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alt_sally_anneDear Madam Pomfrey,
You may be surprised to hear that I would like to be a Healer, because I usually try to avoid the Hospital Wing. But, I'm really quite interested in being a Healer like you.
As you know, I am a half-blood, and although I am in fostering now, until I was eleven I lived with my natural parents. When you are a blood-traitor family you can't simply go to St Mungo's for healing, and so if you are seriously ill or injured things can be very difficult. The 'healers' who will see you are sometimes not really healers at all. They charge quite a lot of money, and sometimes they're cruel, because they know their patients have no choice but to put up with it. (My parents, of course, chose their situation, but I was born into it and had to live that way until I was liberated from my parents' household by Our Lord's decree upon beginning at Hogwarts.)
My early experiences have given me quite a lot of empathy for people who may not have ready access to a healer, whether it is because of their situation of birth, their place of residence, or their lack of money. I would like to become a Healer who treats anyone at all who needs help and who is kind and tries not to hurt people (and who would never hurt anyone on purpose), like you. I would like to go to places in the Protectorate that might be far from St Mungo's, to treat people who are too ill or injured to make the journey. I am very good with children (in my foster home with Mr and Mrs Stretton I have done a great deal of babysitting for their younger children) and I think, if I were a Healer, I could put children at ease. I am also good at fixing things that are broken, and while I know Healing a person is not like fixing a broken pump or loom, the process of figuring out what exactly might be wrong seems to me like it might be similar.
The thing that most appeals to me about Healing is that it would be a job where I would be of service to others: where I could feel certain at the end of each day that I had made things a little bit better than they would have been without me. How many other career paths offer that?
I know it is difficult to get into Healer training programmes and as a half-blood I may face particular challenges, so if you have any advice to me I would very much like to hear it (but if you don't have time I understand of course).
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Sally-Anne Perks
You may be surprised to hear that I would like to be a Healer, because I usually try to avoid the Hospital Wing. But, I'm really quite interested in being a Healer like you.
As you know, I am a half-blood, and although I am in fostering now, until I was eleven I lived with my natural parents. When you are a blood-traitor family you can't simply go to St Mungo's for healing, and so if you are seriously ill or injured things can be very difficult. The 'healers' who will see you are sometimes not really healers at all. They charge quite a lot of money, and sometimes they're cruel, because they know their patients have no choice but to put up with it. (My parents, of course, chose their situation, but I was born into it and had to live that way until I was liberated from my parents' household by Our Lord's decree upon beginning at Hogwarts.)
My early experiences have given me quite a lot of empathy for people who may not have ready access to a healer, whether it is because of their situation of birth, their place of residence, or their lack of money. I would like to become a Healer who treats anyone at all who needs help and who is kind and tries not to hurt people (and who would never hurt anyone on purpose), like you. I would like to go to places in the Protectorate that might be far from St Mungo's, to treat people who are too ill or injured to make the journey. I am very good with children (in my foster home with Mr and Mrs Stretton I have done a great deal of babysitting for their younger children) and I think, if I were a Healer, I could put children at ease. I am also good at fixing things that are broken, and while I know Healing a person is not like fixing a broken pump or loom, the process of figuring out what exactly might be wrong seems to me like it might be similar.
The thing that most appeals to me about Healing is that it would be a job where I would be of service to others: where I could feel certain at the end of each day that I had made things a little bit better than they would have been without me. How many other career paths offer that?
I know it is difficult to get into Healer training programmes and as a half-blood I may face particular challenges, so if you have any advice to me I would very much like to hear it (but if you don't have time I understand of course).
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Sally-Anne Perks
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Date: 2011-05-20 04:51 am (UTC)I would like it very much if you would stop up to the ward to discuss this matter in person, though it might be best if you would wait until the fifth years have entirely finished with their examinations as my time and attention are currently in rather high demand. Perhaps you would come for tea on Saturday afternoon?
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Date: 2011-05-20 04:55 pm (UTC)