Re: How many are there?

On Oct 6, 2:21=A0am, Louis Epstein <l...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> scenario_dave <scenario_d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> :
> :>
> :> What annoys me is that Muggle-relations and Muggle-observation
> :> sections at the Ministry are not full of Muggle-borns...any of
> :> whom would know enormously more than "Muggle expert" Arthur Weasley!
> :> Sometimes Rowling just weighs "funny" far too high above "realistic".
> :>
> :
> : I don't know about the UK but it make a lot of sense in the US.
=A0Many
> : people in the US government are there because of politics rather than
> : competence. =A0We recently had a scandal because the Attorney Generals
> : office was asking peple they're political beliefs and only hiring
> : people whose beliefs matched the party in power. =A0 =A0I can see a
> : government =A0not hiring halfbloods for political reasons.
>
> But this would be like having a desk in the state department/foreign
> office that was concerned with a foreign country and staffing it
> only with people who had never been there and didn't speak the
> language.

The US is fighting two wars with very few people who speak the
language.  This happens all the time in the US.

The MoM wants the muggles department to be inefficient.  You see it
all the time in the US. If you don't like the service a department is
offering, stock it with people who don't know what they're doing so
you can shut it down later claiming that its a waste of money.



> :> -=3D-=3D-
> :> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
> :> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.