When will the ministry start kicking butt and taking names?

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 146741

> maria816200:
> >   
> > <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:
*(snip)*
> 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.

Ceridwen:
I'm not so sure I would want the MoM to have enormous powers to go 
after people.  I thought it was bad that they sent Sirius to prison 
without a trial.  I would rather see them hampered and hobbled by 
laws against certain behaviors, because by virtue of being the 
government they are already very powerful.

Ceridwen.