Greengrass

Fudge might have reached the height of his fame, with nearly every newspaper carrying his name in headlines so large they took up almost an entire section.

The Minister for Magic had been investigated and dragged from office without putting up the slightest resistance. Nothing this explosive had happened since the Ministry of Magic was founded.

With no war underway, it was unprecedented for such a lofty senior official as the Minister for Magic to be forced from office.

Normally, the most embarrassing outcome for a Minister was resigning voluntarily. No one had ever been dismissed as disgracefully as Fudge.

Wizards talked eagerly about the news for days. Whenever they had time, they pulled out the papers and carefully studied the Fudge scandals that had been exposed.

Those scandals had appeared in the papers before. Though people claimed to believe them, Fudge's forceful denials had still left them with some lingering doubts.

Now that the Ministry of Magic itself had released an official report, every one of those scandals had become hard fact overnight, laid out right before them.

They wanted to see just how arrogant this illustrious Minister for Magic had been, and what mistakes he had made that ordinary wizards could never afford to make.

The entire Wizarding World was happily feasting on Fudge's downfall, but the Order of the Phoenix and the Ministry of Magic had no time for that.

The Order of the Phoenix had not brought Fudge down merely to get revenge because they disliked him. They were now busy making the Ministry of Magic cooperate with them.

First of all, officials with tarnished records who would obviously defect to Voldemort without hesitation could not be kept. The Order of the Phoenix constantly promoted officials within the Ministry who knew how to cooperate.

Naturally, the