[HPforGrownups] Regrowing limbs

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 60163

>The fact that the old Care of Magical Creatures
>teacher (pre-Hagrid) retired "to spend more time with his remaining limbs"
>suggests that regrowing a limb is not commonly or easily done.  It's
>always seemed odd to me that the old teacher couldn't just regrow his
>missing limbs but Harry *could* regrow all the bones in one limb (his arm)
>overnight with Skele-Gro, but that's the way JKR wrote it.

Harry's arm wasn't detached or injured in any way when the bones were 
removed.  Repairing something broken is probably not a problem for magical 
healers, but re-attaching something that was severed may be. (Madam Pomfrey 
re-attached someone's nose after it had been accidentally removed by magic, 
however.  Maybe it depends on whether the injury was sustained by magic or 
by ordinary means such as an animal attack, or maybe it depends on how 
serious it is -- a nose may be reparable, a missing limb may not.)


Janet Anderson


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