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Polyjuice Potion

The Polyjuice Potion allows the drinker to assume the form of someone else. It is highly complicated, challenging and time-consuming to brew.

The recipe to make the Polyjuice Potion is as follows:

  1. Add 3 measures of fluxweed to the cauldron (must have been picked on a full moon).
  2. Add 2 bundles of knotgrass to the cauldron.
  3. Stir 4 times, clockwise.
  4. Wave your wand then let potion brew for 80 minutes (for a Pewter Cauldron. A Brass Cauldron will only require 68, and a copper one only 60.
  5. Add 4 leeches to the cauldron.
  6. 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.
  7. Heat for 30 seconds on a low heat.
  8. Wave your wand to complete this stage of the potion.
  9. Add 3 measures of boomslang skin to the cauldron.
  10. 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.
  11. Heat for 20 seconds at a high temperature.
  12. Wave your wand then let potion brew for 24 hours (for a Pewter Cauldron. A Brass Cauldron will only require 1224 minutes, and a copper one only 18 hours).
  13. Add 1 additional scoop of lacewings to the cauldron.
  14. Stir 3 times, counter-clockwise.
  15. Split potion into multiple doses, if desired, then add the pieces of the person you wish to become.
  16. Wave your wand to complete the potion.

Note: Lacewing flies must be stewed for twenty-one days prior to making the potion.