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Derwent started working at [[St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries]] in [[1720s|1722]]. Derwent left the job in [[1740s|1741]] and became the [[Headmaster|Headmistress]] of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] that same year. She left the post in [[1760s|1768]].<ref name="OP22" /> |
Derwent started working at [[St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries]] in [[1720s|1722]]. Derwent left the job in [[1740s|1741]] and became the [[Headmaster|Headmistress]] of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry]] that same year. She left the post in [[1760s|1768]].<ref name="OP22" /> |
Revision as of 20:07, 17 November 2010
Professor Dilys Derwent was a witch who worked as a Healer at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries (1722-1741) and was a celebrated Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (1741-1768). Her portrait hangs not only in Dumbledore's Office along with the portraits of previous headmasters and headmistresses, but also in St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries's main admitting area.[1]
Biography
Early Life
Derwent attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the early 1700s and was sorted into Gryffindor House. she probably completed seven years of education there before beginning her career as a Healer.
As a Healer and Headmistress
Derwent started working at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries in 1722. Derwent left the job in 1741 and became the Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that same year. She left the post in 1768.[1]
Attack on Arthur Weasley
When Arthur Weasley was attacked by Nagini in the Department of Mysteries in late 1995, Albus Dumbledore, then-Headmaster, asked Derwent to go to her portrait at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries's main admitting area in order to keep Dumbledore apprised on Mr. Weasley's condition.[1]
Voldemort's Defeat
- "All around the walls, the headmasters and headmistresses of Hogwarts were giving him a standing ovation..."
- — Description[src]
When Harry Potter went to the Headmaster's office, shortly after Lord Voldemort's defeat and the end of the Second Wizarding War, Dilys Derwent joined the ovation made by the previous Hogwarts Headmasters, sobbing unashamedly.[3]
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Appears in portrait(s))
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Appears in portrait(s))
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Chapter 22 (St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries)
- ↑ J.K. Rowling at the Edinburgh Book Festival (15 August, 2004)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Chapter 36 (The Flaw in the Plan)