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

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> 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.
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Alla:

Without looking at the books yet, how do we know that he was not yet 
working at the Ministry in the first chapter of DH? Say he was 
apprehended at the end of HBP, did anybody recognize him before he 
escaped? I mean he obviously did escape, right? So who says that he 
could not have continue working at the Ministry?

I mean, if he indeed has an access to Minister, no less, isn't easier 
assumption to make that he was working at the Ministry rather than he 
did it somewhere else?

I am not trying to find a solution that will satisfy me, as I said, I 
believe that I saw a quote mentioning him working in the MoM and if I 
cannot find it, I will of course say so, but I really do not see how 
him being stupefied ( we do know for sure that it was him?) in HBP 
makes it impossible for him to work at the ministry. After all 
Scrimgeour does not name him to Harry, no?

But I will be back to this conversation after I check my sources :)

Alla