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“The relationship between muggles and Wizards is simple. The muggles deal with muggles and muggle things, and Wizards deal with magical things. If the muggles try to interfere or hinder your peacekeeping duties, or they even try to talk to you, that’s what the obliviator squad is for.”
- Official Guideline for the interaction of DMLE personnel and muggles, 1940.
“Care must be taken to prevent detection and/or identification of Wizarding personnel. Spells such as disillusionment and/or palings such as notice-me-not or muggle repelling should be active whenever in a muggle area. If detected and/or identified despite these measures, immediate obliviator presence and handling is required. In addition, some effort should be exerted to appearing inconspicuous and blend-in with the muggles should your duties take you into a muggle area.”
- Official Guideline for the interaction of DMLE personnel and muggles, 1971.
“… While conceptually simple, the jurisdictional questions between muggle organizations and/or governments and the Ministry of Magic and its departments can get quite complicated in practice. The main hurdle, of course, is that none (or at least very nearly none) of the muggles are aware of the Wizarding World, or magic in general. Ideally, muggles handle muggle problems, and Wizards handle wizarding problems. The issue being that they aren’t quite as separate as the Statute of Secrecy says they should be. The muggles tend to overreact whenever a Wizard deigns to enter a muggle area, and this causes issues like…”
“… Thus, it is usually simpler from a departmental perspective that L-E agents NOT advertise themselves as anything other than muggles when acting in a muggle-dominated area. In fact, there has recently been some success in the tactic of spelling clothes to look like muggle law enforcement, though this isn’t official recommendation yet. The official recommendation remains to spell and/or transfigure clothes to appear appropriately muggle, and to use magic subtly to get other muggles away from the incident location. In addition, always have an obliviator with you when taking action in muggle areas. This prevents…”
- Excerpts from the lecture “The relationship between DMLE personnel and muggles and their government” required as training for all DMLE personnel, 1994.
“… Muggle cameras and their products, whether in still or video form, do not care about notice-me-not or muggle-repelling palings. Recordings of actions of Magicals done under these palings that are caught on CCTV, for example, will show true to what happened, which means the danger off widespread CCTV and surveillance system adoption are great. As such…”
“… Priority one for all Magical activities in Muggle areas, is to do these activities covertly. Nonverbal (and wandless if you’re capable of it) casting is a very useful tool in this situation. Being able to cast a memory charm well and more importantly, casually, is what makes the obliviators so good at their jobs. Ask an obliviator what their secret is, and you’ll inevitably get an answer that doesn’t make sense to a non-obliviator; “just be a jedi” was the response I got last time I asked. Still don’t have a clue what he was on about…”
“… High-level members of the muggle government are aware of the Ministry of Magic, however this only extends so far. It’s like if there was a secret exception to a law that only the Minister and the Department Heads were aware of. They’re not going to hear about Susan Smith being detained on the Alley, and if our hypothetical Susan here makes a big enough stink that they do catch wind of it, then it’s gotten too big for them to do anything about it. It’s the same for Magicals in the Muggle world. Given this, do not appeal to a higher authority in the Muggle government should you get caught, detained, or identified. Keep calm, notify the DMLE if able, and if not able…”
- Excerpts from the lecture series “Magicals and Muggles, best practices” required as training for all MoM employees, 2006
“… Human Rights apply to both mundanes and wixen, regardless of the fact that the ICW has not specifically declared them. More specifically mundane law largely applies in the wixen world, and vice versa. That being said, most cases of violations and/or criminal activity are handled on a case-by-case basis, due to the volume of laws on either side that could or could not be applied in any specific circumstance. An effort to unify the different systems is underway, however…”
“… ‘Division M’ has been set up as a cover story for all magical actions and effects in the mundane world. It is technically a subset of the Ministry of Defence, a ministry in the mundane government. They, i.e. we, are classified as a research institution that operates on implementing advanced mundane technology into the lives of mundanes. Should you be caught doing magic by a mundane (either officially by police, or unofficially by a mundane civilian), you should indicate that you are a ‘Division M tester’, and that ‘the technology is currently still classified, unfortunately’. With this the…”
“… There are ongoing efforts to modify magical remedies to work on mundanes or enhance mundane remedies. This is part of a much larger effort to integrate the mundane sciences into the wixen world. St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries has over the years begun integrating knowledge of genetics and surgery into its standard practices. Mediwixen are also popularizing schematic triage procedures for laypeople like the ABCDE first aid incident procedure. These are very helpful, since just like mundanes, should you have a duty to render aid, you must do so, up to and including rendering magical first aid if it is in your capability to do so. Reacting to save someone’s life will never get you in trouble with the law, even if…”
“… While it is true that there are many ways of misdirecting mundanes (police or civilian), breaking the Statute of Secrecy remains a crime. As does impersonating and/or lying to a mundane or wixen officer of the law. Given this, it is recommended that when in an area with mundane population, utmost effort should be used to maintain the image of being mundane. The saying ‘when in Rome, do as the Romans do’ brings this across quite nicely. Do not draw attention to yourself. If you are in danger, attempt, if possible, to escape it in a mundane fashion. If you are detained and/or arrested my mundane police, request a solicitor and officer from ‘Division M’, and do NOT escape using magical means. The effect of escaping…”
- Excerpts from the “Mundanes and wixen, rights and responsibilities” PSA, required viewing for graduation of primary and secondary wixen education, 2027