Side note: St.Mungos

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 79361

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mochajava13" 
<mochajava13 at y...> wrote:
> For the unforgivables, it's obvious that the person who cast it 
> enjoyed doing it, or else the person couldn't have cast it.  One 
> can't say it was merely self-defense, because one enjoyed doing 
it.  
> And after OoP, we saw that there are other magical ways to kill 
> someone and other magical ways to hurt someone.  (I'd bet there's a 
> potion to control someone, also.)  If Hermione was struck with the 
> full force of whatever curse hit her (the person couldn't say the 
> full spell), she quite possible might have died.  Combined effect 
of 
> four stunners sent McGonagall to St Mungo's.  (A side note: why the 
> saint?  How was Mungo beatified?  Who made Mungo into a saint?  
Does 
> that mean that wizards in the UK are also Anglican?)  


Geoff:
St.Mungo was leader of a 6th century ecclesiatical community on the 
site of the present day Glasgow and is considered to be the city's 
founder.