Bone

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Bones are a hard structure that make up the skeleton of vertebrate organisms. They provide structure and protection for the body's other organs, and are responsible for the production of blood, among other, more minor uses.^[1] In the wizarding world, bones had a variety of uses.

Bones was also the surname of a prominent wizarding family in Great Britain.^[2]

Notable uses

• Noctua Gaunt's bones were buried in Slytherin's Scriptorium at Hogwarts Castle after she was trapped in the chamber and starved to death.^[3]
• Borgin and Burkes, a shop in Knockturn Alley affiliated with the Dark Arts, sold human bones among its wares.^[4]
• There existed a variety of spells to remove a person's bones, including Brackium Emendo^[5][6] and Ossio Dispersimus.^[7] Harry Potter had his arm bones forcibly removed by Gilderoy Lockhart in 1992 due to a botched attempt to merely mend the broken bones with Brackium Emendo, and spent a night in the Hospital Wing regrowing them with Skele-Gro.^[5]
• Sewing needles could be made from animal bone; Rubeus Hagrid owned a bone needle by 1994, and used it to darn some socks during a visit from Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger prior to the Hallowe'en feast that year.^[8]
• Chicken bones could be used as foodstuffs for a Hippogriff.^[9]
• A certain Dark potion that regenerated a wizard's body required bone taken unknowingly from the wizard's father as an ingredient. When Peter Pettigrew made this potion for Voldemort in 1995, they chose the Little Hangleton graveyard as the brewing site, so that bone fragments from Tom Riddle Snr's grave could be extracted.^[10]
• A human, or at least their corpse, could be transfigured into a bone. Bartemius Crouch Junior used this spell on his father's corpse to hide the evidence of his murder.^[11]
• Golgomath, Gurg of the last remaining giants, wore a necklace made of bones. Rubeus Hagrid speculated that at least some of the bones were human.^[12]
• The emblem of Healers employed at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries was a bone crossed with a wand.^[13]
• The Serpent of Slytherin, after its death in 1993, was reduced eventually to a giant skeleton, which could be found in the Chamber of Secrets where it died.^[14]
• An arm bone was an ingredient in the Strength Potion.^[15][16]

Behind the scenes

• Some of the members of the House of Black, such as Regulus and Hester, were depicted as skulls on the version of the Black family tree tapestry seen in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film) (Appears on tapestry)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
• Pottermore
• Harry Potter (website)
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
• Harry Potter: The Character Vault (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter: The Creature Vault (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Mentioned only)
• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
• Hogwarts Legacy

Notes and references