Unsightly purple stains

[Henry Berkwood]

September 11 Still

No, no. Take back what I said. I don't think there's meant to be grey fur on my tongue.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

September 13

How fast does mold grow. I need to find this out, because there is something mold-like at the bottom of my cauldron, and I've only been using it for a short while.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

September 14

Hazards of being a potioneer: finding out you're allergic to something. Cannot tell if it was a specific ingredient or the potion itself, but this is ridiculous.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

September 22

Today's Ingredients:

The mold from the bottom of the cauldron
12 kidney beans, shredded
2 cups knotgrass
1 lemon zest
A loose thread that fell in accidentally

Grey. Sloppy. Smelled of cabbage? Don't know what it does, spat it out almost immediately. On a possibly related note, noticed a few more hairs on my chest.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

October 10

May have given myself purple spots on accident yesterday. Told Madam Clearwater I felt ill and that it must be that strange color-changing illness going around. Hopefully whatever they use to treat that gets rid of general discoloration?

  

[Henry Berkwood]

October 12

Terrible idea. Spots went away on their own. Treatment for them tasted like death.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

Written on a separate parchment and added later.

October 18

Today's Ingredients:

5 crushed beetles
Unknown number of cherry stems
2 dandelions
1/4 rat tail
2 chopped rat spleens

I don't know what this does, but it smelled surprisingly pleasant--daisies maybe? Not sure how that happened--and was a soft lilac color. Managed to knock over the cauldron, though. The good news is that I got it cleaned up before anything important got ruined, but it burned a hole through Volume III.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

October 31

Life's simple joys: A new cauldron. Let's see if I can make this one last to the end of the year.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

November 17

Today's Ingredients:
Newt eyes
Asphodel
Lemon rind
3 beetles
(drawing of an unknown plant)

How do you add all of those things into a cauldron and have nothing happen at all. I don't understand.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

December 2

I should really invest in a book on poisons one of these days so I can identify them. I don't actually want to die.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

January 14

The upside of today is that I know that Amortentia smells essentially like the Potions classroom to me. The downside is everyone probably thinks I'm an idiot now.

This is my punishment for knowing what I'm doing. Excellent.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

December 25

I have started reading more books on Chemistry of late. I've always thought it and Potions were similar enough in many ways, after all. I highly doubt this study will go anywhere, of course--what would I do with it?--but it still makes for fascinating reading, even for fun.