V. Potion Brewing for Hogwarts Students

You could say that potion mixing and brewing is a lot like baking. If you’re in your kitchen at home and mix all the right ingredients to bake chocolate chip cookies from scratch, and then bake the cookie dough for just the right amount of time, the end result is something incredibly delicious.

But, if you forget an ingredient, use the wrong ingredients, don’t bake the dough long enough, or you accidently leave the cookies in the oven for too long, what you wind up with is a yucky mess that nobody wants to eat. The same is true when it ...

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