Regrowing Limbs (Was:Re: book 6 rumor)

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 83018

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> And Professor Kettleburn retired from the CoMC postition to enjoy 
time
> with his remaining limbs.  Apparently, a detatched body part can't 
be
> regrown -- but missing bones can. What could the underlying 
biological
> reason for that be, I wonder?

We have no idea about Prof. Kettleburn, so I don't know what limbs he 
was missing, or why.

Regarding Mad eye Moody, I found that rather puzzling for a while, 
until I recalled that Moody was an auror and all his injuries were 
work related (i.e. the result of fighting dark wizard using a whole 
bunch of illegal dark hexes, curses and charms). It is likely that 
some injuries are harder to cure than others because of the spell 
that caused them. Just like Harry's scar cannot be removed because it 
was the result of a powerfull dark curse.

Perhaps it is also the intent of the spell? Moody's injuries were 
caused by people who wanted to inflict harm on him - and could not be 
cured. Ditto for Harry's scar. Harry's bones, on the other hand, were 
removed by a failed charm that was intended (we hope!) to cure his 
broken bone.

In the case of the memory charm that disabled Lockhart (or for that 
matter Marietta's "sneak" pimples) - both hexes/charms were made 
explicitely to cause harm - and both were hard to cure.

> Annemehr
> who was going to use Wormtail's hand as another example but changed
> her mind as Lord Thingy probably would have done the same thing in 
any
> case...

I think Voldemort promised Wormtail a new hand, but there was a 
reason for him giving him the silver hand instead of having his own 
regrown (if it could be done) - that silver hand has a hook somewhere 
that is to Voldemort's benefit (or so he thinks).

Salit