Hit Wizards

Ranks

Hit Wizard Ranks

Headquarters

Hit Wizard HQ is located on Level Two of the Ministry of Magic.

Hit Wizards and their Mandate

The Department of Magical Law Enforcement maintains squads of trained Hit Wizards whose job it is to capture dangerous wizarding criminals. A group of these Hit Wizards captured Sirius Black after he supposedly killed Peter Pettigrew. The Hit Wizards are not the same as Aurors. Hit Wizards, it would seem, are sent primarily against criminals while Aurors track down and capture Dark Wizards.

Training

The Magical Law Enforcement Squad asks for a minimum of:

• five O.W.L.s
• requiring Defence Against the Dark Arts
• require that applicants be over 17 years of age and "not of a nervous disposition".
• Training lasts 2 years.

Once accepted into the program, a Hit-Witch or Hit-Wizard trainee is taught (among other things):

• defensive charms and counter-curses
• how to restrain magical law-breakers without attracting Muggle attention

A trainee has a starting alary of:

• 700 Galleons per month
• a Ministry of Magic broomstick
• his or her own regular bed at St Mungo's

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