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"Scales are used to precisely weigh potion ingredients."
— Description[src]

Brass scales were tools used by wizards and witches to weigh quantities of potion ingredients.[1] They were essential for Potions class, and are mandatory for all first year Hogwarts students.[2][1]

Brass scales were not as precise as silver scales. Brass scales were sold at Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment for 3 galleons each.[1]

History[]

During Harry Potter's first trip to Diagon Alley on 31 July 1991, Hagrid allowed him to pick out a nice set of scales, after stopping him from picking out a Gold Cauldron because the school Shopping List specified a Pewter Cauldron.[2]

A set of brass scales were owned by a Gryffindor student while at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. They left them behind after a Charms class with Professor Flitwick, and put up a notice on the Gryffindor pasteboard. Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger later found them and returned them, earning ten house points.[3]

While Draco Malfoy was repairing the Vanishing Cabinet inside the Room of Requirement, Gregory Goyle, disguised as a little girl, dropped some brass scales, making a loud noise that alerted Malfoy not to come out.[4][5]

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Pottermore
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 5 (Diagon Alley)
  3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - Console versions
  4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 20 (Lord Voldemort's Request)
  5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 21 (The Unknowable Room)
Potions (class)
Potioneers
Arsenius Jigger · Baruffio · Bella Navarro · Bilius Finbok · Blossom Degrasse · Dai Ryusaki · Damocles Belby · Dorothy Sprottle · Erica Stainwright · Fatimah Lawang · Fleamont Potter · Gethsemane Prickle · Gilderoy Lockhart · Glossy · Glover Hipworth · Gregory the Smarmy · Gunhilda de Gorsemoor · Hector Dagworth-Granger · Hesper Starkey · Jalal Sehmi · J. Pippin · Laverne de Montmorency · Leana · Libatius Borage · Linfred of Stinchcombe · Mulpepper · Mundungus Fletcher · Nicolas Flamel · Phineas Bourne · Priya Treadwell · Quintia McQuoid · Regulus Moonshine · Rogue alchemist · Sacharissa Tugwood · Skower · Tilden Toots · Dr Ubbly · Vindictus Viridian · Xiana Bakri · Zenith Xeep · Zygmunt Budge
Potions at Hogwarts
Cauldron cupboard · Dungeon Five · Potions basement · Potions Classroom · Potions Club · Hogwarts Potions Dept. · Potions Staircase · Potions Master's office · Potions Storeroom
Professors Bartholomew · Horace Slughorn · Severus Snape · Swoopstikes · Unnamed Professor (16th century) · Aesop Sharp (19th century) · Unnamed Professor (2021)
Textbooks A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick, and Surgery · Advanced Potion-Making · Ingredient Encyclopedia · Magical Drafts and Potions · One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi
Potions studied at Hogwarts
Ageing Potion · Amortentia · Antidotes · Antidote to Common Poisons · Antidote to garish pink blended poison · Antidote to Uncommon Poisons · Antidote to Veritaserum · Babbling Beverage · Befuddlement Draught · Calming Draught · Cheese-Based Potions · Confusing Concoction · Cough Potion · Cure for Boils · Deflating Draught · Doxycide · Draught of Living Death · Draught of Peace · Elixir to Induce Euphoria · Erumpent Potion · Essence of Insanity · Everlasting Elixirs · Felix Felicis · Fire Protection Potion · Forgetfulness Potion · The Famous French Method for the Bite of a Mad Dog · Garish pink blended poison · Garrotting Gas · Girding Potion · Hair-Raising Potion · Herbicide Potion · Hiccoughing Solution · Invigoration Draught · Laughing Potion · Mandrake Restorative Draught · Memory Potion · Pepperup Potion · Polyjuice Potion · Pompion Potion · Potion for Dreamless Sleep · Rat Tonic · Regerminating Potion · Scintillation Solution · Shrinking Solution · Skele-Gro · Strength Potion · Strengthening Solution · Swelling Solution · Undetectable Poisons · Veritaserum · Weedosoros · Wideye Potion · Wiggenweld Potion · Wit-Sharpening Potion · Wolfsbane Potion · Wound-Cleaning Potion