[HPforGrownups] Thoughts on Hagrid's wand

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 48119



midgiecat at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Being as the British MOM has no jurisdiction in other countries on
> who
> > someone can sell a wand to there..............
> 
> I was under the impression that the Ministry of Magic was just that,
> the
> Ministry of Magic, all inclusive, not just for Britain.  It was never
> called
> the MOM-Britain.
> 
> Another point,  I felt the headmaster/mistress of schools from the
> other
> countries seemed to be under the jurisidiction/control of Crouch,
> Fudge,
> Bagman, et al during the TWT, and remember Karkoroff being questioned
> during
> the reign of VM - surely if the MOM was just for Britain he would have
> been
> questioned in his own country under their MOM.
> 
> I think the Ministry of Magic encompasses wizards everywhere.
> 
> Brenda Wendelken
> 

No.. For several reasons I cannot see the British based MOM controling
the whole wizard world. For one, the USA Ministry (or whatever they call
it there) would never tolerate being told what to do in the US by
British Wizards.  You simply don't know how Americans are about that
sort of thing if you think so.. 

Another bit, based on this quote 

--
"Harry Potter, you know," he told the Bulgarian minister loudly, who was
wearing splendid robes of black velvet trimmed with gold and didn't seem
to understand a word of English.  "Harry Potter ... oh come on now, you
know who he is ... the boy who survived You-Know-Who ... you do know who
he is -"
--
AND
--
"How do you do, how do you do?"  said Fudge, smiling and bowing to Mrs.
Malfoy. "And allow me to introduce you to Mr. Oblansk - Obalonsk - Mr. -
well, he's the Bulgarian Minister of Magic, and he can't understand a
word I'm saying anyway, so never mind.  And let's see who else - you
know Arthur Weasley, I daresay?"
--

Why refer to the Bulgarian minister if Bulgaria doesn't have its OWN
MOM?

There is also the fact there is NO WAY that Southern Ireland would
tolerate being told what to do by the 'British' based MOM.  

There is also the fact that one 'central government' for all the Wizard
world is too 'comunist' to even concider. Every country would demand to
be the one in charge and the MOM is not exactly what I would call the
WW's United Nations.. And even the UN has countries that refuse to join.
The WW is not what anyone would call 'liberal' and I cannot see them
buying into the 'New World Order' thing some people in real life are
pushing, forgeting the lessons learned in World War I and II.. 

There is also the fact that we never hear of any non-British employees
of the British based MOM.  

Jazmyn