Their friends returned later in wretched humiliation. Draco’s overtures of friendship had been rudely spurned, Potter had befriended a Weasley, and poor Gregory had been bitten on his finger right to the bone by Weasley’s pet rat. After a whispered consultation with Theo, Hermione offered to do a wandless blood-based healing spell on Gregory’s finger, and he was very impressed at the flickering flame that danced over his hand, drinking up the blood but leaving smooth, unmarred skin behind. Janus had taught her that spell, and she cast it all the time to heal up the little marks left behind when she summoned her friends with a sprinkle of blood, and while it was easier to cast with a wand, the murmured Latin incantation alone was enough to get the job done.