[HPforGrownups] Defending Snape, Wizarding Schools, and Wizard Medicine

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 34656

At 8:18 AM +0000 2/4/02, rosenatti wrote:
>--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "judyserenity" <judyshapiro at e...> wrote:
>>Snape came through this
>>  smelling like a rose. (Other than his hair, which presumably smells
>>  like unwashed hair.) 
>
>Now, now. We don't actually know why Snape's hair is perpetually so
>well-oiled. He could well be using some sweet-smelling Dapper Dan
>product to give his locks that slimy, patent-leather sheen.

I've always imagined it like Harry's haircut growing back in the 
night: Severus washes his hair thoroughly every night, with the same 
scouring soap he cleans his cauldrons with, but an hour later his 
ineffable nature has asserted itself through his natural magic and 
it's greasy enough to leave the pillowcase translucent.  (Perhaps he 
stalks the night because it's easier than cleaning the sheets every 
morning . . .)


At 9:39 PM +0000 2/3/02, uncmark wrote:
>
>Are we further to guess from the Triwizard Tournament that there are
>only 3 secondary schools worldwide?

We know there's one in Brazil, from the forementioned Weasley 
penfriend.  The existence of competitive Quidditch teams from the 
world 'round, as mentioned in _Quidditch Through the Ages_, suggests 
that secondary school level Quiddich is played in most countries, 
which would imply the existence of such schools.


At 1:40 AM +0000 2/5/02, tex23236 wrote:
>Wizard medicine doesn't seem to have kept up with Wizard cooking
>and transportation.

Who needs transportation when you can Apparate?  And those who don't 
Apparate have brooms, Portkeys, and the Floo network.

>Mrs. Crouch died of cancer

Where does it say that?  Crouch Jr. only says she was dying, not what 
of.  At any rate, she died in Azkaban, far from any treatment at all, 
wizard or Muggle.

>and Mrs Riddle died
>in childbirth.

In a Muggle Hospital around the 1930s.  If she'd been in a wizarding 
hospital, Riddle wouldn't have ended up in a Muggle orphanage.

>You'd think a midwitch would have done an accio when
>trouble started. (Yes, yes, not that simple, I know.) Seems a medical
>version accio would also have taken care of Mrs. Crouch's cancers,
>  too.

I'm not at all sure one can Accio through skin; if you could, what's 
to stop a Death Eater from accio'ing your heart from your chest?

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  - Boggles, aka J. C. B. Ramon			boggles at earthlink.net
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