The Hogwarts librarian

[Donna]

No: HPFGUIDX 80690

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sbursztynski" 
<greatraven at h...> wrote:
 
> Compare/contrast this with the warm (perhaps equally cliched, but 
at 
> least positive) portrayal of the school nurse. 

> Sue B, who never expected so much response to this thread!(g)

D says - 

Now I am not trying to be mean, so please forgive me, but...

Madame Pomfrey is far from Warm.  She is brusk to the point of being 
rude.  She is a dragon as far as protecting her patients is concerned.
She doesn't like visitors seeing her patients.  She wants her 
patients to have complete bed rest.

She is even quite brusk with her patients.  Note how she takes care 
of Harry every time he is in the hospital wing.  She never wants him 
to leave that bed.  

At least that is how I read Madam Poppy Pomfrey, but that is just my 
opinion.  And we all are entitled to our opinions on this list.  By 
the way, Madame Pince is quite what I pictured her to be.  It seems 
to me that JKR presents most of the teachers and staff at Hogwarts to 
be a bit off putting.  Not warm and fuzzy.  As far as I can tell, and 
again just my opinion, the only two teachers who seem approachable 
are Professors Flitwick and DD.  (Yes, I said DD)

D - perhaps I am projecting my US experiences on these characters.  
Perhaps I cannot see the UK experience.