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As the lesson got underway Maria stopped drawing and turned her full attention to Professor Fergersnout. Govering bodies in the wiarding world. Well there as the ministry of magic, but that felt like something most would say. She had heard her dad's mention another organisation, if she could just remember the name. As she remembered Maria raised her hand, and answered with a smile pursing her lips "There is the International Confederation of Wizards. It’s an international governing body that oversees all wizarding countries in the wizarding world my dad's have said."
It didn’t take long for the answers to come in thick and fast starting with the most widely governing organisation of them all.
“That is correct.” she nodded at the Hufflepuff. She’ll elaborate further on that subject matter in a short while but for now she turned back to the other students and their ideas.
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MadMadamMalfoy Right off the bat an answer occurred to her, and her hand shot into the air. “The Ministère des Affaires Magiques de la France, or Ministry of Magical Affairs of France has been the French Wizarding government since 1790,” she said when called on. Her dad used to work there many years ago! The more she thought about it, the more the founding date stuck in her mind. She wondered what was the French governing body before that, and did the French Revolution have something to do with the Ministère’s establishment?
These were the responses that she was most expecting, in fact she was surprised that their very own Ministry of Magic hadn’t been the first that the students had jumped to considering it was perhaps the best known to them.
“Yes, the equivalent of our ministry located in their capital city Paris. Its founding date is a little late compared to its international counterparts.” It was not something that Fergersnout had studied extensively on and therefore couldn’t comment on the reason being. Perhaps she’d research later.
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Felixir When things kicked off and Snout asked her first question, Charlie's hand went up. Just before he spoke, his eyes caught on the emblem on the wall as it gradually started to appear. He stopped, gave a small cough, and decided to go for a different answer altogether. "The Board of Governors. I mean, you'd think so, anyway. What with the name." And he left it at that, before his lungs found too much to complain about.
The Board of Governers had a bit of a turbulent history when it came to its relationship with Hogwarts and opinion seemed to be divided over its existence.
“Wonderful. Governing bodies don’t just affect legislation across an entire country but can occur on the smaller scale too. The BoG..” An amusing acronym in her opinion.
“..was established to help regulate our very own Hogwarts ensuring quality education and preserving the safety of its students.” Which judging by the track record of events that
had occurred in the school, the success of that mission was questionable.
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PhoenixRising Governing body found in the wizarding world. She knew this one. "There's the Magical Debate team here at Hogwarts. Not really a governing body, but I suppose it's as close to like a student council maybe." They took sides and like in a governing body and debated things so it kind of worked?
Fergersnout herself led the debate team alongside their esteemed Headmaster Winterbottom so any mention of her treasured club was likely to receive a smile in response.
“We do have a fantastic debate team here however they don’t unfortunately have an influence over rules and regulations at Hogwarts.. not yet anyway.” The formation of a student council wasn’t entirely a bad idea, it would always be interesting to hear the opinions of the students on the matters that affected them personally.
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littledhampir When Professor Fergusnout asked about wizarding governing bodies, Alissa's first thought was, of course, the American wizarding government. While it didn't technically govern her any more, it had for her entire life until a year ago. She raised her hand. "In America, there's the Magical Congress of the United States of America. It's led by a President, not a Minister. And all of the representatives are elected. American muggles are governed by a Congress too, but they have two different bodies while the magical congress only has one." She knew a fair bit about the government because her dad was a lawyer, but she figured the professor wasn't looking for every detail she knew so she left it at that.
Another answer that she was somewhat expecting, the most well known of the governments with the exception of their own.
“Yes, that's right. Although the name and structure of MACUSA is different to our Ministry, the concept is virtually the same. Although interestingly their headquarters are not located in the capital but rather in New York.” The reasons for that decision were not relevant enough to the lesson to discuss.
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Emzily Oh, yeah, he had forgotten they were actually in class right now.
The first question had Solomon completely stumped, though, so he shrugged his shoulders.
Luckily for Solomon, Fergersnout was willing to let the brief whispery chitchat slide on this occasion. He did receive a quick glance in his direction, a warning if you must that any further gossiping would not be exempt from penalisation.
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FearlessLeader19 Ary grinned to himself. He just never knew what interesting thing the professor would call her students next. The slight change in the emblem up above made him direct his gaze up there for a couple of seconds. But then he forgot about that as he raised a hand. “There’s the Wizengamot, which is the British wizarding world’s high court of law.”
Don’t worry Aryan, Fergersnout herself didn’t know what strange name was going to come out of her mouth either. There was no true rhyme or reason behind the object, animal or food source of the day other than that it was the first thing that popped into her head.
“Mhmm. The Wizengamot is the British court system far out dating the conceptualisation of the Ministry. It’s responsible for trialing crimes of a lesser extent and headed by the Chief Warlock.” There was another court for the more heinous crimes but she would keep that a secret for the time being in case someone wanted to mention it.
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astrocat Brandon's heart was beating at about 200 miles per hour, so it was hard to come up with an answer to the question. "Um, peer pressure and social norms. Because they guide how people act, even though it's not a real organization." Like how they governed his choice of a side, or how people all followed certain unspoken rules because of what had mutually been decided as moral or correct.
Truthfully Fergersnout was briefly taken aback by the next students answer to the extent that she remained in silence for a couple of seconds whilst she processed it.
“Although true to a certain extent that we may be influenced by the others around us, not quite the answer I was looking for Mr Fox.” She was a little concerned about the boys behaviour today though.
“However if something is troubling you feel free to pop by my office after lesson has ended and we can have a little chat.” If he wanted to of course, she wasn’t pressuring him into anything.
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natethegreat But. He wouldn't let himself daydream on this for too long. Catching the moment before getting lost, the Scotsman was able to hear the question just in the nick of time. Pondering over it for a quick second, listening as those around him would list through their very own answers. After a second of sitting on things, Archie would then finally draw his conclusion, and raise his hand before speaking it "There's the Spanish Ministry; pardon me if I get this wrong because my Spanish is not up to par. But, I believe it's called Ministeria de Magia de Espana." It was most likely the wrong way of saying it. But, an answer was an answer, and that was the best he had for now.
Another example of a foreign Ministry equivalent to their own. Fergersnout nodded in agreement with the answer.
“Correct.” And no concerns over whether the accent was correct for she was no expert in the language anyway.
“I cannot comment on your pronunciation, sadly I am not fluent but it sounded great to me” she chortled. Sometimes she wondered whether international relations should be a subject at Hogwarts, it would be an interesting one for sure.
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sweetpinkpixie As to the question actually being asked...she supposed that prefects and Head Boy and Head Girl were a soft launch of sorts with authority figures and governing bodies. They were, after all, the bestest of the best representation of each house and the overall student body. At least that was the prestige that surrounded the badges. Quidditch Captains too, right? The train of thought regarding quidditch was fueled a bit by Maria's answer about the International Confederation of Wizards. Anna had done just a little bit of reading about the sport after their field trip into the Forbidden Forest and speaking with little Eliza. She she thought about sharing about what little she had read about the International Confederation of Wizards' Quidditch Committee ... but.... alas, her thoughts continued to tumble and somersault about to fanciful fantasies used to fill in the gaps of her lineage rather irrationally. Sure, the floating emblem above them was surely meant to be a hint about things...but let's just say if it had been a basilisk then this Hufflepuffle would have been petrified. "There is the Consortium of Goblinary Finance & Red-Nosed Wizard Investors!" she offered with a chirp.
As was the case with Solomon, any further whispers were largely ignored by the Professor until such time that they became disruptive to the rest of the class. If Anna wanted to believe that she was possessed by the spirit of a dark artefact then that was her prerogative although she was
slightly offended. Thankfully the Hufflepuff did partake in the rest of the lesson and so all was quickly forgiven.
“Fabulous! The Consortium was established to register and regulate Gringotts Wizarding Bank and is largely comprised of Goblin Bankers and investors.” Goblins were a subject she had written a number of publications over and could speak on the matter for hours. Luckily for the students the lesson needed moving on.
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AlwaysSnapesGirl Governing bodies? There were lots of those, and he wondered how that would tie into the division of the room while listening to his classmates offer their answers. He almost looked around the room as he usually would when people were answering, but he instead quickly fixed his eyes on the front of the room, so he still looked like he was paying attention while trying to formulate his own answer.
Finally, after a bit of thinking, he settled on one and raised his hand. "There was the Wizards' Council that we had here for several centuries before it was disbanded and replaced in the early 1700s."
She was surprised that no one had yet claimed the Ministry as their answer but this one was the closest.
“That’s right. The Wizards Council was the predecessor to the Ministry of Magic and operated for centuries before the latter was established as the more complex structure needed to govern new legislation.” More on that subject to come later. The Professor was also gratefully oblivious to any teenage drama that was currently occurring in her classroom.