Moody's maimed body parts and the limitations of wizarding medicine

[tex23236]

No: HPFGUIDX 34920

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Andrew MacIan <andrew_macian at y...> wrote:
> Greetings from Andrew!
> 
> Meddle not in the affairs of quantum mechanics....for
> you taste good with Dijon mustard....
> --- tex23236 <jbryson at r...> wrote:
> {snip}
> >   JKR's magic
> > seems to 
> > involve perpetual motion.
>  
I was actually thinking of Zero-point energy sources. But
I'm not sure that's PM.  The NASA web page doesn't say a
lot, but to some UFO phriques, it's the Chalice.
> 
> ...(snip)So where's the
> disconnection?
Well, it takes energy to put things in order, and energy is
released as disorder increases. In the AK curse, death is an
organised state. (appealing to chaos theory here) the behavior
of a corpse is predictable.
> 
> > 

> When some forms of death occur, ...or that the subject's heart
> simply failed.
> 
> Given the descriptions that we have of the effects of
> AK, I would suggest that the basic effect is
> identical, to a massive, nearly-instantaneous OD of
> sodium.  The neural system simply fires one or two
> *massive* events, and the subject's dead, usually with
> a surprised look.  Sound familiar?

Yes, it's the failed AK that causes Harry and Moody's scars.
Oops, Moody says only Harry has survived AK.  Surprising
that nobody tried AK on Moody, then? Or is this a lie told
by the Crouch/Moody?  He tells the class that he would 
survive a student's AK with hardly a nosebleed in the same
class period he says there has been only one survivor.  Has 
Moody (the real one)actually survived AK?  We see V using 
AK at Harry, but he cast Expelliarmus at the same time, finaly 
causing Prior Incantato on V's wand.  Unpredictable results?
ANYway, a failed AK seems to result in some kind of disorder.
That probably holds for most spells.

Why would a dark(i.e. one who is already on the sheet for using 
an UC, so it doesn't matter if he uses more) wizard cast any other 
spell than AK? Is it more difficult?  What spells would one use in a 
serious duel, other than the UC's?

Tex, who is trying to work out JKR's system of magic...