O Enigma do Príncipe (o livro) começa revelando que o primeiro-ministro está entre os trouxas que têm permissão para conhecer o mundo bruxo; ele manteve-se a par de desenvolvimentos relevantes, como assassinos fugitivos, pelo Ministro da Magia (ênfase minha):
Embora a capacidade do primeiro-ministro de reagir a essas ameaças seja bastante limitada, ser capaz de, pelo menos, alertar a população em geral é uma maneira importante de ajudar a mitigar as baixas trouxas. Isto é, presumivelmente, porque a imprensa trouxa estava relatando a fuga de Sirius no começo do Prisioneiro de Azkaban .[I]t had been like this from his very first meeting with Fudge on his very first evening as Prime Minister. He remembered it as though it were yesterday and knew it would haunt him until his dying day.
He had been standing alone in this very office, savoring the triumph that was his after so many years of dreaming and scheming, when he had heard a cough behind him, just like tonight, and turned to find that ugly little portrait talking to him, announcing that the Minister of Magic was about to arrive and introduce himself.
Naturally, he had thought that the long campaign and the strain of the election had caused him to go mad. He had been utterly terrified to find a portrait talking to him, though this had been nothing to how he felt when a self-proclaimed wizard had bounced out of the fireplace and shaken his hand. He had remained speechless throughout Fudge's kindly explanation that there were witches and wizards still living in secret all over the world and his reassurances that he was not to bother his head about them as the Ministry of Magic took responsibility for the whole Wizarding community and prevented the non-magical population from getting wind of them. It was, said Fudge, a difficult job that encompassed everything from regulations on responsible use of broomsticks to keeping the dragon population under control (the Prime Minister remembered clutching the desk for support at this point). Fudge had then patted the shoulder of the still-dumbstruck Prime Minister in a fatherly sort of way.
"Not to worry," he had said, "it's odds-on you'll never see me again. I'll only bother you if there's something really serious going on our end, something that's likely to affect the muggles - the non-magical population, I should say. Otherwise, it's live and let live.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Chapter 1: "The Other Minister"
Desde que Príncipe Mestiço foi lançado em 2005, e o filme Ordem da Fênix em 2007, os cineastas presumivelmente presumiram que qualquer um que estivesse assistindo estava familiarizado com o texto .