Bypassing the Council

"Selective bypassing, you say. How exactly would that work?" Mendoza sat up straight. "We can't just walk into a Muggle hospital and sell potions to them."

"Of course we can't. Our primary goal isn't to challenge the Wizarding Secrecy Law, after all, but to make money to maintain the seals. As you all know, among the heads of Muggle governments in every country, there are a very small number of high-ranking officials who know the Magical World exists," Vivi said. "For example, Britain's Minister for Magic has a direct channel of communication with the Muggle Prime Minister."

"Greater Europa doesn't have a unified Muggle government counterpart, but historically, the magical regimes of each old member state have all maintained secret contact with their respective Muggle heads of government. Germany's minister for magical affairs and the Federal Chancellor, France's Head of Department Beaumont and the Élysée Palace, Spain and Moncloa Palace, Italy and Palazzo Chigi—these channels have always existed. They're simply rarely used. Article Seventeen, Clause Four of the Secrecy Law clearly stipulates that in an emergency where the fundamental security of the Magical World is threatened, the head of a magical regime has the authority to bypass ordinary secrecy restrictions and engage in limited communication and cooperation directly with the head of a Muggle government."

Morel's fingers tapped lightly against the tabletop, and he said with slight excitement, "When that law was written into the Secrecy Law in 1692, it was meant to respond to a possible large-scale Muggle hunt against the Magical World, but it has never been invoked in more than three hundred years."

"Because for more than three hundred years, we have never truly faced an emergency where our fundamental security was threatened. Even during the Grindelwald War, or during Voldemort's two rises, the threat was confined