hospital skills

[GulPlum]

Melody wrote:

<no spoilers>

> My rather nit-pick question now.
> 
> How is it that Madam Pomprey can turn people back from being
> petrified in a few minutes and can regrow the bones in an arm 
> overnight, but can't heal the cuts and scraps in PS/SS?  Our poor 
> hero still had a bandage on his hand in the end.  I would think 
> simple things like cuts and bruises would be healed instantaneously.
> 
> I find that inconsistent in the movies.

Quite true. Although de-petrification and regrowing bones wasn't 
quite *that* quick.

The fact that Harry was bruised and had a bandaged arm at the end of 
PS/SS worried me as well, even though at that stage I'd not even read 
the book. If Hermione could fix Harry's specs on the train even 
before she'd had any magical education, how could the school medical 
staff (there was no mention of Madam Pomfrey at that stage) not fix a 
couple of bruises?