The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Bones took the envelope with some curiosity, took out the letter inside and read it. Her expression became increasingly serious.

After reading the letter, she folded it and put it away, closing her eyes and thinking for a moment. Mafalda stood quietly to the side, waiting for the minister's order.

Bones didn't let her wait any longer. After thinking for a moment, she opened her eyes. But the question she asked seemed to have nothing to do with the letter.

"How is the communication channel with the dementors that I ordered to establish before implemented? Is there any resistance?"

Although she didn't understand the minister's thoughts, Mafalda still answered honestly: "There is no resistance. The people in the ministry are still very supportive of the establishment of the new department, that is..."

"What is that?" Bones looked at Mafalda, a glimmer of light flashing in his eyes. Bones, who has been involved in the Ministry of Magic for many years, understands that important things often appear behind the turning words.

"The people below have some minor disputes over the ownership of this department. The Department of Magical Law Enforcement and the Department of Management and Control of Magical Creatures both want to take over this office. The Department of Management and Control of Magical Creatures believes that dementors are also a type of magical creatures, so they naturally belong to them. Within the jurisdiction. The Department of Legal Enforcement believes that the dementors are the guards of Azkaban and have a very close relationship with them... Both parties are reasonable, so there is a stalemate."

Bones instinctively wanted to assign this department to the Legal Enforcement Division. After all, having been the director for so many years, he had developed a conditioned reflex. But as soon as the idea came to her, she realized: she was no longer the director of the Legal Enforcement Department.

It is an official's instinct to expand the management scope, establishment and influence of his department as much as possible. But once the official becomes head of government, he or she loses this instinct and is replaced by another: balance.

She didn't want a department with too much power. The original Department of Legal Enforcement was a bit of an eyesore in her eyes - she used it as a springboard to overthrow Fudge's rule, and she certainly didn't want the people below to follow suit.

As someone who had dealt with Tom, she knew very well what a powerful potential force the dementors were. If the Legal Enforcement Division gets this power, it will not be able to sleep at night! Maybe one day I will be informed that I have retired due to health reasons as soon as I enter the office.

If possible, she would of course hope that the minister would contact the dementors in person, but this was unrealistic - it would look too ugly.

So Bones thought about it for a moment and made his decision.

"There is no doubt that Dementors are magical creatures, so a Dementor office should be established within the Department for the Management and Control of Magical Creatures... However, Azkaban, as an extremely important institution in the magical world, cannot be ignored... like this , the Department of Magical Law Enforcement should also establish an Azkaban Liaison Office, hanging under the Auror Office. At the same time, the Office of the Minister of Magic should also select a special commissioner to station in places where dementors gather."

Bones quickly made a plan.

Mafalda:…

Good guy, Mafalda calls him good guy! She didn't expect that Minister Bones would be so conceited and forcefully split the power to contact the Dementors into three parts. One part was given to the Department of Enforcement, the other part was given to the Department for the Management and Control of Magical Creatures, and was given to the Office of the Minister of Magic out of thin air. I want some interference here. Secretary Bones did it very skillfully by splitting it up and adding sand. He is worthy of being an old bureaucrat.

The advantage of this operation is naturally the successful decentralization of power, so that these departments cannot dominate one company. The disadvantages are also extremely obvious: several departments influence each other, the efficiency is extremely low, and more wages are required.

But for Bones, none of this is a problem.

But for Mafalda, who is responsible for budget coordination among various departments, this is a problem.

"Minister, what about the budget..." Mafalda looked confused. Where could she squeeze out the salary of the other two agencies?

"Don't worry about the budget. There is currently only one person in the Dementor's Office and no salary is required - he will deal with the Ministry of Magic on behalf of the Dementors; the Azkaban Liaison Office will use the budget originally reserved. As for us here Well... we have already paid the assistants and deputy ministers here, so what are you dreaming about if you want to receive double salaries? Just give them some overseas allowances - the funds for the allowances come from the Azkaban Liaison Office Squeeze a little out there."

Mafalda was amused by her minister. This was a waste of time! From the minister's words, she got a very important message: the candidate for the director of the Dementor's Office has been determined, and it does not seem to be an official within the Ministry of Magic.

"One more thing," Bones seemed to suddenly remember something, and added: "The department is newly established, and it is time to strike while the iron is hot. The special commissioner should move into Azkaban as soon as possible. The department has previously The management is really too lax..."

Bones seemed to be talking about an insignificant thing, but Mafalda, a subordinate of many years, immediately understood what she meant.

The minister is going to clean up the dissidents!

Fudge is gone, but he's left behind a lot of old stuff that's as unsightly as stains on a carpet. However, for various reasons, Bones cannot fire them directly, or even deal with them as soon as he takes office.

But now Bones, whose prestige had grown greatly during Operation Whirlwind over the Christmas period, could begin to remove these thorns in his side.

Going to Azkaban to be a special correspondent for the Ministry of Magic sounds like an extremely important job, but in fact it is a terrible job that could not be worse. Because the objects this special correspondent is dealing with are somewhat difficult to deal with - they are representatives of "chaos evil", dementors.

Life imprisonment in Azkaban is the most severe punishment in the wizarding world, and this special agent needs to live in Azkaban...

What is the difference between this and being sentenced to life imprisonment? Dementors don't care if you are good or bad, they just treat people as food. Here are two slices of bread. Who can tell which slice of bread is noble, even if the bread is despicable?

"I remember that Senior Deputy Minister Dolores didn't have any particularly important work on hand recently?" Bones pretended to ponder for two seconds, "How is this possible? She is an excellent wizard, and her idleness is for talents. What a waste...Mafalda, go find her and come here. I want to put some more burden on her and entrust her with important responsibilities!

"Yes, Minister." Mafalda said respectfully.

She left the office and found Dolores Umbridge who took the initiative to work overtime in the office of the Senior Undersecretary of Magic. Although she didn't have much work at hand, Umbridge had been working overtime almost to the point of madness recently. Most people have never seen her off work.

"Hello, the minister is looking for you." Mafalda had a harmless smile on her face.

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