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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 189995

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

Carol responds:

Yes, of course you're right. That's what I get for posting in a hurry without taking a moment to refresh my memory. (What's the little smiley icon for embarrassment?)

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

Carol:

Possibly, but the other instances of broken bones are rare (Draco's broken arm when he antagonizes Buckbeak)? Most of the injuries she deals with, if they can be called that, seem to be the result of hexes and spilled potions.

As for someone's suggestion that Madam Pomfrey stocked up on Skele-gro because Lockhart was coming to Hogwarts, I doubt it. She's not psychic, and for all we know, she was a secret fan of Lockhart's. At any rate, she had no way of knowing that a teacher hired by the seemingly omniscient Dumbledore would cause a student's arm to lose all its bones after it was broken in a fall from a broom.

Carol, who has been known to call Dumbledore Voldemort when she didn't proofread a post!