Ministry OF MAGIC Employees – Current and Past

                                                               and Protective Objects 

                                                               (Previously Head of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office)

                                                                (Promoted in Harry’s 6^th year to ????)

Percy Weasley                                 Dept. of International Magical Cooperation and

                                                                Scribe at Harry’s Dementor Hearing

Cornelius Oswald Fudge               Minister of Magic  (Sacked in Harry’s 6^th year)

Rufus Scrimgeour                             Minister of Magic (As of Harry’s 6^th year at Hogwarts;

                                                                Previously head of the Auror department)

Barty Croutch Sr.                               Head of Dept. of International Magical Cooperation

(Died in Harry’s 4^th Year)

Amelia Bones                                    Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement

(Died the summer between Harry’s 5^th and 6^th years at Hogwarts)

Ludo Bagman                                    Head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports

                                                                (Missing at end of Harry’s 4^th Year)

Dolores Jane Umbridge                Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic

                                                                (High Inquisitor of Hogwarts in Harry’s 5^th Year)

Broderick Bode                                 Unspeakable in Department of Mysteries

                                                                (Murdered by Devil’s Snare in Harry’s 5^th Year)

Bertha Jorkins                                    Last post was in the Department of Magical Games and Sports

                                                                Previous position in Dept. International Magical Cooperation

                                                                (Murdered by Voldemort Summer before Harry’s 5^th Year)

Avery Macnair                                   Executioner – Department for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures

                                                                (Known Death Eater)

Perkins                                                 Department for the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office

                                                                (Shares tiny office with Arthur Weasley)

Amos Diggory                                   Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical

                                                                Creatures

                                                                (Father of Cedric Diggory who died in Harry’s 5^th Year)

Mafalda Hopkirk                               Department of Improper Use of Magic

Old Committee Member                 Department for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures

Cuthbert Mockridge                         Unspeakable – Department of Mysteries

Gilbert Wimple                                   Committee on Experimental Charms

Arnold Peasegood                          Obliviator – Accidental Magical Reversal Squad

Algernon  Rookwood                      Unspeakable in Department of Mysteries. 

(Turned spy and sent to Azkaban for leaking Ministry secrets to Voldemort. Escaped from Azkaban and returned to Voldemort in Harry’s 5^th Year)

Dawlish                                                Auror

Kingsley Shacklebolt                      Auror     (Member of the Order of the Phoenix)

Nymphadora Tonks                        Auror     (Member of the Order of the Phoenix)

Sturgeus Podmore                           Auror     (Member of the Order of the Phoenix.

                                                                Sent to Azkaban in Harry’s 5^th Year for trying to break

                                                                into the  Dept. of Mysteries)

Mrs. Edgecombe                              Marietta Edgecombe’s mother – Works in the Regulation

                                                                of Flue Network.

Other nameless Ministry wizards and witches who attended the Quidditch World Cup and Harry’s Hearing.

Her name conjures up a myriad of gloomy descriptions but I just love her anyway.  Nevertheless here are a few for your illumination:  the obvious one is that a myrtle plant is a tree so a “moaning myrtle” reminds us of another tree – the weeping willow.  Taking a leaf out of Hermione’s book I did some further reading and found out that a myrtle plant is also known as “loosestrife” and our girl certainly lets her strife run loose.  There are two kinds of loosestrife plants, both fit Myrtle.  The first is a wild marsh plant and flourishes in the wetlands, as does Myrtle in her bathroom.  The second is called “spiked” loosestrife and is considered an annoying weed.  Well, I’m sure Olive Hornsby would agree that Myrtle certainly annoyed her. 

But let’s move on. What can we expect from Moaning Myrtle in the last two HP books?  Since she’s got a crush on Harry there’s more than a ghost of a chance that she will come to his aid again or perhaps another young wizard will dazzle Miss Myrtle.  She is a wishy-washy ghost (and it’s not because she lives in a toilet).  Up to HBP she has only had eyes for Harry… but now Harry has a rival with blonde hair, a pointy face, and Slytherin robes.  If I were going to create a lover’s triangle, who would Harry’s rival (okay, pseudo-rival) be?  Of course, Mr. Charm, himself, Draco Malfoy.  Myrtle helped Harry before in Chamber of Secrets and Goblet of Fire, but a girl ghost scorned is a scary apparition, indeed. 

Being a ghost she has access to places in Hogwarts that Harry doesn’t like the girl’s dormitory (…remember the slide), the prefect’s bathroom, or Dumbledore’s office (in the case that Harry doesn’t know the new password), and even maybe mirrors or veils.  The question of whether she can leave Hogwarts is still floating around in the u-bend.  (Gross.) Remember she said she was ordered back to Hogwarts grounds because she had been haunting Olive Hornsby?  So who can allow her to leave?  Dumbledore? Or is this a Ministry of Magic Decree?

Speaking of prefects’ bathrooms, we know Myrtle sometimes goes to the boys’ prefect bathroom since she was there when Harry was trying to figure out the egg riddle in GoF.  And she admitted to him of going there at other times.  Now that Ron is a prefect (OotP), has she been spying on him?  Or Draco?  Let’s hope they don’t burst each other’s bubbles. 

What was Myrtle’s last name?  It may not matter one iota but I’m just curious.

Molly Weasley is a doting mum and a take-no-guff master and commander of the Weasley family.  Yes, she mollycoddles but her actions are based on pure loving emotion.  While this is good in regards to her seeing to the needs of her family and their friends, she sometimes lets her emotions carry her away to her own misgivings and regrets.  Case in point: she angrily sent Fred and George off to the Quidditch World Cup then fretted and moaned that she might never see them alive again when she heard of all the misdoings going on at the event (GoF).  Another example is when she tried to get rid of the Boggart in Sirius’s house (OotP).  It read her fear of losing her husband, children, and Harry by some horrible end, and Molly couldn’t pull herself free of its taunts.  In her defense Molly’s hysterical fears are not idle imaginings and could very well happen.  Gulp.  It’s just that left on her own to delve into her own fears she becomes a very fragile person.  To Mrs. Weasley’s credit, on the other hand, she took total control of the situation when she found out Voldemort/Nagini attacked Arthur.  When an actual life-threatening crisis occurs she buries her hysterics and is once more the commander in charge. 

So how will Molly react to probably devastating events in the HBP and book 7?  She is a survivor.  She is stronger than she appears.  She will be the one to keep the troops fed, clothed, comforted, and definitely in line.  And I wouldn’t be surprised to see her filing into ranks with Fred and George to save Arthur, Percy, Bill, Charlie, Ginny, and Hermione from Azkaban, Death Eaters, or other evil peril.  I think we’ll let her leave the Dementors and Voldemort to Harry, however. 

Molly knits many jumpers/sweaters.  Hermione knits hats.  Dobby knits socks. Even Hagrid knits!  Besides opening a clothing store, why else would this be significant?  If pooled together, what could they knit as one group?  A web?  A giant invisibility afghan?  Hmmm.

Mundungus is the dodgy member of the Order of the Phoenix. He steals, buys, and sells on the black market but does give his allegiance to Dumbledore. He spies for the Order by dressing like a shrouded witch to disguise himself now that the invisibility cloak he was using disappeared when Sturgeous Podmore was taken to Azkaban. By the way, who has that invisibility cloak now?

In OotP, Mundungus’ sticky fingers were tempted by the Black family heirloom silver mugs, and in HBP his temptation own out.  What else did he probably take from the Black estate?  A silver locket engraved with the initials “S.S.” perhaps?  And if he did happen to pinch such a trinket, what did he do with it?  Sell it?  Hide it?  Maybe we should ask the Hog’s Head barman. 

Now, Mundungus has landed himself in a cell in Azkaban and his sticky fingers seem to be pointing to a very sticky situation in the last HP book.

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