[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Undersecretary

[P. Alexis Nguyen]

zanooda:
> I need to figure out how to call her job and
> how to convince someone that she is not just a regular secretary :-).

Ali:
Nothing wrong with being a "regular secretary."  Even though the word
secretary [usually] first evokes the image of the someone who does
mainly clerical work, a secretary is also someone who heads a
[adminstrative] governmental department (i.e., someone of relative
importance).  I certainly wouldn't put the US Secretary of State or
the UN Secretary-General as any regular sort.  In other words,
Umbridge would be the immediate subordinate to the dept. head (in this
case, I guess that would be Fudge), given she's senior and all.  Is
there a comparable word given that context?

~Ali, who just had a helicoper circle overhead her apt building,
search lights and all, and wonders if the news will tell her what's
about