In the short term, there is muscle regeneration resulting in muscle fibers of different sizes, but in the long term, the muscles atrophy and are infiltrated by fat and fibrotic tissue, which leaves them really weak.
His fingers moved absentmindedly to the little pouch still strung around his neck, thorough which he could feel the jagged mirror fragment in which he had been sure he had seen Dumbledore's eye.
" Oh, oh, oh! What have you done? I'm spoiled! I can't go! My hair, oh, my hair! " wailed Meg, looking with despair at the uneven frizzle on her forehead.
During the day she kept along the coast, where the currents were favourable;the coast, irregular in profile, and visible sometimes across the clearings, was at most five miles distant.
Intermingled with the pines were shorter, ragged-looking trees with lumpy trunks, wizened branches and fine twigs like gnarled fingers: Betula pubescens, downy birch.