Educational Decree Number Twenty-Six

"Boys & girls are not permitted to be within 6 inches

of each other."

The Educational Decree Number Thirty-Six was one of theEducational Decrees created by Dolores Umbridge, then-Hogwarts High Inquisitor. This Educational Decree forbade male students to get closer than six inches of female students, and vice-versa..Umbridge rather strictly enforced this decree on at least one occassion, using a non-verbal spell of some form to force two students of opposite gender apart.