- "Level two, Department of Magical Law Enforcement, including the Improper Use of Magic Office, Auror Headquarters, and Wizengamot Administration Services."
- —Location of Auror headquarters[src]
The Auror Department, formerly known as the Auror Office, 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.
Location[]
The Auror Headquarters are located on Level Two of the Ministry of Magic. It consists of a series of open cubicles, each Auror being given a place to work. Pictures of known Dark Wizards, maps, clippings from the Daily Prophet, and various other things line the cubicles.
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 the Auror Office[]
Person | Notes |
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Gawain Robards | Took over in 1996, after Scrimgeour became Minister for Magic. |
Rufus Scrimgeour | Retired, became Minister for Magic in 1996, murdered by Lord Voldemort on 1 August, 1997 |
Brody Hudson | Auror from 2001 to 2003, promoted to the Head of the Office in 2003, at the young age of 23. Brody died by 2019. |
Tristan Milton | Auror till 2019, promoted to the Head of the Office in 2019 after Brody Hudson was killed by the Red Lotus. |
Aurors[]
Person | Notes |
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Venusia Crickerly | Became Minister for Magic in 1902 |
John Dawlish † | Auror between the wars and during the Second Wizarding War. |
Paul Howell † | Former department head; one of the most notable on the post |
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 | |
Joshua Dunbar | Former Auror: became Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic. |
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. |
Kai Parker | Current Auror. |
Santana Lopez | Current Auror. |
Jackson Whittemore | Former Auror: became Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic. |
Theo Raeken | Current department head; promoted after elemental Brody Hudson died in 2019. |
Rami Milton | Current Auror. |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pottermore - Writing by J.K. Rowling: "Ministers for Magic"