[HPforGrownups] St Mungos

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 68407


Wendy:
> Interesting comments, Ffred - and wouldn't it be interesting to know just
> how St. Mungo's is really run? This ties in for me with the question of
> whether or not the Longbottoms are being actively prevented from recovery
> by St. Mungo's staff. If the hospital is, as you put it, running very hard
> just to keep still, then it becomes much easier to imagine someone
> accepting bribes from Lucius Malfoy (or elsewhere) to make sure the
> Longbottoms remain permanently insane. Whether it's a matter of the
> corruption at the higest levels of the hospital, or simply an individual
> healer or two accepting a pay-off, if St. Mungo's *isn't* financially fit,
> this scenario seems just that much more likely. To me, anyway.

I'm about half way through my second read of OoP and noted an interesting
point which may strengthen what you say. The Daily Prophet reports Bode's
murder and indicates that the hospital has blamed it on the healer
(suspended from duty and unavailable for comment).

Surely a bit precipitate to conclude that! Someone is covering something up
here, methinks.

Which could either be the hospital's own lack of security (which actually
seems fairly nonexistent) or the complicity of someone in the administration
in letting the murderer put the Devil's Snare on Bode's bedside

Cheers

Ffred

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