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          The Ministry of Magic is located somewhere just below the surface of downtown London. To get to the Ministry, you must head for an old shabby telephone booth down in a small graffiti filled alleyway. Once you get inside the booth, pick up the receiver and hold it above your head and dial 6 - 2 - 4 - 4 - 2. After this you will get the receptionist. State your name and business, then after you tell that you will get small silver badges that tell your name and business to get into the Ministry. You are then told, if you are a visitor, to submit to a search and present your wand for registration at the security desk, which is the at the far end of the Atrium. Then the telephone booth goes down like an elevator to the Atrium. The Atrium is a very long and splendid hall with a highly polished, dark wood floor. The peacock-blue ceiling was inlaid with gleaming symbols that were continually moving and changing like some enormous heavenly notice board. On each side of the Atrium, there were many gilded fireplaces. The fireplaces on the left side were for Arrivals, where every few seconds a witch or wizard would emerge. On the right side, short queues of wizards were forming before each fireplace, waiting to depart. In the middle of the Atrium there was a fountain. A group of golden statues, larger than life-size, stood in the middle of a circular pool. Tallest of them all was a noble-looking wizard with his wand pointing straight in the air. Grouped around him were a beautiful witch, a centaur, a goblin, and a house-elf. The last three were all looking adoringly up at the witch and wizard. Glittering Jets of water were flying from the ends of the two wands, the point of the centaur's arrow, the tip of the goblin's hat, and each of the house-elf's ears, so that the tinkling hiss of water was added to the pops and cracks of Apparators and the clatter of footsteps as hundreds of witches and wizards strode toward a set of golden gates at the far end of the hall. As Harry passed the fountain headed toward the security desk, inside he saw lots of sickles and knuts inside the pool. A small sign on the fountain said:

" All proceeds from the Fountain of Magical Brethren will be given to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries "

          Harry got to the Security desk and a badly shaven man in peacock blue robes took Harry's wand and weighed it on a balance (this tells what type of wand it is). After they passed the Security desk they headed for the Elevator through the Golden Gates. They got in a very crowded elevator and went up. As the elevator went up the voice told what floor they were on and what is on that floor. This is a listing of the floors at the Ministry of Magic:

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Level 10......................Courtrooms

Level 10 cannot be reached by the elevator (lift). It is a corridor with rough stone walls and torches in brackets. There were heavy wooden doors with iron bolts and keyholes. At the end of the hall was a grimy dark door with an immense iron lock, this was Courtroom 10, the place of Harry's hearing.
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Level 9........................Department of Mysteries

The walls of this floor were bare, there were no windows and no doors apart from a plain black one set at the very end of the corridor. To the left of the door was a small flight of steps to Level 10.
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Level 8.......................The Atrium

The reception area where all of the witches and wizards that work at the Ministry gather to head to work. The place has a dark wood floor with fireplaces on each side and a peacock blue ceiling that is inlaid with gleaming golden symbols that may be some kind of a notice board. In the Atrium there is the Fountain of Magical Brethren, and at the far end of the Atrium is the Security desk and a great pair of golden gates that lead to the elevators.
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Level 7........................Department of Magical Games and Sports

Including the, British and Irish Quidditch Headquarters, Official Gobstones Club, and Ludicrous Patents Office. This level is an untidy corridor with various posters of Quidditch teams tacked lopsidedly on the walls.
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Level 6........................Department of Magical Transport

Including the, Floo Network Authority, Broom Regulatory Control, Portkey Office, and Apparation Test Center. On this floor, several paper airplanes swooped into the elevator, they were a pale violet color with Minister of Magic stamped on them. These were Interdepartmental Memos.
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Level 5........................Department of International Magical Cooperation

Including the, International Magical Trading Standards Body, the International Magical Office of Law, and the International Confederation of Wizards, British Seats.
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Level 4........................Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures

Including the, Beast, Being, and Spirit Divisions, Goblin Liaison Office, and Pest Advisory Bureau. A wizard holding a fire-breathing chicken got out on this level.
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Level 3........................Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes

Including the, Accidental Magic Reversal Squad, Obliviator Headquarters, and the Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee.
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Level 2........................Department of Magical Law Enforcement

Including the, Improper Use of Magic Office, Auror Headquarters, and Wizengamot Administration Services. This is the level at which Harry and Mr. Weasley got off. On this level they walked down a corridor lined with doors, they then went through a great pair of oak doors into an open area divided into cubicles. The sign told them that this was the Auror Headquarters. They walked through here and passed through another set of large oak doors into another passage, turned left, and followed the corridor and turned right into a small dimly lit shabby corridor and reached a dead end where they found a two doors. One led to a broom closet and one had a small lopsided plaque that read Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office.
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Level 1........................Unknown

We believe that this level is home to the office of the Minister of Magic and the high people in the Ministry.

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As you know the Ministry has many workers, these workers are divided into their Departments and Offices. Here is a listing of known workers and their Departments and Offices.
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Department of Magical Games and Sports

Head:   Ludo Bagman
Personnel:   Bertha Jorkins (Deceased)

Purposes and things done by this Department:

-Organized the Quidditch World Cup final

-Helped organize the Triwizard Tournament in cooperation with the Department of International Magical Cooperation.

-Responsible for hiding Magical sporting events from Muggles
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Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes

Head:  Unknown
Personell:  Unkown

Also In This Department:

-Accidental Magic Reversal Squad

-Obliviator Headquarters

-Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee
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Department of International Magical Cooperation

Head:  Bartemius Crouch Sr. (Deceased)
Personell:  Percy Weasley

Purposes:

-Work together with Magical Governments of other countries.

-Sets Standards for International Trade

-Sets regulations like Cauldron thickness (Percy).

-Worked with Department of Magical Games and Sports on the Triwizard Tournament.
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Department of Magical Law Enforcement

Head:  Amelia Bones
Personell:  Many Aurors and Magical Law Enforcement, including Nymphadora Tonks, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and Alastor Moody.

Also In This Department:

-Magical Law Enforcement Squad:   These people catch wizards who have done unlawful things but are not that dangerous.

-Auror Headquarters:These people catch very dark wizards who are dangerous. They are also known as Dark Wizard Catchers. Aurors go through rigorous training to be Aurors. They have to get good marks in Concealment and Disguise and Stealth and Tracking.

-Wizengamot Administration Services:   The Wizengamot are the high court in the trials of prisoners, they decide whether the person is guilty of not.

-Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office Personnel:   Arthur Weasley and Perkins
This office keeps enchanted Magic Items out of the hands of Muggles, they also participate in raids to keep Dark Magic Items out of circulation in the Wizard world.

-Improper Use of Magic Office Personnel:   Mafalda Hopkirk
This office's purpose is to keep underage wizards and other people from doing magic they are not supposed to be doing.
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Department of Magical Tranportation

Head:  Unknown
Personell:  Basil, worked on the Portkeys for the World Cup.

Also In This Department:

-Floo Network Authority:   Regulates which fireplaces are connected to the Floo Network, they also let people from the Department of Magical Law Enforcement monitor fires from there.

-Broom Regulatory Control

-Portkey Office

-Apparation Test Center:   This is where people go to take their test to get their Apparation license, their form of a Driver's License.
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Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures

Head:  Unknown
Personell:  Amos Diggory

Purposes:

-Handles complaints about Magical Creatures

-Regulates and monitors breeding of new Magical Creatures

Also In This Department:

-Beast, Being and Spirit Divisions: Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures:   Walden Macnair works for this office.

-Goblin Liaison Office

-Pest Advisory Bureau
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Department of Mysteries

Head:  Unknown
Personell:  Bode (Deceased) and Croaker: "Unspeakables"

Not much is known about this Department. They do hold all of the Prophecies that are made in rows and rows of shelves in small glass balls. This is where Harry found the Prophecy about him.
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