Death in the Wizarding World

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LilHogan wrote:
> Hopefully this hasn't been discussed too much here as I just joined
> recently...I'm sure it has, but I'm curious anyway.
> 
> sunnylove0 quotes JKR's website:
> "As in the case of Dean Thomas, I know much more about Theodore 
Nott
> than has ever appeared in the books. Raised by a very elderly 
widower
> and Death Eater father, Theodore is a clever loner who does not 
feel
> the need to join gangs, including Malfoy's."
> 
> I tend to overlook important things, but offhand I can't think of
> anyone in the WW dying young _not_ due to being cursed or some
> magic gone wrong.  I think that the majority of characters 
> (especially parents of Hogwarts students) who have died, died 
> somehow related to the DEs or LV. 
> 
> I guess that the fact JKR said "very elderly widower" leans towards
> Nott having an older mother as well, but I'm also not sure if 
women 
> in the WW can have children at an older age.  This leaves me 
> wondering how T. Nott's mother died--whether it was through 
> something related to LV/DE (which would maybe explain him ending 
up 
> to be the "Good Slytherin", but I can't imagine him living with 
his 
> DE father in that case).  Otherwise, do we know specifically what 
> other things people in the WW can die from?  Accidents?  Hexes?  
Falling off a broomstick?
> 
> lilhogan/Lauren, hoping her first post wasn't completely confusing 
> and not a topic beaten to death before she arrived to this forum

Hello Lauren, don't worry about topics getting beaten to death on 
this list, they always seem to rise again for another round :-)

I've also wondered about Wizard vs. human mortality.  Specifically, 
I wonder how Voldy's mother could have died in childbirth given the 
competence of wizard medical care -- Madame Pomfrey who can fix just 
about anything, the mediwizards of St. Mungo's who view muggle 
doctors as primitive practitioners.  Seeing the new Star Wars film 
in which there is a similar seemingly preventable death made me 
wonder if the psychological state of Tom Riddle's mother had 
something to do with her death, or whether  she was for some reason  
estranged from the Wizarding World and unable to get help in time?   
Since there was apparantly no wizarding family to take the child and 
save it from a muggle orphanage, perhaps she was in a state of total 
isolation.  Still it seems bizarre that a witch would die in 
childbirth when it so rarely happens even in the muggle world these 
days.  

Inkling