Advanced Potions

[Sable Thanasis-Pontin]

Draught of Living Death (As it appears in the standard Text)


Ingredients:
# 6 sprigs of Wormwood
# 4 Asphodel bulbs
# 5 grams of chopped Valerian roots
# 3 sprigs of Moondew
# A single Sopophorous Bean
# Sloth Brain

Pour a standard Potion Base- 8 ounces worth- in to the cauldron and turn up to medium heat, allow the liquid to come to a light boil. Take the Wormwood sprigs, and Asphodel bulbs, then mash them lightly in a mortar. Add to the cauldron, and stir thrice, clockwise. Let the mixture come to a full boil for 5 minutes. Chop up 5 grams worth of Valerian roots, then add them to the potion. Stir it for three full minutes, going counter-clockwise, until the potion's color changes. The potion should resemble a smooth, blackcurrant-coloured liquid at the halfway stage.

After crushing the Moondew sprigs and putting them in the cauldron, take the Sopophorus Bean, and cut it, extracting the juices. Then, take the Sloth brain, chop in to small pieces, then use mortar to turn in to a paste before adding in to the potion. Stir five times clockwise before turning the flame up to a high setting and allowing the potion to boil and brew for five minutes. After five minutes have elapsed, stir the cauldron it should then turn a light shade of lilac, then clear as water, after you stir the potion counter-clockwise seven times.

[Sable Thanasis-Pontin]

**A note on The Half-blood Prince's version. There are only a total of 3 people who actually know about that change. Sable, having notes and various past lesson plans and books written by her predecessors, Severus Snape and Horace Slughorn. Diego, who as her apprentice knows all that Sable taught him. And finally Harry Potter, from when he had Snape's old book. No one else should know, unless one of these three people told them about those changes.**

[Sable Thanasis-Pontin]

Wiggenweld Potion

Wiggenweld Potion is is a healing potion with the power to awaken a person from a magically-induced sleep. It is first made to counter the effects of the Draught of Living Death.

Ingredients:

14 ounces of Unicorn milk
3 cups of Wiggen Tree berries
3 cups of Wiggen Tree berry jelly
20 grams of Case Moth wings
4 Ashwinder egg shells
3 chopped Dandelion roots
4 sprigs of Moondew
7 leaves of Licorice
2 teaspoons of Cinnamon

Pour the milk in to the cauldron and let it scald on the highest heat setting. Then add in, in equal measures, the jelly of the Wiggen Tree berries and fresh, lightly crushed, Wiggen Tree berries.

Stir clockwise 7 times.

Turn down the flame to a low setting and grind the Case Moth wings and the Ashwinder Eggshells in the moratar until they are a fine powder, then add them to the mixture.

Allow the potion to turn green, then stir 7 times counter clockwise.

Chop the Dandelion roots, then lightly juliene the Moondew sprigs and Licorice leaves. Sprinkle these in, and stir for a total of twenty times until the mixture's color turns a deep ruby red.Add the cinnamon last, to improve the taste, then increase the flame between medium and highest setting, and leave it for ten minutes, interrupting it after five minutes only to stir clockwise twice and counter clockwise thrice.

It should be rose-red in color, and reduced to a jelly or balm-like consistancy. Turn off the flame and remove from heat immediately to keep the mixture from burning or over congealing.