Muscle Deep/ Hagrid, the one who can't handle his job

[heiditandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 40232

 "naamagatus" <naama_gat at h...> wrote:
>   
> > Anti-Hagrids are often bothered by the Buckbeak incident, but 
what  
> really happened was that Draco received a flesh wound that was 
healed  
> within a few minutes. 

I have no idea why people are so convinced that a wound to skin and 
muscle can be healed within a few minutes. Is it because bones can 
be, sometimes? Clearly, there are different rates of healing for 
different things in the magical world. Harry, in PS/SS, still 
develops a headache and is exhausted long after his ordeal in the 
chamber, but on a much more mundane note, Ron isn't able to be 
healed quickly enough to go with Harry and Hermione in PoA, even 
though all he had was a broken leg. He didn't even wake up until 
after Snape's yelling was finished (or if he did, there was no 
indication that he was conscious). In the Muggle world, healing of 
muscles is a much more complicated process than it is for bones, 
because there are more nerves which need to be regenerated. A simple 
bone fracture, like the kind it's implied Neville has in PS/SS, 
comparatively just needs to "recalcify" - in other words, it has to 
knit. But muscle injury is generally a more complicated thing, 
because blod vessels, nerves and, in Draco's case, skin, all have to 
regrow, and it's entirely possible that even in the wizarding world, 
something can go wrong. Things can in healing bones - we saw that 
with Gilderoy - and even though Madame Pomfrey is much more 
compentant than that, we don't know that even she can do it 
instantaneously.

While I do think that Draco exagerated his injury to delay his 
Quidditch start that season, and to get coddled a bit in Potions 
class, he *really was injured*. And I agree with Jenny that there is 
no reason why Hagrid should've exposed a class of 13 year olds to a 
creature with razor sharp talons. Even if one of them hadn't been 
deliberately inattentive, there were SO many things that could've 
gone wrong, that it was an inherently risky thing to do.



heidi tandy
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