Like the topic says.

I know that canon was pretty much for children to young teens, but it always intrigued me. Splinching was never really described in any real detail. Does it look just like it says? Your arm is over there, while the rest of you is over here; the connecting point shown as a flesh colored patch. Or is it bloody and gory?

I always imagined it being a bit more bloody than was written. I mean, youre leaving parts of you behind.

 

I'd imagine it would look like something out of a Saw movie. Though maybe that's just wishful thinking.

 

Personally I've always imagined splinching as losing your limps, yet they are still connected by magic. I mean you don't bleed, yet can still see the insides of the unfortunate apparater. That would explain how someone could survive splinching oneself, at least the more severe cases.

Of course a bloody and painful reattatchment session at St. Mungo's is probably the best way not to splinch yourself again.

 

I always pictured it as a clean cut, like someone had cut you into pieces with a really, really sharp sword.

Clean edges, not a lot of gore but some blood.

 

Didn't it happen to Ron in the seventh book when they escape from Yaxley? Sorry for not including the exact spot in this post.

 

Yeah, Ron loses a heap of flesh or something, and Harry and Hermione are horrified because they thought Splinching was humorous. Or at least Harry did.

Or at least I think he did.

Anyone care to look it up?

 

He lost half an eyebrow. Not exactly something vital.

Still, canonically I'd say it's a definite non-gory phenomenon while in fanon I prefer it to be as gory as possible.

 

No in DH Ron lost chunks of his chest. You thinking about when he tried to pass the test.

 

Yeah, it's an odd subject.

We hear about some crazy splinchings that people survive. In the earlier books it's presented as something you just have to wait to be reversed.

Didn't we hear about someone splinching and leaving their head behind once? I can't remember.

But whatever the case, Ron's splinching in DH runs counter to everything we had heard about it, including what we saw in HBP in apparation classes.

Clearly JKR just wanted to be dramatic, but an in-universe explanation could be that there are different types of splinching, depending on what caused it.

 

I always thought of splinching like a very clean cut which is burned closed.

 

Stress?

Also, JKR ignoring any rules she made beforehand in order to be dramatic? You're kidding!

 

I once splinched off my penis.

 

I always pictured splinching as something straight of a Picasso canvas.

 

Canon is very self-contradictory.
I think splinching ought to be bloody, gross, and potentially fatal. 'Cause things are just more fun that way.

 

That wasn't splinching, that was a zipper accident.

 

This. Canonically my impression has always been that a splinching accident results in an absurdly clean cut that physically separates a part of the body, but doesn't isolate/end its function. For example splinching off ones head would end with the head at point A and the body at point B, but with the victim not bleeding out and the brain retaining control over (at the very least) vital functions of the body.


Were it up to me, a splinched arm would leave the wizard crippled, in pain, and rapidly bleeding out, while a splinched head (or anything vital) would kill almost instantly.

 

If that were the case though it would be almost impossible to learn - it's practically guaranteed that a learning apparater will splinch at least once, and the risk of death would be incredibly high.

It must be safer than that in some way.

On the subject of apparation: I would love to see in a fic wizards making jokes about women apparaters <_<

 

Fucking lol Taure, fucking lol.

 

Why couldn't Mrs. Figg apparate?

Spoiler

....Cause she's a witch.

:awesome

 

I myself have pictured a splinch resembling a body disembodied. It would look gross, disfigured and not a pretty sight.