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===As a Healer===
 
===As a Healer===
[[File:Gunhilda of Gorsemoor USA Card.jpg|thumb|left|195px|Gunhilda, treating a sick [[Wizards|wizard]].]]
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[[File:Gunhilda of Gorsemoor USA Card.jpg|thumb|left|195px|Gunhilda, treating a sick [[Wizardkind|wizard]].]]
 
At some point in her life, Gunhilda became a [[Healer]]. She was seen as a talented and hard-working [[Healer]] by everyone who knew her. A gifted potioneer, Gunhilda became very famous for her development of the cure for dragon pox, a disease that in worst cases can and did kill many wizards, including [[Chauncey Oldridge]]<ref name="CO'sFWC">[[Chauncey Oldridge]]'s [[Chocolate Frog Cards|Chocolate Frog Card]] (''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)]]'').</ref> and, more recently, [[Abraxas Malfoy]].<ref name="HBP">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''.</ref> Although effective, Gunhilda's cure has not eradicated the disease.<ref name="A. Malfoy">Seen as [[Abraxas Malfoy]] died of it in the twentieth century.</ref>
 
At some point in her life, Gunhilda became a [[Healer]]. She was seen as a talented and hard-working [[Healer]] by everyone who knew her. A gifted potioneer, Gunhilda became very famous for her development of the cure for dragon pox, a disease that in worst cases can and did kill many wizards, including [[Chauncey Oldridge]]<ref name="CO'sFWC">[[Chauncey Oldridge]]'s [[Chocolate Frog Cards|Chocolate Frog Card]] (''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)]]'').</ref> and, more recently, [[Abraxas Malfoy]].<ref name="HBP">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''.</ref> Although effective, Gunhilda's cure has not eradicated the disease.<ref name="A. Malfoy">Seen as [[Abraxas Malfoy]] died of it in the twentieth century.</ref>
   
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==Behind the scenes==
 
==Behind the scenes==
 
[[File:Statue of Gunhilda of Gorsemoor (also known as One-Eyed Witch).JPG|right|thumb|150px|This statue of Gunhilda can be found at [[Hogwarts Castle]].]]
 
[[File:Statue of Gunhilda of Gorsemoor (also known as One-Eyed Witch).JPG|right|thumb|150px|This statue of Gunhilda can be found at [[Hogwarts Castle]].]]
*Gunhilda shares her name with [[Gunhilda Kneen]], an eleventh-century [[Wizards|witch]] who came down with a "touch" of [[dragon pox]], and as a result couldn't play in a [[Quidditch]] match.<ref name="QTtA">''[[Quidditch Through the Ages (real)]]''.</ref>
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*Gunhilda shares her name with [[Gunhilda Kneen]], an eleventh-century [[Wizardkind|witch]] who came down with a "touch" of [[dragon pox]], and as a result couldn't play in a [[Quidditch]] match.<ref name="QTtA">''[[Quidditch Through the Ages (real)]]''.</ref>
   
 
==Etymology==
 
==Etymology==

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Gunhilda of Gorsemoor
Gunhilda of Gorsemoor
Biographical information
Born

1556[1]

Died

1639[1] (aged 83)

Also known as

The One-Eyed Witch

Physical information
Species

Human[1]

Gender

Female[1]

Hair colour
  • Red (formerly[1])
  • Grey[1] (formerly)
  • Bald[2]
Eye colour

Green[1]

Skin colour

White[1]

Affiliation
Occupation

Healer[1]

Gunhilda of Gorsemoor (1556-1639) was a one-eyed, hump-backed Healer who discovered a cure for dragon pox.[1]

Biography

Early life

Not much is known about Gunhilda of Gorsemoor's early life. She was born in 1556, and might have attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in her youth, from c. 1567- 1574.

As a Healer

Gunhilda of Gorsemoor USA Card

Gunhilda, treating a sick wizard.

At some point in her life, Gunhilda became a Healer. She was seen as a talented and hard-working Healer by everyone who knew her. A gifted potioneer, Gunhilda became very famous for her development of the cure for dragon pox, a disease that in worst cases can and did kill many wizards, including Chauncey Oldridge[3] and, more recently, Abraxas Malfoy.[4] Although effective, Gunhilda's cure has not eradicated the disease.[5]

Death and legacy

After her death in 1639, everyone who knew her felt great sorrow.[1] The great Healer might have died but she was not forgotten; her cure for dragon pox continued saving lives many centuries after her death. For this, Gunhilda was featured in a Chocolate Frog Card.[1] A statue of Gunhilda can be found in the Gunhilda of Gorsemoor Corridor on the third-floor at Hogwarts Castle. When one taps the statue's hump with a wand and incants the spell Dissendium, a secret passage is opened, leading to the basement of Honeydukes Sweetshop in Hogsmeade Village, a passage which Harry Potter used.[6]

Behind the scenes

Statue of Gunhilda of Gorsemoor (also known as One-Eyed Witch)

This statue of Gunhilda can be found at Hogwarts Castle.

Etymology

The name "Gunhilda" is from the Old Norse name Gunnhildr, derived from the elements gunnr "war" and hildr "battle".

See also

Appearances

Notes and references


Hogwarts Castle
Locations on the third floor

Armoury · Charms Corridor · Class 34 · Classroom 2E · Classroom 3C · Clock Tower Entrance · Flipendo Challenge · Lumos Challenge · Wingardium Leviosa Challenge · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor Corridor · Hesperius Hall · Jinx Rooms · The Tower · Library · One-Eyed Witch Passage · Storeroom · Third Floor Corridor · Trophy Room · Trophy Secret Passage · Turret Stairwell · Vastus Vestibule

Portraits, statues and other artwork located on the third floor

Basil Fronsac · Brutus Scrimgeour · Damara Dodderidge · Drunk Monks · Google Flange · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor · Helena Ravenclaw · Merwyn the Malicious · Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington · Shepherdess · Temeritus Shanks · Valeria Myriadd · Witch in green · Witch in Pompadour hairstyle · Wizard in black · Wizard in red



Potions (class)
Books chapterart hbp 09
Professors: 16th century Professor · Vindictus Veridian · Severus Snape · Horace Slughorn
Textbooks: Magical Drafts and Potions · One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi · Advanced Potion-Making · Moste Potente Potions · A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick, and Surgery
Potions at Hogwarts: Potions Classroom · Potions Staircase · Potions basement · Potions Club · Potion Master's office · Potion Master's storeroom · Dungeon Five · Cauldron cupboard
Potioneers: Arsenius Jigger · Damocles · Glover Hipworth · Golpalott · Gregory the Smarmy · Gunhilda of Gorsemoor · Hector Dagworth-Granger · Hesper Starkey · J. Pippin · Laverne de Montmorency · Libatius Borage · Regulus Moonshine · Rubens Winikus · Sacharissa Tugwood · Tilden Toots · Dr. Ubbly · Zygmunt Budge
Potions Studied: Boil-Cure Potion · Forgetfulness Potion · Hair-Raising Potion · Shrinking Solution · Undetectable Poisons · Wiggenweld Potion · Girding Potion · Antidotes · Strengthening Solution · Everlasting Elixirs · Felix Felicis · Draught of Living Death · Amortentia · Elixir to Induce Euphoria · Hiccoughing Solution · Poison Antidote · Swelling Solution · Draught of Peace · Wit-Sharpening Potion · Polyjuice Potion

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