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"Antidotes! You should all have prepared your recipes now. I want you to brew them carefully, and then, we will be selecting someone on whom to test one...."
Severus Snape to fourth-year Potions students[src]

An antidote was a substance, generally a potion, that would typically counteract poisons.[1]

Description[]

Other antidotes worked against specific ailments or counteracted specific potions. Sometimes time was all that was needed for certain magical effect to wear off, such as in the case of Polyjuice Potion, but others required a special application to counteract such effects.

Antidotes were essential study for Aurors.[2]

The Mandrake formed an essential part of most antidotes.[3] There was a sign at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries reading "Antidotes are anti-don'ts unless approved by a qualified Healer."[4] Antidotes were studied in third-year[5][6] and fourth-year[7][8] Potions classes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Some poisons could not be cured with antidotes.[9]

Golpalott's Third Law was a complex law concerning the making of antidotes. To put it in basic terms, it stated that blended poison - a poison made by mixing several different poisons together - could not be cured simply by mixing the antidotes of each individual poison together. Rather, one had to find the one ingredient they could add to the blended antidotes that would transform the mixture into a superior antidote that would counteract the blended poison itself.[1]

Known antidotes[]

Behind the scenes[]

  • According to W.O.M.B.A.T., it may be impossible to cure poison without the correct antidote.

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 18 (Birthday Surprises)
  2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 29 (Careers Advice)
  3. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 6 (Gilderoy Lockhart)
  4. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 22 (St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 5 (Tulip Karasu) - Potions Lesson "Antidote to Common Poisons"
  7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 15 (Beauxbatons and Durmstrang)
  8. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 18 (The Weighing of the Wands)
  9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 8 (Snape Victorious)
  10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 16 (In The Hog's Head)
  11. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
  12. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Side Quest "The Billywig Blunder"
  13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 18 (Dumbledore's Army)
  14. Pottermore - Magical Draughts and Potions
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
  16. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 24 (Occlumency)
  17. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 17 (A Sluggish Memory)
  18. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 25 (Swan Dive) - Potions Lesson "Antidote to Veritaserum"
  19. 19.0 19.1 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
  20. 20.0 20.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 8 (The Potions Master)
  21. 21.0 21.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 6 (Draco's Detour)
  22. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 13 (Mad-Eye Moody)
  23. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 5 (The Dementor)
  24. Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Dementors and Chocolate" at Wizarding World
  25. Wonderbook: Book of Potions
  26. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 1, Chapter 2 (Welcome to Hogwarts) - Potions Lesson "Cure for Boils Potion"
  27. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 11 (The Duelling Club)
  28. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 5, Chapter 9 (Dangerous Friends) - Potions Lesson "Deflating Draught"
  29. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 29 (Mind of a Diva) - Assignment "Poisoned Potions"
  30. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 9 (The Writing on the Wall)
  31. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 7, Chapter 52 (All Good Things Come in Threes) Potions Lesson "Mandrake Restorative Draught"
  32. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
  33. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 8 (The Deathday Party)
  34. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Chapter 9 (Glittery Secrets) - Potions Lesson "Pepperup Potion"
  35. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 12 (The Polyjuice Potion)
  36. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 17 (The Heir of Slytherin)
  37. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 36 (The Parting of the Ways)
  38. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
  39. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 4, Chapter 16 (The Forest Vault) - Potions Lesson "Skele-Gro"
  40. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 1, Chapter 4 (Revenge is Best Served Magical) - Potions Lesson "Wiggenweld Potion"
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

See also[]

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