Here we will give 3 potions and their recipes! Just a note, do not try to make these yourself unless you have learnt the proper way in class. These are for reference only.

Potion 1: Ageing Potion

Uses: The Aging Potion is used to make the drinker advance in age.

Brewing Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 100mL of Red Wine
• 10mL of Prune Juice
• 2g of Hairy Fungus, mashed
• 2g of Tortoiseshell, powdered
• 5g of Caterpillar, sliced
• 1 Bat Tongue, diced

Directions

1. Slowly heat the red wine and prune juice in a cauldron and begin stirring clockwise until you can just see bubbles starting to form (The mixture will be dark purple/brown).
2. Immediately add the Hairy Fungus and continue to stir clockwise for ten minutes (The mixture will slowly fade to a lighter purple/brown).
3. Continuing to stir clockwise, add the tortoiseshell (The mixture will be a creamy colour).
4. 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.
5. 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

Potion 2: Alihotsy Draught

Uses: Causes hysterical laughter

Brewing time: 25 Minutes

Ingredients

• 1 Alihotsy leaf, coarsely chopped
• Water (473mL)

Directions

1. Bring water to simmer in a cauldron.
2. Add coarsely chopped Alihotsy Leaves to water.
3. Steep for 10 minutes.
4. Strain and transfer all into a phial.
5. Let cool and store.

Potion 3: Amortentia

Uses: The world's strongest Love Potion; does not create real love, just powerful obsession.

Brewing time: 9 Days

Ingredients

• 709.8mL Standard Potioning Water
• 3 Ashwinder Eggs, frozen
• Rose Thorns, roughly a handful
• 6 Peppermint flower heads
• 12 Peppermint leaves
• 3 Tbs. Powdered Moonstone
• Brewer or Target of Quaffer's Love's lock of hair or drop of blood.

Directions

Part I

1. Pour Standard Potioning Water into a gold cauldron and place over a very low flame.
2. Bruise the Peppermint Flower heads with a mortar and pestle and sprinkle into the lukewarm water.
3. Take whole Peppermint Leaves and drop them into the water.
4. Add Powdered Moonstone, one tbs at a time, stirring anti-clockwise three times between each spoonful.
5. While the potion is still moving, sprinkle Rose Thorns into the water and leave to rest for an hour.
6. Remove from heat and cover with a silk cloth in a dark place to steep.

Part II

1. Over the course of the next seven days, uncover the potion once a day to stir seven times anti-clockwise and re-cover.
2. On the ninth day of brewing, place the cauldron over a low flame.
3. Carefully place Ashwinder Eggs into the potion one at a time, gently stirring without direction.
4. When steam begins to rise, add the victim's lock of hair or drop of blood to the potion. The potion will become pearlescent in colour and must be removed from the heat.
5. Strain the liquid into a vial for storage.

- By Sabrina Tremblay, HG Founder, Editor & Manager