Potions 402. Back to the Start (Ingredients: Magical, Mundane, and Otherwise). Advanced Potion Making - Polyjuice

 Empezamos las clases practicas de Pociones y para ello primero hablamos sobre lo tipos de ingredientes que podemos usar para hacer nuestras mezclas. Después coceremos la famosa poción multijugos. Para ello seguiremos usando nuestro libro de clase 

 

Today we will be three different types of ingredients: magical, mundane, and transitional. This may seem a simple topic, but it’s important to recognize the difference between the three categorizations

Potions 401. Back to the Start (Ingredients: Magical, Mundane, and Otherwise).

Heads on Science Apart (Magical Ingredients) 

As the name suggests, are ingredients already imbued with magical properties in their natural state. Quite often these ingredients derive from magical creatures, although there are also many plants that possess their own inherent magical properties

As we discussed in the beginning of the lesson as well as the beginning of this year, Muggles are quite often intolerant to these ingredients in their natural state, and magical potions should never be administered to Muggles.

Pulling Your Puzzles Apart (Mundane Ingredients)
The magical community is often hesitant to give appropriate praise to the mundane, be it the study of science, the cultivation of the land, or the application of non-magical ingredients in cures or potions. However, mundane ingredients provide a biologically gentler alternative for those who care to avoid the harsh impact that magical ingredients so often cause

Questions of Science, Science and Progress (Transitional Ingredients)
Finally, we reach what are sometimes called transitional ingredients. These are ingredients which on their own, have no magical qualities. However, when used in conjunction with magical ingredients as well as the magic of a witch or wizard, will display magical properties themselves

  

Después de la teoría veremos la preparación de la poción multijugos. Primero enseñamos un vídeo sobre esta poción basado en la película Harry Potter y la Cámara Secreta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdTrxqeQuvw

Después vemos un vídeo de como preparar esta poción de forma sencilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CweMtNkDlh8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6sPJGGeFAY

OK Let´s stop talking about this and start toprepare our Potion of today. I see some of you are excited about the brewing of today.In this case your are right to feel like that because we are going to prepare the famous Polyjuice Potion

The Polyjuice Potion was a potion that allowed the drinker to assume the form of someone else. It enables the consumer to assume the physical appearance of another person, as long as they have first procured part of that individual's body to add to the brew

 Polyjuice Potion only lasts for a limited duration, between ten minutes and twelve hours - even for the most skilled brewer - if the witch or wizard doesn’t consume another dose before the effects fade. The Polyjuice Potion cannot transform someone into an original or “non-existent” being. Instead, it can only take similar human genetic material and transcribe (or copy) it over their form for a short, limited time


Ingredients

o Add 3 measures of fluxweed to the cauldron (must have been picked on a full moon).

o Add 2 bundles of knotgrass to the cauldron.

o Stir 4 times, clockwise.

o Add 4 leeches to the cauldron.

o Add 2 scoops of lacewing flies to the mortar, crush to a fine paste, then add 2 measures of the crushed lacewings to the cauldron.

o Wave your wand to complete this stage of the potion.

o Add 3 measures of boomslang skin to the cauldron.

o Add 1 measure of bicorn horn to the mortar, crush to a fine powder, then add one measure of the crushed horn to the cauldron.

o Stir 3 times, counter-clockwise.