pestle. Only enough to increase the surface area, then add to the cauldron
Simmer for a further 3 minutes
Stir with a wooden stirrer, three times, clockwise
Measure, with a 1ml syringe, your Wormwood essence, and add to the cauldron.
Measure 0.1mL Boomslang venom in a different syringe and place to the side for a moment
Clean the mortar and pestle, add one unicorn horn, and crush it to a fine powder, then add the Boomslang venom. Mix together (it will not make a paste) and set aside for three minutes, then add to the cauldron.
Simmer the cauldron for three minutes, then stir three times, clockwise
Clean the mortar and pestle, and add two tablespoons of Lacewing flies, one teaspoon of honey, and one teaspoon of water, and crush until it makes a smooth paste. Carefully add the paste to the cauldron



Babbling Beverage
[slightly modified from Professor Branxton]

Use/Effect:
Causes drinker to babble nonsense.

Ingredients:
500ml Water
5g Fresh Alihotsy leaves
2 dried Billywig Stings
Pinch of powdered Erumpent tongue
5ml Armadillo bile
2 drops Leech Juice
1 tablespoon Activated Charcoal
Pinch of ground Bezoar500ml Water
5g Fresh Alihotsy leaves
2 dried Billywig Stings
Pinch of powdered Erumpent tongue
5ml Armadillo bile
2 drops Leech Juice
1 tablespoon Activated Charcoal
Pinch of ground Bezoar

Method:
Clean equipment
Add water to cauldron, and bring to a simmer
Stew alihotsy leaves in simmering water for 20 minutes [prepare other ingredients whilst waiting]
Remove all traces of leaves, and return water to a boil
Add dried billywig stings and erumpent tongue, boil for 10 minutes, continuously stiring counter-clockwise
Allow to cool to room temperature (22 °C/72 °F)
Add armadillo bile, stir five (5) times counter-clockwise
Add leech juice, stir twenty (20) times counter-clockwise, and the potion should be light brown in colour
Bring back to a boil
Circle wand counter-clockwise over cauldron whilst saying the incantation ‘garrula lingua’ and bring down to a simmer
Add 1 levelled tablespoon of activated charcoal
Stir counter-clockwise three (3) times slowly
Add a pinch of ground bezoar
Stir once counter clockwise and remove from heat
As it cools, it will turn from a light brown colour to a fluorescent yellow
When the colour stops lightening, you may bottle your potion. It will be approximately ten serves, if stored in 20mL vials.

Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Characteristics: Fluorescent, solid yellow
Information: Dose is 20ml. Smaller dose will limit effects, larger dose will have no extra effect due to the addition of activated charcoal and ground bezoar, which adds a protection to the drinker.



Concentration Concoction

Use/Effect:
Increase the drinkers concentration, up to optimal. Best for times of exams.

Ingredients:
1 liter of water
Five Ginkgo Biloba leaves
Two Ginkgo Biloba seeds (soaked), ground to a paste
Two Tablespoons of boiling water
1 tea light candle
20 Hyssop leaves
18 Peppermint leaves
16 Basil leaves
14 Rosemary leaves
12 Citrus leaves
10 Lavender leaves
8 Lavender buds
Two squares of cheesecloth

Method:
Add water to cauldron, bring to a boil
Add two Ginkgo Biloba seeds to a small bowl, add two tablespoons of boiling water from the cauldron and leave for ten minutes to soften.
Slice the GB leaves into thin strips (approximately 2mm wide) with your knife and sprinkle into cauldron.
Grind in mortar and pestle until you create a paste, and add this to the cauldron.
Prepare the leaves/flowers
Add in the leaves and flowers one by one. Some might sink, others will remain floating. Leave for fifteen minutes.
In the meantime, light a tealight candle and put to eye height (to avoid straining neck and back), an arms width from the body (prop on books if needed)
Gaze at the candle flame until your eyes feel like they need to blink, then close your eyes. Concentrate on the image of the candle in your mind (the after image). Repeat for fifteen minutes.
Pour the wax from the candle into the cauldron.
Cast the incantation Mentis Apertus (men-tees ah-peh-rr-tus), whilst circling the want over the cauldron, perform three times.
Remove all leaves and flowers from the cauldron, adding them to the mortar and pestle. Grind them until they form a herby paste, and add it back to the cauldron.
Stir the potion 20 times, slowly, clockwise, with a wooden stirrer.
Remove it from the heat.
Layer two pieces of cheesecloth material over your strainer, to catch more of the solid ingredients. Strain the potion into your vials.
By the end, your potion should yield 500 milliliters. Divide this into 50-milliliter vials. Hand one up for marking and you may take the others.

Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Characteristics: Clear, some green sediment may remain
Information: Dose is 50ml, less than would have limited effect, overdose may cause the opposite effect.
The effect is mostly dependent on the concentration during the candle gazing.
This concoction will last one year.