When Fudge Became MoM (WAS: Lily,James and Azkaban.

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 112720

KathyK wrote:
> And according to the _Quibbler_ article in 
> Chapter 10 of OoP, Fudge was elected to the position.
> 
> Arthur Weasley talking about Dumbledore and Fudge:
> 
> (OoP Ch 5, US ed pg. 93)
> 
> "He's never wanted the Minister's job, even though a lot of people 
> wanted him to take it when Millicent Bagnold retired.  Fudge came
to 
> power instead, but he's never quite forgotten how much popular 
> support Dumbledore had, even though Dumbledore never applied for
the 
> job."
> 
> KathyK

Eustace_Scrubb:
Yes, Fudge was "elected," according to the Quibbler, but there are
elections and then there are elections.  We don't know who elected
him:    his predecessor, the Wizengamot, a bureaucratic committee of
the MoM, an electoral college, or a broad electorate of the Wizarding
citizens of Britain.

And when Arthur says Dumbledore "never applied for the job," do we
take it literally that one fills out an application to be Minister? 
Or did he just decline to become a candidate in a political race?

Arthur goes on to mention that Dumbledore had a lot of "popular
support."  But we don't know whether popular support has any role in
the choice of the Minister.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb