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 When Penelope Clearwater was elected the youngest Minister for Magic in 200 years, she was considered a bit of a wildcard, really. Despite that, her first year in office passed uneventfully enough - trade restrictions were tightened, broom traffic was regulated, that sort of thing. And then, on the first anniversary of her being sworn in, Minister Clearwater stepped out into the bustle and noise of the Ministry foyer and announced the dawn of a new age: the age of Muggle Integration. Unbeknownst to anyone but a circle of her most trusted advisors, the Minister had used the previous year to begin work on a project near and dear to her heart. As a Muggleborn witch, she had experienced both sides of the Statute of Secrecy, and come to the conclusion that it was a relic of the distant past. To meet the future head-on, she explained, the wizarding world would need to seek collaboration with the Muggles. In the autumn of 2019, three years after that remarkable first announcement, the first step - a test run - is finally going ahead. Hogwarts has been opened up to a small number of Sixth Form Muggle students. They will live like a Hogwarts student, getting sorted into a House, taking meals in the Great Hall, and attending some classes with their magical peers. They will mingle, and bond, and hopefully grow to trust each other. The idea is that, if teenagers can do it, anyone can. The program has been termed the Muggle-Integration Cooperative Experiment, or M.I.C.E. |
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