Advanced Potion-Making was a book written by Libatius Borage. As the title implied, this book contained advanced recipes and various other topics related to potions. This textbook had been used for many years in the education of young witches and wizards.[1]
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This book was released around 1946 or earlier. It was used by students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, in their final two years of study. This is a N.E.W.T.-level textbook used in Potions class; students who achieved an 'Outstanding' or an 'Exceeds Expectation' on their Ordinary Wizarding Level, advance to N.E.W.T. where they get the chance to study advanced potion-making and by extension this book.[1]
Advanced Potion-Making was a Potions textbook used by Hogwarts for N.E.W.T level Potions classes and authored by Libatius Borage. It contained a variety of recipes for various potions, many of which Snape improved by means of amending procedures and scribbling notes in the margins.[1]
When Snape attended Hogwarts as a student, he had acquired this textbook for N.E.W.T.-level Potions with Horace Slughorn and then signed it with his own self-proclaimed nickname and signature, the "Half-Blood Prince". Snape, being a talented potioneer even at a young age, had made alterations to the many recipes within the book for even better effects. He also made notes in the margins of several spells that he had invented himself, including Sectumsempra, Levicorpus, Langlock, and Muffliato.
For the rest of his sixth year at Hogwarts, Harry became better at potions than he had ever been in his time with Severus Snape and even managed to save Ronald Weasley's life with a bezoar when the latter had been poisoned.[4] This book also helped Harry to win a bottle of Felix Felicis during his first class,[1] which later proved essential in helping him acquire a memory from Slughorn about Tom Riddle and Horcruxes.[5] Harry also read through the notes within out of sheer interest, and his friends suggested that he went as far as to sleep with it.
When Madam Pince saw the book with its graffiti-covered pages, she flew into a rage, despite Harry insisting that it was not the library's. She clawed the air for it, and throwing angry claims at Harry for defiling a book with writing.[7]
During one of Professor Slughorn's Slug Club parties, Snape was told of Harry's sudden improvement in the art of potion-making. Snape then suspected that his old textbook may have fallen into Harry's hands. When Harry used Sectumsempra on Draco, Snape was able to confirm his suspicions, but was unable to get his hands on the book, as Harry had stashed the book inside the Room of Requirement and used Ron's book as a decoy. As a result, Snape (correctly) accused Harry of being a liar and cheater, and punished him with a multitude of detentions for injuring Malfoy and cheating in potions. Despite knowing Harry's source for the curse, Snape chose not to outright turn Harry in for a harsher punishment, as he feared it would connect himself to being the inventor of the curse. Using this curse greatly shocked Harry, as he did not expect the Prince would have added something so vicious into the notes, and even reprimanded the Prince within his own mind of doing so; nevertheless, he intended on retrieving the book if he had a chance to. As a result of hiding the book from Snape, Harry's potions grade declined sharply from thereon, though Slughorn attributed this to Harry's newfound love with Ginny Weasley.[6]
Harry hiding the book would later prove to be a fortuitous move as he inadvertently discovered Ravenclaw's Diadem while doing so which was one of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes. After learning the story behind the diadem's theft from the Grey Lady, Harry realised that he had seen the diadem while hiding his old potions book which proved to be crucial in that Horcrux's eventual destruction.[8]
1:12 Scale Advanced Potion Making miniature book opens and has 12 readable pages with potions and spells along with edits made by the Half Blood Prince. Measures approximately 11/16 of an inch high by 1/2 of an inch wide. The title is printed on the spine so it will also look GREAT open or closed.
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A personally-annotated copy of Advanced Potion-Making belonged to Severus Snape while he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Snape's nickname for himself was the "Half-Blood Prince", and so he signed this nickname along the bottom of the back cover of the book. Advanced Potion-Making is a Potions textbook used by Hogwarts for N.E.W.T level Potions classes and authored by Libatius Borage. It contains a variety of recipes for various potions, many of which Snape improved by means of amending procedures and scribbling notes in the margins.
For the rest of the school year, Harry became a better potioneer than he had been in his time with Severus Snape and even managed to save Ronald Weasley's life with a bezoar when the latter had been poisoned. This book also helped Harry to win a bottle of Felix Felicis during his first class, which later proved essential in helping him acquire a memory from Slughorn about Tom Riddle and Horcruxes.
When Madam Pince saw the book with its graffiti-covered pages, she flew into a rage, despite Harry insisting that it was not the library's. She clawed the air for it, and throwing angry claims at Harry for ruining it with the writing.
During one of Slughorn's Slug Club parties, Snape was told of Harry's sudden improvement in the art of potion-making. Snape then suspected that his old textbook may have fallen into Harry's hands. When Harry used Sectumsempra on Draco, Snape was able to confirm his suspicions, but was unable to get his hands on the book, as Harry had stashed the book inside the Room of Requirement and used Ron's book as a decoy.
After a time, Harry grew somewhat fond of this mysterious Half-Blood Prince and his clever and useful spells and potions recipes. He began to hope that the Half-Blood Prince might somehow be his father, helping him through school via the old Advanced Potion-Making textbook. Lupin disagreed and then helped Harry work through the logic of finding the books original owner:
In total, there are 191 pages and along with full pages of text they include pictures, diagrams and annotations. If you were to ever want a Hogwarts textbook to make you feel like you really were a student there, this is definitely the book to get! Pages with potions on come with ingredients, special equipment, instructions & warnings, whilst other pages come with an A-Z full of pictures of ingredients you may come across. 2ff7e9595c
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