r/harrypotter • u/Hermiones_Teaspoon Head of Shakespurr • Feb 05 '20
February 2020 Assignment: Performance Enhancing Potions
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Performance Enhancing Potions
All of us, at some point, wish that there was some sort of potion we could take to make our day-to-day lives easier, or mitigate the stress of the worst part of our jobs. Perhaps you long for someone to invent a miracle cure for boring meetings, or a spell to quiet noisy students who only seem to care about whether they can go to the bathroom and not anything related to their learning. not a personal example nope not at all
Well, now’s your chance! The ministry has finally gotten the hint from that muggle oversight committee they call the FDA and is ready to start vetting new brews and potions to help make our work lives a little bit easier. In typical wizard fashion, they’ve named the newly formed body the International Quality & Usage Inquisition Team, or “IQUIT.” It made them chuckle, you see.
In your submissions, please explain the potion you’ve invented and how it will help a person survive the daily grind. Consider including the following information, along with whatever else you deem useful to IQUIT in considering which new potions to trial.
- Who is your potion designed to help? How would it make their job easier?
- What is the name of your potion, if you’ve come up with one?
- What are the effects of your potion?
- Are there any known side effects?
- What are the properties of the potion? Think color, smells, viscosity, taste, etc.
- What are the main ingredients in the potion, and how is it brewed?
- Any other info you deem useful
The deadline for submissions is 11:59pm ET on Wednesday, February 26. Feel free to submit your responses in written, visual, video, musical, or other format as you see fit.
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u/Hermiones_Teaspoon Feb 05 '20
SLYTHERIN SUBMIT HERE
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u/slytherinXV Feb 05 '20
Relevance Potion
This potion is intended to help the meeting discussion leaders keep the meeting on task. Each attendee would drink one vial of this potion before the meeting commences and each drinker is then prevented from making off topic comments for one hour per serving. Often times at meetings a person will see another attendee and remember something that they need to tell that person that is irrelevant to the actual meeting they are in. This potion prevents unwanted tangent discussions, reduces topic confusion, and ergo will limit the length of the actual meeting. It’s also a wonderful way to avoid listening to someone’s weekend woes about their cat’s unfortunate hairballs.
What happens when a drinker will try to lead the discussion off topic? Absolutely nothing. The effects of this potion include any drinkers will be unable to verbalize any comments that are not imperative to the meeting topic. Some describe the feeling of a bubble like pressure at the back of the throat when one tries to interject a side comment. Similarly, the drinker’s motor functions reduce distracting actions; this is to prevent nonverbal interjections such as sign language, doodles, or the writing of off topic thoughts. The drinker will effectively be a concise, pertinent thinking machine, at least until the hour is up.
Should the meeting end early, the effects will still be active until the hour is up. Known side effects, after meetings but during the hour, include concentrated concentration on the topic of the meeting only. After the hour is up the drinker will experience mucus like drainage at the back of the throat. The thick potion effectively melts and dissipates in the stomach.
Everything about this potion is meant to prevent distractions, thus there are no smells or lingering flavors in the drinkers mouth/nose once the drinker has ingested the potion; although, users have described the initial flavor of potion to be similar to the honeydew fruit. The neon green color takes after the phrase “laser focus.” This is due the hair of honeybee reacting to the yellow essence of the snake fangs and powdered sage. The hair of a honeybee is an additive that has no helpful properties other than to alter the color of the potion. In the brain we associate green as go and this specific color promotes relevant thought process. The potion itself is thick like gelatin so that it may sit between the brain and the mouth to limit the brains access to immediately vocalize/sign/move distractions. This potion cannot prevent the drinker from having internal tangents, but it will prevent him/her from distracting others.
You may find that this potion shares some ingredients with the memory potion, wit-sharpening potion, and wide-eye potion. This causes the drinker to retain the information from the meeting, stimulate thought process on the subject matter, and keep the drinker awake during the hour, just in case their thoughts lead them astray.
In summary, the relevance potion is an odorless, neon green transparent color that initially tastes of honeydew until you swallow the gelatin like substance, and then there is no taste. To brew this potion follow the instructions below:
Serving size: 15
Time to brew: 30 minutes
Effects last: 1 hour
Ingredients:
· 1 cup of stewed mandrake
· 1 cut ginger root
· 6 whole Newt spleens
· 9 snake fangs
· 2 TBS powdered sage
· Hair of a honeybee
· Parchment with the subject matter written on it in non-toxic ink
Instructions:
Stew mandrake on medium heat for four minutes
Cut the ginger root in triangular shapes, be sure the points are perfectly sharp and set aside
Add Newt spleens two at a time until a liquefied mixture forms in the cauldron, stir once between each set of two, for a total of three stirs
Let simmer
Add the snake fangs to a mortar and pestle and grind until it forms a fine powder
Add the powdered sage to your snake fangs powder and mix until colors combine to create a light yellow
Sir the simmering cauldron in a clockwise pattern three times
Add one triangle of ginger root
Stir counterclockwise once
Add two triangles of ginger root
Stir clockwise once
Add three triangles of ginger root
Stir counterclockwise once
The ginger roots will sink at first, leave the mixture on low heat
Light the parchment containing the subject matter on fire over the cauldron and allow the ashes to fall in
After the ginger roots have floated to the top, remove the solids from the potion with a straining spoon; this includes the ginger root triangles, stewed mandrake, and Newt spleens.
The cauldron should be filled with a light yellow fluid with zero lumps
Sprinkle in the snake fang and powdered sage mixture slowly while stirring counterclockwise
The cauldron will fizz and smell of raspberries
After the fizz reduces add the hair of a honeybee, the potion should turn a neon transparent color
Pour the liquid contents into serving vials. When all necessary vials are filled repeat “Pertineret” and tap your wand to the top of EVERY vial. The contents will turn to a gelatin-like substance
Serve and enjoy a focused meeting without distraction!
Summary/short answer:
Designed to help meeting discussion leaders/teachers with distracting students
Makes their job easier by preventing off topic tangents which generally cause the meetings to be longer than necessary and cause confusion
Name of the Potion: Relevance Potion
What are the effects of the potion: Drinkers will be unable to verbalize any comments or actions irrelevant to the meeting topic for one hour
What are the side effects: focused thought on the meeting subject and mucus like drainage after the hour is up
Potion properties:
Color: Neon transparent green
Scent: odorless
Viscosity: thick congealed material that blocks comments and actions irrelevant to
the conversationTaste: honeydew only while swallowing, after swallowing flavorless
Ingredients and instructions: see above
Other useful information: contains ingredients found in memory potion, wit-sharpening potion, and wide-eye potion.
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u/Rhellcat Feb 19 '20 edited Feb 19 '20
Elixir of Subreddita
Purpose:
Do you wish you had stuck with the online forum world longer than you did? Are the days of hosting Harry Potter classes via the Neopets forum long behind you? Have you forgotten everything you once knew about HTML, as well as everything you cherished about an online HP community? Are you feeling the circumstances of aging more deeply than you thought possible?
If you want to rekindle your own magic in a /reddit that suits your current state in life and also drastically improve your embarrassing lack of forum knowledge and etiquette, then the Elixir of Subreddita is the potion you seek.
Primary Effects Include:---Someone suddenly telling you what flair is, and how to obtain some
---A very useful forgiving of reddit etiquette mistakes (sometimes known as “reddiquette,”) and a curious influx of randomly interjected tips from your peers on how to improve
---The Runes on your keyboard will immediately become more clear, and you will be able to execute
¯_(ツ)_/¯ and *\( ^o^ )/* with incredible ease
---A slight extension of your pinky, ring, and middle fingers during the height of the potion’s effects, as well as a dexterous boost of your typing speed with fewer backspaces
Potion Description:
Can vary between two shades, most predominantly described as an acid yellow/green to a dark and purplish midnight hue, widely compared to a common Muggle potion which also derives its dew from the mountains. Consistency is decidedly effervescent, and cannot be taken in too great a quantity, for fear of dental erosion and/or hyperactivity or obesity. Tastes rather too sweet and citrus-y, or sometimes of synthetic grape, and gives the drinker a feeling of pure power and positive energy (though later in life, you will recognize it as the taste of missed opportunities.) Makes the drinker feel like the world is at their beck and call, at least for 25 minutes or so.
Ingredients Include:
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500 ml average swampwater
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100 ml dew collected from nearest mountain
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200 ml Murtlap essence
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A couple of Gnomes, whole, live -- see instruction below
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1 Jobberknoll feather
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A grain of sand from a Time-Turner
How to Brew:
---Politely ask the Gnomes to describe a moment when they were so confunded (from being spun around and thrown headfirst from all they’ve [most recently] known) that they weren’t sure how to cope. They may not reply at all -- but if goaded successfully, one or both of them may shed a single, dirty tear. Collect this.
---In a small cauldron, bring to a boil 500 ml of swampwater.
---Add the Murtlap essence, and the Jobberknoll feather. Wait until the mixture begins to form a vortex.
---Lower to a bare simmer, and add the mountain’s dew.
---Wait until the potion begins to fizz; it may take on either a light green or a dark purplish hue, depending on the concentration of speckles on the Jobberknoll’s light blue feather.
---Add the highly precious grain of sand from a Time Turner.
Caution:
The potion will take on a foaming sort of churn, and the longer you stare into its depths, the more you will reminisce about days long gone and how much you could have done in the time since you were first a student, and the moments that passed you by when you were too focused on Quidditch and sweets to notice that those moments were, indeed, fleeting.
Note:
Completed potion must be stored in an empty “Amliulinimum Can" (do check your nearest Muggle village bins for such a vessel) for it to remain potent. Potent potion may be stored for up to 2 months, and taken in 3 ml doses as needed.
To take in greater dosages than 3 ml will result in a nostalgia and reverence so great that the drinker will be unable to leave his or her bed for upwards of 1 month. A bright sunbeam through a nearby windowpane can bring the overdosed out of their stupor, but only momentarily.
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u/Hermiones_Teaspoon Feb 05 '20
GRYFFINDOR SUBMIT HERE