Death in the Wizarding World

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No: HPFGUIDX 129837

 
> "K":
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> Bookshelf
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> December 2002
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> Rowling says she would be happy with any advance the group manages 
> to make. For her part, she will continue campaigning. Given her 
> commitment to awareness-raising, she might be expected to try and 
> write a character with the disease into one of her multimillion-
> selling Harry Potter novels. Well, it's not quite as simple as 
that. 
> As Rowling explains: "One problem with the world of Hogwarts - or 
> not, depending on how you look at it - is that, being wizards, 
they 
> tend not to have to suffer what the rest of us do. I spent ages 
> working out what magic could and couldn't do with regard to 
illness 
> and decided that normal human ailments - such as MS - could be 
> cured. 

Wow, Thanks, K, this sheds a lot of light on the question.  To me, 
this means that for a witch like Tom Riddle's mother to die in 
childbirth, (definitely a normal human medical situation), something 
had to be amiss.  Maybe as Potioncat speculates, she was in a muggle 
hospital or orphanage -- but why wouldn't she seek magical help at 
such a crucial moment?  Did she reject the WW or was she rejected?  
Arthur Levine said we would learn how Voldy became Voldy in book 6 
and I'm guessing his mother's story has a lot to do with it.

Only six weeks now...!!

Inkling