Hospital Wing

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The Hospital Wing^[1] is a part of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was run by Madam Poppy Pomfrey, the school's matron, from at least 1971.

The students and staff who suffer mishaps and injuries during the school year, are sent or brought to the hospital wing for treatment. Poppy would prefer there be six visitors at one time for one person.^[2] There is a room adjacent belonging to the matron.^[3]

The hospital wing is well equipped to deal with all kinds of magical and mundane injuries, from broken limbs to regrowing lost bones.^[4] Only in the most severe cases are the patients sent to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries for further treatment, such as when Katie Bell touched a cursed Opal Necklace in 1996.^[5]

Overview

Located on the first floor, and later one or two floors up, the hospital wing is where Hogwarts residents go to have their medical needs met. Within the hospital wing are lots and lots of beds with white sheets, privacy screens, and bedpans (Ron once had to scrub them for detention). The entrance has double doors. Madam Pomfrey’s office is part of the hospital wing complex.

People treated in the Hospital Wing

Injuries treated in the Hospital Wing

Person	Injury/mishap cause	Treatment outcome	Place of injury
Skye Parkin [6]	Three broken ribs and possible other injuries as a result of getting hit by a Bludger.	Recovered after having to stay out of the final Quidditch match of the school year.
Unidentified petrified student [7]	Petrified	Unknown	Clock Tower Courtyard [8]
Unidentified petrified Gryffindor girl			Hogwarts grounds (most likely)
Unidentified fourth year Chaser [9]	Fell down three storeys off their broom and broke their nose.	Unknown, had to leave the Hospital Wing due to Poppy Pomfrey getting Petrified
Oliver Wood	Took "a bludger to the head, two minutes in" to a Quidditch match.	Woke up "in hospital a week later."	Hogwarts Quidditch Pitch
Neville Longbottom	Fell off broomstick, broken wrist.[10]	Recovered (Mended "in about a minute").[10]	Flying class
	Red boils all over his body due to a mess up with his potion to cure boils (melted through his cauldron).	Recovered	Potions class
	Unconscious from injuries sustained from fighting Crabbe and Goyle in a fistfight.		Fighting on the audience stand during a Quidditch game alongside Ron after Draco Malfoy made some rude comments.
	Broken nose.		Kicked in the face by Antonin Dolohov in the Department of Mysteries
	Injured while fighting.		Battle of the Astronomy Tower
Ron Weasley	Poisoned by dragon venom	Spent days in the hospital wing while his swollen hand recovered.	Bitten by Norbert while in Hagrid's hut
	Leg broken by Sirius Black (accidentally).	Recovered	Beside the Whomping Willow
Harry Potter	Attacked by Quirinus Quirrell/Lord Voldemort	Regained consciousness three days after incident	Final chamber guarding the Philosopher's Stone
	Arm broken by bludger, then de-boned by Gilderoy Lockhart (Accidentally)	Arm bones regrew over night with Skele-Gro	Hogwarts Quidditch pitch
	Fell off his broomstick due to Dementors	Recovered, kept in the hospital wing all weekend	During Gryffindor's Quidditch match against Hufflepuff
	Gryffindor 4th year & a Slytherin 6th year	Leeks sprouting out of their ears	A scuffle in the corridors
Colin Creevey	Petrified	Revived in May 1993	On the stone steps leading up to the hospital wing.
Justin Finch-Fletchley			Corridor outside the Transfiguration classroom
Nearly Headless Nick
Hermione Granger	Used Polyjuice potion with cat hair (Accidentally)	Recovered in a month	Myrtle's Bathroom
	Petrified	Revived in May 1993	Outside the Library
Penelope Clearwater
Ginny Weasley	Ordered bed rest by Dumbledore for her ordeal with Riddle's Diary	Recovered	Possessed at various moments throughout the school year by the part of Voldemort's soul trapped within Tom Riddle's diary (a Horcrux)
Draco Malfoy	Attacked by Buckbeak		Outskirts of the Forbidden Forest
Hermione Granger	Attacked by Dementors while trying to help Sirius Black		By the Lake
Harry Potter
Fred Weasley	Sprouted a long white beard while trying to put his name in the Goblet of Fire		Entrance Hall
George Weasley
Hermione Granger	Her front teeth grew out beyond her collar.	Teeth returned to "normal", however her front teeth were rather large before, she intentionally let them shrink smaller than they were before.	Hit by a spell meant for Harry, cast by Malfoy outside the Potions classroom
Gregory Goyle	Sprouted boils all over his face.	Recovered	Hit by a spell meant for Malfoy, cast by Harry outside the Potions classroom
Hermione Granger	Hands covered in yellow boils	Hands bandaged, recovered in less than a day	During breakfast in the Great Hall while opening hate mail filled with undiluted bubotuber pus.
Cormac McLaggen	Ate a pound of doxy eggs for a bet	Recovered	Somewhere in Hogwarts
Alastor Moody	Malnourished		Taken captive by Barty Crouch Jr outside his home, kept locked in his trunk in the Defence Against the Dark Arts office.
Harry Potter	Leg injured by an acromantula, battled with Voldemort	Kept overnight: Recovered	In the Hedge maze, in Little Hangleton Graveyard
Katie Bell	Bloody Nose	Recovered	Accidentally injured by a Quaffle thrown by Ron during Quidditch practice. Made worse by Fred Weasley who unintentionally gave her a Blood Blisterpod to heal her bloody nose.
Alicia Spinnet	Eyebrows grew out to cover her face		Hit from behind with a jinx cast by Miles Bletchley in a corridor between classes
Marietta Edgecombe	Face covered in pimples spelling out "sneak"	Still scarred	A jinx inflicted upon her by Hermione Granger in Umbridge's office
Graham Montague	Wound up in a toilet after trying to apparate out of the vanishing cabinet	Recovered	Stuffed in The Vanishing Cabinet in the Room of Requirement by the Weasley twins.
Jack Sloper	Knocked out, possibly with his own bat		During Gryffindor Quidditch practice
C. Warrington	Skin complexion altered to resemble cornflakes		Jinxed by an unknown student somewhere in Hogwarts
Pansy Parkinson	Sprouted antlers
Minerva McGonagall	Four Stunning Spells to the chest	Transferred to St Mungo's	Hogwarts grounds, near Hagrid's hut
Dolores Umbridge	Attacked by centaurs	Injuries easily fixed, permanently scarred by the event: now afraid of the sound of hoofbeats	Forbidden Forest
Hermione Granger	Antonin Dolohov's curse	Took ten different potions, recovered in a few days	Department of Mysteries
Ginny Weasley	Broken ankle	Recovered	Fleeing Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries
Ron Weasley	Attacked by a brain	Recovered, still has scars made by the brain's "thought tentacles"
Nymphadora Tonks	Fell down stone steps	Transferred to St Mungo's	Cursed by Bellatrix Lestrange in the Department of Mysteries
Katie Bell	Touched cursed Opal Necklace	Transferred to St Mungo's	Road from Hogsmeade to Hogwarts
Leanne	In shock from witnessing Katie touch the cursed necklace	Recovered
Ron Weasley	Poisoned		Slughorn's office
Harry Potter	Cracked skull	Head bandaged, kept over night: recovered	A Bludger hit by Cormac McLaggen on the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch
Draco Malfoy	Cursed by Sectumsempra	Recovered	Attacked by Harry Potter in the 6th floor boy's bathroom
Bill Weasley	Attacked by Fenrir Greyback, while in human form	Recovered except for permanent, hideous scarring to his face and a preference for very rare meat	Battle at the Astronomy Tower
Filius Flitwick	Stunned	Recovered	By Snape in his office
Eloise Midgen	Cursed nose off while trying to remove acne	Nose regrown	Somewhere in Hogwarts

Behind the scenes

• In the films (except the second and the sixth) and the video game adaptations that follow Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the Hospital wing does not have a Nurse Office as it does in the books.
• When Minerva McGonagall taught the students to dance in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the room used was the one used to portray the hospital wing in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
• In the GameBoy version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Katie Bell is in the Hospital due to having the mumblemumps.
• While this does not occur in the book, in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Draco Malfoy is admitted due to being injured in the Quidditch Match against Gryffindor. As a result of his constant groaning from his injury, Pomfrey curtly says to him to "stop making such a fuss" and that he can leave.
• Also in the film adaptation of the Chamber of Secrets, Penelope Clearwater and Nearly Headless Nick are not admitted into the Hospital Wing as a Basilisk victim.
• In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Quirinus Quirrell did not die, but was only blistered heavily. As such he was laid in the Hospital Wing, heavily bandaged.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (play)
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• Harry Potter for Kinect (Mentioned and appears on a illustrative photograph)
• Harry Potter Trading Card Game
• Pottermore
• Harry Potter: The Character Vault
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery

Notes and references

First-floor of Hogwarts Castle
Bathrooms
First-floor girls' toilets · Moaning Myrtle's bathroom
Classrooms
Class 1 · Classroom 1A · Classroom 1C · Classroom 1D · Classroom 1E · Classroom 4F · Classroom used for storage · Classroom with maps of Great Britain and Ireland · Muggle Studies Classroom
Corridors
First-floor corridor · Library corridor · Passage of the Fouls · Tapestry Corridor
Halls and rooms
Detention Chamber · East Wing · Hospital wing · Library · Rear Hall · Severus Snape's storeroom
Offices
Minerva McGonagall's office · Poppy Pomfrey's office
Other locations
Stone Bridge
Portraits, statues and other artwork
Bearded man · Elizabeth Burke · Count · Fat Friar · Female nurse · Male nurse · Beaumont Marjoribanks · Hengist Rawkes · Scholar · Google Stump
Staircases
Staircase to the second-floor corridor · Staircase to the Serpentine Corridor · Staircase to the library corridor