Luna's Mother's Death- Correction (Wizards and firearms )

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 123399


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Tonks:
> > Wizards can die of accidents. Luna's mother died in a cauldron 
> > accident.

 
> Finwitch:
> What was in the cauldron?
> 
> At any case-- a *magical* Potion.
> 
> Only mundane method of any wizard dying is when someone chopped his 
> head off (and lots of them, apparently. The Headless Hunt, you 
> know...)
> 
> Finwitch

bboyminn:

Hate to be a nitpicker ... no I don't, I love it...

but Luna's mother like to test out experimental magic, and was killed
by an experimental spell that went badly wrong.



On the subject of wizard's susceptibility to death by physical trama,
I think they can die by physical trama but are LESS LIKELY to do so. 

Wizards, as we have seen several times, are very resilient. They can
endure trama that mere muggles can't. That combined with the wonders
of magical medicine can heal most physical trama that would be a major
problem for normal people.

So, while a wizard could endure the presents of and recover quickly
from a gunshot wound, if that wound, by it's very nature, was a
fatal-type wound, I think a wizard would die from it. 

For example, direct and substantial brain, heart, kidney, liver, or
spinal cord/brain stem trama that would be typically classified as a
'fatally tramatic' wound, that wound would indeed kill a wizard. In
other words, when you're dead, you're dead.

On the other hand, I think a wizard could endure much longer and with
a much greater chance of recovery from a *potentially* fatal wound,
even if only given first aid or basic muggle medical care. Because
wizards are resilient, they would endure longer and fair better. 

The point I'm making is that the resilience, and ability to endure
longer and better, while very real, also has very real and definite
limits.

Just passing it along.

steve/bboyminn