potions

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Potions are magical liquids created by mixing various ingredients in a cauldron according to very specific rules. These mixtures must usually be drunk to give their magical effect. The ingredients in potions range from the mundane to the bizarre and fantastic, and the procedures for creating some potions can be complicated and time-consuming. Severus Snape was the Potions Master at Hogwarts from c. 1980 to the fall of 1996 . Horace Slughorn took over as Potions Master for the 1996 - 97 school year. The Potions classroom is located in a chilly, dark dungeon.

"I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses...I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death -- if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach."
  -- Severus Snape