Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes

The Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes is responsible for repairing accidental magical damage. It is located on the third level of the Ministry of Magic and houses the offices named below.

Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes

"Don't worry about sorting out who's who. Let Obliviators sort them out." Magical catastrophes had to be contained as quickly as possible, nearly at the same priority as rectifying the calamity. Part of that was minimizing causalities. It was one thing for Muggle Worthy Excuse Committee to explain a broken collar bone, another thing entirely to cover up mass fatalities."

-- Quill Som, December 1981 "Impressive"

Personnel

Category:Magical_Accidents_and_Catastrophes_Personnel

For current active DMAC, see the Cast of Characters

Divisions

Accidental Magic Reversal Squad

The Accidental Magic Reversal Squad is an organised team of wizards and witches whose job it is to correct mistakes in magic, such as spells or potions gone wrong. Mistakes are normally caused by inexperienced witches and wizards, those who have not learned to control their magic, or those who may not be very skilled in using specific spells or potions.

Obliviator Headquarters

The Obliviator Headquarters is the main office for Obliviators, wizard who have the task of modifying the memory of a Muggle after witnessing incidents caused by magic.

The act of memory modification can be used by any wizard via the spell Obliviate. This is discouraged in wizarding society. Obliviators are professionals and those who not experienced in using Obliviate could cause harm to others.

Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee

This committee invents excuses for the Muggle community for any magical accidents or occurrences which cannot be magically cleared up or completely obliviated. Thus, the committee will inform the Muggles community with any kind of non-magical excuses for the accidents.

At Absit Omen

Squib Network

The Department keep a network of squibs (and potentially other magical-world aware non-magical humans) on the payroll to monitor the magical world's bleed into the Muggle world. They can be called upon to monitor the press, internet and are encouraged or assisted to take up Muggle roles that give them access to useful information. For instance, some of the squibs are placed within the National Health Service and are able to access records and research about mental health while investigating where dementors may have been feeding from the Muggle population.