[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR Speaks: Arthur Weasly will NOT be next Minister of Magic

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 107819

--- ohneill_2001 <ohneill_2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> However, it is not clear how 
> ministers are chosen; to me "applying" for a job is different 
> than "running" for an office, which suggests that Ministers are not
> elected, but are chosen by someone, but by whom?
> --Cory


The Minister of Magic is not the Prime Minister; there's nothing to
say that wizards aren't citizens of Great Britain and therefore
technically whoever is PM at the time is also the wizarding world's
PM too.  At least, according to JKR, the PM is the only muggle
allowed to know about the WW.

I think the Minister is selected from a (small) list of
applicants/prospects by the Wizenmagamot or whatever it's called.  A
group of tribal elders mull over the candidates and come to an
agreement on which one should get the job.  I somehow doubt they do
anything like vote although anonymous slips of paper in some kind of
Goblet-of-Fire-type magical artifact might be utilized.

Magda


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