A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 718: Constitution of the Federation and Union
A law with a long name and a short length, but with great significance and far-reaching influence has been spread.
This law, which was born under a special background, has its unique charm. In addition to regulating the responsibilities, rights and obligations of all wizards, it also stipulates the handling of the relationship between the magic world and the non-magic world, short-term, long-term goals, and rationalization of both sides. management boundaries and a series of issues.
This is also the first time that the "International Pan-Magical Union" has officially appeared in the legal text——
Its influence is more far-reaching. It represents that the Pan-Magical Union branches spontaneously established by various countries are no longer loose regional organizations, and it almost reveals to the world that the International Pan-Magical Union will play a pivotal role in the future.
Along with the "Confederation and Alliance Charter", there is also an order issued from the headquarters of the Federation: All wizards have a copy. Even those wizards who hide in the corners are sent by friends or local Ministry of Magic staff.
At school, Harry held a club event just before Halloween, and they chatted about it while eating and drinking.
"A lot of dark wizards have suffered." Ron said with a smile, "They have been really unlucky recently, and they have been sifted over and over again like lice."
"I heard from my mother that they also have to study in prison." Neville's eyes shone with excitement. Harry thought it was gloating, but this kind of emotion was very rare for Neville.
"It's true, and the requirements are even stricter." The corners of Susan Burns' lips curled up.
"Revisiting the busy time of the O.W.Ls exams is truly lovable." Comparing with Neville, Daphne Grindrath smiled brightly.
"Papa thought about illustrating every single law," Luna said.
"I'll buy it for my collection, Luna," said Hermione, holding the booklet and reading aloud: "Except for the preface and epilogue, the "Confederation and Alliance Charter" is divided into seven chapters, each Chapters correspond to a major theme. These seven chapters are——
General conventions of the magical world;
Principles of personal (family) communication between the magical world and the non-magic world;
The rights, responsibilities and obligations of the Ministry of Magic and social organizations;
Specifications for magical beasts, ghosts, and magical phenomena;
Humanoid Race Rights, Responsibilities, and Duties;
Draft proposal for cooperation with the non-magical community;
Disputes, conflict resolutions, and necessary steps -- short and to the point, covering almost every aspect. And I noticed that the new law absorbed some of the terms of the secrecy law..."
This is natural, the complete exposure of wizards does not mean that all the original laws do not apply. For example, the requirements for wizards’ attire, wizards no longer need to be as impeccable as before (although most wizards have never done it, since the secrecy law came into effect, improper clothing is one of the most common violations), this part has been greatly reduced It has been shortened, and only two items are retained: it is forbidden to expose the lower body in public; it is forbidden to wear clothes and accessories that are likely to cause misunderstanding.
Harry stared, wondering who proposed to keep the first one. Do wizards still have a habit of showing their bodies? But he couldn't help but think of the old wizard in a skirt he met during the Quidditch World Cup...
"What are the clothes and accessories that are easy to cause misunderstanding?" Justin was a little puzzled.
Just as Hermione was about to speak, Ernie MacMillan interjected, "Wait a minute—I seem to have the impression that my uncle mentioned it in a letter... last week when a wizard gave a street interview , the reporter asked if the pumpkin hat he was wearing was some kind of peculiar hobby, and he said it was for Halloween—"
"Sounds normal." Justin said puzzled.
"It's not over yet—" Ernie said with a suffocated smile, "that man demonstrated it to the reporters, and a bunch of live bats flew out of the ghost pumpkin's mouth, scaring the reporters and photographers enough." Several students laughed, only Hermione said with a straight face: "Follow-up processing is quite troublesome. Muggle animal protection organizations have accused wizards of cruelty to animals."
At this time, Hannah Abbott stared at the pamphlet and asked: "But Article 13 of Chapter Two mentions that you can demonstrate magic to Muggles."
"—on the premise of being invited, or in a special place, such as New Diagon Alley, otherwise wizards should try to be as inconspicuous as possible when casting spells near the Muggle community." Hermione added, finishing her own Also shrugged, "Actually, I found that many laws of wizards are not so strict, but judge the severity according to the actual situation and the seriousness of the problem. If I perform tricks for my parents at home, there must be no problem at all."
But the students present were all attracted by another word in her mouth. Luna hummed a weird little tune and said: "New Diagon Alley, I really want to see it."
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After returning to the office, Amelia Bones looked at the piles of documents on the desk, her eyes were wide open—not even a palm-sized tabletop could be seen on the desk. She froze in place, and it seemed to Felix that she was suffocating. Fortunately, Mr. Weasley came to deliver the documents at this time and told her that only a small part of the documents needed to be processed.
"The rest are what you feel you need to know," Mr. Weasley explained.
Rolling up her sleeves, Ms. Burns pulled her monocle out of her pocket, as if ready to do something big.
"It's not bad for a few hours, Amelia. There shouldn't be any major events like the sky falling, right?" Felix looked at Mr. Weasley, and Mr. Weasley immediately said knowingly: "That's not true, Moreover, the minister has also found time to come back, if there is a particularly urgent matter, we will report it."
"Let's have a drink together." Felix summoned a bottle of wine from the air, and they sat on the reception sofa, drinking and chatting. Mr. Weasley took off his glasses and rubbed his glowing forehead, and Felix noticed that his hair was visibly thinning.
Sitting on the sofa, Burns took a sip of wine, shook his glass and said, "Arthur, how is your new department doing?"
"Everything is fine." Mr. Weasley cheered up and said, "Not counting Scrimgeour, we have cooperated with the Muggle government several times. A small piece of land, I took my new colleagues to work for three days, transformed a small Diagon Alley street, and there was an endless stream of tourists. Some activities—such as the release of magic books and giveaways were held there, and several companies responded to the magic Ministries, such as the Daily Prophet and the Quibbler, who give away thousands of copies of newspapers and magazines to tourists for free—"
Felix guessed from the lingering fear on Mr. Weasley's face that he probably had contact with more people during this period than he had in the previous half of his life.
"You mean free distribution to tourists? No money?" Ms. Burns asked curiously: "I don't know much about Lovegood, the editor-in-chief of the dissident, but the Daily Prophet..."
"They're unsold back issues of newspapers or magazines, which don't matter much to them," Mr. Weasley explained.
"As for the new Diagon Alley, are there any merchants here?" Felix asked.
"Not yet, but some preparations have been made in advance." Mr. Weasley said: "We contacted the parents of the little wizard from a Muggle family and asked them if they were interested in opening a shop in New Diagon Alley. Many of them are Squibs—or similar existences, Mr. Ollivander told me—at least they can use their own wands, and they can go to work with a little training.”
"Have you been contacted by the Squib Rights Association?" Ms. Burns asked. "They might be interested."
Mr. Weasley nodded, then shook his head. "We have contacted, but their willingness is not strong." Seeing the slightly surprised eyes of Felix and Ms. Burns, he smiled for the first time, "Most people who know their identity as Squibs have relatives alive, and many families are willing to Find the children who are outside."
"Any more news?"
"I think about it... After signing the contract, more than a dozen anti-wizard demonstrations broke out one after another, but the momentum was not great. Our protection magic can ensure that malicious people cannot enter, and Muggle firearms are also will fail."
"The situation is very good." Ms. Burns said with some joy.
"There were also some accidents." Mr. Weasley took out his handkerchief to wipe his sweat with a little embarrassment, "Two exclusive wands were accidentally lost during the event."
"What's going on?" Ms. Burns sat up from the sofa and asked seriously.
"Didn't the previous plan roughly estimate the number of squibs? Three days ago, we held an event for tourists to experience the exclusive magic wand. Mr. Ollivander further improved the exclusive magic wand. I don't quite understand the principle he said. It is probably to use some magical animal materials to increase the sensitivity of the exclusive wand... In short, there is a rough result, the data is about two hundred to one."
Felix nodded slightly, rubbed his chin and said, "So there are about 300,000 squibs in the UK? No, this term is not accurate, and most of them should have poorer perception of magic. , can't even see ordinary magical phenomena, such as ghosts and dementors."
"That's right," Mr. Weasley said in agreement, "Mr. Ollivander believes that even with the help of a special wand, there are only a few people who can successfully cast spells. The silent man of the Department of Mysteries proposed a possibility: the magic image The rising tide, starting from the first generation of squibs, the magical ability gradually declined, and then an inflection point occurred in a certain generation, becoming more and more obvious..."
"This conjecture is quite interesting." Felix said with interest.
If the idea is true, then the parents and immediate family members of the Muggle-born wizard may have exclusive wands. But after all, they are old, and the thin magic power existing in their bodies (or souls) is almost impossible to mobilize, so they can only use their exclusive magic wands to release the set magic tricks.
"However, during the event, a Muggle suddenly rushed out and snatched two exclusive magic wands from the staff - the law enforcement officers of the Muggle government failed to catch up, and our people were reluctant to use strong The spell, in short, was fled to a residential area by gangsters." Mr. Weasley said: "People from Scrimgeour and the Muggle government are responsible for jointly investigating this matter."
"Isn't the exclusive wand used for testing equipped with trace magic?" Ms. Burns asked.
"Not yet."
Unlike Ms. Burns' serious expression, Felix didn't take it seriously, "Let them investigate slowly, there will be more and more things like this in the future, we just need to plug the loopholes one by one. No matter if it is Zongsi or positioning magic, this kind of problem can be avoided."
Hearing that Ms. Bones's expression eased, there was a knock on the door. Scrimgeour pushed the door open, his thick tea-brown hair mixed with strands of gray, the wrinkles on his face deepened, and he looked much older. Ms. Burns also asked him to sit down. Sure enough, he came to report on the exclusive wand.
"The person was found, and it was initially confirmed that it was just an accident. The court will start in two weeks, and I will personally attend the court hearing." Scrimgeour said, this is already the 132nd case involving wizards that he participated in Illegal acts with Muggles—as small as mischief and magic tricks being complained, as large as flooding a whole house, or setting fire to a tree by not releasing fireworks at the prescribed location—the end result is basically a fine, but because it is Joint law enforcement, the first penalty may become a case in future court trials, so he always appears dutifully every time.
"Rufus, you can hand over part of the work to other people." Ms. Burns reassured him.
"I'll be busy with this time," Scrimgeour said curtly, "Amelia, and I'll give you a copy of every sentence, with the other Wizengamots. Comments, you'd better read it again. According to the agreement between the two parties, if there is no objection, the new law will be approved and take effect in the second year. It will be increased every year as appropriate."
"So the information on the desk——"
"Ah, two stacks are mine."
"Rufus, you need a rest, or help, or your body will fail," Ms. Burns said softly.
"Someone has to do something, and I don't feel relieved to leave it to others." Scrimgeour said indifferently.
Ms. Burns wanted to persuade her again, but Felix said a name: "Barty Crouch."
The three looked at him at the same time.
"As far as I know, Barty Crouch is very good at the letter of the law. He has disappeared from public view for nearly three years. If he wants to—" Felix said slowly, "Well— —I think he might be a little disheartened by the past, but he's a strong-willed man, and if someone told him the Ministry needed him, I don't think he'd hesitate to say yes...Lobbyists are the best You have a good relationship with him, you can be his former subordinate, or a good friend, but you must be strict, stubborn, and a little crazy..."
The corners of Ms. Burns' mouth twitched. She turned her head and looked at Scrimgeour together with Mr. Weasley. There seems to be a candidate here.
"Barty Crouch is still serving his sentence." Scrimgeour stared at Felix sharply and said in a deep voice.
The eyes of the two collided in mid-air. For them, the previous conflicts have long since passed, and no one will settle the old score——Felix even killed Crouch himself, but he still recommends Ba Ty Crouch - but the differences in philosophy still exist, Scrimgeour is a proven veteran, and to some extent he has inherited the old Crouch's philosophy.
"It's only two months away," Felix said, "to serve the sentence in another place, or to arrange a separate cell... the effect is similar, oh, I can also recommend someone who specializes in serving him... the house elf, It's called Shining, I don't know if you have any impression..."
Several people present stared, thinking about the feasibility of this approach.
"...in what name?" Mr. Weasley asked in a low voice after a while.
"Consultant." Felix said without thinking. Ms. Burns rolled her eyes.
Finally, Scrimgeour said dryly: "I can try to convince Barty—"
"Actually, the ideal person in my mind is Moody." Felix said in a strange tone.
Scrimgeour's hair and beard trembled, his knuckles were creaked, and he seemed to be trying with great perseverance not to rush over and grab Felix's neck and shake him. After a while, he said coldly, "Then it's settled." After speaking, he left angrily.
"Rufus is still happy, I can feel it," Ms. Burns said. When Mr. Weasley left, she asked curiously: "Felix, you really don't care about Buddy getting out of prison early-I mean, well," she sighed, "working in a cell?"
"It's nothing more than a month or two in advance~IndoMTL.com~ Besides, does his release from prison affect me-obviously, no."
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The introduction of the "Confederation and Union Charter" is not the point, but the starting point of a new round of negotiations, but this time it is no longer a trivial matter. With the charter and the successful case of the British Ministry of Magic, the negotiations will begin Dozens of countries spread out.
As for the United States, after more than half a month, the Magic Congress of the United States found nothing. They even ventured through the government's top-secret information, but found nothing. Horace Greenstinch, the president of the Magical Congress of America, vaguely mentioned a method during the meeting, but it will not be implemented until after he returns. Felix hoped there would be no trouble.
As for other people in the magical world, the most popular topic right now is the "Charter of the Federation and Alliance", which is continuously broadcast on newspapers, radio, and Muggle TV programs all day long, and various experts take turns to analyze the contents. Content.
This basic law, which is similar to the wizard constitution, is very rich in content, and at the same time clearly shows its bottom line. And judging from the series of grand long-term plans mentioned in the penultimate chapter - such as magic technology, joint hospital, rapid planting, interstellar travel, alien colonization, regeneration of severed limbs... the final conclusion is drawn by It can be summed up in one word: sincerity.
Although for Felix, the above plan can be achieved now, but he would rather extend the realization time to thirty years, fifty years, or even longer.
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