Figaro's Smoke Bombs

Figaro Sellaphix's favorite recipe for a smoke bomb, improving on a product from Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. According to Figaro, "Weasley's is fine, but it's actually not that hard to make something better." [1] They are apparently quite easy to make and resemble snappers. [2] It is very likely Figaro originally learned the recipe from a magazine.

Smoke & Stank: Ingredients

• Thin parchment squares
• Fluxweed spores; to darken the smoke
• Black silversage; to create the smoke
  • Weasley's uses doxy powder, but it's expensive and difficult to acquire
• Dungwort; for the stank
• Skunkvine; for more stank
• Everlit Lamp Oil; to ignite it

Preparation

Flatten out a parchment square, about 3 inches on each side. Add a pinch each of fluxweed spores to the center of the parchment. Then add a pinch of black silversage. Each packet now needs (1) one dungwort leaf. Prepare the dungwort by carefully rolling it into a ball, being very careful not to crush it. (It will reek like hell if you do.) Next add two rolled skunkvine leaves, still being careful not to harm them. Last of all, saturate it in lamp oil.

Wrap it all up and twist up the end. They'll keep until the lamp oil dries out after a few weeks.

Effects and Duration

Throwing the stink bomb onto the ground or against a hard surface will cause it to explode into a billowing plume of dark stinking smoke, like rotting meat and sulfur.

Regulation and Skill Level

Very easy to make, with no controlled ingredients.

References

• Figaro teaches Emile Lawson to make them. [3]
• Figaro plans to make a batch for his little brother Frank Sellaphix [4]