However, true love could not be produced through artificial means, and thus the feelings that love potions created were more like obsession than affection. Love potions ostensibly caused the drinker to romantically obsess over the person who gave them the potion. Ron Weasley thinking about Romilda Vane under the influence of love potion I'm going to let you down now, okay?" - Ron's intense love potion-induced feelings for Romilda Vane They're the Chocolate Cauldrons Romilda gave me before Christmas and they're all spiked with love potion!" Ron Weasley: " Romilda? Did you say Romilda? Harry - do you know her? Can you introduce me?" Harry Potter: " Yeah, I'll introduce you. Harry Potter: " They didn't fall off your bed, you prat, don't you understand? They were mine, I chucked them out of my trunk when I was looking for the map. Ingredients and brewing Ī rose thorn, an ingredient commonly found in love potions Ron instantly became obsessively smitten with Romilda and had to be taken to Horace Slughorn to be given an antidote. Harry kept the unopened box in his room until March of the next year, when Ron Weasley found it, and, mistaking it for a birthday gift, ate half the chocolates. Having been warned by Hermione, Harry refused the Gillywater when Romilda offered it to him, but was forced to accept her chocolates. Romilda Vane tried to give one of the Weasleys' love potions to Harry Potter by spiking Gillywater and a box of Chocolate Cauldrons. Hermione Granger overheard girls in the bathroom discussing ways to sneak Harry Potter a love potion. When Argus Filch banned all Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes products from Hogwarts, Fred and George Weasley began shipping love potions disguised as perfumes and cough potions, allowing Hogwarts students to order love potions, despite mandatory searches on owls. The Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes shop began carrying a range of love potions as part of its WonderWitch line in 1996. Hermione Granger and Ginny Weasley, looking at the love potions at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes Skeeter published these false and defamatory claims in Witch Weekly and urged Albus Dumbledore to investigate them further. In her fourth year, Pansy Parkinson told Rita Skeeter that she believed Hermione Granger was capable of brewing a love potion, and that this was the method she thought Hermione had used to win the interest of Viktor Krum and, allegedly, Harry Potter. Snape did not approve of this, and " was looking as though the first person to ask him for a love potion would be force-fed poison." On Valentine's Day 1992, Gilderoy Lockhart implored his co-workers at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to join him in celebrating the occasion, suggesting that students should ask Professor Snape how to brew a love potion. Jacob's sibling, Jae Kim and Talbott Winger then gave Alistair the potion in Knockturn Alley in exchange for the cloak. Jacob's sibling collected rose thorns from the Herbology Classroom, peppermint from the Hogwarts kitchens and picked up pearl dust and powdered moonstone from a witch at Hogsmeade station. During the 1989–1990 school year at Hogwarts, Jacob's sibling and Penny Haywood brewed a love potion in the Artefact Room which they planned to trade for an Invisibility Cloak with Alistair Fidgen. Jae Kim at some point gave Alistair Fidgen Butterbeer falsely claimed to be love potion. Indeed, love potions were usually hidden in food or drinks so that the user would not notice. However, it made Barnaby infatuated with Jacob's sibling instead. In the 1988–1989 school year, Ismelda Murk planned on giving Barnaby Lee a love potion hidden in a sandwich. Ismelda's plan to administer a love potion backfiring Even Molly Weasley admitted to having brewed a love potion when she was a girl at Hogwarts. Love potions were banned at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry but this has not stopped students from making them, or from trying to win hearts by their use. She then seemed to stop giving it to him and he (understandably) ran off, leaving her and her unborn baby to fend for themselves. Īlbus Dumbledore believed that Merope Gaunt used a love potion to obtain the affections of Tom Riddle Snr, a wealthy Muggle who lived in her village and whom she was infatuated with, as it would seem to be a more romantic method of obtaining his "love" than the also possible method of the Imperius Curse. For her achievements of inventing of many love potions, she was immortalised on a Chocolate Frog Card. Laverne de Montmorency invented a number of different love potions in the 1800s. Laverne de Montmorency, an inventor of love potions " Watch out, these potions can strengthen the longer they're kept." - Description of use
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