No, I'm really not. I'm being realistic. I absolutely despise the man, but do you honestly think that anyone who was here with that kind of power didn't have some motives of his own? You honestly never suspected that he put himself here by starting the incidents over the summer? And the ones that happened under his watch, what of those?

You honestly don't think he wasn't digging at the smaller things that anyone else would have overlooked just to cause the kind of trouble that would have us all so distracted we wouldn't see the seeds of something bigger being planted?

And even if an auror is just a soldier for the ministry, wouldn't it still be your place to inform them that they have a problem in their ranks? I can't imagine it would be the first time.

[She sighs, folding her arms over her chest and glaring.]

...your 'shade'.