The Muggle and Wizarding Worlds

[queenie]

By the way, I recently realized something -
HBP established that Kingsley Shacklebolt, Auror and (undercover) member of the Order of the Phoenix, was assigned to work for the Muggle Prime Minister as a seeming secretary, but really as a top-notch bodyguard. The Prime Minister seems to like and approve of Shacklebolt. Fudge quickly takes this opportunity to insult Muggledom again to the Prime Minister's face ("Of course he [gets twice as much done as a Muggle would], he's a wizard.")

However, Kingsley later becomes the new Minister of Magic. I bet that is going to be a much better first meeting of "hi, you're the Minister of Muggles, I'm the new Minister of Magic," not to mention a better relationship all around.

That would, incidentally, make a great fanfic.

[vegablack]

This is an interesting point Quennie. I forgot when Kingsley was made the minister of magic he already knew the Muggle prime minister. The briefing between the two would be very interesting. You should write it. Perhaps knowing that Kingsley became the First Minister healed the sting of Fudge's remark.

[starsea]

Dec 7, 2009 2:04:55 GMT -5 queenie said:

The Prime Minister seems to like and approve of Shacklebolt. Fudge quickly takes this opportunity to insult Muggledom again to the Prime Minister's face ("Of course he [gets twice as much done as a Muggle would], he's a wizard.")

That's a good point, hadn't thought about it before. Kingsley would certainly be much more at ease having worked in the Muggle world. I always thought it was a bit rich of Fudge to say that wizards got more work done when he'd spent an entire year allowing Umbridge to mess up Hogwarts and ignoring that Voldemort was back.