Potions

Class Books

Ramley's Book

Potions Ingredients

Brewing Instructions

Potion Ingredients
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 * Potion Ingredients Appendix
 * Animal Based
 * Plant Based

Potion ingredients are available for student use from the Student Store cupboard. Students also buy their own ingredients as part of their school supplies, and purchase additional materials and refills every year.


 * Many witches and wizards buy their potion-making supplies at the Apothecary in Diagon Alley. Professor Snape maintains his own private stores which include ingredients not available in the Student Store Cupboard, including boomslang skin and gillyweed.

List of Potion Ingredients:
Abyssinian shrivelfig must be peeled

aconite

(also called monkshood and wolfsbane) Scott Cunningham's "Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs" informs us that a folk name for the highly poisonous Wolf's Bane is "Dumbledore's Delight"

Antipodean Opaleye dragon eggshells

armadillo bile

used in Wit-Sharpening Potion

Ashwinder eggs, frozen

asphodel, root of powdered

belladonna, essence of

[Note that belladonna is poisonous]

bezoar

comes from the stomach of a goat, protects from most poisons

bicorn horn, powdered

Billywig stings

Black beetle eyes

boomslang skin, shredded

bubotuber pus

good against stubborn acne; yellowish, smells of petrol The pimple-curing properties of Bubotuber pus were discovered by Sacharissa Tugwood Bundimun secretion

caterpillars, sliced

cockroach, dead

daisy roots Doxy eggs

chopped, black in color, they are used for researching trick sweets by Fred and George

dragon

hide, blood, heart, liver, horn

Erumpent

horns, tails, and Exploding Fluid

fluxweed

picked at full moon

frog brains

gillyweed

eating a wad of this grows gills and webbed fingers and toes so that a person can swim and breathe underwater. Native to the Mediterranean Sea. The effects of gillyweed were first dicovered by Elladora Ketteridge. About a century later, gillyweed was rediscovered by Beaumont Marjoribanks.

ginger roots cut

Graphorn

horn powdered

hellebore

There are several kinds of hellebore. The name comes from the Greek words 'elein' (to injure) and 'bora' (food), indicating that hellebore is poisonous. In some belief systems, it's been believed to be a purgative, sometimes of bad things generally, used for things like protecting livestock from evil spells, and (in powdered form) for invisibility. The only thing it's known definitely to be used for in Potions is for the Draught of Peace, despite its poisonous properties