Auror Office

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The Auror Office, alternatively known as Auror Headquarters, serves as the headquarters of Aurors of the Great Britain. The Auror Department is a main division of Department of Magical Law Enforcement. It specifically deals with the capture of Dark Witches and Wizards. In other words, Aurors are essentially the wizarding equivalent of the Muggle police force/detectives and their headquarters operates as their base of operations.

Location

Located on level two of the Ministry of Magic Headquarters, Mr Weasley takes Harry Potter through the office before his disciplinary hearing.^[2]

Auror Headquarters consists of a series of open cubicles, with each Auror being assigned a space to work. The cubicles are decorated with pictures of known Dark wizards, maps, clippings from the Daily Prophet, and other odds and ends. Kingsley Shacklebolt's cubicle is located at one end.^[3]

The description of the Auror Headquarters as "a cluttered open area divided into cubicles, which was buzzing with talk and laughter" impresses Harry, who is thinking about becoming an Auror when he leaves Hogwarts.^[4]

The job

An Auror's job is to hunt down and capture Dark Wizards, once a criminal is captured they are generally handed over to the authorities. It is not uncommon for criminals to resist arrest; some choose to fight to the death rather than let themselves be captured, such as Death Eater Evan Rosier.

The Ministry also enlists them to guard high profile targets such as Harry Potter, during the 1996-1997 school term and the British Prime Minister who had an Auror bodyguard, posing as his secretary, to protect him against the possibility that Lord Voldemort might take control of him, to gain access to various Muggle resources at the highest level.

Known Aurors

Heads of office

Person	Notes
Theseus Scamander[5]	Head of Auror office during Gellert Grindelwald's revolution in the 1920s.
Rufus Scrimgeour	Retired, became Minister for Magic in 1996, murdered by Lord Voldemort on 1 August, 1997.
Gawain Robards[6]	Took over in 1996, after Scrimgeour became Minister for Magic.
Harry Potter	Auror from 1998 to 2007, promoted to the Head of the Office in 2007, at the young age of 26 or 27.[7] Harry left by 2019 and is the current Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.[8]

Aurors

Person	Notes
Venusia Crickerly	Became Minister for Magic in 1902
John Dawlish	Auror during the Second Wizarding War.
Hesphaestus Gore	Became Minister for Magic in 1752
Mordecai Berrycloth	Auror in 2010s, worked with the Statute of Secrecy Task Force.
Alice Longbottom	Mentally incapacitated by a group of Death Eaters via the Cruciatus Curse in the final days of the First Wizarding War in 1981
Frank Longbottom
Ronald Weasley	Retired, works at Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.
Neville Longbottom	Resigned position to become professor of Herbology at Hogwarts.
Alastor Moody	Retired, murdered by Lord Voldemort in the Battle of the Seven Potters on 27 July, 1997
Proudfoot	Auror that was stationed in Hogsmeade along with others during the 1996-1997 school year at Hogwarts.
Savage
Kingsley Shacklebolt	Became Minister for Magic in 1998, presceeding the Battle of Hogwarts.
Nymphadora Tonks	Murdered by Bellatrix Lestrange during the Battle of Hogwarts on 2 May, 1998.
Williamson	First Auror to see Lord Voldemort just before he fled the Ministry of Magic in 1996 after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First use of the title.)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book (Mentioned on a poster included as an extra)
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Mentioned only)
• The Archive of Magic: The Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Notes and references

Department of Magical Law Enforcement
Level 2, Ministry of Magic
Auror Office · Department of Intoxicating Substances · Improper Use of Magic Office · Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office · Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects · Magical Law Enforcement Patrol · Hit Wizards · Ministry of Magic Witch Watchers · Department of Magical Equipment Control · Administrative Registration Department · Wizengamot Administration Services · Department of Security · Animagus Registry · Misuse of Magic Office