Wiggenweld Potion

Wiggenweld Potion
Potion information
Effect	Healed injuries and replenished stamina Antidote to sleeping potions
Characteristics	Green, red, purple, pink or blue in colour
Difficulty level	Beginner
Known ingredients	Wiggentree bark Moly Dittany Horklump juice 2 drops of Flobberworm Mucus 7 Chizpurfle fangs Billywig sting slime A sprig of mint Boom Berry juice One stewed Mandrake Drops of Honeywater Sloth brain Mucus Moondew drops Salamander blood 10 Lionfish spines Unicorn horn Wolfsbane

"Today you will learn to brew the Wiggenweld Potion. It is a powerful healing potion that can be used to heal injuries, or reverse the effects of a Sleeping Draught."

— Professor Severus Snape describing this potion to a first-year Potions class

The Wiggenweld Potion was a healing potion with the power to sterilise and heal minor injuries, and was the antidote to the Sleeping Draught and the Draught of Living Death.

History

A wizard prince once used this potion to awaken an unidentified princess who had been given the Draught of Living Death by the hag Leticia Somnolens. The prince first smeared some of the potion on his lips and then kissed the princess, awakening her from her slumber.

In 1890, Eleazar Fig gave their new fifth-year student a bottle of Wiggenweld Potion when they fell out of a flying carriage and hurt their leg. During the 1890–1891 school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Professor Aesop Sharp taught his fifth-years including Amit Thakkar, Sebastian Sallow and the new fifth-year, how to brew this in Potions class. While the students were concocting their own, Garreth Weasley obtained a Fwooper feather and added it to the potion even though it wasn't an ingredient. It caused a scene when the potion failed and began sparking.

During the 1984–1985 school year at Hogwarts, Professor Severus Snape taught his first-years how to concoct this particular brew in Potions class, with Jacob's sibling managing to brew a concoction that Rowan Khanna deemed "perfect". Snape, upon hearing this, approached Jacob's sibling and refuted Rowan's assessment by judging the former's concoction to be merely "passable", and, in compliance with his characteristic bias towards students of his own House, openly acknowledged Merula Snyde's concoction to be "flawless".

In the 1986–1987 school year, Jacob's sibling and Penny Haywood successfully brewed this potion whilst substituting the Dittany in it with diluted Bubotuber.

Jacob's sibling brewing this potion in the Alchemy Room in St Mungo's

During the 1990–1991 school year, Jacob's sibling brewed some Wiggenweld Potion in the Alchemy Room in St Mungo's under Healer Miriam Strout supervision, as part of their seventh-year work experience programme at the hospital. At another time in the hospital, Strout had student apprentice Chiara Lobosca help her brew more of this potion in the Alchemy Room, when Jacob's sibling interrupted them.

During the 1995–1996 school year, Zacharias Smith's homework involved the Wiggenweld Potion.

In 1997, this was a potion made by Harry Potter in his sixth year at the Potions Club, that was consumed by him to give himself a significant stamina boost before going off on a highly dangerous mission with Albus Dumbledore.

Brewing instructions

The Wiggenweld Potion being brewed in a cauldron

The instructions for brewing the Wiggenweld Potion were thus:

1. Add salamander blood until the potion turns red.
2. Stir until the potion turns orange.
3. Add more salamander blood, until the potion turns yellow.
4. Stir until the potion turns green.
5. Add more salamander blood, until the potion turns turquoise.
6. Heat until it turns indigo.
7. Add more salamander blood until the potion turns pink.
8. Heat until the potion turns red.
9. Add five lionfish spines.
10. Heat until the potion turns yellow.
11. Add five more lionfish spines.
12. Add Flobberworm Mucus, until the potion turns purple.
13. Stir until it turns red.
14. Add more Flobberworm Mucus, this time until it turns orange.
15. Stir till it turns yellow.
16. Add Honeywater until it turns back to a turquoise colour.
17. Add another few drops of boom berry juice.
18. Stir the potion again, then let it simmer for thirty minutes.
19. Take the potion away from the heat and allow it to cool.
20. When it cools down, it is ready for consumption.

Etymology

"Wiggentree" or "Wiggen Tree" is the name which in Great Britain is given to the Mountain Ash (a species of the genus Sorbus) because, it has traditionally been used as an anti-witching device.

"Wiggen" from the old Breton means "strength", "bravery" or still "courage". As for "weld", it is an English word which means "join together by heating to the point of melting".

Thus, "Wiggenweld Potion" would mean literally "Welder Strength" or "Who Welds the Strength Potion".

Behind the scenes

• Considering every platform-exclusive version, the Wiggenweld Potion appears in all "old" Harry Potter games, excluding the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In many video games, the potion is used to restore a character's Stamina Points, making it equivalent to health potions found in other sorts of video games. However, in each of its game portrayals, the ingredients required in the brewing of the potion varies and changes significantly, therefore making it unclear as to what the true canonical recipe is, although it is possible that there are multiple ways of brewing this potion, as they are with some other brews, such as with love potions and Doxycide. The colour of the potion also varies in each game.
  • In the PS1 version of the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry can find completed Wiggenweld Potions on the floor or create one from a Wiggenweld Potion cauldrons by pressing the buttons that appear on the screen. This will restore all of Harry's health or stamina.
  • In the PC version of the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the ingredients of the Wiggenweld Potion are said to be Wiggentree bark, Moly, Dittany and Flobberworm Mucus; however in the sequel, Moly and Dittany are omitted for gameplay reasons.
  • In the PC version of the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry can exchange Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans for Wiggentree bark and Flobberworm Mucus. Harry can then walk up to a special cauldron and make a Wiggenweld potion, which can be drunk to restore some of Harry's stamina. In most appearances the potion has a purple or magenta colour. Various cauldrons and Wiggentree stumps full of the potion can be found hidden all over the castle and its grounds, including within the Forbidden Forest.
  • In the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the potion is depicted as being highly difficult to brew, and is the hardest potion to brew in the Potions Club, in contrast to it being taught as an elementary potion in most other video games.
  • In Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, the character learns how to brew the potion in a first-year Potions class. After this class, the potion becomes available for use in the duelling mini game, where it restores a small amount of health each turn for three turns (including the one where it was consumed). Snape's initial dismissal of Jacob's sibling's potion, and praise of Merula Snyde's potion, during the class will occur even if the player character is in Slytherin.
  • In Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, only water, salamander blood and Honeywater are required to brew the Wiggenweld Potion, although this is likely done to simplify gameplay, as with many other potions in the game. It is used to add a collaborative assignment, which needs to be completed by multiple players but offers great rewards.
• The wizarding folk song 99 Bottles of Wiggenweld Potion, which is sang by a student in the GBC version of the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, mentions this potion quite a few times.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game) (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game) (NDS version only)
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
• Hogwarts Legacy

See also

• Healing Potion

External links

• Wiggenweld Potion at the Hogwarts Legacy Wiki