Cat!Hermione and Madam Pomfrey (was Re: Some mistakes in book1???)

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 47871

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Sarmi <princess_tx at y...> wrote:
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>  --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Fer Mendoza" <nosref at y...> wrote:
> Ron actually explained ... ... ... "Good thing Madam Pomfrey doesn't
ask questions" or something like that.  ... ... ...
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>  Brian <bkb042 at y...> wrote:
> 
>    While we don't know for sure what, if anything was said to
Dumbledore about Hermione's condition, I refuse to believe that
Pomphrey is so incompetant as to not correctly diagnose the cause of
the ailment!  


> Sarmi:
> I agree partly here.  I do believe that Madam Pomphrey knew what
caused Hermione's transformation. ... ... ... I'm pretty sure at one
point she just stopped asking why they did it and just treated them,
sometimes it's just better to not know why.  A good Nurse could only
ask questions of those students who seem to be repeat offenders ...
... ...
> 
> Sarmi

bboy_mn adds:

Of course, all we can do is speculate, but my read of this was that in
order to encourage student to come and get treatment right away, Md.
Pomphrey doesn't ask too many questions. If student put off coming in
 until the problem has become disasterous, danagerous, or deadly;
that's not a good thing. 

Let's not forget when Ron got bit by Norbert the dragon. In a matter
of  two days, it became clear that Norbert was poisonous and that the
poison was spreading up Ron's arm. A young boy like that could have
very easlily been too intimidated to come in for help if he thought he
was going to get into trouble, and may have gone to some other student
for help, and really made bad things worse. 

So, I think it's better for the students to feel they can come in to
the infirmary whenever they need help and not have to worry about the
consequence of asking for that help. 

I'm sure that students get into fights and curse each other all the
time. Students like Neville try a simple spell in the common room, and
a it backfires sending half a dozen people to the school nurse for
help. I mean, one student tried to curse her acne off, and instead
cursed her nose off. So, I think Md. Pomphrey gets a steady stream of
students with problems like this. 

However, if there was a sign of blatant abuse, dangerous or malicious
assault, I think she would mention it, and those students would be
watched closely.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn