Attention: Hogwarts Students

[alt_poppy]

While it is true that the Healing Arts are capable of reattaching severed digits (provided that the sufferer brings all of the pieces promptly for reattachment), it would, on the whole, be far better to avoid such injury altogether.

To that end, I urge you all to take extreme care if choosing to participate in the current 'fast friends forever' fad. If applied with even a fraction too much vigour, the charm meant to tighten the knotted-thread ring around a finger will cinch without ceasing. The result is dismaying and creates rather a lot of mess.

Judging from my admittance records for the past four days, I infer that the charm in question requires at least third-year skill for safe application.

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Private Message to Madam Pomfrey

[alt_penelope]

Thanks, Madam P. We've been trying to warn them but sometimes it works better coming from someone they see as an unquestioned authority.

Robins and Dunstan particularly asked whether there's any intervention we could enact in the short-term, in case someone comes to one of the Prefects before going straight up to the Hospital Wing.

Re: Private Message to Madam Pomfrey

[alt_poppy]

Thank you for asking, Miss Clearwater. Most astute.

I shouldn't think that every Prefect would have mastered a Stasis charm, but it would be helpful if a Prefect were on the spot, as it were, with a child who had miscast this ring tightening spell, if he or she might cast Petrificus Totalis on the digit (whether partially or wholly severed).

In the instance of its not having been yet wholly detached, that spell would halt the process and preserve some part of the finger's connective tissue. And in cases where the amputation is complete, it would preserve the parts from further injury or deterioration, though it is still imperative that the injured child be brought as quickly as possible to the hospital wing for re-attachment.

Re: Private Message to Madam Pomfrey

[alt_penelope]

Well, the 5th-year Prefects certainly don't know Stasis yet but it shouldn't be beyond 1st-level NEWT students. I can show them at our next meeting, as well.

As far as getting them to you, naturally, it's our priority in a case such as this. Frankly, I'm surprised they're still trying based on watching their classmates' results!