Welcome To Blast From The Past! It’s the year 1996 and Harry Potter has just received a vision of his dear Godfather being tortured in the Department of Mysteries. In an instant he, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Ginny Weasley, and Luna Lovegood are on a rescue mission, set to infiltrate the Department and save Sirius Black. In the midst of searching they run into a Slytherin obstruction. It seems that Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, and Pansy Parkinson have followed them to the Ministry in attempts to stop them. As the battle between dark and light commences, the large group stumbles into one of the many rooms in the Department of Mysteries. All of a sudden they are transported back in time - to the year 1976.
Those Broken Lives « Thread Started on Nov 1, 2009, 8:46am »
"What private business have they got together anyway?"
"Gold I expect. He''s been giving generously to all sorts of things for years .... Gets him in with the right people ... then he can ask favors ... delay laws he doesn't want passed ... Oh, he's very well connected...."
"...and it's very important for us to have spies inside the Ministry, because you can bet Voldemort will have them..."
"Rookwood was a spy... passed He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named useful information from inside the Ministry itself!"
"He used a network of well-placed wizards, both inside the Ministry and out, to collect information -"
"I thought I was collecting information for our side!"
"The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I'm afraid."
He created new bureaucracy and printed warning pamphlets and, when quick successes didn’t happen, arrested innocent people to make it look like he was doing something.
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The Ministry of Magic is these things and many more. Faced with its own corruption and incompetence, it is sinking lower and lower and drawing steadily further from the justice it once sought to protect. Now it faces both quiet rebellion from those seeking to regain the values it once stood for and deadly infiltration from those wishing to destroy it from the inside. With the threat of the Dark Lord removed by the universal hero of the wizarding world, it is now up to the survivors of the Great War to drag the Ministry from the depths. The only question which remains is whether or not it can rise from the ashes and become once again the pillar it once was.
In the mean time, money, sex and power are the order of the day in every department. The Ministry is rife with scandal; illicit affairs, lies and deceit, bribery, extortion, embezzlement... it is a dog eat dog world and its every man for himself.
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