Scrimgeour a DE (was More thoughts on the Cloak)

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 158469

Abergoat said:
Lucius Malfoy (and Rufus Scrimgeour) benefited enormously from the
Longbottom incident:

1) Bella, who wants everyone to look for Voldemort, is jailed
2) Barty Sr, who is vigorously pursuing DEs, is brought down
3) Frank Longbottom, a very popular Auror, is removed from the line 
of
succession

So Malfoy, a DE, avoids his sister-in-laws pressure to search
for Voldemort, avoids being arrested as a DE and has a family
friend, Rufus (OotP) move up through the ranks of the Auror
Office faster than he might have. Way too convenient.

Tonks:
This plays into my theory that Scrimgeour is a DE. I have suggested 
that he was the 4th DE on the tower. But even if it was not him on 
the tower, I do think that he is in league with the DE and in the 
best place to help with the plot to take over the WW.

My reasons are:
DD does not quite trust him. And DD was evasive when Harry asked him 
if Scrimgeour was "good". (HBP,page 61 US version.)

Bones was murdered, and by LV himself. Perhaps she was getting too 
close to knowing the truth about him.

In all these years the MoM, as Harry reminds us, has never been 
successful in caching LV. And Scrimgeour was an Auror. He could have 
done many things to prevent LV from being caught. Like a bad police 
officer that helps the bad guys by tipping them off before a raid, 
etc. Weren't the raids on the DE home conducted by a different 
division? If not, I would guess that he couldn't prevent them all as 
that would blow his cover and his main job is to keep LV safe from 
detection. 

All in all, I don't think that Snape is the only one pretenting to 
be one thing while really being something else. I think we will be 
shocked to discover that lies and deceit are in many places. Who can 
we really trust?

Tonks_op