The Wizarding World and Politics

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No: HPFGUIDX 126308


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> wrote:
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a_svirn:
> 
> I guess we'll learn more about these issues in HBP, since there 
will 
> be a new minister. I believe that the minister and probably the 
> heads of the most important departments (like Law Enforcement for 
> instance) are appointed by the Wizengamot. Also there is a core of 
> lower and middle-level ministry functionaries who are offered 
> positions of various degrees of importance according to their NEWT 
> results and stay in their offices regardless of the current 
> political situation. Rather like British civil servants. The most 
> intriguing question though is how the Wizengamot being formed. 
> 


Good points.  We know that Albus was asked to leave the Wizengamot, 
apparently by the members of the body.  That seems to indicate that 
the Wizengamot is a self-perpetuating council.  In that case, given 
teh rest of the theory outlined above, Wizarding Britain would 
essentially be a classic oligarchy.

Lupinlore