Guarding the Department of Mysteries

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 86054

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dj_bagshaw" <kate_bag at h...> wrote:
> ...edited...
> 
> My question is, if the Order was guarding the Department of 
> Mysteries, where was the guard the night Harry et al broke in?  Why 
> was there no guard stationed at the door that night?  If there were, 
> the entire disaster never would have happened. 
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> ~Kate

bboy_mn:

You only /assume/ that there was no guard there because you weren't
shown a guard. Remember that a dozen Death Eater arrived at the
Ministry before Harry got there. I would seem logical that the DE's
would have taken care of the guards. There was probably a Security
Guard, but it probably wasn't hard for the DE's to get rid of him.
There may have even been a Order of the Phoenix guard on duty, but
from previous experience, Voldemort would have know there was a OoP
guard waiting and easily caught him by surprise.

It seem perfectly logical that the DE's would have cleared Harry's
path all the way to the Prophecy.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn