Draco faking his arm injury - canon support

[heiditandy <heidit@netbox.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51906

 
> Catlady asked:
> > Please, what is the canon for the arm being painfree the same 
day 
> it occurred? I believe that Draco was faking being still injured 
> when he used it as an excuse to postpone the Slytherin-Gryffindor 
> Quidditch match so that the Gryffs played Hufflepuff instead, but 
> that was two months later - the injury was on the first day of 
> classes and the match was after Halloween and the attack on the 
Fat 
> Lady.

Diana replied: 

> I believe Draco's arm was healed the same day and was pain free by 
> Harry's comments, but even more by and Draco's actions and 
> comments.  Let me put it this way, Madame Pomfrey has regrown all 
> the bones in Harry's arm overnight, cured Neville's broken wrist 
in 
> an hour at most [Neville didn't return to the common room earlier 
> after his wrist was healed in PS/SS because he had forgotten the 
> password/gotten lost and then fell asleep in the hall.], cured a 
> disatrous Polyjuice potion involving a cat, begun healing burns 
from 
> a dragon [canon does not mention how long the orange paste took to 
> restore Cedric to health], cured a poisonous, festering bite from 
a 
> Dragon, reattached an accidentally cursed-off nose, removed 
magical 
> beards from GoF hopefuls, and many other things, so therefore I 
> would be stunned, if Madam Pomfrey couldn't have healed a cut in 
> only a few minutes.  The cut Harry received from the dragon in GoF 
> she healed closed [as in disappeared] in only a minute with her 
> wand; Draco's wound couldn't have been much worse.  

Actually, it could have been much worse. Harry's injury didn't 
penetrate into the muscle, from the depiction we're given in GoF, 
whereas Draco's injury certainly could have, given the size of 
Buckbeak's claws. 

For two and a half years, I have been asking someone to find me 
anywhere in canon where an injury to *muscle* was healed as quickly 
as an injury to bone. We don't know how long it took to reattach 
Eloise's nose, or if she was bandaged afterwards, and we don't know 
how long it took to heal the dragon burns.

And we cannot say that we know how long it would take to heal a deep 
injury to muscle, nerves, blood vessels and skin, based on anything 
in canon.

We have no idea, and therefore, your "I believe" is certainly a 
possible interpritation of canon, but you cannot say that it is 
definite and 100% based on canon, because it is not.


Heidi, who wishes she had some magical treatment for braxton hicks 
contractions today