"Your Grace, in your opinion has progress been made in the restructuring process?"
"Yes and no, Your Majesty and Minister Major." Beth thought carefully how to phrase her observations. "The resolutions before the Wizengamot to address the balance of power issues between the Old families and the witches and wizards from mundane and mixed families have been passed. The Wizengamot is now a bicameral legislature, and elections for the Magical House of Commons will take place next month. The processes to resolve issues between the houses has been determined. The problems now being worked through now are the definition of powers between what is legislative and what falls into the executive powers of the ministry, and the changes in the judiciary needed to bring it into line with the current laws of Britain while still addressing the particular issues stemming from magic. We're fighting literally centuries of traditions, some of which the people fighting for them have no understanding of the origins behind them. If we can understand the origin behind the concern we can address them but with out it… The process is much more difficult.
"My husband recently reconciled with a cousin who is married to one of the more staunchly conservative magical families. Lucius is a prime example, he has been raised to believe non magicals are inferior and is only now coming to understand that we are not inferior merely different. He has explained to me many of the conservative viewpoints, I foresee a very long road before change truly happens. The magical world is very childlike in many ways. Delayed gratification and logical thought are concepts that escapes most witches and wizards, neither being highly used when a wave of the wand will do. Like all beings they fear that which they don't understand and they fear change. When you add that to the wizarding world's long life spans and even longer memory, many of the prejudices we are currently fighting have their roots in happenings of two to three or even more centuries ago. Many of the people in power had grand parents or great grandparents that were alive in the time of the witch hunts and they remember the stories."
"What can we do about it? We need to protect both our magical citizens and our non magical."
"Education is one of the keys. I would like to arrange meetings between representatives from Your Majesty and the Committee of Magical education. If we can educate the magical born of non magical parentage citizens in the traditions of their magic born counterparts while at the same time educating the magicals in the knowledge of the current non magical world I believe we can reduce the friction that presently exists. My… stepson I guess, is a prime example of how this sort of education could work. Harry is educated about both worlds. He speaks seven languages including Goblin and Latin, and is very strong magically."
"Would that be Harry Potter?"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"We would like to meet him."
"Unfortunately your majesty, Harry is currently not scheduled to return to England until mid-August. I would be happy to arrange for a meeting then."
"What is he doing that keeps him from his home shores?"
"He attends Stuart-Cavanaugh Preparatory Academy in Maryland. During the next class break he is going to Greece with the school trip, then he's going to Chicago to receive some magical training until the next trimester starts. Then he's taking a final school trip to India before coming to England to pursue his magical education at Hogwarts as is traditional for someone in his family."
"He is well travelled then?"
"Very. In addition to growing up in Indonesia, he has been to Italy, Costa Rica, China, and Egypt. He'll see Greece in early April, and in August he'll see India for a week and a half. He is quite gifted. He understands many things most boys his age do not and actually is taking classes with students two years his senior."
"That is good. He will need that knowledge from what we know of the magical world."
"Yes, that was another thing that I wanted to bring up with Your Majesty. I believe it would be beneficial for Your Majesty to make some appearances and maybe some interviews in the magical world let your subjects get to know you a bit as it were, to educate your magical subjects who are not a part of the government, on what you expect from them."
Her Majesty frowned but could see the benefit as well. She looked at her secretary, "Arrange it with MI9, Lionel."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
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The cell phone sitting on the desk rang. Sirius picked it up. "Black."
"Mr. Black, I've managed to track down Jarrod Moran and Catherine Parker."
"Excellent, Alexis. What did they say about my proposal?"
"They are busy with research in Tibet for now, but they'll come to England in September and talk with Harry. If they like Harry and think they can mesh for training him, they'll do it. If not Jarrod will use his contacts to put you in touch with another elemental mage he knows."
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