Someway today i was bitten by the writing bug, that was while driving home from saturday shopping... so i've spent the afternoon reading a little about how U.K, law are formatted and writing this..
Part one: the letter of the law.
Muggle
Children Future Protection Act 1904
An
Act to make provision for the welfare and future of muggleborn minors
and the recognition of the parental authority of their muggle
relatives and guardians; to make provision for a complete knowledge
of the new society their charges enter and let them make an informed
decision about their future; to make provision for the consequences
of said decision.
Be
it enacted by the King most excellent Majesty and with the advice of
the Lords Magical and Spirituals and the Wizengamot, in this present
assembled and by the authority of the same, as follows.
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Muggle
parental authority recognition and rationale of the law
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The
Wizard Society recognizes the parental authority of muggle parents
or guardians as legally appointed (from now known as Parental
Figures) over muggleborn minors. Until the minor is of age the
Parental Figures have the final word in their charges life choices.
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The
age considered to establish the minor status is the one established
by Wizard laws for Wizard and Witches.
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To
exercise their right Parental Figures need to know not only how the
Wizard Society works but, even more, how their charges are adapting
and integrating. This body recognize that many muggleborn minors
often omit and hide a great part of their experiences from their
Parental Figures.
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Wizard
Inspection of Full Experience
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A
procedure to give a precise and complete knowledge of the current
wizard life of muggleborn minors to his or her Parental Figures and
let them decide on the Minor stay in Wizard Society is created as
stated by the following provisions:
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The
procedure will be known as “Wizard Inspection of Full
Experience”, in short W.I.F.E.
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The
W.I.F.E. execution shall make use of extreme security procedures
and provisions as it will determine the entire future and well
being of a minor.
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The
parties involved in the execution of W.I.F.E. are:
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The
muggle Parental Figure (or Figures) requiring said W.I.F.E. execution ;
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The
muggleborn Minor for which the W.I.F.E. execution is
required
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A
Representative for the Ministry of Magic.
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A
Potion Master qualified for the administration of Veritaserum as
mandated by the Veritaserum Act of 1502
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Any
muggle Parental Figure may require, at any time, the execution of
the W.I.F.E. procedure for any muggleborn Minor he or she is in
charge of. Said request shall be addressed to the Department of
Magical Law Enforcement, to the attention of the Underage Affairs
Office.
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Acknowledging
that said Parental Figures may not be proficient with wizard
communication means and could find difficulties in reaching the Ministry by wizard
means, that request for the execution of W.I.F.E. will be
accepted by said office in the widest way as for the medium and
wording of the request, being those of wizard or muggle origin.
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Any
other Ministry department receiving a communication that could be
considered a W.I.F.E. procedure request shall reroute said request
to the Underage Affairs Office and shall not refuse or discard said
it.
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The
Underage Affairs Office worker in charge of the W.I.F.E. execution
shall name a Ministry Representative.
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The
Representative shall act as go-between between the muggle Parental
Figures and the muggleborn Minor to better the understanding by
said Parental Figures of the new society the Minor is becoming part
of during the execution of the W.I.F.E. procedure.
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The
Underage Affairs Office worker may name any able adult wizard or witch subject to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
law as Ministry Representative. As in most cases the Minor will be
a student at some magical school it is suggested that the
Representative should be the Parental Figure of a classmate of said
Minor.
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The
Underage Affair Office worker shall name the Potion Master in
charge of the Veritaserum use.
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If
not already Ministry Officials, the Representative and the Potion
Master shall sign a Non Disclosure Agreement to not divulge
anything learned during the proceeding of the W.I.F.E execution and
to respect any decision the Parental Figures will make.
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The
Underage Affairs Office shall schedule for the W.I.F.E. execution
within 30 (thirty) working days of the reception of the request and
shall promptly notify the parties involved.
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The
notification to the muggle Parental Figures shall be made by muggle
means.
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The
notification to the muggleborn Minor shall be charmed with a
compulsion charm keyed to the age of the Minor to ensure the
collaboration of said Minor to the execution of the W.I.F.E.
procedure.
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Execution
of the W.I.F.E procedure.
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The
execution of the W.I.F.E. procedure shall be performed in a warded
room in the Ministry of Magic in any of its current venues. The
ward should bar any magic but potions and any form of physical harm
in said room.
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Before
entering the designated room the Minor shall surrender his or her
wand to the Representative for the duration of the W.I.F.E.
procedure.
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The
Representative shall explain to the Minor and to the Parental
Figures the nature of the W.I.F.E. procedure and how full
disclosure to the Parental Figures will only be in the Minor future
and well being interest.
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The
Potion Master shall examine the Minor to establish and administer
the lowest dose of Veritaserum needed by the Minor as for the
Veritaserum Act of 1502. During the following questioning the
Potion Master shall keep checking the Minor health for any adverse
effect by the serum.
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The
Potion Master shall ask the Minor if he or she is in posses of any
potion and shall establish if said potions may pose a threat to the
execution of the W.I.F.E procedure. Should dangerous potion be
unveiled the Potion Master shall destroy them immediately.
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The
muggle Parental Figures and only the muggle Parental Figures may
proceed to ask questions to the muggleborn Minor. The
Representative may suggests questions to the muggle Parental
Figures.
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Only
when the Parental Figures declare to have concluded their
questioning the Representative shall ask one question to the Minor,
this question being: “Are there any experiences in your stay
in Wizard Society that you haven't mentioned to them, today or in
any other occasion, that could influence in any way the
decision of your Parental Figures ?”. This question may be
reworded in any way the Representative believe would be better
understood by the Minor. After the Minor answers the Parental
Figures may ask more questions.
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Due
to the potential length of the questioning, but at the undisputed
judgment of the Potion Master, supplemental doses of Veritaserum
may be administered to the Minor.
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Once
the questioning is terminated the Potion Master shall administer
the Veritaserum Antidote and examine the Minor for any adverse
effect.
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Once
the questioning is terminated the Parental Figures shall be left
alone with the Minor in the warded room where they shall come to a
decision regarding the future of the Minor stay in Wizard society.
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The decision have to be made inside that room to protect the Parental
Figures by inconsiderate actions by the Minor were said Minor
should not recognize the wisdom of the Parental Figures decision.
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Once
made their decision the Parental Figures shall inform the
Representative of their decision.
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Conclusion
of the W.I.F.E. procedure
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If
the Parental Figures decision is for the Minor to continue his or her life
inside the Wizard Society the Minor will be so permitted.
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If
the Parental Figures decision is for the Minor to continue his or her life
inside the Wizard Society the Representative shall return the wand
to the Minor.
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If
the Parental Figures decision is for the Minor to continue its life
inside the Wizard Society the costs of the Veritaserum and its
antidote shall be on their account. If the Potion Master is not a
Ministry employee his or her honorary shall be on their account.
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If
the Parental Figures decision is for the Minor to continue its life
inside the Wizard Society they have the option to ask for the Minor
to be obliviated of all the W.I.F.E. execution procedure.
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If
the Parental Figures decision is for the Minor to leave the Wizard
society they shall choose how the leaving will be performed as for
the Renounce to Magic Law of 1203. The Representative shall help
the Parental Figures to choose in the interest of the Minor future.
Accounting for the age of minors the suggested solution shall be
complete obliviation as for provision 5.3 of the Renounce to Magic
Law of 1203.
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If
the Parental Figures decision is for the Minor to leave the Wizard
society they may choose to be obliviated of any experience and
contact they ever had with the Wizard society as an alternative
they may ask to be Imperiused to never reveal the existence of
Wizard Society.
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If
the Parental Figures decision is for the Minor to leave the Wizard
society any procedure costs will be on Ministry account.
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The
Representative shall report in writing the proceedings of the
W.I.F.E. execution to the Underage Affairs Office worker in charge of the
procedure within 2 (two) working days.
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In
observance of the “Ministry Worker Regulation Act” of 1644
Representatives are reminded that in the report shall be registered
every action any person subject to United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland wizard law that can considered a crime for
further investigation.
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If
the decision was for removing the Minor from Wizardry Society minor
infractions to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland wizard laws by the Minor shall be condoned in sight of his
or her future life long absence from Wizardry Society.
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If
the decision was for removing the Minor from Wizardry Society the
Representative shall surrender the Minor's wand to the Underage Affairs Office worker in charge of the procedure for its destruction within
2 (two) working days.
Part two: the (sad) spirit of the law.
Coming home from work in late June Emma and Dan Granger found a quite heavy envelope in their mailbox, Its sender was stated as the "Underage Affair Office".
It was quite an inconspicuous designation but they knew its origin, it came straight out from the Ministry, the Ministry of Magic and it could be the solution of all of their recent concerns about their only daughter.
Already in her first year at Hogwarts, in this incredible and almost unreal Wizardry society they suspected she was lying to them. Just after two months of school, starting around Halloween of that first year, her letters became colder, more guarded and almost standardized. They were sure something big happened but the extraordinary answer they got "I've made two friends, they are great!" would not have been the reason for such changes, or at least not if she just got a couple, ok, her first couple of friends, instead of doing something big, big and wrong with them.
Each month, letter and year was worse and now after her third year at Hogwarts they were absolutely sure that she was hiding something, not just something but a lot and this was driving them crazy and desperate for answers, for the truth!
A couple weeks ago they found themselves reminiscing about a little leaflet, almost hidden in that life changing letter she received three years ago, the letter that changed their life. They went to their home office and found it in Hermione's school related folder: it was a brief explanation, strangely almost in faded black ink while the rest of the letter was bright and colorful explaining about a way to insure that muggle Parental Figures (that would be them) could really know how the life of their charges in Wizardry Society was. They needed to know, they could accept magic, they could accept they daughter not becoming a dentist but they could not accept their daughter becoming a liar!
So they wrote the request for the W.I.F.E. procedures and mailed it to the 64423 PO box, London.
It seemed that the Ministry of Magic worked fast, as the letter was a summon to the Ministry itself, Underage Affair Office, level 5, room 5017 where the W.I.F.E. would be held in a couple days.
"Ok Dan, could you give Hermione her summon, please and tell her the Representative is Lucius Malfoy"