Make Potions on Pottermore
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Pottermore is a fun Harry Potter-themed website on which you can be sorted and earn points for your House. One of the key ways to earn House Points is by making various Potions. Keep reading for detailed instructions.
Contents
Steps
- Access Potions. At the top of any Pottermore page, you should see a Potions circle just to the right of the main logo.
- Note that in order to access Potions, you must explore the chapters of the first book until you get to the Potions lesson in Hogwarts.
- Choose which potion you want to brew. Cure for Boils is the easiest and fastest, but it also earns the fewest House Points. Other potions are more difficult and time-consuming, but earn larger rewards.
- Check you have all of the ingredients you need. Some ingredients can be collected in Moments, but others must be purchased in Diagon Alley.
- If you are out of an ingredient you need, it will have a button labelled "Buy" next to it, which will take you to the Apothecary. Remember that if you use, say, a bezoar, you can go back to where you found it and re-collect.
- Check that you possess at least one cauldron. You can view your cauldrons on the Cauldron tab of the Potions book. If you do not have any cauldrons, you will need to buy one before you can make a potion.
- Note that different cauldrons will brew at different speeds. Pewter is the slowest; brass is faster, and copper is fastest.
- Return to the Potions Book, locate the potion you wish to make, and select "Brew This Potion." This will bring up a menu where you should confirm your choice of Potion and Cauldron, and click Continue.
- Read the instructions. You will see a page of instructions for the potion, which includes pictures of the ingredients. Read the first step and close the instruction book. This will take you to the Potions Bench. The Potions Bench contains a cauldron, a mortar, the instruction book, your wand and the ingredients for your potion, as depicted in the instructions. (You can reopen the book if you need to, but the clock is still running when you do. Instead, try writing down the instructions before you close the book.)
- Locate the ingredients mentioned and follow the instructions.
- Add ingredients to the cauldron or mortar by clicking on them and dragging a pinch over the desired receptacle before releasing. Add ingredients in bottles by lifting the bottle from the top of the lid to keep it upright. Lean the bottle against the side of the cauldron to tip it over slowly and pour.
- When adding ingredients, use the counter to the left of the receptacle to check you have added the correct amount.
- To crush ingredients in the mortar, repeatedly click the pestle until the progress bar is between the two markers.
- To heat ingredients in the cauldron, use the buttons underneath the cauldron to turn the heat on high, low and off. Keep the heat level between the two markers until the time runs out.
- To stir the cauldron, click the spoon and circle your mouse in the correct direction. Use the counter to measure the number of stirs.
- Check the instructions. You can bring up the instruction book again by clicking the book on the desk. After each instruction you complete, open the book and check that the task has been crossed off, then proceed to the next instruction.
- Finish the potion. When you have completed all of the instructions, click your wand to wave it. It's located just below the potions book.
- Come back later. If you have successfully followed the instructions, you will be asked to return to your potion after it has finished brewing. (For more complicated potions on a slow pewter cauldron, this can take up to 100 minutes, or even 24 hours for Polyjuice Potion Part 2.) While the potion brews, you can close the page and log off Pottermore if you wish. The progress of your potion can be checked on in the Cauldrons tab.
- Return to Potions. When the potion has finished brewing, open your Potions Book again. Underneath the potion you are making will be a button labelled "Brewing". Open this in a new tab or window, keeping the Potions Book open. You should see a countdown timer; click "Next" to return to the Potions Bench.
- Complete the potion. You will be given some more instructions to follow to complete your potion. Follow these in order and wave your wand again.
- Receive House points. If you have been successful you will be told so and told how many House Points you have received. A blue button labelled "Brew another potion" will appear - don't click it. Instead, use the Potions link at the top of the page to return to your Potions Book.
Tips
- Recently, a new badge has been added to Pottermore, Potions Apprentice. For this you must successfully brew three consecutive potions.
- Be aware that potions take different amounts of brewing time and earn different amounts of House Points. This has been known to change.
- If you make a mistake in the first set of instructions, returning to the Potion Book and clicking "Brewing" may reset the Potion Bench. However, this does not work in the second set of instructions, after the brewing time, and attempting it may cause your potion to glitch.
- Several ingredients can be collected in Moments. This only allows you to collect one at a time, while the Apothecary sells multiple items. However, once you have run out of an ingredient collected in a Moment, it will reappear in that Moment and can be collected again for free.
- If you are experiencing difficulty, or want more potion-specific instructions, visit http://www.gryffinroar.com, a pottermore help site.
- Some potions require you to keep the potion in a certain heat range for a long period of time, such as a minute or 30 seconds. If the heat range is large enough so that you can idle for a few seconds without it falling or rising above the range, you can move on to the next step. For instance, with the Sleeping Drought potion, while you heat it for 1 minute, you can add the 4 Valerian Sprigs during the minute. But make sure that you return to the potion quickly so that the temperature doesn't fall below or rise above the required range. This saves time so that you don't have to rush the last few steps to finish the potion, but it's quite difficult.
Warnings
- Do not pick up bottled ingredients by the base, as this makes them difficult to control and you are likely to add too much.
- Do not leave your potion too long after the brewing time. You have the same amount of time again before the potion fails, earning 0 House Points.
- Complete the instructions quickly. There is a time limit to follow each set of instructions, represented by the hourglass behind the mortar and a countdown clock for the last 10 seconds. You will earn 0 House Points if you have not completed the instructions when the time limit expires.
- The Potions screen has been known to have some glitches, which can permanently prevent you from making more potions. You can help prevent this by:
- Always opening the Potion Bench in a new window or tab, with the Potions Book and/or the Cauldrons tab open in the background.
- Never exiting the Potions Bench during the second half of the instructions (after the brewing time).
- When you have completed a potion or a set of instructions, avoid using the blue buttons to exit the page. Instead, use the links bar at the top of the page.
- If your potion glitches, it can sometimes be fixed by purposefully making a mistake and following the suggestions above.
- Follow instructions carefully. Small mistakes will result in your potion failing and earning 0 House Points. Multiple or major mistakes will result in your potion exploding, destroying your cauldron and deducting 5 House Points.
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