The Hunt for Answers

[Meredith Bancroft]

While Meredith did work at the hospital as the assistant head of the creature-induced injuries department, her specialties didn't include potions, plagues, and other diseases. Her department strictly worked with magical creatures that harmed wizards and witches, but that didn't mean she couldn't be involved in the search for a cure to the strange laughing plague.

Like most of the other healers at Hogsmeade's hospital, she'd received her NEWTs in potions and herbology and was quite aware about multiple diseases that had nothing to do with creatures. She'd had over eight years of experience and had stepped in quite a few times to help with emergencies when there weren't enough healers on the job. Eyes flickering across the pages of a large textbook she held in her hand, she scanned the pages in search of the section containing multiple biological illnesses and plagues.

For every disease there had to be a cure, or else everyone in Hogsmeade could end up infected and possibly die from the horrid plague. She had other worries going on in her mind, such as the fire that was ravaging Wellingtonshire at the moment, so it was quite difficult to concentrate on her reading. The hospital had closed its doors to new patients due to the over abundance of disease-ridden patients.