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Madam Poppy Pomfrey
"Oh, it's you , is it? I suppose you've been doing something dangerous again?"
     -- Madam Pomfrey to Harry Potter

"Minister! Professor! I must insist that you leave. Potter is my patient, and he should not be distressed!"
     -- Madam Poppy Pomfrey

"It's okay, Hermione. We'll take you up to the hospital wing. Madam Pomfrey never asks too many questions..."
     -- Harry Potter
 

School nurse, very adept with curing spells, potions, herbs, and other remedies. 

  • she fixed Neville's broken wrist "in about a minute."
  • Ron's hand turned a nasty shade of green and swelled up -- Ron had to go to the Hospital Wing but worried whether Madam Pomfrey would recognize a dragon bite
  • in the Hospital Wing, Madam Pomfrey is the ultimate authority; she can even send Dumbledore out
  • uses Pepper Up Potion to cure colds (CS
  • re-grows the bones in Harry's arm
  • complains about inept teachers after Lockhard de-boned Harry's arm, but approves of Lupin because he "knows his remedies"
  • when they bring Hermione to the Hospital Wing after she accidentally uses Polyjuice Potion with a cat hair, Harry says that she "never asks too many questions..."
  • Madam Pomfrey, according to Harry, can heal cuts in about a minute
  • she was the nurse when Lupin was at Hogwarts, walking him out to the Whomping Willow every month when he was about to transform
  • fixed Eloise Midgen's nose back on
  • removed the beards from Fred and George when they failed to fool the Goblet of Fire
  • cleans Harry's shoulder wound from the Horntail with a purple liquid that smokes and stings and puts an orange paste over Cedric's burns
  • shrunk Hermione's curse-enlarged teeth
  • bundles up the champions and the people they rescued from the bottom of the lake after the second task


Madam Pomfrey
voice: stern, but kind to patients
age: middle aged, older than Sirius, James, etc. since she was nurse at that time
field: medicine


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