[HPforGrownups] Re: Achilles heel and wizard's nose

[jlcaron at gmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 157439

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> Carodave:
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> Your theory is bad news for Harry - his nose was broken by Malfoy in
> the beginning of HBP!
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Jaime:

Interesting question. In addition to other cases people have  
mentioned...

-- Malfoy's nose doesn't break but in Chamber of Secrets, it does  
swell up, does that count at all? :)

Goyle's potion exploded, showering the whole class. People shrieked  
as splashes of the Swelling Solution hit them. Malfoy got a faceful  
and his nose began to swell like a balloon... (COS)

-- Krum may have gotten a broken nose at the Quidditch World Cup in  
Goblet of Fire:

There was a deafening groan from the crowd; Krum's nose looked  
broken, there
was blood everywhere, but Hassan Mostafa didn't blow his whistle. (GOF)

-- Harry and the twins may have broken Malfoy's nose in Order of the  
Phoenix:

Malfoy was curled up on the ground, whimpering and moaning, his nose  
bloody... (OOP)

-- Neville's nose is broken in the Department of Mysteries battle in  
OOP:

"Whaddever you do, Harry," said Neville fiercely from under the desk,  
lowering his hands to show a clearly broken nose and blood pouring  
down his mouth and chin, "don'd gib it to him!" (OOP)

Of course, noses seem to be prominent in the books. Everyone's nose  
is described from Dumbledore's crooked one to Snape's hooked one and  
McGonagall's pointy one. Tonks can transform her nose at will and  
some of the Weasley's twins earliest inventions included Nosebleed  
Nougats.

Jaime