A Journey Through Potions and Herbology

This non-fiction short-form eBook features content which is adapted from the
audiobook Harry Potter: A History of Magic – inspired by the British Library
exhibition of the same name. Potions have been made for thousands of years –
associated with bubbling pots and mysterious ingredients, they have been
brewed to make medicines, drugs and poisons. Harry Potter became much better
at Potions with a little help from the Half-Blood Prince. Plants have also
been important components of medicines as much as myth-making and magic. A
source of danger as well as a means of overcoming obstacles, Herbology was a
subject which had a major bearing on Harry’s key decisions and mistakes in the
wizarding world. This eBook short examines the colourful characters and
curious incidents of the real history of magic, and how they relate to the
Hogwarts lesson subjects of Potions and Herbology. The history of magic is as
long as time and as wide as the world. In every culture, in every age, in
every place and, probably, in every heart, there is magic.