Seeing them finish their homework and confirming there were no issues, Lynn lowered her head to continue reading Professor McGonagall's Animagus notes.
However, her friends, whom she hadn't seen for a week, clearly had many topics they wanted to discuss with her.
"Lynn..." Harry looked at her somewhat hesitantly. "Do you think it's possible for someone to accidentally use a bone-mending spell and have it turn into a bone-removing spell?"
Actually, he had wanted to ask this for a long time. He knew Lockhart was a complete fraud.
So when Lockhart wanted to mend his bone, he firmly refused, but unfortunately... Lockhart still "got his way."
With one spell, all the bones in his arm were gone.
To painlessly extract all the bones from his arm—to be honest, Harry felt that should be harder than mending them.
So he suspected that Lockhart intended to harm him rather than it being a simple mistake.
A bone-mending spell accidentally used as a bone-removing spell?
Lynn quickly recalled the bone-mending spell in her mind; there was indeed such a healing spell.
But a bone-removing spell... Lynn reviewed all the books she had read again and found no trace of such a spell.
Her gaze swept over Harry's body. "There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your bones?"
Lynn's tone was not questioning; she was absolutely certain that all the bones in Harry's body were now normal.
"Now... that's true." Harry nodded with a complicated expression.
He and Ron then proceeded to tell Lynn about his bones being removed by Lockhart.
Lynn listened while thinking and analyzing in her head. After Harry finished his story, she looked up at him.
"What incantation did Professor Lockhart use?"
"Uh..." Harry scratched his cheek, feeling a headache coming on. He had been so focused on the pain at the time that he hadn't noticed what incantation Lockhart recited.
"I remember... it seemed to be 'Arm Repair'?"
Maranhao frowned beside Lynn, trying hard to recall that non-incantation incantation Lockhart had uttered.
Lynn nodded, her mind beginning to simulate the application of this spell and the scenario of the resulting outcome.
She quickly reached a conclusion. "A Wizard's magic is quite intent-based. So 'Arm Repair', although not an accurate or standard spell, could indeed mend Harry's arm if there was sufficient magic power and professional knowledge."
"Great," Marietta whispered. "Lockhart happens to have neither."
"But without sufficient magic power or matching professional knowledge, the 'Arm Repair' spell can easily cause the opposite result."
Lynn quickly spoke the conclusion she had reached in her mind. "Since the problem was with the bones in Harry's arm, without professional knowledge, a non-standard incantation like 'Arm Repair' could very likely result in the problematic bones disappearing in an attempt to 'fix' the arm."
"After all, if the problematic bones are gone, there's nothing wrong with the arm anymore, which counts as 'mending the arm'."
"Merlin..." Ron sighed and turned to Harry. "It's a good thing you didn't break a rib."
The corner of Harry's mouth twitched violently, and he suppressed the urge to slap Ron.
Taking a deep breath, Harry waved his hand. "A stroke of bad luck; at least Lockhart didn't mean to harm me..."
It wasn't that he was being too sensitive; it was just that too many things had happened in the past two years. Just like his arm breaking this time, it was caused by that House-elf he had seen before, Dobby.
Yes, this time Harry heard its name; it was called Dobby.
Thinking of this, Harry simply told his five friends about this matter as well.
After listening to Harry, Penelope narrowed her eyes. "No wonder. House-elves can Apparate within Hogwarts and can remain undetected by Wizards. If it was a House-elf, it could indeed tamper with a Bludger without being discovered."
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