[HPforGrownups] Re: Hagrid's parents/medical remedies

[Katze]

No: HPFGUIDX 40752

random_monkey0_0 wrote:
> Dave wrote:
> 
>>Why do you say that?  Did you get flamed?  Personally I thought it 
>>was
>>a valid point...
 >
> No, certain people were concerned that this thread was going in a 
> less-than-mature direction. No flames, just a request to tone it 
> down...

What I got in private email was *not* a request to tone it down (actually I 
didn't receive anything that resembled "tone it down") - it was a Howler as the 
flamer put it.

> Well, either way would be difficult, really. They both sound like 
> something out of an Austin Powers movie, don't they? Whether 
> conception would be possible or not is debatable, but birth certainly 
> would be a problem if the giantness was on the father's side. Which 
> leads to another question: Do wizards have C-sections? 
> 
> I have many questions about magical healthcare. Madame Pomfrey's 
> remedies seem to be of the "take this potion and call me in the 
> morning" ilk, but what if, say, someone needed their appendix removed? 
> Is there an appendix-dissolving potion or something? Can it be removed 
> by something like apparation? And what about in cases like a 
> C-section, where the thing not only needs to be removed, but needs to 
> be intact and undamaged as well? 

They do have skelo-grow (sp?), so I would think they have various potions for 
everything. I've thought about the medicine in the wizard world as well, but I 
think it would eventually get really complicated.

I also always wondered how they how did they managed to give the mandrake 
potions to the ghosts in CoS?

Katze