Petrification (was: What's annoying about Harry (WAS: Characters you hate)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51500

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Grey Wolf <greywolf1 at j...>" 
<greywolf1 at j...> wrote:

> 
> What more do we know? Well, "last time the Chamber was opened, 
> there  were several attacks, and one girl was killed". Since 
> Dumbledore recognizes the state of Collin when he's petrified, we 
> can asume that last time the attacks on the people also paralized 
> them - if not, Dumbledore couldn't have been sure that "the Chamber
> of Secrets has indeed been opened again". So last time there were 
> several people paralized too.

I have the same questions that came up in today's chat. First, were 
the other students Petrified last time as they were this time? If 
they were, it doesn't seem quite fair of JKR not to have said so.

Second, to me Petrification and Paralysis are not the same. Paralysis 
is the result of the Full Body Bind curse -- it leaves the eyes and 
mind free and doesn't change the texture of the flesh. Petrification 
was shown as leaving the person unconscious, unable even to see (even 
to breathe?) and I assumed it changed the texture of the body to 
something stone-like.