Nowhere was ever short of people quite like a hospital, no matter the year or the time.
Standing in the corridor, one could always hear pained groans or deranged laughter coming from every direction, or the dull thud of something striking a bed frame.
Moody left first. He still had to visit Arthur Weasley in the Creature-Induced Injuries Department on the second floor. Once the Dark Magic damage to Arthur's body had been removed, only the injuries from the giant snake's bite remained, so he had naturally been transferred to the second floor.
At the fifth-floor staircase, Hermione and Su Er passed two men in black robes.
Su Er paid no attention to these three men wrapped tightly in black robes. Perhaps they had some illness they could not expose?
There were far too many strangely dressed people coming and going at St. Mungo's. There was even a patient with glowing green mushrooms covering his head wandering freely through the corridors. Hermione had told him that after she returned.
Oh, right, that patient's condition had been caused by the backlash from a spell that promoted plant growth. The healers had no particularly good solution, either. Whenever one crop of mushrooms was cut away, another quickly grew back. A more aggressive treatment would make all the patient's hair fall out, and evidently, the patient had not accepted that suggestion.
As for whether a head covered in glowing green mushrooms held any metaphorical meaning, that was rather unclear.
Su Er found a corner and lifted his Disillusionment Charm, then openly stood beside Hermione. Once they reached the ground-floor hall, there was no need to maintain the charm, since the heavy flow of people here meant his appearance did not stand out.
"Hermione, I think I heard Harry's voice before I fell asleep?"