1. What are the ingredients and method of preparation of poly juice potion?

a) Ingredients - Lacewing flies (stewed 21 days), Leeches, Powdered bicorn horn, Knotgrass,
Fluxweed (picked at full moon), Shredded Boomslangskin, A bit of the person one wants to
turn into (typically hair)

b) Method of preparation
The brewing the complete Poly juice potion has two parts.
Part 1, step one
 Add 3 measures of fluxweed to the cauldron (must have been picked on a full
moon).
 Add 2 bundles of knotgrass to the cauldron.
 Stir 4 times, clockwise.
 Wave your wand then let potion brew for 80 minutes (for a Pewter Cauldron. A
Brass Cauldron will only require 68, and a copper one only 60.)
Part 1, step two
 Add 4 leeches to the cauldron.
 Add 2 scoops of lacewing flies to the mortar, crush to a fine paste, then add 2
measures of the crushed lacewings to the cauldron.
 Heat for 30 seconds on a low heat.
 Wave your wand to complete this stage of the potion.
Part 2, step one
 Add 3 measures of boomslang skin to the cauldron.
 Add 1 measure of bicorn horn to the mortar, crush to a fine powder, then add one
measure of the crushed horn to the cauldron.
 Heat for 20 seconds at a high temperature.
 Wave your wand then let potion brew for 24 hours (for a Pewter Cauldron. A
Brass Cauldron will only require 1224 minutes, and a copper one only 18 hours.)
Part 2, step two
 Add 1 additional scoop of lacewings to the cauldron.
 Stir 3 times, counter-clockwise.
 Split potion into multiple doses, if desired, then add the pieces of the person you
wish to become.
 Wave your wand to complete the potion.
2. Do you think it was right to keep the recipe of the poly juice potion in the restricted section and
why?
Yes. The recipe of the poly juice potion should be kept in restricted section. Students will misuse
it. Using the polyjuice potion is as same as using veritaserum on a student, which is prohibited.
Becoming temporarily someone else is deceiving the concerned, entering into one’s personal life
without their consent. It’s as equal as imperius curse. So it was right.

3. Would you ever use the poly juice potion illegally? If yes under what circumstances?

I wouldn’t use it for the foresaid reason. If I must use the potion, I would use to become some
childern’s’s favourite person to console them. If any lovable is passed away, I can turn like them
and console the children.

4. Mention 2 events when poly juice potion was used and could it's use be evaded by any other
spell/potion?

i) Two occasions the potion was used are:

a. In their second year, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger came to suspect that
Draco Malfoy was the Heir of Slytherin. To investigate this, Hermione suggested the use of
Polyjuice Potion to enable them to take on the form of Slytherin students and question Malfoy.
They used the potion.

b. When Barty Crouch Jr was sent to Azkaban for life by his father, his mother requested that
her husband allow her to switch places to save their son. The switch was made with Mrs
Crouch and Barty Jr each taking a dose of Polyjuice Potion with each other's hair. Mrs Crouch
was careful in drinking her remainder of the potion, until she died, so she could keep the
prisoners fooled by maintaining her false appearance.

ii) The Thief's Downfall is one of the many defensive enchantments employed at
Gringotts Wizarding Bank which removes all the effects of the Polyjuice
Potion. So the use of this potion cannot escaped from this charm.

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