GoF CH 4-6 post DH look/ Cauldrons' thickness

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 181759

> Alla:

> Is it Ministry business to make their employees to write report on 
> cauldron's thickness? Not in my opinion. I am trying to find a 
> suitable comparison – say that Ministry was making Percy to write 
a 
> report on whether the ice cream that Fortesque makes is tasty 
enough 
> or whether it has enough calories.
> 
> Does it make sense? I do not think that cauldron thickness is 
> something that government employee should be concerned about, 
sounds 
> as if it is cauldron manufacturers' business to me.

Magpie:
I wouldn't. It's a safety issue--that's the way I read it, so it 
would be fine being the government's job, especially since the 
Ministry seems to do everything in the WW. I had the same impression 
as Montavilla, that Percy was doing something important that just 
happened to be boring as far as many characters were concerned.
I definitely don't think the Ministry was making up jobs for Percy 
as busywork or giving him stupid jobs because he's unimportant. If 
he was giving the job at work obviously the Ministry is in charge of 
this issue, and Percy's just the kind of guy who sinks his teeth 
into something like this and gets something out of it rather than 
finding it boring and tedious. If Percy was in charge of it Arthur's 
job could be made to sound just as silly and inappopriate.

-m