#Rufus scrimgeour series#

He ordered the arrest of Stan Shunpike, a conductor on the Knight Bus, to give the impression that the Ministry was actively seeking and arresting Death Eaters, even though it was apparent to Harry that Shunpike was innocent and merely foolish. Apparently, Scrimgeour distrusted Albus Dumbledore in a similar way to Fudge before him, as he assigned Auror John Dawlish to follow Dumbledore during his frequent departures from Hogwarts, resulting in the Auror being jinxed by Dumbledore. Scrimgeour, though seemingly more capable than Fudge, decided to prioritize appearances over truth in his battle against Voldemort. You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got the Chosen One working for you!' - Harry Potter argues with Scrimgeour on Christmas Day, 1996. Rufus Scrimgeour: ' Some would say it's your duty to be used by the Ministry!' Harry Potter: ' Yeah, and others might say it's your duty to check people really are Death Eaters before you chuck them in prison. Gawain Robards replaced Scrimgeour as Head of the Auror Office. As a result, when Voldemort finally stepped into the open and declared open war on both Britain's wizarding and Muggle communities, Fudge left office in disgrace and was replaced by the ostensibly more proactive Scrimgeour. The previous year, the Ministry under Fudge had denied any evidence of Voldemort's return and branded Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter liars for saying the opposite. In the fortnight following the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and the Ministry's acknowledgement of Lord Voldemort's return in June of 1996, Minister Cornelius Fudge was, as The Quibbler went on to report, 'chased from his office'. But I say this to our citizenry: we, ever your servants, will continue to defend your liberty and repel the forces that seek to take it from you! Your Ministry… remains… strong!' -Scrimgeour makes a speech on the situation of wizarding world. Our world has, perhaps, faced no greater threat than it does today. ' These are dark times, there is no denying. Īt some point before he became Minister, Scrimgeour joined Bertie Higgs, Tiberius and Cormac McLaggen to hunt recreationally for Nogtails in Norfolk.

#Rufus scrimgeour series#

Sometime after his seventeenth birthday, Scrimgeour joined the Ministry of Magic, and completed a stringent series of character and aptitude tests to join the Auror Office. He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he would finish his education earning at least five N.E.W.T.s, with nothing under the Exceeds Expectations mark. Scrimgeour was born somewhere in the British Isles, most likely in Scotland, into the wizarding Scrimgeour family. We went with Bertie Higgs and Rufus Scrimgeour this was before he became Minister, obviously -' Horace Slughorn: ' Ah, you know Bertie and Rufus too? Now tell me…' - Horace Slughorn hosting a small luncheon at the Hogwarts Express with his Slug Club. I happen to know you see a lot of your Uncle Tiberius, because he has a rather splendid picture of the two of you hunting Nogtails in, I think, Norfolk?' Cormac McLaggen: ' Oh, yeah, that was fun, that was. Voldemort, wanting the location of Harry Potter, captured and brutally tortured Scrimgeour, though when Scrimgeour refused to talk, Voldemort killed him. This policy ultimately cost Scrimgeour his life, as it left the Ministry open to infiltration by the Death Eaters, who used several high-ranking Ministry officials, all of whom had been subverted to their control, to launch a successful coup and bring the Ministry under Voldemort's control. While he appeared to provide a much tougher and resolute stance against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters, he made the same mistake of creating the appearance of safety and security, while in truth Scrimgeour's efforts were waning in progress in the war. During the Second Wizarding War, Scrimgeour was appointed to succeed Cornelius Fudge as Minister of Magic.

Eventually he rose to become Head of the Auror Office. August 1, 1997) originally joined the Ministry of Magic as an Auror, where he became a hardened veteran, spending most of his life fighting Dark Wizards. There was an immediate impression of shrewdness and toughness the Prime Minister thought he understood why the wizarding community preferred Scrimgeour to Fudge in these dangerous times.' -The Prime Minister's thoughts on Rufus Scrimgeour. There were streaks of grey in his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows, he had keen yellowish eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, loping grace even though he walked with a slight limp. ' The Prime Minister's first, foolish thought was that Rufus Scrimgeour looked rather like an old lion.