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|name=Shrinking Solution
 
|name=Shrinking Solution
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|effect=Causes creatures to shrink to a younger form<ref name="wbp">''[[Wonderbook: Book of Potions]]'' (See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDbfY6xST9M this trailer])</ref>
 
|effect=Causes creatures to shrink to a younger form<ref name="wbp">''[[Wonderbook: Book of Potions]]'' (See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDbfY6xST9M this trailer])</ref>
 
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*A splash of [[cowbane]]
 
*A splash of [[cowbane]]
 
*[[Wormwood]]
 
*[[Wormwood]]
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{{Quote|A more subtle potion than many appreciate at first savour, the Shrinking Solution causes creatures to shrink to a younger form.|[[Zygmunt Budge]]|Book of Potions}}
 
{{Quote|A more subtle potion than many appreciate at first savour, the Shrinking Solution causes creatures to shrink to a younger form.|[[Zygmunt Budge]]|Book of Potions}}
   
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==History==
 
==History==
Sometime throughout [[wizarding world|wizarding history]], an event occurred that led to a number of villagers shrinking with this potion, so that [[Wizardkind|wizard]] Samuel Plunkett was forced to spend his birthday chasing them around in hobnail boots<ref name="wbp"/>.
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Sometime throughout [[wizarding world|wizarding history]], [[Wizardkind|wizard]] [[Samuel Plunkett]], who was persecuted by a [[Muggle]] village, poured Shrinking Solution on the village well and terrorised the shrunken villagers by chasing them around in hobnail boots.<ref name="well">''[[Wonderbook: Book of Spells]]'' - see [http://www.sony.com/pottermore/gb/book-of-potions/view-image/assets%2Fimg%2Fcarousel-bop%2FBoP-ShrinkStory.jpg this]</ref>
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In the [[1500s]], accomplished [[potioneer]] [[Zygmunt Budge]] developed his own version of this potion, which, in his words was "''the best you will find''". According to Budge, part of the potency of his variation came from stirring the potion after adding the Shrivelfigs, an unorthodox step. It proved so powerful that, when he accidentally split a small ammount on the grass outside [[Zygmunt Budge's house|his house]], it caused an [[Zygmunt Budge's sheep|entire flock of sheep]] to shrink to lambs the size of wooly mice (Budge went on to use the shrunken lambs as ear-warmers in the chilly winters at [[Hermetray]]).<ref name="WBoP">''[[Wonderbook: Book of Potions]]'' - Chapter 4 (''Beautification Potion'')</ref>
   
[[Professor]] [[Severus Snape]] assigned his then-[[second year]] students a "particularly nasty" essay on Shrinking Potions during the summer holidays, and when they returned that fall, the first [[potion]] he had them brew was this one.
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[[Professor]] [[Severus Snape]] assigned his then-[[second year]] students a "particularly nasty" [[essay on shrinking potions]] during the summer holidays, and when they returned that fall, the first [[potion]] he had them brew was this one.
 
When [[Draco Malfoy]], who had injured his arm being attacked by [[Buckbeak]] the [[Hippogriff]], returned to [[Potions (class)|class]], Snape had [[Harry Potter]] and [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] brew his potion for him. In the same lesson, [[Neville Longbottom]] added too much [[leech juice]] and [[rat spleen]]s, and Professor Snape threatened to poison Neville's pet toad, [[Trevor]], with the botched potion at the end of class. Luckily, however, [[Hermione Granger]] helped Neville fix it and when it came time for Snape to test the potion, Trevor turned into a tadpole.
 
When [[Draco Malfoy]], who had injured his arm being attacked by [[Buckbeak]] the [[Hippogriff]], returned to [[Potions (class)|class]], Snape had [[Harry Potter]] and [[Ronald Weasley|Ron Weasley]] brew his potion for him. In the same lesson, [[Neville Longbottom]] added too much [[leech juice]] and [[rat spleen]]s, and Professor Snape threatened to poison Neville's pet toad, [[Trevor]], with the botched potion at the end of class. Luckily, however, [[Hermione Granger]] helped Neville fix it and when it came time for Snape to test the potion, Trevor turned into a tadpole.
   
 
When Harry brewed it in 1996<ref name=HBPVG>''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)]]''</ref> he said that Crabbe should take some of it; presumably to lose weight.
 
When Harry brewed it in 1996<ref name=HBPVG>''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)]]''</ref> he said that Crabbe should take some of it; presumably to lose weight.
   
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==Brewing instructions==
==Instructions==
 
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[[File:Shrinksolution.png|250px|thumb|right|A phial of Shrinking Solution]]
The brewing of this potion required, at least in part, the following of these steps, according to [[Zygmunt Budge]]'s ''[[Book of Potions]]''<ref name="wbp"/>:
 
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[[Zygmunt Budge]]'s recipe for this potion, as set down in his masterpiece, ''[[Book of Potions]]'', is thus:<ref name="wbp"/>
   
 
#Juice two [[Shrivelfig]]s and add their ruby blood to your cauldron.
 
#Juice two [[Shrivelfig]]s and add their ruby blood to your cauldron.
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*''[[Harry Potter Trading Card Game]]'' {{C|As Shrinking Potion}}
 
*''[[Harry Potter Trading Card Game]]'' {{C|As Shrinking Potion}}
 
*''[[Wonderbook: Book of Potions]]''
 
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==Notes and references==
 
==Notes and references==

Revision as of 16:46, 26 February 2015

"A more subtle potion than many appreciate at first savour, the Shrinking Solution causes creatures to shrink to a younger form."
Zygmunt Budge[src]

Shrinking Solution, also known as a Shrinking Potion[2], is a potion that causes the drinker to shrink to a younger form[1]. It is bright green when brewed correctly and, if prepared incorrectly, it can apparently be poisonous.

One practical use of this potion is in the transportation of livestock — it allows for a wizard to carry an entire herd of pigs in the pocket.[1]

History

Sometime throughout wizarding history, wizard Samuel Plunkett, who was persecuted by a Muggle village, poured Shrinking Solution on the village well and terrorised the shrunken villagers by chasing them around in hobnail boots.[3]

In the 1500s, accomplished potioneer Zygmunt Budge developed his own version of this potion, which, in his words was "the best you will find". According to Budge, part of the potency of his variation came from stirring the potion after adding the Shrivelfigs, an unorthodox step. It proved so powerful that, when he accidentally split a small ammount on the grass outside his house, it caused an entire flock of sheep to shrink to lambs the size of wooly mice (Budge went on to use the shrunken lambs as ear-warmers in the chilly winters at Hermetray).[4]

Professor Severus Snape assigned his then-second year students a "particularly nasty" essay on shrinking potions during the summer holidays, and when they returned that fall, the first potion he had them brew was this one. When Draco Malfoy, who had injured his arm being attacked by Buckbeak the Hippogriff, returned to class, Snape had Harry Potter and Ron Weasley brew his potion for him. In the same lesson, Neville Longbottom added too much leech juice and rat spleens, and Professor Snape threatened to poison Neville's pet toad, Trevor, with the botched potion at the end of class. Luckily, however, Hermione Granger helped Neville fix it and when it came time for Snape to test the potion, Trevor turned into a tadpole.

When Harry brewed it in 1996[5] he said that Crabbe should take some of it; presumably to lose weight.

Brewing instructions

Shrinksolution

A phial of Shrinking Solution

Zygmunt Budge's recipe for this potion, as set down in his masterpiece, Book of Potions, is thus:[1]

  1. Juice two Shrivelfigs and add their ruby blood to your cauldron.
  2. Stir slowly.
  3. Gently heat your potion.
  4. Chop four daisy roots more finely and add to cauldron.
  5. Add five hairy caterpillars.
  6. Add well-shaken wormwood.
  7. Stir vigourously.
  8. Juice four leeches and add.
  9. Stir slowly and with caution.
  10. Shake rat spleen and add to cauldron.
  11. Add a splash of cowbane.
  12. Stir slowly.
  13. Heat on a high temperature.
  14. Wave wand in a particular figure.

Severus Snape, however, in his personal copy of Advanced Potion-Making, preferred the following recipe[5]:

  1. Add five sliced caterpillars.
  2. Heat till the potion turns red.
  3. Shake the peeled Shrivelfig until it is ready (this is extra important, as if one tries to add it before it is ready the potion may emit noxious green gases).
  4. Add peeled Shrivelfig until the potion turns yellow.
  5. Allow the potion to simmer till it turns purple.
  6. Add four rat spleens to the cauldron.
  7. Add the minced daisy roots till it turns green.
  8. Add five drops of leech juice.
  9. Add more of the Shrivelfig, this time till it turns pink.
  10. Add one sliced caterpillar.
  11. Allow the potion to simmer till it turns green.

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