Death in the Wizarding World

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "inkling108" <inkling108 at y...> 
wrote:

> Also, you never do hear of wizards with cancer, stroke or heart 
> disease, do you?  I can't recall any instamces of wizard's 
suffering 
> from these common muggle complaints.


"K":


Bookshelf

December 2002


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. It's a bit harder in the real world, but we're going to see 
what we can do up in Aberdeen.

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