Location from Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
The governing body of wizarding Britain, housed in a vast underground complex beneath London accessed via phone booth or fireplaces, featuring a grand Atrium with the Fountain of Magical Brethren.
The Ministry of Magic is a sprawling bureaucracy that governs wizarding Britain with a combination of genuine public service and staggering institutional cowardice. It employs hundreds of witches and wizards across departments: Magical Law Enforcement, Magical Accidents and Catastrophes, International Magical Cooperation, Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, Mysteries, and more. It denied Voldemort's return for a year, smeared Harry and Dumbledore as liars, installed Umbridge at Hogwarts, and eventually fell to Death Eater infiltration without a single curse being fired. Under Voldemort's puppet regime it ran a Muggle-Born Registration Commission. After the war it was reformed under Kingsley Shacklebolt. The courtrooms in the lowest levels are the same ones that tried Death Eaters after the first war, and the Department of Mysteries holds secrets the Ministry itself doesn't fully understand.
A sprawling underground complex of levels connected by lifts. The Atrium is an enormous hall with a polished dark wood floor, a peacock-blue ceiling with golden symbols, and the Fountain of Magical Brethren (later replaced with a monument to Muggle subjugation during Voldemort's regime). Interdepartmental memos zip overhead as enchanted paper airplanes. Fireplaces line the Atrium walls for Floo arrivals. A red telephone box on a Muggle street serves as the visitor's entrance — dial 62442 (MAGIC) and it descends like a lift.
Also known as: the Ministry, Ministry of Magic, the Ministry of Magic, MoM