Editing Ministry of Magic (section)

====Auror Office====
The Ministry employs Aurors to pursue and apprehend Dark wizards. A potential recruit also has to pass "a series of character and aptitude tests." [[Nymphadora Tonks]] mentions that the program's courses of study include "Concealment and Disguise" and "Stealth and Tracking," and that the training is hard to pass with high marks.

Aurors in the ''Harry Potter'' series include [[Alastor Moody]], Nymphadora Tonks, [[Kingsley Shacklebolt]], [[John Dawlish]], [[Frank and Alice Longbottom]] and Rufus Scrimgeour. Harry himself later joins the department, and, according to a Rowling 2007 interview, is eventually promoted to department head.<ref>
Brown, Jen (26 July 2007). [https://web.archive.org/web/20071019043954/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19959323/from/RS.2/ "Exclusive: Finished 'Potter'? Rowling tells what happens next"]. ''[[Today (U.S. TV program)|Today]]''.[[NBC]] "As for his occupation, Harry, along with Ron, is working at the Auror Department at the Ministry of Magic. After all these years, Harry is now the department head."
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During the First War against [[Voldemort]], Aurors had authorization to use the [[Unforgivable Curses]] on suspected [[Death Eaters]]: that is, they received license to kill, coerce, and torture them. Aurors also operate to protect high-profile targets such as Harry, Hogwarts, and the Muggle prime minister – in ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]'' auror Kingsley Shacklebolt worked secretly in the Muggle Prime Minister's security detail.