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

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 189993



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Pippin:
> I don't think under normal circumstances a  broom will let its rider fall off unless he deliberately lets go of it.

Carol:
 
> That may be true for an expensive broom like the two Harry owns, but not necessarily for the old school brooms that the kids use for flying lessons and presumably for Quidditch unless their parents provide a better one. We know of several other students besides Harry who are injured playing Quidditch (doesn't Oliver Wood mention being in the hospital wing on one occasion?), and Madam Hooch has a supply of Skele-gro on hand at all times.

Geoff:
I think that seems more likely that it is Madam Pomfrey who has the stock of 
Skele-Gro rather than Madam Hooch.

In the various cases of Quidditch injury - Neville in PS and Harry in POA as
examples, Madam Hooch packs them off to the hospital wing for treatment 
and he goes also there after Lockhart's incompetent attempt to heal his arm 
in COS.

This would seem to be logical since there must be other cases of broken
bones away from the Quidditch pitch.