Minister Lorcan McLaird was a wizard, a former Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and, later in his life, British Minister for Magic.^[1]

BiographyEdit

Early lifeEdit

Lorcan McLaird was born no later than 1963, somewhere in the British Isles. His surname suggests he was Scottish, or had Scottish ancestry.

In his youth, he attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he was Sorted into Ravenclaw.^[1]

As Minister for MagicEdit

McLaird rose to the office of Minister for Magic of Great Britain sometime before 1980. He was quite a talented wizard, but was considered something of an eccentric, as he liked to communicate by puffing smoke from the tip of his wand.^[1]

Behind the scenesEdit

• Luna Lovegood may have named her son — Lorcan Scamander — after this man, probably in admiration for his eccentricity.

AppearancesEdit

• Pottermore (Mentioned only)

Notes and referencesEdit

Minister for Magic of Great Britain
Ministers for Magic:
Eldritch Diggory Lorcan McLaird Unctuous Osbert (late 1700s) Artemisia Lufkin (1798-1811) Grogan Stump (1811-1819) Ottaline Gambol (mid-1800s) Evangeline Orpington (1849-1855) Dugald McPhail (c. 1865) Faris Spavin (1865-1903) Nobby Leach (1962-1968) Millicent Bagnold (1980-1990) Cornelius Fudge (1990-1996) Rufus Scrimgeour (1996-1997) Pius Thicknesse (1997-1998) Kingsley Shacklebolt (1998 - )