Crafting a New Reality

The potions might not be of the best quality, and some of the more complex creations were out of a Squib's reach because they needed an injection of magic from the brewer to work properly, but for the most part, the really basic potions that were taught from 1st to 4th year at Hogwarts needed just the right ingredients and the proper way to prepare and cook them. Even a couple O.W.L and N.E.W.T level ones could be done without a wand or even a magical foci to inject magic, relying entirely on the magical energy within the ingredients!

And then, circling back to runes for a second, it was possible for someone to activate the runic sequences that had been carved by splashing a potion onto them, using the magic inside the liquid as a catalyst.

Not just any potion would do, though. You couldn't expect a runic sequence for heat or fire to be activated by a Cooling Draught, but you could use said potion to activate runes based on ice or the cold.

Potions were simply bottled spells when it came down to it, and anything done with a wand-based spell could be replicated in some fashion with a potion, same with runes, though with varying degrees of success and effectiveness. The Memory Erasing potion was inferior to the Obliviate spell, for instance, but it had its uses. For example, most animals – magical or mundane – were immune to the Obliviate spell. In which case, the Memory Erasing potion was great for turning animals into a blank slate so they could be trained more easily.

In the end, Squibs were far from lacking magic. They just didn't get any respect or chances to prove themselves because of how magical society valued wands and spells.

'But I'll show them,' I vowed to myself as I began to set up the miniature potion kit. 'I'll show them all!'

First, though, before I could conquer the pharmaceutical market with my potions, I had to make sure I could actually do what I wanted with potions. Specifically, brewing them. That was Step One. I had to be sure that the potions I wanted to make and sell I could actually create.

The next step was testing said potions on Muggles. There were some problems with that, besides the obvious 'no letting people realize this is actually magic' issue.

Not all potions could affect Muggles. However, there were plenty that did, such as the infamous love potions. If Tom Riddle Sr. could be affected by one, other potions surely could be consumed by Muggles for their intended effects.

'I even suspect that Muggles could brew potions too,' I thought to myself. 'Heck, even machines could do it! Program them to stir at the right speed and direction, keep the heat just right, and with a proper set up I could churn out potions on an industrial level! Potions are a form of ritual magic, after all. As long as they are prepared in the proper manner, most potions rely on the magic of the ingredients themselves, nothing more.'

Such a thing would require a lot testing, however. At the very least, I already had one product in mind to experiment with; the Hair Growth potion.

How much money was spent every year by people with baldness or receding hairlines? Millions of dollars (or pounds, since I was English now), is the answer. And most of it was sham products. Scams at the very worst. If I could brew a hair growth potion that could do so slowly, and not all at once like most variants of the vanity potion did, then I could sell it to Muggles and make a killing! And, if the ingredients were cheap enough, experiments with mass producing it could be possible!

And just my luck, the Hunch Family Grimoires I had 'borrowed' from the manor had a homemade recipe for the Hair Growth potion!

Interestingly, it didn't have any hair as part of the ingredients. It called for rat's teeth, a lizard's tail (finely diced), a dollop of bees wax, and a pinch of salt.

There were issues with this recipe, of course. What constituted a 'dollop' or 'pinch?' Could it be any tail from any animal classified as a lizard, or did it have to be specifically from one that could regrow its tail? Was it rock salt or sea salt the potion called for? Could I replace one with the other without causing the potion to explode? I hadn't a clue, but that was what experimentation was for. I'd had Inky gather up as many diverse ingredients as possible.

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