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Minister Hector Fawley was a British wizard who served as the twenty-fourth Minister for Magic of the British Ministry of Magic, in office from 1925 to 1939.[3]
He was Sorted into Ravenclaw during his student years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Biography[]
Hogwarts years[]
Hector Fawley was born at some point between 1 September 1872 and 31 August 1879, and attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he was Sorted into Ravenclaw house. During the 1890–1891 school year, he could be seen loitering in the Training Grounds practising mounting a broomstick, chatting to Leander Prewett, and bouncing and catching a ball.[4]
Political career[]
Minister Fawley was voted in because of his marked difference to his predecessor, Lorcan McLaird — while the latter was taciturn and an unlikely politician, Fawley was ebullient and flamboyant in character.[3]
His term in office coincided with the beginning of Gellert Grindelwald's "For the Greater Good" revolution. Fawley did not take Grindelwald's threat to the wizarding community sufficiently seriously, and his lack of response was openly questioned. The Daily Prophet once asked in 1926 whether "Flamboyant Fawley" was doing enough.[5]
In 1932, the Ilfracombe Incident occurred, where a Common Welsh Green dragon descended upon a group of Muggle beach-goers. They were saved by Tilly Toke and her family, who also cast the largest group of Memory Charms in the 20th century to make them forget the incident. Hector Fawley's government awarded Tilly Toke with the Order of Merlin.[6]
He was re-elected at least once, but the consequence of his lack of response to Grindelwald came in 1939, when he was forced from his office, being replaced with the more proactive Leonard Spencer-Moon.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
- Hector Fawley is the sitting Minister for Magic in Britain during the time setting of the films Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.
- While the "British Envoy" portrayed by Richard Clothier in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was speculated to be Fawley as Newt addresses him as Minister, Clothier's agency lists his role as Hector Podmore.[7]
- Hector Fawley is similar to Cornelius Fudge who served as Minister of Magic fifty years later, in that both did not take seriously enough the threat posed by the dark wizards of their time (Grindelwald in Fawley's time and Voldemort in Fudge's time) to the wizarding community, and both had to leave the position because of it. Fudge even denied Voldemort's return.
- Hector Fawley's inability to properly respond to the threat Grindelwald posed seems to mirror real-life British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who gave in to Adolf Hitler by signing the Munich Agreement and announced "peace in our time" in 1938, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. Regardless of Chamberlain's other achievements, he went down in history as a bumbler.
- The Fawleys (Aubrey and Julia) are characters in J. K. Rowling's novel The Casual Vacancy. In that novel, they are a rich aristocratic family and the owners of Sweetlove House, an historic manor in the outskirts of Pagford, whose ancestors were responsible for selling the nearby city of Yarvil a piece of Pagford land — one of the catalysts for the plot.
Appearances[]
- Pottermore (First mentioned)
- Wizarding World (Mentioned only)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (Mentioned on newspaper)
- Hogwarts Legacy (First appearance)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ As Hector was a Hogwarts student in 1890, he must have been aged 11-18 during this year.
- ↑ On Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Pure-Blood" at Wizarding World, the Fawleys are mentioned to have been included in the Pure-Blood Directory published in Britain in the 1930s. As Hector Fawley was already alive by 1930 (and, indeed, was such a prominent wizarding figure on the time), this establishes that he must have been a pure-blooded wizard.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Ministers for Magic" at Wizarding World
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Hogwarts Legacy
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (see this image)
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Introduction (Magical Beasts in Hiding)
- ↑ United Agents - Richard Clothier