^That stuff all makes perfect sense, and I agree with it. You could apply similar kinds of principles to the guy from the Quartermass Experiment and Lord Fahrenheit, of course, but I think that the British government's long history of cooperation with those guys, as well as the fact that they are or represent versatile supergeniuses, would make their general standing with the club more congenial. They might well think of the Tellurian as one more garish, American style superhero who happens to be good with certain magical matters.
OK, talking to Shroom today I was pointed at
this thread, which features a throwaway line about a school for wizards at the North Pole. Now this is a throwaway line about a Hogwarts spoof, but I think it could be expanded on because it brings up the question, relevant to some of my characters in the pipeline, about how exactly wizards are taught magic. From what we've got so far it seems as if it is largely a very personal thing, maybe Gargoyle acts as a kind of wizard academy (something halfway between Hogwarts and Sandhurst perhaps) and maybe there are Russian and German equivalents, or were during and before the war at any rate. I also imagine Deimos having a kind of training program.
BUT, these are all quite specialist, I think the impression is that you can't just enroll to read thaumaturgy at university. This could be because A) magic is just difficult and maybe you need to have the right genes to use it, though I don't think this should be a universal rule, and B) There are public safety concerns since using magic incorrectly can mean you summon a horror from beyond time and etc.
So even if you can read thaumaturgy at university I expect that in 99% of cases it won't actually translate to you having much magical clout. You could possibly know the right symbols to make yourself safer from gribblies or get yourself a bit of extra luck, but you won't be summoning angels or taking holidays to Unknown Kadash anytime soon. You know, most muggles could maybe learn herbology like Tony Blair, if they worked at it.
But maybe there are other places like the academy mentioned in the Lumberjack article, set up by private individuals to teach the scions of magical families or just anyone prepared to learn. They'd probably have been set up by wizards and be in various hard to reach places, such as the North Pole, so that national muggle governments didn't stick their noses in. Gargoyle and similar groups could have a kind of amicable don't ask don't tell policy with such places, maybe because, I don't know, Dame Amelia spent a year learning at the North Pole place. If there's some kind of network in place it would lead to a vaguely suspicious and uncomfortable old boys (and girls) network among wizards around the world, the kind of situation where for instance a Gargoyle old hand might say, 'Oh, Ludwig Schroedinger? Well, yes, he was a Nazi and yes he's a little bit off, but who isn't? He's not a bad chap, really, let's not be too hard on him, he really has had a dreadful time...'
Plus I want to expand on this throwaway idea because an international wizard's school built into/out of a glacier at the North Pole is a brilliant image.