"Polka-dot robes?" Wizet asked. "Ms. Strout, I need to clarify something... Were they put on her by someone else, or had she never taken off the robes she was wearing?"
"She was wearing them herself!" Miriam Strout replied with certainty. "All the clothes she had on were still there, not just a single robe... Maybe I didn't explain it clearly earlier."
"I see..." Wizet nodded and continued, "Ms. Strout, do you remember..."
He raised further questions, and Miriam Strout answered every one without hesitation.
It was clear from this that Miriam Strout cared deeply about Agnes, which was why she could answer so fluently.
In fact, Miriam Strout took great care of every patient staying in the Janus Thickey Ward.
Miriam Strout said, "Mr. Lovegood, based on your paper, I tried to carry out some analysis."
"I really want to know... Why did Agnes end up like this? Exactly where did things go wrong?"
"I did wonder... Could there have been a problem with the potion? Maybe it was contaminated by sunlight or something..., and Agnes failed to notice..."
"After all, the final step of Animagus practice has to be performed during a thunderstorm. Perhaps Agnes simply 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?" Wizet caught the key point. "Ms. Strout, could you elaborate?"
"Of course!" Miriam Strout nodded and began explaining in detail. "Mr. Smith said that his mother usually..."
As he listened,