Healing magic

Aconite • Plants • Potion ingredients Aconite, also known as monkshood or wolfsbane, is a mundane plant with magical uses (PS8). Read More

Albus Potter, in the Hogwarts hospital, gets an ultimatum about friendship with Scorpius • Event Harry Potter, sitting by his son Albus’s bed in the hospital wing at Hogwarts, has a conversation with a portrait of Albus Dumbledore. Dumbledore’s portrait is unable to give him the advice he wants, saying “I am paint and memory, Harry” (CC2.8). When his son awakes, Harry… Read More

Alice Longbottom • Character Alice Longbottom, along with her husband Frank, were Aurors, popular in the Wizarding World, who fought valiantly against Voldemort and his supporters during the 1970s. Frank and Alice were captured by Death Eaters shortly after the fall of Voldemort (late 1981). They were subjected to the Cruciatus Curse in an attempt… Read More

Alihotsy • Plants Alihotsy is a type of shrub with leaves that induce hysteria if eaten. Read More

Anapneo • Incantations “Anapneo” is the incantation for a spell that clears the target’s breathing airway if blocked. Slughorn cast this on Marcus Belby when the latter began to choke after swallowing too fast while attempting to respond to a question (HBP7). Read More

Antidote to Common Poisons • Potions Antidote to Common Poisons is a general reversal cure for all poisons. Read More

Antidotes • Potions Antidotes in general reverse the effects of a poison or spell. Read More

Apothecary • Businesses, merchants, and shops The Apothecary is a shop selling potion ingredients in Diagon Alley. It is a fascinating place crammed with all sorts of interesting things. There are barrels of slimy stuff lined up on the floor and jars of all sorts of powders, herbs, and the like along the walls. Bundles of… Read More

Appalachian Mountains • Mountains, hills, and landforms A long mountain range in eastern North America running from northern Canada down to mid-Alabama in the southern United States. Read More

Asiatic Anti-Venoms • Books and Literature Asiatic Anti-Venoms is a healing reference book which Harry consulted while doing some fifth-year Potions homework (OP16). Read More

Astoria Greengrass • Character Astoria is the younger sister of Daphne Greengrass. She entered Hogwarts two years after her sister and eventually married Draco Malfoy. Their only child was named Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy. Lucius and Narcissa objected to Draco’s choice of a wife, but he defied them. Astoria once told her son that this… Read More

Augustus Pye • Character Trainee Healer on the Dai Llewellyn Ward of St. Mungo’s who tried to heal Arthur Weasley’s snakebite in December 1995. He was very interested in “complementary medicine” (using Muggle techniques along with the magical approaches). He and Arthur decided to give stitches a try, but something in the wound kept dissolving them,… Read More