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| Madam Poppy Pomfrey |
Today, Deputy CMO Dr Jenny Harries says it could be six months or longer before the UK returns to normal from the coronavirus pandemic. She has said it before announcing some reviews of lockdown measures to take place every three weeks.
The situation is hard and The Stones and The Grandma continue in Hogwarts where magic protects them from this terrible virus. It will be very difficult to return to normality because after this experience our lives will have changed forever, like our parents, grandparents or greatgrandparents' lives with the Civil War or the World Wars.
The Stones have received the wonderful visit of DR, their Occupational Hazards' teacher who has been talking about labour risks in medicine, the sector that is being more affected in this crisis. They are in first line protecting us and exposing them to the most critical situations a human person can live.
It is always a good moment to recognize their incredible job and their tireleess work. We must always do it but, sadly, people in our society only reactionate when are in danger and appreciate the real important things when they realize they are going to lose them.
The Stones and The Grandma want to homage the sanitarian workers talking with Madam Poppy Pomfrey, the matron and nurse in the Hospital Wing, a part of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Madam Poppy Pomfrey represents this sanitarian sector so important in our society but remember that there are a lot of people who are working day-by-day to protect us and take care of us: drivers, supermarket's workers, farmers, firemen, civil volunteers, cleaning operators, factory workers, postmen, messengers... lots of people who deserve a great recognition not only today and because of this crisis, but always.
The situation is hard and The Stones and The Grandma continue in Hogwarts where magic protects them from this terrible virus. It will be very difficult to return to normality because after this experience our lives will have changed forever, like our parents, grandparents or greatgrandparents' lives with the Civil War or the World Wars.
The Stones have received the wonderful visit of DR, their Occupational Hazards' teacher who has been talking about labour risks in medicine, the sector that is being more affected in this crisis. They are in first line protecting us and exposing them to the most critical situations a human person can live.
It is always a good moment to recognize their incredible job and their tireleess work. We must always do it but, sadly, people in our society only reactionate when are in danger and appreciate the real important things when they realize they are going to lose them.
The Stones and The Grandma want to homage the sanitarian workers talking with Madam Poppy Pomfrey, the matron and nurse in the Hospital Wing, a part of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Madam Poppy Pomfrey represents this sanitarian sector so important in our society but remember that there are a lot of people who are working day-by-day to protect us and take care of us: drivers, supermarket's workers, farmers, firemen, civil volunteers, cleaning operators, factory workers, postmen, messengers... lots of people who deserve a great recognition not only today and because of this crisis, but always.
Madam Poppy Pomfrey is a British witch and the matron at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She was a very competent healer, having been in the position for, at least, the last quarter of the 20th century.
Madam Pomfrey is very possessive of the patients in her care while in the Hospital Wing, and their visitors upset her somewhat, as she frequently insisted they must rest and demanded the visitors leave. She was proficient in her area of expertise, healing magic, and able to take care of some ailments in a heartbeat.
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| Harry Potter & Madam Poppy Pomfrey |
She fought in the Battle
of Hogwarts, the final battle of the Second Wizarding War, during which
she personally dispatched at least one Death Eater in a duel, and was
seen after the battle treating the wounded and attending to the dead.
Not much is known about Madam Pomfrey's life after the final battle. She had retired or was thinking of retiring, since Hannah Abbott reportedly applied for the position of Matron at Hogwarts. Regardless, either because she did not retire or because she was pulled out of retirement, Madam Pomfrey was working at Hogwarts in 2020.
Madam Pomfrey began her career at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry being trusted in that year by Headmaster Albus Dumbledore to escort new Gryffindor student Remus Lupin, who was infected with lycanthropy due to a bite from Fenrir Greyback, to the Whomping Willow every full moon.
At some point before 1 November, 1981, Madam Pomfrey complimented Dumbledore on a set of earmuffs he had recently acquired. The compliment made him blush in such a manner that would only be rivalled when Professor Minerva McGonagall compared his magical prowess favourably against those of Voldemort.
Madam Pomfrey administered Skele-Gro on Harry to regrow the bones in his arm after Gilderoy Lockhart's attempt to fix a Quidditch-caused broken bone failed disastrously. Pomfrey was annoyed that Harry had not been brought straight to her in the first place, as re-growing bones is a much more difficult task than mending bones, which she claims she can do in a heartbeat.
Not much is known about Madam Pomfrey's life after the final battle. She had retired or was thinking of retiring, since Hannah Abbott reportedly applied for the position of Matron at Hogwarts. Regardless, either because she did not retire or because she was pulled out of retirement, Madam Pomfrey was working at Hogwarts in 2020.
Madam Pomfrey began her career at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry being trusted in that year by Headmaster Albus Dumbledore to escort new Gryffindor student Remus Lupin, who was infected with lycanthropy due to a bite from Fenrir Greyback, to the Whomping Willow every full moon.
At some point before 1 November, 1981, Madam Pomfrey complimented Dumbledore on a set of earmuffs he had recently acquired. The compliment made him blush in such a manner that would only be rivalled when Professor Minerva McGonagall compared his magical prowess favourably against those of Voldemort.
Madam Pomfrey administered Skele-Gro on Harry to regrow the bones in his arm after Gilderoy Lockhart's attempt to fix a Quidditch-caused broken bone failed disastrously. Pomfrey was annoyed that Harry had not been brought straight to her in the first place, as re-growing bones is a much more difficult task than mending bones, which she claims she can do in a heartbeat.
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In the same year, Hermione Granger ended up in the hospital wing for a month after an accident in an unauthorised high-level Potion-making, Polyjuice Potion, left her half-feline; apparently the group felt comfortable letting Madam Pomfrey to treat her since she would not ask too many questions and just get on with the job in hand. Hermione was allowed visitors, but it bothered Madam Pomfrey somewhat.
Madam Pomfrey had retired or was thinking of retiring, since Hannah Abbott reportedly applied for the position of Matron at Hogwarts. She assisted prospective members of the then recently established Statute of Secrecy Task Force seeking a career as Magizoologists, whom she taught a rudimentary variation of the Mending Charm, hoping it would help them in the field.
Eventually, she would
later teach the same members some advanced concepts relating to this
spell, allowing them to improve its effectiveness. She also instructed
them how to refine the Reviving Charm they learned from Rosmerta and
upon being helped in tending to a student with a painful Quidditch
injury, gave them practical advice over pain management to be applied to
increase resilience. Regardless, either because she decided not to
leave, or because she ended her retirement, she was working at Hogwarts
in 2020.
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| Madam Poppy Pomfrey |
Madam Pomfrey was described by her students as being exceptionally kind, but even more so strict. She was very obsessive, lining up her patients' sweet boxes in neat rows, and was intensely worried about all of the students under her care, believing even feasts to be risky.
Working in a school where magical accidents were almost an undeniable certainty, she appeared to have resigned herself to treating whoever came her way. Indeed, she never asked questions about how her patients received their ailments or questioning the sometimes ludicrous stories they told her, but instead immediately set to fixing them up.
She had a tendency to burst into tears at moments where great sorrow was appropriate, but she was capable of controlling herself if need be. She also has her standards and loyalty, as she would have resigned in protest when Minerva McGonagall was shot down by four Stunning Spells from a cowardly Ministry attack, were she not worried for the students.
Poppy juice, better known as opium, is one of the oldest known medicines; it has been used as a painkiller and soporific for, at the very least, thousands of years. King Tutankhamun's tomb contained jars of poppy juice, presumably to relieve the pain he suffered from a head injury. Although it is mostly known today as an addictive drug, opium's derivatives, such as morphine and codeine, are vital to modern medicine for their anaesthetic properties.
Pomfrey sounds like comfrey, a plant in the borage family which can be made into a soothing salve. Meanings of her names are, therefore, both in some way medically related. Pomfrey or Pomfret cakes, named after mediaeval names for the Yorkshire town of Pontefract, once a centre of liquorice cultivation, are small, sweet lozenges made from the roots of the licorice plant. Liquorice also has been a medicinal ingredient for hundreds of years.
She had a tendency to burst into tears at moments where great sorrow was appropriate, but she was capable of controlling herself if need be. She also has her standards and loyalty, as she would have resigned in protest when Minerva McGonagall was shot down by four Stunning Spells from a cowardly Ministry attack, were she not worried for the students.
Poppy juice, better known as opium, is one of the oldest known medicines; it has been used as a painkiller and soporific for, at the very least, thousands of years. King Tutankhamun's tomb contained jars of poppy juice, presumably to relieve the pain he suffered from a head injury. Although it is mostly known today as an addictive drug, opium's derivatives, such as morphine and codeine, are vital to modern medicine for their anaesthetic properties.
Pomfrey sounds like comfrey, a plant in the borage family which can be made into a soothing salve. Meanings of her names are, therefore, both in some way medically related. Pomfrey or Pomfret cakes, named after mediaeval names for the Yorkshire town of Pontefract, once a centre of liquorice cultivation, are small, sweet lozenges made from the roots of the licorice plant. Liquorice also has been a medicinal ingredient for hundreds of years.
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The Hospital Wing is a part of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is run by Madam Poppy Pomfrey, the school's matron.
The students and staff who suffer mishaps and injuries during the school year, are sent or brought to the hospital wing for treatment. Poppy would prefer there be six visitors at one time for one person. There is a room adjacent belonging to the matron.
The hospital wing is well equipped to deal with all kinds of magical and mundane injuries, from broken limbs to regrowing lost bones. Only in the most severe cases are the patients sent to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries for further treatment, such as when Katie Bell touched a cursed Opal Necklace.
Located on the first floor, and later one or two floors up, the hospital wing is where Hogwarts residents go to have their medical needs met. Within the hospital wing are lots and lots of beds with white sheets, privacy screens, and bedpans. The entrance has double doors. Madam Pomfrey’s office is part of the hospital wing complex.
The students and staff who suffer mishaps and injuries during the school year, are sent or brought to the hospital wing for treatment. Poppy would prefer there be six visitors at one time for one person. There is a room adjacent belonging to the matron.
The hospital wing is well equipped to deal with all kinds of magical and mundane injuries, from broken limbs to regrowing lost bones. Only in the most severe cases are the patients sent to St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries for further treatment, such as when Katie Bell touched a cursed Opal Necklace.
Located on the first floor, and later one or two floors up, the hospital wing is where Hogwarts residents go to have their medical needs met. Within the hospital wing are lots and lots of beds with white sheets, privacy screens, and bedpans. The entrance has double doors. Madam Pomfrey’s office is part of the hospital wing complex.
More information: Wizarding World
You should have come straight to me!...
I can mend bones in a second but growing them back.
Madam Poppy Pomprey
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