"A polka-dot robe?" Vizet asked. "Ms. Straus, I need to be clear on one point... did someone else put it on her, or had the robe she was wearing simply never been taken off?"
"It was what she was wearing herself!" Meriem Strout said with certainty. "All her clothes were still on her, not just a single robe... Maybe I didn't explain it clearly just now."
"So that's how it was..." Vizet nodded and continued asking, "Ms. Straus, do you still remember..."
He raised several other questions, and Meriem Strout answered each one without hesitation.
From this, it was clear that Meriem Strout cared deeply about Agnes, which was why she could answer so fluently.
In fact, Meriem Strout took great care of every patient who stayed in the Janus Thickey Ward.
Meriem Strout said, "Mr. Lovegood, based on your paper, I tried to do some analysis."
"I truly want to know... why Agnes ended up like this, and exactly which step went wrong."
"I actually wondered... could there have been something wrong with that potion? For example, maybe it was contaminated by sunlight or something... and Agnes failed to notice..."
"After all, the final step of Animagus practice has to be carried out in stormy weather. Maybe Agnes misjudged it."
"Unfortunately, too much time has passed, and it was raining that day..." She let out a long sigh. "A lot of evidence has disappeared."
"And I wrote to Mr. Smith... He said Agnes had always been a cautious person, so she shouldn't have made a mistake in that regard."
"Oh! Right!" she added. "Mr. Lovegood, I forgot to tell you... Mr. Smith is Agnes's son."
"Ms. Agnes was a cautious person?" Vizet caught the key point. "Ms. Straus, could you explain that in more detail?"
"Of course!" Meriem Strout