When Wizet consulted the relevant records at St. Mungo's, he found nothing connected to it.
When he heard Galen Claudius say this, he could not help feeling somewhat surprised. "Mr. Claudius, is St. Mungo's also researching Dark Magic creatures?"
"Not exactly..." Galen Claudius shook his head. "If we're talking about research, the Department of Mysteries has similar needs. I suppose they use them for research?"
"But not often. Occasionally, we receive notices from the Department of Mysteries. If we've expelled any Dark Magic creatures here, they'll send an Unspeakable over to take the creatures back to the Ministry of Magic."
"Normally, we send the Dark Magic creatures to the recovery room and inspect them about once a week. Once the Dark Magic creatures inside have disappeared, we simply throw away the containers holding them."
The recovery room offered a treatment akin to "physical therapy." Healers took regular shifts there, and while on duty, they would summon corporeal Patronuses to speed up the recovery of certain special patients.
Galen Claudius left the consulting room and did not return until quite some time later.
He shrugged. "Ratch told me they recently cleared out a batch of containers. All the Dark Magic creatures inside had already disappeared. It was the same at the Artifact Accidents Department."
"The Artifact Accidents Department?" Wizet asked curiously. "Mr. Claudius, do they also have items inhabited by Dark Magic creatures over there?"
"Yes!" Galen Claudius nodded. "If they encounter a similar patient, there's an eighty-percent chance that patient is a Muggle."
"A Muggle? Could it be..." Wizet thought of a possibility. "Dark Magic creatures that haunt the Muggle world?"
"The Muggle world is more complicated..." Galen Claudius explained. "Normally, if a Muggle is attacked by a Dark Magic creature, they'll most likely die on the spot."
"Among the