Chapter 4

"As for, the Government the Ministry of Magic is the primary governing body of the magical community in many countries. These ministries are led by a Minister for Magic or the local equivalent. In Britain, there is no political separation between executive, legislative and judicial branches of power. The Minister is elected. The duration of the term is not actually fixed. The longest known term is that of British Minister is the one held by Faris Spavin who was in office from 1865 to 1903, a total of thirty-eight years so here terms to exist but you can become a Minister twice but there has to be someone in between your two terms." the eyes of the others widened at that.

"Also, in Britain, the Wizengamot and the Council of Magical Law judges those guilty of breaking wizarding law and determines the fate of criminals. Trials consist of a short hearing with no lawyer or arbitrator and without any possibility to appeal. Criminals may be sent to horrible places such as Azkaban for punishment through right now the prison is much, much better. In cases where individuals have been wrongfully imprisoned via with precaution such as one of our teachers by the name of Rubeus Hagrid, without trial under false witnesses such as my father's godfather and my namesake Sirius Black, without self-defense under False memory charm or while under the Imperius Curse" at the raised hands he said" I will explain that later on. As it was in the case of one War Hero and the Wizengamot barely issues an apology but merely continues with its work. Of course, like in every other world, the justice system has its problems but it has improved a lot in the past twenty years." everyone chuckled at that apparently that was the same everywhere you went.

"The Ministry of Magic actually controls a great deal of wizarding life, including methods of communication, transportation, internal affairs between wizards and other magical beings, the internal security of the wizarding world, Non-Tradeable Material and even sports. The Enormous effort is expended to keep wizarding society from Muggle knowledge because of the fact that many when the Muggles knew about the existence, we weren't the best of friends. Enchantment of Muggle property is forbidden, also underage wizards are restricted from using magic without a license."

"How old you have to be not to be underage?" asked Zoey Hill

"You have to be seventeen to be considered of age and by that time you can use magic outside of school and be considered an adult."

"Really so you are considered of age earlier than in the Muggle world." the older wizard nodded his head

"But we have done magic before?" said Elijah Patterson worried

"Yes, but it's considered accidental until you are elven and get a wand after that you get in trouble with the Ministry of you to perform magic outside of school. I can go even to expulsion from school." the young wizards decided that was important to remember" Actually, any deliberate revelation of magic is punishable. These laws were created by the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy and are enforced by the International Confederation of Wizards and the Ministry of Magic. But The Ministry does not answer to any part of the Muggle government, but its head is obliged to inform the Prime Minister of events that could cause Muggle notice, such as escaped criminals from prison which has happened only during the war and the only person who has escaped without outside help was someone who was innocent so you don't have to worry."

"Why is that?" asked Christopher Hughes, he was a judge and was interested in the justice system until now he understood that the system was as flawed as in their world which was kind of nice, he didn't want to see that people had made a better justice system than them.

"Azkaban was used to guard by a group of dark creatures that couldn't understand feelings and also didn't know the difference between innocence and guilt. Those creatures also could make every witch or wizards fell worked only after a few days and could make them crazy for longer."

"That has a changed, now right?" asked Christopher

"Yes, it has changed now it's better but the prison is still not the place people want to stay."

"Also, the security status is also the importation of highly dangerous magical creatures. Other exceptions to this secrecy include the Muggle relatives of wizards. After the introduction of the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, most of the wizarding population settled into small villages and hamlets with Muggle populations, where they could be able to rely on each other for mutual support. Some of these mixed-population wizard villages there is only one all-wizard village in Great Britain the student will visit them in their third year." everyone looked excited at that" Yeah, I couldn't wait for it too. In Britain, central wizarding institutions like the Ministry of Magic, St Mungo's Hospital, and the commercial district surrounding Diagon Alley all three are in London. However, most magical folks use magical means to travel there for work, treatment, or shopping, while actually residing in other parts of Britain. Just for curiosity, a Particularly high concentration of wizards and witches live mostly in the West Country and the Highlands of Scotland. This is because both areas are considered to be remote and relatively sparsely populated by Muggle standards, allowing for easier adherence to the Statute of Secrecy."

"Well, that makes sense."

"The world map of the wizarding world is also different from that of the Muggle world."

"How?"

" Like the fact that the wizarding Great Britain, whose borders include all of the British Isles including Ireland, not all wizarding countries correspond directly to the borders of contemporary Muggle nations."

"How exactly is that?" someone asked again

"Well, Flanders and Transylvania, for example, exist as independent countries in the wizarding world, but not in the Muggle world. Additionally, some wizarding countries with Muggle equivalents, like Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, have an outsized influence in wizarding sports and politics, because they're their physical size in the wizarding world is larger than their Muggle equivalent, they have a disproportionately high number of wizards and witches per capital. Wizarding nations all have their own Ministries of Magic and there is an international governing body that coordinates between them all, it is called the International Confederation of Wizards, with such governing bodies as the International Magical Office of Law, which oversees international wizarding law, and the International Confederation of Wizards' Quidditch Committee, which governs Quidditch. That's a sport by the way."

"Is there anything you want to know now?" asked the hazel-eyed young man

"Yes, the man that gave us the letters said something about wizarding money how does that work?" the others nodded in agreement too