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Dec. 28th, 2012 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_siriusWeasleys: How are you all? Poppy said she brought your potion yesterday, Bill. Courage, mate. We'll be a little busy tonight but come by the garden if you're in the mood for company, you and Charlie. Molly, you'd be welcome, too. Dora'd love to show you all she's done with the place.
Next: As far as that meeting Remus asked us all about, it's going to be a couple of days, at least. Well, more than a couple. Bill's busy tonight, of course, and so are Moony and I, and the weekend's a terrible time to leave Ellie alone at Laszlo's Unlimited.
But it's also going to be a while before Minerva's up to it.
We've been at her New London house since last night - Poppy and Severus and I, that is. They tried to intervene in her drinking for good and all and ... it didn't go as they'd hoped.
So, they've spent the last night using slower methods to purge her system, but in the meantime, they plan to brew what amounts to a highly complex potion, which I gather they've not tried before because it could have disastrous results. I guess we've reached the point where the risk is worth it.
Dora, when you can free Ellie or yourself, we need someone to go round the apothecary's on Camden Road. The one near Holloway? I'm reasonably certain they'll have the ingredients our shop hasn't got. I've got a list I can give you. (If buying them doesn't work, then Poppy might have to try to sweet-talk Horace into fetching the items from the Potioneers' Guild and we'd really rather not have to go that route.)
Anyway. With all that in mind, I propose postponing our gathering until after the 1st. Other than that I'm not fussed about the date, so if anyone else has a preference, let's hear it. (Hermione, that includes you, kiddo.)
Oh, and if anyone else would care to come take a shift, particularly this evening, I'd be grateful.
Next: As far as that meeting Remus asked us all about, it's going to be a couple of days, at least. Well, more than a couple. Bill's busy tonight, of course, and so are Moony and I, and the weekend's a terrible time to leave Ellie alone at Laszlo's Unlimited.
But it's also going to be a while before Minerva's up to it.
We've been at her New London house since last night - Poppy and Severus and I, that is. They tried to intervene in her drinking for good and all and ... it didn't go as they'd hoped.
So, they've spent the last night using slower methods to purge her system, but in the meantime, they plan to brew what amounts to a highly complex potion, which I gather they've not tried before because it could have disastrous results. I guess we've reached the point where the risk is worth it.
Dora, when you can free Ellie or yourself, we need someone to go round the apothecary's on Camden Road. The one near Holloway? I'm reasonably certain they'll have the ingredients our shop hasn't got. I've got a list I can give you. (If buying them doesn't work, then Poppy might have to try to sweet-talk Horace into fetching the items from the Potioneers' Guild and we'd really rather not have to go that route.)
Anyway. With all that in mind, I propose postponing our gathering until after the 1st. Other than that I'm not fussed about the date, so if anyone else has a preference, let's hear it. (Hermione, that includes you, kiddo.)
Oh, and if anyone else would care to come take a shift, particularly this evening, I'd be grateful.
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Date: 2012-12-28 04:12 pm (UTC)Oh, and. Probably goes without saying, love, but being this precise in what you're trying to get might point to what we're trying to make. So you might want to think of a story, should the shop ask loads of questions about why it's so specific.
And maybe when you get back you could stay for a bit and I'll go back and take a break. Mordred, if sitting on Ridley wasn't half this frustrating I don't know how Kingsley and the others managed it.
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Date: 2012-12-28 04:14 pm (UTC)I'll come there straight away. And, yes, of course, you may go home. I'll stay.
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Date: 2012-12-28 04:32 pm (UTC)'Cardamom' are two distinct genera of plant, Elettaria and Amomum. They are both used in cooking, but only one can be used in this preparation. Miss Tonks, it may be called 'black cardamom', 'red cardamom', or 'Siamese cardamom'. The myrrh must be pure resin, unadulterated and untreated; the descriptor used to be 'ingestable' but in the past several years has started to become 'brewable'; if the price is less than three times the 'unguent' preparation it is not suitable.
The calamus must be Acorus calamus and not Acorus americanus; the easiest way to ensure this is, as Black already noted, to source it from the Himalayas, Mongolia, or central Siberia.
Those are the only three ingredients that must be sourced so exactingly, but the remaining ingredients on the list do of course need to be natural and not transfigured or adulterated.
If you are questioned about the potion it will be used in, you may say you are assisting a friend who is uncertain about the paternity of her child or that a customer believes he or she has been reunited with a long-lost parent and is attempting to brew a potion to confirm: all these ingredients are also used in ancestry potions.