After the last month's lack of organisation, our SOUP office finally returned to its original place. And, once again, I got the Potent Potions article (woohoo)! As before, I again did not seem to have any ideas and had to go to my dear writers for help. Of course, they gave me some fantastic ideas for this month's issue, especially the newly-launched Bulgarian potion. That was really fun to know about. Well, here are the potions:
The first potion that I start with is the "Regeneration Potion"! Now, I've got no idea what Hogwarts has been teaching these days, but I'm sure the students have learned about the return of Lord Voldemort. If you have any knowledge of that, you may know about a potion that was used to return Voldy to his original hideous form. This potion requires the blood of the enemy, the flesh of the servant, and the bone of the father. Real morbid, I know, but it was Dark magic. It also required a cauldron, water, a fire, all the basic things to brew a potion, you know. I really advise you not to brew it unless you want to spend time in Azkaban. Though I hear it's a lot more pleasant there due to the lack of dementors.
Next comes the "Rudimentary Body Potion"! Well, this is not a very well-known potion, but it also contributed heavily to the return of Voldemort. It gave the body required to sustain the soul of Voldemort, so I guess it is really bad. It's quite unknown what this potion consisted of. The only known ingredients are Nagini's venom, unicorn blood, and water. There is suspected to be another ingredient that was extremely vile and horrible. I guess it had to be something like that to give the soul of Voldemort a body, albeit small and frail. This potion is suspected to be the creation of Voldemort himself, and it is also said that many spells used in this potion are Dark spells of his own creation. Again, advise you not to make this as it's really against the law.
Next, the potion that was recently launched in Bulgaria that emits a smell to keep ghosts away from the area. You basically say "Factibi Actum", which means "do your act" in Latin. You just point your wand at the potion bottle and say the incantation, and boom, no more ghosts at your house. While this potion may seem redundant to many, this is actually really useful for the Bulgarian wizardkind as there has recently been a surge in ghosts there. The ghosts often come into the houses of the people and try to scare them in the middle of the night. This emits a sweet smell that repels ghosts. If you want it, you can send an owl order to the company that makes this, and they'll deliver it to you. Now, you may be wondering how you can use this when you don't even have a ghost infestation. Well, the answer: just hang them anywhere and take in its sweet smell. You can literally do nothing else with this.
Well, this is the end of this article. Advising once again to not even try to brew the first two potions 'cause it can land you in prison big time. And there's also this other thing of harvesting the ingredients, which are basically impossible to get. You can get the Bulgarian potion for its smell if you like. Well, this is goodbye from your potioneer, I'd-rather-not-say-my-name.