Potions

Werewolves • Creature A werewolf is a human who has been infected with lycanthropy and who changes into a dangerous wolf form when the moon is full. The werewolf is a most unusual creature in that it doesn’t technically exist except for a brief period of time around the full moon. At any… Read More

Whitehall cellar • Buildings A basement in a London building where Albus Potter, Scorpius Malfoy, and Delphi transformed themselves with Polyjuice Potion before stealing the Experimental Time-Turner from Hermione Granger’s office at the Ministry of Magic (CC1.16). Read More

WHP: The Wizard and the Hopping Pot • Source “The Wizard and the Hopping Pot” is a wizarding world fairy tale, part of the collection The Tales of Beedle the Bard. In the story, a “kindly old wizard” dies and leaves his magical cooking pot to his foolish son. The son spurns his neighbours’ requests for help and discovers… Read More

Wideye or Awakening Potion • Potions The Wideye or Awakening Potion is a potion that prevents you from going to sleep, but will also awaken someone from a concussion or drug-induced sleep. Read More

Wiggentree • Plants • Potion ingredients A magical tree with useful bark used in the Wiggenweld Potion. Read More

Wiggenweld Potion • Potions The Wiggenweld Potion is a potion that revives people from the Draught of Living Death. A young wizard Prince smeared this potion on his lips and kissed a princess under the Draught’s effects. She had pricked her finger on a spindle coated with the Draught (FW). Read More

Ignatia Wildsmith • Character Ignatia Wildsmith was the inventor of Floo Powder (FW, Pm, WoM). Read More

Witch's Ganglion • Plants • Potion ingredients A rare magical water plant from the Far East with a throbbing red bulb. Read More

Wit-Sharpening Potion • Potions The Wit-Sharpening Potion is presumably a potion to make a person think more clearly. Read More

Wizarding Schools Potions Championship • Sports and competitions The Wizarding Schools Potions Championship was a competition held to challenge potion-makers to prove their potion-making skills by completing various challenges and brewing various potions. The winner received a gold cauldron. Read More

Wolfsbane • Plants • Potion ingredients Wolfsbane, also known as monkshood and aconite, is a plant used in potion-making. The plant is highly poisonous and must be handled with extreme care. Wolfsbane can be found in the book One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi (Pm:SB). Read More

Wolfsbane Potion • Potions The Wolfsbane Potion is taken by a werewolf to help during their time of transformation. While this potion doesn’t cure lycanthropy, it does prevent the extremely dangerous dementia which would otherwise accompany the transformation from human into werewolf. Read More

WonderWitch Products • Games, toys, and jokes WonderWitch Products are a line of beauty potions and other tricks that are aimed at the women in the wizarding world. These were invented by the Weasley twins for their joke shop, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. They include Love potions and Guaranteed Ten-Second Pimple Vanisher. Read More

Wormwood • Plants • Potion ingredients Plant used in Draught of Living Death. Read More

wound-cleaning potion • Potions The Wound-Cleaning Potion is a potion used to clean cuts and other open wounds. Read More