Unsightly purple stains

[Henry Berkwood]

Charmed to keep people out. Also he's on Volume III IV. Mostly a log of Harry's failed experiments.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

January 27, 1885

Today's ingredients:

Knotgrass (1 cup-ish)
2 billywig stingers. Attempted to cut them. Cut finger instead.
Something green and vaguely slimy I found on the underside of a desk in Charms. Books didn't know what it was either.
Dried out mistletoe berries (3)

Tried to stir it. It slopped out and burned a whole in Volume II. Reparo didn't seem to work. Tried not stirring it at all. It turned an angry, poisonous green color and started emitting a foul odor like eggs that had gone off and then been placed next to a dead body.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

March 13, 1885

Today's ingredients:

Fluff from 4 dandelions
1 handful of grass from outside
Leftover pumpkin juice from breakfast
A quill shed by someone's barn owl (it landed in my juice, it's fair game)

Did absolutely nothing.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

April 10, 1885

Today's ingredients:

1/2 tsp. garlic, minced
2 c. asphodel leaves, whole
1 sophorous bean, chopped
A bit of chocolate

Mostly made myself sick, but not really anything else.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

April 13

Today's Ingredients:

1 cup knotgrass
Chewing gum scraped off underside of a desk in Charms
Something squishy and blue
1 maple leaf, sans stem

It bubbled a bit. And then it stopped. Couldn't get it to do anything after that. It was nice mint green color, though!

  

[Henry Berkwood]

May 7

Today's Ingredients:

1 1/3 c. chopped asphodel leaves
2 tsp. flobberworm mucus
1 lemon zest
2 c. willow bark

Very pleasant shade of light blue. Didn't seem to have much an effect until I realized I now have a matching blue patch on my chest.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

May 11

Today's Ingredients:

1 1/3 c. diced asphodel leaves
2 tsp. flobberworm mucus (strained)
1 lemon zest
2 1/4 c. willow bark

Turned grey and rather foul smelling. Didn't want to even try it. Maybe less of ingredients instead of more?

  

[Henry Berkwood]

May 15

Have attempted May 7's potion 3 different ways with no better results. Have retried original potion and cannot reproduce it.

Seriously, I give up.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

May 16

Today's Ingredients:

1 tsp. crushed cherry pits
2 asphodel leaves, shredded
Don't know how to measure but a bunch of weeds from the lake
2 dried frog eggs

Turned salmon pink and smelled an awful lot like lake water. Started bubbling over even with flames extinguished so had to get rid of it.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

May 17

Note to self: If going to use mold in future potions, don't store it in book bag.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

May 18

Further Note to Self: Don't use mold in future potions.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

May 20

Someone left a copy of Witch Weekly in the common room. It was open to a sleep tonic recipe. Tried it out. Had to be forcibly awakened this morning.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

May 21

Today's Ingredients:

1 bat spleen
3 1/4 tbsp. Essence of Belladonna
2 black beetle eyes
3 tsp tbsp. crushed snake fangs

After about two minutes, potion had the consistency of half-dried cement. Nearly lost my wand in it.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

May 23

Reminder to self not to try any concoction that smells like a rotted out pumpkin. Pretty certain that last time was chronicled in Volume 2.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

May 25

Finished Potions exam in time to discover that the bottom of my cauldron has basically been worn down as far as it'll go without breaking. Potioneering: really mostly for those who can afford a new cauldron.

  

[Henry Berkwood]

May 26

Can't make potions without potentially breaking my cauldron and the year's almost out anyway, so I have been trying to copy down potions from books in the library so that I can study them over the summer. Will have to wait to try them until the fall, though.