Ministry of Magic and the Wizard's Council

Nobby Leach • Character Nobby Leach was Minister for Magic from 1962 to 1968. Leach was the first Muggle-born Minister for Magic, whose appointment caused a number of traditionalists to resign their government posts in protest (JKR, Pm). Read More

Leonard Spencer-Moon • Character Served as Minister for Magic during World War II, from 1939 – 1948 (Pm). Read More

Leonard Spencer-Moon becomes Minister for Magic • Event Moon is Minister during a time of great upheaval and conflict, both in the Muggle and Wizarding worlds. Read More

Leonard Spencer-Moon steps down as Minister for Magic • Event He has worked closely with Winston Churchill over the preceding decade as Britain faced war and the rise of Grindelwald. He steps down as the world finds itself at peace again. Read More

Radolphus Lestrange • Character Radolphus Lestrange was Minister for Magic from 1835-1841. Read More

M.O.M. Level Two • Rooms, chambers, and floors • Wizarding places Houses the Department of Magical Law Enforcement (OP7, DH12). Read More

M.O.M. Level Seven • Rooms, chambers, and floors Level 7 of the Ministry of Magic houses the Department of Magical Games and Sports. This floor is has a rather unkempt look and Quidditch posters unevenly stuck on the corridor walls (OP7). A man carrying several brooms gets out of the lift on this level… Read More

M.O.M. Level One • Rooms, chambers, and floors • Wizarding places The top floor of the Ministry of Magic’s headquarters. This level is the location of the offices of the Minister for Magic and other administrative staff (DH12, 13). Read More

M.O.M. Level Nine • Mysterious places • Rooms, chambers, and floors The level of the Ministry of Magic housing the Department of Mysteries (OP7). The Department of Mysteries is accessed via the lifts from the Atrium. A simple, bare corridor leads to a plain black door. This door opens into the circular room with twelve plain, black, handleless doors all… Read More

M.O.M. Level Eight • Rooms, chambers, and floors Level eight of the Ministry of Magic consists of the entry atrium and a corridor lined with twenty or more lifts (OP7). Read More

M.O.M. Level Six • Rooms, chambers, and floors Houses the Department of Magical Transport (OP7). Read More

M.O.M. Level Five • Rooms, chambers, and floors Houses the Department of International Magical Cooperation (OP7). Read More

M.O.M. Level Four • Rooms, chambers, and floors Floor of the Ministry of Magic Headquarters housing the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures (OP7). Read More

M.O.M. Level Three • Rooms, chambers, and floors Floor at the Ministry of Magic headquarters which houses the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes and its divisions, including Obliviator Headquarters, the Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee, and the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad (OP7). Read More

M.O.M. Level Ten • Rooms, chambers, and floors This level is old and can only be reached by the stairs to the left of the door which leads to the Department of Mysteries on Level Nine (OP7). The courtrooms are accessed along dungeon-like corridors of rough stone are lined with sturdy wooden doors and hard benches (… Read More

Levina Monkstanley • Character

A lifetime ban ought to do the trick • Quote “And you see now, don’t you, Minerva, how right I was in attempting to stop the Gryffindor team re-forming? Dreadful tempers … So I really think I will have to ban these two from playing Quidditch ever again.”… Read More

Locked Room • Ministry of Magic A room located in the Department of Mysteries on Level Nine of the Ministry of Magic (OP34)… Read More

Locking Spell — "Colloportus" • Spells Seals a door, making an odd squelching noise. Read More

London • Cities Located in southeastern England, London is one of the largest and most famous cities in the world. For Muggles, it is the center of British commerce and government, and for wizards and witches things are no different. We know of more wizarding places in London than anywhere else in Britain,… Read More

Lorcan McLaird • Character Lorcan McLaird was an eccentric Minister for Magic who was in office for just two years (1923-1925). McLaird’s eccentricities included speaking only in monosyllables and blowing puffs of smoke from his wand. His antics irritated constituents until they forced him from office (MoM)… Read More

Lord Voldemort • Character Lord Voldemort, born Tom Marvolo Riddle, was the son of Merope Gaunt (a descendent of Salazar Slytherin) and Tom Riddle, a handsome, wealthy Muggle from Little Hangleton whom Merope ensnared with a love potion. When her husband found out she was a witch, he abandoned her while she was pregnant… Read More

Lucius Malfoy • Character Lucius Malfoy is the patriarch of the prestigious pure-blood Malfoy family, father of Draco Malfoy and one of Voldemort’s top Death Eaters. Lucius was a Death Eater during Voldemort’s first “reign of terror.” However after the Dark Lord disappeared, Malfoy “came back saying he’d never meant any of it” (… Read More

Ludo Bagman is acquitted of being a Death Eater • Event At his trial, Bagman admits having passed information to Augustus Rookwood, but claims that he didn’t realize that Rookwood was working for Voldemort. Mad-Eye Moody, for one, has no trouble believing Bagman had been foolish rather than deliberately treacherous. Barty Crouch, Sr. thinks that Bagman should be sent to Azkaban, but the… Read More

Artemisia Lufkin • Character Artemisia Lufkin was the first witch to become Minister of Magic, serving from 1798 to 1811 (JKR). Lufkin established the Department of International Magical Cooperation and lobbied hard and successfully to have a Quidditch World Cup tournament held in Britain during her term in office (Pm). Read More