University of Leicester students gauge the feasibility of Gillyweed, which allows the eater to grow gills, and Skele-Gro, which grows and repairs broken bones
Hot on the heels of the news that Mary Norton’s tiny Borrowers would not have been viable in the real world, two new scientific papers have analysed the spells JK Rowling invented for Harry Potter and concluded that they would need magic to work.
In the papers Gillyweed – Drowning with Gills? and Revealing the Magic of Skele-Gro, both published in the Journal for Interdisciplinary Science Topics, students at the University of Leicester analyse two spells used by Rowling’s young wizard: Gillyweed, which enables its eater to grow gills and thus breathe underwater, and Skele-Gro, which repairs broken bones.
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