<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=40004.msg2110982#msg2110982">Quote from: Vandren on 06-08-2009, 22:23:19</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><strong>Monica Nguyen</strong><br/><br/>"You are open with the Muggles then?" Monica asked, taking her point of reference as the British Isles.  She seemed a bit taken aback by the idea of an army, since the only ones in Britain and the Continent were those unofficially gathered by dark wizards.  "You have no Statute of Secrecy in the States?"<br/><br/>The idea was simultaneously troubling and fascinating.   More so since she'd thought the statute, and its accompanying forbiddance of underage magic, was international.<br/><br/>"Like I said, a friend said the Ministry set some guidelines for Hogwarts, but not many, since before we were born.  There weren't many kids in our area, so we talked a lot when she was back on breaks."  Her parents had been at the school during the mid-1980s, she'd heard some other stories when their old friends came over.  They were fairly young now, only in their mid-thirties, but that was hardly surprising in wizard society.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>"Oh no, not at all. We still maintain the secracy as we have some really wacky religious types in the USA.<br/>"We domix with the muggles instead of trying to form a seperate and elitist society. It's sort of Muggle studies here.<br/>"We formed the army when He Who Must Not Be Named started to dominate the continent. It is made up of volunteers and commanded bynthe National execetive.<br/><br/>"But basically we are self governing with all adults having a vote in the selection of our own officals."<br/>"Hmmm...I had understood that the ministry had interfered in the administration of the school on a regular basis appointing it's head master and removing him at one stage. I will admit however I never followed it carefully though and I could be way off base."<br/><br/>"So Monica what do you do for kicks?"