The Department of Mysteries , located on Level Nine, is a department in the Ministry of Magic which studies particular enigmas death, time, space, thought, and love and stores copies of prophecies made in the Harry Potter universe.
During Voldemort's discriminatory regime, he forces the department to lie and claim that Muggle-borns actually steal magic from Pure-bloods, making them "illegal magicals" and allowing their arrest.
Because of the covert nature surrounding this particular branch of the Wizarding government, the Department of Mysteries can be likened to real-world intelligence agencies like the CIA or MI6 in that most of their operations are kept in total secrecy from the general wizard populace. However, the primary operations of the department seem to be more like those of scientists as they attempt to uncover the sources and rules that govern magic.
The rooms at the Department each seem although not spelled out directly to refer to various mysteries of life. These rooms include:. The Unspeakables are the group of wizards who work in the Department of Mysteries their identities classified for security reasons.
The following characters are notable Ministry of Magic officials. Yaxley is listed under Death Eaters. Ludovic "Ludo" Bagman is a former, highly successful Beater for the Wimbourne Wasps and England's international team, whose good looks have gone a bit to seed; his nose is squashed in apparently having been broken by a stray bludger and he is quite a bit thicker around the middle than he was in his Quidditch days.
He was the head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports. Rowling uses Dumbledore's Pensieve to reveal in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire that Bagman was accused of being a Death Eater about thirteen years before the events of the fourth book because he had given information to recently discovered Death Eater Augustus Rookwood.
It is stated that he had believed Rookwood, who was his father's friend, to be beyond suspicion, and that; consequently, he had thought that he was aiding the Ministry by passing the information on to him.
Bagman loves gambling, which got him in financial trouble so severe that he pays some of his creditors including Fred and George Weasley with disappearing Leprechaun Gold, after they have gambled on the Quidditch World Cup. After the World Cup final, some goblins corner him in the woods outside the stadium and take all the gold he had on him, which is not enough to cover his debts.
To clear his debts with the goblins, Bagman makes a bet on the Triwizard Tournament, of which he is one of the judges. He bets the goblins that Harry would win. He tries to help Harry over the course of the Tournament, giving him a perfect score in the First Task even though he is injured, and offering him advice.
Harry and Cedric Diggory end up tying for first place in the tournament, and Bagman does not win the bet as the goblins argue that Bagman was betting Harry would win outright. Bagman runs away after the Third Task of the Tournament. Bagman's character was cut from the film adaptation of the fourth book. Some of Ludo's primary functions in the story were performed by Cornelius Fudge and Barty Crouch Sr, in the film adaptation. Crouch was somewhat megalomaniacal and intensely preoccupied with presenting the appearance of respectability.
Crouch was a narrow, inflexible man who stiffly followed the rules. Though he despised the Dark Arts, the lengths to which he was willing to go in order to disassociate with anything that might blemish his reputation led him to behave almost as cruelly as many on the Dark Side, and gave Aurors powers to kill rather than capture suspected Death Eaters who resisted arrest.
He sent Sirius Black to the wizard prison Azkaban without a trial. Crouch appeared to be the favourite to become the next Minister for Magic until his son, Barty Crouch, Jr, was caught with the Lestranges, Death Eaters who were trying to bring Voldemort back to power. Crouch gave his son a trial before sending him to Azkaban; however, according to Sirius, the trial was a sham, merely a public demonstration of how much he hated the boy. About a year after the trial, Crouch's terminally ill wife begged for her son's life to be saved, so Crouch abetted the two in trading appearances using Polyjuice Potion, and Mrs Crouch took her son's place in Azkaban.
After the supposed death of his son in prison, public sympathy fell on Crouch Jr; the wizarding world placed all the blame on Crouch Sr, accusing him of driving his son to join the Death Eaters because of his neglect of his family. After the scandal, Crouch lost much of his popularity and he was shunted sideways to a post as the head of the Department of International Magical Co-operation.
Barty Crouch, Sr makes his first appearance in the series at the Quidditch world cup in Goblet of Fire. Voldemort and his servant Peter Pettigrew show up at the Crouch family home and put Crouch Sr under the Imperius Curse, freeing Crouch Jr from the Imperius Curse placed on him by his father and thus allowing him to rejoin Voldemort.
Crouch continues to appear in public at first and is one of the five judges at the Triwizard Tournament. However, worried that Crouch will fight off the Imperius Curse, Voldemort later keeps him imprisoned within the house and has him communicate exclusively through supervised owl post. Later in the book, Crouch, who has escaped from his home, meets Harry and Viktor Krum in the Forbidden Forest and begs to see Dumbledore. However, Harry, while on his way to inform Dumbledore of the events, unwittingly alerts Crouch Jr, in the disguise of Mad-Eye Moody, to his father's presence.
Crouch Jr immediately goes to the Forest, kills his own father, transfigures the body into a bone, and buries it on the Hogwarts grounds. In contrast to a spiteful, rather contemptible portrayal in the book, the film portrays him as somewhat more sympathetic; he appears dismayed upon learning that his son is a Death Eater, rather than convicting him to Azkaban.
John Dawlish is an Auror. He is very capable and self-assured, and is described as a "tough-looking wizard" with "very short, wiry" grey hair. He leaves Hogwarts with Outstandings in all his N. However, it is a running joke of the books that in any appearance or mention of him, he is eventually hexed, usually due to a combination of far superior opponents and sheer bad luck.
Dawlish is knocked out along with Fudge, Umbridge, and Kingsley when Dumbledore, who put the blame for the Army on himself, escapes. A few weeks later, Dawlish is among the wizards who attempt to arrest Rubeus Hagrid when Umbridge sacks the gamekeeper. Still later, Dawlish arrives at the Ministry of Magic with Fudge after the battle at the Department of Mysteries is over. Fudge then sends him to attend to the captured Death Eaters. He is sent to follow Dumbledore when the Headmaster leaves school to search for Voldemort's Horcruxes, but is "regretfully" hexed by the Headmaster.
Being Confunded, he is defeated by Dirk Cresswell , who escapes halfway on the way to Azkaban. Later, Dawlish is sent to arrest Augusta Longbottom. After a struggle, her attack places Dawlish in St Mungo's Hospital. Dawlish's first name is not revealed in the books or films. However, Rowling said in an interview with the podcast "PotterCast" that she named him John, owing to host John Noe's appreciation of the character.
He makes his first appearance in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when he arrives at the school to take Hagrid to Azkaban, even though he does not firmly believe that Hagrid is guilty.
He also removes Dumbledore as Headmaster when pressured by Lucius Malfoy who insisted that all the school governors had voted on it. Fudge does not press charges against Harry for accidentally inflating Aunt Marge, and advises him to be careful because an escaped convict is at large.
When Fudge goes for a social drink at the Three Broomsticks pub, he inadvertently tells an unseen Harry that Sirius was James Potter's best friend and was believed to have betrayed the Potters to Voldemort. Fudge allowed the near-execution of Buckbeak to occur, once again intimidated by Lucius Malfoy.
In this book, it is revealed that, before becoming Minister of Magic, he worked in the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes. His kindly relationship to Harry abruptly changes in Goblet of Fire. When Harry emerges from the Triwizard Tournament's third task after having seen the rebirth of Voldemort, Fudge refuses to believe it. He is worried about the fallout of announcing Voldemort's return, marking the end of the Wizarding world's years of peace, and the sudden outbreak of gloom and terror; hence he decides to merely ignore all of the evidence rather than accept the truth.
In Order of the Phoenix , Fudge orchestrates a vicious smear campaign through the Daily Prophet to present Dumbledore as a senile old fool even though he was constantly asking for Dumbledore's advice in his early days of being Minister of Magic and Harry as an unstable, attention-seeking liar. He also passes a law allowing him to place Dolores Umbridge, his Senior Undersecretary, as a teacher at Hogwarts. He then appoints Umbridge as Hogwarts' "High Inquisitor", with the power to inspect and sack teachers, and ultimately Dumbledore's successor as Headmaster, which gives her and by extension, Fudge himself primary control of how Hogwarts is managed.
Fudge is concerned that Dumbledore is a threat to his power and that he is planning to train the Hogwarts students to overthrow the Ministry. After Voldemort appears in the Ministry of Magic at the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Fudge is sacked in disgrace from his position of Minister for Magic after the wizarding community calls for his resignation and is replaced by Rufus Scrimgeour, though he stays on as an advisor in Half-Blood Prince.
He makes several attempts to have Dumbledore arrange a meeting between himself and Harry so that Harry can lie on Fudge's behalf and make it look as though the Ministry is winning the war, but Dumbledore refuses, knowing how ridiculous Harry would find the idea.
Fudge is last mentioned in the series as one of the attendees at Dumbledore's funeral; his fate during Voldemort's takeover of the Ministry during the following year is unknown. Bertha Jorkins was a student at Hogwarts at the same time as James Potter and company.
She was known as nosy, with a good head for gossip. She became a Ministry of Magic employee after leaving Hogwarts. In the summer before the events of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , she was killed by Voldemort.
Rowling later revealed that her death was used to turn Nagini, Voldemort's snake, into a Horcrux. Some months before her murder, she accidentally discovered that Barty Crouch, Jr, who supposedly died in Azkaban prison, was still alive and being hidden by his father. Barty Crouch Sr. Voldemort irreparably damaged her mentally and physically while breaking the Memory Charm, through which he gained information about the Triwizard Tournament and Crouch Jr.
During the duel between Harry and Voldemort in the graveyard at Little Hangleton, Bertha is one of the shadows that spills out from Voldemort's wand and helps Harry escape. She appears to be wiser after her death, and supports Harry during The Goblet of Fire so he can defeat Voldemort, her murderer. Charlie Weasley failed his Apparition test the first time because he landed on top of a woman who was shopping, five miles south of where he meant to appear. Harry stated that the sensation was uncomfortable, like being forced through a tight rubber tube.
In , a notice for the week Apparition course appeared on the Gryffindor common room wall, along with a sign-up sheet. During these lessons the first student to Apparate was Susan Bones , but unfortunately she got splinched and left her leg behind. The Heads of House surrounded her and fixed the problem. By the third class, student nicknames for the Apparition instructor included Dog-breath and Dung-head. The Apparition Test took place in Hogsmeade on 21 April for those who had already turned 17, including Ron Weasley , who was struggling with the subject.
He and Hermione signed up for extra practice lessons in Hogsmeade. Hermione passed the Apparition Test in her first try, but Ron left half an eyebrow behind and failed. It is unknown when and where Ron took the test a second time, or if he ever passed. Harry never took the Apparition Test, although he initiated side-along Disapparition with Dumbledore to get him back from the sea cave, when he was weak. Harry was still underage at the point, but he was holding Dumbledore's arm, and therefore the Ministry would not have Traced him.
After Harry turned 17, he Apparated at least once alone to Grimmauld Place under his Invisibility Cloak , [9] and several times side-along with Hermione and Ron under the cloak. The Ministry never knew because by then they were no longer underage, so the Trace did not work. Pius Thicknesse made it an imprisonable offense to connect 4 Privet Drive to the Floo Network , place a Portkey there, or Apparate in or out, in order to prevent Harry from getting out of there safely, so the Order used the so-called Seven Potters plot with Polyjuice Potion and brooms to get Harry to safety.
During Voldemort 's reign over the Ministry of Magic, Apparition into the Ministry offices was restricted only to the senior members. A variant of Apparition used to transport two or more individuals at once was called Side-Along Apparition. This method could be used by adults seeking to transport underage wizards, or licenced individuals could use this method to transport an injured party. To perform this version of Apparition, the more able party would Apparate with the other party holding onto an arm.
This method was recommended by the Ministry of Magic for parents with underage children to escape from danger quickly. The party who could not Apparate had to hold onto the other as tightly as possible.
House-elves could perform Side-Along Apparition as well. If both parties knew how to Apparate, they didn't need to grip so tightly, as the Apparator would simply be guiding their passenger. Harry found it impossible to break free of this forced Side-Along Apparition. When hoping to Apparate with creatures, it would depend on the nature of them. Many of them had a magical nature which would not enable them to travel by Apparition.
House elves could Apparate, including where wizards were prevented from doing so, such as Hogwarts and 12 Grimmauld Place. He first took Luna, Dean and Ollivander to safety by Apparating to Shell Cottage with them, then returned to rescue the others. Phoenixes were capable of a form of Apparition, disappearing and reappearing by a flash of flames. Like the variant demonstrated by house-elves, phoenixes were not hampered by any restrictions that normally prevented wizards from doing so, and they could carry other people with them.
Fawkes flew over to Dumbledore, who caught his feet and disappeared in a burst of flame. The Diricawl was a magical species of bird that could disappear from one location and reappear in another, similar to how a wizard was able to Apparate.
A licence to Apparate was required to practise Apparition legally, at least in Great Britain ; these could be gained from the Department of Magical Transportation [25] and were required since at least the s.
Lessons in Apparition were available, for an extra charge, to students who were or would be of legal age when the next test was administered. This was similar to Muggle schools where road instruction for driving licences were available, but at an extra charge.
While it was physically possible to Apparate without a licence, it was not advisable, because injury could result. Splinching could occur when one had insufficient determination to reach one's goal, causing certain body parts to fail to arrive at the destination with the wizard.
For example, Susan Bones 's leg when she accidentally splinched herself during an Apparition lesson; although it was successfully reattached, she was left shaken by the incident. In cases where splinching occurred, if the victim had not been treated properly, the injury could be much more serious, such as when Ron suffered severe blood loss after splinching away part of his upper arm while escaping from 12 Grimmauld Place in Many of them had a magical nature which would not enable them to travel by Apparition.
In the final battle, Harry used his signature spell with defiance. This time he was more experienced but in some ways he was still guessing, with his assumptions about the Elder Wand. Voldemort's signature spell was Avada Kedavra. Harry's was Expelliarmus. Like most members of the Black family, Kreacher believed that Muggle-borns and blood traitors were scum. Because of this, he frequently insulted Hermione even though she tried to be nice to him.
There were 8 horcruxes. Hagrid can't Apparate. That's sixth year student stuff, and he was expelled during his third year. But here, he just disappears, leaving Harry to fend for himself. Hagrid beats the Hogwarts Express to Hogwarts.
Yes , but the point is the distance across the sea is less than the distance Harry and Co apparate earlier, meaning that either they are better at it than voldemort or there was something different about his journey, namely the open water.
Voldemort fired a Killing Curse the second that Mundungus disapparated, and hit Moody in the face. Moody fell backwards off his broom and down to the ground, and even if he survived the curse which is almost impossible , Moody fell about one thousand feet with no wand, making his death a certainty. Also, in every film with the Dark Mark in the sky, Death Eaters are shown Apparating inside of its mouth in smoke form.
This allows them to fly out of it and appear wherever it is cast, allowing them to use it as a sort of portal. Although it seems contra-intuitive, if you instantaneously transport yourself from Germany to London, keeping the speed of the earth's surface in Germany as you travel, you will find yourself propelled into the ground and towards the west at a speed of several hundred miles an hour as you arrive.
This is quite possibly the reason for the limitation on long-distance Apparition, the limitation being the amount of differential velocity you can handle; possibly there are specialists in apparition who are able to apparate longer distances.
Whether the author of this series is familiar with Niven's works is unknown. Extended Description In order for a witch or wizard to be allowed to apparate they must first pass a test. Step One: Fix your mind firmly upon the desired destination. Step Two: Focus your determination to occupy the visualized space. Let your yearning to enter it flood from your mind to every particle of your body.
Step Three: Turn on the spot, feeling your way into nothingness, moving with deliberation. Analysis Spells local to Hogwarts School prevent apparition within the school grounds, part of the methods used to protect Hogwarts from outsiders.
Questions Why is it that Wizards and Witches are not able to disapparate for their own safety when they are faced with danger? For example, when Harry's mother knew that Lord Voldemort would likely try to kill her and Harry after killing James, her husband why didn't she just disapparate with Harry in a side-along fashion, as in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? True, many wizarding houses have special spells placed upon them that will not allow for apparition, however, one would think that these could be lifted by the witch or wizard that placed the spell upon the home.
Why in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire does disapparition sound like a small popping, but in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince it sounds like a gun shot or a car back firing? If apparition really is as loud as a car back fire it would be highly restrictive on when and where you could use it. Can muggles side-along apparate with wizards?
What is it about Apparition that makes it so hard to do? Greater Picture It is interesting that in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , the two house-elves Dobby and Kreacher are seen to apparate within the school, where in most earlier books Dobby, at least, apparently travels by more ordinary means within the castle.
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