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"Doctors? Those Muggle nutters who cut people up?"
Ron Weasley's view on doctors[src]

A doctor, also known as a Muggle healer by wizards,[1] was a Muggle profession dedicated to treating injuries and illnesses, and in maintaining human health, similar to Healers in the wizarding world.[2]

History[]

Many wizards and witches considered the methods used by Muggle doctors to be primitive, but some, such as Arthur Weasley and Augustus Pye, showed interest in their techniques.[3]

When Albus Dumbledore first met Tom Riddle at Wool's Orphanage to tell him about Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Tom originally believed Dumbledore to be a doctor, specifically from some sort of psychiatric hospital, sent by Mrs Cole to take him away.[4]

A team of doctors examined the bodies of the slain Riddle family following their death by the Killing Curse at the hands of a teenage Tom Riddle, but were unable to explain what had happened as the curse left no visible mark, nor any other evidence that could provide an explanation to a Muggle physician.[5]

A dentist was a form of doctor that specialised in oral health care. Hermione Granger's mother and father were both dentists.[6]

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. Wonderbook: Book of Potions
  2. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 22 (St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries)
  3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 23 (Christmas on the Closed Ward)
  4. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 13 (The Secret Riddle)
  5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 1 (The Riddle House)
  6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 12 (The Mirror of Erised)

See also[]