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.

thinking again about vampirism as disability

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One of the wildest things about true crime is that someone will describe a serial killer experiencing 12 kinds of child abuse and neglect, a bunch of head injuries, and then go "but that's all just coincidental. I think they were BORN innately bad!"

Like a serial killer will outright say "i felt really unloved and alienated and disempowered my entire life and doing these horrible crimes made me feel powerful"

And true crime people will be like "it was in their DNA, they were BORN this way"

Esp when people go "oh well all that abuse is no excuse" and it's like. No we're not talking about excusing the behaviour, we're talking about understanding why it occurred in the first place

Saying "oh well, some people are just innately Bad" absolves society of responsibility

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought “why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,” so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It’s alright if you can’t because apparently I fuckin couldn’t either

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Time to make another poll for Snape Ships! This time the top three ships from the common Ships poll and the rarepair poll, although Kingsley and Charity had the exact same votes so I'm gonna have both of them in.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Names

Introduction

When writing my previous meta about how surname names are largely used as political statements in the world of Harry Potter, I got to thinking (as one does) about the names of half-blood characters more generally, and how mixed magical-Muggle couples work to integrate both Muggle and magical naming traditions in the names of their children. We can learn a lot about parents from their children's names. And we can learn a lot about what it means to be a halfblood, caught between two worlds.

Of course, this made me think of the divergent names of the three most prominent half-bloods in the series: Tom Marvolo Riddle Jr., Harry James Potter, and Severus Snape.

It's pretty clear that the magical world and Muggle world have different naming traditions in HP, with surname names being a common feature of Muggle names while magical names are often very rare in the Muggle world and drawn from Greco-Roman mythology and history or ancient Anglo-Saxon style names. I also think that one point of difference is how to honor family: wizards generally use the same gender parent's first name as the middle name of the eldest child (for example Harry James and Ginevra Molly) while it largely* seems that the Muggle tradition of John Smith Sr. and John Smith Jr. has not been copied by wizards.

*I'll discuss the Crouches later, but I think they are an exception to the rule.

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it’s 3am, do you know where your teens are?

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the evans twins making the most out of school hols. don’t worry they only did it once (maybe). and with tuney’s knowledge (no, definitely not).

In my +10 years of doodling I never worked colors and it shows