Ministry of Magic

Not physically, but like, positionally.

Dumbledore actually says as much in Order of the Phoenix after the battle at the Ministry.

Five years ago then, you arrived at Hogwarts.

Neither as happy nor as well nourished as I would have liked, perhaps, yet alive and healthy.

marauders! The marauders, yeah! Hey,

I'm walking here! Can we just keep using the marauders and Rita Skeeter unregistered anime guy explanation? Nope! We don't have to.

The Ministry of Magic keeps tabs on witches and wizards who could become animals.

There's a register showing what animal they become and their markings and things.

I think that they forget that there are so many other lands there.

You've got the extension of Harry Potter with the Ministry of Magic.

You've got How to Train Your Dragon, Isle of Berk.

You've got Dark Universe.

And actually, your older wands will work as well.

My son took his older wand.

But one of the things that they've really done in the Ministry of Magic is they don't have like just a normal walkway to go around.

There's a lot of little hidden things that you can just kind of explore in the alleyways, in the storefronts.

Part of the reason why I wanted to do something like this was because I realized that moving into this muggle-born unit, if you will, that there are a lot of assumptions that we've made about the wizarding world that don't necessarily apply as much to muggle-borns in the way that they have for purebloods and for halfbloods.

And also that the conversation that we've been having about the Ministry of Magic, about squibs, about wands, all kind of set a really solid backdrop for how we come to understand not only muggle-borns as a concept, but also the way that muggle-borns occupy the wizarding world.

The role that they play in the space, how it is that we come to understand them relative to squibs, relative to purebloods, relative to half-bloods.

And In many ways, the incentives that they have before them is something that is drastically different than their pureblood and halfblood counterparts.

... which is pretty funny

... improper u- it, it, what, what would it be the Ministry of Magic issued-

[laughs]

... a citation for-

Anyway, he comes back with a newspaper clipping and he's like, that'll give you a laugh, it will.

And so it's a Daily Prophet article and it says, Inquiry at the Ministry of Magic.

And it's basically a story about Arthur Weasley and his magic car.

So Arthur has been fined 50 galleons for bewitching a muggle car.

but not to get mixed up in it.

Of course, he's got a lot on his plate at the moment.

You know, the Ministry of Magic raided our manor last week.

Now, why is he info dumping? Presumably, yeah, you have had this conversation with Crabbe and Goyle a million fucking times.

Ginny, said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted, haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

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