the big names.
In the history of the Muggle Awareness Committee, eight of its members -- some longstanding, some reputable, some admirable, some not -- have gained a certain level of fame and/or notoreity through their actions, personal inclinations, or the accident of their birth. They are listed below, in summary.

Agatha Leach

Born on March 18 1942, Agatha is 36 years old and married into the supremely unimpressive (but generally fullblooded) Leach family, centered mostly in Wales and southwestern England. Agatha's contributions to the Muggle Awareness Committee have been largely organizational, and she is included here mostly because she was one of its founding members, and is often noted in publicity pieces for the more than 3 years of dedicated work she has done. A former Slytherin, Agatha married her husband Edwin Leach at the age of 18, as soon as she was out of school. Her own family, the Browns (precariously fullblood and often mocked by purebloods for the similarity of their name to a certain family self-proclaimed as untouchable in the pure world), were in a rush to marry off their youngest of 3 daughters, who they couldn't afford to support in the first place. Agatha and Edwin began having children right away, and despite the occasional miscarriage or stillbirth, they currently have six young, healthy, generally happy children, ranging in age from 17 to 3. Having been born and raised amidst financial struggle, Agatha grew up with a natural head for numbers, and this has led to her greatest contributions to the Muggle Awareness Committee. Despite having a notably wealthy membership, the Committee can't fund itself, and it was Agatha who first went out seeking support from the Wizarding world's various philanthropists, and who has been the brilliant mind behind nearly all of its many successful fund-raising events, most of which have consisted of cocktail parties and similarly pureblood-friendly activities. Her children -- particularly her eldest, daughter Margaret -- have received some negative attention and even the occasional threat for their mother's involvement in the Muggle Awareness Committee, but due to both her and their mild nature, these clashes have been minimal. Agatha is not typically involved in the various dramas of the MAC, and would probably have quit by now if she wasn't so single-mindedly focused on the purpose of their group.

Borislav Burke

Born on December 1 1900, Borislav Burke, of the occasionally sinister but always formidable Burke family, is originally from Kerch, in the Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic. A former student at Durmstrang Institute for Magical Learning, Burke moved to London in his late 20s, where he used his work experience at various Eastern European Ministries for Magic to attain a position in the Department for International Magical Cooperation. In 1950, he was made Head of the Department, a position he has maintained ever since. Renowned for his stern, unwielding manner and uncommon gift for speeches, Burke has applied his talent for getting what he wants not only to his work with the Ministry, but also to the Muggle Awareness Committee, of which he was the founder. With Agatha Leach, Darden Goyle, Jinks McMillan, Jacintha Yaxley, and other members of the executive committee detailed on this journal's userinfo, Borislav founded the MAC on May 19, 1975. He did so in an effort to unite the Wizarding world against the threat of Muggle incursion more completely -- he knew that, although in many ways he agrees with violence to defeat Muggles, You-Know-Who's agenda was rather more personal than ideological, and furthermore he knew that the majority of the Wizarding community would not agree with such an extreme method of defence. He has never openly condemned You-Know-Who's actions, but instead operates the MAC as a way to encourage the Wizarding community to bind together, and not be driven into Muggle-lovers' arms out of fear of You-Know-Who's radical approach.

Cadence Rimmer

Born on March 21 1955, Cadence is the youngest of the witches and wizards detailed here, and, sometimes appropriately, sometimes not, the one taken least seriously of all of them. A former Slytherin, Cadence's fame as a member of the Muggle Awareness Committee is two parts youth and beauty, one part natural magnetism, and about six parts unintentional disaster. The unfortunately-named Rimmer family, who have been centered in London since the 11th century under various names, have fluctuated back and forth from being pure to full to half all the way back to the higher echelons of fullblood society (they've tried to, er, penetrate pureblood society often over the past century or so, but have largely failed, aside from the occasional marriage into lower level families). They've been socialites and playboys, entrepreneurs and paupers, scholars and Healers and politicians and cads. Cadence's branch in particular has a somewhat sordid past, wealthier than perhaps they should be. Cadence, along with her four siblings (three older, one younger), have had rather more free time and rather less responsibility than most children, and it shows. One of her older brothers spent a stint in an exclusive Wizarding rehabilitation centre in Switzerland for various drug addictions. Her older sister was discreetly sent to St Mungo's following a tryst with a Parkinson heir that went on without adequate protection. Her younger sister is an open trainwreck. As for Cadence herself, the young socialite -- who is a tolerated, if not necessarily respected, modestly successful fashion designer on her own time -- while she's had the occasional damaging brush with Witch Weekly, and still isn't anywhere near being married, and, yes, has gotten rather more impaired than is acceptable for a young lady of her social standing once or twice, has, all things considered, done a much better job of keeping out of trouble than her siblings. That doesn't change the fact, though, that with all the danger and glamour that comes with her family, all her excessive money, flashy fashion, and expertly-maintained hair, and her unfortunate propensity for scrambling up words as they make the journey from her brain to her mouth (there have been quite formidable incidents when, speaking as a member of the MAC, she has mis-pronounced multisyllabic words most spectacularly), she is by far one of the MAC's most colourful members, and since joining in the fall of 1976 has gotten it an extraordinary amount of attention, often unintentionally. She is seen in many photographs of MAC fund-raising events in the society pages of Witch Weekly, holding a glass of champagne, smiling brightly beside some good-looking young man, and generally looking fabulous.

Cassius Flint

Born on July 8 1948, dark, brooding Cassius Flint would be on the walls of countless teen witches if he were famous for a less political reason. Fortunately for his sanity, he is not, and the infliction of feminine adoration on him is mostly limited to fellow pureblooded girls in the know, who smile knowingly, mockingly, and fondly at him from afar at the various society functions he is forced, both by blood and innate sense of duty, to attend.

Cornelius Knaggs

Born on December 17 1946, Cornelius Knaggs is 31 years old and a perfect PR nightmare. Openly, inconsiderately, utterly stubbornly purist, Knaggs has been an utter nuisance for the Muggle Awareness Committee, and if he weren't so bloody useful despite this, he would have been banned from the group ages ago.











Darden Goyle

Born on May 2 1928, Darden Goyle turned 50 years old this year and has spent his half-century of life working himself to the bone for his family, his society, and his cause. Generally agreed upon as a friendly, intelligent, and hard-working man, Darden is a product of Slytherin house (the class of 1946), but his Slytherin qualities are manifest as ambition far more than selfishness, 99% of the time.

Jacintha Yaxley

Born on July 10 1950, Jacintha Yaxley, deputy head of the Muggle Awareness Committee, is the most dedicated and responsible of its members, among its most snobbish, and arguably a contender for its most stressed, as well.











Jinks McMillan

Born on April 19 1940, Jonathan "Jinks" McMillan is 38 years old and by far the most dangerous of the witches and wizards listed here, although fewer than a dozen people could attest to that fact, and none plan to. The most important thing to note about Jinks McMillan is that he is not only a member of the Muggle Awareness Committee, but also an active Death Eater. This is part of the reason why the rival group is allowed to continue. Jinks has, from the start, used the Committee as fertile grounds to recruit new Death Eaters, and no one but those he has successfully converted have ever caught on.