Harry Potter Wiki
Register
Advertisement
Harry Potter Wiki

"Today we will be mixing a potion that often comes up at Ordinary Wizarding Level: The Draught of Peace, a potion to calm anxiety and soothe agitation. Be warned: If you are too heavy-handed with the ingredients you will put the drinker into a heavy and sometimes irreversible sleep, so you will need to pay close attention to what you are doing."
— Severus Snape[src]

The Draught of Peace was a potion which relieved anxiety and agitation. Its ingredients were powdered moonstone, syrup of hellebore, powdered porcupine quills, and powdered unicorn horn. It should have been a turquoise blue colour when finished, and simmered before being consumed.[1]

History[]

Penny Haywood brewed this potion in the 1988–1989 school year with Jacob's sibling.[3]

This was the first potion that Severus Snape assigned to fifth-year students in 1995. A lot of students did poorly, including Seamus Finnigan, Gregory Goyle, Neville Longbottom, and Ron Weasley. However, Professor Snape singled out Harry Potter, giving him alone a zero grade for the day's work by emptying out his cauldron for simply missing out the syrup of hellebore due to misreading the instructions.[1]

Poppy Pomfrey later administered this potion to several fifth-year students suffering from anxiety and panic over the Ordinary Wizarding Levels.[4]

Concoction[]

It was ironically a difficult potion to make, requiring that the brewer followed the directions carefully, because making a mistake could have drastic consequences. Adding too much of the ingredients, for instance, would put the drinker of the potion into a deep — and possibly irreversible — sleep.[1]

The directions for making the potion were very detailed. Ingredients had to be added in the exact order and amounts specified, and the potion needed to be stirred seven times, both clockwise and counter-clockwise. Before the addition of the final ingredient, hellebore, the temperature of the flames had to be lowered, and the potion allowed to simmer for seven minutes.[1]

If brewed correctly, the potion would emit a silvery vapour, but the possible characteristics of a failed batch seemed to be endless (everything from green sparks, dark grey steam, a sulphurous odour, a cement-like consistency, to a dangerous instability that would cause it to explode and set one's robes alight).[1]

Recipe[]

"Add powdered moonstone, stir three times counterclockwise, allow to simmer for seven minutes, then add two drops of syrup of hellebore."
— Severus Snape instructing fifth years how to correctly brew this potion[src]
DraughtOfPeace

The Draught of Peace being brewed in a cauldron

To brew the Draught of Peace, follow these steps:

  1. Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns green.
  2. Stir until the potion turns blue.
  3. Add powdered moonstone until the potion turns purple.
  4. Allow to simmer until the potion turns pink.
  5. Add syrup of hellebore until the potion turns turquoise.
  6. Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple.
  7. Shake stewed mandrake vigorously until they are ready and then add until the potion turns red.
  8. Stir until the potion turns orange.
  9. Add more stewed mandrake until the potion turns yellow.
  10. Stir until the potion turns green.
  11. Add more stewed mandrake until the potion turns turquoise.
  12. Allow to simmer till the potion turns purple.
  13. Add powdered unicorn horn until the potion turns pink.
  14. Stir until the potion turns red.
  15. Allow to simmer until the potion turns purple.
  16. Add more powdered moonstone until the potion turns pink.
  17. Allow the potion to simmer until it turns orange.
  18. Add powdered porcupine quills until the potion turns white. (Add exactly 7 drops)[5]

See also[]

Behind the scenes[]

  • The Draught of Piece can be brewed in Harry Potter: Magic Awakened and is used to protect the player from losing duelling points in several upcoming matches, the number of which depends on the capacity of the potion.

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

Potions (class)
Wideye-or-awakening-potion
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 · Golpalott · Gregory the Smarmy · Gunhilda de Gorsemoor · Hector Dagworth-Granger · Hesper Starkey · Jalal Sehmi · J. Pippin · Laverne de Montmorency · Libatius Borage · Linfred of Stinchcombe · Mulpepper · Mundungus Fletcher · Nicolas Flamel · Phineas Bourne · Priya Treadwell · Quintia McQuoid · Regulus Moonshine · Rogue alchemist · Rubens Winikus · Sacharissa Tugwood · Skower · Tilden Toots · Dr Ubbly · Vindictus Viridian · Zenith Xeep · Zygmunt Budge
Potions at Hogwarts
Cauldron cupboard · Dungeon Five · Potions basement · Potions Classroom · Potions Club · Potions Staircase · Potion 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
Potions Club
Potions Club HBPG
Members
Harry Potter · Hufflepuff girl · Horace Slughorn (possibly)
Potions
Antidote to Common Poisons · Cure for Boils · Dragon dung fertiliser · Draught of Living Death · Draught of Peace · Elixir to Induce Euphoria · Girding Potion · Love Potion Antidote · Oculus Potion · Polyjuice Potion · Shrinking Solution · Stamina Game · Volubilis Potion · Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes Love Potion · Wiggenweld Potion · Wit-Sharpening Potion
Badges
Last Gasp Badge · Master Potioneer Badge · Messiest Mixer Badge · Potions Beginner's Luck Badge · Potions Club Member Badge · Potions Club Star Badge · Potions Club Veteran Badge · Potions Endurance Badge · Smoky Brewer Badge · Speedy Brewer Badge
Locations
Hogwarts greenhouses
Advertisement