CHAPTER DISCUSSION PS/SS 11, QUIDDITCH

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 188575

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nikkalmati" <puduhepa98 at ...> wrote:

> > Potioncat:

> > Harry does notice that Snape is limping when he approaches 
> > them and takes QTTA. But there wasn't any indication before 
> > that he had been injured.

> Nikkalmati
 
> I was about to propose that Filch and SS were assigned to 
> feed Fluffy and that SS took his eyes off Fluffy for a moment.  
> They stopped off in the staff room to stop the worst of the 
> bleeding before SS went to the infirmary.  


zanooda:

I thought that maybe Fluffy was not just a very big dog with three heads, but that he was also somehow magical, meaning that his bite was not easily healed and it could get worse with time, or the wound could reopen. Maybe it's something like when Arthur Weasley couldn't stop bleeding after the snake's bite? 

Or even simpler: Fluffy didn't have a very clean mouth (who knows what he eats?) and the wound got infected. That would explain why Snape started limping only a few days later - the infection needed some time to spread to get worse. Madam Pomfrey would have cured a non-magical injury though ... so I'm not sure. Anyway, this is all that comes to mind right now :-).