Potions Class

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Horace Slughorn
Professor of Potions

Student Aides

Synopsis

In Potions class, students learn to mix magical ingredients into elixirs and brews to produce a variety of wondrous effects when consumed. Rather helpful and harmless Potions are studied and sometimes prepared in the earlier years of the curriculum while in N.E.W.T. level classes things get much more dangerous and the hands on creation of potions takes a more forefront position in the curriculum.

It is not allowed for students to brew potions outside of the Potions Classroom unless they are in a Study Area or have special permission from the Potions Professor. The Study Hall potions also are on a strict time limit of 2 hours before a brewing session must be cleaned up completely and can never be left unattended.

Many of the potions have extended brew times that go far beyond the time in class. This requires students to come in at the right time to follow the next step of the instructions. This is why one potion is focused on a week and given the second week if it is featured in a Brewing Workshop.

All potions made are property of Hogwarts and students don't normally go about daily lives with the potions they've made at their immediate disposal.

Each particular subject roughly takes up two weeks time. Every class is two hours long.

In order to take Potions at the N.E.W.T. level a student must have an 'E' Grade in their Potions O.W.L.

Hogwarts Schedule

6 AM 7 AM 8 - 10 AM 10 AM -12 Noon 12 Noon - 1 PM 1 -3 PM 3 - 5 PM 5 - 6 PM 6 - 8 PM 8 - 10 PM 10 PM - 12 Midnight 12 Midnight - 2 AM
Wake-Up/Ready Breakfast 1st Period 2nd Period Lunch 3rd Period 4th Period Dinner 5th Period Free Time to Lights Out 6th Period 7th Period

Potions Schedule

1st Years 2nd Years 3rd Years 4th Years 5th Years 6th Years 7th Years
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Syllabus

1st Year

1st Year Supplies

  • Book: Magical Drafts and Potions by: Arsenius Jigger
  • Book: Bezoars: Life within a Goats Stomach by: Cuddy Longbottom
  • Parchment
  • Quill
  • Wand
  • Brass Scales
  • Phials
  • Cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)
  • Eye Goggles, with good seal around the edge.
  • Nose Clip or Plugs

September

  • Introduction and Equipment Care
  • Standard Potioning Water - Water that is drawn from it's source on the full moon and then poured through a silver sieve that has the Laguz Rune for holes into a container.

October

  • Standard Ingredient - A mixture of special herbs that's like the salt and pepper of cooking in potion brewing.
  • Bezoars - A study and general understanding of Bezoars.

November

December

  • Honeywater Brewing - A delicious mixture of honey diluted with water. As a treat a portion of what the students make is used to turn into a frozen treat to eat the class before the Holiday begins.

January

  • Asphodel - Students get the hang of powdering Asphodel Root, just right.
  • Pungous Onion Preparation - The eye goggles and nose plug or clip is required equipment for this lesson. The odorous magical onion is sliced and then scooped into a jar using the wand, not the hands, it takes a bit of practice and patience to do this. The cut onion causes profound weeping and the smelling of harsh onions for hours if proper equipment is not used correctly.

February

March

April

  • Flobberworm Mucus Collection & [* Horned Slug Stewing]- The class combines with 3rd Year Care of Magical Creatures class and both are taken around the grounds and gardens of Hogwarts and are shown the Flobberworm's preferred places of feeding and rest. The First Years find and point out any found worms and the Third Years collect. At the end of the class each first year receives one Flobberworm to take back to the Potions Class where they gently squeeze the worm so that it oozes mucus out of both ends and then this ooze is carefully scraped into a receptacle jar. The worms are given back to the CoMC students after the collection of mucus is complete. The CoMC students during this lesson have been separating out the most mature Horned Slugs and the proper way of stewing these slugs so they can be used as a potion ingredient is taught.

May

1st Year WIP

  • Porcupine - While they are not a Magical Creature their quills are used in several potions so the care of these mundane animals and the proper painless harvesting of the quills is taught.
  • Bones - Bones are an essential part of some creature's diet. In this class the students learn which bones of which animals and or creatures is preferred by which creature. The severing charm is used to take a cow carcass apart. There is one cow for a group of every 4 students. Some of the bones go to the potions class to use as ingredients, the meat goes to the kitchens for dinner and the skin goes to Herbology to be used in compost.
  • Caterpillars - It's late in spring so the class visits a Greenhouse dedicated to Caterpillars and the butterflies they later become. Some caterpillars are harvested for the Potions Ingredient Stores.
  • Leeches -
  • Eels & Newts - The class goes down to the Viaduct and collect several eels and newts from the muddy waters there. They are then humanely euthanized and used for potion ingredients. Their eyes are a common ingredient and the heads are sent to Potions Class where the eyes are harvested by Potions Students using the bulgeye potion. Newt spleens are also used in potion-making. Eel meat is sent to the Hogwarts kitchen and newt carcasses are used to feed the owls in the Owlery.
  • Lizards - Students that were selected to continue on into NEWT Care of Magical Creatures Class are each given a terrarium, supplies and a single common lizard to take home with them over the summer to care for. When students arrive back at school the health and welfare of the lizard is examined and the student is graded according to this. This lesson is a harsh one as after the grades are given the student must euthanize their summer-long pet humanely and then harvest its legs for Potion's Class Ingredient Stores.
  • Crocodile Heart - The students are taught how to humanely wrangle and euthanize young (4-5 foot) crocodiles and the harvest the heart for Potion's Class Ingredient Stores.
  • Lionfish - A tank of these fish are brought in and using dragon leather gloves students must decide how to fish them out of the tank without getting stabbed by the poisonous spines. They are then humanely euthanized and their spines are collected and sent off to the Potions Class Ingredient storage. The meat is prepared that night at dinner for the Faculty to enjoy. If the students do very well during class and catch more fish than there are faculty those wishing will also be served the meal as a special treat that night.
  • Octopus Powder -
  • Onion Juicing -
  • Peacock Feather Plucking -
  • Pond Slime Gathering -
  • Salt -
  • Sardine -
  • Spiders -
  • Tar -
  • Tatar -
  • Tubeworm -
  • Wood Lice -

2nd Year

2nd Year Supplies

  • Book: Potion Opuscule by: Arsenius Jigger
  • Parchment
  • Quill
  • Wand
  • Brass Scales
  • Phials
  • Cauldron (brass, standard size 2)

September

October

  • Bulgeye Potion - This potion is an essential part of any potioneer ingredient collection kit. In this two-fold lesson the students create the potion and then they use it for eye harvesting. A story that the professor tells is that when he was a student some prankster thought it would be funny if Slughorn had bulging eyes, like a slug. So he is firmly against the misuse of this potion and when it has been misused in his tenure as professor, he's made sure that point loss was doubled and discipline included enduring the uncomfortable misuse themselves. And since the Professor brews it himself the prankster is usually suffering all 6 long hours of the eye enlarging brew.
  • What is a Gulf? - Some potions require a Gulf of something as its ingredient. This is an old English term for 'Throat'. Usually a frog or toad is used for the practice of harvesting a gulf.

November

  • Moonstone Pulverizing -
  • (Morning) Dew - The class goes around the grounds collecting Morning Dew from grass and plants.

December

January

February

March

April

May

  • Castor Oil - The medicinal and potion making aspects of this vegetable oil made from the Castor Bean is gone over in study.
  • Caterpillar Slicing - Collected Caterpillars are sliced up and jarred with a dash of Aquavitæ to be used as a potion-making ingredient.
  • Saltpeter -

3rd Year

3rd Year Supplies

  • Book: <Title>
  • Parchment
  • Quill
  • Wand
  • Brass Scales
  • Phials
  • Cauldron (copper, standard size 2)

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

3rd Year WIP

  • Potio_Nimbus -
  • Blowflies & Gnats - There is a room deep in the Hogwarts Dungeon that is a breeding ground for Blowflies and Gnats. Students cast The Freezing Charm, which instantly kills these insects as well as preserves them. Grading on this assignment is based on the amount of flies and gnats they have by the end of the lesson. Gnat Heads are also harvested for Potions Class ingredient stores.
  • Cockroaches - There is a room deep in the Hogwarts Dungeon that is a breeding ground for Cockroachs. Students cast The Freezing Charm, which instantly kills the Cockroachs as well as preserves them. Grading on this assignment is based on the amount of Cockroaches they have by the end of the lesson. After the lesson the Cockroaches are given to the Potions Class for their ingredient stores.
  • Scarab Beetle & Black Beetle Eye Harvesting - The students dissect black beetles (whom have been painlessly euthanized in Care of Magical Creatures Class) and harvest their eyes with a severing charm and dried before being put in and air and water proof container. To harvest the eyes +roll Charms-1. Quality of the ingredient is dependent on success.
  • Embarrassing Failure: Beetle is destroyed, all ingredients and container are useless. +roll Body to judge any damage to harvester.
  • Failure: Poor quality.
  • Success: Average Quality.
  • Good Success: Good Quality.
  • Great Success: Excellent Quality.
  • Amazing Success: Amazing Quality.
  • Dragonflies & Lacewing Flies - Dragonflies and Lacewing Flies are collected in the Garden. Students cast The Freezing Charm, which instantly kills these insects as well as preserves them. Grading on this assignment is based on the amount of flies they have by the end of the lesson. Both insects are used in Potion-Making so they are sent to the Potion Ingredient Stores.
  • Blatta Pulvereus - After the eyes have been harvested, black beetles are added to a mixture of other dead insects such as cockroaches and moths that have been collected over the year and students pulverize the carcasses until a fine powder has been achieved.

4th Year

4th Year Supplies

  • Book: <Title>
  • Parchment
  • Quill
  • Wand
  • Brass Scales
  • Phials
  • Cauldron (silver, standard size 2)

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

4th Year WIP

5th Year

5th Year Supplies

  • Book: <Title>
  • Parchment
  • Quill
  • Wand
  • Brass Scales
  • Phials
  • Cauldron (gold, standard size 2)

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

Billywig Stingers & Billywig Stinger Slime - The students dissect billywigs (whom have been painlessly euthanized in Care of Magical Creatures Class) and harvest their stingers with the sac still attached and added to a jar of aquavitæ for preserving. Or if the slime is wanted the sac is carefully evacuated of its slime into a phial or bottle. To harvest the stinger and sac or slime +roll Reaction. Quality of the ingredient is dependent on success.

  • Embarrassing Failure: Billywig is destroyed, all ingredients and container are useless. +roll Body to judge any damage to harvester.
  • Failure: Poor quality.
  • Success: Average Quality.
  • Good Success: Good Quality.
  • Great Success: Excellent Quality.
  • Amazing Success: Amazing Quality.

6th Year

6th Year Supplies

  • Book: Advanced Potion-Making by: Libatius Borage
  • Parchment
  • Quill
  • Wand
  • Brass Scales
  • Phials
  • Cauldron (stainless steel, standard size 2)

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

Bat Spleens - The students dissect bats (whom have been painlessly euthanized in Care of Magical Creatures Class) and harvest their spleens and added to a jar of aquavitæ for preserving. To harvest the spleen +roll Reaction. Quality of the ingredient is dependent on success.

  • Embarrassing Failure: Bat is destroyed, all ingredients and container are useless. +roll Body to judge any damage to harvester.
  • Failure: Poor quality.
  • Success: Average Quality.
  • Good Success: Good Quality.
  • Great Success: Excellent Quality.
  • Amazing Success: Amazing Quality.

Bat Wings - The students dissect bats (whom have been painlessly euthanized in Care of Magical Creatures Class) and harvest their wings which are hung on racks to dry and then stored in air and water proof containers. To harvest the wings +roll Reaction. Quality of the ingredient is dependent on success.

  • Embarrassing Failure: Bat is destroyed, all ingredients and container are useless. +roll Body to judge any damage to harvester.
  • Failure: Poor quality.
  • Success: Average Quality.
  • Good Success: Good Quality.
  • Great Success: Excellent Quality.
  • Amazing Success: Amazing Quality.

6th Year WIP

7th Year

7th Year Supplies

  • Book: <Title>
  • Parchment
  • Quill
  • Wand
  • Brass Scales
  • Phials
  • Cauldron (cast iron, standard size 2)

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

Acromantula Venom - The properties of Acromantula venom are gone over as well as the harvesting process. Due to the rarity and difficulty of acquiring the dead creature so soon after passing; a mock up, using artificial fangs and a similar acting acid is used for the practice of harvesting. To harvest the ingredient +roll Reaction, quality is dependent on success.

  • Embarrassing Failure: Everything is ruined and or destroyed. +roll Body to judge any damage to harvester.
  • Failure: Poor quality.
  • Success: Average Quality.
  • Good Success: Good Quality.
  • Great Success: Excellent Quality.
  • Amazing Success: Amazing Quality.

Adder Tongue Harvesting - The ingredient known as Adder's Fork is harvested, this is the actual hands on act of dissecting an adder snake for their tongue. Placing it on a drying rack for a day and then adding it to the storage jar with other Adder's Forks. To harvest the ingredient +roll Reaction, quality is dependent on success.

  • Embarrassing Failure: Everything is ruined and or destroyed. +roll Body to judge any damage to harvester.
  • Failure: Poor quality.
  • Success: Average Quality.
  • Good Success: Good Quality.
  • Great Success: Excellent Quality.
  • Amazing Success: Amazing Quality.

Ashwinder Egg Jarring - This class works together with the Care of Magical Creatures class and while they summon up the Ashwinders, the potioneers are there to freeze and jar the eggs for potion use in enchanted jars.

Wartcap Powder -

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