In Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix

[simonsebastiansmith]

No: HPFGUIDX 177940

>Amanda wrote:
>I have one more question, if the author had gone into more detail
>with goings on in the ministry while all the Dumbledore bashing and
>derailment was going on, do you feel it would have confused the
>readers as to what exactly the point was she was trying to make?  The
>reason I ask is to some degree it might have helped sway the readers
>to have more good feelings of the ministry during all the turmoil.
> 
> Amanda
>

Simon:
I think the readers wouldn't have been confused at all. Most of the 
Ministry probably isn't changed much no matter the situation. People 
like the man with the fire-breathing chicken and the security guard 
do more or less the same thing no matter who is running the 
organization, and we wouldn't have seen much of them anyways. The 
only people who would have been involved in focusing on the Ministry 
were the Aurors, and as it stands we've got a set of each- Kingsley 
and Tonks were Order, and Dawlish and Scrimgeour were Ministry-
supporters. Not coincidentally, what we see and hear of the latter 
two through Book 5 and on isn't good.

Simon