If theHarry Potterbooks taught their readers anything it is that they should always question their government and those in superpower . Just because someone is in power does not mean that they deserve to be or that they are put to work in the good interestingness of all those who depend on them .

For a children and immature grownup Koran serial the plot ofHarry Potterdove into quite a plenty of political details and goings - on . This means that The Ministry of Magic in Great Britain was well developed , both in the ledger and the movies , and devotee were introduced to almost as many government officials as they were to Hogwarts pupil . Here are a fest of the smartest Ministry of Magic officials that fans meet over the years .

Barty Crouch Sr.

Barty Crouch Sr . , who play a rather large role in both theGoblet of Firebook and movie , was the headway of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement during and after the first rise of Voldemort .

He oversaw the punishment of Death Eaters and was both fantastically abrasive as well as rather effective . He was on his way to becoming Minister of Magic before his own boy was arrested as a Death Eater and sentenced . Crouch take points for reject to bend the rules for his own Word but loses a few for sentencing Sirius Black without a trial ( and eventually helping his own Logos to scat Azkaban ) .

Nymphadora Tonks

Tonks is a penis of the Auror office during the second rise of Voldemort . While she is slightly accident - prone it is revealed in theHarry Potter : Hogwarts Mysterygame that she taught herself the Patronus Charm   when she was only a fourth class . She is also overbold enough to pass every trial required to become an Auror and earn the deference and charge of Alastor Moody .

add together to that her power to read the the great unwashed around her ( she recognise Lupin merit to be bang ) and she earns some incentive point for her emotional word . unfortunately , she did n’t get the hazard to live long enough to become erstwhile and wise .

Madam Marchbanks

She was a penis of the Wizengomat and a long time athletic supporter of Dumbledore . Impressive to be intelligent enough to take exception both Albus Dumbledore and the Boy Who live on .

Amelia Susan Bones

Susan Bones , in Harry ’s year and assigned to Hufflepuff , was diagnose for her Aunt Amelia , was read/write head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement after Barty Crouch Sr . She sat in judgment of Harry inOrder of the Phoenix , acknowledging Harry ’s ability to produce a bodily Patronus as well as keeping a level mind and vote to acquit Harry of all charges .

It takes quite a mind to rise that high in the Ministry of Magic as well as hold power and persist fair and unprejudiced . She is enough of a scourge that she is finally murdered , probably by Voldemort himself , sometime duringThe Half Blood Prine .

Alastor Moody

Alastor Moody or , as he is more commonly referred to , Mad - Eye Moody , is the most famous Auror in the modernistic wizarding domain for a reason . He charm more Death Eaters than anyone during the   First Wizarding War and lend most of them in alive ( which was its own very impressive statistic ) . It takes more than muscularity to fight wizard criminals and Moody was a star .

Moody loses a few intelligence service points for getting himself captured and go for hostage by Barty Crouch Jr. but that does n’t make his talents any less impressive .

Dolores Jane Umbridge

Dolores Umbridgeis the only character in theHarry Potterseries who is , perhaps , detest even more than Voldemort himself . But just because she is simper and whole evil does not mean it did n’t take some brains to accomplish what she has . She joined the Ministry of Magic at seventeen and worked her way up to become head of the Improper Use of Magic Office .

She was one of the Wizengamot who sit for Harry ’s trial and further ingratiated herself to then Minister of Magic , Cornelius Fudge , before being send toHogwartsas a instructor , then High Inquisitor , and Headmaster . She uses her evilness but glorious mind to mount the ranks of the ministry a 2d time , after being drive from Hogwarts , and under young Minister   Pius Thicknesse .

Arthur Weasley

Arthur Weasley perplex extra point for knowing himself . Arthur has a real interest in Muggles and has no problem working in the   Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office .

He is able to balance his line , his mob , and the upthrust around him . He is eventually promoted to the head of the   Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects under the new Minister of Magic , Rufus Scrimgeour .

Rufus Scrimgeour

Rufus Scrimgeour does n’t serve very long as Minister of Magic , but he ’s the first licit and rather an effective Minister view in theHarry Potterseries overall . Before being Minister he was head ofthe Auror officewhich , as we ’ve already seen , was full of a rather intelligent team to begin with .

He accredit both the faults of his predecessor ( Fudge ) and go out the change that must be made for the wizarding world to live the come calamity . To be hit by Voldemort only proves he was doing something right .

Newt Scamander

Newt Scamander , now champion of his own epic series , Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , did have a animation before he hit the screen . He worked for the Department of the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures in both the Office for House - Elf Relocation and the Beast Divison .

Obviously , Newt is intelligent enough to remove himself from the halls of power to stick with his truthful calling as a Magizoologist and , eventually , joining the greater fight against Grindelwald outside the official channels of the authorities .

Kingsley Shacklebolt

Kingsley Shacklebolt rises to the post of Minister of Magic following the Second Wizarding War .

Before that , he shape as a senior Auror and was not onlytalentedwhile work with wizards but showed a uncommon and literal talent for catch along with muggles and their politics officials as well ( the Dursleys included ) . Kingsley has both manufacture screw - how as well as emotional intelligence service

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