St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

"*They were in what seemed to be a crowded reception area where rows of witches and wizards sat upon rickety wooden chairs, some looking perfectly normal and perusing out-of-date copies of Witch Weekly, others sporting gruesome disfigurements such as elephant trunks or extra hands sticking out of their chests. The room was scarcely less quiet than the street outside, for many of the patients were making very peculiar noises... witches and wizards in lime-green robes were walking up and down the rows, asking questions and making notes on clipboards like Umbridge's. Harry noticed the emblem embroidered on their chests: a wand and bone, crossed.*"
— The inside of St. Mungo's hospital

**St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries** was a wizarding hospital located in London, England. It was founded by famous Healer Mungo Bonham in the 1600s. The emblem of St Mungo's was a wand crossed with a bone.

Residents of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry that were injured at school were usually treated in the Hospital Wing by Madam Pomfrey, the school matron. However, some cases were serious enough that the individual had to be sent to St Mungo's Hospital for more advanced treatment.

It appeared that the hospital served the entire wizarding population of Great Britain. Although the "department store" building housing the hospital might have been relatively small, this was not an indication of the true capacity of a magical building.

St Mungo's operated a work experience programme for seventh-year students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry who wished to become Healers after graduation. Seventh-year students at Hogwarts were also taught about the founding of St Mungo's Hospital in History of Magic by Professor Cuthbert Binns during the 1990-1991 School Year.

## Hospital Entrance

"*Not far from here. Wasn't easy to find a good location for a hospital. Nowhere in Diagon Alley was big enough and we couldn't have it underground like the Ministry - unhealthy. In the end they managed to get hold of a building up here. Theory was sick wizards could come and go and just blend in with the crowd...*"
— The secret location of St Mungo's

To enter the premises, one might step through the window of what appeared to be a red-bricked, condemned department store called Purge and Dowse, Ltd. This acted as a magical gateway to the main building, much like the barrier at King's Cross Station to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. The interior, on the other hand, looked exactly as a hospital should. One way an individual could enter the building was speaking to an apparently inanimate dummy in the department store.

The hospital was located where it was because no one could find a better place to house it. Everywhere in Diagon Alley was too small, so people came up with ideas to build it underground like the Ministry of Magic, but it was decided that the underground was too unhealthy. Eventually, a normal Muggle building was purchased so that patients could come and go and fit in with the crowds.

Although the hospital was meant for the magical community, as with all other wizarding institutes, Muggles were admitted when they fell prey to magical attacks, such as two Muggles who lost their fingers to Willy Widdershin's biting doorknobs and had to have their bones regrown and memories modified, or Herbert Chorley who had his mind addled from a poorly performed Imperius Curse and had to remain in the hospital to recuperate as well as to prevent him from posing a danger to anyone.

There was a strict guideline of gifts that were allowed into the hospital, for the safety of the patients. As such, each and every one would be searched and inspected thoroughly and would be determined whether it was safe to be given. This is shown when Mirian Strout neglected the rule and allowed a cutting of Devil's Snare, mistook it for Flitterbloom, into the ward, thus assassinating Broderick Bode.

## Floor Plan

"*They followed through the double doors and along the narrow corridor beyond, which was lined with more portraits of famous Healers and lit by crystal bubbles full of candles that floated up on the ceiling, looking like giant soapsuds. More witches and wizards in lime-green robes walked in and out of the doors they passed; a foul-smelling yellow gas wafted into the passageway as they passed one door, and every now and then they heard distant wailing.*"
— Harry Potter's description of hospital corridors

### Ground Floor

The ground floor was reception and artefact accidents. Inside, in a reception area filled with rickety wooden chairs and outdated issues of magazines. Visitors were greeted by the Welcome Witch, though her demeanour (at least on busy days) was less than welcoming. This reception area seemed to double as a visitors' entrance and an emergency room waiting area. It was often filled with wizards facing strange ailments, such as hands sprouting out of their chests or steam pouring from their mouths, and Healers clad in uniform lime green robes hurry busily through the room.

The St Mungo's Admission Department was possibly located on this floor. The admissions department recorded the patients who had given entry on the Hospital and their respective injuries or illnesses. It was also presumably where specialist Healers from various medical departments went to look for new cases when their more "every-day" duties was done.

The receptionist helped anyone who was unsure where to go, incapable of normal speech, or unable to remember why they were at the Hospital.

Artefact Accidents dealt with cauldron explosions, wands backfiring, broom crashes, and so forth. Katie Bell would have likely been a patient on this floor when she was admitted to St Mungo's after touching a cursed necklace she was carrying.

The Alchemy Room was a room in which healing potions were brewed by Healers, along with the study of Alchemy to develop cures.

### First Floor

*Main article: 'Dangerous' Dai Llewellyn Ward: Serious Bites*

"*They climbed a flight of stairs and entered the "Creature-Induced Injuries" corridor, where the second door on the right bore the words "DANGEROUS" DAI LLEWELLYN WARD: SERIOUS BITES. Underneath this was a card in a brass holder on which had been handwritten* Healer-in-Charm: Hippocrates Smethwyck, Trainee Healer: Augustus Pye.'**"**
— Harry Potter's description of the Dai Llewellyn Ward

The first floor was treatment for creature-induced injuries. After suffering a highly venomous snake bite in December, 1995, Arthur Weasley stayed in the "Dangerous" Dai Llewellyn Ward: Serious Bites. This was was small and dingy and had only one window, which lay opposite the door. It was mainly illuminated by shining crystal bubbles clustered in the middle of the ceiling.

The ward was named after Dai Llewellyn, an extremely famous Quidditch player who was eaten by a Chimaera. It was unknown whether this incident was the one that led the ward to be named for him, or whether there might be some other reason.

The staff in the "Dangerous" Dai Llewellyn ward included Hippocrates Smethwyck (Healer-in-Charge) and Augustus Pye (Trainee Healer). Pye was interested in complementary medicine and attempted to help Arthur by using stitches on his wounds, though of course they failed to work, given the potency of the poison. There were two other patients in the ward during this visit; one was a wizard who had been bitten by a werewolf (who Lupin talked to during the Christmas visit), and the other was a witch who wouldn't reveal what she was handling when she sustained her injuries.

### Second Floor

The second floor housed the "Magical Bugs" ward, which was for treating magical ailments and diseases. It addressed contagious maladies such as Vanishing Sickness and Scrofungulus.

In the 16th or 17th Century, Gulhilda of Gorsemoor developed a cure for dragon pox, but the disease had not been completely eradicated. It was still treated by the Magical Bugs ward at St Mungo's.

### Third Floor

The third floor was treatment for potions and plant poisoning. It addressed rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable giggling, and more. This floor likely contained the Poisoning Department.

### Fourth Floor

*Main article: Janus Thickey Ward*

"*This is our long-term residents' ward. For permanent spell damage, you know. Of course, with intensive remedial potions and charms and a bit of luck, we can produce some improvement.*"
— Description of the Janus Thickey Ward

The fourth floor housed the Janus Thickey Ward, which was for treatment of spell damage. It addressed unliftable jinxes, hexes, curses, incorrectly-applied charms, etc.

Herbert Chorley, Muggle Junior Minister, was admitted to the hospital, afflicted with a badly-performed Imperius Curse in 1996. The curse caused him to impersonate a duck. While being treated at the hospital, he tried to strangle some Healers.

Professor Minerva McGonagall was admitted to this floor after receiving four Stunning Spells to the chest at the hands of Dolores Umbridge and several corrupt Aurors. Nymphadora Tonks was a patient here after their duel with Bellatrix Lestrange in 1996, during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. During the time of Arthur Weasley's stay, another patient had shoes that his brother had jinxed to bite his feet.

Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Flick Black, Hermione Granger, and Ginny Weasley inadvertently visited this floor on Christmas Day 1995. While there they encountered Gilderoy Lockhart on the stairs and accompanied him to the Janus Thickey Ward (a.k.a. Ward 49), where he was staying. There - in the long-term residents' ward - a motherly-looking Healer oversaw patients whose brains had been permanently affected by magic.

Other residents of this ward included Broderick Bode and a witch named Agnes, as well as Frank and Alice Longbottom. During their visit, they ran into Neville and his grandmother and learned for the first time what had happened to them (and in Harry and Flick's cases, got a first glimpse of the permanent result of their attack).

### Fifth Floor

The fifth floor was the visitors' tearoom and hospital shop, a place for visitors to relax and purchase gifts for patients.

## Healers

**Harry Potter**: "*Are they doctors?*"
**Ron Weasley**: "*Doctors? Those Muggle nutters who cut people up? Nah, they're Healers*"
— Discussion of Healers and doctors

Medics at the hospital were known as Healers. Their uniform robes were lime green. Requirements to become a Healer included N.E.W.T.s of at least grade "Exceeds Expectations" in the subjects of Transfiguration, Potions, Charms, Herbology and Defence Against the Dark Arts.

A St Mungo's Certified Healer Insignia which was an emblem worn by Healers employed at St Mungo's.

Dilys Derwent was a St Mungo's Healer from 1722-1741. Afterwards, she became Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1741-1768. Another Healer at St Mungo's was a man named Lancelot.

Miriam Strout was a Healer employed at the hospital by the 1990s. She was in charge of the Janus Thickey Ward, caring in a motherly fashion for the long-term residents there. However, she neglected the importance of the gift guidelines, thus allowing the Death Eaters to smuggle in a cleverly disguised Devil's Snare to assassinate patient Broderick Bode. Strout was suspended on pay as a result.