The Weasley twins tried to take part in the triwizard tournament by ageing potion. This example alone is enough to explain all the potentially dangerous uses of this agent. 韦斯莱双胞胎用增龄剂让自己年龄变大来试图参加三强争霸赛,单单这个例子就足以解释这种药剂的所有潜在危险用途。
Love Potions is a kind of magic medicine that makes the drinker infatuated or obsessed with the person who gave him the potions. 迷情剂是一种让饮用者痴情或痴迷于给他药水的人的魔药。
It may be banned by Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but the school does not prohibit students from making it or preventing them from using it. 它可能是被霍格沃茨魔法学校禁止的,但是学校并不禁止学生制作,也不阻止学生使用它。
Even Molly Weasley admitted that she had made ecstasy at school. 甚至莫莉·韦斯莱承认自己曾经在上学时制作过迷情剂。 Garrotting Gas is a colorless gas, which may cause suffocation or death. 锁喉毒气是一种没有颜色的气体,可能造成人窒息或者死亡。
In 1996, after dolores umbridge became the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Fred Weasly and George Weasly had planned to put some Garrotting Gas in the school, but they left the school before it was put into practice. 1996年,在多洛雷斯·乌姆里奇成为霍格沃茨魔法学校的校长之后,弗雷德和乔治·韦斯莱曾计划在学校里放一些锁喉毒气,但他们在付诸实施之前就离开了学校。
Wit-Sharpening Potion is a magic medicine that may make the drinker's thinking clearer. Shortly after the end of the second project of the Triwizard Tournament in 1995, Severus Snape taught the fourth-grade students to make only this kind of potions in the potions class. 增智剂是一种可能可以让饮用者的思路变得更加清晰的魔药。1995年三强争霸赛第二个项目结束后不久,西弗勒斯·斯内普就在魔药课上教四年级的学生只做了这种魔药。
Imagine students using this magic medicine in exams and competitions-how unfair it will be if anti-cheating measures are ineffective against it. 想象一下学生们在考试和比赛中使用这种魔药——如果防作弊手段对它无效,这将多么不公平。 During Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mad-Eye Moody had been a prisoner for an entire school year, yet nobody had any clue because Barty Crouch Jr. used the Polyjuice Potion to mimic the man perfectly. 在《哈利·波特与火焰杯》里,疯眼汉穆迪被关了整整一学年,但谁也不知道,因为小巴蒂·克劳奇用复方汤剂完美地模仿了他。
Polyjuice Potion is a magic medicine that can make drinkers look like other people. 复方汤剂是一种可以让饮用者变成其他人模样的魔药。 This magic medicine is very advanced, and its production is divided into two stages. The whole production process of polyjuice potion takes a month. Therefore, it is not difficult to track or supervise if necessary. 这种魔药非常高级,制作共分为两个阶段。复方汤剂的整个制作过程耗时,需要一个月。因此,如果需要的话,跟踪或监管并不困难。