56+ ‘Potion’ Writing Prompts
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Magical Transformation Potion
You have stumbled upon a potion that can turn anyone into any object or creature for a day. Describe your adventure of transformation.
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Love Potion
Imagine there is a magical love potion that is accidentally spilled in a school on Valentine’s Day. Explain what happens next.
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Sci-Fi Love Potion
Write a Sci-Fi story about a scientist who creates a love potion for Valentine’s Day.
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Anti-Love Potion Mishap
In a magical world, someone tired of love on Valentine’s Day acquires an anti-love potion that backfires.
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The Love Potion Misadventure
Write about a wizard who accidentally drinks a love potion and falls head over heels for the last person he sees on Valentine’s Day.
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The Potion of Forever Love
Imagine a world where drinking a special potion on Valentine’s Day ensures forever love.
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Two-Sided Coin
Write from the perspective of a love potion; what it feels like to force people to fall in love.
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Powerful Potions
If you could create a magical potion that could do anything, what would it be and what would it do?
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Elixir of Empathy
Imagine if there existed a magic potion that allows the drinker to feel the emotions of others.
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Love Potion Mishap
Write a microfiction where the person drinks a love potion, but it affects them in an unexpected way.
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Elixir of Eternal Love
Develop a story where a powerful sorcerer creates a potion for eternal love, only to fall in love naturally, without his potion.
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Potion Maker
Imagine you are an inventor who creates potions. Describe a potion you would make and its effects.
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Love Potion Fiasco
Write a detective story where a local matchmaker’s love potion has unpredictable effects, causing love-driven chaos on Valentine’s Day.
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Love Potion’s Price
A potionmaker creates a love potion for a desperate customer but has moral qualms about using such magic.
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The Potion Master’s Dilemma
Visions an intense love affair between a human and a magical potion master.
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Casting the Elixir of Life
Imagine crafting the most renowned potion in history that can grant immortality, and describe the process and ingredients involved.
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Powerful Potion
Imagine you’ve discovered a magical potion that can give you superpowers. Which superpower would you choose and why? Write about your adventures with this new ability.
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Enchanted Love Potion
One character accidentally drinks a love potion meant for another and the unexpected romantic chaos that ensues.
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Eternal Love in a Bottle
Write a love story about a love potion that grants eternal love, but comes with unforeseen consequences.
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Laughable Love Potion Disaster
Describe a character who creates a “love potion” for their crush, only for it to produce farcically exaggerated outcomes.
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Indeed, Not Your Average Potion
A wizard has accidentally created the world’s most potent truth serum which inadvertently reveals too many personal details about others. What happens as a result?
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Silly Spartan Soldiers
Write a story detailing a day in the life of a group of Spartan soldiers preparing for a major battle who are accidentally served a batch of ‘laughing potion’.
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Magical Mishap
Write a story about a magic potion gone wrong, and the hilarious, disastrous, or surprising outcomes.
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Seeing Through Love Potion
Describe a scenario where you can see who is under a love potion’s influence on Valentine’s Day.
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Love Potion Mishap
Write about a misunderstood Valentine’s Day love potion that results in unexpected situations.
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Love Potion Number Nine
Write a commercial for a fictitious ‘love potion’ on sale for Valentine’s Day.
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Love Potion Disaster
Create a spin on the classic trope of love potions going wrong on Valentine’s Day.
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Rose Petal Potion
Create a fairy tale about a love potion made from the petals of a rare Valentine’s Day rose.
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The Perilous Potion Predicament
In your narrative, a magic potion required to save the kingdom has been stolen.
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Love Potion Pandemonium
A character attempts to create a love potion, but things go hilariously wrong.
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The Love Potion Mishap
Write a story about an enchantress child who mistakenly slips a love potion into the town’s water supply.
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Unplanned Potion-Planning Party
In a world where potions replace meals, the protagonist accidentally concocts the wrong potion causing hilariously unexpected side-effects.
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Witch’s Brew Goes Wrong
You’re a novice witch, and you messed up your Halloween potion causing a chain of terrifying events.
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Virtual Veritaserum
Imagine creating an equivalent of Veritaserum for the Muggle internet, forcing truth online.
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Potion of Impossibilities
Imagine a brew that allows individuals to achieve seemingly impossible tasks.
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The Glamour Goblet
Explore a potion that could modify one’s appearance completely, to the point that they could be mistaken for someone else.
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Whispering Brews
Imagine an elixir that could unlock unseen communication pathways between magical creatures.
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The Elixir of Memories
Write about a potion that could enable one to revisit their most vivid memories.
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Invention of a New Potion
Imagine and detail a new magical potion its creation, effects, and implications.
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Potion Master’s sorrow
Write about Snape’s experiences as a Potions Master dealing with students, his feelings towards teaching, and his deep longing for the Defense Against Dark Arts position.
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Brewing Magic in the Potions Shop
Devise your own unique magical potion and describe its effects and uses.
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Polyjuice Potion and Identity
Write about a time when you had to pretend to be someone else or you wished to be someone else.
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Unexpected Brew
Write about your character’s discovery of a rare and unlisted potion during a typical Potions class.
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Mixing Potions and Spells
Create a scenario in which a magic potion and a spell interact in an unexpected way.
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Potion of Love
In a fantastical world, a potion that guarantees falling in love is forbidden. Your protagonist breaks this rule. Write the aftermath.
