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guide to potions and ingredients

I don't think I've ever shared this here, but many years ago I created an extremely exhaustive guide to potions and ingredients in the Harry Potter canon, also based heavily on real-world knowledge and history of herbalism.

I use it as a reference all the time so I thought it might be useful! In the interest of completeness I also included stuff that's only vaguely canon (from video games etc) but since it was made so long ago it doesn't include information from the FB films, Cursed Child, Hogwarts Legacy or the mobile game lol. But it's very very exhaustive and detailed haha, much more than the wiki if I do say so myself.

It's split into first a list of potions (many of which include relevant historical information, probable ingredients, and even brewing instructions where those exist) and then a list of ingredients (also with discussion of real-world applications/significance of those ingredients.)

It's designed so you can easily invent your own potions for fic-writing purposes or make a more educated guess as to the ingredients of potions that exist in canon, rather than a hard-and-fast guide to what is or isn't canon. Basically you don't have to follow the information exactly haha, it's just a guide. If you look at the ingredients of potions that we do see in canon, they usually make complete sense with the purpose of the potion and have obviously been well researched.

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today's mood: are you mad at me?

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this is how Remus kisses Sirius by the way

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make that character aroace. NOW!

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8am hot take but I get a little twitch in my eye when I see someone ask for recs and people immediately jump in and rec ATYD and Cadence. There's 61,000 R/S fics on AO3. No one needs help to find the two most-read ones. They're easy to find. They're inescapable. They literally go without saying.

Sort by Kudos, go back a thousand pages, and get reading. Sort by comments and go right to the last page. Sort by date and skip back to the mid-2000s. Find some deep cuts. Explore outside of the most-read, most-kudosed.

There's so much great fuckin fic out there. This fandom produces quality shit all the time that gets lost in the shuffle. We as a group should try to find it and elevate it instead of rehashing the same two recs over and over and over.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES POTTER YOU ARE SO LOVED BY ME

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nothing scarier than being a fan of a fic and then becoming mutuals with the author. like hi shakespeare. big fan of your fake dating au

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he’s your favorite marauder’s favorite marauder! 💥

hbd jimmy james & s/o to nat @otrtbs for insipiring me 🤭

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Happy 65th birthday, James!!

This is not a thirst trap - his jeans are undone because he ate too much birthday cake, alright?? So now he's relaxing with some light reading before he goes for a strut around the neighbourhood (and maybe a broomstick ride later).

I'm trying a new style because I got sick of the line work. Quite proud of the hair this time!

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man, I feel like a woman

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Marauders fandom!! You have been summoned. Look! It’s a James! Feast thine eyes! (I’m sorry, do what you want. I’m not the boss of you. Have a nice day.)

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rip james potter you would've loved taking albus out for ice cream when he was grounded and playing matchmaker with him and scorpius just to annoy harry

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❤️❤️

(Somewhere off-screen Snape is crying)

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DILF

James’ birthday seemed like a good excuse to finally post this I sort of drew a while ago as a vibes only “illustration” of @lovelymasks’ fanfic ‘Kiss me tonight’, much to @diamondmeadow’s pleasure😉

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