Draco faking his arm injury - canon support

[jenny_ravenclaw <meboriqua@aol.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51923

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "heiditandy <heidit at n...>" 
<heidit at n...> wrote:
 
> 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.
 
> 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.>

I don't know where I stand on the issue of whether Draco was healed 
that very day, but Heidi makes an excellent point.  Even though Madame 
Pomfrey is a fantastic nurse, not everything she cures is cured right 
away.  After all, it did take Harry all night, not a few hours, to 
grow his bones back.  Hermione, too, had to actually miss a number of 
days in class because her healing process took so long.  

I tend to lean towards Draco being a big faker right away who panicked 
as much from the idea of being injured as the the injury itself, but 
really, we can't prove the extent of his injuries.  There was a 
noticeable amount of blood, and Draco's face was clearly lacking his 
usual sneer.  He was probably quite sore later that day, but a few 
weeks later... then he was milking his injury for everything he could 
get from it.

--jenny from ravenclaw, who finally was able to reserve OoP at Barnes 
and Nobles after asking them for a few weeks 
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