Hmmm

[featherxquill]

Just a question...

If a school nurse can re-grow bones with a potion, what on EARTH happened to Mad-Eye Moody that his leg had to be amputated? Why could St Mungos healers not fix that?

Comments

[lessthanpie]

Maybe he was out in the field somewhere without a medic. By the time he was able to get to help, it was too late. There's probably a window outside of which even magical medicine just doesn't work.

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

Hmm, perhaps.

It would be intriguing if he wasn't, though, and it was just an injury that magic couldn't heal.

I wonder, if you got hit in the leg with an AK curse, would you die, or would your leg just die?

[lessthanpie]

You'd probably die. I don't think it matters where the AK hits; it's just death. Maybe he was really Crucio-ed, though. I wonder if that one can be concentrated on one area of the body?

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

Most of the ones we've seen though have hit people in the chest, haven't they? Killing a vital organ, and such. Hmm.

And perhaps, yeah. Ow. I keep thinking of GoF Moody in the classroom, and then remembering that wasn't Moody at all so nothing he said can really be taken as an indication of character.

[thatzookid.livejournal.com]

I was thinking he must have ben hit by a powerful curse, or something.

Or, at least, he didn't get to St. Mungo's in time to save/regrow the leg.

[lilith-morgana.livejournal.com]

But now you're confusing Logic with Rowling Logic. Two very different things, m'dear. :)

OTOH, there ought to be limits to what magic can fix, I agree. Otherwise there would be no need for St Mungos in the first place. (I do have a feeling dark magic is much more useful, though, considering how quickly Snape mended Draco in HBP.) Hmm.

[ancientgirl.livejournal.com]

Did he lose it due to a curse or something? I'm thinking if something like that happens because of a dark curse then you can't bring it back.

[ciara-belle.livejournal.com]

Maybe it wasn't a simple bone problem. It could have been due to muscle death, gangrene, severe nerve damage, a bone infection, lots of things that are pretty serious. Magical medicine may not be able to fix everything.

[elysianmusings.livejournal.com]

Wormtail had an itch to scratch and Mungo's didn't have a cure for that particular form of the plague?

[la-fono.livejournal.com]

It was a flesh-eating curse. By the time he'd got some help, it had eaten up to his knee XD