Hermione and the others caught up to Integra as a teary-eyed Neville ran into her path.
"How?" Neville asked piteously. "How could you just let my parents die?"
Integra turned her angry gaze upon Neville. "I assume your parents were patients at St. Mungo's?" she asked. As soon as Neville began to nod, Integra continued, her voice tight with anger, "then it was the Ministry that let them die, not Hellsing. Let me tell you how Hellsing gets involved in a case. A vampire attacks. Local authorities attempt to deal with it. With wizards, that means the Ministry. The Ministry fails to deal with it, or realizes they're unable to deal with it at all. Do they call Hellsing then? No of course not. The Ministry sits on the problem until there's no possible chance of it being dealt with in any positive way, then they call Hellsing in and blame them for all the deaths.
"Management of resources has nothing to do with it, and Fudge very well knows that. Even with muggles, when we get notification sooner, Hellsing arrives after things have gotten out of control. No one calls in Hellsing to save people. Hellsing is called in to when everyone is dead and you need to kill the monster that did it and lay the ghouls to rest.
"If you want to know why your parents died, look to the Ministry of Magic." Integra bit off whatever else she was about to say and stormed off towards the owlery.
"But the paper. . ." Neville said lamely to her retreating back.
"Neville," Hermione said kindly as she hugged him. "I'm sorry for what happened, and I don't know much about Hellsing or vampires, but even I could tell that article had a slant to it. Honestly, even since we came to school even the nicest purebloods talk about muggles like they're sheep. It really does sound like the Ministry is trying to blame Hellsing."
Hermione hurried after Integra, finally catching up to her only after the other girl had sent her owl on its way. "There," Integra said, watching the bird disappear on the horizon, "now we just have to find something to keep me from attacking the next person who demands to know why Hellsing didn't reverse time and undo the Ministry's screw up."
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