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The Cure for Boils[3][2] (also known as simply Boil Cure[4]) is a potion which cures boils. It is an elementary potion taught to first-year students at Hogwarts. Its recipe can be found in Magical Drafts and Potions.[1]

When brewing the potion, the cauldron must be taken off the fire before adding the porcupine quills, or, as Neville Longbottom found out, the cauldron will melt and create a horrid odour, and if it spills will cause the skin to erupt in vicious boils.[1]

If the potion is made successful, there will be pink smoke raising from the cauldron.[2]

Brewing instructions[]

  1. Add 6 snake fangs to the mortar.
  2. Crush into a fine powder using the pestle.
  3. Take the cauldron off the fire before adding the next ingredient.[1] Add dried nettles and horned slugs and Advil.
  4. Add 2 porcupine quills to your cauldron.
  5. Stir 5 times, clockwise.
  6. Wave your wand to complete the potion.

Behind the scenes[]

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A Cure for Boils being brewed.

  1. Heat the cauldron until the potion turns red.
  2. Heat it again until turns green.
  3. Pour Flobberworm Mucus until the potion turns pink.
  4. Heat again until it turns orange.
  5. Mix the dried nettles until it turns green.
  6. Heat again until it turns blue.
  7. Mix crushed snake fangs until the potion turns pink.
  8. Mix Porcupine quills until the potion turns orange.
  9. Pour stewed horned slugs until it turns turquoise.
  10. And last, heat the potion until it turns red. (continuing to heat until it turns pink turns the brew more effective)
  • Harry Potter for Kinect features another alternative recipe, which is rather similar to a simplified version of the one from the Half-Blood Prince game above:
  1. Stir the starting potion clockwise until the mixture turns from blue to red.
  2. Add flobberworm mucus until the potion turns pink.
  3. Sprinkle in dried nettles into the potion turns green.
  4. Crush snake fangs in mortar and pestle, then add to cauldron until potion turns yellow.
  5. Add horned slugs until the potion turns blue.
  6. Stir clockwise until the potion returns to red.
  • The instructions to make this potion, as featured in Pottermore, overlook the fact that the cauldron must be taken off the fire before adding the porcupine quills, as revealed in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. They also omit the addition of dried nettles to the brew.

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Potions (class)
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Professors: Vindictus Veridian · Severus Snape · Horace Slughorn
Textbooks: Magical Drafts and Potions · One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi · Advanced Potion-Making · Moste Potente Potions
Potions at Hogwarts: Potions Classroom · Potions Staircase · Potions basement · Potions Club · Potion Master's office · Potion Master's storeroom · Dungeon Five · Cauldron cupboard
Potioneers: Arsenius Jigger · Damocles · Glover Hipworth · Golpalott · Gregory the Smarmy · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor · Hector Dagworth-Granger · Hesper Starkey · J. Pippin · Laverne de Montmorency · Libatius Borage · Regulus Moonshine · Rubens Winikus · Sacharissa Tugwood · Tilden Toots · Dr. Ubbly
Potions Studied: Boil-Cure Potion · Forgetfulness Potion · Hair-Raising Potion · Shrinking Solution · Undetectable Poisons · Wiggenweld Potion · Girding Potion · Antidotes · Strengthening Solution · Everlasting Elixirs · Felix Felicis · Draught of Living Death · Amortentia · Elixir to Induce Euphoria · Hiccoughing Solution · Poison Antidote · Swelling Solution · Draught of Peace · Wit-Sharpening Potion · Polyjuice Potion



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