While Dumbledore and Lucius and other major figures might be sane, I’m not sure if we’re supposed to take the majority of the Wizengamot to be anything other than, in Harry’s words, “stupid, corrupt, and evil.”
On the same kind of criteria, you might expect the majority of all wizards and indeed all humans to be stupid, corrupt, and evil-when-given-great-power. It’s a Quirrel kind of thought. Which doesn’t make it untrue.
While Dumbledore and Lucius and other major figures might be sane, I’m not sure if we’re supposed to take the majority of the Wizengamot to be anything other than, in Harry’s words, “stupid, corrupt, and evil.”
On the same kind of criteria, you might expect the majority of all wizards and indeed all humans to be stupid, corrupt, and evil-when-given-great-power. It’s a Quirrel kind of thought. Which doesn’t make it untrue.