First Experimental Potion! (Part-1)

{29th June 1993}

{13th Branton, Cheshire, London}

{5:58 PM}

'''Estimated Brewing Time:

Recipe from Magical Drafts and Potions: 54 minutes

Recipe from Book of Potions: 40 minutes and 6 seconds

Experimental Recipe: 26 minutes and 31 seconds

Ingredients:

740 mL of water

3 snake fangs

4 horned slugs {Found to be the main Ingredient across various recipes.}

2 porcupine quills

2 measures of Flobberworm mucus

1 Shrake spines.

10 ml Rose water.

Recipe:

1 - Add 740 mL of water to your cauldron and bring the temperature to 90°C.

2 - While the water is getting heated crush all the fangs into a fine and even consistent powder using your pestle.

3 - Add three measures of the crushed fangs with a standard Budge's tablespoon to your cauldron.

4 - Add two measures of Flobberworm mucus to the potion before letting it brew for 12 minutes at 110 °C. {The Mucus was added during various experiments as not only does it thickens the potion, in the end, enhancing it into a paste rather than its liquid counterpart, thus requiring fewer problems in storage and applying on the boils while maintaining maximum potency. It also helps reduce the brewing time by half an hour while increasing the shelf life of the potion from 2 months to 6 months.}

5 - Wave your wand clockwise once infusing some mana into the potion thus starting the reagent's {snake fangs} reaction to activate as the potion starts emitting a pink hue. {At any point if the hue changes color from pink to anything else means that the potion has gone bad, or some unexpected reaction occurred!}

6 - At this point, add all four horned slugs should be added directly to the cauldron.

7 - As the Potion turns green, quickly take it off the fire and add a pickled Shrake spine followed by two porcupine quills to the potion and then return it to the flames maintaining the temperature at 90 °C.

8 - Wave your wand five times clockwise, to activate the reagent again and confirm the pinkish hue, add 10 ml of rose water as you let the potion simmer for another 11 minutes and 36 seconds.

9 - Take your potion of the flames and let it cool down, wave your wand anti-clockwise to cancel the effect of the reagent on the potion, and watch as the potion turns sky blue before carefully storing it away.'''

As I kept going through the recipe one by one, memories of Blaise doing his experiments in his room inside his trunk kept appearing in my mind. As each time Blaise brew a potion a message popped up from the system and his understanding of the potion increased and he changed the recipe along the way.

'It's weird to see him getting inspiration and knowledge out of nowhere after just brewing the potion once. At the start when the potion's skill was just level 1, he would just get a 1% understanding of all the ingredients of the potions...'

But I searched my memories for hundreds of experiments about the Boils cure potion, as his understanding of the potion peaked leaving this rather remarkable recipe.

'Just this recipe should help me get my name out in the piotionneer community and also gain quite a few galleons as this is vastly superior to all the available recipes...'

I looked at the comparison between the two most famous recipes for boils cure potion and the experimental potion comparing them.

'''Estimated Brewing Time:

Recipe from Magical Drafts and Potions: 54 minutes.

Recipe from Book of Potions: 40 minutes and 6 seconds.

Experimental Recipe: 26 minutes and 31 seconds.

Estimated Cost:

Recipe from Magical Drafts and Potions: 13 Sickles.

Recipe from Book of Potions: 16 Sickles.

Experimental Recipe: 8 Sickles. {Because of reducing the quantity of expensive material, Snake Fangs, required.}

Estimated Shelf Life:

Recipe from Magical Drafts and Potions: 1 Month and 11-14 days.

Recipe from Book of Potions: 2 Months and 7-9 days.

Experimental Recipe: 6 Months and 17 days. {Because of its paste-like mixture.}

**Bonus attributes: As the muggle ingredient Rosewater contains minimal magical properties it does not affect the potion's effects but rather overrides the potion's smell, thus making the paste smell like roses.

**Con: The potion recipe is a little more difficult to make than the normal Recipe from Magical Drafts and Potions thus is unsuitable for 1st-year students to start their magical education.'''

"This should do very well, maybe I should brew one, to get familiar with brewing and also set up my lab," I muttered out loud as I found my throat to be a bit parched, I walked into the kitchen and filled up a cup of water. Looking around at the empty house with no chit-chat, no loud booming voices, a sense of longing filled me up before I quashed it away.

'Not now, We'll handle the existential crisis some other day, let's get ready to brew some potions.'

I walked up to my 'office' once again and walked towards the second trunk containing all the ingredients.

'Let's get started...'

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{29th June 1993}

{13th Branton, Cheshire, London}

{6: 56 PM}

'...the color seems fine, the scent is good, this one looks quite a lot better actually.' I compared the two boils cure potions in front of me. One brewed from the Experimental recipe while the other from Magical Drafts and Potions. As I brewed the potion, flawed memories about chemistry kept appearing in my mind as I read about Reagents and ingredients.

'I need to get more books on potion's theory! The system makes my job so much easy as I understand potion's when I brew them but just in case I'll need to look into one. Not now though, maybe in a few years when other pressing issues won't affect me.'

I closed the lid on the two potions, one stored in a glass vial while the other in a circular-shaped glass box which was transfigured from a vial. Its creamy nature would make it difficult to store in a standard vial so I had to transfigure one from a normal vial.

I opened the diary again and looked at the magnificent recipe. Plan's already forming in my mind as I was deciding if it was worth my time or not.

'One set of ingredients used just cost 8 sickles but it could be created into a cauldron full of boil-cure cream. It should be enough for at least 30-40 circular-shaped vials making the cost of one cream bottle almost a fifth of a sickle, 5-6 knuts. The shelf life of one vial should be 6 months so there should defiantly be a market for it, but who would buy a potion that one can just brew at home whenever needed in just 40 minutes?'

I kept pondering before counterarguments easily presented themselves...

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AN: I would explain the reagents and ingredients in later chapters...