Prime Ministers & secrets

[Barry]

No: HPFGUIDX 180402

> 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

As soon as hi-tech stopped working, the cavalry would appear. Spy tech
that doesn't work tells a lot to people who monitor them.


> 2. 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

He might seem to have one bobby but my point is that he could bring in
a regiment. Bearskins? Beerskins?


> 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 !
>

Most, perhaps. But we're talking Harry Potter time, 1990s. PMs aren't
such fools as JKR makes they out to be. They would want to be on their
guard - if only from their deputy PMs.

Barry