[The review below was delivered via corrospondence. The author, Mr. Lundswud, is not an employee of the Daily Prophet and his views do not necessarily represent the viewpoint of the paper.]

Bernard Prewett entered the Ministerial race late last month and has yet to establish himself fully on the election scene, as it were, so let's take a moment to delve more thoroughly into his background.

Prewett runs primarily on the credentials of having worked in the Ministry's Department of Mysteries for thirty years, although unfortunately this position allows him to list precisely zero specific achievements, and it is unclear to most of wizarding Britain what Mr. Prewett actually does. There is something to be gleaned from two pieces of information, however. The first: Mr. Prewett was made Assistant Head of the Department only this year (after thirty years of service), despite younger and presumably less qualified men having held the position in the past (notably Claudius Lestrange, son of the Chief Wizengamot, immediately prior to the late Ernest Mulciber). Given that the name Prewett does carry some weight and might have helped fast-track his promotion, it is perhaps telling that it was so long in coming. The second: the one person most qualified to speak to Prewett's work performance and to his suitability as Minister of Magic, former Minister and current Head of the Department of Mysteries Balthazar Urquart, has been suspiciously quiet on the subject of any endorsement. Surely if he felt the next Minister of Magic was working directly beneath him, he would have vouched for the man's qualifications?

Prewett is also infamous for being unsociable. He hardly attends society events, has never married or even courted, and can rarely be trespassed upon to engage in conversation with anyone. Because of this disposition, his personal politics are almost as much of an enigma as his job performance or career achievements, but as before we can derive much from a few context clues. Bernard Prewett was recommended for a seat in the Wizengamot by Minister Faris Spavin, who was removed from office after conspiring to kidnap and murder muggleborn witches and wizards. Spavin, while never progressive, had certainly kept his intolerance of muggleborns under wraps while campaigning and during the beginning of his tenure in office. Ian Pengloss recently wrote in this paper that "precognitive ability is bound to be useful to a prospective Minister for Magic;" apparently either Prewett's Sight failed to prove useful in the case of Minister Spavin — or perhaps he simply wasn't that distraught by what he Saw pertaining to Spavin's views on muggleborn wizards.

In any case, this analyst's pronouncement on Bernard Prewett: there is a scarcity of information, and what information does exist does not paint a flattering picture. In order to be worthy of anyone's vote in October, Prewett should do two things:
1. Publish a full platform in the Daily Prophet to make his political stance clear to all voters;
2. Secure the recommendation of Balthazar Urquart.

More candidate reviews to follow.
— J. L.