House Potions

Part 1

HuffieLoyal Potion

~ hufflepuffs loyal and just~

2 frozen Ashwinder eggs
1 bezoar
5 ground unicorn tail
2 cups of Murtlap Essence
2 powdered moonstone
3 ground tubeworms

First you add Ashwinder eggs because it is part of the ingredients to make a love potion, so adding it in the HuffieLoyal Potion can make the people who drink it more loving (thus more loyal) to each other. A bezor is a protection against most poisons, so adding that symbolizes that friends that are loyal to each other can overcome a lot of things. The ground hair of a unicorn symbolizes that loyal people stick together since unicorn hair is said to be very strong when binding things. Murtlap Essence soothes heals and cuts and that symbolizes that friends can soothe each other's wounds. Lastly tubeworms symbolize sticking together because tubeworms are sticky. So if Hufflepuffs are loyal to each other and their friends, they stick by their friends like how tubeworms stick to desks.

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HyperPuff Potion

~hufflepuffs: sometimes hyper & energetic~

2 cups of Re'em blood
3 runespoor eggs
4 crushed lovage
1 crushed Erumpent horn

Adding Re'em blood gives the drinker strength and adding them into the potion can boost the drinker's energy like how a candy bar can do to a person. Mixing Runespoor eggs with Re’em blood can enhance mental ability and like Re'em blood, that boost the drinker's energy. Lovage is a herb that makes people a bit reckless and adding this ingredient shows that sometimes being hyper can make you reckless too. Erumpent parts like the horn are used in exploding fluids. Adding it will make a hyper person more energetic. Even if sometimes Hufflepuffs are not hyper (in public) they still are very energetic and willing to jump up to lend a helping hand. In PA, the sorting hat said that hufflepuffs are 'unafraid of toil' so an efficient potion should fit the characteristic of Hufflepuff

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HuffieEfficentPotion

~hufflepuffs not afraid of toil~

2 ground scarab beetles
1 cut up ginger root
2 crushed hellebore leaves
1 crushed moonstone
4 cut up Jobberknoll feathers
2 crushed caterpillars

Scarab beetles and ginger root are both used in the Wit-Sharpening Potion. So using them in the HuffieEfficent Potion can enhance the drinker's ability of thinking. Helleborne and moonstone help make the drinker calmer, as it was used in the Draught of Peace. Adding them in this potion, that is suppose to make the drinker hardworking, helps that fact since it calms the drinker so the drinker can calmly do their work. Jobberknoll feathers are used in Memory Potions and this ingredient is added to help enhance the drinker's memory because when doing work, you have to remember certain information. Lastly, the crushed caterpillar symbolizes productive work. Since hufflepuffs are not afraid of toil (as the sorting hat said in PA) this potion can help us finish our work even faster and more efficiently

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Part 2

Fumbling the desk beside my bed I rubbed my eyes and glanced at the flashing alarm clock. The numbers 6:00 stared back at me as I banged my clock back on the desk in frustration. Settling back in bed I stretched my arms. Suddenly in mid-stretch, my hand hit a glass bottle. Yawning I sat up sleepily to look at it. Lighting my wand with a quiet whisper of Lumos I squinted at the dusty bottle I held in my hand. Uncapping the top I sniffed it warily and decided it was just a bottle of butterbeer that I had sneaked up from last night's party. Then with a shrug I gulp it down and settled back under my covers.

A few minutes later, I was still tossing and turning around in my bed since I was suddenly wide awake and jittery. Then with a leap I climbed out of bed and skipped to the bathroom. I thought to myself: since I was already awake, why stay in bed? Humming to myself I skipped out of the restroom and went into the common room. Sitting down at the sofa I looked around humming ‘the saints go marching in’ and felt extremely bored. Jumping up from where I was sitting I decided to go wake up some other hufflepuffs for company. Skipping back to the dorms I quickly shook the other hufflepuffs awake by yelling ‘wake up’ in their ear. Not waiting to see if they actually woke up I rushed down the stairs and cheerfully went to the Great Hall.

Grabbing a piece of French toast and bacon I waved joyfully to the professors that were sleepily walking towards the great hall. Munching on the toast I went back to the common room to wait for others. Tapping my foot and looking at my watch that only read 6:15 I saw they were still asleep. Finishing my toast and now munching on my bacon, I did a little dance by the fireplace when saw that my fellow hufflepuffs that finally woke up. I cheerfully dragged them to the Great Hall and bounced around while they ate and started at me confusingly, probably because I was always the one that had to drag to breakfast. Arriving at our first class I suddenly felt very drained and nodded off at my desk as I came to realize that I had drunk a HyperPuff Potion instead of a butterbeer.

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Sources

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/hogwarts/houses/hufflepuff.html
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/potions/potions-i.html

Pt. One: Create 3 potions that signify your house, write a summary of the ingredients (not all have to be listed) and an explanation of what it does and why it is associated with your house. Each potion summary should be at least 150 words long. 25 pts.



Elixir to Encourage Absorption of Knowledge

• 1 powdered dragon claw
• 1 vial of salamander blood
• 3 tail hairs of a unicorn foal
• 2 phoenix tears

To brew this potion you must put 2 litres of water in your caldron and bring to boil. Let simmer for 7 minutes.
Whilst simmering divide the powdered dragon claw into 10 gram portions.
When finished simmering add 1 portion of powdered dragon claw then stir clockwise 5 times.
Repeat until all the dragon claw is in the potion. The dragon claw will not mix with the water.
Drop in the phoenix tears and stir anti-clockwise 7 times. The powdered dragon claw should now mix.
Add the salamander blood and stir until potion turns a vivid turquoise.
Put out fire and let potion cool to room temperature. Once cool add the unicorn hairs.
Freeze for 24 hours. Then mix clockwise until slushy and drink potion. Potion is effective for 12 hours.

The elixir to encourage absorption of knowledge is a potion to enhance you understanding and helps you to make greater sense of the things in your life weather it be a difficult textbook or your personal problems.
This potion is especially significant to the ravenclaw house as they are considered extremely clever and the elixir to encourage absorption of knowledge can provide a certain amount of help and guidance where it is needed.




Central Nervous System Relaxing Solution

• 1 phoenix tail feather
• 1 dried gnome brain
• 2 crushed acromantula pincers
• 5 dried doxy wings
• 3 fairy eggs

Put the fairy eggs in your caldron and pour 3 litres of lukewarm water over them.
Add the crushed acromantula pincers and stir clockwise until potion turns royal blue.
Cut the gnome brain into tiny pieces of equal sizes and add them. Do not stir.
Wait until they have dissolved. When they have the potion will turn into a deep purple.
Sprinkle the doxy wings on top and stir with the phoenix feather until potion turns lilac.
Drop the feather in and potion should turn pale pink. Stew for 2 hours exactly then drink.

The Central Nervous System Relaxing Solution is a potion that helps you to relax whilst still retaining information. This potion is of great help to ravenclaws as when exams are approaching many stress and cannot concentrate. Some may argue that a calming drought also does the above but a calming drought stops you concentrating on your worries and majority of other things whereas The Central Nervous System Relaxing Solution calms you whilst you are able to keep a clear head and continue revising.


The Drought of Reminiscence

• 3 hairs of the head of a merperson
• 1 gallon of liquidised flame from a Hungarian Horntail
• Essence of Murtlap
• Crushed horn of a Grindylow

Fill your caldron with the liquidised flame. And add the merperson’s hair. Potion should be bright yellow.
Stir anti-clockwise until potion turns a mellow green.
Soak crushed Grindylow horn in Murtlap essence whilst you let potion simmer.
Once potion turns turquoise put the fire out and add the Grindylow horn and Murtlap essence.
Leave to stew overnight and drink at first light. Effective for 3 hours.

The drought of reminiscence is especially useful to the students of ravenclaw as it helps them to recall more details of things they have read. It is most helpful when you have a lot to remember as it gives your brain a boost.

Pt. Two: Choosing one of your three potions, write a short fiction detailing a time when you or another member of your house used the potion. Minimum word count of 400. 25 pts.


It was OWL year and Rosalie was in trouble. She had just come back from her Transfiguration practical and knew it had gone horribly wrong. Instead of transfiguring her peacock into a rabbit she had accidentally cursed the examiner who had immediately been sent to St Mungos as nobody knew what the curse was or the damage it had done. “I’m so stupid,” Rosalie sobbed to herself,”I don’t know why the sorting hat put me in Ravenclaw.” She picked up the closest book and threw it into the fire. In the light of the flames she saw the page it had fallen open to. The drought of reminiscence. Rosalie shrieked and ran towards the fire to fetch the book. “Ow….”, Rosalie cursed as she burnt her hand. She held up the book and smiled. History of Magic was her only exam left and it would take place the following morning. What was more she was sure to forget everything. “But not if I brew up a little memory…” Rosalie smiled to herself. She ran her finger over the ingredients. Merpeople hair…and liquidised horntail flame…and Murtlap essence… and Grindylow horn. Well the Murtlap essence and crushed Grindylow horn were kept in the student supplies cupboard so they would be easy as anyone was allowed to use them. But the Merpeople and flame would be tricky… Rosalie dashed into the thankfully empty potions dungeon and grabbed the things she needed. Thankfully, the Merpeople hair and the liquidised horntail flame were in the teacher’s cabinet which she managed to sneak in and out of. Rosalie quickly brewed the potion. It was not that difficult as long as you followed the instructions properly. She left her potion to stew overnight and went back to the common room where all of her classmates were cramming as much history of magic as they could. Rosalie smiled at them, announcing she needed an early night and was off to bed. Early the next morning Rosalie ran down to the potions dungeon and saw her potion was perfect at first light she drunk it all. The effect was immediate. Rosalie only had to think of History of Magic for information to come flooding. She smiled to herself, knowing she could expect at least one ‘outstanding’ OWL. Thinking of OWL’s… Rosalie could now clearly remember exactly what they had said about the anti-jinxes put on the test paper to ensure nobody cheated. It worked against spell checking quills, auto-answer quills and… memory potions… memory potions like the Drought of Reminiscence.