The New Ministry

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After the downfall of Tom Marvolo Riddle at his terrorist strike against Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there was a reformation. Minister Pius Thicknesse was collected most aggressively at this time. In the following weeks, incredible change took place.   The role of Minister fell to a triumvirate - Viceroy, Hopkirk, and Greengrass; all respective overseers of a third of The Ministry’s departments.  The Wizengamot was rearranged; with Dolores Umbridge, once Chief Warlock, finding herself jailed for life in Azkaban to account for her legislation against Muggleborns and Halfbloods.  Scores of trials were conducted.  Death Eaters were condemned for their hate crimes and Undesirables were condemned for their guerilla tactics.  Both sides would face punishment for their disregard of The Statute of Magical Secrecy, hate crimes, and vigilantism.

This would be a new era, one of the Magical Separatists, in which magic was to be cherished, infighting in the magical community would be demonized, and the Wizarding World would be protected from the devolving muggle-world at all costs.

Wizengamot Justices Cassius Viceroy and Mafalda Hopkirk were the orchestrators of this crackdown.  Privy to the underbelly of the corrupt Thicknesse administration and unassociated with The Death Eaters, they had won the favor of The Wizengamot and, with Yaxley’s assistance, the support of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. They found the inaction of the Thicknesse Ministry against Tom Marvolo Riddle to be deplorably irresponsible, as they loathed wizard on wizard violence.  They disagreed with the imprisonment of any magical person due to their blood-status and could not abide by The Ministry’s actions. While they had supported the persecution of the rebel Undesirables, who were breaking The Statute of Magical Secrecy and stirring magical conflict, they could not stand by and watch magical lives being lost at The Dark Lord did as he pleased.

They saw The Battle of Hogwarts as an opportunity to end the conflict instigated by Tom Marvolo Riddle and Harry Potter and seized the moment.  They arrested the perpetrators of the unrest and carried out their coup against the corrupt Thicknesse administration in one blow and set out to establish peace by force.  Muggleborns and Halfbloods were released from prison and reunited with their wands and families. Death Eaters and rebels who had not committed heinous crimes and elected to participate in the reformation were released into society on parole.  Death Eaters who refused to relinquish their antiquated prejudices were jailed along with Order Members and rebels who could not give up the ghost and/or comply with the new order.  Azkaban, however, looked very different almost immediately.  Dementors were removed from the island and a work-based prison program was put into place as opposed to the inhumane torture that had previously taken place there.

Presently, trials of Harry Potter and Pius Thicknesse are coming to a close.  Hermione Granger, Ronald Wealsey, The Lestranges, and other Death Eaters and Order Members are still at large.  All Hogwarts professors have been reinstated, following court cases revolving around their decision to allow students in their care to participate in fighting in an active war-zone, and the new Deputy Headmaster under Minerva McGonagall is a Ministry official.  Harry Potter’s trial is in its final stages and will come to an end at the start of the game.  Rebels and Death Eaters are on the run and being pursued by The Department of Magical Law Enforcement.  Civilians are rebuilding.  Hogwarts is healing, in the hopes of opening again for the new term; professors have been staying in Hogsmeade for the time being.  The Ministry is all suspicion, pomp, and circumstance.