Mrs Figg's broken leg...

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 46680

Darla wrote:
>[mrs. figg] told Harry can't stay with her during Dudley's birthday 
because she's 
> broken her leg. Couldn't that be easily fixed? I mean, broken 
bones 
> can be fixed 'in an instance', and wouldn't Mrs Figg know 
someone who 
> could mend it for her, even if she couldn't do so herself?
>   Was it deliberate so that Harry could go to the Zoo with 
Dudley, 
> perhaps as a test to see if he *was* a Parseltongue? Maybe 
Dumblebore 
> suspected that he would be? If so, doesn't that have some BIG 
> implications?


A simpler explanation would be that the broken leg was  magical 
injury, which don't seem so easy to fix.  Mad Eye Moody was 
covered with scars and had lost a leg-- presumably curse scars 
(like Harry's, come to think of it) are designed not to be magically 
healed.

I like to think she broke her leg kicking some particularily hard 
Death-Eater butt...

-- Sydney, squirming with anticipation of meeting a real live 'old 
crowd' female!