Minister Mafalda Hopkirk

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Name

 * Legal: Mafalda Hopkirk

Occupational History

 * (approx. 1992)
 * Assistant in the Improper Use of Magic Office
 * (approx. 1997)
 * Stenographer for the Muggle-born Registration Commission.
 * 1998-present
 * Minister of Magic. (Deputy to the Minister: Percy Weasley)

Family in RP

 * None

Early Childhood (1946-1957)
Mafalda was an inquisitive, perceptive child, never satisfied with just one answer for any question. Her parents encouraged her curiosity and, while Pureblood and fairly well-off, they also encouraged her to spend time with those less fortunate and earn her own place in the world. Through tagging along with her parents and older brother, Gregory, as they spent weekends and holidays visiting hospitals and refugee camps for both Wizarding kind and Muggles, she saw the best and worst of humanity, and these experiences shaped her into the witch she is today.

Hogwarts Years (1957-1964)
The sorting hat did not take much time at all in declaring Mafalda a Ravenclaw. She was relatively quiet while a student at Hogwarts, preferring the company of insightful individuals that understood what really mattered in the world and were devoted to improving life for everyone. Though she could be focused and intense, she became in later years quite sociable, being all around good-natured and having the charmed ability to bridge boundaries across house affiliations and making friends of all sorts. She spent her summers with her brother, Gregory, who at this point was pursuing a career with the magical equivalent of Greenpeace. As she grew into herself in her late teens, she grew impatient with her family’s more liberal views and saw more and more how people would take advantage of them, and the endless stream of the helpless, the downtrodden, and the self-sabotaging charity cases jaded her. While she still sympathized with those in need, Mafalda wanted to get to the bottom of the problem and find real solutions for prevention of societal epidemics.

Adulthood/Career (1964-present)
Shortly after graduating from Hogwarts, Mafalda fell deeply in love with a fellow Ministry intern, a Muggle-born witch named Samantha Smith. Mafalda proposed the following year, but soon after Sam’s family found out about the engagement, Sam tearfully broke it off. Whether Sam’s family threatened to disown her over Mafalda being a witch or a woman, Mafalda never found out, but the next week, Samantha disappeared from magical society for good and, despite Mafalda’s efforts and resources to find her, was never heard from again. This experience hardened Mafalda, and while she had a number of relationships with witches and a Muggle or two thereafter, never married.

A career Ministry employee, Mafalda Hopkirk found her calling within the Improper Use of Magic Office, a division of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, where she worked for a number of years. When Death Eaters took over the Ministry in 1997, under the new regime Mafalda was relegated to record-keeping, working primarily as a stenographer for the Muggle-Born Registration Commission.

Reluctant record-keeper under the new Magic Is Might regime. Mafalda had to sit through each hearing, with dementors hovering overhead, while Muggle-borns were interrogated by Dolores Umbridge about their blood lineage. Secretly, she did what she could to modify the records to save as many Muggle-borns as she could.

The Road Ahead
After witnessing unspeakable horrors enacted by the Muggle-Born Registration Commission, Mafalda, now free to rectify the damage done, pushes strongly for equality and opportunity among all magical beings. She believes that the recent conflict between the Death Eaters and Rebels could have been prevented, had the Ministry been stronger and less prone to corruption from the start of Voldemort’s initial rise to power. Mafalda understands and sympathizes with the resentment and fear that led to the conflict, and believes that Muggles are the cause for much of the lingering disquiet within the magical world. Mafalda has a keen understanding of people, of human nature, therefore she does not resent Muggles in any way; however, in her line of work she sees the danger they pose and have posed over the centuries. She takes a separate but equal approach and thinks it best that Muggles and wizards stick to their own kind.

Mafalda tries to be a wise and just leader and recognizes political nuances and that nothing is as simple as it seems. She particularly has a soft spot for Squibs and wants to focus on policy-making that will ensure a place for them and job creation, protections, etc. in accordance with their wishes, whether in the Muggle world or the Wizarding world. Also, having dealt with all manner of disastrous cases regarding Muggle-Wizard relations, Mafalda is pushing for more straightforward legislation under the International Statute of Secrecy, in which she wishes to amend and add more specific clauses for the modern, changing society. Particularly dicey territory is dealing with interpersonal relations between wixen and Muggle family and friends...there has been a lot of leniency in this regard, and Mafalda thinks it best if it was clearly spelled out in the law what a magical being should do in the face of a break-up with a Muggle, rules for memory charms, ways to play off magic as simple sleight of hand and technology, etc.