[HPforGrownups] Madame Pomfrey Query

[Andrew MacIan]

No: HPFGUIDX 33343

Greetings from Andrew!

Another speculation....
--- mrgrrrargh at aol.com wrote:
> > jenbea:
> > Do you suppose Madame Pomfrey is under special
> instruction from 
> > Dumbledore not to question the students when they
> come to her with a 
> > strange/suspicious ailment? <<
> 
> If Pomfrey does have a confidentiality with students
> is it of her choosing or 
> Dumbledore's? She's obviously been there a long time
> (didn't some character 
> mention her as being around when [s]he was at
> Hogwarts years ago), so was the 
> confidentiality agreement in effect with other
> Headmasters as well?

I cannot speak about such things in the UK (and I
trust someone there can, and will), but in the US,
privilege of communication attaches to medical
professionals as well as to the legal.  Could this be
one reason that Pomfrey enjoys such a position of
trust at Hogwarts?

Cheers,

Drieux

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