Arthur Weasley's Secret

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No: HPFGUIDX 25608

Ahh Lisa-Ann, you'd think so.  However, I doubt that MoM employees 
would know who worked where (other than knowing the names of top 
officials in a particular Department and their own co-workers).  
Governmental bureaucracies are much more convoluted than that.  Once 
upon a time, I worked for the Government, and I couldn't tell you who 
worked down the hall, let alone who worked in another office.  

Of course you are correct with the office correspondence - but if 
wizards are as bureacratic as muggles (and if Fudge is any 
indication, they are) memos would go out to employees on a "need to 
know" basis.  And I'd guess a "secret-agent"/CIA type office (like 
the DoM) would keep their external correspondence to a bare minimum.


Denise (who is thinking that there may be more to the MoM than she 
once assumed....)


--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Lisa-Ann Cooner" <kira at k...> wrote:
> Ah, but maybe, the MOM employees know who works in which 
departments, just not what the DoM does.  Because even though they 
may not see who goes into the office as employees can Apparate in and 
out, correspondence would have someone's name on it surely.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Haggridd 
> Ah, but he does have a secret, which was foreshadowed in GoF.  
> Arthur Weasley is in reality an Unspeakable from the Department of
> Mysteries!  His cover is as a low level bureaucrat in the Ministry 
> of magic.   How else would he recognize fellow Unspeakables, who 
> should be very very secret agents?
> Haggridd
> 
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