Hogsmeade is the only entirely wizarding village in Britain. It's a picturesque village of little thatched cottages and shops. During the holiday season, enchanted candles hang in the trees. Hogwarts is located across the lake from Hogsmeade, and the Hogwarts Express stops at the station there to disembark the students at the start of term. A road runs around the lake from the station to the castle. According to tradition, Hogsmeade was founded about the same time as Hogwarts by Hengist of Woodcroft, who was fleeing persecution by Muggles (CS/g).

from the Wizard's Atlas:
Map of Hogwarts and environs, showing Hogsmeade (171k.)
Map of Hogsmeade

When you visit the village:

Honeydukes Sweetshop
Candy store, owned by a husband and wife, who live over the shop; an entrance to one of the secret tunnels from Hogwarts is in the cellar under a trap door. Honeydukes not only sells a wide variety of sweets, they also make their own fudge and enormous blocks of chocolate.

The Three Broomsticks
Owner: Madam Rosmerta
A great spot to drink butterbeer, although they also serve gillywater, mulled mead, red currant rum, and even cherry syrup and soda with ice and an umbrella (PA10). There are tables, booths, and a mirror over the bar.

Zonko's Joke Shop
Zonko's is a favourite place for Hogwarts students to shop. They carry "jokes and tricks to fulfill even Fred's and George's wildest dreams," including Dungbombs, Hiccup Sweets, Frog Spawn Soap, and Nose-Biting Teacups (PA14).

The Shrieking Shack
Reputed to be the most haunted house in Britain, the Shrieking Shack gets its name from the terrifying screams and noises heard coming from it some twenty years ago. The Shack has been silent for years, but the reputation lives on. The windows are completely boarded up. Outside the house is a dank, overgrown garden. The entrances are all sealed; even Fred and George couldn't figure out how to get in. The Hogwarts ghosts avoid the place, saying that it's the home of a "rough crowd." (PA10, PA17, PA18, PA19)

Dervish and Banges
Shop that sells and repairs magical equipment, located near the end of the High Street (PA5, GF27).

Gladrags Wizardwear
Clothier, with additional shops in London and Paris. Among other things, you can buy strange socks there (GF8, GF27)

railroad station
The station, where the Hogwarts Express ends its journey north from Platform Nine-And-Three-Quarters, is located near the lake. A road extends from the train station around the lake to Hogwarts Castle (PS6, PA5, GF11).

Madam Puddifoot's
owner: Madam Puddifoot
A small, cramped tea shop with decor on the tacky side of frilly, filled with small circular tables, located on a side street off the High Street; the only Hogwarts students who seem to patronize the place are trysting couples. The owner uses a revoltingly sappy decor for Valentine's Day (floating golden cherubs occasionally throwing pink confetti) (OP25).

Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop
Located on the High Street; Hermione bought a black-and-gold pheasant-feather quill there in October 1995 (OP16, OP25)

post office
At least three hundred owls, from Great Grays to tiny Scops ("Local Deliveries Only"), wait to carry messages. They sit on shelves that are color-coded, depending on how fast you want your letter to get to its destination (PA8).

The Hog's Head
sign: a wild boar's severed head leaking blood onto the white cloth around it
barman: grumpy-looking old man with a great deal of long grey hair and beard, who looked vaguely familiar to Harry (OP16)
A small inn in Hogsmeade, on a side street off the main street, much dirtier (and attracting a more, er, interesting, clientele) than the Three Broomsticks. The bar consists of a single small, dirty room smelling strongly of something that might be goats; while students are permitted to go in, they're advised to bring their own glasses. It's something of a fashion to hide one's face in the Hog's Head, by wearing a hood or veil; Hagrid once won a dragon egg from a hooded stranger in a card game there and shrugged it off, saying that "yeh get a lot o' funny folk in the Hog's Head." (PS16, OP16). Sites of Historical Sorcery mentions that 'the inn' was the headquarters of the 1612 goblin rebellion (PA5), so more secret passages that MWPP didn't find might possibly be associated with it.

Number 12 Grimmauld Place

"I've never seen an infestation this bad--what that house-elf's been doing for the last ten years--"
     -- Molly Weasley, preparing to de-Doxify the curtains

Unplottable and hidden away behind a Fidelius Charm, between two shabby London Muggle houses, is 12 Grimmauld Place. This is the family home of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, one of the most prominent pure-blood Wizarding familes. The house is derelict, a ruin of its former self. The mistress of the house, Mrs. Black, died c. Y5, and since then "stuff's been breeding in here," as Hermione says. Her eldest son, Sirius, is the current owner of the place. Sirius' father put "every security measure known to Wizard-kind on the house." The house is located a twenty-minute walk (approximately one mile) from Kings Cross Station (OP10).

Sirius gave the house to the Order of the Phoenix to use as a headquarters. Dumbledore put the Fidelius Charm on the house and is its Secret Keeper. During August of Y15, the Order met there frequently. Harry was brought there for safe-keeping as well. The non-Order members spent a lot of time trying to clean the house up, but it was slow work. Magical creatures had moved in and were very difficult to dislodge. Harry, Hermione, and the Weasley children spent several weeks at Grimmauld Place in the summer of Y15 cleaning and getting rid of pests and dangerous magic items (OP6).

It will be interesting to see who inherits 12 Grimmauld Place. If Sirius doesn't have a will (or if the real estate of the Black family is entailed to pass to the nearest blood relative), it will probably go to the Malfoys, which will make for an interesting situation.

Front entrance:
A walk leads from the street to a battered, black-painted door with a silver knocker in the shape of a twisted serpent; there are neither keyhole nor letterbox. The exterior of the house is dirty and unkempt. The windows are grimy.

Basement:
The basement floor is a kitchen with rough-hewn walls, a large fireplace, and a large table with lots of chairs. There is a dresser where utensils and plates are kept. Up the steps is the main floor. A small pantry is connected to the kitchen. In a cupboard there is a water tank and beneath this is Kreacher's den, a filthy niche filled with moldy blankets and bits of family heirlooms Kreacher has managed to scavenge as Sirius cleans the house.

Ground Floor:
The Entrance Hall is a large room with peeling wallpaper, threadbare carpet, gas lamps, and a serpent-shaped, cobwebby candleabra. A staircase runs to the upper floors. There are a number of age-blackened portaits here, including a large one behind moth-eaten moldy curtains. This portrait is of Mrs. Black, and when disturbed it screeches and screams in a most horrible manner, cursing everyone around and waking the other portraits, who also begin screaming. Not surprisingly, everyone tiptoes and whispers in the hall. There is an umbrella stand in the hall made from a Troll leg.

Upstairs:
The number of floors in the house is unknown, but it's probably no more than four or five. On the first floor is the drawing room; Hermione and Ginny's bedroom is also located on this floor. Harry and Ron sleep in a dark, high-ceilinged second floor room with a wardrobe in it and a blank portrait on the wall. Fred and George sleep directly above them on the third floor. Buckbeak stays in the upstairs bedroom which once belonged to Mrs. Black. Magic items in the house include an ancient set of purple robes that tried to strangle Ron when he attempted to remove them and a grandfather clock that shot heavy bolts at anyone who went past it. In an upstairs toilet, a rather murderous ghoul was lurking.
The Drawing Room
The curtains of the drawing room were infested with Doxies and the writing desk had a Boggart in it. A nest of dead Puffskeins was found in the sofa. A tapestry hangs on the wall showing the Black family tree. There are dirty, glass-fronted cabinets on either side of the mantlepiece which contain a variety of sinister and Dark Magic items which didn't seem to want to leave their shelves. These include:

• rusty daggers

• claws

• coiled snakeskin

• tarnished silver boxes engraved in unknown languages

• a fancy crystal bottle with a opal stopper filled with blood

• biting silver snuffbox, which holds Wartcap Powder

• many-legged tweezer-like instrument which scuttles like a spider

• music box that makes everyone fall asleep

• locket that no one can open

• ancient seals

• dusty box containing an Order of Merlin First Class given to Sirius' grandfather for Services to the Ministry

• large golden ring with a Black family crest

• family photos in silver frames

The Burrow

"This is the best house I've ever been in."
     -- Harry Potter

The Burrow is a wizard house, owned by the Weasley family. It's at least four stories tall, built so crazily that it must certainly be held up by magic. It's located outside of the village of Ottery St. Catchpole, but so well hidden that the postman may not even know where it is. It has a ghoul in the attic and gnomes in the garden.

The Kitchen:
Fairly small room, with a fireplace and a scrubbed wooden table.

Ron's Bedroom:
Located at the top of the house, on the fifth landing of the narrow staircase, just below the attic with its ghoul, the walls and sloping ceiling of Ron's room are covered with orange Chudley Cannons posters. His Cannons bedspread is a bit threadbare; it's emblazoned with the Chudley Cannons logo: two black C's and a speeding cannonball. There's a tank of frog spawn, a pack of self-shuffling playing cards, and other wonders here. The room has a sign on the door reading "Ronald's Room."

Percy's bedroom
Located on the second floor, his room has a window that opens out onto the garden (GF5). He spends a lot of time in his room. While he was at Hogwarts he spent his time writing letters to Penelope Clearwater, his girlfriend. After he left school, he worked on reports for his job at the Ministry of Magic in his room.

Fred and George's room
The twins do magical experiments in their room. Mysterious explosions and noises emanate from it. They've invented all sorts of interesting (and somewhat dangerous) magical items. When cleaning their room, their mother discovered a stack of order forms for them to sell their fake wands and magical candy to kids at school. Molly burned the forms.

Ginny's room
On the third landing (CS3). When Hermione stays over, she sleeps in Ginny's room (GF5).

The Garden:
The garden outside the Burrow has gnarled trees lining the walls, plenty of weeds and overgrown grass, a large pond, and lots of gnomes (CS3). When the entire family is home during summer holidays and Hermione and Harry are staying as well, there are simply too many people for the small kitchen so they eat a delicious dinner in the garden (GF5).

The shed:
Mr. Weasley has stuffed the shed with various Muggle artifacts which is likes to take apart and enchantment just for fun. He used to park a Ford Anglia there, several years ago, but the car has gone missing.

St. Mungo's Hospital
for Magical Maladies and Injuries

"Doctors? Those Muggle nutters that cut people up? Nah, they're Healers."
     -- Ron Weasley, when asked if the staff at St. Mungo's were doctors

Founded in late 1500s or early 1600s by Mungo Bonham, St. Mungo's Hospital is located in London. The Healers at St. Mungo's are trained and equipped to treat a wide variety of magic-related illnesses and injuries. The staff wear lime green robes. The St. Mungo's emblem is a wand and a bone, crossed.

St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries is reached via Purge and Dowse, Ltd. in Muggle London. Purge and Dowse, Ltd. is an red-brick, old-fashioned department store that has "Closed for Refurbishment" signs hanging on its doors. One speaks to the ugly dummy in the front window, who will nod its assent and beckon you to enter. In a process very similar to how one gets onto Platform 9 and 3/4, one walks into the window.

St. Mungo's consists of six floors. Inside the glass display window/entrance is a reception area. A floor guide is provided:

Ground Floor: Artifact Accidents
(Cauldron explosion, wand-backfiring, broom crashes, etc.)

First Floor: Creature-Induced Injuries
(Bites, stings, burns, embedded spiders, etc.)

Due to the snakebite he suffered in OP, Arthur Weasley was being held in the "Dangerous" Dai Llewellyn Ward: Serious Bites. This ward is small and dingy and has only one window, which lies opposite the door. It is mainly illuminated by shining crystal bubbles clustered in the middle of the ceiling.

The staff in this ward includes Hippocrates Smethwyck (Healer-in-Charge) and Augustus Pye (Trainee Healer). Pye is interested in complementary medicine and attempted to help Arthur by using stitches on his wounds. There were two other patients in the ward during this visit. One was a wizard who has been bitten by werewolf (who Lupin talked to during the Christmas visit), and the other is a witch who wouldn't reveal what she was handling when she sustained her injuries.

Second Floor: Magical Bugs
(Contagious maladies, e.g., dragon pox, vanishing sickness, scrofungulus)

Third Floor: Potion and Plant Poisoning
(Rashes, regurgitation, uncontrollable giggling, etc.)

Fourth Floor: Spell Damage
(Unliftable jinxes, hexes, and incorrectly applied charms, etc.)

Harry, Ron, Hemione, and Ginny visited this floor on their way to the tearoom on Christmas day. As they climbed the stairs, they encountered Gilderoy Lockhart on the landing and accompanied him to the Janus Thickey Ward (a.k.a. ward 49), where he is staying. This is the long-term resident ward. Other inhabitants of this ward included Frank and Alice Longbottom, Broderick Bode, and a witch named Agnes. During this visit, the foursome met Neville and his grandmother and learned the truth about Neville's parents.

Tapping just the right brick in the wall behind the Leaky Cauldron pub in London ("Three up...two across...") will reveal an archway which is a portal into Diagon Alley, a long cobbled street where is to be found a strange and exciting assortment of shops and restaurants, some of which have tables outside with brightly colored umbrellas. Does Diagon Alley exist in Muggle reality? It would seem so, since Harry hears traffic outside his Leaky Cauldron room. Of course, that may be simply the fact that The Leaky Cauldron itself is in Muggle space, but the Alley on the other side of the magic portal is not.

The Leaky Cauldron
A small, shabby-looking inn on Charing Cross Road, London, sandwiched between a big book shop and a record store. The Leaky Cauldron is apparently not in Diagon Alley itself; it does serve as a "bridge" between the two worlds, however. The pub was built by Daisy Dodderidge around 1500 "to serve as a gateway between the non-wizarding world and Diagon Alley (fw32)."

The landlord, bald and toothless, is named Tom (PS5, PA3). There are a number of rooms available. During the last few weeks of August, Y13, Harry stayed in room 11, which has windows to let in the sunshine and a mirror on the wall which talks; Harry could hear the traffic from Charing Cross Road behind and the crowd in Diagon Alley below. The night of August 31, Ron and Percy shared room 12 next door. There is a bar, several private parlor rooms (PA3) and a fairly good-sized dining room (PA4, PS5). The Leaky Cauldron's clientele upon Harry's first visit (PS5) included:

• a few old women drinking sherry, one of whom was smoking a long pipe

• Doris Crockford

• Dedalus Diggle, in his usual top hat

• Professor Quirrell

On Harry's extended stay at the Leaky Cauldron, he breakfasted every morning in the dining room and observed the other guests, who included (PA4):

• funny little witches up from the country for a day's shopping

• wizards reading the magazine Transfiguration Today

• wild-looking warlocks

• raucous dwarves

• a hag eating raw liver

Resources:
photo essay: Searching for the Leaky Cauldron

Behind the pub is a small alleyway with trash cans and a brick wall. It is through this wall that the magic portal opens to take visitors into Diagon Alley.

The Alley is fairly large. Harry spends several weeks there, staying in his room at the Leaky Cauldron at night and roaming Diagon Alley by day. There are a large number of shops of many varieties (see list below). Witches and Wizards travel to Diagon Alley from all over Britain to spend the day shopping. Near Gringotts is a sidestreet called Knockturn Alley where are to be found shops dealing with the Dark Arts.

• Atlas: map of Diagon Alley

• Directory of Stores and Shops

• List of things for sale on Diagon Alley

Directory of Stores and Shops of Diagon Alley
This is of course only a partial list of all the establishments in Diagon Alley. [these are the ones mentioned in the books, in other words]

The Apothecary
The Apothecary sells potion ingredients. It's a fascinating shop crammed with all sorts of interesting things. There are barrels of slimy stuff lined up on the floor and jars of all sorts of powders, herbs, and the like along the walls.  Bundles of feathers, fangs, and claws hang from the ceiling. The whole place smells very bad, a mixture of bad eggs and rotten cabbage (PS5, CS4). The name of this shop is Slug & Jiggers Apothecary (SS/f).

cauldron shop
This shop, the closest one to the entrance from the alley behind the Leaky Cauldron, sells all sorts of cauldrons. Outside the shop, a stack of them shines in the sun, under a sign that reads:

Cauldrons
All sizes
Copper, Brass, Pewter, Silver
Self-Stirring
Collapsible

Daily Prophet
There is an office of the Daily Prophet in Diagon Alley (SS/f). Letters to the editor should be sent "by owl to The Daily Prophet, Diagon Alley, London." (DP)

Eeylops Owl Emporium
A dark shop which, according to the sign, sells Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown, and Snowy owls. Hagrid bought Hedwig here for Harry on July 31, Y11.

Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor
Florean Fortescue served Harry free ice cream sundaes and offered advice about medieval witchcraft for a report Harry was writing (PA4).

Flourish & Blotts Bookstore
Manager is a bit brusque, but then he has to deal with strange and bothersome things like books that bite (The Monster Book of Monsters), books that are completely invisible (The Invisible Book of Invisibility), and book signings by Gilderoy Lockhart, who draws quite a crowd which can get a bit unruly at times (PA4, CS4).

Gambol & Japes Wizarding Joke Shop
This shop, a favorite of Fred and George, sells a wide variety of tricks and practical joke items. The twins buy Dr. Filibuster's Fabulous Wet-Start, No-Heat Fireworks here (CS4).

Gringotts Wizarding Bank
Large white marble building, staffed by Goblins, so don't even think of trying to rob it if you know what's good for you. Knockturn Alley connects to Diagon Alley near the bank. The main floor of offices is on street level, but the vaults are miles below, accessable by a magic cart. It is rumored that the goblins keep dragons (PS5) and sphinxes (DP) down there to guard the high security vaults.

junk shop
Full of broken wands, lopsided scales, etc., and a thin little book called Prefects Who Gained Power which caught Percy's eye (CS4).

Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions
Madam Malkin is a squat, smiling witch wearing mauve robes. Madam Malkin's is next door to Flourish & Blott's. Hogwarts school robes are to be found here (PS5). During one summer sale, they sold robes which are spangled, self-ironing, beautifying, slimming, fattening, lengthening, temperature-adjusting, and plain, with a free frog-skin belt with every purchase (DP).

 Magical Menagerie (PA4)
Hermione bought Crookshanks here. The walls are covered with cages and the place is noisy with the sounds of all the animals. The proprietor is a witch who wears heavy black spectacles. She offers advice and sells things like rat tonic. Other creatures for sale included:

• enormous purple toads

• gigantic tortoise with jewel-encrusted shell (probably a Fire-Crab)

• poisonous orange snails (Streelers?)

• a fat white rabbit that changed into a top hat and back

• cats of every color

• noisy cage of ravens

• custard-colored furballs (probably Puffskeins)

• sleek, black rats, rather more intelligent than normal rats

Obscurus Books
Publishing firm (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)
Located at 18a Diagon Alley (FB)

Ollivander's - Makers of Fine Wands since 382 BC
A narrow and shabby little shop. The window displays a faded purple cushion upon which sits a single wand. The walls are lined floor to ceiling with thousands of narrow boxes. The furniture consists of a single spindly chair.

Quality Quidditch Supplies
Harry Potter's favorite shop in Diagon Alley is Quality Quidditch Supplies. He visited it often when he stayed for three weeks at the Leaky Cauldron, since that summer the new Firebolt racing broom had been introduced and the shop had one on display (PA4). Quality Quidditch Supplies displayed a full set of Chudley Cannons robes in the front window (CS4)

Scribbulus Everchanging Inks
see stationery store (SS/f)

second hand robe shop
Mrs. Weasley took Ginny there to buy her robes for Hogwarts (CS4).

Slug & Jiggers Apothecary
see Apothecary (SS/f)

stationery store
next door to Quality Quidditch Supplies, that sells ink, quills, and parchment (PS5, CS4). The name of one such shop in Diagon Alley is Scribbulus Everchanging Inks (SS/f).

street peddlers
Many interesting and strange items are sold on the street by vendors and peddlers. Of course, customers should always be careful what they buy and from whom. Some time back, a street peddler named "Honest Willy Wagstaff" was written up in the Daily Prophet for selling substandard wands and loose-bottomed cauldrons. (DP)

Terrortours
59 Diagon Alley
Advertises in the Daily Prophet. They offer "action holidays for the wizard family with a sense of adventure!" Some of their tours include:

• Transylvanian castles for rent, with the host a guaranteed vampire

• a trip down the "Zombie Trail" where you can come "face to face with the living dead!"

• a cruise through the Bermuda Triangle where you'll see the remains of ships which "didn't spot the monster."

The small print at the bottom warns that "Terrortours accepts no responsibility for death or injury." (DP)

Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes
Located at number 93, the Weasley twins have set up premises in Diagon Alley selling their joke wands, candies, and other goodies (OP29).

WhizzHard Books
Publishing firm (Quidditch Through the Ages)
Located at 129B Diagon Alley (QA)

Some of the things for sale on Diagon Alley:

• lunascope (PA4)

• ice cream

  • chocolate and raspberry with chopped nuts (PS5)

  • sundaes, free on the half-hour (PA4)

  • strawberry and peanut butter (CS4)

• solid gold Gobstones (PA4)

• perfect, moving model of the galaxy in a glass ball (PA4)

• dragon liver (PS5)

• rat tonic (PA4)

• beetle eyes

• owls - tawny, screech, barn, brown, and snowy (PS5)

• broomsticks

  • Firebolt (PA4)

  • Nimbus 2000 (PS5)

• robes

  • Hogwarts school robes (PS5)

  • Chudley Cannons robes

  • robes: spangled, self-ironing, beautifying, slimming, fattening, lengthening, temperature-adjusting, and plain, with a free frog-skin belt with every purchase (DP)

• telescopes (including collapsible brass)

• strange silver scientific instruments

• barrels of bats' spleens and eels' eyes

• quills

• parchment, rolls of

• potion bottles

• globes of the moon

• ink that changes color as you write (Scribbulus Everchanging Inks?)

• books

  • leather-bound books the size of paving slabs

  • books the size of postage stamps in covers of silk

  • books full of peculiar symbols

  • books with nothing in them at all

  • piles of spell books

• cauldrons

  • brass

  • copper

  • solid gold

  • pewter

• scales for weighing potion ingredients

• barrels of slimy stuff

• herbs, jars of

• dried roots

• bright powders

• bundles of feathers

• strings of fangs

• snarled claws

• silver unicorn horns

• wands

• cats

• toads

• other animals

"We don't send people to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts!"
     -- Cornelius Fudge

"The Ministry of Magic wishes you a pleasant day..."
     -- the Welcome Witch's voice at Ministry Headquarters 

Minister of Magic
Ministry Headquarters, London
Departments, committees, etc.
Rules and Regulations
Personnel
History of the Ministry of Magic
International Wizardry
Other organizations

The Ministry of Magic is the governmental authority of the Wizarding World in Britain. The basic mission of the Ministry is to keep the Muggles from finding out about an entire culture of magical folk. It's a huge, complicated, and inefficient bureaucracy, just like most governmental organizations.

The Ministry consists of seven departments (FB) of which the Department of Magical Law Enforcement is the largest. All of the other departments are in some way answerable to it, with the possible exception of the Department of Mysteries (FB).

The Ministry has its headquarters in London (PA11). It consists of numerous Departments, Committees, Boards, and Offices whose job it is to make and enforce laws and regulations. Besides keeping the activities of Witches and Wizards hidden from the Muggles (and swooping in with Memory Charms when things get out of hand), the Ministry also handles commerce and international relations.

There are a number of law enforcement agencies within the Ministry. They maintain order, enforce laws and regulations, deal with breaches of security, and operate Azkaban, the Wizard's Prison. This high-security fortress is located on a tiny island far out to sea. It is guarded by Dementors (PA). The Ministry also maintains squads of Hit Wizards to deal with criminals and elite Aurors to track down Dark Wizards. The Wizengamot is the High Wizard Court, a body which serves as the ultimate arbiter of justice for the Wizarding World.

The Muggle Prime Minister is aware of the Wizarding World. Presumably this is also true of the President of the United States and of other world leaders. Both when Sirius Black (July Y13) (PA2) and when ten top Death Eaters (Y16) (OP25) escaped from Azkaban, Cornelius Fudge informed the Prime Minister the escapees were dangerous wizards because he posed a threat to Muggles as well as Magic Folk. In extreme cases where a magical creature has been seen by Muggles and the usual interventions won't suffice, the Office of Misinformation (part of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures) works with the Muggle Prime Minister to concoct a believable lie to give to the public (FB).

Other countries have similar governing bodies; Bulgaria, for example, has it's own Ministry of Magic, the Minister of which, Mr. Oblansk, sat in the Top Box to watch the World Quidditch Final in Y14 (GF8). There is also a Ministry of Magic in Norway (QA) and other countries. All of these governmental organizations have signed the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy of 1692 which set down many requirements for individual countries to keep the Muggles unaware of the Wizarding World. This requires the Ministries of each country to monitor activities such as Quidditch and to protect and hide the various magical beasts which live within their borders (FB, QA).

Other organizations

• Dark Force Defense League (CS6, GF31)

  • May or may not be directly affiliated with the Ministry of Magic

• Order of the Phoenix (OP)

  • Not part of the Ministry of Magic at all, although the Order fought side by side with the Ministry against Voldemort in the 1970s. However, the Order had to go underground from June Y15 through June Y16, since the Ministry suspected them of plotting to overthrow Fudge

International Wizarding

• International Confederation of Wizards (PS4, GF17)

• International Federation of Warlocks (PA3)

• Ministries of Magic:

  • Andorran (GF28)

  • Burkina Faso (FB)

  • Bulgarian (GF8)

  • German (FB)

  • New Zealand (QA)

  • Norwegian (QA)

• a subcommittee of Sardinian sorcerers (CS9)

• Transylvanians are to sign the International Ban on Dueling (GF23)