It’s easy to see the moment when the Department of Magical Law Enforcement ceased to exist. The murder of Alastor Moody, one of our greatest Aurors, and subsequent appointment of suspected Death Eater Corban Yaxley to Head of Department were easily the two moments when the work of the DMLE turned against what they should be. Far from being a bold new direction, the Auror office was first ordered to stop tracking and hunting down the criminals that the office was formed to catch. It was only weeks until the Auror office was suspended totally, the Aurors demoted and the department’s work has only been devalued further since.
Hitwizard assignments include cleaning up murder scenes, providing unnecessary personal security and defending attackers on innocent civilians such as the Wandless in Diagon Alley. Various smear campaigns have been run on the department’s employees despite hard work in the menial tasks that they’ve been set. Employees are not allowed to pursue any leads on known Death Eaters or arrest any one of You-Know-Who’s followers despite overwhelming evidence of crimes. Unqualified Death Eaters have suddenly found jobs in the Department, presumably to keep their coworkers in line and not to do real work.
It’s been impossible to ignore the fact that this has created unrest, but any attempts to rebel against the Death Eater control have been met with intimidation, violence and even the brutal murder of Auror Gawain Robards has now been used to scare the DMLE staff into silence.
In a shocking event this morning the Department found the remains of Ar. Robards in their office, complete with a written threat. Assumed to be from their Head of Department, this is another step that is too far removed from what the DMLE stands for. The threat read: "If you won't listen to me, maybe you'll listen to him."
Action must be taken against this Death Eater control, and justice fought for.
The thoughts of The Beacon are with the friends, family and colleagues of Ar. Robards after this horrifying and disrespectful event.
[Printed beneath the article is a copy of this photo with the face blurred out, after an appropriate warning.]