When will the ministry start kicking butt and taking names?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 146717

maria816200 wrote:
>   
> <snip> But I think <snip> [t]hat the MOM will not start kicking butt
in the beginning of book 7, as they will only do that when the final
battle is over when Voldemort is defeated? In short, more like what
they did in VW1, (rounding up the DE when Voldemort was vanguish/gone)
or after the battle in the MOM in the OOTP. They are good at that
picking up the wasted/defenseless DEs. The MOM doesn't do the hard
fight/work, what they do is, let the brave and the courageous do the
hard and messy job and when it's over, MoM will just clean up the litters.
>

Carol responds:
OTOH, the MoM did have the real Moody on its side in VW1 and he didn't
get those battlescars, including a lost eye and leg and a chunk gouged
from his apparently sizeable nose by Evan Rosier by being ineffectual
or cowardly. He hunted down Karkaroff, which took six weeks, and
fought Wilkes and Rosier, young DEs in their twenties (both had been
part of the Slytherin gang at Hogwarts) to the death because he could
not bring them in alive. Other Aurors (possibly including Scrimgeour?)
may have fallen into the trap of using the Unforgiveable Curses
authorized by Barty Crouch, but Moody generally avoided them, bringing
in Mulciber, Dolohov, and others whose names I can't remember offhand
when these men had not yet been sent to Azkaban and weakened by the
influence of the Dementors. That he did not also bring in Lucius
Malfoy, Nott Sr., Avery, etc. is because they had gotten off by
pleading Imperius--no fault of his own.

Granted, Moody was a member of the original Order, but he was also a
Ministry employee in VW1. So, apparently, was Scrimgeour. It remains
to be seen what he will do against the DEs in Book 7.

Also, Voldemort clearly regarded Amanda Bones as a real threat or he
would not have personally murdered her. And he made sure that Crouch
Sr. was first controlled and then murdered by his own Death Eater son.

On a related note, I expected a mass escape from Azkaban in Book 6.
Will we get one in Book 7? Some of the DEs, for example Dolohov,
Mulciber, and the Lestrange brothers, were already serving life
sentences and are unlikely to be let out again for good behavior, but
with no Dementors to guard them and Voldemort being short-handed,
surely he'll want them out again in Book 7? And Lucius Malfoy's
sentence may be short since he's only charged with breaking and
entering and attempted robbery. Or is being a Death Eater in itself
sufficient grounds for a life sentence in Azkaban?

Carol, who thinks that the Aurors, or at least Alastor Moody, deserve
credit for hunting down the DEs after Godric's Hollow, whatever the
failings of Crouch Sr. and Fudge may be