"I am very sorry to tell you that Professor Kettleburn, our previous professor for Care of Magical Creatures, applied for retirement at the end of last term because of a slight deficiency in his limbs..."
Dumbledore spoke at the staff table, while the students below whispered among themselves. Allie caught a word of it from Crabbe, as news drifted over from the Hufflepuff table, though it came back thoroughly colored by his own style.
"That old man was being so polite. Kettleburn now has only one arm and half a leg left. Want to guess if it was bitten off by a dragon or pinched off by a Blast-Ended Skrewt? Even if he wanted to keep teaching, he would first have to learn to use prosthetics or get someone to hold him up. Haha, just picturing that scene is hilarious."
Chapter 130