[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard injuries

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 81802


> Bohcoo responds:
>
> Your excellent post made a couple of things spring to mind:
>
> 1. There is obviously something about being magical that not only
> prevents or minimizes serious bodily injury, it also allows for an
> extended lifespan. I guess when you consider the additional threats a
> magical person is exposed to (spells, charms, jinxes and hexes),
> evolution would have kicked in at some point to provide the extra
> immunities and protections.

Iggy:

Also, if you look at all the listed injuries and avoided ones, the lessened
ones were all where reflex action could take effect.

(Some may argue that Harry being dropped by the giant spider would allow for
reflex, but he also was groggy and battered already... and even Bruce Lee
would have trouble blocking a punch when he's too tired and groggy.)

All of the "reduced damage" incidents involved falls, something which anyone
with gymnastics or martial arts training could conceivably roll with to
minimize damage.  (Yes, this includes dropping Neville out of a window...)

Magic use has often been described as reflexive and uncontrolled in many
cases, just as rolling with a fall.  (I remember once in high school when a
drama class I was in was splaying a game on the auditorium stage.  One of
the football players in the class tagged me with more force than intended,
and accidentally "body checked" me off the stage.  Next thing I know, I'm
tucked up tight and lying on my back about 30 feet from the stage, and I
hadn't felt a thing.  Witnesses told me that they saw me twist in the air
like a cat and tuck in so that I took the landing on my upper back and slid
into it...  Thank god for the falling practice from that 2 years of martial
arts I took.. I didn't even get a slight bruise.)

Now, for the other injuries that weren't prevented, those tended to happen
from magic, in a fight against someone else magical. (much like some of the
Jedi tricks, reflexive defenses of someone in the WW might not work against
the brawling attacks of someone in the WW... the natural powers may cancel
eachother out.)  The only exception being Harry's fall in the fight with the
giant spider... which I've already addressed.


Comments?  Dissentions?

Iggy McSnurd
the Prankster


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