Prime Ministers & secrets

[clairekennyplatt]

No: HPFGUIDX 180387

> Barry
> As I recall, Prime Ministers don't report to their fellows when
> they are visited by the Minister of Magic or other wizards because
> they would be laughed at. Britain had a longish period of Irish
> terrorists well before 9/11. Without saying why, the PM could
> easily ask for more protection, including all sorts of spy
> devices. The next wizardly manifestation would find themselves
> surrounded by automatic weapons. I'm not sure that this would
> affect the narration. It is another area though where the author
> is blind to the hi-tech world in which HP was written. Supposedly
> set in the 90s, it feels as if it's set in WW2.

dreamyclaire:

I think you have missed three things that affect this otherwise
perfectly reasonable statement:

1. Those things don't work around magic all the hi tech spy
cameras in the world aren't going to do you much good if they
don't work

2. The painting of a man in a wig that is unmovable would warn
the minister for magic if there were other people in the room
and this is the Prime Minister not the President of the United
States, Gordon Brown has 1 police man outside his door and 2 at
the end of the road he doesn't have a huge squad of bodyguards
that could hang around him day and night until the Minister of
Magic poped by again

and finally and probably most importantly:

3. The Minister for Magic would have had no need to see most
Prime Ministers more then once, and so therefor most would
probably think they had had a bit to much to drink during
the celebrations and had imagined it !