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Argus Filch: "What are you doing?"
Harry Potter: "Nothing."
Argus Filch: "Nothing! A likely story! Sneaking around on your own -- why aren't you in Hogsmeade buying Stink Pellets and Belch Powder and Whizzing Worms like the rest of your nasty little friends?"
Argus Filch questioning Harry Potter about his absence from Hogsmeade[src]

Belch Powder was a magical joke product that presumably caused the user or victim to begin burping. It was available in Hogsmeade, most likely at Zonko's Joke Shop.[1]

Ingredients[]

Ingredients for Belch Powder included Mummy, Mastick, Red Myrrhe, Olibanum, Ammoniacum, Oppopanax and Bdelium (2 drachms of each), 2 pounds of Vitriol, 2 pounds of Honey, half an ounce of Tartar and 3 gallons of Aquavitæ.[2][3]

Behind the scenes[]

  • The ingredient list for the prop Belch Powder boxes featured in the Harry Potter films seem to have been copied directly from a 1656 copy of The Archidoxes of Magic by Paracelsus. The excerpt in question is actually a list of ingredients for a "Celestial Medicine" against the gout.

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 10 (The Marauder's Map)
  2. Label Collection book in the Harry Potter Wizard's Collection box set.
  3. The label reads: "of Mummy, Mastick, Red Myrrhe, Olibanum, Ammoniacum, Oppopanax, Bdelium, each ʒii. Vitriol ℔ii. Honey, ℔ii. Tartar ℥1,ſs. Aquavitæ, gal.iii." which uses the apothecaries' system of weights.
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