Nick Moran, best known for playing the lead snatcher Scabior in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1and Part 2, was recently hospitalized after sustaining a "life-threatening" injury that could have left him unable to "walk or talk again." According to Daily Mail, the British actor and filmmaker underwent emergency surgery after a shock diagnosis, which revealed that the pain he had been experiencing in his neck was caused by damage to his spinal cord and "some of the things that operate your speech and your legs."

The actor's friend, Terry Stone, revealed that it was Moran's girlfriend who insisted that he see a doctor about the pain he was in. After getting a professional opinion on the matter, he was sent to A&e for an emergency operation. If he had not had the pain promptly checked out, he could have been rendered speechless and immobile. The procedure was described...