[HPforGrownups] New Minister for Magic

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 96497

Arya wrote:
>I'm been looking through the various History of Magic tidbits we've
>got and searched the Lexicon but found nothing on what we know of HOW
>a new Minister is empowered.  Since we know that Fudge will somehow
>(hopefull in some grand display of his idiocy) be leaving the office
>vacant, I've been wondering how the new Minister will come into
>office.  We've got the Wizengamot thingy, heresay that Crouch, as a

In OoP, we are definitely told that Fudge was "elected".

But that doesn't necessarily mean the kind of political election that
decides governments in (parts of) our world.

One possible parallel is the Papacy. He's elected, but only a few members of
the Catholic Church are in the field for consideration, only the College of
Cardinals get to do the electing, and the whole thing takes place in
secret - that sounds pretty WW-friendly to me.

Another one might be the "great leader" kind of model, whereby there is
indeed an election, but there's only one candidate.

>thing?  Is "Junior Undersecretary to the Minister" like second in
>command and likely to take over if the Minister is incapacitated or
>killed or is this Jr basically a glorified coffee-fetcher, arse
>kisser?

Before he was Minister, Fudge was Junior Minister, so we know that there's
at least one of them. "Junior Undersecretary" certainly represents a step up
from Junior Assistant (which is probably the grade that most recruits to the
MoM start at) but it sounds a long way off the top.

If you're looking for the field of likely candidates, look among the Junior
Ministers and Heads of Department. But in these troubled times, it may well
be that an unlikely candidate will come through...

Cheers

Ffred

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