Nah, their main job is maintaining the masquerade by destroying the memories of everyone who's seen something they shouldn't have, then reprimanding whatever it was that got seen and didn't clean up its own mess.
From the perspective of anyone except the wizards Harry Potter is a horror setting.
Yeah, there's a constant refrain of "If the muggles find out, or the house elves are freed, or the Goblins get magic, they'll kill us all and that's bad!" and I'm like "You have it coming though, you have it coming like white colonists in Haiti."
As I understand it, that was what was implied when the aurors were first introduced in like book 3 or 4 or whatever. That they were specifically like nazi hunters. But then as the series went on, Rowling either forgot about that or decided she didn't like it, and they just became cops.
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Nah, their main job is maintaining the masquerade by destroying the memories of everyone who's seen something they shouldn't have, then reprimanding whatever it was that got seen and didn't clean up its own mess.
From the perspective of anyone except the wizards Harry Potter is a horror setting.
Yeah, there's a constant refrain of "If the muggles find out, or the house elves are freed, or the Goblins get magic, they'll kill us all and that's bad!" and I'm like "You have it coming though, you have it coming like white colonists in Haiti."
Reminder that in the HP universe magic is used for loads of healing purposes, including hospitals, and all of it is exclusive to wizards for "reasons"
As I understand it, that was what was implied when the aurors were first introduced in like book 3 or 4 or whatever. That they were specifically like nazi hunters. But then as the series went on, Rowling either forgot about that or decided she didn't like it, and they just became cops.