Educational Decree

The Educational Decrees are laws created by the Ministry of Magic to set or modify standards at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. During the 1995–1996 school year, the Ministry (spearheaded by Dolores Umbridge) used educational decrees to suppress and outlaw behaviour of which the Ministry did not approve. These new ones were abolished when Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter proved Lord Voldemort's return.

[edit] Known Educational Decrees

Most of these Decrees are placed to reinforce ridiculous rules that suits to Umbridge's sadistic, intruding, and old-fashioned nature.

Educational Decree Number 23.	Educational Decree Number 24 (Number 68 in film).	Educational Decree Number 24 (Film version).	Educational Decree Number 28 (Number 119 in film).
Educational Decree Number 30.	Educational Decree Number 45.	Educational Decree Number 82.	Educational Decree Number 98.

The destruction of all the Educational Decrees.

In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Ministry of Magic creates 116-119 decrees, which by the end of the year nearly cover the entire wall outside the Great Hall. These decrees included the prohibition of joke products made by Fred and George Weasley, a strict adherance to the student dress code, the forbidding of music-making in study hours, and the restriction of proximity between boys and girls to eight inches apart. When Fred and George fled from school after releasing a torrent of enchanted fireworks, one of them took the form of a dragon and destroyed all of the Educational Decrees hanging on the walls while chasing Umbridge, causing them all to crash down.

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