The Other Minister (was Re: Is Umbridge a commentary on British govt. ed

[Elizabeth Snape]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> Tonks:
> Don't know about Umbridge. But I thought that "the Other Minister" 
was 
> Tony Blair and he was waiting for a phone call from President Bush. I 
> am sure that was be a commentary on the U.S. president. And I loved 
> it!!! "that horrible man".
> 
> Tonks_op
>

That was my first thought too, but the timeline isn't right.  HBP 
starts the summer of 1996 and Blair didn't become PM until the next 
spring, and of course Bill Clinton was president then.

I have no difficulty imagining John Major calling Bill Clinton 'that 
horrible man'!!  (Poor Bill, the Brits even made fun of him in 'Love 
Actually.')

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