Hi Ariana, hi Vanessa. Welcome to this third episode of the Women of Harry Potter and

the Sacred Tax. Welcome to you. Oh thank you. I feel welcomed. Vanessa it's your turn

to bless someone. Who is it you're gonna bless this week? I am blessing Poppy Pumphrey.

And there are so many things to bless her for. Obviously she is a tremendous healer. The

things that she heals are incredible given that she is basically a school nurse. I would

imagine that she does not have the resources of a hospital, but she takes care of all

of the wounded after the battle of Hogwarts. She takes care of people emotionally and

physically and like reverses all sorts of magical spells. The thing I am gonna bless

her for is that I feel like she is the emblem of invisible labor in these books. And by

that I mean through her competence and her ability to stand up to authority like Dumbledore

and solve almost any problem brought to her. She creates an environment at that school

where kids feel more comfortable experimenting and taking risks because they know that at the

end of the day, Madame Pumphrey is gonna be able to heal them. And I think that is a huge

burden that she takes on by being a competent woman. That's so interesting that you say

stands up to authority like Dumbledore because I think when you put it that way, Madame Pumphrey

is the character who's the most like Dumbledore in this series. For exactly the reason you're

talking about because she is always holding the safety of Hogwarts in her hands that anything

can happen to you in the bounds of Hogwarts. And Madame Pumphrey has never not been able to

heal something. There's this moment where Alicia Spanette says Madame Pumphrey will sort her out.

She's never failed yet. And that kind of confidence that like just her presence brings to all of the

students is why Hogwarts feel safe. And we so rarely talk about her as the character who keeps

Hogwarts safe. We always talk about Dumbledore as that character. And yet it is they're like mutual

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