User blog comment:JayeMalik'/Ministry of Magic Employees/@comment-24344137-20170902000247/@comment-24894829-20170903054433

A few things to touch on before I hit the character count situation: I think that the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes could handle magical children (either Muggle-Borns/Half-Bloods or Muggle-raised) who face neglect or harm from their parents to keep them from turning into an Obscurial, but more so could help in hiding magical children from the Muggle world. Children are especially vulnerable to accidentally displaying their magic in public areas, but are also easily persecuted by friends, family, neighbors, etc. Our wiki constantly brings light to magical children having problems at their homes or in their neighborhoods without thinking that the government might want to hop on that. I think that, to monitor this, we need to come up with a way that the Trace is implemented, since their is no canon for how it is cast upon children (or if they are simply born with it, to some degree, since it's "universal with magical children.") Any magical occurrence (and I would believe this to be true for first signs of magic as well) should alert the Ministry, but we can see that they might not monitor pre-Hogwarts children. This would come from the fact that Hermione practiced a few spells prior to attending Hogwarts, but never received a warning notification, which can lead us to believe that they wouldn't monitor them since "their magic is normally uncontrollable." Yet, we have the Quill and the Book, who record notable signs of magic in children (a small sign will cause the Book to refuse the Quill to write upon its pages to keep the chance of Squibs being sent to Hogwarts, so there has never ever been a Squib falsely admitted to Hogwarts). Anybody that they record in the Book by the Quill will be admitted into Hogwarts. If they are not added, they cannot attend. We know that at least the Deputy Headmaster/Headmistress can read the Book, since Professor McGonagall was the one who checked each year to see the children in the book that were around the age of eleven. If, at all, we could place a rule where the names in the Book must be passed over to the Ministry, they could conduct visits (whether like little stalkings, similar to what they did in Harry's case) every so often to see the parents/guardians and the child. It would be used to make sure the child is kept safe, to avoid something similar to what happened with Eilis, and so on. I'm not sure if they should approach until the Hogwarts letter is sent or not. I'm only one person and I believe that piggybacking off of one another's ideas would be a great choice in this case.

Now, in regards to Bradley. He would either be a Ministry or Hogwarts employee, since Animagi training would be run through both (yet primarily the Ministry). Especially if he would be the one running the Animagi training department, he would have to be an active character, which would make him count towards your character count. Any Ministry employees, especially those in leadership positions, must count towards your character count or be inactive and be removed from the position.