Fudge, Muggles and School Governors.

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 2529

I think the Muggle Government is very aware of the Wizarding 
population. The truth is out there. <insert spooky "X-Files" music 
here>

I'm an American who attended public school, then was fortunate enough 
to attend a private one. The private school I attended (run by 
Catholic nuns) had a "Board of Trustees". The principal ran 
the school, she ultimately answered to the Board. 
 
--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " <harry_potter00 at y...> 
wrote:
> Is it just me or did it seem strange to go back and read that in 
PoA, 
> Harry is reading an article from the "Daily Prophet" and it says 
that 
> Fudge notified the Muggle authorities on the matter of Sirius's 
> escape..."I had to, don't you know"...Of course Sirius wasn't very 
> dangerous but-
> 
> Now maybe this has been discussed in the thousands of messages I 
> never caught up on when I joined the group, but is it possible that 
> the Muggle Government it fully aware of the magical world? 
> 
> Also on the same note, I remember reading something about a fanfic 
in 
> which Lucius Malfoy becomes Headmaster, beg pardon but wasn't he 
> sacked in CoS?  I would think that McGonagall would become 
> Headmistress, wouldn't she?  Also D. says to LM that the other
11(?) 
> governors all seemed to think he was the best person for the job
and 
> were threatened if they didn't go along w/ LM's plan to sack D.  So 
> that means that the rest aren't dark wizards...also who took LM's 
> place? And is a board of governors the typical way to run an
English 
> boarding school, or an American one for that matter (I attend
public 
> schools, in the American sense of that word...)
> 
> Scott