salamander parts -
scarab beetles -
Scintillation Solution -
scurvy-grass -
Shrinking Solution -
Skele-Gro -
Sleekeazy's Hair Potion -
Sleeping Draught/Potion -
snake parts -
sneezewort -
solutions -
sopophorous -
spiders -
Strengthening Solution -
Swelling Solution
Salamander blood is used in Strengthening Solution (see).
Crushed, these are used in Wit-Sharpening Potion (see).
Effect unknown
One of the students who found the Kwikspell course helpful wrote that people were now begging for her recipe for Scintillation Solution (CS8).
Any of one of several sea-coast plants with four-petalled cross-shaped white flowers, at one time eaten by sailors to prevent scurvy (NSOED).
According to a book Harry studied during his fifth year, scurvy-grass is "moste efficacious in the inflaming of the braine, and [is] therefore much used in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts, where the wizard is desirous of producing hot-headedness and recklessness" (OP18)
Shrinking Solution / Shrinking Potion
ingredients: chopped daisy roots, skinned shrivelfig, sliced caterpillar, one rat spleen, dash of leech juice
Effect: Makes things shrink in size, apparently reversing the aging process as well
Harry had to write a particularly nasty essay on Shrinking Potions as one of his holiday assignments for Potions the summer before his third year (PA1).
Apparently it's important that the daisy roots be chopped evenly before they're used (PA7).
Adding too many rat spleens or too much leech juice can cause the potion to turn orange instead of the bright acid green it's supposed to be; making errors in the potion can cause the mixture to become poisonous (PA7).
Administered to Trevor in Potions, the toad didn't just become smaller but turned into a tadpole; this was the expected effect (PA7).
See also AGEING POTION.
"skeleton" + "grow" (sounds like a brand name)
Medical magic: Potion which regrows bones. The effect takes about eight hours and can be quite painful.
When Lockhart removed all the bones from Harry's arm, Madam Pomfrey gave Harry Skele-Gro to grow them back. It took all night (CS10).
Skele-Gro comes in a large bottle and is dispensed by the steaming beaker-full. It burns the mouth as it goes down. Regrowing bones is a painful process, and Harry felt stabbing pains in his arm, as if it were full of large splinters (CS10).
Draco thought maybe Hagrid had drunk too much of this as a child, making him larger than everyone else (GF24)
In CS/f, the bottle has this on the label:
1100 Drops
Bone Regenerator
SKELE-GRO
Bone-Fide Results Everytime
Sold Only by Rubens Winikus and Company Inc.
"Sleekeazy" (note the 'z') is indeed the canon spelling.
Used to style hair.
Hermione used this to style her hair for the Yule Ball (GF24)
c.f. Lockhart dreamed of one day selling his own line of hair care potions (CS6).
Effect: causes the drinker to fall into a deep sleep
Hermione filled two chocolate cakes with Sleeping Draught, and Harry and Ron used them to knock out Crabbe and Goyle (CS12)
A Sleeping Potion is a purple potion which Harry drank after his ordeal with Voldemort in the third task. He didn't drink it all, so he was still awake when Dumbledore was arguing with Fudge (GF36).
The dragons for the first task were given Sleeping Draughts to knock them out for transport to Hogwarts (GF19).
Snake fangs are used in boil-cure potion (see).
Snake venom is used in some of Voldemort's potions (see).
See also BOOMSLANG PARTS.
A kind of yarrow, the powdered leaves of which are said to cause sneezing (NSOED).
According to a book Harry studied during his fifth year, sneezewort is "moste efficacious in the inflaming of the braine, and [is] therefore much used in Confusing and Befuddlement Draughts, where the wizard is desirous of producing hot-headedness and recklessness" (OP18)
The following potions are known as solutions.
L. sopor, deep sleep or sleeping potion
Used in
Draught of Living Death.
ingredients: salamander blood, possibly pomegranate juice at some stage
Unknown, but presumably increases the user's strength.
Apparently takes a few days to make, since the students had allowed their mixtures to mature over a weekend (OP17).
The fifth year students were making this when Umbridge evaluated Snape. She said that she thought the Ministry would prefer that it be removed from the syllabus (OP17).
Harry was so interested in watching Snape and Umbridge interact that he nearly put pomegranate juice into his potion when he should have been adding salamander blood. The fact that the pomegranate juice was laid out at all suggests that it might also be an ingredient of this potion, although Harry was attempting to add it in the wrong way at that particular time. At the end of the lesson, when his potion was congealing foully and smelling strongly of burned rubber, Harry was given a homework assignment of writing an essay on how and where he went wrong (OP17).
ingredients: puffer-fish eyes
Causes something to get bigger.
The second year students were making this when Harry threw a firecracker into Goyle's cauldron to create a diversion. Where the solution splashed, people's arms, noses, eyes, etc. were enlarged grotesquely. The antidote was a Deflating Draught (CS11).
