ASSIGNMENT 7 - SPELL DAMAGE AND THE CLOSED WARD

Send all answers with your HOL name and Student ID to me using HOL MESSAGES by 30th March . Please use PMH Assignment 7 - HOL ID (e.g. PMH Assignment 7 - ce400) as the subject of your message.

Assignment

1. Why may a patient with an incorrectly applied jinx, charm or hex need to be kept in hospital? (5)

2. Who is likely to have tried to reverse the effects of a spell-damaged patient before a specialist sees them, and why may they have been unsuccessful? (5)

3. What is the ultimate aim of spell-damage treatment and why? (5)

4. Why does a healer reversing a transfiguration need a recent photograph of their patient? What can a witness statement add to this information? (5)

5. What kind of jinxes and charms are more likely to need a healer's assistance to treat and why? (5)

6. Describe how you might treat the child with wings growing out of her back? (5)

Extra Credit

(a) What do you think might be the criteria for a patient being admitted to the closed ward? (15)
(b) Why do you think it is called 'the closed ward'? (please note, I know this is a completely speculative question, so knock yourself out inventing theories!) (15)