[HPforGrownups] The MoM & Hogwarts

[Angela Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 48505

 
 rinceceol <rinceceol at netzero.net> wrote:
SNIP<<But also, when Crouch Sr, went missing, instead of handing over his duties to a more senior official, Percy (a VERY junior staffer) took them over...indicating to me that there weren't many people in that office either.>>

Yes, but it was Voldemort-Imperio-ed-Crouch who hand selected Percey for a "promotion".  It seems to me that under normal circumstances someone further up in the hierarchy of Crouch's department would have taken over his affairs.  But LV probably wanted someone young, impressionable, and inexperienced, so they would not become suspicious (as I believe a more experienced MoM wizard would), and so LV had Crouch give this young kid a HUGE promotion and put him in charge.

<<And just to put in my two knuts, I always imagined the MoM as covering all the British Isles...Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, but not any farther than that.  Otherwise, why have we never heard mention of any MoM workers who weren't British?>>

You are right.  The MoM is not an international body.  It simply has an International Affairs office (as any national government would).  We know tha Bulgaria has its own MoM.


SNIP ON HOGWARTS BEING HIDDEN <<although I don't know what's to keep people who've been there (or to Durmstrag or Beauxbatons) from telling others where it is.  And, come to think of it, Karkaroff and Maxime SHOULD know where it is...otherwise, how they have travelled there for the tournament?  SNIP if they're so desperate to protect "their secrets.">>

I think Hogwarts have protection against Muggle detection, but not against wizard detection.  Don't have GoF in front of me, but think of Karkaroff's and DD's exchange at the Yule Ball, Karkaroff hushes Krum up when he gives away geographical details of Durmstang's   location, and DD seems opposed to this, asking what is the sense in all the secrecy.

 

ANGELA

~rinceceol


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