Int'l Wizard Govt

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 3354

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, summers.65 at o... wrote:
> >Hi --
> >
> >Working on the Wizarding World -- Government FAQ, and I have a 
question
> >for the group.  I could have *sworn* that I read (or heard) some
> >reference in GoF to an International Confederation of Wizards 
(which is
> >slightly different than the Int'l Federation of Wizards that Lori
> >created for PoU).  Now, of course, I cannot find the reference, 
and I'm
> >beginning to wonder if I'm making it all up.  I notice that Steve's
> >Lexicon has no mention of this body, so it's coming even more 
possible
> >that I made that up.


It's in the Lexicon, but it's called the International CONfederation 
of Wizards and it's not on the Ministry of Magic page (although it 
should be, pehaps...hmmm, work to do...) It's on the timeline, since 
the latest meeting was the summer of 1994, just before the World 
Quidditch Cup. Dumbledore attended and was ridiculed by Rita Skeeter 
for some of his points of view. We are told nothing else about this 
body, what it does, how often it meets, if it's a UN style group, if 
it's an official governmental body, or if it's an independent 
organization of the top wizards in the world. (That last is what I 
think most likely, which is why I didn't put it in with the 
Ministry). 

Steve Vander Ark
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