Dark Injuries (WAS Moody Mandrakes, Dapper Dumbledore, fatherhood)

[Cindy C.]

No: HPFGUIDX 27691

Tabouli wrote:
> While we're delving into the past, instinct tells me that the 
worthy listmembers must have discussed this before, but what's the 
story with the battered relic that is Moody, Crouched or otherwise?  
In a society where they can regrow bones overnight and phoenix tears 
can heal deadly snake bites, and amputees can be given magic silver 
hands, why on earth is Moody a one-legged, one-eyed flying purple 
mass of scar tissue?  I can see the handiness of having a roving eye 
(so to speak), but a wooden leg for the Ministiy's star Auror seems 
pretty rough when the Dark Lord's Snivelling Sidekick gets a new 
silver hand.  And as for the facial wounds, couldn't they have fixed 
him up good as new with Eau d'Oeuil Phoenix?

I think there has been some discussion of why Moody is saddled with 
all of these hideous injuries.  One view was that injuries from dark 
magic can't be cured easily or at all.  Evidence of this exists in 
canon.  Dementor kisses can't be cured (and dementors seem plenty 
dark to me).  The Longbottoms can't be cured.

On the other hand (pun intended), Wormtail's injury in GoF was cured 
because it was not an injury due to dark magic.  Harry's cut in the 
graveyard in GoF was cured because it was a manual injury, not a 
magical one.  Harry's curse scar has not been repaired.  

But then again, how are Hermione's teeth cured if the injury was the 
result of a curse?  

Cindy (also wondering why Madam Pomfrey is referred to as the 
school's "matron" in one of the books)