Healer

**Harry Potter**: "*Are they doctors?*"
**Ron Weasley**: "*Doctors? Those Muggle nutters that cut people up? Nah, they're Healers.*"
— Discussion regarding healers[src]
A **Healer** was a qualified witch or wizard who tended to the sick and injured using healing magic. They were the wizarding world equivalent of a Muggle doctor. St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries (which was England's wizarding community's primary hospital) was one such place where a Healer may have worked tending to the sick and injured.

## Nature

"*Witches and wizards in lime-green robes were walking up and down the rows, asking questions and making notes on clipboards like Umbridge’s. Harry noticed the emblem embroidered on their chests: a wand and bone, crossed.*"
— Description of the Healers that work at St Mungo's[src]

Healers and Mediwizards were the wizarding world equivalent of Muggle doctors and nurses.

St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries was one of the most well known places where Healers worked. It was founded by Healer Mungo Bonham in the 17th century. They treated magical diseases such as Dragon Pox, spattergroit, and vanishing sickness and injuries. Healers at St Mungo's wore lime green robes with the sign of a bone and a wand.

Healers could work in a variety of places. At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there was a Hospital Wing run by the matron. Madam Poppy Pomfrey was the matron from 1971 until at least 2014. Healers at Hogwarts tended to the sick and wounded from the school, but transferred anyone they did not have the resources to treat, to St Mungo's.

### Healing magic

*Main article: Healing magic*
Healing magic was a branch of magic used by Healers and Mediwizards to treat the sick or wounded.

There were many different types of spells in this branch of magic, that had a variety of effects. There were also a vast group of potions that were dedicated to healing as well. Magical medication was also implemented and was normally related to healing potions, but things such as chocolate were also a type of medication. Some of these described below were:

 Pepperup Potion
 Blood-Replenishing Potion
 Wiggenweld Potion

## Requirements

To become a Healer, one had to have excellent academic credentials. In Great Britain and Ireland, they needed at least five N.E.W.T.s, with a high mark of either 'Outstanding' or 'Exceeds Expectations' at: Potions, Transfiguration, Herbology, Charms, and Defence Against the Dark Arts.

## Known Healers

Omar Abasi

Miriam Strout

Mungo Bonham

Gunhilda de Gorsemoor

Poppy Pomfrey

Hannah Abbott

Fat Friar

Wainscott

Lancelot

Josefina Calderon

Wiggins

* Dilys Derwent
* Rutherford Poke
* H. Pollingtonious
* Augustus Pye
* Urquhart Rackharrow
* Hippocrates Smethwyck
* Helbert Spleen
* Talbott Winger's mother
* Six unidentified Healers
* Maud Ashborn

## Behind the scenes

* A healer is defined as "a person who claims to be able to cure a disease or injury using special powers."
* The exact relationship between mediwizards and healers is never made explicitly clear. Given the context where mediwizards are seen (attending to an injured Quidditch player), they may be healers specializing in traumatic injuries or the wizarding world equivalent of first responders. It may also simply be an alternate term.