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A core class (compulsory until O.W.L.) taught at [Hogwarts](/fact-file/locations/hogwarts) School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Potions was the study of magical ingredients and brewing potions, taught in the Hogwarts dungeons. Students would study potions such as the [Shrinking Solution](/fact-file/plants-and-potions/shrinking-solution), [Amortentia](/fact-file/plants-and-potions/amortentia) and [the Draught of Peace](/fact-file/plants-and-potions/the-draught-of-peace). Whilst [Harry Potter](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/harry-potter) was at Hogwarts, he was largely taught by [Severus Snape](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/severus-snape), followed by [Horace Slughorn](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/horace-slughorn). Harry’s relationship with Snape was a difficult one and it meant that as a student he never particularly enjoyed Potions lessons very much. Alas, for students like Harry who wanted to become an [Auror](/fact-file/magical-miscellany/auror), Potions was an integral lesson to take forwards to N.E.W.T level. 

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### Connections
[Severus Snape](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/severus-snape) 

[Horace Slughorn](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/horace-slughorn) 

[Polyjuice Potion](/fact-file/plants-and-potions/polyjuice-potion) 

[Felix Felicis](/fact-file/plants-and-potions/felix-felicis) 

[Veritaserum](/fact-file/plants-and-potions/veritaserum)

[Ageing Potion](/fact-file/plants-and-potions/ageing-potion)

[Wolfsbane Potion](/fact-file/plants-and-potions/wolfsbane-potion)

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The [Hogwarts](/fact-file/locations/hogwarts) library contained many thousands of books, manuscripts and documents. Students were able to read and borrow most titles, although access to the Restricted Section was much more tightly regulated. The school librarian, Madam Pince, was well known for being particularly strict about students making noise and mess - and eating in the library was strictly forbidden! 

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### Where in the world
[Hogwarts](/fact-file/locations/hogwarts)

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### Related characters
Madam Pince - the school librarian

[Hermione Granger](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/hermione-granger) - who believed the library held the answer to everything (and it often did) 

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### Magical Properties
Contains many enchanted books

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### Notable events
Hermione's discovery of the [Basilisk](/fact-file/creatures/basilisk)

Hermione is Petrified

The trio prepare for the [Triwizard Tournament](/fact-file/magical-miscellany/triwizard-tournament)

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Located in a huge sprawling castle in the Scottish highlands, the celebrated school of witchcraft and wizardry taught its young students how to finesse their magical skills. From the tallest turrets and towers down to the depths of [the dungeons](/fact-file/locations/the-dungeons) (with 142 staircases between them), Hogwarts is structurally supported by magic, and even the school's headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, doesn’t claim to know all of its secrets! Yes, this is the place that [Harry Potter](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/harry-potter) could call home, with the wizarding school boasting a rich history, full of mysteries, [ghosts](/fact-file/magical-miscellany/ghost), talking portraits and much more.

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### Where in the world
Near [Hogsmeade](/fact-file/locations/hogsmeade), Scottish highlands

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### Locations
[The Great Hall](/fact-file/locations/the-great-hall)

[The Room of Requirement](/fact-file/locations/the-room-of-requirement)

[The dungeons](/fact-file/locations/the-dungeons)

[The Astronomy Tower](/fact-file/locations/the-astronomy-tower)

[Hogwarts Library](/fact-file/locations/the-hogwarts-library)

[The Forbidden Forest](/fact-file/locations/the-forbidden-forest)

[Hagrid's hut](/fact-file/locations/hagrids-hut)

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### Residents
[Rubeus Hagrid](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/rubeus-hagrid)

[Albus Dumbledore](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/albus-dumbledore)

[Minerva McGonagall](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/minerva-mcgonagall)

[Peeves](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/peeves)

[Nearly Headless Nick](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/nearly-headless-nick)

[The Bloody Baron](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/the-bloody-baron) 

[The Grey Lady](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/the-grey-lady-helena-ravenclaw)

[The Fat Friar](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/the-fat-friar) 

The giant squid

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### Magical Properties
Unplottable

Anti-Apparition Charms

Secret passageways

Vanishing steps

Secret rooms

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### Notable events

The opening of the Chamber of Secrets

The [Triwizard Tournament](/fact-file/magical-miscellany/triwizard-tournament)

The Battle of Hogwarts

[Sirius Black](/fact-file/characters-and-pets/sirius-black) breaks in

An advanced potion which allows the drinker to assume the physical appearance of another human being. The recipe is complicated and as such can be found in the book *Moste Potente Potions*, kept in the Restricted Section of the [Hogwarts library](/fact-file/locations/the-hogwarts-library).

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### Appearances
[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets](/discover/books/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets) (Book/Film)

[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire](/discover/books/harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire) (Book/Film)

[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows](/discover/books/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows) (Book/Film)

[Harry Potter and the Cursed Child](/discover-on-stage)

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### Appearance
Thick, dark, mud-like

Changes to various appearances once the bit of who you are changing into is added

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### Uses
Transforms the drinker into the physical form of another

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### Dangers
For human transformations only

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### Known Ingredients
Boomslang skin

Knotgrass

Fluxweed

Lacewing flies

Leeches

Bicorn horn

A bit of who you are changing into

 Ukrainian Ironbelly

Aberforth Dumbledore

Acromantula

Ageing Potion

Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody

Albus Dumbledore

Albus Potter

Alicia Spinnet

Amortentia

Angelina Johnson

Animagus

Antipodean Opaleye

Apparition

Arabella Figg

Aragog

Argus Filch

Arnold

Arthur Weasley

Astronomy

Augurey

Auror

Azkaban

Barty Crouch Jr.

Basilisk

Bathilda Bagshot

Beauxbatons Academy

Bellatrix Lestrange

Bill Weasley

Blood-Replenishing Potion

Bludger 

Boggart

Borgin & Burkes

Bowtruckle

Broomstick

Bubotubers

Buckbeak

Bunty Broadacre

Butterbeer

Care of Magical Creatures

Cauldron

Cedric Diggory

Centaur

Charlie Weasley

Charms

Chaser

Chinese Fireball

Cho Chang

Colin Creevey

Common Welsh Green

Confusing Concoction

Cornelius Fudge

Cornish Pixie

Credence

Crookshanks

Cuthbert Binns

Dark Arts

Dean Thomas

Death Eaters

Defence Against the Dark Arts

Delphi Diggory

Deluminator (or Put-Outer)

Dementor

Demiguise

Devil's Snare

Diagon Alley

Divination

Dobby

Dolores Umbridge

Draco Malfoy

Dudley Dursley

Duelling

Dumbledore's Army

Dumbledore's office

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Durmstrang Institute

Eeylops Owl Emporium

Elder wand wood

Elixir to Induce Euphoria

Ernie Macmillan

Errol

Erumpent

Fang

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Fawkes

Felix Felicis

Fenrir Greyback

Fiendfyre

Filius Flitwick

Firenze

Fleur Delacour

Floo Powder

Flourish & Blotts

Foe Glass

Forgetfulness Potion

Fred Weasley

Gambol & Japes

Garrick Ollivander

Gaunt's ring

Gellert Grindelwald

George Weasley

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