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This page was informed by my thoughts about Tasers.
Who is Dawlish talking to? Ze could be muttering to zemself, or ze could be talking to Gawain Robards, the one further to the right. Robards might have some reason to resent Granger as well – in the books, ze became the Head of Office after Scrimgeour left, but here, ze was upstaged by the much younger Granger.
I think there are about twenty Aurors in total. The four in the front are the senior Aurors (whom you can also recognize by their darker coats/robes). To gain seniority, an Auror has to both be exceptionally skilled and be around for a long time. Tonks is skilled enough to be one, but ze's relatively new. Dawlish probably isn't skilled enough to qualify; ze was granted seniority under the somewhat corrupt leadership of Rufus Scrimgeour. (Granger became an Auror at about the same time as Tonks, but ze counts as a senior Auror because ze's the Head of Office.)
I decided not to have Moody retire – there's no particular reason for that, but I wanted to have zem as a character to play with, and making zem be a current Auror was an easy way to make zem relevant to the plot. I'm already rearranging the timeline of the backstory for other reasons, so perhaps this is simply a younger Moody than the one we meet in the books.
Approximate readability: 8.78 (1021 characters, 236 words, 12 sentences, 4.33 characters per word, 19.67 words per sentence)
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