SPOILERS: FBeasts: Wizarding World Governance

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 14213

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Something small I picked up on in FB, footnote of UK page xviii:

"The largest department at the Ministry of Magic is the Department of
Magical Law Enforcement, to which the remaining six departments are all, in
some respect, answerable -- with the possible exception of the Department of
Mysteries."

Higher up on the page it says that the second-largest is the Department for
the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.

So...there sre seven Departments in the MoM. This conflicts with Steve
Vander Ark's Lexicon page
(http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/w_ministry.html#departments), which
counts eight from within the books. Hmm...has JKR added one in, we wonder?

Steve counts:

Dept of Magical Games and Sports
Dept of Magical Catastrophes
Dept of Accidental Magic Reversal
Dept of International Magical Cooperation
Dept of Magical Law Enforcement
Dept of Magical Transportation
Dept for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures
Dept of Mysteries

Is one of the above part of another (Accidental Magic Reversal part of
Catastrophes)?

Don't wizards have *normal* mundane departments like Environment, Health,
Home Office (aka Interior) etc? I'm particularly surprised there's no
Health, especially with St Mungo's (and that other hospital too).

Anybody else have thoughts on this?

--John

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John "Such a Witch!" Walton                 john at walton.to

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