When will the ministry start kicking butt and taking names? / Percy

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 146754

> > "tropicwhale":
> > Probably after all the dust settles, The Ministery are nothing 
> > but a bunch of ninnies.<snip>
> >
> Jen D. here:
> There is also another thing that may be going on. There are likely LV 
> sympathizers in the MOM. After all, Lucius Malfoy was a great friend 
> of Fudge's and you can't get higher than that. We still don't know 
> where everyone stands. I know he's not in the picture any longer, but 
> Bagman had DE connections (nevermind his "trial," remember when the 
> Trio tell him that DE's are terrorizing people at the campsite? What 
> does he say? "Damn them!" Not surprise or shock, but anger at their 
> behavior. Wonderful bit of misdirection on JKR's part...)So the MOM's 
> wrong-headed decisions may be more calculated in some respects than we 
> realize.
> Jen D

Annemehr:
Oh! Nice catch about Bagman's reaction to the riot; I'd never thought
of it that way before!  Not that I accepted his innocent demeanor at
his trial hook, line and sinker, or anything...

I agree with you about the Ministry; it must be a microcosm of the WW,
really -- people with all kinds of motives and alliegiances.  The
trouble is, unfortunately, I don't think we can guess many, can we?  I
think we can eliminate any more Unspeakables, since it took Rookwood
escaping from Azkaban for LV to find out how the protections for the
prophecy orbs worked.  We could search OoP for clues, but how could we
tell the pro-LV people from the merely pro-Fudge people or even just
the not-taking-sides-but-still-not-trusted-with-Order-secrets-anyway
people?

Dawlish, for instance.  Maybe he's just an auror doing his job, taking
his orders, and not necessarily privy enough to what's behind them to
make judgments about whether those orders are right or wrong.

Then you'll have your bureaucrats and politicians who are not DEs, but
who will be corrupted out of fear or shortsighted pragmatism.  There
is scope for a lot of intrigue here -- I don't imagine there's room
for too much of it in the final book, but I hope we get to see some of it.

Annemehr