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

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No: HPFGUIDX 51981

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Anne <urbana at c...>" 
<urbana at c...> wrote:
> 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.

ME: 

The position certainly isn't limited to candidates inside the 
Ministry. In SS-CHP 5, Hagrid says "They wanted Dumbledore fer 
Minister, o'course, but he'd never leave Hogwarts, so old Cornelius 
Fudge got the job." Because, of this I assume the general public 
also do not vote for MoM. But your question of how the heck Fudge 
got the job in the first place is a question I ponder as well. 

What happened to the old MOM in the first place? The 2nd most 
qualified person for the job after Dumbledore, (Crouch) ruffled too 
many feathers (plus that little Crouch Jr. thing, of course) and was 
not only yanked out of his current position but shuffled sideways 
into Intl. Magical Co-operation. And somehow a lowly member of the 
Dept. of Magical Catastrophes (not even the HEAD of his own Dept.) 
gets the job? Sure he did catch THE most wanted to criminal of the 
time (and in less than 24 hours to boot)...but, that's all the more 
reason to keep him where he's at, if you ask me. Maybe promoted to 
Minister of Magical Catastrophes at most. And being the bungler that 
we know him to be, it's amazing he had such 'luck' in finding Sirius 
in the first place, isn't it? Evil!Fudge I tell ya! Evil!

-Tanya