Thank you for your encouraging words about the committee, at any rate – I do see the difficulties there will be to implement the committee’s recommendations, and naturally I expected no less from Mr. Lestrange.

If you are looking more widely within the Ministry, there are certainly some strong female candidates – I would personally trust Mrs. Fallon Hatchitt to make the case for women’s suffrage well. She has had a promising career in the Auror office, has worked hard to be where she is, and would not be afraid to defend her opinions in debate.

Beyond that, New Zealand may also prove of interest in your thinking – they successfully passed an electoral bill for female suffrage just in September. I know there is not much comparison to be made between the state of their community and ours (magical or muggle), but there may be something of interest in amongst the angles their campaign used, if not in the precedent alone.

Perhaps Mr. Lestrange and the Wizengamot will be inclined to entertain the more ‘moderate’ face of female suffrage, if you can find the right representative for it – some way to link the question of voting reform to increased moderation of character and social morality?

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