Harry Potter: Using science to be IMMORTAL

St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

After several expansions, this hospital, originally known for its "free treatment of lycanthropy," has become the top comprehensive wizarding hospital in Britain and even Europe.

In addition to traditional treatments including "lycanthropy treatment," "blood curse therapy," and "magical autism" — the academic term used by Muggle-born werewolf physicians for the early symptoms of squibs — it now also offers specialized wards for infectious diseases, magical creature injuries, spell injuries, and potion injuries, among others.

Moreover, there are specialized departments for soul damage, mental damage, physical damage, magical damage, old injury repair, and beauty, among others.

At the moment, the sixth floor, where the Soul Damage Department is located, has all twenty rooms occupied by Hogwarts students. The hospital had to temporarily expand the ward space with the Undetectable Extension Charm and add hundreds of beds to barely meet the demand.

Nurses in light pink short-sleeved tops bustled about, finally completing registration and symptom statistics for hundreds of students.

The position of nurse is unique to St. Mungo's, in contrast to the healers.

This is because werewolf physicians realized that wizards often lack patience in dealing with most diseases: they either cure the patient's condition on the spot or deem themselves powerless against the disease, letting the latter go home to fend for themselves.

For diseases lacking effective cure, healers failed to realize that palliative care to ease the pain is also a crucial treatment method.

St. Mungo's filled this gap.

"1,042 students in total, 18 dead, 35 seriously injured, 371 lightly injured and hospitalized, and the rest of the students suffer from various degrees of aftereffects,"

Rita Skeeter said, and the floating notebook beside her kept writing down the words.

With such a significant incident at Hogwarts, media guidance was necessary. Rita, as Murphy's top reporter, naturally took on this task.

"May I ask, Mr. Headmaster, what kind of injuries did the students suffer?"

Werewolf physician Ferlude, who once worked in a research institute and volunteered to become a werewolf when St. Mungo's was established, has been the hospital's headmaster for five years and has a deep understanding of all kinds of magical symptoms.

"Their souls were traumatized," Ferlude said. "Their magic was also greatly depleted, but fortunately, most of them were effectively treated, and the magic supplement was timely. Most children are not in life-threatening conditions, and we are discussing plans for those with the most severe injuries."

"I heard that the professors at the school and former headmaster Dumbledore treated the students, for which Mr. Dumbledore lost a great deal of his magical power. What do you think about this?"

"Mr. Dumbledore is a respected educator, and all the professors at the school have fulfilled their responsibilities. The incident was an unforeseen tragedy."

"Yes, it's said that Voldemort controlled a student, intending to use the students' magic for resurrection, which can be described as a thorough terrorist attack. It's also said that another significant culprit, known as 'the Virgin Mary,' was involved. Do you have any comments on this?"

"I've heard about the self-immolation of the Virgin Mary statue. A false god that claims to be a deity but resorts to such despicable means, aligning itself with a demon like Voldemort, I believe even if it were a god, it's an evil god, a demon god, and should be thoroughly eradicated."

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"Controlled by Voldemort..." Hermione sat on the hospital bed, reading the newspaper, "At least they didn't mention Harry's name."

"It was Professor Murphy's intention," Malfoy said. "I heard from my father that he specifically instructed not to mention any student's name in the reports."

"Do you think... Harry really is..." Hermione asked.

"Many students saw it with their own eyes," Malfoy said. "And we all know, Harry can speak Parseltongue."

After four years as classmates, they had naturally discovered Harry's unique ability.

"Moreover, he's been acting very strange... Maybe when Lucas saved Harry from Voldemort, something had already..."

"Shut up!" Ron suddenly shouted, pushing Malfoy off the bed beside him, "Don't you dare slander Harry any further! Malfoy! You must be delighted! No one to overshadow you anymore! No one to beat the Slytherin team, right?!"

Malfoy hit his forehead, blood running down his face, but he didn't wipe it away. Standing up with the help of a table, he looked at Ron, "Yeah, no one can beat me now."

Though he spoke those words, his tone was filled with melancholy, "Ha, damn it, at least let me win once."

The room fell silent again, Ron's anger dissipated, and he sat back on the bed, hands over his head, "Why, why Harry, why did it have to be him?! He was the most talented, the most incredible, the bravest of us! He was the best among us..."

Tears soaked the floor at the boy's feet, "I'd rather it had been me, he was much more useful than I am, right? Ha... well, of course, Voldemort wouldn't need a nobody like me..."

"When he became reclusive, I once thought... I once believed his light had faded, he would become an annoying person like Snape... I finally found a quality he didn't have, I was more popular than him... Ha, damn it... Damn it!"

"I should have noticed earlier, he was in so much pain... he often suffered from insomnia, during Lucas's and Sirius's deaths... but I was just jealous, I was jealous that Lucas seemed more important than me, even jealous of Harry, he became smart and powerful..."

"So, I also hid away, I didn't comfort him... I..."

"Enough, Ron. Enough," Hermione cried, coming forward to hug Ron, "We all failed to do our duty as friends."

"He was too strong, so we never thought... he could also have vulnerable moments," Cho said, "He never shared his inner pain with us."

"Yes, Harry... he was too strong..." Draco said, "I was more jealous of him, from the first time I saw him, I knew, this boy was stronger than me... his will seemed unbreakable, I never saw him confused, he... and Lucas, were always the people I wanted to be..."

The room fell into silence once more, and after a while, Draco said, "This year, I plan to drop out. Dad told me the professor is planning to establish a new department, I want to get familiar with it as soon as possible. The world is changing too fast, staying in school would just be a waste of time."

"Only by having more power can we understand what exactly happened, can we not be powerless when things happen again."

"Farewell, friends."

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