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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]
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Overview

The hospital wing in 1992
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 many rows of beds with white sheets, privacy screens, and bedpans, which Ronald Weasley once had to scrub as the result of a 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 | 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 | Petrified | Unknown | Clock Tower Courtyard |
Unidentified petrified Gryffindor girl | Hogwarts grounds (most likely) | ||
Unidentified fourth year Chaser | 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).[11] | 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
- ↑ http://www.pottermore.com/en/book1/chapter17/moment2
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 17 (The Man with Two Faces)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 12 (Silver and Opals)
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 2, Quidditch Season 1, Chapter 11 (Rath and Rumors)
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 7 (Niffler Hunting)
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 2 (Curses and Prophecies)
- ↑ Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 14 (A New Friend of a Friend)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 9 (The Midnight Duel)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 8 (The Potions Master)
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