[HPforGrownups] The Bludger broke the right arm (was Re: book covers of OoTP)

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 54014

Phyllis writes:

> Actually, in an effort to determine whether Harry is left-handed, I 
> just re-read the section of CoS where Dobby's bludger broke his arm 
> and Lockhart de-boned it, and it's very interesting - there's 
> absolutely no mention of which arm it was (the references are always 
> to "arm" without mentioning whether it was the right or left arm).  
> Also, FYI, the blood Wormtail took from Harry for Voldemort's 
> regeneration potion was from Harry's *right* arm.

Actually, my paperback Scholastic edition of CoS says (Ch 10 page 171):

"Dimly, dazed by the searing pain in his arm, he slid sideways on his rain-drenched broom, one knee still crooked over it, his right arm dangling uselessly at his side . . . "

It does specify the right arm.  Which I've always found interesting, that everything happens to his right arm.  Naturally, by him being right handed that is part of it.  I also wonder if it isn't entirely coincidental that the arm broken/deboned/regrown was the same one Wormtail used to take the blood from.    Whatever that may or may not mean, who knows.  But it was the right arm broken. (At least in the US edition!)

Richelle




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