St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

Located: Through Purge and Dowse Ltd, a large, old fashioned, red-brick department store with a shabby, miserable air in London. The window displays consist of a few chipped dummies with their wigs askew, standing at random and modelling fashions at least ten years out of date. It has "Closed for Refurbishment" signs hanging from all its dusty doors. After speaking to the ugly female dummy in the window with its false eyelashes hanging off and its green nylon pinafore dress, it becomes a similar process to that of getting onto Platform 9 ¾. The dummy will give a tiny nod in approval beckoning you to enter into the store with its jointed finger where you must walk into the windows.

Founded: Late 1500's or early 1600's by Mungo Bonham.

Emblem: A crossed wand and bone.

Staff: Known as "Healers," they are trained to treat a wide variety of magic related illnesses and injuries that have similar comparisons to the Muggle world. All staff where lime green coloured robes.

To make a donation: Throw your wizarding coins into the Fountain of Magical Brethren at the Ministry of Magic.

Levels
St. Mungo's consists of six (6) floors. When you first enter through the store windows you appear at Reception. It is a crowded room where sick witches and wizards sit upon rickety wooden chairs perusing out-of-date copies of Witch Weekly. There is also a desk marked Enquiries at which the Welcom Witch works. Behind the desk is a wall covered in notices and posters saying things like: A CLEAN CAULDRON KEEPS POTIONS FROM BECOMING POISONS and ANTIDOTES ARE ANTI-DON'TS UNLESS APPROVED BY A QUALIFIED HEALER. A is also a large portrai of a witch with long silver ringlets which is labelled: Dilys Derwent, St Mungo's Healer 1722-1741, Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry 1741-1768. Here, a floor guide is also provided:

Ground Floor: Artifact Accidents
(cauldron explosion, wand-backfiring, broom crashes, etc.)

On this floor through double doors is a narrow corridor lined with portraits of famous Healers. It is lit by crystal bubbles full of candles that floated up on the ceiling like giant soapsuds.

First Floor: Creature-Induced Injuries
(bites, stings, burns, embedded spiders, etc.)

Wards:
"Dangerous" Dai Llewellyn Ward: Serious Bites.
This ward is small and rather dingy as there is only window is narrow and set high in the wall facing the door opposite. The main source of light for the room comes from shining crystal bubbles clustered in the middle of the ceiling. The walls are of panelled oak and there is a portrait on the wall, captioned: Urquhart Rachkarrow, 1612-1697, Inventor of the Entrail-expelling Curse. Arthur Weasley recuperates in this ward after his snake attack.

Staff:
Hippocrates Smethwyck (Healer in Charge);
Augustus Pye (Trainee Healer). He has a strong interest in complementary medicine and attempts to heal Arthur by using stitches sewn into his wound.

Other Patients:
During Arthur's stay there are two other wizards in the ward, one of which was a green, sickly man staring at the ward ceiling who was bitten by a werewolf (whom Lupin talks with at Christmas) and the other, a witch, who wouldn't reveal what she had been handling in order to sustain her injuries which leads everyone to believe she was handling something illegal. Whatever it was took a huge chunk out of her leg leaving a very nasty smell when they take off the bandages.

Second Floor: Magical Bugs
(contagious maladies, eg.dragon pox, vanishing sickness, scrofungulus etc.)

Third Floor: Potion and Plant Poisoning
(rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable giggling, etc.)

Fourth Floor: Spell Damage
(unliftable jinxes, hexes, incorrectly applied charms, etc.)

Wards:
Janus Thickey Ward (aka Ward 49)
On their way to the tea room at Christmas, Harry, Ron, Hemione, and Ginny meet Gilderoy Lockhart on the stair landing and accompany him to this ward where he now resides permanently.This is the long-term resident ward. It bears unmistakable signs of being a permanent home to its resident with many more personal effects around their beds; Gilderoy's headboard is papered with pictures of himself.

Other Patients:
Frank and Alice Longbottom;
Broderick Bode;
Agnes, a sallow skinned, mournful looking wizard who stares at the ceiling and mumbles to himself, unaware of anyone else around him.
It is during this visit that Ron, Hermione and Ginny learn the truth about Neville's parents (Harry learnt about Neville's past at the end of the Triwizard Tournament in GF) after he and his grandmother are also there for their Christmas visit.

Fifth Floor: Visitors' Tearoom/Hospital Shop

IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHERE TO GO, INCAPABLE OF NORMAL SPEECH OR UNABLE TO REMEMBER WHY YOU ARE HERE, OUR WELCOM WITCH WILL BE PLEASED TO HELP.

Staff Members (past and present)
Welcome Witch (plump blonde witch)
Dilys Derwent, St. Mungo's Healer, 1722-1741
Miriam Strout - A healer in the Janis Thickey ward, who let the fatal Devil's Snare cutting in under her guard.

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