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

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 190014



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff" <geoffbannister123@> 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 save 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?
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> Steve:
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> ... Harry's side car breaks away for Hagrid's motorcycle and
> begins to free fall, until Harry perform the Levitation spell
> to save himself. 
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> One assumes if a wizard has a wand, it is pretty hard to die
> in an accident. ...
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> And Hagrid is outraged at the idea that Harry's parent could
> have been killed in a car accident. 
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> Steve/bboyminn
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Steve:

I'll add one extra point, though it is not directly from the
books. 

Paraphrased - I believe in an interview JRK was ask how Harry
and other wizards could survive the obviously hard knocks they
encounter. JKR's reply was that being magical gives then a degree
of resilience to hard knocks the normal muggles don't have. 

While a wizard can certainly die from an accident, they are far
less likely to do so than a muggle, both from the innate 
resilience, and from their magical ability. 

Steve/bboyminn