<Shocking scandal! Aurors illegally arrested an innocent bystander, leading to his death!>
Malicious framing! Who will guarantee our safety?
Everyone was at risk! Justice without oversight
No trial required? The Wizengamot's sorrow
<Question! Where did the Department of Magical Law Enforcement's authority end?>
<Secret interrogations! The unknown history of Auror Headquarters>
<Fifty thousand Galleons! Philanthropist Murphy donated to St Mungo's Hospital>
Rita Skeeter truly deserved her title as the wizarding world's foremost pen. When it came to concocting sensational stories, she handled it with effortless mastery. For several days straight, the Daily Prophet was filled with endless reports about Aurors extracting confessions through torture.
Under this relentless barrage of public opinion, wizards were all shocked by the story Rita Skeeter told.
Auror Headquarters, the only legal institution of violence in Britain's wizarding world.
Wizards had originally thought it was merely an agency for dealing with trivial matters such as crimes involving Dark magical items and attacks on Muggles. Who would have imagined it possessed such terrifying authority?
Not only could they arrest a wizard without any concrete evidence, they could also use Legilimency, Veritaserum, and even various methods of torture to force wizards into giving whatever testimony they wanted.
Most terrifying of all, they could even send wizards they deemed guilty directly to Azkaban without a trial!
And they had already done so!
This one-stop service of arrest, forced confession, and imprisonment rivaled the Muggle religious tribunals wizards remembered!
Such immense power, such arbitrary conduct—it was like a sword hanging over the heads of every wizard in Britain. Who wouldn't be afraid?
During the First Wizarding War, in order to fight the Death Eaters and curb Dark wizard crime, Aurors had been granted enormous authority. Even now, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement remained the Ministry of Magic's largest department.