Wizard government (spoilers)

[Jen Faulkner]

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A couple thoughts on wizard government that the two schoolbooks prompted
-- I was a little puzzled by the ref. in QTA to "every" MoM ("Adequate
security measures were not enforced until the International Statue of
Wizarding Secrecy of 1692 made every Ministry of Magic directly
responsible for the consequences of magical sports played within their
territories," [QTA p.16, Am. ed.]).  It seems like 'Ministry of Magic'
is being used here as a generic term, more or less equivalent to 'wizard
government'?  I can't see there being in the States, for example, a MoM,
though there could easily be a Department of Magic.  Perhaps it's just
one of those language differences.

And as for the extent of the MoM (the one we're familiar with) -- is it
not responsible for all of Britain?  IN FB, we learn that Scotland, as a
nation, is fined individually for the continued Loch Ness monster
sightings (p. xvii, Am. ed.), so there must be some sort of governing
body peculiar to Scotland to represent it to the International
Confederation of Wizards -- would this be a subgroup of the MoM, or
something else entirely?  (I have very little knowledge of the structure
of British gov't, so I've not got much to draw on for parallels).  It
seems like it would be something else entirely, solely responsible for
Scottish wizard affairs?

--jen :)

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