Whether or not Fudge is a Death Eater, how did he get his job??

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51976

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Richard Thorp <obby at b...> wrote:
>Fudge
> may be a good peacetime leader, but he seems too scared to become a
> good wartime leader, a similar parallell (but in opposite) could be
> draw to Winston Churchill, who was an excellent wartime leader but a
> mediocre one in peacetime. Fudge doesn't want to believe that LV is
> back, because that would change his job so utterly that he may no
> longer be able to cope with it.
> 
> On the obverse, though, Fudge is relatively pally with Lucius Malfoy
> and seems to allow Malfoy's every whim, so maybe he is a DE :)
> 
> -Rich
> De-lurking can be fun!


Thanks for bringing up Winston Churchill (kind of the total inverse 
of Fudge-as-leader, IMO). Yes, Fudge does seem to be a "peacetime 
politician". My question is, how did Fudge become the Minister of 
Magic to begin with?? Is the Ministry of Magic completely 
a "promotion from within" organization, so that Fudge was promoted 
(Peter Principle'd I call it) from being Assistant Minister or Deputy 
Minister?  Or can the Minister of Magic be chosen from candidates 
outside the MOM? If the latter, is the Minister selected or elected? 
If selected, by whom? If elected, by whom? Do folks in the WW vote? 
Well, I could go on and on with potential questions here, but you 
probably get my drift. I've just been wondering about the political 
structure of the WW. I mean, theoretically Fudge can be the Minister 
of Magic while Tony Blair is the Prime Minister of Great Britain, but 
how the heck did Fudge or any MOM Minister get to that place.

Anne U
(obsessed about weird HP details lately)