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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Harry Potter] If a Muggle somehow assembled all the necessary ingredients for a specific potion, would they be able to make that potion?

To rephrase: would you have to be a witch or a wizard to take advantage of the ingredients' magical properties, or are they inherent? Is there something special about magical people that would allow them to make potions, or is it just that it would be easier for them to find ingredients? Is there any step of the brewing process that can only be done by magic?
gpt
You can assemble all the ingredients for cake, but you won't *get* cake without heat - heat is the required energy input. Magic is the required energy input for potions; without it, they're just collections of inert ingredients, like cake batter.