International Confederation of Wizards

The **International Confederation of Wizards** or **International Federation of Warlocks** was a wizarding intergovernmental organisation, roughly equivalent to the United Nations in the Muggle world.

The International Confederation of Wizards was headed by a person who held the title of **Supreme Mugwump**. The first appointed Supreme Mugwump was Pierre Bonaccord. His appointment was contested by Warlocks in Liechtenstein, due to his opinions on stopping Troll-hunting and rights for Trolls. Liechtenstein, which had been dealing with several nasty Troll communities at the time, refused to attend the first conference, causing trouble for the new institution.

## History

### Early history

The first Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards was Pierre Bonaccord, and their first meeting was held in France. Goblins wanted to go, but they weren't allowed, and the magical community of Liechtenstein protested because Bonaccord wanted to ban troll hunting and give rights to trolls. A tribe of Mountain Trolls had been causing a lot of trouble in Liechtenstein, so their wizarding community contested Bonaccord's appointment, and refused to join the Confederation as a result.

### The Statute rising

In 1692, the Confederation instituted the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy to hide the wizarding world from the Muggle world. After weeks of discussion, they decided on how the wizarding world would retreat into hiding, including the covering up of various magical beasts and eliminating them from the Muggle consciousness.

In 1750, the Confederation added Clause 73 to the International Statue of Wizarding Secrecy that detailed each wizarding governing body's responsibilities for concealment and possible disciplinary action for any breaches.

In the eighteenth century, after Dorcus Twelvetrees revealed the locations of the MACUSA headquarters and Ilvermorny School to Bartholomew Barebone, a descendant of a Scourer, and almost exposed the wizarding world, MACUSA faced a "humiliating" censure by the International Confederation of Wizards. Rappaport was required to testify before the ICW at a public inquiry, and admitted to them that she could not be certain that all No-Majs exposed to the leaked information had been Obliviated.

### Global wizarding war

"*I will not be lectured by the man who let Gellert Grindelwald slip through his fingers.*"
— Seraphina Picquery on Heinrich letting Grindelwald escape[src]

On 6 December 1926, the wizarding newspaper *The New York Ghost* reported that the Confederation had called an emergency meeting to address magical disturbances that were risking exposure of the wizarding world. They threatened to send a delegation to the United States of America, as they thought the increase in the MACUSA Magical Exposure Threat Level to 'Severe: Unexplained Activity' was related to Gellert Grindelwald.

On 7 December 1926, *The New York Ghost* reported that MACUSA would be working with the Confederation to "*crack down on illegal wizards*" in New York City.

Several months after Gellert Grindelwald's 1926 arrest and subsequent imprisonment in New York City, the International Confederation of Wizards pressured MACUSA to voluntarily extradite Grindelwald to Europe for the numerous crimes he committed on the continent.

On 30 May 1927, *The New York Ghost* reported that the next International Confederation of Wizards Summit was to take place in London and that President Picquery of MACUSA was to receive a "prestige honour" from the Confederation.

On 30 May 1927, the International Confederation of Wizards, working with the Magical Congress of the United States of America, attempted to extradite MACUSA prisoner Gellert Grindelwald via use of a flying high-security carriage from New York to Europe. Several MACUSA Aurors escorted the carriage on broomstick, while additional Aurors along with the ICW's Head of Incarceration Rudolph Spielman guarded inside. The attempt was ultimately sabotaged by MACUSA worker turned-Grindelwald Acolyte, Abernathy, whom in fact managed to switch places with Grindelwald before the extradition. Grindelwald subsequently attacked the transport in the skies of New York, assuming control of the carriage by killing the Aurors and injuring Spielman, whom he threw off the carriage into the New York Bay, escaping with Abernathy into the night.

In 1927, the wizarding newspaper *the Daily Prophet* reported that the Confederation had "no conclusions yet" over Gellert Grindelwald's escape from custody.

### First Wizarding War

Following the night of large-scale breaches of the International Statute of Secrecy on 31 October 1981, Minister Millicent Bagnold addressed the Confederation of Wizards with the statement "*I assert our inalienable right to party*", a statement which eventually became infamous and drew cheers from all present.

### Between the wars

In the 1986–1987 school year, the Confederation sent a member to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in order to talk about wizarding schools around the world.

Sometime before 1991, Albus Dumbledore was appointed as a representative of the British Ministry of Magic to the International Confederation and became Supreme Mugwump. In 1993, some member of the confederation criticised Fudge for informing the Muggle Prime Minister of the escape of Sirius Black. The International Confederation of Wizards' Conference was held in the summer of 1994.

### Second Wizarding War

Dumbledore was dismissed from his position following the Ministry's denunciation of Lord Voldemort's return in 1995. He was restored as a member after the Ministry's acceptance of Voldemort's return, in 1996, but not as Supreme Mugwump.

In 1995, the International Confederation of Wizards was to hold a conference in Hemel Hempstead.

## Known members

* Cottismore Croyne
* Sidley Smirk Platter
* Anton Vogel (Germany) (Unknown–1932)
* Gellert Grindelwald (Unknown country, possibly Austria) (1932, briefly; election voided)
* Vicência Santos (Brazil) (1932–unknown)
* Albus Dumbledore (Great Britain) (pre 1991–1995)
* Babajide Akingbade (unknown African country) (1995–)
* Ya Zhou (Unknown country) (1926)
* Heinrich Eberstadt (Switzerland) (1926)
* Unidentified Pakistani (then British Indian) delegate (1926)
* Unidentified Hungarian delegate (1926)
* Unidentified Mongolian delegate (1926)
* Unidentified Russian delegate (1926)
* Unidentified Thai delegate (1926)
* Unidentified Irish delegate (1926)
* Albus Dumbledore (Great Britain) (1996–1997)
* Rudolph Spielman (Head of Incarceration) (Germany) (1927)
* Arnold Guzman (Emissary) (United States of America) (1927)
* Royston Idlewind (International Director, Quidditch Committee) (Australia) (1971–1974)
* Mentor Metaxas (Chairman, Quidditch Committee) (Greece) (2014)
* Constance Pickering (Statute of Secrecy Task Force) (Great Britain) (2018)
* Mathilda Grimblehawk (Statute of Secrecy Task Force) (Great Britain) (2018)
* Theo Strongarm (Statute of Secrecy Task Force) (Great Britain) (2018)
* Madam Puddifoot (Statute of Secrecy Task Force) (Great Britain) (2020)