Wizard injuries

[lily_paige_delaney]

No: HPFGUIDX 81757

Hi,

Something that's been bugging me lately is the accidents and 
injuries in HP don't seem to be consistent.  

In PS we hear that Neville fell out of his grandmother's window and 
bounced - causing celebrations all round as this was apparently a 
sign of his magical abilities.  Then he falls twenty feet off his 
broomstick and only breaks his wrist.  However in OoP his nose is 
broken by a kick in the face?

In OoP Ginny is knocked down several flights of stairs by the twins 
flying trunks and yet despite Molly screaming that they could have 
done her a serious injury she seems unscathed.  Yet her ankle is 
broken when Luna uses the Reductor curse to explore a planet 
nearby.  (Unless Luna's aim was off) Also in Oop Harry falls down 
the steps in the death chamber and is shaken but uninjured.  But in 
GoF during the third task Harry falls twelve feet when the Spider 
drops him Harry's leg crumples beneath him (although I concede he 
was already injured by the Spider's pincers.)  

Then there's Ron getting smashed in the chess game and being knocked 
unconcious in PS and likewise Snape being knocked out in the 
Shrieking Shack in PoA.

I haven't included Harry's broomstick fall in PoA because Dumbledore 
seems to have intervened there but it does make me wonder whether 
wizards have some inate survival instinct when it comes to falls.  
They seem much less susceptable to injury from falls than from other 
means.

LPD