HARRY POTTER AND THE MEDICAL MYSTERIES

By Meilyn Sylvestre and Stephanie Yoo

SEVERUS SNAPE
 Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts professor  The Half-Blooded Prince  Double Agent  In love with Lily Evans  greasy-haired git Ronald Weasley

CELIAC DISEASE
 1:133  Damaging of the villi  Gluten  Greasy hair/sallow skin
-Chronic hepatitis/Biliary

cirrhosis

 Yellow-ish teeth  Plant kept in the dark Rowling  Irratable/moody/cranky

FLUFFY
 Ceberus  Guards the third floor corridor  Falls asleep to music  Set free into the Forbidden Forest  Very vicious

POLYCEPHALY
 many heads  1:200000  Animals-small survival rate  One egg fertilizes  Incompletely splits  Re-fuses

FILIUS FLITWICK
Charms professor at Hogwarts Drinks cherry syrup and soda with ice and an umbrella Balances on a pile of books for class Head of Ravenclaw Swish and Flick

DWARFISM
 Abnormally short due to lack of growth hormone  Slow growth rate  Normal body proportion and intelligence  Tests for Detection  Treatment  Expected Results

RUBEUS HAGRID
 Game keeper at Hogwarts; Care of Magical Creatures  Half-Giant  Aragog, Buckbeak, Fang, Fluffy, Norberta  "Ah, shut up, Dursley, yeh great prune."

GIGANTISM
 An abnormally large excess of growth hormone during childhood  Symptoms  Tests  Treatment  Similar to Acromegaly  Alton Giant  Extremely rare

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