How we read HP books WAS :Re: Half-Blood Prince

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 183884

zanooda wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > I'm not sure about Yaxley working at the Ministry, Alla. <SNIP>
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Okay, I did not mean to ignore your correction I promise :)
> 
> I will be happy to say that I am wrong, but I am not ready to do
that just yet. I just did not have time to check the quotes, but I
will and 
> soon.
> 
> For now I just say that if Yaxley was not working in the Ministry,
how come he was there with dear Dolores when they did muggle born 
> registration thing? He was there, no?
> 
> But in any event, I want to check where I thought I saw the source
of  two DE being in the Ministry before I bow to you :)

Carol responds:
I think zanooda meant that he wasn't yet working at the Ministry in
the first chapter of DH, "The Dark Lord Ascending." At any rate, we
don't know for a fact that he's working there. Certainly, he has
access to the Ministry and Ministry contacts (like Lucius Malfoy in
OoP) or he couldn't have Imperiused the Head of Magical Law
Enforcement, Pius Thicknesse, but Yaxley doesn't yet hold that
position himself, as he does when he and Umbridge hold their
inquisition for poor Mrs. Cattermole. When the Imperiused Thicknesse
becomes the puppet Minister for Magic, Yaxley takes over his old
position, Head of Magical Law Enforcement, presumably as his reward
for Imperiusing him.

As for a second DE at the Ministry, were you thinking of Thicknesse or
perhaps Runcorn? They're certainly DE sympathizers like Umbridge (at
least, Thicknesse is after he's Imperiused), but I'm not aware of a
second DE at the Ministry in the Umbridge chapters. However, we later
find that Travers and Selwyn have been sent by the Ministry to capture
Harry at Xeno Lovegood's. I take it that they, too, are Ministry
employees but not as highly placed as Yaxley. Instead, they've been
sent to do his dirty work.

Carol, noting that Thicknesse's job title is given in "Dark Lord
Ascending" and Yaxley's identical job title in "Magic Is Might" if
you're interested