Mercy Wizarding Hospital had appeared in Diagon Alley out of nowhere.
Over the past year, successive blows from werewolves, Dark wizards, and Dementors had made business very difficult for the shops in Diagon Alley. After the werewolf attack, things had hit rock bottom.
Werewolves that could transform at any time, and even Aurors had been bitten—who wouldn't be scared?
With things like that, who would still dare go shopping in Diagon Alley?
As a result, shops across Diagon Alley closed in droves. Yet on the second day after the werewolf attack, a hospital was established on the premises of several shops that had gone out of business.
It joined three adjoining shops together and rebuilt them as a pure white, four-story building that stood out in Diagon Alley.
On its opening day, Mercy Wizarding Hospital put up a banner: "Treat werewolf bites and prevent transformation! Early treatment means early prevention. Don't wait until it's too late to regret it!"
Opening a hospital to treat werewolf bites in a Diagon Alley ravaged by werewolves was, undeniably, rather ironic.
Yet when the bitten Aurors at St Mungo's Hospital faced the choice of either transforming or killing themselves, the appearance of Mercy Wizarding Hospital undoubtedly gave them a measure of hope.
So even though quite a few Aurors privately suspected that the hospital might have been opened by the mastermind behind the werewolves, some were still willing to give it a try when they had nowhere else to turn.
A day later, two Aurors whose bites were relatively minor and who had received treatment promptly were successfully treated without turning into werewolves.
Once word spread, the Aurors who could not get effective treatment at St Mungo's Hospital flocked to Mercy Wizarding Hospital for help.
Soon, several more Aurors were cured. Although those whose