Every Magical Law in the Wizarding World - Harry Potter Explained

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🗓️ 7 January 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today we're discussing Magical LAW. That's right, just like the muggle society, witches and wizards are confined to behaving within the framework of law and order.

We saw a little bit of this in the films- like when Harry had a disciplinary hearing before the Wizengamot. In this instance, Harry had performed underage magic (a Patronus Charm) in order to ward off Dementors attacking him and his cousin Dudley.

"Disciplinary hearing of the twelfth of August, into offences committed under the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery and the International Statute of Secrecy by Harry James Potter, resident at number four, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey."

Fortunately for Harry, Dumbledore stepped in and protected him- which resulted in Harry walking away with no charges.

However, underage magic is just ONE 'law' in a wizarding society that actually has a lot more laws than you may have thought. Today we're going to be uncovering them- at least, all of the ones we have information on.

I should also add that I won't be conflating 'Law' in the sense of legislation with 'Law' in the sense of a set of principles or scientific axioms.

I.e. the 'Law' for underage magic is a piece of legislation prohibiting the use of underage magic and GAMP'S LAW is a set of scientific principles.-

Let's dive in.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains audio extracted from videos on the Harry Potter Theory YouTube
0:05.5	channel. Hey everyone, welcome to another installment of Harry Potter Theory. Today we're
0:13.3	going to be discussing magical law. That's right, just like the Muggle Society, witches and
0:18.8	wizards are confined to behaving within the framework
0:21.9	of law and order.
0:23.5	We saw a little bit of this in the films, like when Harry had a disciplinary hearing
0:27.9	before the wizzen gamut.
0:29.6	In this instance, Harry performed underage magic, a patroness charm, in order to ward off
0:35.1	dementers attacking him and his cousin Dudley.
0:38.5	Disciplinary hearing of the 12th of August into offences committed under the decree for
0:43.4	the reasonable restriction of underage sorcery and the International Statute of Secrecy
0:48.8	by Harry James Potter, resident at number four Privet Drive, Little Winging, Surrey.
0:54.2	Fortunately for Harry, Dumbledore stepped in and protected him, which resulted in Harry
0:59.6	walking away with no charges.
1:01.9	However, Underage Magic is just one law in a wizarding society that actually has a lot
1:08.1	more laws than you may have thought.
1:10.7	Today we're going to be uncovering them, at least all of the ones we have information on.
1:15.6	I should also add that I won't be conflating law in the sense of legislation, with law in the
1:21.6	sense of a set of principles or scientific axioms, i.e. the law for underage magic is a piece of legislation prohibiting the use
1:30.1	of underage magic, and Gamp's law is a set of scientific principles. Let's dive in.
1:37.1	International statute of wizarding secrecy. Starting with the biggest and arguably most
1:42.1	important wizarding law, we have the international
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