Index · potion · book 2
Skele-Gro
A painful potion that regrows bones. The stories use it when a vanish-the-bones joke goes too far.
Skele-Gro hurts, and it works. That combination is the hospital wing’s sense of humor and its ethics: the cure is allowed to be miserable if the alternative is staying boneless. A teacher’s vanity causes the injury in the second book. The potion is the bill.
Regrowing a skeleton overnight is also a quiet statement about how far magical medicine sits from ordinary medicine, and how little that helps the person drinking it.