[HPforGrownups] Re: Side note: St.Mungos

[Scott Santangelo]

No: HPFGUIDX 79436



quigonginger <quigonginger at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Geoff said:
 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.
> 
Mochajava13 replied: 
> Thanks for the answer!  But still, why would wizards name a hospital after a religious figure?  ,<snip>

Now Ginger:
<snip> it may have been started (and thus, named) by a wizarding family who were Christian and/or Scottish.
2)  St. Mungo may have been kind to wizards, so they named it in his honour.

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More likely "St. Mungo" was really a wizard. Of course the muggles *thought* he was a "saint" . . . Mungo really sounds more wizardish (Mundungus, etc.).

owlery2003



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