CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 13: Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw

[nikkalmati]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <geoffbannister123 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nikkalmati" <puduhepa98@> wrote:
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> Geoff:
> > > Quidditch may be a rough sport but knocking off brooms would make it 
> > > downright lethal. Harry only avoided serious injury in the Hufflepuff match
> > > because Dumbledore intervened to bring him down gently - even some of 
> > > the spectators had feared that he might have been killed.
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> Nikkalmati
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> > Harry was nearly killed because he was unconscious from the effect of the Dementors.  Most times a wizard would be able to seve himself from a fall.
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> Geoff:
> I'm inclined to disagree with you. Can you advance any canon 
> evidence for your suggestion?
>
Nikkalmati

What is it you disagree with?  My POA US paperback covers the events pp 179-81. We see that Harry was hearing his mother's voice and "white mist was filing Harry's brain. . .. What was he doing?" Then he was falling but he "knew no more."  He was in the hospital when he woke up and he did not remember hitting the ground.  The teammates and Hermione told him DD came out on the field and slowed him down before he hit the ground.  They had all thought he was dead. He had to be carried to the castle. Clearly, he passed out.

If you disagree about a normal wizard saving himself, think about how Uncle Algee tested Neville when he was a boy.  He dropped him out of the window knowing he would not be hurt, if he had magic.  Didn't Neville bounce all the way down the road or some such?

Nikkalmati (who apologizes for her terrible spelling)