Parsing XをYにと請われた


> ダンブルドアを大臣にと請われたんだがな、... (Japanese TL)  
>  They wanted Dumbledore fer (for) minister ... (original Harry Potter)

The grammar of this sentence confuses me. Is 請う in passive form, or is this
honorific? Passive doesn't make any sense to me.

Is ダンブルドア the object of 請う?

I don't understand what に is doing here. 大臣に doesn't seem like a request.

I wonder if all of ダンブルドアを大臣に is the quote and there is an implied する missing.

My final guess is that the unspoken subject is the ministry and the sentence
is 'The ministry was asked _to_ "make Dumbledore a minister"', where the thing
marked by と would be ダンブルドアを大臣にして (or something far more polite) and して is
omitted.

Am I close? If not, please help me to untangle what's happening here.




I think theoretically it can be both passive/respect, but I would read it as
passive. So your understanding should be fine

I assume the speaker has some influence over decision of ministers. The
sentence says _I was asked to make Dumbledore a minister_.

Or, if the one who asked to make D. a minister is aristocratic/royal or
something, it can be understood as _The noble person asked me to make D. a
minister_.

* * *

> I wonder if all of ダンブルドアを大臣に is the quote and there is an implied する
> missing.

On this point, it is natural to think that there is a verb omitted between 大臣に
and と. As you guessed, it can be '大臣にする(ように)と'. と quotes the content of what
was asked. (I was asked (to see) _that ..._ ).




I think theoretically it can be both passive/respect, but I would read it as
passive. So your understanding should be fine

I assume the speaker has some influence over decision of ministers. The
sentence says _I was asked to make Dumbledore a minister_.

Or, if the one who asked to make D. a minister is aristocratic/royal or
something, it can be understood as _The noble person asked me to make D. a
minister_.

* * *

> I wonder if all of ダンブルドアを大臣に is the quote and there is an implied する
> missing.

On this point, it is natural to think that there is a verb omitted between 大臣に
and と. As you guessed, it can be '大臣にする(ように)と'. と quotes the content of what
was asked. (I was asked (to see) _that ..._ ).

