[HPforGrownups] Cornelius Fudge

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 52011

Anne:

> 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?

I can think of two possible means by which he got the job. Both of them
would have delivered the same objective, someone who wasn't going to rock
the boat, who was going to deliver a period of stability and normality
within the MoM for them to get back to a state of normality after the
(supposed) end of the Voldemort insurgency.

The first one (let's call it the bureaucratic method) would be based on an
internal committee within the Ministry, who would have invited applications
for the job (and maybe invited particular individuals to apply "oh by the
way, Corny, you'll be applying for the top job, won't you?"), interviewed
the applicants, and selected the one who was most in keeping with the MoM
internal culture, most "acceptable", etc.

The other one (let's call it the aristocratic method) would be the one that
the Conservative party used to use to decide its leader down to 1964, which
is that the great and the good would basically talk about it until a name
"emerged" as the front runner. "Crouch"? "Dear me no, man's obsessed".
"Dumbledore?" "Possibly, though I can't see him saying yes". "What about
Fudge, then?" "Hmm, yes, hadn't really thought of Fudge, but now you come to
mention him..."

But no, I can't see anything to support the idea that wizards are au fait
with the concept of voting, they seem to be far more bound up with
committees, congresses, and other methods of delegated decision making.

Cheers

Ffred

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