Sorry if it's been done before - but is Mr Weasley all he seems?

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "julie_mntn" <juliemountain at ...> wrote:
>
> Haven't posted in aeons, but still enjoy reading the updates.  Felt 
> the need to share something I've been mulling over recently, 
> though.  Apologies if you've all been discussing this for years and I'm 
> utterly out of the loop.
> 
> Just been listening to the audio book of GoF and then decided 
> the movie DVD was essential purchase too.  And more and 
> more as I work my way though the series, I'm convinced Arthur 
> Weasley is more than we are led to believe.  
> 
> He always seems to be in the thick of everything, certainly 
> seems to know all the important people - for before Harry's birth 
> and right up to now and seems amazingly influential for a man 
> whose job is portrayed as quite lowly and very poorly paid.
> 
> I suspect in the final book we are going to discover AW is really a 
> secret big wig in the Ministry and I'm intrigued to find out exactly 
> what his role is in all this.  He's not just the bumbling dad of 
> Harry's bezzie mate, I'm sure of that.
> 
> juliemountain

Sue here:

I don't think there's anything secret about Arthur. We're told, flat out, that he wasn't 
promoted because he had a lot of sympathy for/enthusiasm about Muggles - a no-no in 
Fudge's Ministry. He has only one staff member, a warlock called Perkins and a broom-
closet-sized office. If he was a secret bigwig, Molly would surely know about it, and they 
wouldn't be having such a hard time providing the kids with decent clothes, schoolbooks, 
etc., would they?

However, he does seem to have large responsibilities and he actually framed some laws, if 
I recall, because Molly accused him of putting in a loophole that let him mess around with 
that car, as long as he wasn't intending to use it. Not the sort of thing we got to do when I 
was working as a Clerk Class 1 in the Australian Public Service! ;-)
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