Overview

The cure for boils or also known as Boil cure, was a potion which got rid of boils like the ones produced by the Pimple jinx. It was an elementary potion. The recipe for the potion could be found in Magical Drafts and Potions, and Book of potions. If the potion was wrongly brewed it would cause nasty boils to erupt on the students skin. But if it was brewed correctly a pink smoke could be seen rising from the cauldron.

History

Since the potion seems kinda simple it is taught to the first year students at Hogwarts.

During the school year 1985 and 1986 professor Snape taught his first-year students how to concoct this potion. Jacob’s sibling managed to brew the potion successfully with their friend Rowan Khanna. But what the friends hadn’t taken into account was that Merula Snyde had sabotaged their cauldron by smearing it with bulbadox powder, which made the cauldron explode. Jacobs’s sibling and Rowan had deducted 10 points from their house due to the prank.

At the start of 1991 and 1992 school years Gryffindor and Slytherin students were tasked to brew the potion in their very first lesson of the year. During the lesson Snape had a tendency to criticize everyone but Draco Malfoy. Neville managed to melt Seamus’s cauldron because he added porcupine quills before he took the cauldron of fire. The incident made the whole classroom fill up with acid green smoke which burned holes in people's shoes. For poor Neville it meant that his face was covered in boils, therefore Seamus had to take him to the hospital wing. Snape also deducted Harry 1 point for supposedly not having warned Neville of the outcome beforehand.