Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries
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| Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Place | |
| St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries | |
|---|---|
| Location | London |
| Permanent Residents | None |
| First Appearance | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
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[edit] General Overview
St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries is the wizard's hospital founded by Mungo Bonham. It is located in London.
[edit] Extended Description
While we don't actually see the hospital in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, it is mentioned by Professor Dumbledore that Neville's parents are long-term residents of St. Mungo's Hospital.
To Muggles, the hospital appears to be the store Purge and Dowse Ltd., which is "Closed for Refurbishment". Wizards and witches working in this hospital, who work directly with the patients, are called Healers; they can be recognized by their lime green robes. The hospital can treat a wide range of magic-related illnesses and injuries.
Floor Guide (as it appears in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix):
- ARTIFACT ACCIDENTS...................... Ground Floor
(Cauldron explosion, wand backfiring, broom crashes, etc.)
- CREATURE-INDUCED INJURIES............... First Floor
(Bites, stings, burns, embedded spines, etc.)
- MAGICAL BUG............................. Second Floor
(Contagious maladies, e.g. dragon pox, vanishing sickness, scrofungulus)
- POTION AND PLANT POISONING.............. Third Floor
(Rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable giggling, etc.)
- SPELL DAMAGE............................ Fourth Floor
(Unliftable, jinxes, hexes, and incorrectly applied charms, etc.)
- VISITOR'S TEAROOM AND HOSPITAL SHOP..... Fifth Floor
If you are unsure where to go, incapable of normal speech, or unable to
remember why you are here, our Welcome Witch will be pleased to help.
In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Mr. Weasley is taken to St. Mungo's after Harry reports seeing him attacked by a snake. Harry, Ron, Fred, George, Ginny, and Hermione visit him there, along with Mrs. Weasley, Mad-Eye Moody, and Tonks. Mr. Weasley is in a ward with other people who have received bites from magical creatures, including a werewolf and a woman who won't say what had bitten her.
When Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and the Twins return to St. Mungo's some time later to visit again, Ginny and the Trio end up on the wrong floor of the hospital. There, they find the long-term spell damage patients, including one-time Professor Lockhart, still suffering from his own mis-fired memory charm, and Broderick Bode. They also run into Neville and his grandmother Augusta, there visiting Neville's parents.
Broderick Bode later dies in the hospital when a Devil's Snare which had been sent to him as a pot plant (US: potted plant) strangles him. The hospital is unable to explain how a Devil's Snare could have been accepted.
We actually only enter St. Mungo's in this book. We do hear of it in many places, though; in particular, Professor McGonagall goes to St. Mungo's after she has been hit by multiple Stunners during Professor Umbridge's attempt to arrest Hagrid, Katie Bell is sent to St. Mungo's to recover after she touches a jinxed necklace, and it is said that Neville's grandmother had put the Auror Dawlish in St. Mungo's when he had tried to arrest her.
