Potions: First Year: Week 1: Monday

Professor Severus Snape
Monday
Gryffindor Time: 10:00
Ravenclaw Time: 2:00
Hufflepuff Time: 2:00
Slytherin Time: 10:00

Hello class. Today we will begin with a sleeping potion. Not that you look like you need it. You all look as if a single drop would send you off to dreamland. But we will begin with it anyway. It is simple enough for the least dunce to do. The recipe is on the blackboard. I will check your cauldrons when class is over.

Potion's Black Board
Sleeping Draught
Ingredients:
13 Beetle Eyes
Water
Crushed Basilisk Bones
1 Black Power Stone
Fire Mint
Moon Flower
A Square of Cloth

Instructions
Fill your Cauldron half full of water and boil. Mash one beetle eye. Crumble it into the boiling water. Add one cup of water to your cauldron and mash another beetle and add it. Stir twice. Add one tablespoon of the basilisk bones. DO NOT STIR! Add a teaspoon of moonflower and an 1/8 of a teaspoon of firemint. Stir 10 times. Drop the other beetle eyes in uncrushed. Then add the powerstone. Let the potion simmer for thirteen minutes, then cool for 19 minutes. Fish the power stone out with a spoon. Wash it in cold water. It can be used again at another time. Let the cloth soak in the strained potion for seven minutes. Let it dry. Place it above the head of the person you wish to cause to go to sleep.

Alright class. Your time is up. Please bottle some of your potion for grading and bring that bottle and the cloth up. Your homework is below.


Homework
Copy down the instructions. Write an essay on how your potion 'behaved' during the making of it.