[HPforGrownups] Legislation and Regulation (Was: Re: Umbridge's Great Success as a DADA Teacher)

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 77507

feetmadeofclay wrote:
> TM Sommers:
>  It is quite clear from the books that the MoM is not connected 
> at all with the rest of English government.  The reports in the 
> Prophet indicated that some people were shocked that Fudge had told 
> the PM of Sirius's escape.  Obviously, the PM is aware of the 
> existence of the wizarding world, but that must be a very closely 
> held secret-- the 30-year rule does not apply.  Go back as far as you 
> like and you won't find a single reference to it in the PRO.  If he 
> was aware of it, then they have to be connected someway. 
> 
> GOLLY: 
> 
> It says only that the PM is not intimately involved in the going ons 
> in the WW.  It does not mean that they are not connected.  The very 
> fact that on an important matter the MoM felt the need to connect up 
> with PM is important in my book.  They at least work together on some 
> things. 

Working together is not the same as being subject to.  France and 
Britain occasionally work together, but neither is subject to the 
other.  In fact, most countries work together to apprehend dangerous 
criminals (when politics is not involved).

> It may merely be an autonomous form of self government.  Hardly 
> unheard of in the Commonwealth.  In fact, Canada is flirting with 
> such ideas with Quebec.

But there is no indication that the MoM accepts the Queen as head of 
state.  The WW is not autonomous, it appears to be completely independent.

> To make a parallel... Quebec has power over many issues that are 
>  generally of federal jurisdiction like immigration. The MOM may be a 
> more extreme version of that.

The difference is the Quebec is a distinct geographical entity.  It 
would make no sense for the WW to secede from the UK.