An idea about the Board of Governors

Janet Anderson dorigen at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 5 19:22:51 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 51678

grace701 at yahoo.com said:

>There's always something
>interesting happening INSIDE the trains and its compartments, but
>why not to the train itself.  I say there should be some wizards on
>horses who stop the train and kidnap a very important source.
>Unless the train has a spell on it to prevent it from being stopped
>(for not so good reasons) and/or hijacked.

First of all, this is a very good idea. I suspect there are spells on the 
train to protect it, because otherwise it would have been a Very Bad Idea to 
send the children of the Wizarding World unsupervised on a train across 
England to Hogwarts during the Voldemort Wars.

The fact that the Dementors are apparently unaffected by such protection 
makes me very uncomfortable now that the War is on again and the Dementors 
are likely to be on Voldemort's side.

However, this suddenly gave me an idea about how the Board of Governors was 
influenced by Lucius Malfoy to remove Dumbledore: Dumbledore says that the 
Board of Governors was afraid Lucius would "curse" their families. Well, the 
Board of Governors is presumably a body of wizards and witches, and probably 
survived the last Voldemort War, so they are fully capable of telling Lucius 
to sit on it and rotate. So why didn't they?

Because Lucius did not threaten them; he threatened the members of their 
families who were a) weak and b) away from their protection and c) to whom 
Lucius could get easy access. In my experience, the Board of Governors of a 
school is made up of the parents of students ... Lucius probably did this 
very subtly, without ever saying (let alone writing) anything which could be 
identified as a direct threat on the children. "I hear there's a Hogwarts 
weekend coming up soon ... little Samantha likes sweets, doesn't she?  
Better be careful, too much of Honeyduke's best and she might get very, very 
ill ..."

That sort of thing. What do you think?


Janet Anderson


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