Draco faking his arm injury - canon support

[David <dfrankiswork@netscape.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51957

--- 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.
> 
> 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.

Well, one would suppose that Madam Pomfrey would take some interest 
in Draco's continuing progress and would insist he remove 
unnecessary bandages.  After all, faking illness/injury is the 
oldest school trick in the book.  I suppose it is *just* possible 
that Flint has the discretion to postpone Quidditch matches, and 
that Snape chose to turn a blind eye to that and in Potions, and 
that therefore Madam P had no knowledge that Draco was using his 
injury to manipulate the situation wrongly.

However, you'd think the WW would have a *some* general expectation 
of how long an injury of this type would take to heal, and that 
Draco couldn't carry his deception much beyond that.

David