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   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) to Howard Brazee   
   Re: The Magicians by Lev Grossman   
   18 Jul 11 22:28:05   
   
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   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 7/18/11 8:05 PM, Howard Brazee wrote:   
   > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:33:32 -0400, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"   
   >   wrote:   
   >   
   >> 	Alchemical? They don't USE alchemy much at all in HP. Even "potions" is   
   >> mostly explained as magical, rather than alchemy. What alchemy is there   
   >> is confused with the regular magic and not very accurately depicted in   
   >> any case.   
   >   
   > I'm wondering why (at least in the movies), they don't seem to use   
   > sutures or better to close open wounds.    Harry's scars are a special   
   > case, but the Goblin's scar in the last movie?   Why wasn't it closed?   
   >   
      
   	Especially given the medical treatment they know they HAVE available   
   (Madame Pomfrey was apparently able to cure anything but death).   
      
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