Assignment 5 - Defence Against the Dark Arts for Healers

Send all answers with your HOL name and Student ID to me using HOL MESSAGES by 30th January . Please use PMH Assignment 5 - HOL ID (e.g. PMH Assignment 5 - ce400) as the subject of your message.

Assignment

Quick Questions: 2 points each
1. What categories of harmful spells can be used in the dark arts?
2. Do you need any kind of special strategy for healing a spell if it was cast by a dark witch or wizard instead of, say, by accident? Why/why not?
3. What is the most dangerous sentient dark creature?
4. What is the method of choice for healing basilisk bites?
5. What is probably the most useful spell for dealing with harmful jinxes?
6. How easy is a dark-arts transfiguration to reverse, relative to an accidental one or one gone wrong?
7. What are two ingredients of the Draught of the Living Death?
8. Why is making an antidote to a poison not always the best course of action?
9. Are phoenix tears successful with every basilisk bite?
10. Why would a dark witch or wizard, intent on causing the maximum harm possible, attack a victim with something like the jelly-legs jinx?

Essay Question: 10 points
Do you think that if a muggle was bitten by a werewolf, the muggle would then become a werewolf, just as a witch or wizard would? Does lycanthropy depend on the victim having magical blood? Why/why not? (I'm looking for a decent-sized paragraph, 150 words or so, for full marks).

Extra Credit: 30 points
In the Ministry of Magic, in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, we see Hermione attacked by Antonin Dolohov:

'But the Death Eater Hermione had just struck dumb made a sudden slashing movement wih his wand; a streak of what looked like purple flame passed right across Hermione's chest. She gave a tiny 'Oh!' as though of surprise and crumpled onto the floor, where she lay motionless.' (OotP, p698, UK hardback edition)

She lived to tell the tale, but as is described to us later, the curse would have been much more damaging if the incantation had been spoken aloud, and that Hermione was still in pain and having to take ten different potions each day.

For 30 points, provide a detailed explanation of what you think the incantation was, what it was meant to do if 'fully operational', and provide a counter-spell and/or strategy for healing. You can supply names and functions for the ten different potions too, if you wish. As always with the extra credit, there are no right and wrong answers, so just use what you've learned so far this year, and what you know from the books, and have fun!