Harry's Jaunt to Hogsmeade

[Monita]

No: HPFGUIDX 57392

>Eric wrote:
>Dementors had slipped up already and let SB get loose
>somehow, is yet another example...I'd have used Aurors, who can tell 
>the difference between a student and an escaped convict, and aren't 
>too likely to try to suck anybody's soul out of them.

Valky says:
Interesting you should note that. In the fourth book when we are 
introduced to our first Auror there is a lot of talk of Aurors having 
been killed or indelibly incapacitated by attacks before and since 
the fall of Voldemort. Although it is not actually stated that Moody 
is a last Auror or among the last, I am sure we are being given a 
hint that Aurors are a dwindling group. Moody!Crouch speaks of them a 
lot, but then he's been out of it for 10 or so years, he probably 
missed the lot. He is not, I daresay, a reliable source for the 
gauging of current events in the GOF WW.
I do believe that at the time of POA the dementors were considered to 
be more powerful than the Aurors, by the MOM and so forth. This is 
why, IMO, they would, in their infinite capacity to look like 
complete boofs, put their faith in Dementors to take on Sirius Black.
After all they feared not only for the sake of Harry but greatly for 
their own safety as well. Apparently they think an Auror is no match 
for Voldemorts kind?