Questions tagged [potions]
A liquid or liquid mixture, especially one that is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.
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Why does everyone in Harry Potter make a giant cauldron of potion?
Everyone takes Potions in Harry Potter . . . but why does everyone make a giant pot of potion each time? The final result is a small vial that is nowhere near the size of the cauldron. Besides the ...
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How do wizards creating potions determine the effects of their potion, and whether it will work or not?
My question derives from the medical and science field. All mixtures coming and going are tested to see if they are effective or not. Using this logic, the same applies to the potion being created in ...
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Did Snape teach any of the potions techniques that he invented to any of his students?
Half-Blood Prince clearly shows that Snape's instructions regarding 6th year potions are superior to those given in the books, so much so that just blindly following them without even understanding ...
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Young adult book about a traveling snake oil salesman selling magic elixirs that worked, including a strength potion
I read this book in the mid-to-late '90s. It was about a traveling snake oil salesman in one of those old horse-drawn carriages, and he had magic elixirs and potions which actually worked. I vaguely ...
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If Wolfsbane is to be taken a week in advance, why does it matter that Lupin hadn't taken it on the night of the full moon?
In chapter 18 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lupin makes it clear that the potion is taken a week in advance (emphasis mine):
"As long as I take it in the week, preceding the full ...
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How would the bite of a venomous non-magical snake be treated in the Wizarding World?
In an original writing by Rowling on illness and disabilities in the Wizarding World, the author states:
I decided that, broadly speaking, wizards would have the power to correct or override ‘...
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How did Severus Snape use Felix Felicis potion?
Horace Slughorn claimed that only once a student prepared a 'good enough' Draught of Living Death potion, receiving a Felix Felicis probe (before Harry did).
I guess that student was Severus Snape.
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Would someone be able to use Felix Felicis to make MORE Felix Felicis?
I was thinking about the Harry Potter-verse and it occurred to me that the luck potion Felix Felicis would have been an OP game changer if used correctly! Other questions have highlighted how it might ...
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Who was the student that previously brewed a potion of sufficient quality to claim the Felix Felicis?
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince during the potions class Slughorn claimed that the prize of Felix Felicis was won only once before by a student.
I should point out, however, only once did ...
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A short story involving time travel induced by a potion/tablet/medicine
In the mid 1970s I read a short story on time travel. Pretty sure it was English, ie. written and set in England early twentieth century perhaps Scotland.
It was slightly quirky in that it described ...
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Online post/short story, about potions that give you different powers
This was a post I read a few years ago (I can't remember which website).
It was a typical quiz of "which power would you choose?", but someone took it to the next level and posted a short story that ...
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Why didn't Dumbledore, or Harry, just summon animals to drink the Emerald Potion?
Why didn't Dumbledore, or Harry, just summon animals to drink the Emerald Potion? That way Dumbledore wouldn't have been weakened considerably by the potion.
As far as I know, there's the Bird-...
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Do eclipses have an effect on the efficacy of potions?
In Harry Potter, when you cook a potion during an eclipse, either lunar or solar, would that affect the strength of a potion like in the Switch game, Breath of the Wild, when a blood moon approaches ...
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Why couldn't the Ministry of Magic use Veritaserum to question Winky about Barty Crouch Jr.'s Testimony? [duplicate]
Since Winky was present at the testimony of Bartemius Crouch Jr. (in the Defense Against the Dark Arts office), she would have remembered it. In addition, she could confirm that what he was saying was ...
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Where did Hogwarts store all the cauldrons?
We know that the cauldrons at Hogwarts are not communal but that each student buys their own one.
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1 wand
1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)
1 set glass or crystal phials
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