• Creature The Salamander is a small magical lizard that lives in and feeds on fire. It can live up to six hours away from the fire from which it spawned, but it must be fed pepper to keep it alive, and when the fire from which the salamander spawned goes out,… Read More
• Diseases and healing Scrofungulus is a contagious disease which affects witches and wizards. It is treated on the second floor of St Mungos (OP22).  … Read More
• Potions Skele-gro is a medical potion which regrows bones. The effect takes about eight hours and can be quite painful. Read More
• Games, toys, and jokes A range of sweets to make the eater ill; each different category looks like a different type of sweet and causes a different kind of illness. Each sweet is colour-coded so that one end causes the illness and the other makes the effect lift (OP6). Read More
• Character Hippocrates Smethwyck was Healer-in-Charge for the “Dangerous” Dai Llewellyn Ward for Serious Bites at St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries (OP22). Read More
• Potions The following potions are known as solutions. Scintillation Solution Shrinking Solution Strengthening Solution Swelling Solution… Read More
• Diseases and healing A highly contagious magical malady that causes purple pustules to develop on the skin which may leave pockmarks (DH6, OP23). A sub-strain of the disease, Cerebrumous Spattergroit, causes severe confusion and memory impairment (Pm:QWC). Read More
• Diseases and healing More dangerous and permanent than a normal injury, spell damage is the worst type of wound a witch or wizard can receive. This damage often leave permanent scars or effects. The Janus Thickey Ward at St. Mungo’s is devoted to the care of those most seriously injured by spell damange. Lockhart… Read More
• Character Helbert Spleen was a Healer at St. Mungo’s Hospital of Magical Maladies. He also wrote for the Daily Prophet (DP3)… Read More
• Magical effects When apparition goes wrong, a body part (or two) might be left behind. Read More
• Plants When poked with a sharp instrument, the Mimbulus mimbletonia plant shoots out thick green sap from every pulsating boil. Read More
• Event The hospital was founded to cater to the unique medical needs of witches and wizards, whose ailments and injuries would baffle a Muggle doctor. The original location is unknown, since presumably Purge and Dowse Ltd., the abandoned London department store that now houses the hospital, did not exist in the… Read More
• Hospitals St. Mungo’s Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries in London is the wizarding hospital. Founded in late 1500s or early 1600s by Mungo Bonham (FW), St. Mungo’s Hospital is the primary (and likely only) wizarding hospital in Britain. Located in an abandoned department store in London, the hospital’s… Read More
• Character Miriam Strout was the Healer in charge of the Janus Thickey ward (a closed, longterm ward for patients with permanent spell damage) at St. Mungo’s Hospital at the time of Broderick Bode’s assassination (OP23, 25). She was quite chatty and was “motherly-looking.” She treated Lockhart (a resident in the… Read More
• Creature The Swooping Evil is a blue and green reptilian flying creature about the size of a parrot but with bat-like wings that can expand almost like a huge butterfly. It rests in a small cocoon until released, when it flies around majestically. It is intelligent and strong, capable of supporting… Read More