Chapter 156: Jishi Wizard Hospital

Jishi Wizard Hospital appeared in Diagon Alley suddenly.

Over the past year, due to the successive blows of werewolves, black wizards, and Dementors, the business of various shops in Diagon Alley was very difficult to do, and when the werewolf attack incident occurred, the situation fell to the bottom.

Werewolves that can transform at any time, even Aurors were bitten, so ask yourself if you are afraid?

With things like this, who would dare to go to Diagon Alley to buy things!

So a large number of shops in Diagon Alley closed, but on the second day after the werewolf attack incident, a hospital was established on the storefront that had originally closed down.

It connected three adjacent shops and rebuilt a pure white four-story building, which was very conspicuous in Diagon Alley.

On the first day of opening, Jishi Wizard Hospital hung a banner: "Treat werewolf bites, avoid transformation! Early treatment, early prevention, don't wait until you miss the opportunity to regret!"

In Diagon Alley where werewolves were rampant, opening a hospital to treat werewolf bites had to be said to be a bit ironic.

However, when the bitten Aurors faced the choice of either transforming or committing suicide at St. Mungo's, the appearance of Jishi Wizard Hospital undoubtedly gave them some hope.

Therefore, even though many Aurors secretly guessed that this hospital might be opened by the mastermind behind the werewolves, when they were at their wits' end, some people were still willing to give it a try.

One day later, two Aurors with lighter bites and timely treatment were saved and did not transform into werewolves.

After the news spread, the Aurors who could not get effective treatment at St. Mungo's flocked to Jishi Wizard Hospital for medical treatment.

Soon, several more Aurors were cured, and the remaining Aurors with deep infections, although they could not be completely cured, had their surface wounds repaired by surgical removal of magic-infected tissues, plus Wolfsbane Potion, they could basically live like ordinary people.

For a time, Jishi Wizard Hospital became famous.

But those Aurors soon discovered that the people who performed the treatment on them used Muggle technology. Upon asking, they turned out to be doctors in Muggle society who had successfully transformed after being bitten by werewolves and invented medical skills to treat werewolves—of course, these were just excuses.

In fact, they were doctors from the Magic Research Institute who had voluntarily transformed into werewolves.

Transforming from Muggles into werewolves and then entering wizarding society was actually a suggestion they gave to Murphy.

As the research on magic in the institute became more and more in-depth, they had begun to enter deep water, and the ready-made knowledge of the wizarding world was not enough.

To further deepen the research, they must obtain more first-hand data.

And as doctors, the way they obtained first-hand data was naturally to treat diseases and save people.

Besides this, the Aurors also discovered that in addition to these werewolf doctors, there were two healers in the hospital, and they were the two taken away from St. Mungo's Hospital by Murphy Darkholm: Elodie and Valya.

There was no need to guess now, the boss behind this hospital must be Murphy Darkholm.

However, the Aurors fell into a dilemma.

On one hand, Murphy had never appeared in the hospital. These people were ostensibly unrelated to Murphy, and they had saved their own or their colleagues' lives.

On the other hand, once they took action against this hospital, what would happen to other Auror colleagues who had not yet been treated? Wouldn't this cut off their way to survive?

Barty Crouch also realized this problem immediately after coming to the hospital.

Getting rid of this hospital now meant abandoning his own Auror subordinates.

His reputation in the outside world was already precarious, and he relied entirely on sharing hatred with the Aurors to maintain his basic base. If he destroyed his own Great Wall at this moment, he was afraid he would have to step down in two days.

Thinking of this, the originally aggressive questioning immediately turned into a consolation visit to the injured Aurors.

After some warm greetings, Barty Crouch's heart cooled by half. He understood that the hearts of these Aurors had been bought by the hospital.

But can they be blamed?

Think about the treatment they received at St. Mungo's. The healers were not good at medical skills, and their attitude was sloppy and irresponsible, not even caring about their lives. But here, several werewolf doctors had superb medical skills, cured their diseases, reduced their pain, and also conducted psychological counseling for them, talked to them, and gave them great comfort.

Plus, the doctors were also werewolves, which naturally brought them closer to the Aurors. After a few days of treatment, the vast majority of Aurors no longer believed that the hospital had anything to do with the werewolves who attacked them.

Look, these doctors are all victims of werewolf attacks, how could they be the masterminds behind werewolf attacks!?

Barty Crouch suppressed the idea of arresting all the doctors and healers, and went to find Elodie and Valya, asking about their experience after being taken away from St. Mungo's as an Auror.

The two's replies were very unified.

First, they left St. Mungo's to learn and research better treatment techniques.

Second, Murphy brought them away after obtaining their consent, without any coercion.

Third, they later met werewolf doctors who knew how to treat werewolf mania under Murphy's introduction, and the werewolf doctors later also helped some of Murphy's Muggle friends.

Fourth, one of Murphy's Muggle friends became a werewolf and, in order to make more people get rid of pain, opened this hospital.

Fifth, as for the name of that werewolf dean? His name is Nicholas Fiji, a duke, we usually call him Jigong. As for which duke he is and how to see him, we don't know very well.

Barty Crouch naturally didn't believe a word of this nonsense.

But he also understood that Murphy had already prepared the rhetoric to deal with the investigation.

And he also understood the reason why Murphy opened this hospital—to legalize his behavior of breaking into St. Mungo's and taking away those Muggles.

In fact, the only definite charge against Murphy on the Aurors' wanted list now is: he broke into the area controlled by the Aurors, took away witnesses, and interfered with Auror official business.

This was originally just a lead, intended to launch a comprehensive investigation into Murphy. What they are doing now is also this, and they have already achieved some results, such as learning from the shop assistant of Supreme Potion that Murphy is mass-producing Love Potion.

Although these are not much compared to Murphy's true crimes, if they go all out, it is not impossible to throw him into Azkaban for a period of time, and then continue to dig deep, which can expand the results and truly bring him to justice.

But for now, the crimes of Murphy placed on the table are indeed only the one of interfering with Auror official business.

This is also something that can be directly arrested within the scope of Auror authority. Others, such as producing Love Potion, generally require conviction through Wizengamot trial first.

That is to say, if Murphy can explain the legality of his behavior at that time through public opinion—for example, being able to treat patients better than St. Mungo's—then the Aurors' arrest warrant will immediately become invalid, and their investigation into Murphy will have to stop.

It is conceivable that once Murphy is free, he will inevitably face his crazy revenge.

Thinking of this, Barty Crouch couldn't sit still. After returning to the Ministry of Magic with Gawain Robards, he immediately said: "Notify the Wizengamot Administration, prepare to convene a trial, we can't wait, we must convict Murphy immediately!"

"But... we haven't caught him yet..." Robards hesitated.

"Are there few wizards who fled in fear of crime? It's just right that we haven't caught him, an absentia trial is the same!"

In fact, as far as his psychology is concerned, not catching Murphy is a good thing. Otherwise, with the other party's ability to confuse right and wrong, whether he can be convicted is really a matter of two opinions.

However, Gawain Robards had just left, and turned back again.

He had a strange look on his face, "Director, the Wizengamot postponed our trial request..."

"Postponed, why?"

"The administration said that the trial of Death Eaters is the highest priority and must be carried out immediately."

"What?" Crouch was stunned, "Death Eaters? Who caught the Death Eaters?"

You, a Director of the Auror Office, and I, a Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, neither of us knows that Death Eaters have been caught. Who the hell can catch Death Eaters?

"It's the Watchers..." Robards revealed a bitter smile that was uglier than crying, "They caught Sirius!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 157 =====